Take to the sky Crossword Clue

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Take to the sky Crossword Answer

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AVIATE

(6 letters)

SOAR

(4 letters)

SOAR

(4 letters)

Helpful Hints

(verb)
1. pass away rapidly
2. decrease rapidly and disappear
(noun)
1. flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent
2. an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth
(adjective)
1. (British informal) not to be deceived or hoodwinked

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

TAKE (noun)
1. the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
2. the act of photographing a scene or part of a scene without interruption
TAKE (verb)
1. be capable of holding or containing
2. remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract
SKY (verb)
1. throw or toss with a light motion
SKY (noun)
1. the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

AVIATE
(6 letters)
SOAR
(4 letters)
Soar
(4 letters)

More NYT Crossword (8/10/2026) Answers

Across

1. "Planet of the ___"

5. Wood strip found in many Ikea bed supports

9. Take pleasure in

14. Size opposite of mini-

15. Prepares to throw a dart, say

16. Crystal-filled rock

17. Newspaper opinion piece

18. *Title of a 1990s ABC sitcom and a 1990s New Kids on the Block hit

20. Cereal often found with pretzels in a party snack mix

22. Vertical jumping ability, in basketball lingo

23. Sheep's cry

24. "___ to Go!," 2024 Chappell Roan hit sometimes compared to the Village People's "Y.M.C.A."

25. Attracted to people of any gender, for short

28. *Detailed, real-time description of events

33. Shape for a red-and-white striped Christmas candy

34. Rodeo rope

35. Foggy mental state

36. Raisins, when on a celery-and-peanut-butter "log"

37. Wrinkly citrus fruit

38. 'What a shame'

39. Riverbank deposit

40. Prompted on stage

41. Lyft competitor

42. Zellweger of "Bridget Jones's Diary"

43. Joint sometimes bent in protest

44. *How to tackle big writing projects, per a seminal Anne Lamott book

46. Go on and on and on

47. LAX posting

48. Frito-___

49. Not just some or most

50. Got off the ground, as a start-up company

55. *Many an off-road vehicle … or a literal description of the answer to each asterisked clue (including this one!)

59. Otherworldly glow

60. It means slow (not big!) in music

61. Well ___ that special!

62. Poetry competition

63. "See what I'm talkin' ’bout?"

64. Brooklyn basketballers … and what they swish

65. Effortlessness

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Down

1. Spanish love

2. Big ___ (nickname of baseball’s David Ortiz)

3. Company bigwig

4. *Next to each other, like many washers and dryers

5. Strut down the "RuPaul's Drag Race" runway, say

6. Lo-cal

7. Visa or Mastercard rival, informally

8. Small recipe amt.

9. Home of the Great Pyramid

10. Loch ___ monster

11. Scribble (down)

12. Sappho's '___ to Aphrodite'

13. Slangy affirmative

19. Lifted, as one's spirits

21. ___ San Lucas Mexico

24. Venture, as a guess

25. Pressed sandwich

26. Part of a reindeer's rack

27. Prepared one's home for a new arrival

28. Spirited and determined

29. "___ Beach: The Real Orange County" (MTV reality show of the mid-aughts)

30. Catching some Z's

31. Irrational fear

32. Word before printer or pointer

33. *Considered individually

38. In a nonobvious way

42. Deadpool actor Reynolds

45. Says out loud without thinking

47. Spot for a roller skater's pad

49. Best Picture winner found hiding in "and the Oscar goes to …"

50. "Heads, I win. Tails, you ___!" (sneaky coin flip agreement)

51. Parent's sister

52. Hawaiian storytelling dance

53. Times of one's life, say

54. Title for Helen Mirren and Emma Thompson

56. Acorn bearing tree

57. Caterer's coffee dispenser

58. Above-water sign of a shark

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