Play the fool Crossword Clue

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

FOOL (noun)
1. a person who lacks good judgment
2. a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages
FOOL (verb)
1. fool or hoax
2. spend frivolously and unwisely
PLAY (verb)
1. contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle
2. pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind
PLAY (noun)
1. a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage
2. the act using a sword (or other weapon) vigorously and skillfully

More NYT Crossword (7/26/2025) Answers

Across

1. Pop singer Rexha

5. Playful in tone

9. Group that got Sweden its first Eurovision win

13. Sautéing option with a high smoke point

16. Home, in slang

17. Poisonous plant rumored to have killed the emperor Augustus

18. Word with hot or double

19. Starting to move

20. What one reads, watches and listens to, collectively

22. Dictionaries have many of these: Abbr.

24. Underappreciated

25. Lots and lots

29. Enough!

31. Squash, e.g.

32. Period coinciding with the growth of the internet

35. Chicken __ king

36. When you're in it, you're in hot water

37. Sch. that's home to the Mountaineers

38. Beast of burden

40. Peeps at

41. 'Come in!'

42. Leans (toward)

44. Alternative to a bow

47. Uppermost limit

48. Has only the best intentions

51. Feature of many a handbag

55. Running, but not moving

56. Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea or Taiwan, to an economist

58. Eye of the storm

59. Plays dice with God, so to speak

60. Things on rings

61. Casual hangout

62. Composer Satie

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1. Rum-soaked cake

2. Times to look forward

3. Leave quickly

4. Overshadow

5. Button next to a suggested contact, maybe

6. Quarters

7. Possible indicator of construction ahead

8. Rishi Sunak was the first one to become a British prime minister

10. Smarts

11. They separate hands and handlebars

12. Give some immoral support, perhaps?

14. 'This is sooo frustrating'

15. Sprawled out, say

21. Same here

23. Street racer, usually

25. Billing line

26. "Well, as it happens …"

27. Sites of mutations on chromosomes

28. Flummox

30. Denizens of the Great Victoria Desert

31. Go like :O

33. Government policy bigwig

34. ___ Türeci, physician/scientist who co-founded BioNTech

36. Lawn recreation with a portmanteau name

39. Germs of ideas

40. Possible topic for a couples therapist

43. "Get your ___ first and then you can distort them as much as you please": Mark Twain

45. Pop flies?

46. Acceptances

48. Exploit over time

49. Common guacamole ingredient

50. Goes around, in a way

52. Vegan alternative to gelatin

53. ___ Institute, home to the Carl Sagan Center

54. Avenue for early learning, in brief

57. Unspecified term in a sequence

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