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Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Moderate
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🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (39 clues)
🧩 1A: "1. The X-Men, e.g."
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration
- Similar words include: mutation, sport, variation
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: MUTANTS
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🧩 2A: "6. Way off"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (old-fashioned) at or from or to a great distance; far
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AFAR
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🧩 3A: "10. Blowout victory"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an easy victory
- Similar words include: play, laugher, cavort
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ROMP
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🧩 4A: "14. Home of the White Cloud Mountains"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a state in the rocky mountains
- Similar words include: Gem State, ID
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: IDAHO
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🧩 5A: "15. Excellent sort of person to be a copy editor"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
- Similar words include: scholastic, bookworm
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PEDANT
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🧩 6A: "16. Dr. ___ (repeated Mike Myers film role)"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that morally objectionable behavior
- Similar words include: wickedness, immorality, evilness
- Opposite of: good, goodness
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Answer: EVIL
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🧩 7A: "17. :"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the part of the large intestine between the cecum and the rectum; it extracts moisture from food residues before they are excreted
- Similar words include: Aspinwall, Costa Rican colon, El Salvadoran colon
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: COLON
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🧩 8A: "18. One with a vision"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person with unusual powers of foresight
- Similar words include: prophesier, prophet, vaticinator
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SEER
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🧩 9A: "19. Transfer from one bottle to another"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Similar words include: pour out, pour
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: DECANT
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🧩 10A: "20. Ring"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering
- Similar words include: hold in, close in, wrap
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ENCLOSE
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🧩 11A: "22. Empty spaces"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a blank gap or missing part
- Similar words include: lacuna, caisson, blank
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: LACUNAS
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🧩 12A: "24. Rita ___, "Anywhere" singer"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mouth or mouthlike opening
- Similar words include: bone, oculus sinister, osmium
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ORA
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🧩 13A: "25. Scout's work, informally"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RECON
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🧩 14A: "26. Testing the limits, say"
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- Pattern: __________
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Answer: AVANTGARDE
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🧩 15A: "30. Little guys"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: KIDDOS
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🧩 16A: "34. Bloom in several Monet paintings"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any liliaceous plant of the genus lilium having showy pendulous flowers
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LILY
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🧩 17A: "35. Best Picture of 1958"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GIGI
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🧩 18A: "37. Bit of Chinese New Year décor"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that light in a transparent protective case
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: LANTERN
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🧩 19A: "38. Filled up with"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
- Similar words include: consume, use up, run through
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ATE
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🧩 20A: "39. Ones paying flat rates ... or, when read as two words, a hint to this puzzle's theme"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else
- Similar words include: tenant, renter
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: TENANTS
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🧩 21A: "41. Agcy. watching the skies"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an agency in the department of transportation that is responsible for the safety of civilian aviation
- Similar words include: Federal Aviation Agency
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: FAA
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🧩 22A: "42. ___ Gras"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MARDI
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🧩 23A: "44. Cut deeply"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make an etching of
- Similar words include: engrave
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ETCH
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🧩 24A: "45. Use to the fullest"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a white nutritious liquid secreted by mammals and used as food by human beings
- Similar words include: Milk River
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MILK
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🧩 25A: "46. "Full House" pair"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: OLSENS
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🧩 26A: "48. "There's no way!""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: THISCANTBE
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🧩 27A: "50. Award-winning Donald Glover TV series, or where it was filmed"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that state capital and largest city of georgia; chief commercial center of the southeastern united states; was plundered and burned by sherman's army during the american civil war
- Similar words include: battle of Atlanta, capital of Georgia
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ATLANTA
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🧩 28A: "52. Avalanche group, for short"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NHL
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🧩 29A: "53. Manage"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that watch and direct
- Similar words include: supervise, manage, superintend
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: OVERSEE
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🧩 30A: "56. Bore importance"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: MEANTALOT
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🧩 31A: "60. Ingredients in many potpies"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that seed of a pea plant used for food
- Similar words include: pea plant, pea
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PEAS
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🧩 32A: "61. Baby"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk
- Similar words include: baby, babe
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: INFANT
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🧩 33A: "63. Greek goddess of peace"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: IRENE
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🧩 34A: "64. Out-of-bounds"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that straying from the right course or from accepted standards
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ERRANT
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🧩 35A: "65. Shred the ___ (conquer a mountain, in skiing slang)"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GNAR
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🧩 36A: "66. Start of a counting rhyme"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EENIE
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🧩 37A: "67. Launch party?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an independent agency of the united states government responsible for aviation and spaceflight
- Similar words include: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NASA
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🧩 38A: "68. Tennis champ Mandlikova"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HANA
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🧩 39A: "69. Little brats"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
- Similar words include: snob, prig, snoot
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SNOTS
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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (39 clues)
🧩 1D: "1. Laptop accessories"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails
- Similar words include: computer mouse, black eye, mouse
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MICE
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🧩 2D: "2. Thick Japanese noodle"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: UDON
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🧩 3D: "3. Main component of steatite"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate; used in a variety of products including talcum powder
- Similar words include: talcum
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TALC
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🧩 4D: "4. Collection of literary works"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a collection of selected literary passages
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: ANTHOLOGY
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🧩 5D: "5. State bordering Arizona"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that ground snakes
- Similar words include: genus Sonora
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SONORA
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🧩 6D: "6. Only part of Italy's 900-year-old Basilica di Santa Giulia that remains"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church; usually contains the altar
- Similar words include: apsis
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: APSE
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🧩 7D: "7. Cost"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services
- Similar words include: bung, tip
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: FEE
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🧩 8D: "8. "River Lea" singer, 2015"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ADELE
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🧩 9D: "9. Did laps, say"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: RANTRACK
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🧩 10D: "10. Not adding any new information"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that more than is needed, desired, or required
- Similar words include: excess, spare, pleonastic
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: REDUNDANT
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🧩 11D: "11. Where things might get heated"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OVEN
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🧩 12D: "12. Flaky rock"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves; used as dielectrics because of their resistance to electricity
- Similar words include: isinglass
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MICA
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🧩 13D: "13. Some spies"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that buildings for carrying on industrial labor
- Similar words include: plant life, industrial plant, set
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PLANTS
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🧩 14D: "21. Certain military leader, informally"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SARGE
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🧩 15D: "23. Orderly arrangements of wiring"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
- Similar words include: loop, coil, spiral
- Opposite of: uncoil
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Answer: COILS
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🧩 16D: "25. Something you might sail right through?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a meeting for boat races
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: REGATTA
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🧩 17D: "26. Thrifty competitor"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a siege and massacre at a mission in san antonio in 1836; mexican forces under santa anna besieged and massacred american rebels who were fighting to make texas independent of mexico
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ALAMO
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🧩 18D: "27. Critical"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that urgently needed; absolutely necessary
- Similar words include: critical, life-sustaining, full of life
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: VITAL
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🧩 19D: "28. Some hunting lodge décor"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that deciduous horn of a member of the deer family
- Similar words include: antler
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ANTLERS
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🧩 20D: "29. Have a nice meal, say"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that have supper; eat dinner
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DINE
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🧩 21D: "31. Untamable"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that boldly resisting authority or an opposing force
- Similar words include: noncompliant
- Opposite of: compliant
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Answer: DEFIANT
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🧩 22D: "32. Big name in dental care"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ORALB
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🧩 23D: "33. Animal with sea and coral varieties"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
- Similar words include: ophidian, Snake River, serpent
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SNAKE
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🧩 24D: "36. Move like a sloth"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a unit of length equal to one twelfth of a foot
- Similar words include: edge, column inch, in
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: INCH
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🧩 25D: "39. Shades"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
- Similar words include: tone, tinge, touch
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TINTS
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🧩 26D: "40. Your, of yore"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: THINE
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🧩 27D: "43. Start of a wish-list letter"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: DEARSANTA
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🧩 28D: "45. Ferrari's Formula 1 rival"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: MCLAREN
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🧩 29D: "47. Seasonal carrier"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow
- Similar words include: sled, sledge
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SLEIGH
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🧩 30D: "49. Huts"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that small crude shelter used as a dwelling
- Similar words include: sea chantey, hut, shack
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: SHANTIES
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🧩 31D: "51. Part of a bug"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals
- Similar words include: feeler, transmitting aerial, aerial
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ANTENNA
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🧩 32D: "53. Like some questions or doors"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water
- Similar words include: loose, unfold, undetermined
- Opposite of: unreceptive, covert
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Answer: OPEN
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🧩 33D: "54. ___ Farmiga, Best Supporting Actress nominee for 2009's "Up in the Air""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: VERA
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🧩 34D: "55. Corn units"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
- Similar words include: pinna, spike, auricle
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EARS
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🧩 35D: "56. "Location, location, location," to many real estate agents"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a commonly repeated word or phrase
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: MANTRA
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🧩 36D: "57. Jay in the Television Hall of Fame"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LENO
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🧩 37D: "58. Doing the job"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ONIT
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🧩 38D: "59. Some shirts"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the starting place for each hole on a golf course
- Similar words include: golf tee, football tee, tee up
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TEES
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🧩 39D: "62. Item for which "This thing blows" would be a positive review"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces
- Similar words include: rooter, lover, buff
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: FAN
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🧠 Expert Solving Strategies
🎯 Start Smart
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❓ Decode the Clues
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🔤 Use Cross-References
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📚 Build Vocabulary
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📊 Today's Puzzle Stats
39 Across Clues
39 Down Clues
78 Total Clues
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