This clue appeared in the NYT Crossword on Saturday, April 11, 2026 (38 Across). The answer is hidden below until you want it. Saturday puzzles are the hardest of the week and themeless, so clues are often deliberately misleading.
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Answer length: 3 squares
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LOP as a word: (transitive, usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behea...; To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
LOP has been an answer 3 times in the NYT Crossword and Mini since April 11, 2026.
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