Abandons Crossword Clue
Looking for the answer to “Abandons” from the New York Times crossword of December 15, 2024? It has 7 letters. Flip the tiles one at a time, try a hint first, or look through the rest of that puzzle.
Crossword answer
NEW YORK TIMES, DECEMBER 15, 2024
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DITCHES is the answer to “Abandons”. It means to dig a long, narrow excavation in the ground.
Hints
Three clues to the answer, gentle first. Open one at a time.
Hint 1 Meaning
To dig a long, narrow excavation in the ground.
Hint 2 Anagram
Its letters, scrambled: IHDCSTE.
Hint 3 Another clue
It starts with D and ends with S.
More clues from the New York Times (December 15, 2024)
Across
- 1. Chess player's study7 letters, starts with TTACTICS
- 8. Painting stolen from 71-Across5 letters, starts with MMONET
- 13. Cashless deal4 letters, starts with SSWAP
- 17. Crunchy root vegetables8 letters, starts with RRADISHES
- 19. Fertilizer compound6 letters, starts with PPOTASH
- 20. Painting stolen from 64-Across5 letters, starts with KKAHLO
- 21. Winter setting in New England15 letters, starts with EEASTERNSTANDARDTIME
- 23. Hunter on high5 letters, starts with OORION
- 24. Like the Beatles' "Yesterday," key-wise3 letters, starts with IINF
- 25. Plum variety often used in spirits4 letters, starts with SSLOE
- 26. ___ center3 letters, starts with RREC
- 27. Made eyes at5 letters, starts with OOGLED
- 28. Schedules6 letters, starts with SSLATES
- 31. Architectural annexes4 letters, starts with EELLS
- 33. Bronx cheer6 letters, starts with GGOYANKEES
- 35. Capital on the Río de la Plata14 letters, starts with BBUENOSAIRESARGENTINA
- 39. "Anchors Aweigh" grp.3 letters, starts with UUSN
- 40. One step ___ time3 letters, starts with AATA
- 41. Oodles4 letters, starts with AALOT
- 42. Downhill event6 letters, starts with SSLALOM
- 44. Prefix with health4 letters, starts with TTELE
- 48. Niçoise salad need4 letters, starts with TTUNA
- 50. Role for Jay Silverheels5 letters, starts with TTONTO
- 52. Charles de Gaulle's birthplace5 letters, starts with LLILLE
- 53. Neighborhood grocery stores3 letters, starts with BBODEGAS
- 54. Painting stolen from 21-Across5 letters, starts with EERNST
- 56. Nobelist Bohr5 letters, starts with NNIELS
- 58. Evenhanded4 letters, starts with FFAIR
- 59. Customary practice4 letters, starts with WWONT
- 60. Popeye's witchy foe in early comics6 letters, starts with SSEAHAG
- 62. Like a car's wheels5 letters, starts with AAXLED
- 64. Bar with hashish pipes8 letters, starts with HHOOKAHLOUNGE
- 66. Baseball great Hershiser4 letters, starts with OOREL
- 68. Solution strength, in chemistry5 letters, starts with TTITER
- 70. Fat used in candlemaking4 letters, starts with SSUET
- 71. Common scale range8 letters, starts with FFROMONETOTEN
- 75. Champing at the bit5 letters, starts with EEAGER
- 77. Fog and haze generated for a theatrical production6 letters, starts with SSMOKEEFFECTS
- 81. Flimsy, as an excuse4 letters, starts with LLAME
- 82. Pillow cover4 letters, starts with SSHAM
- 84. Fastens, in a way5 letters, starts with TTAPES
- 86. Nose around5 letters, starts with SSNOOP
- 87. Director DuVernay3 letters, starts with AAVA
- 88. Crumple into a ball5 letters, starts with WWADUP
- 90. Informal speech5 letters, starts with SSLANG
- 92. Painting stolen from 33-Across4 letters, starts with GGOYA
- 93. Painting stolen from 105-Across4 letters, starts with MMIRO
- 95. Opened or closed like an eye, in film lingo6 letters, starts with IIRISED
- 97. No longer interested in4 letters, starts with OOVER
- 98. Tour de France units: Abbr.3 letters, starts with KKMS
- 99. Bout enders, for short3 letters, starts with KKOS
- 101. Health professional focused on nutrition14 letters, starts with RREGISTEREDDIETITIAN
- 105. Household appliance that makes a hissing sound6 letters, starts with SSTEAMIRON
- 108. "Right now!"4 letters, starts with SSTAT
- 109. Connecticut coastal town near Stamford6 letters, starts with DDARIEN
- 110. Has the gumption5 letters, starts with DDARES
- 111. Actress Thurman3 letters, starts with UUMA
- 114. Abbr. on a music score4 letters, starts with CCRES
- 116. Member of la familia3 letters, starts with TTIA
- 117. "Get ___!"5 letters, starts with AALIFE
- 118. Classic nursery rhyme15 letters, starts with MMARYHADALITTLELAMB
- 124. Toronto team, for short5 letters, starts with LLEAFS
- 125. Attacked by mosquitoes, say6 letters, starts with BBITTEN
- 126. Claudius, vis-à-vis King Hamlet8 letters, starts with PPOISONER
- 127. Land in the sea4 letters, starts with IISLE
- 128. Iditarod entries5 letters, starts with SSLEDS
- 129. Annual star-studded fashion event7 letters, starts with MMETGALA
Down
- 1. Three, in Torino3 letters, starts with TTRE
- 2. Letters associated with baseball and batteries3 letters, starts with AAAA
- 3. Many '90s music purchases3 letters, starts with CCDS
- 4. Painting stolen from 101-Across6 letters, starts with TTITIAN
- 5. Enjoys as a hobby6 letters, starts with IISERNSTNTO
- 6. Gets irritated by8 letters, starts with CCHAFESAT
- 7. Title for Manchin or Murkowski: Abbr.3 letters, starts with SSEN
- 8. First cars made by Ford7 letters, starts with MMODELSARGENTS
- 9. See 122-Down3 letters, starts with OOTT
- 10. Hair removal brand4 letters, starts with NNAIR
- 11. Salinger's "For ___ – With Love and Squalor"4 letters, starts with EESME
- 12. "Penn & Teller: Fool Us" airer5 letters, starts with TTHECGOYA
- 13. Painting stolen from 35-Across7 letters, starts with SSARGENT
- 14. "___ we're waiting …"5 letters, starts with WWHILE
- 15. Cactuslike plants5 letters, starts with AALOES
- 16. Duffer's obstacle4 letters, starts with PPOND
- 18. '60s campus activist grp.3 letters, starts with SSDS
- 19. "1984" drudge5 letters, starts with PPROLE
- 20. Eccentric types5 letters, starts with KKOOKS
- 22. Certain emergency message9 letters, starts with AALERTTEXT
- 28. Surgeon's stitch6 letters, starts with SSUTURE
- 29. Actress Creel of "Saved by the Bell"6 letters, starts with LLEANNA
- 30. Beauty spot?5 letters, starts with SSALON
- 32. Place to keep plants4 letters, starts with SSILL
- 34. Abundant8 letters, starts with NNUMEROUS
- 35. Motel proprietor in "Psycho"5 letters, starts with BBATES
- 36. Ancient Greek region for which part of the Mediterranean is named5 letters, starts with IIONIA
- 37. Innocent sort4 letters, starts with NNAIF
- 38. God of the Qu'ran5 letters, starts with AALLAH
- 43. Hodgepodges5 letters, starts with OOLIOS
- 45. Dark, in poesy4 letters, starts with EEBON
- 46. Like some vowels and memories4 letters, starts with LLONG
- 47. 90° from norte4 letters, starts with EEDEGASTE
- 49. On dry ground6 letters, starts with AASHOMONETE
- 51. Basic skateboard trick5 letters, starts with OOLLIE
- 55. Root in some speckled chips4 letters, starts with TTARO
- 57. Adjust to, as a thermostat5 letters, starts with SSETAT
- 59. ___ Clan, iconic hip-hop group of the 1990s6 letters, starts with WWUTOKEEFFENG
- 61. Catches on8 letters, starts with GGETSWISMIRO
- 63. Painting stolen from 53-Across5 letters, starts with DDEGAS
- 65. Some partners in lesbian couples4 letters, starts with KKAHLOEMS
- 67. Franz who composed "The Merry Widow"5 letters, starts with LLEHAR
- 69. Mapped out again9 letters, starts with RREPLOTTEDALI
- 71. Deception4 letters, starts with FFLAM
- 72. Shankar at Woodstock4 letters, starts with RRAVI
- 73. Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan4 letters, starts with OOMAR
- 74. Acme's antonym5 letters, starts with NNADIR
- 76. Plunder, archaically5 letters, starts with RREAVE
- 78. Online tracker6 letters, starts with CCOOKIE
- 79. Old-fashioned trinket shop vendors6 letters, starts with TTOYMEN
- 80. Twitch5 letters, starts with SSPASTITIAN
- 83. Think aloud4 letters, starts with MMUSE
- 85. Bergen's dummy Mortimer5 letters, starts with SSNERD
- 89. Identifies4 letters, starts with PPEGS
- 91. "Half a truth is often a ___": Benjamin Franklin8 letters, starts with GGREATLIE
- 94. Painting stolen from 77-Across7 letters, starts with OOKEEFFE
- 96. Abandons7 letters, starts with DDITCHES
- 100. Places of refuge5 letters, starts with OOASES
- 102. Xerox : copy machine :: ___ : kitchen wrap5 letters, starts with SSARAN
- 103. Most boring6 letters, starts with DDRIEST
- 104. Lines at the theater?6 letters, starts with DDIALOG
- 105. Corporate department5 letters, starts with SSALES
- 106. Culmination of many a "Law & Order" episode5 letters, starts with TTRIAL
- 107. Desensitizes5 letters, starts with NNUMBS
- 110. Painting stolen from 118-Across4 letters, starts with DDALI
- 112. It might be held during vacation4 letters, starts with MMAIL
- 113. Comedian Johnson of "Laugh-In"4 letters, starts with AARTE
- 115. Big inits. in fuel additives3 letters, starts with SSTP
- 119. From Jan. 1 until now3 letters, starts with YYTD
- 120. Male turkey3 letters, starts with TTOM
- 121. Actress de Armas of "Knives Out"3 letters, starts with AANA
- 122. With 9-Down, legendary Giant3 letters, starts with MMEL
- 123. A nursing one has snaps3 letters, starts with BBRA
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Questions
What is the answer to “Abandons”?
DITCHES, 7 letters: to dig a long, narrow excavation in the ground.
When was “Abandons” last seen in a crossword?
In the New York Times crossword of December 15, 2024.
How many letters does the answer have?
7 letters, starting with D.