Alternative to 53-Across Crossword Clue

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Alternative to 53-Across Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. United States writer whose novels portray middle-class Jewish life (born in 1933)

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

ALTERNATIVE (adjective)
1. serving or used in place of another
2. necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities
ALTERNATIVE (noun)
1. one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen
ACROSS (adverb)
1. transversely

Hint 3: Anagram

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THRO

More NYT Crossword (8/22/2025) Answers

Across

1. Accessory for overseas travel

8. Camila with the hit 2022 album "Familia"

15. Disassemble in order to understand

17. Ideal resolution

18. Bit of a blind

19. Button added to iPhone messages in 2022

20. Like challenging kite-flying weather

21. Becky on "Full House" and Esther on "Sanford and Son"

23. "A little help here!"

24. Access, in a way

27. Regards with astonishment

31. ___ Gorman, "The Hill We Climb" poet

32. Stone to cast?

33. For

34. Reveal all

37. One might walk right into a trap

38. Baroque stringed instrument

39. Plaza resident of fiction

40. Apollo 13, for one

42. Made funny faces, say

43. Solo in space

44. Inlay material on some guitars

45. Attacks

49. Blowout

53. Some nest eggs

56. Be ruthless

57. Brothers-to-be

58. Beloved kid on one's farm, maybe

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Down

1. Yaps

2. "You're on!"

3. Brand of athletic shoes

4. Relates (to)

5. Cause headaches for

6. Peacock's display

7. Entertain at bedtime, maybe

8. Website whose contributors might write about mice

9. Dating-app filter

10. Where many gather to form a line?

11. Ultimate function

12. Attire for hula dancers

13. Time of abstinence

14. Not-so-conservative party?

16. Clinton and Bush, for two

22. Steadfast

23. Founding father who is the only Supreme Court justice to have ever been impeached

24. Super Bowl LVI winner, in brief

25. Resident of the Arab world's oldest continuously independent state

26. Equestrian's choices

27. Sierra or Yukon

28. Its national anthem has no words

29. Come about

30. Buff

32. Unakyu roll ingredient

35. Dearie

36. Very, very tall

41. Not directly in the sun

42. Something very attractive

44. Former queen of Jordan

45. URL letters

46. ___ Sea, body of water nowadays divided into "North" and "South"

47. Drink served hot or cold

48. Criticizes viciously

50. ___ cow (black bovine with a white belt around its middle)

51. Kate of "Fantastic Four"

52. Whisper in a classroom, maybe

54. Little piggy

55. Studio locale

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