A leaky one may stain your shirt — Daily Themed Crossword Answer
This clue appeared in the June 2 2025 Daily Themed Crossword. The answer is below, with its letter count.
The answer
PEN
3 letters
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Where this clue appears
June 2 2025
Daily
Daily Themed Crossword June 2 2025
PEN
___ testing, cyber security process of using hacking methods to assess how secure the data is, for short
PEN
3
Kind of pal?
PEN
3
Montblanc product
PEN
3
Letter-writing tool
PEN
3
Writer's tool
PEN
3
Writer's tool
PEN
3
What may be filled with ink or oink?
PEN
3
Contract-signing need
PEN
3
Purchase from Parker?
PEN
3
Word after "pig" or "bull"
PEN
3
You find a ___ (writing tool)! You test it on the back of the menu. It does not work. You put it back in the drawer.
PEN
3
Grader's tool
PEN
3
1984 horror film "A Nightmare on ___ Street"
ELM
3
Not good
BAD
3
Sound heard in a library
SHH
3
"Where there's a will, there's a ___"
WAY
3
Bottom part of a shoe
SOLE
4
One who may catch a falling train?
HERO
4
Superlative suffix with "great" or "cool"
EST
3
San Francisco Bay ___
AREA
4
Direction of the rising sun
EAST
4
"___ It Off," 2014 Taylor Swift song and what you can do to the things at 25a, 36a, 45a, 12d, and 38d
SHAKE
5
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