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| NYT Crossword Answers & Hints - July 15, 2025 | XWordHint Today Vibez |
Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Challenging
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🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (37 clues)
🧩 1A: "1. Neighbor of Vt. and N.H."
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
- Similar words include: mess, deal, peck
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MASS
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🧩 2A: "5. Canceled, as a mission"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NOGO
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🧩 3A: "9. Debt to equity, for example"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient)
- Similar words include: proportion
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RATIO
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🧩 4A: "14. Longer of the two lower arm bones"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm
- Similar words include: elbow bone
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ULNA
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🧩 5A: "15. Word with monetary or military"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange
- Similar words include: unit of measurement, whole, social unit
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: UNIT
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🧩 6A: "16. Option on a popular car service"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: UBERX
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🧩 7A: "17. Porn"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
- Similar words include: soot, carbon black, lampblack
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SMUT
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🧩 8A: "18. "Designing Women" co-star of 1980s-'90s TV"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: DELTABURKE
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🧩 9A: "20. Japanese theatrical genre"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: KABUKI
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🧩 10A: "22. The new oil, it's said"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn
- Similar words include: data point, information, datum
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DATA
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🧩 11A: "23. Yahoo alternative"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MSN
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🧩 12A: "24. Snorkeling site"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the water
- Similar words include: Witwatersrand, Rand
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: REEF
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🧩 13A: "26. Nonspecific cash quantities"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a large number or amount
- Similar words include: mess, deal, ram
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: WADS
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🧩 14A: "28. Player of the middle son on TV's "The Partridge Family""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: DANNYBONADUCE
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🧩 15A: "33. Egg cells"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the female reproductive cell; the female gamete
- Similar words include: ovum, egg cell
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OVA
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🧩 16A: "34. Dress in Delhi"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a dress worn primarily by hindu women; consists of several yards of light material that is draped around the body
- Similar words include: saree
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SARI
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🧩 17A: "35. Readies, as a fishing line"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that anything that serves as an enticement
- Similar words include: come-on, tease, tantalize
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BAITS
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🧩 18A: "38. Blowout game, in sports headlines"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an easy victory
- Similar words include: lark about, play, gambol
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ROMP
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🧩 19A: "40. Auto-___, setting for many subscription services"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new
- Similar words include: reincarnate, regenerate
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RENEW
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🧩 20A: "43. American city in the Sonoran Desert"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that flat tableland with steep edges
- Similar words include: table
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MESA
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🧩 21A: "44. Work on with the hands, as dough or tired muscles"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make uniform
- Similar words include: work, massage, rub down
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: KNEAD
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🧩 22A: "46. First corner square after Go on a Monopoly board"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
- Similar words include: pokey, incarcerate, put behind bars
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: JAIL
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🧩 23A: "48. Author Fleming"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IAN
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🧩 24A: "49. "E.T." actress"
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- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: DREWBARRYMORE
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🧩 25A: "53. One of the life sciences: Abbr."
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ECOL
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🧩 26A: "54. Dry, as the Sonoran Desert"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture
- Similar words include: withered, shrivelled, shriveled
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SERE
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🧩 27A: "55. Dr. whose "lab" is a studio"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DRE
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🧩 28A: "58. Bad way to run"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that frenzied as if possessed by a demon
- Similar words include: murderously, amuck, demoniac
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AMOK
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🧩 29A: "60. First basic cable show to win an Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an insane person
- Similar words include: maniac, lunatic, madman
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: MADMEN
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🧩 30A: "64. Singer who starred in "Labyrinth" (1986) and "The Man Who Fell to Earth" (1976)"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: DAVIDBOWIE
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🧩 31A: "67. Shakespearean conspirator"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the villain in william shakespeare's tragedy who tricked othello into murdering his wife
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IAGO
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🧩 32A: "68. Nimble"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that moving quickly and lightly
- Similar words include: quick, nimble, spry
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AGILE
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🧩 33A: "69. Rips in a review"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel
- Similar words include: trash, tear apart, Pan
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PANS
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🧩 34A: "70. "Later!""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an acknowledgment that can be used to say hello or goodbye (aloha is hawaiian and ciao is italian)
- Similar words include: aloha
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CIAO
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🧩 35A: "71. Carolers' celebrations"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that period extending from dec. 24 to jan. 6
- Similar words include: Christmastide, Noel, Christmas
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: YULES
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🧩 36A: "72. Sound of either weariness or relief"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an utterance made by exhaling audibly
- Similar words include: suspiration, suspire
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SIGH
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🧩 37A: "73. One place to find 18-, 28-, 49- and 64-Across ... or, parsed differently, how these people might introduce themselves"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IMDB
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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (41 clues)
🧩 1D: "1. Cologne scent"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an odorous glandular secretion from the male musk deer; used as a perfume fixative
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MUSK
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🧩 2D: "2. Heroine of Tennessee Williams's "Summer and Smoke""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ALMA
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🧩 3D: "3. Give the cold shoulder"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an instance of driving away or warding off
- Similar words include: cold shoulder, rebuff, ignore
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SNUB
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🧩 4D: "4. What NASA's Cassini probe orbited for 13 years"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a giant planet that is surrounded by three planar concentric rings of ice particles; the 6th planet from the sun
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SATURN
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🧩 5D: "5. Gentlemen's club, colloquially"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: NUDIEBAR
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🧩 6D: "6. Point value of 68% of Scrabble tiles"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
- Similar words include: ane, 1, one and only
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ONE
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🧩 7D: "7. Coat with a thin auric layer"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a formal association of people with similar interests
- Similar words include: order, club, begild
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GILD
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🧩 8D: "8. Capital city on the banks of the Rideau River"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of the algonquian people of southern ontario
- Similar words include: capital of Canada, Canadian capital, Ottawa river
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: OTTAWA
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🧩 9D: "9. Nonsense syllables one might say in a tub"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: RUBADUB
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🧩 10D: "10. ___ Dhabi"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ABU
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🧩 11D: "11. Contract clause"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a word or expression used for some particular thing
- Similar words include: terminal figure, terminus, full term
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TERM
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🧩 12D: "12. Ticks off"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that irritate or vex
- Similar words include: gall, irk
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IRKS
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🧩 13D: "13. Yoked team"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; ; ; - bible
- Similar words include: wild ox, cattle, Bos taurus
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OXEN
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🧩 14D: "19. Slightly"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ATAD
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🧩 15D: "21. Ivories, on a piano"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated
- Similar words include: identify, keystone, describe
- Opposite of: atonality
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Answer: KEYS
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🧩 16D: "25. Cry from a klutzy golfer"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that front part of a vessel or aircraft
- Similar words include: prow, forward, stem
- Opposite of: aft
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Answer: FORE
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🧩 17D: "27. Grift"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a fraudulent business scheme
- Similar words include: swindle, nobble, gip
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SCAM
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🧩 18D: "28. Socially awkward sort"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a dull stupid fatuous person
- Similar words include: jerk
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DORK
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🧩 19D: "29. Stratford-on-___"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a river in southwestern england rising in gloucestershire and flowing through bristol to empty into the estuary of the severn
- Similar words include: Upper Avon, River Avon, Upper Avon River
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AVON
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🧩 20D: "30. Christened"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
- Similar words include: name, list, refer
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NAMED
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🧩 21D: "31. Stealthy assassin with a sword"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of the ninja who were trained in martial arts and hired for espionage or sabotage or assassinations; a person skilled in ninjutsu
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NINJA
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🧩 22D: "32. Farmyard refrain in a children's song"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EIEIO
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🧩 23D: "36. Ruler opposed by the Bolsheviks"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a male monarch or emperor (especially of russia prior to 1917)
- Similar words include: czar, tzar
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TSAR
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🧩 24D: "37. Levelheaded"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that mentally healthy; free from mental disorder
- Similar words include: reasonable
- Opposite of: insane
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Answer: SANE
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🧩 25D: "39. Remove the skin from"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that decrease gradually or bit by bit
- Similar words include: peel, pare down, skin
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PARE
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🧩 26D: "41. Notable features of elves and basset hounds"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
- Similar words include: spike, auricle, ear
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EARS
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🧩 27D: "42. Latticed metal used in construction and fencing"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: WIREMESH
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🧩 28D: "45. Divisions in some history books"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a period of 10 years
- Similar words include: decennary, tenner, decade
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: DECADES
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🧩 29D: "47. Constellation resembling a musical instrument"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small constellation in the northern hemisphere near cygnus and draco; contains the star vega
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LYRA
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🧩 30D: "50. Development center?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females; contains the developing fetus
- Similar words include: uterus
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: WOMB
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🧩 31D: "51. Arcing baseball hits"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BLOOPS
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🧩 32D: "52. House of ___ (old Italian banking family)"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that aristocratic italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled florence in the 15th century
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: MEDICI
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🧩 33D: "55. June 6 remembrance"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DDAY
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🧩 34D: "56. Competitor of Rao's"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RAGU
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🧩 35D: "57. Diabolical"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that morally objectionable behavior
- Similar words include: vicious, iniquity, malefic
- Opposite of: good, goodness
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Answer: EVIL
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🧩 36D: "59. Title river in an Oscar-winning movie"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the basic unit of money in china
- Similar words include: yuan
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: KWAI
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🧩 37D: "61. Severely injure"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MAIM
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🧩 38D: "62. Antiquated "OMG!""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EGAD
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🧩 39D: "63. Modern greenhorn"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NOOB
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🧩 40D: "65. ___ de la Cité"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ILE
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🧩 41D: "66. Verb suffix"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ING
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🧠 Expert Solving Strategies
🎯 Start Smart
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❓ Decode the Clues
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📊 Today's Puzzle Stats
37 Across Clues
41 Down Clues
78 Total Clues
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