Alternative to Axe or Brut Crossword Clue

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Alternative to Axe or Brut Crossword Answer

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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
BRUT (adjective)
1. (of champagne) extremely dry

More NYT Crossword (5/19/2025) Answers

Across

1. Occasion for pampering

7. Like a baby's bottom

11. Taxi

14. The "T" of B.L.T.

15. Queen of the Nile, informally

16. Miley Cyrus's "Party in the ___"

17. Casual dining chain with unlimited breadsticks

19. Take a load off, say

20. Shake, as a dog's tail

21. Most-desired group of invitees

22. Home to Zion National Park

23. Capital of Italia

26. Caller of balls and strikes

27. "... or that's what I think, anyway," online

28. Event whose symbol is five interlocking rings

33. Discontinued Apple program for organizing images

36. Make a digital image of

37. Race of mythical beings, in fantasy fiction

38. Musical genre for D'Angelo and Erykah Badu

40. Some R-rated material

42. Number of amendments in the Bill of Rights

43. Jacket closer that's not a button

45. "We hold these ___ to be self-evident"

46. Theater binoculars

49. Number of faces on a cube

50. Craftsmanship

51. Silverstein who wrote "A Boy Named Sue"

54. President's "no"

56. Glimmer

58. Govt. rule

60. "Red" or "Reputation," for Taylor Swift

61. Starting point for Tropicana or Florida's Natural juice

64. Tease

65. Dryer fuzz

66. Word before name or voyage

67. Buzzer near a flower

68. Odds and ___

69. "Yikes!" ... or, phonetically, a hint to 17-, 28-, 46- and 61-Across

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Down

1. Place in an overhead compartment

2. From the Arctic

3. 'Compadre'

4. ___ Pilkey, author/illustrator who created Captain Underpants

5. Chowed down

6. Meditation method

7. Pinches pennies, say

9. Poetical units

10. Colossal amount

11. Personalized in sizing

12. Home of China and India

13. Relaxing soak

18. Former student, for short

22. Thurman of “Pulp Fiction”

24. Cow sounds

25. Woodwind in a jazz band

27. Pays no heed to

29. Calves, kittens and cubs

30. Grocery conveyances

31. Per Person

32. Sail the seven __

33. A fan of

34. "Not another ___ out of you!"

35. Nickname for Lincoln

39. Film incorrectly announced as Best Picture before "Moonlight"

41. Patootie

44. Mom and dad

47. Carnaval city

48. Kind of party for men only

52. Wear away, as soil

53. Flood embankment

54. What often follows a noun

55. Pennsylvania city on a Great Lake

56. Ear-to-ear expression

57. Office missive

59. Cohort that grew up with the internet

61. Cry at a bullfight

62. 'Argh!'

63. Fix, as an outcome

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