Crucial Crossword Clue

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Crucial Crossword Answer

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VITAL

(5 letters)

PIVOTAL

(7 letters)

Helpful Hints

(noun)
1. a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida
2. (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court
(verb)
1. identify as in botany or biology, for example
2. harmonize with or adjust to
(adjective)
1. serving as an essential component

Hint 2: Clue Definition

CRUCIAL (adjective)
1. of the greatest importance
2. of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

VITAL
(5 letters)
PIVOTAL
(7 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
KYE

More New Yorker Crossword (7/8/2025) Answers

Across

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17. Outburst met with a “Gesundheit!”

18. Avocado or coconut product

19. Ghanaian fabric

20. Nickname for Chester

21. Seeing-red feeling

23. City in northwestern Nevada

25. Styling approach that pairs luxury and non-luxury items

27. Lion cub’s home

28. Brown drinks

29. Unspoken

31. Seedy places?

32. “The Wretched of the Earth” author Frantz

33. Accent mark that signifies a creaky, rising tone in Vietnamese

34. Showered affection (on)

35. Sports org. that added a Utah team in 2024

36. Concertgoers’ requests

38. ___ the question

41. Unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, in poetry

43. Scrabble bagful

44. Take another pass at

45. Pipsqueak

47. Vinyl speed stat

48. Common pronoun pair

49. Fictional band in “Coming to America”

52. Doechii hit that ends with a breathing exercise

53. Far from weak

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Down

1. People for whom Chi’chil Biłdagoteel (Oak Flat) is a sacred site

2. Greet someone, rhymingly

3. Make room on a bench

4. Lead-in to dynamic

5. Aunt, in Spanish

6. If and only if

7. Props in some Christmas movies

8. Jewish campus organization

9. Christian denomination with an anvil-and-cross logo, for short

10. Word after roundhouse or corner

11. Complete and total

12. Got under control

13. Reek (of)

14. End of some addresses

16. Gas in bright lights

21. Malady?

22. What the Earth does around its axis

25. Massive group

26. Opposite of waxes

28. ___ State Bakersfield

30. Fish in the genus Gadus

31. Studio big shot, casually

32. First partner?

33. No longer frozen

34. Aquatic animal with a long memory

35. Louse eggs

37. Emphasize in a roundabout way?

38. Admonition to a troublemaker

39. Like a final draft, hopefully

40. “___ Pyle, U.S.M.C.” (sixties TV series)

42. Name meaning “brown”

44. Ignited anew

46. “I feel your ___”

48. Hava Nagila dance

50. Fond du ___ (Wisconsin city whose name means “bottom of the lake”)

51. Caboose, for one

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