Answer: TESTS
TESTS is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 187 times.
Referring Clues:
- Dips one's toe in
 - They're held for questioning
 - Items often passed
 - Exams
 - They may come in a battery
 - They may come in batteries
 - Midterms and finals
 - Hospital jobs
 - Lab work
 - Battery components?
 - Tempts, in a way
 - Hospital bill list
 - Feelers
 - Hospital work
 - Battery elements
 - Diagnostics
 - Battery units
 - Checkups
 - Midterms, e.g.
 - Checks out
 - Orals, e.g.
 - Tries
 - Activities in 57-Down
 - Some cricket matches
 - Championship cricket matches
 - Examinations
 - Dry runs
 - Doctor's barrage
 - Trial runs
 - Doctor's orders
 - Auditions
 - Screenings
 - Entrance exams
 - Lab jobs
 - Hard times
 - Assays
 - Midterm and final
 - Classroom anxiety producers
 - Hospital battery
 - Takes for a spin, perhaps
 - Performs an assay
 - Tries out
 - Hospital bill items
 - Clinical studies
 - They might cause stress for students
 - Criteria
 - See 53-Down
 - Placement determiners, sometimes
 - See 2-Down
 - Diagnostic aids
 - Uses the double-blind method, say
 - Trials
 - Experiments
 - Finals and midterms
 - Experiments with
 - What teachers mark
 - Auditions, essentially
 - Screen and stress, for two
 - Doctor's orders, often
 - Critical evaluations
 - They often make the grade
 - Parts of hospital bills, often
 - Blood and acid, e.g.
 - No Child Left Behind mandates
 - Lab projects
 - Lab experiments
 - Shakedown cruises, e.g.
 - They'll question you
 - Trial balloons
 - Classroom hurdles
 - Things often passed
 - Grade determinants
 - Proctors' concerns
 - Aptitude determiners
 - Midterms, e.g
 - Pushes to the limit
 - Battery components
 - Battery Makeup
 - Cricket events
 - Uses a Breathalyzer
 - What the doctor orders
 - They may be taken in batteries
 - Proctor's handouts
 - Some nuclear explosions
 - Source of some students' stress
 - Reasons for some performance anxiety
 - Campus ordeals
 - Medical battery
 - What a battery may be made up of
 - Lab activity
 - Analyzes
 - Grade determiners
 - Finals, for example
 - Tryouts
 - Examines
 - ACT and GED, for two
 - Measures ability in
 - Composition of some batteries
 - Mechanics' work
 - Checks
 - Some lab procedures
 - Battery parts?
 - They'll question your knowledge
 - Students' hurdles
 - Quizzes
 - There might be a battery of them
 - Bases for evaluation
 - Takes for a spin
 - They're usually graded
 - Labwork
 - Blood and acid, for two
 - They sometimes come in batteries
 - Lab activities
 - -
 - Lab works
 - Big part of one's final grade, typically
 - Battery parts
 - Semester enders
 - Proves
 - Challenges
 - Reasons to cram
 - Proctors' handouts
 - See 45-Across
 - Producers of school anxieties
 - Students may pass them
 - Trials and tribulations, essentially
 - Puts a strain on
 - Medical screenings
 - What doctors order
 - Doctors' orders
 - Kicks the tires of, so to speak
 - Lab procedures
 - Things graded by 7-Down
 - Dry runs, e.g.
 - Components of some batteries
 - Puts through the paces
 - Midterms, for example
 - Common Core hurdles
 - Factors in grades
 - Finals, e.g.
 - What proctors watch over
 - They're run in hospitals
 - Rorschachs,e.g.
 - Proves the value of
 - Acid and blood, for two
 - Hospital undertakings
 - Auditions, for instance
 - Kicks the tires of
 - Mill runs
 - Schick et al.
 - Reasons to bone up
 - Scientific methods
 - Things to run or pass
 - Trials and tribulations
 - Proficiency determiners
 - Students may cram for them
 - Some are standardized
 - Many lab procedures
 - Takes to the limit, perhaps
 - Battery components, to a doctor
 - Teachers write them
 - Grader's stack
 - Class exams
 - Trial stages
 - Reasons for cram sessions
 - Assessments
 - They produce results
 - 55-Across and others
 - Graded assessments
 - Doctor's orders, maybe
 - International cricket matches
 - Labs run them
 - Tries, as one's patience
 - Battery units?
 - Things that might end with "Pencils down!"
 - SAT and MCAT
 - Finals, but not semifinals
 - Bits of troubleshooting
 - Class challenges
 - Covid-era purchases
 - Trying times?
 - Screens, say
 - Dips a toe in
 - Semester stressors
 - Academic hurdles
 - Pilots, e.g.
 - Much Consumer Reports work
 
Last Seen In:
- USA Today - October 17, 2025
 - New York Times - January 24, 2025
 - LA Times - January 18, 2025
 - LA Times - December 29, 2024
 - LA Times - November 07, 2024
 - New York Times - November 02, 2024
 - New York Times - July 22, 2024
 - New York Times - July 02, 2024
 - USA Today - June 11, 2024
 - New York Times - May 30, 2024
 - USA Today - May 10, 2024
 - LA Times - April 20, 2024
 - New York Times - April 14, 2024
 - LA Times - April 11, 2024
 - LA Times - April 09, 2024
 - LA Times - March 06, 2024
 - New York Times - March 01, 2024
 - LA Times - February 05, 2024
 - New York Times - January 21, 2024
 - New York Times - January 06, 2024
 
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