“Oh geez, the answer was staring me in the face!” Crossword Clue

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Answer: IMAMORON.

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Across

  • 1. Verso's counterpart
  • 6. Alternative to an onion bagel
  • 11. Jai ___
  • 15. Where the Pilgrims first landed in the New World
  • 19. Skating gold medalist Oksana
  • 20. Host
  • 21. Quick look
  • 22. Has a tab open, say
  • 23. Hip-hop's "Puba" and "Daddy I.U."?
  • 25. Station near Madison Square Garden, for short
  • 26. Fleet
  • 27. Hung around
  • 28. Remove from the champagne bucket?
  • 30. "Just kidding!"
  • 31. Feeling rash?
  • 34. Hip-hop artist with the 2019 hit "My Type"
  • 35. Crisis involving cartels
  • 39. Goes "Vroom!"
  • 41. Royal title
  • 42. Casting a total brat in the school play?
  • 45. Some govt. securities
  • 49. ___-tempered
  • 50. "Super cool!"
  • 51. Get ready to take a shot
  • 53. Ship propeller
  • 54. French for "from"
  • 55. Release
  • 57. Dante's guide in the "Inferno"
  • 60. Singer Del Rey
  • 61. "The score upon which reality is written," per Henry Miller
  • 62. Apps might be seen on one
  • 63. Sediment, e.g.
  • 65. "The co-star of 'Duck Soup' has to be sore after that!"?
  • 69. Anonymous guy
  • 70. Pauperism, so to speak
  • 71. Author of the 2020 memoir "Cubed"
  • 72. Lots
  • 73. "Because I'm the boss!"
  • 75. Pinged online
  • 76. Condition for which Luvox may be prescribed, in brief
  • 79. "Wonder Woman" star
  • 81. Mountain ___
  • 82. Late singer Payne of One Direction
  • 84. Modern home of where cuneiform writing originated
  • 85. Way up or way down
  • 87. "How long have beavers blocked this river?"?
  • 92. "As ___ …"
  • 94. Earthenware pots
  • 95. Was comparable to
  • 96. Apparel feature that a bandeau lacks
  • 100. Function in the role of
  • 102. Monk's title
  • 103. Be crazy about Chicago trains with broken A.C.s?
  • 105. Much in quantity
  • 109. Baseball family name
  • 110. Actor Jared
  • 111. Metric in a competitive family business?
  • 114. Prince, e.g.
  • 115. In ___ parentis
  • 116. Blow
  • 117. Designer Hilfiger
  • 118. Lays turf on
  • 119. Little twerp
  • 120. Trunk
  • 121. Head of Slytherin House in the Harry Potter books

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  • 1. Subject of the 2018 biopic "On the Basis of Sex," familiarly
  • 2. Noble title
  • 3. "Ci vediamo in giro!"
  • 4. Getting ready to listen
  • 5. Historic district of a city
  • 6. Gnarly problem, so to speak
  • 7. Architect of Hong Kong's Bank of China Tower
  • 8. Certain hallucinatory experience
  • 9. Directed
  • 10. Last word of James Joyce's "Ulysses"
  • 11. Dad, in Korean
  • 12. Ingredients in some potato soups
  • 13. Son of Aphrodite
  • 14. "You don't have to tell me"
  • 15. Time for a pick-me-up, humorously
  • 16. Lie ahead
  • 17. Joe of "Home Alone"
  • 18. First name in perfumes
  • 24. Label anew
  • 28. Banks from Los Angeles
  • 29. Maidenhair and others
  • 32. Common dog command
  • 33. Chance
  • 35. Hit up on Instagram, informally
  • 36. Overnight party with light shows and "cuddle puddles"
  • 37. Luau strings
  • 38. Rock group with the 1992 hit "Creep"
  • 40. Harum-___ (reckless)
  • 43. Untrue
  • 44. Notaro of comedy
  • 46. Drag-and-drop disposal icon
  • 47. Start of a counting rhyme
  • 48. Hit with a smack
  • 52. Time in a Shakespeare title
  • 55. Former Israeli P.M. Olmert
  • 56. Platform for Safari and FaceTime
  • 57. Borderline
  • 58. "Need You Tonight" band, 1987
  • 59. Leave alone
  • 61. Arbiters of taste
  • 62. Polite term of address
  • 64. Stamp on an invoice
  • 65. Implied
  • 66. Valerie Harper title role
  • 67. One of three immortal elders in "A Wrinkle in Time"
  • 68. Dickens's ___ Heep
  • 69. Bouts
  • 74. Tree whose name sounds like a pronoun
  • 76. Word with history or hygiene
  • 77. Shut up
  • 78. Threw out of a contest, informally
  • 80. Philosopher's pursuit
  • 82. Exam with an argumentative writing section, in brief
  • 83. "You know, I can't quite remember"
  • 84. "Oh geez, the answer was staring me in the face!"
  • 86. Goes through screen after screen
  • 88. "Sadly …"
  • 89. Special attention, for short
  • 90. Made nice
  • 91. Wading birds
  • 93. Publicly bash
  • 96. Doldrums
  • 97. Lumberjacks' competition
  • 98. Walk around, maybe
  • 99. Where one might pick up litter
  • 101. Oozes
  • 104. Burgle
  • 106. About
  • 107. West Point inst.
  • 108. Fanfare
  • 111. Like a diamond in a ring
  • 112. Queer identity, in brief
  • 113. 12/31

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Q1: I’m looking for a synonym for “”Oh geez, the answer was staring me in the face!”” What’s a good option?

IMAMORON is a common synonym for “Oh geez, the answer was staring me in the face!”.

Q2: When was the crossword clue “”Oh geez, the answer was staring me in the face!”” last used?

This clue last appeared in the New York Times crossword on May 18 2025.

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