City where the novelist Paulo Coelho was born Crossword Clue
Looking for the answer to “City where the novelist Paulo Coelho was born” from the Washington Post Sunday crossword of November 2, 2025? It has 3 letters. Flip the tiles one at a time, try a hint first, or look through the rest of that puzzle.
Crossword answer
WASHINGTON POST SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2025
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RIO is the answer to “City where the novelist Paulo Coelho was born”.
Hints
Three clues to the answer, gentle first. Open one at a time.
Hint 1 Meaning
A 3-letter answer that starts with R.
Hint 2 Anagram
Its letters, scrambled: OIR.
Hint 3 Another clue
It has also been clued as “Birthplace of bossa nova, for short”.
More clues from the Washington Post Sunday (November 2, 2025)
Across
- 1. They might play near the winds7 letters, starts with BBRASSES
- 8. Stat for a point guard or a winger6 letters, starts with AASSIST
- 14. Parliament : owls :: ___ : geese6 letters, starts with GGAGGLE
- 20. What's filled during a radio show7 letters, starts with AAIRTIME
- 21. Started a chat, perhaps6 letters, starts with SSAIDHI
- 22. Fusion genre of the 24kGoldn song "Mood"6 letters, starts with EEMORAP
- 23. Incredibly dumb7 letters, starts with MMORONIC
- 24. Yanks at6 letters, starts with TTUGSON
- 25. Put on the staff?6 letters, starts with NNOTATE
- 26. *Excessive use of government power9 letters, starts with OOVERREACH
- 28. **Dull pain experienced by a generically named dog?9 letters, starts with RROVERACHE
- 30. Feature of the WWE's Hell in a Cell fights4 letters, starts with CCAGE
- 32. Lake ___ Ballet Company (dance group based in Pennsylvania)4 letters, starts with EERIE
- 33. "Que ___, ___ (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)" (song sung by Doris Day)4 letters, starts with SSERA
- 34. Observes visually4 letters, starts with SSEES
- 35. Constellation that's Latin for "the altar"3 letters, starts with AARA
- 36. "The Sword in the Stone" knight who refers to Arthur as "Wart"5 letters, starts with EECTOR
- 38. Became partners in congress?8 letters, starts with MMADELOVE
- 41. Prom tux or limo, e.g.6 letters, starts with RRENTAL
- 43. Clear, as a windshield5 letters, starts with DDEFOG
- 45. Carry out, as a computer command7 letters, starts with EEXECUTE
- 49. *Speed of transferring digital information, often measured in bytes per second8 letters, starts with DDATARATE
- 51. **Homer hit by poet Limón?8 letters, starts with AADATATER
- 54. Home of the dolphins3 letters, starts with SSEA
- 55. Take back, on a computer screen4 letters, starts with UUNDO
- 56. Tickled6 letters, starts with AAMUSED
- 57. They may stop in slips6 letters, starts with YYACHTS
- 59. Office building abbr.3 letters, starts with SSTE
- 60. Symbols found on tablets, maybe5 letters, starts with RRUNES
- 62. "Ain't happening"4 letters, starts with NNOPE
- 64. "Give this a try"4 letters, starts with HHERE
- 65. *The singer Jessye Norman or Leontyne Price, e.g.9 letters, starts with OOPERASTAR
- 67. **Actress Reid's nickname when she goes to an outdoor obstacle course?9 letters, starts with RROPESTARA
- 69. Tibia's place4 letters, starts with SSHIN
- 70. Subject of metaphysics4 letters, starts with SSOUL
- 71. Cities by the ocean5 letters, starts with PPORTS
- 72. Apple News platform3 letters, starts with IIOS
- 73. Shuts up6 letters, starts with CCANSIT
- 75. Pyrrhic War combatants6 letters, starts with RROMANS
- 77. Fruit-filled dessert4 letters, starts with TTART
- 79. "How ___ things?"3 letters, starts with AARE
- 80. *Citrus-flavored soft drink8 letters, starts with OORANGINA
- 82. **Announcement you might make to director Ephron that you complain constantly?8 letters, starts with NNORAINAG
- 86. Like some biometric scanners7 letters, starts with RRETINAL
- 88. "Common" thing5 letters, starts with SSENSE
- 90. Holder of a "burned" music item6 letters, starts with CCDCASE
- 91. Inserted new film, say8 letters, starts with RRELOADED
- 94. En ___ (as a group)5 letters, starts with MMASSE
- 96. "Born Free" musician3 letters, starts with MMIA
- 97. Puerto ___4 letters, starts with RRICO
- 100. Trash pickup?4 letters, starts with OODOR
- 101. "Mambo Birdland" musician Puente4 letters, starts with TTITO
- 102. Cherished4 letters, starts with DDEAR
- 103. *Was penitent about9 letters, starts with AATONEDFOR
- 106. **Have a meal while sitting atop a Bronco or a Mustang?9 letters, starts with EEATONFORD
- 109. Building material for the Leaning Tower of Pisa6 letters, starts with MMARBLE
- 110. Withdraw, as testimony6 letters, starts with RRECANT
- 112. Turned inside out, say ... and a synonym of the word spelled by the circled letters which, when moved to the outside, create the double-starred answers7 letters, starts with AALTERED
- 115. "Come on, can I???"6 letters, starts with PPLEASE
- 116. Become manifest6 letters, starts with EEMERGE
- 117. "Anywhere" singer7 letters, starts with RRITAORA
- 118. Emulated eagles6 letters, starts with SSOARED
- 119. "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" Oscar nominee Melinda6 letters, starts with DDILLON
- 120. Had unhappy feet, maybe?7 letters, starts with SSTOMPED
Down
- 1. Punch sound effect3 letters, starts with BBAM
- 2. City where the novelist Paulo Coelho was born3 letters, starts with RRIO
- 3. Like a snob8 letters, starts with AARROGANT
- 4. Water heater?5 letters, starts with SSTOVE
- 5. Opposite/hypotenuse ratio in trigonometry4 letters, starts with SSINE
- 6. Title not used in the modern UAE, despite the country's name4 letters, starts with EEMIR
- 7. Not many people know this6 letters, starts with SSECRET
- 8. Dancer born Frederick Austerlitz7 letters, starts with AASTAIRE
- 9. Topping on the table5 letters, starts with SSAUCE
- 10. [I missed my chance]4 letters, starts with SSIGH
- 11. LAX requirements3 letters, starts with IIDS
- 12. Bolstered, with "up"6 letters, starts with SSHORED
- 13. Mined resource such as cassiterite or stannite6 letters, starts with TTINORE
- 14. Trait transmitter4 letters, starts with GGENE
- 15. Passionate deity4 letters, starts with AAMOR
- 16. "You free?"7 letters, starts with GGOTASEC
- 17. Coolness "under fire"5 letters, starts with GGRACE
- 18. Wood-rotating device5 letters, starts with LLATHE
- 19. Some fencing swords5 letters, starts with EEPEES
- 27. Slowly destroy5 letters, starts with EERODE
- 29. One paid for parking5 letters, starts with VVALET
- 30. King or queen, e.g.4 letters, starts with CCARD
- 31. Neck of the woods4 letters, starts with AAREA
- 33. Epic stories5 letters, starts with SSAGAS
- 36. Wage ___6 letters, starts with EEARNER
- 37. Dressed (in)4 letters, starts with CCLAD
- 38. ___ operandi5 letters, starts with MMODUS
- 39. Aster family flowers6 letters, starts with OOXEYES
- 40. Bridal gown designer Wang4 letters, starts with VVERA
- 42. Stretches tight7 letters, starts with TTAUTENS
- 44. Hall of ___5 letters, starts with FFAMER
- 46. Guides with programs6 letters, starts with UUSHERS
- 47. Brightly colored fish5 letters, starts with TTETRA
- 48. It's no problem!4 letters, starts with EEASE
- 50. It may be chiseled in an art studio ... or a gym5 letters, starts with TTORSO
- 52. Those on the T line, in scores6 letters, starts with TTENORS
- 53. Take in as one's own5 letters, starts with AADOPT
- 56. Not digital6 letters, starts with AANALOG
- 58. Like mob scenes7 letters, starts with CCHAOTIC
- 59. Small harpsichord6 letters, starts with SSPINET
- 61. Rolls-Royce reversal5 letters, starts with UUTURN
- 63. 9 Down for gnocchi5 letters, starts with PPESTO
- 65. Midwestern hub northwest of Midway5 letters, starts with OOHARE
- 66. Of a spiritual plane6 letters, starts with AASTRAL
- 67. "Brooklyn" actress Saoirse5 letters, starts with RRONAN
- 68. Inflammatory response?6 letters, starts with TTIRADE
- 69. Plotter against Mufasa in "The Lion King"4 letters, starts with SSCAR
- 71. Sectioned, as glass5 letters, starts with PPANED
- 74. "Haunt" actress Skye4 letters, starts with IIONE
- 76. Ebenezer Scrooge, e.g.5 letters, starts with MMISER
- 78. Arrows' trajectories4 letters, starts with AARCS
- 81. Cool and distant5 letters, starts with AALOOF
- 82. Cool, as in the '50s5 letters, starts with NNEATO
- 83. Mention a celebrity that you knew during childhood, e.g.8 letters, starts with NNAMEDROP
- 84. Home of the Pamir Mountains4 letters, starts with AASIA
- 85. One of a few settings on a bicycle4 letters, starts with GGEAR
- 87. 30 Across rod, maybe7 letters, starts with IIRONBAR
- 89. Struck by Cupid's arrow7 letters, starts with SSMITTEN
- 92. Treasured beyond measure6 letters, starts with AADORED
- 93. "The Sound of Music" song describing la as "a note to follow sew"6 letters, starts with DDOREMI
- 95. Sub systems6 letters, starts with SSONARS
- 97. Ways off the highway5 letters, starts with RRAMPS
- 98. ___ disco (genre heard at a European dance club, maybe)5 letters, starts with IITALO
- 99. "Windows" composer Chick5 letters, starts with CCOREA
- 101. Dance featured in the opening and ending scenes of "True Lies"5 letters, starts with TTANGO
- 102. Alice's adventure in Wonderland, essentially5 letters, starts with DDREAM
- 104. Otherwise4 letters, starts with EELSE
- 105. Proof of ownership4 letters, starts with DDEED
- 106. British title of nobility4 letters, starts with EEARL
- 107. Move like a moth4 letters, starts with FFLIT
- 108. Springfield bus driver4 letters, starts with OOTTO
- 111. Picture of Bugs, e.g.3 letters, starts with CCEL
- 113. Poetic word hidden in the Gwendolyn Brooks title "We Real Cool"3 letters, starts with EERE
- 114. Pop3 letters, starts with DDAD
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Questions
What is the answer to “City where the novelist Paulo Coelho was born”?
RIO, 3 letters.
When was “City where the novelist Paulo Coelho was born” last seen in a crossword?
In the Washington Post Sunday crossword of November 2, 2025.
How many letters does the answer have?
3 letters, starting with R.