Mastermind of the operation Crossword Clue

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Mastermind of the operation Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. a person who leads (especially in illicit activities)

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

OPERATION (noun)
1. activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)
2. a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
MASTERMIND (verb)
1. plan and direct (a complex undertaking)
MASTERMIND (noun)
1. someone who creates new things
2. someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality

More New Yorker Crossword (4/15/2025) Answers

Across

1. Blood bank supply

7. One of the twenty in “Drop and give me twenty!”

13. Word with line or dollar

14. California city that was home to the Auto Club Speedway

15. Knights’ rides

16. Sacked, like the Vikings’ offensive line?

17. Acts all hoity-toity

19. Finds a spot for someone else?

20. L.A. Sparks player who was the first to dunk in a W.N.B.A. game

21. Stat fretted over during college-app season, maybe

24. Biblical unit of measure

25. Wanes

26. Pupil shape for a cat in a sunbeam

27. Iron ___ (basis of some pigment powders)

28. “In Which Kanga and Baby ___ Come to the Forest, and Piglet Has a Bath” (chapter of “Winnie-the-Pooh”)

29. African country featured in Yaa Gyasi’s novel “Homegoing”

30. Shape of a party hat

31. Small songbirds that may be “crested” or “bearded”

32. Reduced to rubble

33. URL ending for a community-service group

34. Ones driven on a camping trip?

37. Donned one’s big-boy pants, say

38. Seiji Ozawa and Leonard Bernstein, for two

40. Make a recorder-like sound, e.g

44. Invertebrate such as a leech or earthworm

45. Swathe

46. Liquid fuel that burns more slowly than gasoline

47. Extends, as a subscription

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Down

1. Network whose logo is a stylized depiction of three heads in profile

2. Portion of land

3. “The Blob That ___ Everyone” (“Goosebumps” book)

4. “We tried it your way—now let me show you how it’s really done”

5. Change from one key to another

6. Dutch river with an eponymous brewery

7. North-pointing member of Ursa Minor

8. Dissimilar to

9. 7-Down and others

10. The Weird Sisters in “Macbeth,” for example

11. “Je Suis ___ Legende” (French title for “I Am Legend”)

12. Soft paw part

14. Ultimate obstacles for gamers

16. Gets the champagne flowing

18. Metal bar in a wheel-turning system

19. Just feeling good, slangily

20. Las Vegas hotel with a pyramid and a sphinx

21. Ilana who co-created “Broad City”

22. Yearns for

23. Only slightly

24. Tennis champ Gauff

26. Blackmail, e.g.

29. Level after kindergarten, typically

31. Offshoot of a climbing plant

34. Dot on an “i” or a “j”

35. Professional who works with their buds?

36. Bouquet’s dozen, perhaps

37. Something small from a parent

38. P.O.’d

39. Nickname for the title character of “Anora”

41. Uno e due

42. What the bill becomes at the end of “I’m Just a Bill,” in “Schoolhouse Rock”

43. Installments of a TV series, for short

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