Seed covering Crossword Clue

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EARTH

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(noun)
1. fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelops the seed

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

COVERING (noun)
1. the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it
2. the work of applying something
SEED (noun)
1. the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
2. one of the outstanding players in a tournament
SEED (verb)
1. place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth
2. bear seeds

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

EARTH
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Hint 4: Anagram

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LAIR

More NYT Crossword (8/4/2025) Answers

Across

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16. Like a grade of B+, say

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20. Rotary phone feature

21. Garment from Playtex or Maidenform

22. "Meet the Press" group

23. Image from a drone

27. Metal from a mine

28. Bills with George Washington's face

29. Small dish served in Spain

31. Accra's country

34. Path of a baseball pop-up

35. Doozy

39. Keep dreaming!

43. Opposite of “nope”

44. "Star Wars" saga heroine

45. Desert plants

46. Home of the New York Mets until 2008

48. College mil. program

50. "___, amas, amat …" (Latin 101 conjugation)

53. Outlet from the heart's left ventricle

58. Dance to "The Blue Danube," e.g.

60. E.P.A.-banned pesticide

61. Get an F

62. Poet with the essay collection "Sister Outsider"

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67. Grown-up

68. Pest control brand

69. Four years, for a U.S. president

70. Trait transmitters

71. One of 26, approximately, in a marathon

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2. Decluttering maven Kondo

3. Monastery resident

4. Very, very small fractions

5. In working order

6. Musical counterparts of flats

7. Bat mitzvah reading

8. Musician Brian who has an asteroid named after him

9. TV room

10. H2O, in Mexico

11. Emphatic rejection

12. Slugger Maris

13. "Skyfall" singer

19. Music genre from Tokyo

24. Scrambled word: Abbr.

25. Other: Sp.

26. R.p.m. indicator

30. Wool-producing ranch

31. Merry

32. Go quickly, quaintly

33. Actress de Armas

34. ___ port in a storm

36. Short lines at the register?

37. Permit

38. Prefix with cycle or code

40. Black-and-white cookie

41. In the neighborhood

42. When Hamlet duels with Laertes in "Hamlet"

47. Smog, e.g.

48. Enigma

49. Groups of eight musicians

50. Hang around for

51. "Harold and ___" (1971 black comedy)

52. From further in the past

54. Successful dash to the end zone, in brief

55. Hawaiian porch

56. Prayer __

57. Skip over, as the "i" in "family"

59. Transit option to N.Y.C.'s Roosevelt Island

63. Fall behind

64. Beethoven's "___ to Joy"

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