Run out of steam Crossword Clue

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FADE

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(verb)
1. exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
2. lose interest or become bored with something or somebody
(noun)
1. hoop that covers a wheel

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

OUT (adverb)
1. from one’s possession
OUT (adjective)
1. knocked unconscious by a heavy blow
2. excluded from use or mention
OUT (verb)
1. to state openly and publicly one’s homosexuality
2. be made known; be disclosed or revealed
OUT (noun)
1. (baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball
STEAM (verb)
1. clean by means of steaming
2. travel by means of steam power
STEAM (noun)
1. water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

FADE
(4 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

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

More WSJ Crossword (7/23/2025) Answers

Across

1. Kind of point or distance

6. Royal title of Iran

10. Advance, slangily

14. Jointly

16. Heavy reading?

17. His “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” was banned in the U.S. until 1959

19. McGregor of "Moulin Rouge!"

20. Fair-hiring letters

21. Any of 28 in a Monopoly game

22. Blow up on social media

23. Poet who defended writing in the vernacular in “De Vulgari Eloquentia”

27. Makeup of bookmarks

28. City with the most populous urban area in Africa

29. Marble marking

32. "Cobra Kai" setting

33. Insight outburst

36. His “Green Hills of Africa” chronicles a safari he took in Tanzania in 1933

41. Bit

42. Election analyst Silver

43. City whose Tøyen Park hosts the annual Øyafestivalen music festival

44. Specialty of painter Julian Stanczak

46. 1995 film set on a sheep farm

49. His “Doctor Zhivago” was smuggled into Italy from the USSR for publication

54. Seasonal song

55. Thin mint product?

56. Refiner’s need

57. “Blackfish” subject

58. Literary alias, and an apt description of 17-, 23-, 36- and 49-Across

61. Rich soil

62. Emmy-winner Falco

63. Greek storyteller

64. Colonial insects

65. Dampens

66. Layers?

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Down

1. Washed out

2. Jackson who portrayed his father in “Straight Outta Compton”

3. List preceder, sometimes

4. De Armas of No Time to Die

5. More salacious

6. Toughens

7. Language with Devanagari script

8. Circle segment

9. Part of a bray

10. Sound system

11. Motor Skils?

12. Muscat native

13. Watch over

18. Material

22. Liger counterpart

24. Composer’s creation

25. Latch (onto)

26. Muslim pilgrim

29. Corgi checker

30. Stat for an ace

31. Creature sunning on a sill, perhaps

32. Civil rights activist Ruby

34. "2001" computer

35. Edebiri of “The Bear”

37. Slowpoke

38. Mariners

39. Letters from 27-Across

40. End for church or theater

45. Some golf tourneys

46. “Revolution” and “I Am the Walrus,” for two

47. “Stop staring ___!”

48. Warn from the driver’s seat

49. Viscount subordinate

50. Let in

51. Pointless

52. Knight wear

53. Holds onto

54. Caramel-colored drink

58. Original

59. Adulatory work

60. Islands accessory

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