Defeat soundly Crossword Clue

We have the 5-letter answer for Defeat soundly crossword clue, last seen in the Newsday Crossword April 24, 2025 puzzle. Sometimes we all need some help finding the answer!

Defeat soundly Crossword Answer

→57.

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Hide

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

DRUB

(4 letters)

WIPETHEFLOORWITH

(16 letters)

THRASH

(6 letters)

SPANK

(5 letters)

ROUT

(4 letters)

Helpful Hints

Hint 1: Clue Definitions

SOUNDLY (adverb)
1. completely and absolutely (`good’ is sometimes used informally for `thoroughly’)
DEFEAT (noun)
1. an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest
2. the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals
DEFEAT (verb)
1. win a victory over
2. thwart the passage of

Hint 2: Other Answers Used in the Past

DRUB
(4 letters)
WIPETHEFLOORWITH
(16 letters)
THRASH
(6 letters)
SPANK
(5 letters)
ROUT
(4 letters)

More Newsday Crossword (4/24/2025) Answers

Across

1. Campaign-funding group

4. Highly devoted

8. Egyptian cruise stop

13. Queen voiced by Idina in 2013's Frozen

14. Alliance that turned 75 in 2024

15. Service academy rookie

16. Went by without noticing

19. Marc Antony's 12 months

20. "Oh!"

21. Formal rejection

22. Verdi masterwork

24. Bailiwick

26. Exerting authority with

31. Minimal ink

32. Ltr. extra

33. Mideast money

35. Kebab rod

37. Rock with a cavity

40. Hired hand

41. Monetary reward

43. Rural storage unit

45. El ___ (Spanish hero)

46. What might keep a staffer from quitting

50. Elvis __ Presley

51. Abundant

52. Fake quarter

55. Be specific about

61. Drill command

64. Novelist E. __ Proulx

65. Thor's dad

66. It means "thought"

67. Limited-answer question

68. Cardinal point?

69. Bygone fast flier

All Answers

Down

1. Strategize

2. Affinity grp

3. Kind of dress code

4. Further

5. Divergent amount

6. "Really?" or "Really!"

7. Folded bookmark

8. Suitable

9. Neighbor of Hungary

10. "___ all been there"

11. Further, as a felony

12. Despot of old Rome

13. UV Index monitor

17. Author Zola

18. Olympian queen

23. Surfboard flaw

25. Final chapter

26. Suddenly appear

27. Erie Canal city

28. Surface luster

29. Out of service

30. Zenith opposite

31. Broadband option, briefly

34. Traffic stopper?

36. "Keep guessing!"

38. Umlaut lookalike

39. The Time Machine race

42. Bungle something

44. __ a good start (beginning well)

47. Top-drawer

48. Lined up neatly

49. Wheel ride inventor

52. Do a vet's job

53. Bowlers assignment

54. Ornamental vases

56. Ancient Persian

58. Track figures

59. Track event

60. Initials of the longest answers' words

62. "Gloria in excelsis ___" (Latin hymn)

63. Tunnel blaster

All Answers