Answer: KEY
KEY is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 262 times.
Referring Clues:
- Crucial
- Lock opener
- Essential
- Codebreaker's discovery
- E or G, e.g.
- Code breaker
- Significant
- Bit of Florida
- Critical
- Chief
- F or G, but not H
- A major, maybe
- Important
- One of 88 on an eighty-eight
- Shift, tab or caps lock
- A or E, but not I
- Cryptographer's need
- Hotelier's handout
- Opener
- Pivotal
- Cryptographer's aid
- Vital
- Answer sheet
- C minor, for one
- G, e.g., but not H
- Church ___
- Door opener
- Critically important
- Florida island
- List of test answers
- Safe box opener
- Thing on a ring
- Ignition starter
- Item with a magnetic strip, nowadays
- Word before stone or stroke
- Anthem author
- "The Star-Spangled Banner" lyricist
- ALT or ESC
- ___ West
- Janitor's jangler
- Shift, tab or enter
- Piano piece?
- Locked door opener
- Ignition activator
- Computer feature that ends each of the five longest across answers
- Swipe card alternative
- Author of "The Star-Spangled Banner"
- Shift, for one
- With 26-Down, popular vacation area
- Piano part
- A major, e.g.
- Enter, e.g.
- Indispensable
- It'll get you in
- Answer book
- Tab, for one
- C major or D minor
- One of a Florida island group
- Primary
- Very important
- __ Largo, FL
- A or B, e.g.
- Caps Lock, for one
- Hotel issuance
- Enter or Caps Lock
- Battle of Baltimore witness
- Anthem composer
- Paramount
- A minor, e.g.
- A flat, e.g.
- F major or E minor
- Teacher's answer sheet
- Chain item
- Lock partner
- ''The Defense of Fort McHenry'' author
- Low island
- Sardine can attachment
- What a typist taps
- Choirmaster's announcement
- U.S. anthem lyricist
- It may tinkle if you apply pressure
- Entry enabler
- Most important
- "Defense of Fort M'Henry" author
- Ring dangler
- Skeleton, for one
- Decoder's tool
- One of 88
- Common item in a purse
- Organ piece
- Speck in the ocean
- Lock fitter
- Ignition insert
- Sardine-can opener, sometimes
- Cryptogram cracker
- Integral
- Principal tonality, as of a concerto
- Something to play in
- Sheet music designation
- With 34-Down, kind of pie
- Clue
- ___ Largo
- All-important
- "The Defense of Fort McHenry" author
- Decoder's manual
- Shift, e.g.
- Board member?
- ___ Largo, FL
- Islet
- Coral reef
- Board leader?
- Enter, for one
- One of five in this puzzle
- Historic kite attachment
- Map feature
- Skeleton ___
- "Defence of Fort McHenry" poet
- Shift or tab
- Professor's answer sheet
- 1812 versifier
- Piano piece
- Jailer's implement
- Type (in)
- Lock go-with
- With 103-Down, 1948 Bogart-Bacall film
- Map legend
- Vitally important
- Fundamental
- Phi Beta Kappa symbol
- Opener on a ring
- Cipher code
- Centrally important
- Code base
- Set of answers
- Each answer to a starred clue ends in one
- CTRL, e.g.
- One of 88 on a piano
- Map reader's aid
- Teacher's answer book
- Solution to a code
- What good singers sing in
- Decoding need
- Lock's partner?
- *Basketball area
- "The Star-Spangled Banner" author
- Latch follower
- A-flat, e.g.
- Dangler from a ring
- G, e.g.
- Instrumental
- Lock unlocker
- A cipher needs one
- Under lock and ___
- Of prime importance
- Lower island
- Franklin experiment piece
- See 38-Down
- ___ to the city
- It has all the answers
- Linchpin
- Good thing to sing in
- Door opener?
- He wrote "Defence of Fort M'Henry"
- E or G, in music
- ___ lime pie
- "___ West"
- Item often kept on a chain
- F minor, e.g.
- B-flat or C-sharp
- Major
- B-flat, for one
- Item on a custodian's ring
- See 58-Down
- West in Florida?
- Cipher creator's need
- "The Star-Spangled Banner" writer
- C minor, for Beethoven's Fifth
- "The Star-Spangled Banner" composer
- West or Largo
- Bolt turner
- Lock insert
- Esc, e.g.
- See 65-Down
- Exam marking aid
- Gift in a relationship that's getting serious, maybe
- Manitoba, AKA______stone Province
- B, E or G, e.g.
- Car opener
- It can get you past a deadbolt
- Lock necessity
- Item that might be fervently wanted by a prisoner
- Poet inspired by the Battle of Baltimore
- One of many on a custodian's ring
- Manual opener
- Caps Lock, e.g.
- B minor, e.g.
- One in, or on, a chain
- Fundamental, and a word that can follow the first parts of 20-, 31-, 41- and 52-Across
- Hotel desk handout
- Answer
- Anthem writer Francis Scott ___
- Message-encrypting instructions
- Pitch
- Reef
- A musical major
- C major, for one
- Musical score datum
- A major or minor
- + and = share one
- Longboat in Florida, e.g.
- Item on a ring
- Composer's choice
- National anthem author
- Common opener
- Door-opening thing
- Insert or Delete
- Scroll Lock or Num Lock
- Item on a jailer's ring
- List of answers
- Magnetic card at a hotel
- What makes a tumbler spin
- ___ West, FL
- E or G, e.g., in music
- Word after skeleton or answer
- Way in
- Crucial element
- "Locke & ___"
- *A child might spy through one
- Tab, say
- Dead-bolt insert
- Aid for a decoder
- Not to be overlooked
- Lock's partner
- Map part
- Of crucial importance
- Symbol of ownership
- *Pennsylvania state symbol
- See 7-Down
- It might open a lock
- Score specification
- One of 60 on a harpsichord
- Shift or Enter
- Item that might be hidden under a front door mat
- Development in cryptography
- Super important
- It jingles on a janitor's ring
- Exciting escape room discovery
- Solution
- Anthem lyricist with a musical name
- Delete, e.g.
- Word used to decrypt a cipher
- Of vital importance
- Middle C, e.g.
- It's got all the answers
- Decryption need
- Escape room find
- Peele's partner
- What context is, in a saying
- Unlocking tool
- Item accompanying a diary, perhaps
- Map inset
- Mission-critical
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - August 22, 2025
- LA Times - August 16, 2025
- New York Times - July 08, 2025
- New York Times - May 17, 2025
- LA Times - March 10, 2025
- New York Times - March 07, 2025
- LA Times - February 25, 2025
- USA Today - November 15, 2024
- USA Today - September 10, 2024
- USA Today - August 23, 2024
- LA Times - June 20, 2024
- New York Times - May 19, 2024
- LA Times - April 25, 2024
- LA Times - February 03, 2024
- LA Times - January 25, 2024
- New York Times - December 31, 2023
- New York Times - December 21, 2023
- LA Times - December 18, 2023
- USA Today - September 06, 2023
- LA Times - June 25, 2023
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