Stuck on the Intellectual crossword clue from NYT Crossword published on April 26 2025? We’re here to help you solve it.
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The Verified Answer for Intellectual is:
- EGGHEADED
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- THINKER
- IDEAMONGER
Useful hints for “Intellectual” Crossword Clue
Hint 1: Clue Explanation
▼[Intellectual] is pretty neutral — neither a compliment nor a critique. It solves to something I read as having a jeering tone, though: EGGHEADED, which, as an insult, apparently hatched in a Chicago newsroom in the 1910s. In 1952, a columnist named Stewart Alsop popularized the term when he used it to describe the presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson. Stevenson ran with the insinuation, responding with “Via ovicapitum dura est.” That’s Latin for “The way of the egghead is hard.” Don’t we know it!