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NYT Daily • July 30, 2025

What you might add to fruit to make a drink?

Answer:

ADE

Hint:

["Hint: \"This three-letter suffix turns a citrus fruit into a refreshing beverage.\"\n\n(This hint guides the solver toward thinking of common fruit-based drinks like \"lemonade\" or \"limeade,\" making it easier to deduce the suffix \"ade\" without directly giving it away.)"]

Explanation:

The clue "What you might add to fruit to make a drink?" leads to the answer **"ADE"** through a simple yet clever wordplay. The word **"ade"** is a suffix commonly added to the names of fruits to form the names of drinks, such as **lemonade** (lemon + ade) or **limeade** (lime + ade). The clue hints at this linguistic pattern, suggesting that by adding **"ade"** to a fruit (like "lemon"), you create a drink. Thus, the answer is **"ADE"**, the suffix that transforms a fruit into a beverage.

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