Barely beats Crossword Clue

Other answers seen for this clue

• NIPS4 letters

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  Appeared in 2 New York Times Crosswords between May 2000 and April 2016.
• NOSES5 letters

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  Appeared in 1 New York Times Crossword: Sunday, June 26, 2005.
• EDGESOUT8 letters

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  Appeared in 1 New York Times Crossword: Saturday, April 10, 1999.

• A cube has 12 of them

  New York Times · Monday, August 31, 2026 · 5 letters

• Sides

  New York Times · Wednesday, February 11, 2026 · 5 letters

• Outer limits

  New York Times · Monday, December 29, 2025 · 5 letters

• They might be rough or perforated

  New York Times · Friday, July 18, 2025 · 5 letters

• Outer boundaries, as where this puzzle's theme answers are located

  New York Times · Wednesday, July 9, 2025 · 5 letters

• Pentagon quintet

  New York Times · Saturday, March 22, 2025 · 5 letters

• Parts of a jigsaw puzzle that many people work on first

  New York Times · Monday, February 17, 2025 · 5 letters

• A cube has 12

  New York Times · Tuesday, December 17, 2024 · 5 letters

• Crimped parts of ravioli

  New York Times · Thursday, November 7, 2024 · 5 letters

• Variable in Euler's polyhedron formula (V − E + F = 2)

  New York Times · Saturday, September 28, 2024 · 5 letters

More clues from this crossword

• 20-Across Note taker?
• 21-Down Nickname for France's Louis VI, with "the"
• 22-Across Grp. influenced by the 1963 book "The Feminine Mystique"
• 23-Across Food traditionally eaten on Japan's Doyo no Ushi no Hi ("Midsummer Day of the Ox")
• 24-Across Many a unicorn
• 24-Down It may have a mess in the Army
• 26-Down Ving of "Mission: Impossible" movies
• 27-Across Smoking
• 27-Down Sings about
• 28-Across Word with party or park
• 29-Across Words on the street
• 29-Down Shoo with a "Boo!"