Answer: RIP
RIP is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 322 times.
Referring Clues:
- Come apart
 - En-graved letters?
 - Tombstone letters
 - Saw in the direction of the grain
 - Embarrassing sound, maybe
 - Legendary sleeper
 - Speed (through)
 - Lay into
 - Tear
 - Pants problem
 - Light into
 - Kind of cord
 - Job for a tailor
 - Shred
 - Upholstery uglifier
 - Stretch of turbulent water
 - Turn into confetti
 - Go fast
 - Saw along the grain
 - Upholstery problem
 - Swindle, slangily
 - Dangerous stretch of water
 - Upholstery flaw
 - Fictional sleeper
 - Cheat, slangily
 - Dead letters?
 - Slugger's swing
 - Saw with the grain
 - Yank (off)
 - Lambaste verbally
 - Tombstone inscription
 - Letters sometimes inscribed above a name
 - It may be written in stone
 - It may be engraved in stone
 - Initials in stone
 - Insult, slangily
 - Criticize severely
 - ___ Van Winkle
 - Lace (into)
 - Letters for the dear departed
 - It may be in stitches
 - Castigate
 - Splitting image?
 - Abbr. on a headstone
 - Turbulent water stretch
 - Tear (up)
 - Unfortunate sound when you bend over
 - Light (into)
 - Boot Hill letters
 - Engraved message?: Abbr.
 - Open indelicately
 - Copy, as from CD to PC
 - Tatter
 - "As you sew, so shall you also ___"
 - Letters on a tombstone
 - Word before tide or cord
 - Roaring start?
 - Tear apart
 - "Let 'er ___!"
 - Long sleeper
 - Lambaste
 - Letters on Boot Hill
 - Tear away roughly
 - Lay (into)
 - Headstone letters
 - Criticize harshly
 - Last letters?
 - It needs darning
 - Letters carved in stone
 - Headstone abbr.
 - One may be in stitches
 - Potential swimsuit embarrassment
 - Defraud, with "off"
 - Swindle
 - Hit sharply
 - It's often written in stone
 - ___ cord (parachutist's pull)
 - Badmouth
 - Copy, as a CD to a hard drive
 - Haunted house letters
 - Fraud
 - ___ cord (parachute activator)
 - Fictional sleeper Van Winkle
 - Put down
 - Fabric flaw
 - __ cord: parachute activator
 - Strong current
 - "Let 'er __!"
 - Scary current
 - Assail, with "into"
 - Powerful current
 - Tear (into)
 - Rend
 - Dangerous current
 - Split
 - Kind of cord or current
 - Hurtle
 - Criticize
 - Lacerate
 - Tear up
 - Split open
 - Pull apart
 - Lose no time
 - Make a tear in
 - Challenge for a tailor
 - Washington's snoozer
 - Clothing defect
 - Final letters?
 - "As you sew, so shall you ___"
 - A mighty swing
 - Gravestone letters
 - Kind of tide
 - Torn or Taylor
 - It makes an embarrassing sound
 - Irving sleepyhead
 - Irving character
 - Letters at least one person will never read
 - Dangerous tide
 - Tailor's challenge
 - Mr. Van Winkle
 - Word with tide or cord
 - Grave letters?
 - Type of cord
 - He's Torn
 - Famous oversleeper
 - First name in famous oversleepers
 - Memorial letters
 - Upholstery woe
 - Torn of "Men in Black"
 - Sewer's target
 - Two-decade sleeper
 - Move precipitously
 - Wardrobe malfunction
 - Upholstery blemish
 - Step on it
 - Tide type
 - Word before cord or current
 - Upholstry woes
 - Unseamly condition?
 - He slept for 20 years
 - Split at the seams
 - Cut away
 - Washington Irving hero, informally
 - Come apart at the seams
 - Split, in a way
 - Tear (away)
 - ___ cord: parachute activator
 - Kind of saw or tide
 - Washington's sleeper
 - It's often carved in stone
 - Washington Irving's snoozer
 - Torn up on the screen
 - Letters on a headstone
 - ______ tide
 - Letters on many a tombstone
 - 1-Across accompanier
 - Big swing
 - Tailor repair
 - Letters for the names "buried" in this puzzle's theme answers
 - Twenty-year sleeper or embarrassing sound
 - Irving's sleepyhead
 - Shred
 - Tear forcefully
 - Sartorial problem
 - Sartorial woe
 - Confetti-tossing Taylor
 - Sartorial mishap
 - Tailor's target
 - Reason for a patch
 - Make into confetti
 - Cleave
 - Put a tear in
 - Put tears in
 - Clothing flaw
 - Laceration
 - Hazardous current
 - Tailor's repair
 - Fashion show disaster
 - Oft engraved letters
 - Paper problem
 - Forgo scissors
 - What to let'er do
 - Reason to do patchwork?
 - Irving's Van Winkle
 - Upholstery defect
 - Tear at the seam
 - Tombstone acronym
 - Tear, or actor Torn
 - Fabled 20-year sleeper
 - Annoyance for an holsterer
 - Mending target
 - Job for a seamstress
 - Embarrassing sound when one bends over
 - Copy from CD to PC
 - Grave letters
 - Van Winkle of legend
 - Rent
 - Let-'er ender
 - Upholsterer's target
 - ___ -roaring
 - Pants seam problem
 - Kind of current or cord
 - Critique harshly
 - Letters on Halloween decorations
 - Rough tear
 - Fictional Van Winkle
 - Material flaw
 - ___ into (assail)
 - Flannel flaw
 - Torn from Hollywood
 - ___ tide
 - Copy from a CD
 - Headstone inscription
 - Fashionable jeans feature
 - With 17-Down, "Cross Creek" Oscar nominee
 - Rebuke
 - Current to avoid
 - Fabled napper
 - Runway disaster
 - Cut in the direction of the grain
 - Sleepy van Winkle
 - Grave statement, briefly?
 - Rupture
 - Mender's target
 - Certain wardrobe malfunction
 - Dead letters
 - Letters in a graveyard
 - Tailor's problem
 - ___-roaring
 - Kind of current
 - Engraved letters?
 - Mighty swing
 - Open roughly
 - Roarin' start
 - Generic inscription letters
 - Jag
 - Problem on the red carpet, maybe
 - Abbr. on a tombstone
 - Tear violently
 - Tombstone acronym
 - Zoom
 - Criticize, with "into"
 - Start opening presents?
 - Swindle, with "off"
 - Roaring start
 - Bad sound in a changing room
 - Tear inelegantly
 - Snag
 - Kirby of the comics
 - Trendy jeans feature
 - Swindle, in slang
 - Sleeper Van Winkle
 - Shirt spoiler
 - Upholsterer's target, perhaps
 - Halloween decoration letters
 - Tear noisily
 - Dis
 - Fabric mishap
 - "Let 'er ___!": "Fire away!"
 - Job for a 55-Across
 - Mighty swing or pants embarrassment
 - Tear (off)
 - Washington's ne'er-do-well Dutchman
 - Torn of "30 rock"
 - Cord starter
 - Criticize, so to speak
 - Worthless horse
 - Stylish jeans feature
 - Legendary Van Winkle
 - First name of star of "Heartland"
 - Harshly criticize
 - "___ it up," Little Richard hit
 - Headstone inits.
 - Tear fully
 - It needs mending
 - Feature of distressed jeans
 - It's etched in a cemetery
 - Fabric tear
 - Pants mishap
 - Tear (apart)
 - Pull apart, as paper
 - Intentional jeans tear
 - Unfortunate pants sound
 - Upholstery issue
 - Embarrassing sound when bending over
 - Jeans problem
 - Tear roughly
 - Jeans feature
 - Nasty current
 - Copy, as a CD
 - Criticize in no uncertain terms
 - ___ apart (shred)
 - Turn to confetti
 - Worrying sound when you bend over
 - Fabric problem
 - Letters on some tombstones
 - Word before "roaring" or "current"
 - ___ to shreds
 - Tear to shreds
 - Feature of some jeans
 - What might accompany a grave admission?
 - Stitching target
 - Common "wardrobe malfunction"
 - Current phenomenon
 - Surf well
 - Chew out
 - Letters set in stone
 - Distressed jeans feature
 - Rent in the garment district?
 - Common jeans feature
 - Headstone heading
 - "Grip it and ___ it!" (golfer's mantra)
 - Move quickly (through)
 - Dangerous kind of current
 - Unwelcome sound when bending over
 - Make rent
 - Feature of some distressed jeans
 - Bad sound to hear while bending over
 - Van Winkle of folklore
 - Letters for the dearly departed
 - Hard swing, in baseball slang
 - Sound of a wardrobe malfunction
 
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - November 02, 2025
 - USA Today - September 17, 2025
 - LA Times - August 18, 2025
 - New York Times - August 03, 2025
 - LA Times - August 03, 2025
 - LA Times - July 28, 2025
 - USA Today - June 16, 2025
 - LA Times - June 15, 2025
 - New York Times - May 24, 2025
 - New York Times - April 20, 2025
 - LA Times - March 14, 2025
 - New York Times - January 16, 2025
 - USA Today - December 02, 2024
 - USA Today - November 13, 2024
 - New York Times - November 03, 2024
 - USA Today - July 15, 2024
 - New York Times - June 29, 2024
 - USA Today - June 20, 2024
 - LA Times - June 12, 2024
 - LA Times - May 03, 2024
 
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