Professional writer of a sort Crossword Clue

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Professional writer of a sort Crossword Answer

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

PROFESSIONAL (noun)
1. a person engaged in one of the learned professions
2. an authority qualified to teach apprentices
PROFESSIONAL (adjective)
1. engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood
2. engaged in by members of a profession
WRITER (noun)
1. writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
2. a person who is able to write and has written something

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More NYT Crossword (6/5/2025) Answers

Across

1. Toggle on a digital clock

5. Leader of brothers

10. Gillette razor

14. Confirm to be true

15. Like 2027 and 2029, but not 2025

16. *Someone who knows how the sausage gets made?

17. Works traditionally performed with musical accompaniment in ancient Greece

18. Goliath

19. Coach's charge

20. Rainwater clearer

22. Unwanted "ingredient" when assembling s'mores, say

23. "__ love"

24. Mr. Spock, e.g.

26. Clamorous

28. Cunning sort

30. Finally!

33. Li'l belly

34. *Formal expressions of praise

38. Diminutive suffix in Spanish

39. Like some coffees and mob targets

41. Nickname for Louis Armstrong

42. Activist Brockovich

43. Neighbor of "#" on a telephone keypad

44. Supporting

45. Stir up

46. The Forbidden City's Meridian ___

47. *One who's conspicuously excellent

49. One standing near a pond, maybe

50. Animal symbol of innocence

52. Biblical beast

54. Stunning 17,000-year-old discovery in France's Lascaux Cave

57. Companionship?

59. A club might be seen on one

60. General name on a Chinese menu

63. Emphatic instruction for entering the answers to this puzzle's 10 starred clues?

67. Flat sign

68. Alley-___

69. Cliched

70. Cluster in an archipelago

71. Street urchins

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Down

1. Proclaim

2. Lead-in to care

3. Necessity for a reservation, perhaps

4. Word that can redundantly follow "I"

5. Inclined

6. Actor Cox of "Succession"

7. *Armed thieves

8. Midwest city whose name consists of two interjections

9. This clue's number + one

10. Not approximate, say

11. Setting for a Laura Ingalls Wilder book series

12. Garner

13. Huge fan club, so to speak

21. "Blame It on ___" (1984 Michael Caine rom-com)

23. Shoot into the pocket, in snooker

25. Telephone no. add-ons

27. Hasty

28. *Removing lumps from, in a way

29. Saint in the Caribbean

31. Barrier to entry

32. *Like dress shirts, typically

35. Emergency item on a ship

36. Langston Hughes poem published during the Harlem Renaissance

37. Light shade?

40. Showed for the first time

42. *Buying a gallon of milk, picking up the laundry, etc.

47. Antidotes, perhaps

48. Food subject to internet debate over whether or not it's a sandwich

51. Kilns for hops

53. Neighbors of Croats

54. Not supporting

55. Down Under bounders

56. Cultivate

58. Have down

59. What Indiana Jones famously isn't fond of

60. Get ready to hit all the right notes?

61. 1970s tennis champ Smith

62. Home of the historic Oscarshall Palace

64. Cost of doing business, maybe

65. Doomed from the get-go, for short

66. Cave dweller

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