Sticky wicket Crossword Clue

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Sticky wicket Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. a source of difficulty
2. a state of difficulty that needs to be resolved

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

WICKET (noun)
1. small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted
2. small gate or door (especially one that is part of a larger door)
STICKY (adjective)
1. hot or warm and humid
2. having the sticky properties of an adhesive

More The Atlantic Crossword (5/18/2025) Answers

Across

1. Not quite right

4. Month between April and June

7. Prefix that means "new"

8. Hubbub

9. Snakelike fish

10. Clump, as of bubblegum

11. Spiritual principle of cause and effect

13. Makes an eBay offer, maybe

15. Possible outcome of an earthquake

19. Try to hit, as a paintball target

20. Broad

24. They take big hits at a party

25. Something that might ask a lot of people?

26. Jaunty speaking rhythms

29. Doesn't hold back, colloquially

31. Like a successful offensive line, maybe?

32. 2003 psychological-horror movie starring Halle Berry

33. Server's edge, for short

34. Pressed topic at the dinner table, maybe?

36. The B of BDS

37. Set out for on horseback, maybe

38. Bella gerant ___ (Ovid ethos)

39. Competitors in a three-legged race?

43. "Hope this isn't offensive ..."

44. Compliment made on the web?

45. Vinaigrette des ___-Îles

46. Reaction to a lit match, perhaps?

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Down

1. The number of this clue

2. It might be tacked on by Ticketmaster

3. Simon & Garfunkel or the Indigo Girls

4. Bryn ___ (first women's college to offer graduate degrees)

5. "Uncut Gems" actor Sandler

6. Movie character who talks like this, he does

12. Precipitously bad odds

13. Boy band that took a hiatus so that its members could complete compulsory military service

14. In a sense

16. Leaning

17. Tyler Perry character whose full name is Mabel Earlene Simmons

18. Units for people with an agenda?

21. "Extremely quiet," in music: abbr.

22. Fictional setting of Howard Hawks's final film

23. Superlatively single, perhaps

27. Epithet for literature's Prince Myshkin

28. Became absorbed by

29. Eschatological name in Revelations

30. Avoid waffling

34. Shark tank?

35. Cry of exasperación, maybe

36. Centers of some storms?

40. Source of some autorotating samaras

41. Either subject of a famous 1975 documentary

42. Motivate with derision, colloquially

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