"Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the ___": Pope Crossword Clue

• "Summer of ___," Questlove documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival

  New York Times · Tuesday, October 21, 2025 · 4 letters

• Word before food or mate

  New York Times · Monday, September 22, 2025 · 4 letters

• "'Hope' is the thing with feathers / That perches in the ___": Emily Dickinson

  New York Times · Friday, December 20, 2024 · 4 letters

• Music genre akin to rhythm and blues

  New York Times · Monday, March 4, 2024 · 4 letters

• Inner self, in religion

  New York Times · Tuesday, January 2, 2024 · 4 letters

• "To have another language is to possess a second ___": Charlemagne

  New York Times · Sunday, September 24, 2023 · 4 letters

• Spirit

  New York Times · Sunday, May 21, 2023 · 4 letters

• Genre for Luther Vandross

  New York Times · Wednesday, October 19, 2022 · 4 letters

• First Pixar film with a Black protagonist

  New York Times · Monday, September 12, 2022 · 4 letters

• Kind of food or music

  New York Times · Thursday, March 10, 2022 · 4 letters

More clues from this crossword

• 24-Across Soup dumpling
• 25-Down Successful shot from downtown, in basketball lingo
• 26-Across "That smarts!"
• 27-Across Pan ... or a word that follows pan
• 28-Down Subdue
• 29-Across Soft, squishy material
• 30-Down Honker
• 31-Across Word often said after a wild tangent
• 32-Down Name so sacred that some refuse to speak it
• 33-Across Songs by a recording artist that aren't well known
• 34-Down Total inconvenience
• 35-Across Key of Dvorak's "Serenade for Strings": Abbr.