Playfully poke fun at Crossword Clue

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Playfully poke fun at Crossword Answer

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(verb)
1. disentangle and raise the fibers of
2. ruffle (one’s hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect
(noun)
1. the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances
2. someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

POKE (verb)
1. hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument
2. poke or thrust abruptly
POKE (noun)
1. someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind
2. tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous
FUN (noun)
1. activities that are enjoyable or amusing
2. a disposition to find (or make) causes for amusement

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More NYT Easy Mode Crossword (6/27/2025) Answers

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14. Features of locker rooms and compost bins

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16. School pride at a sporting event, say

18. "Only a ___ in Their Game" (Bob Dylan song)

19. "Yes, it can be done!" in Spanish

20. Language that's similar to Hindi

21. Salt Lake City athlete

22. Major creative work

23. "Colorful" brew made from South Africa's rooibos bush

25. ___ Def, former name for rapper Yasiin Bey

26. Big ___, rugged stretch of the California coast

27. 2001: A Space Odyssey computer

28. Books that might feature dragons, dwarfs and dryads

32. Overly involved bosses

33. Phrase used to set the scene before a story

34. Minecraft explosive

35. One of 100 in D.C.

36. __ takers?

37. Spies, e.g.

39. One-named R&B singer with three Grammy awards

41. Snake in Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra"

44. Swollen spot on a stem

45. Baltic nation bordering Latvia and Belarus

47. Homes for some endangered animals

48. "Alas, things just happen that way"

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50. Really bothered

51. Some ambulance drivers, for short

52. Chess board and 32 chess pieces, say

53. Some seabirds

54. "___ in point …"

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1. Japanese culinary term for breaded chicken or pork

2. Seal the deal, slangily

4. Name that anagrams to SEEM

5. Some temporary shops

6. French farewell

7. Pants with ridged fabric, casually

8. Great Lake that shares a name with a Pennsylvania city

9. Clock setting that Arizona opts out of, in brief

10. Words at the beginning of a maze

11. Unfair situations

12. Plants that don't come up again the next year

15. Informal word for a potato

17. Spot to place a cooking utensil between stirring sessions

23. Surprise chart-toppers

24. Sensitive, as some intimate "zones"

25. Supersonic speed unit

26. Auld Lang __

28. Fully supplied

29. "True that!"

30. Tool with teeth

31. Especially

32. Small mammal known for confronting venomous snakes

33. Groups of lines in a poem

38. Loch ___ monster

39. More kind

40. Actor Hawke of "Boyhood"

41. Feminine side, in Jungian psychology

42. Makes finer, as flour

43. Bel ___ (Italian cheese)

45. Pear-shaped instrument

46. Baldwin of "30 Rock"

48. Used a chaise lounge, say

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