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Great Lake with the second-smallest area Crossword Clue Answer is…
Answer: ERIE
This clue last appeared in the NYT Crossword (Monthly) on June 30, 2023. You can also find answers to past NYT Crossword (Monthly)s.
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Clue & Answer Definitions
- SECOND (noun)
- an indefinitely short time
- a 60th part of a minute of arc
- SECOND (verb)
- give support or one’s approval to
- transfer an employee to a different, temporary assignment
- SECOND (adjective)
- coming next after the first in position in space or time or degree or magnitude
- a part or voice or instrument or orchestra section lower in pitch than or subordinate to the first
- SECOND (adverb)
- in the second place
- ERIE (noun)
- the 4th largest of the Great Lakes; it is linked to the Hudson River by the New York State Barge Canal
- a member of an Iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania and western New York
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