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' wander ' is the definition. (I know that wander can be written as roam) This is all the clue.

(Other definitions for roam that I've seen before include "Wander widely" , "range" , "Travel aimlessly" , "wander around" , "Meander" .)

' wander ' is the definition. (I know that wander can be written as rove) This is all the clue.

(Other definitions for rove that I've seen before include "Don't stay in one place" , "Ramble, roam, wander" , "Range" , "Roam about aimlessly" , "Move aimlessly about" .)

(Other definitions for drift that I've seen before include "Movement off course or in general" , "Trend; meaning" , "Large heap (of snow)" , "Snow heaped up by wind" , "Be powerless to control movement" .)

' wander ' is the definition. (I know that wander can be written as stray) This is all the clue.

(Other definitions for stray that I've seen before include "Appearing occasionally" , "out of place" , "Wander; be unfaithful" , "Go off course" , "Wander off course" .)

' wander ' is the definition. (I know that wander can be written as meander) This is all the clue.

(Other definitions for meander that I've seen before include "Snake" , "an Indo-European river" , "Take a winding course" , "Renamed (anag)" , "Wind, bend" .)

(Other definitions for digress that I've seen before include "Go off at a tangent" , "Wander from a topic" , "Leave the point" , "Depart from the main subject" , "Deviate from the main subject" .)

(Other definitions for stroll that I've seen before include "Constitutional" , "walk in a leisurely manner" , "A casual or leisurely walk" , "swan" , "Saunter in no particular direction" .)

' wander ' is the definition. (I know that wander can be written as ramble) This is the entire clue.

(Other definitions for ramble that I've seen before include "Walk in the countryside" , "Walk for pleasure or stray from subject" , "Walk; be discursive" , "Walk desultorily (or in a group)" , "Walk as leisure activity" .)

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WANDERING Crossword Clue

Synonyms for wandering.

We found 70 Synonyms

• not wandering (100%)
• WANDERING aimlessly (84.14%)
• KNIGHTLY wandering (84.14%)
• DESIRE for wandering (84.14%)
• night-wandering (84.14%)
• Hardly wandering (84.14%)
• A wandering dog? (84.14%)
• Not wandering, say (84.14%)
• Not at all wandering (84.14%)
• Prone to wandering (84.14%)
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WANDER Crossword Clue & Answer

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• go via an indirect route or at no set pace; "After dinner, we wandered into town"

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While searching our database we found 1 possible solution for the: Wander crossword clue.  This crossword clue was last seen on April 25 2024 Thomas Joseph Crossword puzzle . The solution we have for Wander has a total of 4 letters.

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By Sam Corbin

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MONDAY PUZZLE — Mondays have long been known to feature the easiest of the week’s crosswords at The New York Times. The clues tend to be more straightforward than those that appear in weekend puzzles, and their entries are less obscure.

So it can be tempting to take the craft of a Monday puzzle for granted, as though it were scrabbled together mindlessly by its constructor. But Tom Locke, who makes his New York Times debut with today’s crossword, has achieved a grid and theme that Sam Ezersky, a puzzle editor for The Times, described as “wildly, wildly elegant.”

Mr. Ezersky and his colleagues were particularly impressed that the grid that had wowed them came from a debut constructor. “It’s staggering how tight it is,” he said. We might let the editors’ astonishment be our invitation as solvers to look more closely at the beauty of each crossword grid, not only for its wordplay (which will always be a personal highlight), but also for the skill of a constructor who sets every word down so neatly in its place. Does that count as taking some time to stop and smell the proses ? I’ll work on that one while you solve.

Today’s Theme

A certain idiom for a “Public uproar” (65A) serves as our “phonetic hint” to the theme entries in today’s grid. That is, it does if you’re familiar with the idiom. The phrase HUE AND CRY has roots in Medieval Latin, describing the outcry in pursuit of a felon. And though the expression now refers to a more general public clamor, it is rarely used. (Should we do it? Should we make hue and cry happen ?)

Returning to our other themed entries, we can identify three HUEs mentioned in the grid. The “Marine creature that can weigh over 400,000 pounds” (17A) is a BLUE WHALE; to “Bar” outsiders “from joining a private club” (28A) is to BLACK BALL them; and “Chardonnay or pinot grigio” are examples of WHITE WINE. There’s no phonetic ambiguity in these HUEs: Mr. Locke’s revealer instead describes the second halves of the entries. WHALE, BALL and WINE are all homonyms of words that mean CRY: wail, bawl, whine.

“Timeless idioms make for nice crossword fodder,” Mr. Ezersky said of the revealer. He added that, while he didn’t use the phrase HUE AND CRY all the time, “the universal air” around such idioms “makes them feel like a good starting point for a newspaper puzzle.”

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37A. There are many ways to be “___ aware (paying close attention).” But it’s a particular cliché — a “trimmable,” to use Benjamin Dreyer’s term from his book on grammar and style — that fills in the blank here: KEENLY aware.

42A. And speaking of clichés, “It might be open and shut” uses one to misdirect us. You may be tempted to enter “case,” but the correct answer is DOOR.

60A. If you “Point at an off-target spot,” it might be said that you MIS-AIM. But I would tell whoever said it that they sounded quite silly.

67A. “Way in which” seems to suggest an adverb, but the full clue phrase refers to a noun: The “Way in which a word is employed” is called its USAGE.

4D. Experiencing “Quite a sight to behold” is referred to as getting an EYEFUL. Not to be confused with a certain Parisian tower that is itself quite a sight to behold, which is the Eiffel .

18D. An early “Radio reply after ‘Roger’” was WILCO, derived from a phonetic alphabet used by the U.S. military; WILCO is a shortened version of the phrase “will comply.”

55D. The phrase “Be up against” aptly describes my relationship to this clue/entry combination: I always interpret the clue as a kind of face-off, even though its answer is almost invariably ABUT . (Once and only once, in a puzzle from 2021 , the entry for this clue was “oppose.”)

Constructor Notes

This is my debut puzzle for The New York Times. Although I have had puzzles published by The L.A. Times and The Wall Street Journal, I am thrilled to now be counted among the contributors to this iconic crossword. I started constructing puzzles after retiring from a fire service career, during which I often solved crosswords to de-stress after a late night or early-morning call. My son, who is a naval aviator, tells me that crosswords were also popular with many in his squadron while they were on long deployments at sea. In constructing, I like to imagine the variety of people who might find enjoyment or even comfort and inclusion in solving the puzzles. I especially applaud efforts to insure that more people feel they are invited to participate as I do. The HUE AND CRY theme occurred to me after signing onto the internet one day and being struck by the array of volatile news items and opinions. Not only did the phrase seem apt for our current times, but it also had the potential for fun wordplay. This is something I am always looking for, and I hope you enjoyed it.

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Here's how i create crossword puzzles in excel (and you can too).

Because compiling a crossword is as much fun as completing one.

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Step 1: create your grid, step 2: add your words, step 3: black out empty squares, step 4: add your numbers, step 5: write your clues, step 6: remove the words, step 7: test your puzzle.

Yes, there are websites and programs you can use to make a crossword puzzle, but none of those give you the satisfaction of crafting one from scratch. In this article, I'll show you the seven steps you can take to become a fully-fledged cruciverbalist.

I'm going to run through how I create a crossword using Excel, but you can use any spreadsheet program, such as Google Sheets, to do the same thing.

First, decide how big and what shape you want your crossword to be. Personally, I aim for a large, square-shaped puzzle, but if this is your first shot, it might be worth trying a smaller one—such as a 10 x 10—until you've got the knack of things. If you want a professional layout, The NYT goes for 15 x 15 for their daily puzzles and 21 x 21 on a Sunday. The Guardian's crossword is 13 x 13 .

Once this decision is made, open Excel, select all the cells, and change their width and height so that you have suitably sized squares, making sure they're big enough to allow for writing space, but not so big that your puzzle won't fit onto one page.

Then, select the area that will form your crossword grid, and in the Home tab on the ribbon, open the borders drop-down (grid icon) and click "All Borders."

You're now ready to add your words. You can either choose to follow a theme or use random words. I tend to find that following a theme makes things a bit more difficult as you add your words, especially if you have a large grid, so I prefer to create a general knowledge puzzle.

Every Word Must Cross

Let me start by emphasizing one golden rule—never have any hanging words. In other words, every word you add must cross another one. This means that each time your solver correctly works out one word, they've got some letters for the next word, and they will soon master a certain region of your puzzle. This is the whole premise of a crossword, so it must be respected at all times.

Aim for Symmetry

In my experience, the most challenging part of this process is making the crossword symmetrical—but it's worth it. In the end, you'll have an aesthetically pleasing and professional crossword. You can aim for one line of symmetry (such as the left matching the right), or two lines of symmetry (by making the top mirror the bottom, and the left mirror the right). In my example, I'm going to use two. Start in the top-left corner with a long word downwards and a long word across, and then mirror that structure in the top-right corner. Then, do the same in the bottom corners. Now, any time you add a word stemming from one corner, mirror it in all four corners.

But Don't Add Words for the Sake Of It

Making your crossword symmetrical and trying to fill your grid with as many words as possible can tempt you into squeezing in words that you know, deep down, you're not happy with. Writing a crossword often involves taking two steps forward and one step back—don't be afraid to re-craft an area of your puzzle so that you're completely happy with the outcome.

Limit Short Words

You want to avoid two-letter words and limit the number of times you use a three-letter word. In essence, most of your words should be at least four letters long, and the more long words you have, the more flexible you can be with your clues. This approach will also let you use those longer words to generate more words stemming from them.

Words to Avoid

Don't obscure words that people mightn't have encountered before. Getting your quizzer to correctly guess a tiny village in Sweden or a nineteenth-century Japanese art form will simply demotivate them and raise concerns about the solvability of your puzzle. Instead, you can use interesting words that come up in everyday life to fill in parts of the challenging words.

Think About Your Clues

As you add your words, think ahead about how you might lure your solver to guess them. Ask yourself, "How will I tantalize my quizzer with a clever clue?"—and if you can't answer that question, choose another word. Another way to approach this is to use words with more than one meaning, which will give you more flexibility.

Having gone through the time-consuming process of adding, removing, and re-adding your words, the next step is particularly satisfying. After you've blacked out the empty squares in your puzzle, you'll really see it taking shape.

To do this, click one of the empty squares, hold Ctrl, and then click the remaining empty squares. I like to do a few squares at a time so that I don't have to start all over again if I accidentally select the wrong square. Then, open the color fill drop-down and go for black.

When you've filled in all the empty squares, take a moment to appreciate that much of the hard work is done!

In order to link your clues to your words, you now need to add numbers. Starting in the top-left corner and working along each row, type a number in front of the first letter of each new word (whether horizontal or vertical). On my crossword, I'll start with "Desperation" and add the number "1" to the "D." Then, moving along the top row, I'll add the number "2" to the letter "S" in "Saga."

This might seem a straightforward process—and it is—but I've often been caught out and had to go back and change all my numbers because I'd missed one. When you finish a row, go back across to make sure you've not missed any words.

You now need to craft your clues to the words you've chosen. Start with the "Across" clues, and then do the "Down" clues using the numbers you added in the previous step. You should also add the number of letters in the word to your clue so your solver can consider solutions without having to look back and forth between the clues and the grid. Here's what my clues for "Dispensable" and "Performance" (my first two horizontal words on the top row) will look like:

​​​As well as single-word synonym-type clues like those used above, you can vary the types of hints you offer:

• Anagram : Can you mix the letters around to create a different word for your clue? If you use this method, type "(Anag)" after the clue.
• Fill in the blank : If you have a word that can fit into a well-known phrase, such as "weather" in "under the weather," you can let your solver fill in the blank: "Under the ___ (7)."
• Definition : Offer a simple meaning of a word. For example, if the word is "epic," I might type "Long story of heroic achievement."
• Cryptic : These are clues with two parts. As an example, a clue for "Heart" might be "Hidden in the art of a human body." See how the answer is hidden inside the words "the" and "art," and the clue itself suggests that the answer is an internal body part.
• Quiz questions : You could write all your clues in the form of pub quiz questions, such as "What is the densest major body in the Solar System?" for "Earth."

As you create your clues, strike a balance between challenging and achievable. You want your solver to have to think (sometimes outside the box), but you don't want them to lose motivation.

You're pretty much done! All you need to do now is remove the letters from your crossword.

First, duplicate the sheet in your workbook and call it "Answers." Then, go back to your first sheet and remove all the letters from the squares, leaving the numbers in place.

Finally, format the numbers so that they're in the top-left corner of their squares, and leave enough room for your solver to write their answers.

Your final step is to make sure everything works. Save your work as a PDF to secure the formatting, and print the crossword to complete it by hand, having your computer next to you so you can make any necessary adjustments to your clues as you go.

And that's it! The more crosswords you create, the quicker this process will become, and you'll soon have a stack of puzzles to share with your family and friends .