Word with open or central Crossword Clue

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Word with open or central Crossword Answer

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(verb)
1. expose to fresh air
2. expose to cool or cold air so as to cool or freshen
(noun)
1. the mass of air surrounding the Earth
2. travel via aircraft

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

WORD (noun)
1. the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus)
2. information about recent and important events
WORD (verb)
1. put into words or an expression
CENTRAL (noun)
1. a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication
CENTRAL (adjective)
1. serving as an essential component
2. in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area

Hint 3: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
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More NYT Crossword (1/21/2025) Answers

Across

1. Gobble

6. English pop duo with the 1984 hit "Last Christmas"

10. First book after the four Gospels

14. Slicker, as a winter road

15. Name of Sporty Spice in the Spice Girls

16. TV host Trevor with the memoir "Born a Crime"

17. Convenient source of tinctures and tonics

20. Bit of workout apparel, informally

21. Dish with a Cantonese counterpart called egg foo yong

22. Tool that may be used as a hoe

25. Needs for in vitro fertilization

27. Prefix with liberal

28. Actor McShane

29. Singer of "Despacito," which has more than eight billion views on YouTube

32. Exploitative ones

34. Mardi Gras follower

35. Fish also called a nishikigoi

36. Surreptitiously let in on an email

37. Popular camp activity … or, literally, what the circles are creating four times in this puzzle

42. Kettle component

43. Figure painted by Warhol

44. Skip out of a party

46. Canine welcomes

49. Item with hinged legs

51. Salt Lake City-to-Minneapolis dir.

52. ___ Jordan, a.k.a. the Green Lantern

54. Neither's partner

55. Word after phone or, modernly, Zoom

56. Piece of blackboard chalk, geometrically

59. Stir-fry accessory

61. "That's not even the half of it ..."

66. Body personified by the Greek Titan Selene

67. Walkie-talkie word

68. Cultivates, in a way

69. So, so, so long

70. "Barbie" actor Michael

71. Like Pittsburgh's Canton Avenue, famously

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Down

1. [as printed!]

2. Cpl. or sgt.

4. Monthly budget item

5. No longer burdened by

6. Nuke, for one

7. Hoagie

8. Reunion attendees

9. Janis Joplin's "Me and Bobby ___"

10. It may be a chip or two

11. Playground pathogen

12. Dental detritus

13. Glosses

18. Annulled, as a license

19. Sit non-ergonomically

22. 100%

23. Union requirements

24. Brass component

26. In a bit, to a poet

30. Celery component

31. Greek letter that represents summation

33. Marine photographer's aid

36. Hang with the boys, slangily

38. God whose avatars restore cosmic order

39. Net

40. Catches in the act

41. Rummikub piece

45. Superman foe ___ Luthor

46. "2 ___ 1" (Spice Girls song)

47. "O.K. ... moving on!"

48. Have as support

49. Use an ax on, perhaps

50. Military force

53. Like some committees

57. + or - bits

58. One vacationing in a camper, informally

60. Bagpiper's wear

62. Big time?

63. Fawn's mother

64. Lamb's mother

65. Snake created by Medusa's blood, in myth

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