"The early bird gets the worm," for one Crossword Clue

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"The early bird gets the worm," for one Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

EARLY (adverb)
1. in good time
2. during an early stage
EARLY (adjective)
1. belonging to the distant past
2. at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time
BIRD (noun)
1. informal terms for a (young) woman
2. badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers
BIRD (verb)
1. watch and study birds in their natural habitat

More NYT Crossword (12/30/2024) Answers

Across

1. Brainy

6. Wacky

10. Desktop computer that might run Sonoma or Sequoia

14. Choir member

15. Writer Wiesel

16. Forbidden

17. Waiter's imperative after bringing food

18. Flower that reflects yellow when held under one's chin

20. It might have a twist or hole

21. What a sleeve covers

22. Don't worry about me

23. Primitive timer

26. Surface for doing exercises

27. Globes

28. Going out romantically

32. #1 pal

35. Language suffix

36. Father

37. Music genre prefix

38. N.F.L. all-star game

41. Texter's reaction to a joke

42. Some beers

44. Bathroom fixture

45. Clinks a glass and gives a speech to

47. Indian pastries with savory fillings

49. Obnoxious person, informally

50. "All you need is love and a ___" (old saying)

51. Place for policy wonks

56. Huge to-dos

59. 'Sounds good!'

60. Norse god of war and death

61. Make logical sense ... or what the ends of 18-, 23-, 38- and 51-Across do

63. Grammarian’s concern

64. Troubles

65. Number of planets before Pluto was demoted

66. Food item that might come with lox

67. El ___, Tex.

68. Exhausted, metaphorically

69. Put forth as effort

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Down

1. Basketball star Curry

2. ___ Park, location of Edison's first major laboratory

3. Type of pear

4. Plant affliction that's below ground

5. Attempt

6. Creatures that are actually black with white stripes

7. What grads become

8. Tiny complaint

9. Abominable snowman

10. Advances

11. Shirley Temple and Virgin Bloody Mary, for two

12. H2O, in Mexico

13. "I understand you"

19. Character described by Austen as "a heroine whom no one but myself will much like"

21. Canadian province that's home to the Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump World Heritage Site

24. Grasp tightly

25. 'Meh'

29. Units of force

30. Gait faster than a walk but slower than a canter

31. Snakelike fish

32. Sheep sounds

33. "Enchanted" girl in a Gail Carson Levine book

34. Biomedical building blocks

35. Recede, as the tide

39. Remove from office

40. Cry made while pointing

43. No-goodnik

46. Jazz combo instrument

48. Dish served from a crockpot

49. In stacks, like a wedding cake

52. Evil hench-animal in "The Lion King"

54. Landlocked African country

55. Prepared to propose

56. Wish for a romantic pairing between, in modern parlance

57. Pepsi or Coke

58. Contents of a 23-Across

62. "How to ___ a ___" (common tutorial topic)

63. Purple yam common in Filipino cooking

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