Certain hydrocarbon Crossword Clue

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ALKENE

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(noun)
1. a colorless odorless alkane gas used as fuel

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

HYDROCARBON (noun)
1. an organic compound containing only carbon and hydrogen
CERTAIN (adjective)
1. having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured
2. certain to occur; destined or inevitable

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

ALKENE
(6 letters)

More New Yorker Crossword (2/3/2025) Answers

Across

1. Certain Balkan

12. One with a blue-sky mind-set toward an ideation architecture that can move the needle in the innovation space, say

14. Fall, perhaps

15. Scots’ tots

16. Some brain tests, for short

17. Deg. for a worker at a filling station?

18. A German?

19. Biased

21. Rapper who’s half of Run the Jewels

22. Arabic honorific

24. Counterculturist

28. Retainer

29. Grace period?

30. Subject of David Foster Wallace’s “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again”

31. Sections of ballet class with slow movements

33. Tool that was banned, and then unbanned, in N.Y.C. public schools

34. Compares

35. Brute

36. Preceder of head or hole

37. First appearance

38. First name in French pop

39. "Ben-___"

40. “Too Fat, Too ___, Too Loud” (Anne Helen Petersen’s history of “unruly women”)

42. Do some light surgery?

43. Poet’s adverb

46. Some, in Spain

47. Treasures

49. Substances featured in a 1957 Life cover story

52. Children’s book character who suffers from acute literalism

53. Give another advance

54. Thrill

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1. Dear, to Diderot

2. Singer who’s part of “a golden age of Sapphic pop horniness,” per an essay in Them

3. Diamond data

4. Yellow or gray

5. Added for free

6. Milton’s “Lycidas,” e.g.

7. Bank employee’s promotion?

8. Pillbox or boater

9. What Vyvanse treats: Abbr.

10. Have to have

11. Flubs

12. TV show whose creator was called “the great American surrealist” in a 2025 Guardian obituary

13. Fine-tune

14. Entered breezily

15. Bison-cow hybrid

19. ___ Candies (California-based chocolate brand)

20. Book after Num.

22. Nation whose first Olympic medal was won by Julien Alfred, who took gold in the women’s hundred metres, in 2024

23. Some insurance options, in brief

25. It's often accused of valuing profits over lives

26. Backs

27. Belles-___

30. Guzzle

32. Eggy center?

33. Booker in Washington

35. Deliberator’s words

38. Le Creuset competitor

41. Deprive of strength

42. Low-ranking officer’s nickname, once

43. “Rubáiyát of ___ Khayyám”

44. Film set in New York City’s High School of the Performing Arts

45. Anti-dandruff shampoo

47. Wheelhouse

48. Bozo

50. U.N. agcy. that was awarded the 1969 Nobel Peace Prize

51. So-called “good cholesterol”

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