Word before "practitioner" or "shark" Crossword Clue

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Word before "practitioner" or "shark" Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. a woman who is the custodian of children
2. one skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician)
(verb)
1. give suck to
2. maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

PRACTITIONER (noun)
1. someone who practices a learned profession
SHARK (noun)
1. any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
2. a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest
SHARK (verb)
1. hunt shark
2. play the shark; act with trickery

Hint 3: Anagram

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RUNES

More USA Today Crossword (1/9/2025) Answers

Across

1. Breakfast roll similar to a bialy

6. “High Voltage” band

10. Group similar to a sorority, for short

14. Garlicky sauce

15. Blacken on a grill

16. Long, bounding gait

17. Smell of pie, e.g.

18. ___-pedi

19. Not just mine

20. "Ugh, never mind!"

23. Black Poetry Day mo.

25. Big jerk

26. Just slightly

27. Pay ___ (fair compensation topic)

30. Have some echicha

31. Horses' gaits

32. Twinge

34. "___ Spice," Victoria Beckham's nickname

38. "Let's try this instead . . ."

41. Duplicate

42. Limbs worked in a handstand

43. "Water ___ the bridge!"

44. ___ButMakeItSports (social media account that compares photos of athletes with paintings)

45. "Forever" postal items

46. Finale

50. Hospital areas, for short

52. Shade of gray

53. Star and creator of "Abbott Elementary"

57. Large vases

58. Brunch e.g.

59. ___-leaf tea

62. Gotcha

63. ". . . or ___!" (ultimatum words)

64. Sky blue

65. Mosquito or tick

66. Iditarod vehicle

67. Apt homophone of "medal"

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Down

1. Sheep's sound

2. ___ conditioner

3. '90s animated series featuring a Disney dog

4. Muppet who sings "Anyone Can Be Friends"

5. Fibber

6. Tippy-tops

7. Conversation spaces on Twitch

8. "Noble Blood" host Schwartz

9. Card game with pegs

10. Main ingredient in most pastas

11. Way to go

12. ___ Fools' Day

13. Having a short fuse

21. Like many characters in "The L Word"

22. Nondairy milk option

23. Eye-related

24. Freight

28. Tiny

29. Org. that looks at luggage

30. Sinus docs

32. Cheeky

33. Convenience at a cash-only restaurant

34. ___ colada

35. Person who differs from the rest of the group

36. Trickles slowly

37. Scathing

39. Darts, pool, Giant Jenga, etc.

40. It's boring to be stuck in one

44. Uninvited visitor at a picnic

45. Tax ID

46. Supply with gear

48. Has supper

49. Map within a map

50. Wipe away

51. Like some notebooks

54. "Class is over!" sound

55. Grand ___ (tennis feat)

56. Trickle slowly

60. Spanish for 'Mrs.'

61. Moray or conger

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