Mettle-detecting question Crossword Clue

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Mettle-detecting question Crossword Answer

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

DETECTING (noun)
1. a police investigation to determine the perpetrator
QUESTION (noun)
1. uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something
2. a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply
QUESTION (verb)
1. challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of
2. pose a series of questions to

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More New Yorker Crossword (8/18/2025) Answers

Across

1. Yellow ingredient in a cake, perhaps

5. What Cordyceps is a genus of

11. Tuning leaders for orchestras

13. “Pure ___” (2013 Lorde album)

14. Polymer in some Ping-Pong paddles

16. Try to reproduce

17. Opening for a thread

18. Stelliform parts of some moles

20. N.F.L. quarterback Smith

21. Trail of information left by an internet user, so to speak

24. Moving targets?

25. Ad infinitum

26. Exec concerned with budget allocation

29. Hot-tub features

30. Actor Wallach

31. Become less frigid

32. Texting abbreviation

33. Native people also known as the Nakota

37. Birds of prey seen in old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest

38. Second most densely populated U.S. state

39. Places with exhibits

40. Put back to the default

41. ___ au vin

44. Laughs with delight

46. Feeling of familiarity

48. Tap alternative

50. Northern New Jersey county named for a southern English county

51. Demographic of most pro-sports draft picks in 2025, briefly

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Down

1. Farm fitting

2. Follow

3. They’re deployed during some snail courtship rituals

4. “Good Burger” star Mitchell

5. Lead-in to slash, in fan fiction

6. Host and winner of the first FIFA World Cup

7. At that

8. Tall tale figure?

9. A thing ___ itself

10. Notice

12. South Carolina river

13. Term of address for some religious leaders

15. Word after pot or dark

16. Pan and others

19. Kept in isolation

22. French ___ (region hosting the 2030 Winter Olympics)

23. Spelman’s city, for short

24. 'Look!'

25. Attire for a king or queen, briefly?

26. Minor responsibility?

27. Things with blades

28. "What do I ___ you?"

31. End of many city nicknames

33. Philip or Thomas, but not Michael

34. Landscaping material

35. Did nothing

36. Went sailing, say

37. Bets against, in a way

38. Targets of salon touch-ups

39. Dynasty that followed the Shang

42. Cobbler’s place

43. Ask a lot of?

44. Member of TV’s “big three” that airs Big3 games

45. Clark’s comic-book nemesis

47. British luxury car, casually

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