Number of lives a cat has — Daily Themed Crossword Answer
This clue appeared in the April 17 2026 Daily Themed Crossword. The answer is below, with its letter count.
The answer
NINE
4 letters
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On cloud ___ (feeling elated)
NINE
4
Number repeated twice after "Brooklyn" in the title of a police comedy starring Andy Samberg, that equals a cat's fabled count of lives
NINE
4
What 6 looks like upside down
NINE
4
Three's opposite, on a clock face
NINE
4
Happy cloud number
NINE
4
Highest digit in a Sudoku puzzle
NINE
4
Cat's number of lives, say
NINE
4
Number of "lives" a cat is said to have
NINE
4
___ Inch Nails, industrial rock band with the hit "Closer" whose name includes a number
NINE
4
Elated cloud number?
NINE
4
"___ Lives," 2016 comedy film starring Jennifer Garner whose husband is trapped in a feline's body
NINE
4
Number that rhymes with "mine"
NINE
4
Annoying web pop-ups, for short
ADS
3
Helicopter landing site
PAD
3
TV's "___ & Order"
LAW
3
Almonds or pecans, e.g.
NUTS
4
Flight-landing prediction (anagram of "ate"): Abbr.
ETA
3
"Hi," in Spanish
HOLA
4
___ and tidy (clean)
NEAT
4
Tissue paper thickness
PLY
3
___-bitty (very small)
ITTY
4
Green growth in ponds
ALGAE
5
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