Time to brush off on your English vocabular and grammar with the clue that we have. The clue is pronoun pair, and it comes from the February 27, 2025, edition of the NYT Crossword. A pronoun is a word that replaces a noun, and we are actually looking for two words, but they will be meshed together for this answer.
A good pronoun pair answer
The two words that build up this answer are HE and HIM. The answer to this clue is HEHIM for the down section of this crossword. He and him are two pronouns that replace a noun that refers to a male. Naturally, the name of a male person is a noun, so the name is replaced by he or him, depending on how the sentence is phrased.
For example, “John went to school” will be turned into he went to school. The usage of him changes “This gift was for John” to the phrase this gift was for him. This is just one of the many pronoun pairs out there that are used on a daily basis.
