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Speak in Spanish NYT Crossword

We solved the clue 'Speak in Spanish' which last appeared on April 23, 2023 in a N.Y.T crossword puzzle and had five letters. The one solution we have is shown below. Similar clues are also included in case you ended up here searching only a part of the clue text.

SPEAK IN SPANISH

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• “Se ___ español”
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Clue: Speak in Spanish

Referring crossword puzzle answers, likely related crossword puzzle clues.

• "Se ___ español"
• "¿___ español?"
• ''___ espanol?''
• "Aquí se __ español"
• "Se ____ espanol"
• "Aquí se ___ español"
• Speaks in Spanish
• "___ español?"
• "__ español?"
• ''Se ___ espanol''

Recent usage in crossword puzzles:

• Inkwell - Feb. 26, 2010
• New York Times - Feb. 19, 2009
• Universal Crossword - Feb. 24, 2007

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Spanish Crossword Puzzles: 16 Resources for Fun Vocab Building

What’s a 10 letter word for a Spanish word game ?

Crucigrama  (crossword)! 

My grandmother is obsessed with crossword puzzles, and she does at least one every single day.

One day, while working on her latest puzzle, she mused:   “I’d be fluent in a foreign language if I spent as much time studying one as I spend doing crosswords.”

Grandma was onto something there: Why not combine the two passions? Improve your language skills with these Spanish crossword puzzle resources!

Online Spanish Crossword Resources

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Okay, so now you are pumped and want to learn Spanish with crossword puzzles. 

Not to worry! You have an unlimited supply right at your fingertips.  Here are ten of the best websites for Spanish crossword puzzles:

The crosswords on this awesome little website come in three difficulty levels and new puzzles are added daily.

You can solve the crosswords online by just typing your answers directly into them, and there are even buttons for entering special characters like accented letters in case you are not sure how to do so on your keyboard.

Lexis Rex also gives you access to some learning resources and a number of other word games useful for learners, like Spanish “Hangman,” “Bingo,” sentence builders and more.

This is as educational as its green parrot mascot is adorable! Panagrama allows you to choose between Spanish and English (and even French) crosswords.

Puzzles consist of Spanish words, and to solve each clue you simply enter the English translation. Switch to the Spanish version of the site to flip this around (English clues with Spanish answers).

Welcome to the crossword enthusiast’s paradise! This site was made by puzzle lovers and has an entire section devoted to Spanish puzzles. There are many puzzles with clues presented in a variety of different ways, and all of them are solvable right in your browser.

Since these are made by other people, keep in mind that the quality varies.  Check the ratings and add your own to help others!

This Spanish gaming website has more graphics and interactivity than your average crossword site.

Registration is required in order to access the games, but once you do, you can start playing the Spanish version of Scrabble and other crossword-like word games against other players all around the world. Make some Spanish friends while you play!

You’ll never run out of Spanish crossword puzzles with Linguno! This handy language learner website actually has more than 10 new crossword puzzles each day .  These cover all levels, from A1 to C2, and you can even do themed crosswords , with topics like food, science and even shopping.

Even more creatively, there are crosswords that are focused on grammar points like Spanish tense conjugations. 

Spanish crossword puzzles aren’t just for advanced speakers. There’s also Spanish Level, which makes crosswords that are meant for beginner learners . If you’ve never done Spanish crossword puzzles before, this is a good place to start.

The crosswords here have specific themes, including vegetables, animals and members of the family in Spanish. They’re good for quick practice sessions because they often consist of less than 10 items.

For more of a challenge, try native-speaker crosswords at El País , one of the top newspapers in Spain. Based in Madrid , it releases new crossword puzzles every day across two levels: mini and expert.

This is best suited for advanced learners since you’ll have to know historical references, pop culture, news, and even Spain-specific slang. After all, even native speakers can be boggled by some of the questions.

Diario Sur is another Spanish newspaper with a great crossword collection. It’s a well-known newspaper in Southern Spain , with the headquarters in Malaga. Four new crosswords are published here every day across four levels: mini, easy, half, and difficult.  

Mini crosswords have only around 15 questions, while difficult crosswords go up to more than 40 questions. The settings are pretty flexible–you can even set it up to instantly let you know if you enter a wrong letter.

This is pretty unique compared to the other websites because it’s a personal blog by someone who makes crossword puzzles as a hobby. The author is a filmmaker and director from Argentina, so a lot of his puzzles feature references to movies.

They sometimes have a creative twist and test out vocabulary that you might not get to use in other crossword puzzles. For example, some of the themes are body-related slang, sports and even landscapes in Argentina. Just keep in mind that you might have to use Argentinian Spanish sometimes!

If you’re looking to practice Latin American Spanish, one resource is El Tiempo , one of the oldest and most respected newspapers in Colombia . You can practice with basic crosswords first, or go straight to expert-level ones.

The main difference is basic crosswords allow you to peek at letters and answers. It’s possible to check the solution for the whole crossword right away. There’s even the option to print the crossword as a PDF if you prefer to solve it on paper. 

This is actually a bonus resource! If you become so obsessed with Spanish crossword puzzles that you blaze through the websites here, then you can always make your own.

You can make them as challenging or as easy as you want and focus on words that you are learning.

Making puzzles by hand can be challenging—luckily, this website has a handy “create your own crossword” tool  you can use.

Do you like your puzzles in physical form? There is something satisfying about putting pen to paper and solving some puzzles by hand!

Most of the websites I listed above have printer-friendly versions of their crossword puzzles.

You can also mosey on over to Amazon and purchase one of many crossword puzzle books. Here are five excellent choices to get you started:

This is the perfect book to ease into Spanish crosswords for beginners. Puzzles are meant for students in particular and have English clues with Spanish solutions.

The words used here are pulled from the 2,000 most common Spanish words, making this collection of 125 puzzles the perfect vocabulary-building tool for those just starting with the language.

This book is made with learners in mind. The first half has puzzles with English clues and Spanish answers and covers topics like grammar, core vocabulary and Spanish culture.

The second half throws you into the deep end with clues and answers completely in Spanish so you can apply what you learned.

Mix it up with this collection, which features puzzles with English clues and Spanish answers, ones entirely in Spanish and even ones with Spanish clues and English solutions.

The puzzles are thematic, making them great for learning vocabulary concerning technology, food, body parts and many other useful topics.

If you are looking for a challenge, you will find it in this tome for native Spanish speakers. Answers are more obscure here, and contain Spanish from all over the world (as opposed to being specific to one region).

It will definitely give your brain (and Googling skills) a workout—and expand your vocabulary with words you might not otherwise have thought to learn!

Are you learning Mexican Spanish ? Try these crossword puzzles, created for Mexican speakers and featuring cultural terms and vocabulary specific to the region.

This book compiles high-quality crossword puzzles , all with good ratings and by well-known creators. What makes it interesting is the diversity–the crossword puzzles are taken from different sources, so their styles can vary a lot.

I’d recommend it for intermediate and advanced Spanish learners since some of the questions require a bit of research.

Since these crossword puzzles can use a lot of tricky words, you can get better at them by building your vocabulary. On top of these crossword puzzle books, the immersion program FluentU exposes you to diverse Spanish vocabulary as well as pop culture. 

Puzzles of all kinds (including word puzzles) are beneficial to the brain . They sharpen your memory and learning skills , which is ideal for learning Spanish.

Crossword puzzles improve your verbal fluency , build your problem-solving skills, increase your pattern recognition ability and, of course, they are fun!

If you switch your daily crossword to a Spanish one, you will be improving your language skills .

Some crossword puzzles are even made specifically for Spanish learners: they  teach you new vocabulary words and strengthen your knowledge of existing ones.

As one final bonus, doing puzzles in Spanish will train you to think in Spanish. This is one huge step towards fluency!

¡Anda!  (Wow!) That is mind-blowing, isn’t it?

Whether you find them online, pack them into your bag for a lunch break or even make your very own Spanish crossword puzzles, do not overlook these excellent little learning tools packed into a fun game!

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Other sites use scripted content. FluentU uses a natural approach that helps you ease into the Spanish language and culture over time. You’ll learn Spanish as it’s actually spoken by real people.

FluentU has a wide variety of videos, as you can see here:

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Daily Spanish Crossword - Easy

• LA Times Crossword
• October 8 2022

Speaks in Spanish

While searching our database we found 1 possible solution for the: Speaks in Spanish crossword clue.  This crossword clue was last seen on October 8 2022 LA Times Crossword puzzle . The solution we have for Speaks in Spanish has a total of 5 letters.

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ENGLISH‑SPANISH CROSSWORDS

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Translation of speech – English-Spanish dictionary

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• She suffers from a speech defect .
• From her slow , deliberate speech I guessed she must be drunk .
• Freedom of speech and freedom of thought were both denied under the dictatorship .
• As a child , she had some speech problems .
• We use these aids to develop speech in small children .

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• Her speech was received with cheers and a standing ovation .
• She closed the meeting with a short speech.
• The vicar's forgetting his lines in the middle of the speech provided some good comedy .
• Her speech caused outrage among the gay community .
• She concluded the speech by reminding us of our responsibility .

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NYT Mini Crossword today: puzzle answers for Sunday, April 21

Love crossword puzzles but don’t have all day to sit and solve a full-sized puzzle in your daily newspaper? That’s what The Mini is for!

A bite-sized version of the New York Times’ well-known crossword puzzle, The Mini is a quick and easy way to test your crossword skills daily in a lot less time (the average puzzle takes most players just over a minute to solve). While The Mini is smaller and simpler than a normal crossword, it isn’t always easy. Tripping up on one clue can be the difference between a personal best completion time and an embarrassing solve attempt.

Just like our  Wordle hints and Connections hints , we’re here to help with The Mini today if you’re stuck and need a little help.

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Below are the answers for the NYT Mini crossword today.

NYT Mini Crossword answers today

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• “Am not!” comeback – ARESO
• Music associated with this hand gesture: ?- METAL
• BAM! or BOINK! or BZZT! – SOUND
• Places for body treatments – SPAS
• Sweet potato lookalikes – YAMS
• Cookies with a Space Dunk variety launched in 2024 – OREOS
• “Out of bed! You’ll be late!” – GETUP
• Cat pose or downward dog, in 1-Across – ASANA
• Teen’s slangy term for their parents, with “the” – OLDS

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Hasbro has announced it is collaborating with The New York Times to create a Wordle: The Party Game, the board game adaptation of the uber-popular mobile word game. The gameplay is the same, but it's being brought to players "in an all new way that's perfect for game night with family and friends," according to a press release.

In this version of Wordle, one player is designated as the Wordle Host in each round and writes down the secret five-letter word. The other players have to compete against each other to guess the word in six tries or less, with the winner being the player that scores the fewest points by the end of the game.

New York Times has introduced WorldeBot, a companion tool that will analyze your performance in Wordle.

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There are some days when Wordle players get different answers depending on the browser they're using to play the game. Today happens to be one of those days, but for a vastly different reason. The New York Times revised today's Wordle answer because of its unintentional connection to the Supreme Court's impending ruling on Roe v. Wade.

The original answer to Wordle 324 was supposed to be "fetus." Wordle founder Josh Wardle scheduled that solution to show up today over a year ago, long before The New York Times bought the game at the height of its popularity in January. Everdeen Mason, editorial director for New York Times Games, said in a statement that it changed the answer to something entirely different because of its proximity to the Supreme Court's draft opinion that leaked last week and contained a proposal to overturn the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade abortion ruling, which sent shock waves across the country.

Spanish Punctuation

Spanish and English use the same punctuation for many things. For example, both use periods at the end of statements and commas to separate elements in a list. There are also some punctuation marks used only in Spanish, as well as some punctuation marks that English and Spanish use differently.

First, here are some common punctuation marks, or signos de puntuación !

List of Spanish Punctuation Marks

And now, on to some of the uses of these signos de puntuación !

Punto : Uses and Examples

• Used at the end of a statement .
• Used at the end of an abbreviation .
• Used in urls and email addresses .
• Used to separate the hour and minute in time expressions (using a colon is also ok).

Coma : Uses and Examples

• Used to separate dependent and independent clauses .
• Used to separate elements in a list .

There is no coma used before conjunctions like y or o in Spanish lists.

• Used before question tags .

Question tags are short, often one-word questions used to affirm a previous statement.

Comillas : Uses and Examples

• Used to denote quoted speech .

Las comillas españolas are often used in quoted speech, especially in books written in Spanish.

In Spanish, final punctuation falls outside of quotations, whereas in American English, it falls inside the quotations. The Spanish style can sometimes lead to what would be considered double punctuation in English (like the . following the ? in the example above). In Spanish, this is correct!

Puntos de Exclamación : Uses and Examples

• Used to frame exclamations .

Although often omitted in texts and emails, Spanish exclamations should open with a signo de apertura de exclamación ( opening exclamation mark ). Note how the opening exclamation mark goes just before the part of a sentence that is the actual exclamation.

Puntos de Interrogación : Uses and Examples

• Used to frame questions .

Although often omitted in texts and emails, Spanish questions should open with a signo de apertura de interrogación ( opening question mark ). Note how the opening question mark goes just before the question tag or the part of a sentence that is the actual question.

Learn more about Spanish punctuation with these articles!

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Spanish for “kiss” NYT Crossword Clue

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Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword puzzle, Paper Hat

There are spoilers ahead. You might want to solve today's puzzle before reading further! Paper Hat

Constructor: Beth Rubin

Editor: Jared Goudsmit

What I Learned from Today’s Puzzle

• ANNA (57A: Disability justice activist Landre) ANNA Landre is an internationally-recognized activist and researcher. Her work calls attention to the "implementation gap," highlighting ways laws often fail in practice. ANNA Landre is currently a PhD student at the Global Disability Innovation Hub in London. She previously served as an Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner in Washington, D.C., while completing an undergraduate degree at Georgetown University.
• CREPE (33D: Thin pancake similar to malawah) A malawah is a sweet, thin pancake flavored with cardamom. It originated in Somali. A CREPE is also a thin pancake. CREPEs originated in France, and may be sweet or savory.

Random Thoughts & Interesting Things

• CLUE (7A: Board game with Miss Scarlet) I enjoy playing many different board games, but if pressed to choose one game that is my favorite of all time, it would be CLUE . Nothing against Miss Scarlet, but Professor Plum is my favorite character. When I was young, Professor Plum was my favorite for the strategic reason that his starting space on the game board was the closet to the door of a room. Now when I play CLUE , I generally play the CLUE Master Detective edition, which was released in 1988 and features more rooms, more suspects, and more weapons. In this version, all characters begin in the same space. I still choose to play as Professor Plum.
• EAU (16A: Water, in French) We frequently see the French word for water used in the name of perfumes. For example, I have previously written about EAU de Luna and EAU de Space .
• I'VE (24A: "___ Been to the Mountaintop" (MLK speech)  "I'VE Been to the Mountaintop" was Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final speech, delivered at the Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee on April 3, 1968, the day before he was assassinated. In the speech, he said, "...I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land."
• ARABIC (25A: "Alif, ba, ta..." language) Alif, ba, and ta are the first three letters of the ARABIC alphabet. The basic ARABIC alphabet contains 28 letters, each representing a consonant. Vowel sounds are indicated by diacritical marks added to the letters.
• OIL-BASED (29A: Like the paint Van Gogh used for "The Starry Night") I wrote about Vincent Van Gogh's painting, "The Starry Night," a couple of weeks ago.
• MANO (32A: Hand, in Spanish) The phrase "MANO a MANO," which is Spanish for "hand to hand," is used to describe a direct competition or conflict between two people.
• GEM (37A: Jasper or opal) Jasper is a type of quartz. It has a number of different colors, which are the result of mineral impurities. Red is a common color for this GEM (caused by iron inclusions), but it may also be yellow, brown, or green. There are a number of different varieties of opal, broadly classified into precious (these GEMs display iridescence) and common (such as the milk opal or resin opal).
• ON SILENT (48A: Set to not ring or buzz) and JUST A SEC (60A: "Hang on one moment!") These two answers seem to go together nicely. "JUST A SEC ... I need to put my phone ON SILENT."
• ESSAYS (50A: Some Zadie Smith works) Zadie Smith is a writer of novels, ESSAYS, and short stories. Her most recent book, The Fraud , was published last year, and is a historical novel about the Tichborne case, a British trial in the late 1800s concerning a man claiming to be the heir to a family fortune. I enjoyed listening to Zadie Smith talk about her new book in this NPR interview .
• IN A (59A: Catch lightning ___ bottle) To try to "catch (or capture) lightning IN A bottle" is to attempt a particularly challenging or difficult feat, something that seems impossible. The saying dates back to the 1800s, and refers to Benjamin Franklin's experiments (conducted in the 1700s) that attempted to capture electricity from lightning and store it IN A jar.
• STL (70A: Soulard Market city (Abbr.) The Soulard Farmers Market , located in St. Louis (STL), Missouri is the oldest public market in the U.S. west of the Mississippi River. It was established in 1779, and is still operating today. Soulard Market is open Wednesday through Saturday year-round.
• CATAN (1D: Board game with ore, lumber, brick, wool and grain) It's been just a few days since we saw the game of CATAN referenced in a clue for the word ORES.
• OPERA (2D: Show such as "Porgy and Bess") Porgy and Bess is an OPERA composed by George Gershwin, with libretto by Dubose Heyward and Ira Gershwin. It was first performed in Boston in September 1935, premiering on Broadway a couple of weeks later. The OPERA has been produced multiple times since then, including in 2019 at the Metropolitan OPERA in New York City. The live cast album from the Metropolitan OPERA production won a Grammy Award for Best OPERA Recording.
• BEA (11D: "Golden Girls" actress Arthur) BEA Arthur (1922-2009) portrayed Dorothy Zbornak on the TV series  The Golden Girls (1985-1992). Prior to that, she portrayed the character of Maude Findlay in the TV series  All in the Family  (1971-1972), and then in the spin-off series,  Maude  (1972-1978). BEA Arthur won two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, one for Maude (1977) and one for The Golden Girls (1988).
• EDAM (19D: Cheese aka queso de bola) EDAM is a semi-hard cheese traditionally sold in spheres wrapped with red paraffin wax. It is named after the town in the northwest Netherlands where it was originally made. In Spain, the Philippines and some Latin American countries, EDAM is known as queso de bola, Spanish for "ball cheese."
• UVA (22D: Charlottesville sch.) Charlottesville, Virginia is the home to the University of Virginia (UVA). The abbreviation of school in the clue alerts solvers that the answer will be an abbreviation.
• OIKOS (34D: Greek yogurt brand) Dannon OIKOS is a line of Greek yogurt that has been on the market since 2007. Dannon is the American brand of the French food-processing corporation, Danone. I learned that fact when writing about a previous puzzle .
• EAST (47D: Chad-to-Sudan direction) Chad is a landlocked country in Africa. The capital of Chad is N'Djamena. EAST of Chad is the country of Sudan. Sudan is not landlocked, as it has coastline along the Red Sea. The capital of Sudan is Khartoum.

Crossword Puzzle Theme Synopsis

• MONEY ORDERS (3D: Bank-issued checks)
• CUT ME SOME SLACK (7D: "C'mon, I only made a little mistake!")
• BAG OF TRICKS (26D: Crafty person's repertoire)

The top word of each vertical theme answer (the one on top like a HAT) can pair with the word PAPER, giving us PAPER MONEY, PAPER CUT, and PAPER BAG.

I liked the use of the word HAT to point at the theme being in the top word of the vertical theme answers. It's a cute theme. Thank you, Beth, for this enjoyable puzzle.

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