Introduction
Creators of crossword puzzles often use wordplay, themes, and puns to make the puzzle more challenging. This is good news as researchers have found that solvers will get the most cognitive benefits of crossword puzzles by consistently challenging themselves.
This “Decks and floors, informally” clue appeared in the NYT Crossword on March 15, 2024. If you need some help with this clue, we have the answer for you below.
Answer
Clue: Decks and floors, informally?
Answer: KOS (3 letters)
Hints and Explanation
Decks" typically refer to outdoor platforms, while "floors" are the levels within a structure. In English slang to deck someone is to hit someone and knock them down while to floor someone also means to knock them to the ground. Informally refers to something done casually.
Kos is a Greek Island and is also an Indian unit of distance usually between 1 and 3 miles or 1 and 5 kilometers. But in this crossword, paired with other solutions in the grid, the answer turns out to be KOS which is a term in boxing or fighting referring to knockouts or KOs where someone is knocked down.
Crossword Clues on March 15, 2024
Here are the other crossword clues that appeared on March 15, 2024 in the NYT Crossword.
- Name that's a homophone of 24-Across
- Swear
- Source of the words "plaid" and "trousers"
- *grimaces, sticks out tongue*
- My goodness!
- Preserver's purchase
- Profession
- Dom maker
- Threat to crops
- Fish named for a weapon
- Fuji, for one
- Bacteriologist Walter who conducted yellow fever research
- "Which one of Arthur's knights built the Round Table? ___ Cumference!" (groaner)
- Common additive to white rice
- Salon offering
- Pages on the left side
- "And She ___" (Talking Heads hit)
- Indie output
- Suffix that turns a verb into an adjective
- Real prat
- Opposite of rubicund
- Familiar with
- Put on blast?
- Catchy tunes
- Region of Italy that lends its name to a pepper
- Forgetting to finish this clue, for examp
- Unlikely gift
- Cocktail with caffeine
- Raise
- Words from a paper pusher?
- Components of some sports broadcasts
- Proportion of customers that make a purchase, in business-speak
- Your __
- My goodness!
- Vichyssoise ingredient
- "The Lord of the Rings" actress
- More trifling
- Baloney
- Ground rule?
- Vegetable whose name comes from Igbo
- Scream for a team
- Swing-era bandleader ___ Cates
- Kind of fixation
- It has its standards, for short
- Laphroaig flavorer
- Bill originating in Texas
- "On Being Brought From Africa to America" writer, 1768
- 17-Across, for one
- Roy Lichtenstein's "Drowning Girl," e.g.
- Foul smell
- Alters the narrative, in a way
- Campaign platforms, perhaps
- Occasion to ask the Four Questions
- Nobody else can take it
- Battle site in Tennessee
- Give a hand?
- What Charlotte lives above in "Charlotte's Web"
- IPhone command
- Gets ready to fly
- Bit of deductive reasoning?
- Got taken for a ride, in a way
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