Grandiloquent but vapid, so to speak Crossword Clue

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(adjective)
1. suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal
2. resembling gas

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

GRANDILOQUENT (adjective)
1. puffed up with vanity
2. lofty in style
SPEAK (verb)
1. exchange thoughts; talk with
2. use language

More New Yorker Crossword (7/29/2025) Answers

Across

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15. Olympic soccer medallist Carli or Olympic volleyball medallist Carli (no relation)

16. Sites’ entry points

18. Ran in a leisurely manner

19. Ceremonies that honor forebears

21. “I didn’t know that factoid!”

22. Adjust for daylight-saving time, maybe

23. Superlative suffix

24. Hurry in the direction of

25. “The Giver” singer Chappell

28. Nasal partitions

29. Cartoon creature described as being three apples high

30. Magna ___ (document that was sealed at Runnymede)

33. Show whose musical guest might also host, for short

35. Tourist’s booking

36. Commandeer

37. Look around the room?

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42. TV-screen tech

45. Hiragana alternative, in Japanese writing

47. First name shared by the heroines of “Tomb Raider” and “Doctor Zhivago”

48. “Mamma Mia!” or “Jersey Boys,” for example

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Down

1. C2H6

2. Not belonging to anybody

3. Certain alley prowler

4. Venomous Egyptian snakes

5. Flirts with

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8. Major character’s figurative protection from being killed

9. Left a bad situation in a hurry, slangily

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11. Contribute

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14. Proverbial pair of inevitabilities

17. Venetian-blind piece

20. Greek letter after pi

24. Get some cereal, say?

26. “Well, here we ___”

27. Sports org. that Shedeur Sanders joined in 2025

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31. Free ___ bird

32. Brouhahas

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38. Mexican President Sheinbaum

40. "Terrif!"

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42. Securing with strings, as a corset

43. Does some scrapbooking, say

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46. Not in the mood for high jinks

47. 'Riverdale' actress Reinhart

48. Indonesian island with a namesake sea

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