Monkey on one’s back, maybe? Crossword Clue

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(noun)
1. a projective technique using black-and-white pictures; subjects tell a story about each picture
2. tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar
(verb)
1. make lacework by knotting or looping

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

MONKEY (noun)
1. one who is playfully mischievous
2. any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)
MONKEY (verb)
1. do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly
2. play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly
MAYBE (adverb)
1. by chance

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

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4. Target of some athletic rehab

7. Problem for someone who’s loud in bed?

12. Structure that’s typically one story but might have multiple levels

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?

39. What one might idly do while on a call

40. Femme ___ (film-noir stock character)

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

50. Substances such as ammonia and sodium hydroxide

51. Going somewhere

52. Clear

53. Enter, as a port

54. Grandiloquent but vapid, so to speak

56. Channel that airs “Tic Tac Dough”

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1. C2H6

2. Not belonging to anybody

3. Certain alley prowler

4. Venomous Egyptian snakes

5. Flirts with

6. Features of some ergonomic chairs

7. Noah’s lover, in “The Notebook”

8. Major character’s figurative protection from being killed

9. Left a bad situation in a hurry, slangily

10. Parts of needles or potatoes

11. Contribute

13. Internet language that’s the source of “pwned” and “n00b”

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

28. Ones running out of things to wear?

29. Hiding spot for a beachgoer’s valuables, perhaps

30. Container for microwave ramen

31. Free ___ bird

32. Brouhahas

34. Turkey, for example

38. Mexican President Sheinbaum

40. "Terrif!"

41. Artist with the 2006 album “Konvicted”

42. Securing with strings, as a corset

43. Does some scrapbooking, say

44. He played Bond before Brosnan

46. Not in the mood for high jinks

47. 'Riverdale' actress Reinhart

48. Indonesian island with a namesake sea

49. “___ to taste”

50. Cranberry ___

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