Opening words? Crossword Clue

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INTRO

(5 letters)

HIS

(3 letters)

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

WORDS (noun)
1. an angry dispute
2. words making up the dialogue of a play
OPENING (noun)
1. an open or empty space in or between things
2. a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess
OPENING (adjective)
1. first or beginning

Hint 2: Other Answers Used in the Past

INTRO
(5 letters)
HIS
(3 letters)

Hint 3: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
AYAHS

More New Yorker Crossword (6/16/2025) Answers

Across

1. Off-balance

13. Chronic trend-follower

14. Arrivistes, perhaps

15. At the back

16. Writer Ken who was featured in “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”

17. “___ Love” (2010 Luca Guadagnino film)

18. The Best Man actress Long

20. Some Ph.D. students

21. Picasso's "___ Demoiselles d'Avignon"

24. Resort amenity

25. Build to fortissimo, e.g.: Abbr.

27. Floor-brushing, maybe

28. Sanctity

31. Bridge player’s auction action, sometimes

32. Sound off

33. It might be pressed to exit

35. Overplay, in a way

36. Bird sanctuaries?

37. Milieu in Rachel Cusk’s “Parade” and Rachel Kushner’s “The Flamethrowers”

39. “___ take arms against a sea of troubles . . .”

42. Kung ___

43. ___ the Exhorter (Black nationalist in Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man”)

44. Amp (up)

45. Place to retire

47. Vocalist on the Beatles’ “The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill”

48. Colt’s counterpart

50. Creator of a draft

52. Population that’s over ninety-three per cent male

56. Person who crosses a line

57. Bodegas, often

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Down

1. Household suckers, for short

2. Japanese or Javanese

3. Goblet

4. Suffer

5. Clock sound

6. Coves and bays

7. Egg container, in some reproductive anatomy

8. City known as the French Rome

9. Dairy Queen competitor

10. Ending for Manhattan or Brooklyn

11. Space station that was deorbited in 2001

12. Museum walls?

13. Critics such as Roman Jakobson and Viktor Shklovsky

14. Genre in which Julianne Moore and Laurence Fishburne had early-career roles

15. Bring shame to

19. Brit’s behind

21. What workers sell for wages

22. Turn-offs?

23. Way to a getaway, say

26. “It should lay us under a spell with its first word,” per Virginia Woolf

27. Notice to staff

29. Crushing on

30. Super Mario Bros. console

31. ⏪: abbr.

34. Yoga pose also called reverse table top

38. Series for which Liza Colón-Zayas and Ebon Moss-Bachrach won Emmys, in 2024

40. Party in an eBay transaction

41. Classrooms with monitors, briefly

44. Poet whose work is quoted in Maxine Hong Kingston’s novel “Tripmaster Monkey”

46. Participant in what the Times called “the most high-profile hip-hop diss war in 20 years”

48. Ireland’s Sinn ___

49. Domed dwelling

51. Summers at the Sorbonne

52. Grp. implicated in Signalgate

53. Siouan people

54. Remark from one with cold feet?

55. ___ Speedwagon

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