Answer: WORD
WORD is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 79 times.
Referring Clues:
- Promise
 - Scrabble play
 - Popular Microsoft software
 - Microsoft product
 - Scrabble formation
 - Basic dictionary entry
 - With 33-Across, anagrams and puns (or parts hidden in 17-, 24-, 44- and 51-Across)
 - News
 - Dictionary unit
 - Kind of ladder exemplified by the answers to the seven starred clues
 - Popular Microsoft product
 - Scripture, with "The"
 - Part of a sentence
 - Part of speech
 - Dictionary entry
 - One of six in this clue
 - "May I have a ___ with you?"
 - Short talk
 - The answer to this clue, for example
 - Short discussion
 - The last one ends an argument and can be attached to the last one of 21-, 31-, 40-, and 50-Across
 - Microsoft Office component
 - Sponsor's offering?
 - Sentence part
 - Brief remark
 - Part of a phrase
 - See 17 Across
 - Noun or adverb
 - Noun or verb
 - Thesaurus entry
 - The answer to this clue, e.g.
 - It's given to the wise
 - Hangman requirement
 - Sentence unit
 - This clue's answer, e.g.
 - Short conversation
 - "Mum's the ___!"
 - Conversation piece?
 - Information
 - Tidings
 - Writer's unit
 - "What's the good ---?"
 - Personal guarantee
 - Thesaurus find
 - Sentence fragment
 - Phrase unit
 - A promise
 - What a definition defines
 - Brief chat
 - Sentence component
 - Part of speech?
 - With 72-Across, what the answers on this puzzle's perimeter form
 - Vow
 - Sen-tence component
 - Term
 - "Suit the action to the ___ ... ": Hamlet
 - Small part of a sentence
 - Conversation piece
 - Bit of a speech
 - "I agree," in slang
 - "You said it!"
 - *Something that might be bleeped
 - Something to the wise
 - Bit of news
 - Triple ___ score (Scrabble space)
 - "You got that right!"
 - You might put in a good one for someone
 - Set of blanks on "Wheel of Fortune"
 - "Phrase" or "sentence"
 - Dictionary look-up
 - "You said it!," in slang
 - "Amen!"
 - Promise, or part of a promise
 - "Agreed!"
 - "I give you my ___"
 - AFTER: Slangy "Amen"
 - Boggle find
 - Scrabble play, or, when parsed in three parts, a hint to the switch featured in this puzzle's longest answers
 - Scrabble creation
 
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - July 11, 2025
 - LA Times - March 09, 2025
 - New York Times - November 18, 2024
 - New York Times - April 14, 2024
 - New York Times - August 10, 2022
 - USA Today - February 03, 2022
 - LA Times - October 14, 2021
 - Universal - May 14, 2021
 - LA Times - January 21, 2021
 - New York Times - September 24, 2020
 - Universal - September 08, 2020
 - LA Times - August 16, 2020
 - USA Today - July 16, 2020
 - USA Today - June 12, 2020
 - New York Times - September 15, 2019
 - Netword - July 29, 2019
 - LA Times - July 08, 2019
 - Universal - April 28, 2019
 - LA Times - December 19, 2018
 - USA Today - December 06, 2018
 
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