Answer: STATE
STATE is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 270 times.
- Start of many criminal case names
- Kind of fair
- Word before and after "of the"
- What each star represents
- What a star may stand for
- Condition
- Say
- Express
- Ohio, e.g.
- Union member
- Kind of pen
- Barbary or buffer follower
- Senator's constituency
- Utter
- Orange Free __ (province of South Africa)
- Affirm
- Washington flip side
- "I Love New York" (a __ song)
- Madeleine Albright's bailiwick, once
- Washington, for one
- With 54-Across, the theme of this puzzle [hint: New Hampshire]
- Governor's domain
- ___ Department
- The "S" of M.S.U.
- Each has two senators
- Condoleezza Rice's department
- Name hidden in 17- and 56-Across and 11- and 28-Down
- Cabinet department
- Department of ___
- Western Australia, for example
- Chihuahua, e.g.
- Maryland or Hawaii
- It's called in a political convention roll call
- Washington, but not Lincoln
- Part of LSU
- Michener title word, at times
- Part of FSU
- Commemorative quarter honoree
- Enunciate
- Washington or Victoria
- Alaska, after 1959
- Chihuahua, for one
- New South Wales, for one
- Alabama or Kansas
- North Dakota or South Dakota
- One of Australia's six
- Part of some university names
- Wyoming or Colorado
- License plate datum
- Georgia or Virginia
- Articulate
- A star may represent it
- New York or Washington
- Washington, not Lincoln
- Perturbed condition
- Hillary Clinton's department
- What each star on the American flag represents
- Federation member
- Virginia, for one
- Present, as one's case
- Cabinet department whose secretaries can be found at the ends of 21-, 38-, and 53-Across and 3- and 29-Down
- Governor's constituency
- Chihuahua in Mexico, e.g.
- Word with tree or trooper
- Word in many public university names
- See 51-Down
- Miss America contestant's designation
- Clinton's department
- Condi's cabinet post
- Condoleezza's department
- Rice's department
- Country place?
- Michigan or Minnesota
- With 70-Across, subtle components of 20-, 27-, 48- and 56-Across
- __ visit
- Vermont or Virginia
- Land
- Put out there
- Announce
- Alabama or Alaska
- New Jersey, e.g.
- Iowa or Indiana
- 68 Across, for one
- Quarter honoree
- Kind of pen?
- Republic
- Envelope's two letters
- A star stands for it in America
- Word in many university names
- Washington, but not Washington, D.C.
- Senator's U.S. constituency
- Chihuahua or Maryland
- Word with "your name"
- Place represented by a star
- A star represents it
- One of fifty
- 1 of 31 in Mexico
- Washington, e.g.
- Side in many criminal cases
- Proclaim
- Idaho or Iowa
- Oregon or Oklahoma
- Declare
- Solid or liquid, e.g.
- Texas or Tennessee
- Country division
- Divisions politiques
- What a star represents on the US flag
- Put forward
- Texas or New York, e.g.
- Part of 41-Across
- Assert
- Convey
- Put into words
- Assam or Victoria
- Governor's realm
- Only one bears the name of a U.S. president
- ___ visit
- See 25-Across
- Star's symbolic meaning, perhaps
- Utah or Ohio
- One of 50
- Hillary's department
- Mississippi, e.g.
- Arkansas or Utah
- Word in some university names
- Country
- Member of a very large union
- Utah, for one
- Map division
- Map area
- Aver
- Put in words
- Oregon or New York
- Washington, but not Adams
- Oldest Cabinet department
- 29-Down, for one
- Cal ___
- Mode of being
- Connecticut or Colorado
- 2-Down, for one
- Maryland or Oklahoma
- Kind of secret represented by each two-letter puzzle clue?
- Zip preceder
- Declare definitely
- Kind of presidential dinner
- Any one of New England's six
- It can be altered
- Uttar Pradesh or Maryland
- See 45-Across
- Part of many university names
- What a star on a U.S. flag represents
- One of America's 50
- Iowa, for one
- New York or New Jersey, but not New England
- Kerry's department
- Minnesota or Maine
- Saxony, e.g.
- Kansas, e.g.
- It was Clinton's department
- Misery or Missouri
- One of Mexico's 31
- 52-Down, for one
- Orange Free ___
- A star stands for it on the flag
- The "S" in 36-Across
- Maine or Montana
- "___ of Grace"
- Iowa or Ohio, e.g.
- "New York ___ of Mind"
- Alaska or Texas, e.g.
- Alaska, since January 3, 1959
- Electoral map division
- Set forth
- Michigan, e.g.
- Speak
- Washington, but not D.C.
- ___ Fair
- Maryland, for one
- Any one of the fifty
- Queensland, for one
- Alaska or Florida
- Chihuahua or Connecticut
- Illinois or Iowa
- Propound
- Alabama or Arkansas
- An American star represents it
- Electoral map part
- Washington ___
- ___ of the Union address
- ___ of the art
- Chihuahua or Oaxaca
- With 59-Across, necessary substitutions, phonetically, for understanding the answers to the starred clues
- Vermont or Maine
- 4-Down, for one
- Situation
- Oregon or Florida
- Plasma, for one
- Red or blue area of an election map
- Tillerson's department
- Kansas or California
- Place for affairs?
- It's represented by a star
- Iowa or Ohio
- Washington, but not Jefferson
- Union unit
- Express clearly
- What a star on a flag may signify
- Nation
- Make comments
- Tripura or orissa
- "Swing" or "safe" election area
- Hawaii or Alaska
- Big brother, to Orwell
- "Red" or "blue" election area
- Any of Mexico's 31
- What a star on the American flag represents
- Union representative
- "Swing" election area
- Alaska or Arkansas
- Rhode Island is the smallest one
- With 70-Across, what the first word of each long Across answer is vis-à-vis the bracketed place in its clue
- Victoria or Tasmania, for Australia
- Orally report
- Missouri or Mississippi, for example
- Hawaii, e.g.
- With 39 Across and 33 Down, what each syllable of the answer to each starred clue is
- International relations department
- Oregon or Ohio
- 19-Across, for example
- Utah or Oklahoma
- Chihuahua is a Mexican one
- 9-Down or Idaho
- Connecticut, e.g.
- Hawaii or Missouri
- Georgia or Washington
- Guanajuato or California
- Part of a political convention roll call
- Tabasco, for one
- Texas or Tabasco
- Montana or Maine
- Colorado or California
- 16-Across, for example
- California, for one
- Lead-in to "of mind" or "of war"
- The "S" of L.S.U.
- City-___
- Washington, but not Washington, D.C. (yet!)
- Word before "of mind" or "of emergency"
- —
- Illinois or Indiana
- Kansas or Arkansas
- Alcorn ___: HBCU in Mississippi
- Part of a mailing address
- "There's no need to ___ the obvious"
- New York, for one
- Clinton's former department
- Say aloud
- Karnataka or Kansas
- Morelos or Minnesota
- ___ of the Union
- California or Oaxaca
- Kelantan or Kentucky
- Ohio or Indiana
- With 8-Across, the sources of the 31-Down in this puzzle's reviews
- Michoacan or Michigan
- New Mexico, for example
- Illinois or California
- Iowa or Idaho
- What a star may represent