Run-down Crossword Clue

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Run-down Crossword Answer

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SHABBY

(6 letters)

SEEDY

(5 letters)

DECREPIT

(8 letters)

CHASE

(5 letters)

DENIGRATE

(9 letters)

DEFAME

(6 letters)

DECRY

(5 letters)

DIS

(3 letters)

Helpful Hints

(adjective)
1. showing signs of wear and tear
2. dirty and infested with rats

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

RUN-DOWN (adjective)
1. worn and broken down by hard use
2. having the spring unwound
DOWN (noun)
1. English physician who first described Down’s syndrome (1828-1896)
2. soft fine feathers
DOWN (adjective)
1. understood perfectly
2. extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
DOWN (adverb)
1. spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
DOWN (verb)
1. eat up completely, as with great appetite
2. cause to come or go down

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

SHABBY
(6 letters)
SEEDY
(5 letters)
DECREPIT
(8 letters)
CHASE
(5 letters)
DENIGRATE
(9 letters)
DEFAME
(6 letters)
DECRY
(5 letters)
DIS
(3 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
TARTY

More NYT Crossword (8/10/2025) Answers

Across

1. Helpful site for a D.I.Y.'er

5. Thurman of film

8. Need for a transfer of power?

12. Make easier to swallow

16. Basis for a write-off, perhaps

18. Mann who wrote songs for 1999's "Magnolia"

19. First name in country

21. … something big and rocky with a Space Force base in it

23. "So weird …"

24. New York City's ___ Place

25. Norse mythology's equivalent of Olympus

26. Really tipsy

27. Be possessive?

28. Auctioneer's cry

29. … something pointy grown by Pinocchio

30. Teeming

34. "This is the first truth that ___ thine own tongue was guilty of": "All's Well That Ends Well"

36. Mimic

37. Rep who's not a Rep.

38. Music genre associated with the tellum, or reverse mullet

39. … something conical in a chemistry lab

46. … something round and metallic with kanji written on it

49. Homes for hogs

51. Figure (out)

52. Disney snow queen

54. Approves

55. Many a hangout in Boystown, Chicago

56. Tolerate

59. Corner piece

61. Common remote batteries

62. In the style of

63. Children's game phrase that should start the italicized clues … or a hint to eight squares in this puzzle

68. “Not another word!”

69. Location marker on a map app

70. Novelist James

71. Mega-store?

72. Alfred E. ___, mascot of Mad magazine

74. Long-running drama with the protagonist Olivia Benson, for short

75. Per __

77. Nowhere close

81. Hall’s music partner

82. Certain water hazard

84. … something yellow and happy in a text message

87. … something soft and melty in a black tub

90. Place with moving exhibits

91. Locale for a Snapple fact

92. G.I. grub

93. ___ Hammarskjöld, only posthumous winner of a Nobel Peace Prize

94. Outdoor event with costumes

96. … something feathery sipping on nectar

101. Final four event

103. Store that sells protein powder

104. Single facial feature

105. One of the Jacksons

107. Onionlike vegetables

110. New home for a "fresh prince" in a 1990s sitcom

111. … something long and painted on a highway

114. Down in the dumps

115. Pungent

116. Crispy tortilla-based dishes

117. Funerary shroud

118. Excellent, in 1990s slang

119. Elect (to)

120. Herb paired with brown butter in sauces

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Down

1. And so on

2. One of the text reaction buttons on an iPhone

3. Showy daisies

4. Deliberate and unprovoked

5. A password might be provided with one

6. First letter of "menorah," in Hebrew

7. "Let's raise our glasses!"

8. Fortresses

9. Poet Khayyam

10. Las Vegas's Harry ___ International Airport

11. Thieves’ place

12. Wedge placed next to a wheel to prevent it from moving

13. Iowan, by another name

14. Sherlock's younger sister on TV

15. Like the Río de la Plata vis-à-vis the Amazon

17. Noted N.S.A. whistle-blower

18. One going fishing

19. You might get one in a row

20. Contributes

22. Source of some base humor, for short?

26. Fast-food chain founded in New Orleans

29. Some noblewomen

30. Happy, dopey, sneezy, sleepy, grumpy and bashful: Abbr.

31. __ ideal

32. Ones making "Out!" cries

33. Advanced cautiously, front end first

35. Upgraded with new machinery

39. Several characters in nonfiction?

40. Republican politico Haley

41. Brendan of "The Mummy"

42. Ballad

43. Held in check

44. Tired

45. Newswoman Phillips

47. "Please rush!"

48. Hole for a shoelace

53. Archer's protection

55. Fund-raising fete

57. Way around

58. "Take that, loser!"

60. Spanish interjection

61. Smash to smithereens

63. "Word has it …"

64. Sleep, informally

65. Topsy-turviness

66. That group

67. Cheese typically wrapped in paraffin

68. Sort who won't heed the advice "Don't look down"?

73. What abuts une côte

74. Diaphanous

76. Can you believe it?!

78. An ellipse has two of these

79. Slightly open

80. Ready to eat

82. Turn in

83. At all, with "the"

85. Out of touch for decades, say

86. Shakespearean potion ingredient

88. Vacillator's confession

89. Timeless

94. Venice's ___ Bridge

95. Express Amtrak options

96. Transportation centers

97. Slightly outdo

98. Brand of wafer

99. Scrutinize

100. Animated daughter of King Triton

102. Ridiculous

105. Bit of blue on a map of Scotland

106. Otherworldly glow

108. Radiohead's first #1 album (2000)

109. Holdup

111. Greeting with the hands

112. ___-eared

113. Jargon suffix

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