Prayer leader, in 40-Down Crossword Clue

We have the 4-letter answer for Prayer leader, in 40-Down crossword clue, last seen in the New Yorker Crossword January 1, 2025 puzzle. Let us help you solve the crossword clue that has you stumped so you can finish the puzzle.

Prayer leader, in 40-Down Crossword Answer

↓31.

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Hide

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Helpful Hints

(noun)
1. (Islam) the man who leads prayers in a mosque; for Shiites an imam is a recognized authority on Islamic theology and law and a spiritual guide

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

PRAYER (noun)
1. earnest or urgent request
2. someone who prays to God
LEADER (noun)
1. a featured article of merchandise sold at a loss in order to draw customers
2. a person who rules or guides or inspires others

Hint 3: Anagram

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

More New Yorker Crossword (1/1/2025) Answers

Across

1. Will-ing subject?

7. Majorly uptight

11. Dude

14. Company that owns the Falcon Heavy rocket

15. Feeling it after leg day, maybe

16. Irish carrier ___ Lingus

17. Classic folk song with the line “I owe my soul to the company store”

19. Manage to get

20. Field for one studying recessions: Abbr.

21. Fuels up before a long race

23. Noble gas that can produce a bluish glow

25. Call for help, or SZA album

26. Catholic college in Westchester County, New York

27. Join together

29. Like large anglerfish that are parasitized by their smaller mates

31. ___-de-France (region that’s not surrounded by water, despite its name)

34. Alanis Morissette hit “You ___ Know”

38. Backyard amenity with a diving board, perhaps

39. Achieving the miraculous

42. Alternative to Hertz or Sixt

43. Glacial period during which megafauna were widespread

44. N.Y.C. airport in northern Queens

45. Carnegie ______ University

47. Hang low enough to reveal underwear, say

49. Start-to-end length

50. Includes on a thread

53. Rhyming follower of “Too bad”

57. John Williams’s compositions for “Jaws” and “Star Wars,” for example

60. Become dim or hazy

61. Thurman who inspired a Fall Out Boy song

62. “That’s so nice of you” . . . and a literal description of the last word in 17-, 21-, 39-, or 57-Across

64. Podcaster and speechwriter Favreau, or producer and screenwriter Favreau

65. Dang it!

66. 'Yeah, I bet!'

67. ___ and outs

68. Otherwise

69. Of a higher quality

All Answers

Down

1. English county that shares its name with five U.S. counties

2. Word after Ice or before Girls, in music

3. Classification such as phylum or species

4. “Do something, while there’s still time!”

5. Peg for a golf ball

6. Corporate bigwig, for short

7. “The Jetsons” pooch

8. Ones still learning the ropes, dismissively

9. River that passes through Florence and Pisa

10. “One Night in Miami” star ___ Odom, Jr.

11. Flavoring ingredient for some yellow candies

12. Participate in story time, in a way

13. Sorcerers’ spheres

18. Rapper of the “King’s Disease” and “Magic” album trilogies

22. Proud gay ___ Loompa (“S.N.L.” character played by Bowen Yang)

24. Noble gas that can produce a reddish-orange glow

28. Started chowing down

29. Halloween accessory for a “Dracula” fan

30. Halloween costume for a “Frozen” fan

32. 2018 coming-out and coming-of-age movie starring Nick Robinson

33. Supervillains’ schemes

35. Automaker whose Hummer E.V. was called a “ghastly behemoth” in a review by The Verge

36. Tool used before planting

37. Dolphins quarterback Tagovailoa

40. Faith in which adherents declare the Shahada

41. Some exports from Assam and Darjeeling

46. In a legal position, in soccer

48. 'Put the pedal to the metal!'

50. Food ___ (post-feast slumps)

51. Island where Daedalus built a labyrinth, in myth

52. The Caribbean, for one

54. “Hi” or “bye,” in Versailles

55. Fervently admire

56. Stave off

57. Apple cultivar developed in Japan

58. Keyboard key, or SZA album

59. Smug élitist

63. ___/her pronouns

All Answers