Answer: WATER
WATER is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 157 times.
Referring Clues:
- No-cal drink
 - Firefighting need
 - Contents of a dog's bowl
 - Hot __ (trouble)
 - Puzzle's theme (shown in 20-, 40-, 58-Across and 21-Down)
 - End of the quip
 - It's in the spring
 - Addition to a concentrate
 - An element, to the ancients
 - Use a hose on, as a garden
 - Pipe contents
 - It may be well-taken
 - Marathon handout
 - See 22-Down
 - Desert wanderer's request
 - 10K race handout
 - Tend to, as flowers
 - Tend the plants
 - No-calorie beverage
 - Radiator filler
 - Word that can precede the first word of 20-, 32-, 43-, and 56-Across
 - With 104-Down, utility gauge
 - See 11-Down
 - Spring flower?
 - Word that can precede either part of the answers to starred clues
 - Dilute, with "down"
 - Aquafina product
 - Desert request
 - Irrigate
 - Desert dearth
 - Spring, essentially
 - Canteen contents
 - Treasure in a desert
 - Sign of springs
 - Ocean contents
 - Spring offering
 - Balloon filler, maybe
 - Word with buffalo or chestnut
 - Well-managed resource?
 - Kind of rat or snake
 - Word after 17, 38, 59-Across, 11, 34-Down
 - "Smoke on the ___"
 - Tend to, as plants
 - Drink disparaged by W.C. Fields
 - Oasis offering
 - Triatomic molecule
 - Firefighting aid
 - H2O
 - Hijklmno
 - Ocid
 - Tend, as houseplants
 - ______ski
 - Something well-preserved?
 - Tend, as plants
 - Hijklmno
 - H - i - j - k - l - m - n - o
 - Pool filler
 - Gatorade alternative
 - Desert's dearth
 - Bottled buy
 - Oasis find
 - Well fill
 - Hose output
 - 'Just add ___'
 - Moisten
 - Most common chemical compound
 - Commonest liquid
 - White ___
 - Tend to the garden
 - Adam's ale
 - Cooler contents
 - Lake filler
 - *Plant need
 - Aquarium contents
 - Creek or river
 - Creek or river
 - Mixer that completes 37-Across
 - Bowl left for Bowser
 - It makes a sound
 - One of the four ancient elements
 - See 31-Down
 - Lake makeup
 - Mover through a river
 - Estuary, essentially
 - Its freezing point is 0° Celsius
 - H2O (and a word that can follow the starts of 17-, 27-, 49-, and 65-Across)
 - Word that can precede the start of the theme entries
 - Substance in the middle of the 49-Across
 - -
 - Important greenhouse gas
 - River phenomena (or what literally happens six times in this puzzle)
 - Restaurant freebie
 - Desert treasure
 - Binary compound
 - Short-supply item, in a drought
 - No-calorie drink
 - 48 Across, essentially
 - Plain dinner quaff
 - Need for life
 - Moisten, as a lawn
 - Oasis refreshment
 - *Tend to the garden
 - You're full of it
 - With 7-Down, incapable of leaking
 - Tend the plants, in a way
 - Word with well or tap
 - 'Just add '
 - Tend to, in a way, as a garden
 - Liquid 32-Down
 - *Serengeti gathering place
 - Most common beverage
 - With 68-Across, what the groups of circled letters are famous examples of
 - Gunga Din's burden
 - City on New York's Black River
 - Desert cry
 - Prankster's balloon filler
 - Desert rarity
 - ___ over the dam
 - H20
 - Mercury in alchemy
 - Quasimodo's request
 - Pixie's milieu
 - Well-kept resource
 - Something you can't live without
 - Word repeated before "everywhere"
 - Radiator contents
 - Liquid whose chemical formula is a homophonic hint to the answers to starred clues
 - Pool fill
 - What fills a reservoir
 - Ingredient of a barman's cubes
 - Designated driver's order
 - Fire extinguisher
 - Zero-calorie drink
 - Sprinkler liquid
 - Kool-Aid maker's need
 - Dasani product
 - Do a gardening task
 - See 34-Across
 - With the answer below, dilute ... and a hint to the four longest answers
 - Word with buffalo or wings
 - Something that's well-kept?
 - Do a garden chore
 - Island environs
 - Word with hold or holy
 - One piece of evidence of a planet's habitability
 - With 55-Across, no longer an issue
 - Salt or fresh follower
 - Melted ice
 - What more than half of the human body is composed of
 - Zero-calorie beverage
 - Free drink at most restaurants
 - Zero calorie drink
 - Word before "polo" or "park"
 - Makeup of about 60% of the human body
 - With 42-Across, zodiac trio that hints at the longest answers in this puzzle
 - It makes up about 96% of iceberg lettuce's weight
 - Substance that can be holy or hard
 
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - April 22, 2025
 - USA Today - August 19, 2024
 - New York Times - May 28, 2024
 - USA Today - March 14, 2024
 - USA Today - February 20, 2024
 - USA Today - January 16, 2024
 - USA Today - December 18, 2023
 - LA Times - December 11, 2023
 - New York Times - November 17, 2023
 - New York Times - August 08, 2023
 - USA Today - March 29, 2023
 - LA Times - March 01, 2022
 - New York Times - February 02, 2022
 - New York Times - September 20, 2021
 - New York Times - May 28, 2021
 - LA Times - May 27, 2021
 - LA Times - February 28, 2021
 - New York Times - February 21, 2021
 - LA Times - July 31, 2020
 - LA Times - June 10, 2020
 
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