NYT Crossword · 9 Across
“Dust bits” Crossword Clue
This clue appeared in the NYT Crossword for Thursday, June 17, 2004 as 9 Across. The answer has 5 letters. Reveal it below one square at a time, or open the hints first if you only want a push in the right direction.
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NYT Crossword · Thursday, June 17, 2004 · 9 Across
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The other clues from the NYT Crossword of Thursday, June 17, 2004.
Across
- 1Cry from the block crossword clue4 letters
- 5Welcoming crossword clue4 letters
- 14"If I ___ ..." crossword clue4 letters
- 15Et ___ crossword clue4 letters
- 16See 29-Down crossword clue5 letters
- 17Pay back crossword clue9 letters
- 19Main male crossword clue5 letters
- 20Provoke crossword clue10 letters
- 22Biblical shepherd crossword clue4 letters
- 23Already off crossword clue4 letters
- 24Be indisposed crossword clue7 letters
- 26Blocks crossword clue6 letters
- 29Of an atrioventricular valve crossword clue6 letters
- 30Phil who sang "I Ain't Marching Anymore" crossword clue4 letters
- 31Sensitive things crossword clue5 letters
- 32Court call crossword clue3 letters
- 35Noted guerrilla crossword clue3 letters
- 36Scram ... or a hint to solving 17-, 20-, 50- and 57-Across and 11- and 28-Down crossword clue7 letters
- 38Words of promise crossword clue3 letters
- 39Light source crossword clue3 letters
- 40"... ___ and hungry look": Shak. crossword clue5 letters
- 41Nabokov novel crossword clue4 letters
- 42Comparatively compliant crossword clue6 letters
- 44Composer Prokofiev crossword clue6 letters
- 46Spot to order a spot crossword clue7 letters
- 48Farm unit crossword clue4 letters
- 49Goals crossword clue4 letters
- 50"Understand?" crossword clue10 letters
- 55Go around crossword clue5 letters
- 57Be a hindrance crossword clue9 letters
- 58Pointer mover crossword clue5 letters
- 59Symbol of Apollo crossword clue4 letters
- 60Percolate slowly crossword clue4 letters
- 61Substitute (for) crossword clue5 letters
- 62Rowers' muscles, for short crossword clue4 letters
- 63Cub or Red, briefly crossword clue4 letters
Down
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- 81980 Andrzej Wajda film in which Lech Walesa appears crossword clue9 letters
- 9Inits. on N.Y.C. buses crossword clue3 letters
- 10"Verrry sexy!" crossword clue6 letters
- 11Star crossword clue10 letters
- 12Waters of jazz crossword clue5 letters
- 13Are going to crossword clue5 letters
- 18Not e'en once crossword clue4 letters
- 21Dos crossword clue5 letters
- 25Originally, once crossword clue4 letters
- 26Shot orderers crossword clue4 letters
- 27Parrot crossword clue4 letters
- 28Move it crossword clue10 letters
- 29Large 16-Across crossword clue5 letters
- 31Marathoner's challenge crossword clue9 letters
- 33Actress McClurg crossword clue4 letters
- 34Novelist Morrison crossword clue4 letters
- 36Bad cut crossword clue4 letters
- 37"Middlemarch" author crossword clue5 letters
- 41Not call it quits crossword clue7 letters
- 43Umbrian town crossword clue6 letters
- 44Things between cuts crossword clue6 letters
- 45European tongue crossword clue4 letters
- 46Heat and Lightning crossword clue5 letters
- 47Short concluding stanza crossword clue5 letters
- 48Lifeless, old-style crossword clue5 letters
- 51"The Memory of Trees" Grammy winner crossword clue4 letters
- 52Truant, in a way crossword clue4 letters
- 53It may be steely crossword clue4 letters
- 54Viewer crossword clue4 letters
- 56Habitable hole crossword clue3 letters
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How many letters is the answer to “Dust bits”?
The answer has 5 letters. It starts with M and ends with S, so you can check it against the squares you have already filled.
When was “Dust bits” last seen?
Most recently in the NYT Crossword on Thursday, June 17, 2004, at 9 Across.
What is the answer to the “Dust bits” crossword clue?
The answer is MOTES (5 letters). If you'd rather work it out yourself, the hints above give it away a little at a time.