Answer: SEX
SEX is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 247 times.
Referring Clues:
- Kind of symbol
 - Census entry
 - Questionnaire datum
 - Reason for an R rating
 - What an "F" may indicate
 - Gender
 - Perennial talk show topic
 - "PG" cause
 - Kind of roles
 - Censor's subject
 - Reason for an X rating
 - Census datum
 - Application datum
 - Birth certificate info
 - Driver's license datum
 - V-chip target
 - Cause for an R rating
 - Kind of scene in a movie
 - "___ sells" (advertising catchphrase)
 - Censor's target
 - Source of an androgyne's confusion
 - ID information
 - F on a questionnaire, e.g.
 - Book by Madonna
 - Census category
 - Make more alluring, with "up"
 - James Brown hit "___ Machine"
 - Topic for Dr. Ruth
 - Box to check on a form
 - Reason for a 98-Across
 - ___ Ed
 - Questionnaire info
 - "___ sells"
 - It sells in advertising, they say
 - Application check box
 - Leading cause of birth
 - Word next to M or F
 - What an M may indicate
 - Reason for an NC-17 rating
 - Kind of kitten or goddess
 - "___ and the City"
 - Type of discrimination
 - ___ symbol
 - It is determined by chromosomes
 - Same-___ marriage
 - Birth certificate notation
 - "Facts of life" subject
 - Dr. Ruth's specialty
 - Questionnaire question
 - Kinsey topic
 - Word after fair or opposite
 - Application blank datum
 - Kinsey subject
 - Box on many applications
 - Dr. Ruth's topic
 - Kitten kind
 - Datum on a driver's license
 - Safe or fair follower
 - Word with fair or safe
 - What F or M may indicate
 - Alfred Kinsey research topic
 - Passport datum
 - Topic of "The Hite Report"
 - "Kama Sutra" subject
 - Manhattan museum topic
 - Increase the appeal of, with "up"
 - It sells, they say
 - Birth certificate datum
 - Word with play or act
 - See 56-Across
 - Kind of kitten
 - Basis for discrimination
 - Opposite __
 - Talk show topic
 - Driver's license info
 - First Broadway play to star Mae West
 - Controversial education subject
 - Chromosome factor
 - Item on a driver's license
 - Type of education
 - Question answered by ''M'' or ''F''
 - Word with "appeal" or "symbol"
 - What an F may indicate
 - Application line
 - Survey item
 - Kind of appeal
 - Dr. Ruth's field
 - It separates the girls from the boys
 - Kinsey research topic
 - Bio datum
 - Discrimination basis, on occasion
 - Form datum
 - Female, e.g.
 - Male or female, e.g.
 - Topic for Carrie Bradshaw
 - Survey check-off
 - Topic that makes some blush
 - Big seller, supposedly
 - M/F determination
 - Tell the difference in the field
 - Survey check box
 - Word with appeal or change
 - Opposite ___
 - Staple of advertising
 - Union known for its health benefits?
 - Object of some drives
 - Action
 - They say it sells (we'll see how this puzzle does)
 - Time to come together?
 - Taboo topic, sometimes
 - Booty, as it were
 - Activity with positions
 - Group activity, at times
 - Cause for a TV-MA rating
 - "God's joke on human beings," à la Bette Davis
 - The ___ Pistols
 - Masters focus
 - Scandal subject
 - Application form box
 - Westheimer topic
 - Dr. Ruth's subject
 - Westheimer subject
 - Male or female
 - Census stat
 - Male, e.g.
 - Survey datum
 - Job application datum
 - Questionnaire category
 - Scandal topic, perhaps
 - Question answered by "M" or "F"
 - Word next to M or F on a form
 - Subject of much magazine advice
 - With 24-Down, Rusty Trombone, et al.
 - Subject of many a political scandal
 - Birth certrificate datum
 - What F or M may denote
 - Genophobe's fear
 - ___ appeal
 - Super seller, supposedly
 - Word with fair or opposite
 - Number between quinque and septem
 - It sells, apparently
 - It requires you to choose a position
 - What an "M" might indicate
 - Quinque +1
 - Scandal subject, often
 - Application checkbox
 - Advertisers say it sells
 - What an "F" might indicate
 - We, as a species, have to have it [Ink Well ends June 25 - sign up at avxwords.com to keep getting great indie xwords!]
 - Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second ___"
 - It sells, it's said
 - Prurient interest
 - ___ education
 - Census information
 - "I can remember when the air was clean and ___ was dirty": George Burns
 - Peter noted that 20-across was originally intended to help academics collaborate on projects across distances, but "is now mostly about ___"
 - Type of symbol or appeal
 - Possible reason for an R rating
 - Madison avenue lure
 - Congress
 - "I don't know the question, but ___ is definitely the answer": Woody Allen
 - Masters and Johnson subject
 - "___ sells" (advertising maxim)
 - "The birds and the bees"
 - Application form datum
 - Word before appeal or change
 - Vital statistic
 - X factor?
 - See 30-Across
 - It sells in advertising
 - It sells, in the ad business
 - Narrow box on an application
 - Female, e.g,
 - Survey box, sometimes
 - Kinsey research focus
 - Birth announcement notation
 - Kinsey's field
 - Determination in a prenatal exam
 - One cause for an R rating
 - ___ roles
 - "Let's Talk About ___" (Salt-N-Pepa)
 - See 111-Down
 - Box on a questionnaire
 - "Think you I am no stronger than my ___": Portia
 - Health class subject
 - G-rated movie's lack
 - Word before sells or cells
 - Subtext of many an innuendo
 - ___-linked trait
 - "On the Basis of ___"
 - Explicit song subject, perhaps
 - ID info
 - ___ object
 - - object
 - ___ ed (often-awkward class)
 - Reason for a TV-MA rating, perhaps
 - Subject for Kinsey
 - One cause of an "R" rating
 - Chromosome determinant
 - Some census info
 - Word after "safe" or "same"
 - Word on a driver's license
 - "___ is an emotion in motion": Mae West
 - Basic personal datum
 - "On the Basis of ___" (RBG biopic)
 - Census checkbox
 - Splinter groups*
 - Subject for Dr. Ruth
 - Single letter on pet adoption papers
 - Safer ___
 - Dr. Ruth subject
 - "The Second ___" (Simone de Beauvoir text)
 - Driver's license datum symbolized by a letter
 - Kind of hormone
 - Identifier that isn't the same as gender
 - Quinque follower
 - Census info
 - ___ positive
 - "On the Basis of ___" (film about Ruth Bader Ginsburg)
 - ___-positive movement
 - "Emotion in motion," per Mae West
 - "The Last Taboo" topic
 - "On the Basis of ___" (2018 legal drama)
 - Netflix's "___ Education"
 - Possible reason for a PG-13 rating
 - Word with safe or same
 - Word before "work" or "life"
 - ___ positivity
 - "Relations"
 - "___ for One" (Betty Dodson book)
 - What many 5-Down people forgo
 - Undertone of Cole Porter's "Let's Do It"
 - "___ Education" (TV series)
 - Kama Sutra topic
 - “Science is like ___: Sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it": Richard Feynman
 - Reason for some R ratings
 - Something a prenatal ultrasound can determine
 - Health class topic
 - Bit of census datum
 - Word before "Ed" or "appeal"
 - Madonna coffee table book released a day after her 1992 album "Erotica"
 - Word after phone or, modernly, Zoom
 - "Everything in the world is about ___ except ___" (quote often attributed to Oscar Wilde)
 - Kinsey Institute focus
 - It sells, in an axiom
 - Possible reason for a TV-MA rating
 
Last Seen In:
- LA Times - October 30, 2025
 - New York Times - October 27, 2025
 - New York Times - August 13, 2025
 - USA Today - June 11, 2025
 - New York Times - June 08, 2025
 - LA Times - June 07, 2025
 - LA Times - April 29, 2025
 - New York Times - January 21, 2025
 - New York Times - December 23, 2024
 - USA Today - September 04, 2024
 - USA Today - August 14, 2024
 - LA Times - June 20, 2024
 - New York Times - May 21, 2024
 - LA Times - February 29, 2024
 - USA Today - February 21, 2024
 - New York Times - February 20, 2024
 - LA Times - February 18, 2024
 - USA Today - January 03, 2024
 - LA Times - November 19, 2023
 - USA Today - November 09, 2023
 
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