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Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Tricky
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🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (39 clues)
🧩 1A: "1. Hogwarts headmaster ___ Dumbledore"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ALBUS
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🧩 2A: "6. Province"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)
- Similar words include: orbit, region, arena
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AREA
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🧩 3A: "10. Followed move-for-move"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that imitate uncritically and in every aspect
- Similar words include: caricature, ape
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: APED
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🧩 4A: "14. Japanese automaker named for a river"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ISUZU
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🧩 5A: "15. Ground transportation option"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
- Similar words include: hack, taxicab, cab
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TAXI
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🧩 6A: "16. Ripped"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column
- Similar words include: displume, snap, tear
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TORE
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🧩 7A: "17. A, B and C, but not X, Y and Z"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: MUSICNOTES
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🧩 8A: "19. Where Bengali and Burmese are spoken"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to europe on the west to form eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ASIA
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🧩 9A: "20. Barely scrapes the surface"
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- Think of something that a thin layer covering the surface of a liquid
- Similar words include: run down, skim off, cream off
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SKIMS
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🧩 10A: "21. Bore up"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that persist for a specified period of time
- Similar words include: survive, live, go
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: LASTED
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🧩 11A: "23. Persistently bother, with "at""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault
- Similar words include: scold, hack, nagger
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NAG
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🧩 12A: "26. Actress Wong of the Netflix series "Beef""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942)
- Similar words include: Muhammad Ali, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Cassius Clay
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ALI
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🧩 13A: "27. James of jazz"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ETTA
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🧩 14A: "28. Ham-handed"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that not elegant or graceful in expression
- Similar words include: clumsy, cumbersome, tactless
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: INEPT
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🧩 15A: "30. Onetime CBS forensic drama"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CSI
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🧩 16A: "33. "I don't mind ___ / Except as meals. / And the way they feels": Ogden Nash"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in europe and america; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
- Similar words include: eel
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EELS
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🧩 17A: "35. Sicilian landmark"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an inactive volcano in sicily; last erupted in 1961; the highest volcano in europe (10,500 feet)
- Similar words include: bunsen burner, bunsen, Mount Etna
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ETNA
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🧩 18A: "36. Seyfried of "Mean Girls""
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: AMANDA
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🧩 19A: "38. Tragic ending?"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CEE
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🧩 20A: "40. He and I, but not she and you"
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- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: CHEMICALSYMBOLS
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🧩 21A: "43. Suffix with rocket"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EER
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🧩 22A: "44. Highlands cryptid, affectionately"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a large aquatic animal supposed to resemble a serpent or plesiosaur of loch ness in scotland
- Similar words include: Loch Ness monster
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: NESSIE
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🧩 23A: "45. Praiseful verses"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
- Similar words include: ode
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ODES
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🧩 24A: "46. Fast-swimming shark"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that powerful mackerel shark of the atlantic and pacific
- Similar words include: mako shark
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MAKO
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🧩 25A: "48. Disappointing"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; ; - christina rossetti
- Similar words include: deplorable, distressing, sorry
- Opposite of: glad
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Answer: SAD
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🧩 26A: "49. Villainous animal in "The Lion King""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that doglike nocturnal mammal of africa and southern asia that feeds chiefly on carrion
- Similar words include: hyaena
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HYENA
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🧩 27A: "50. Add color to"
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- Think of something that a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
- Similar words include: tone, tincture, tinct
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TINT
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🧩 28A: "52. She's a woolly one"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of a people living in southern benin and togo and southeastern ghana
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EWE
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🧩 29A: "54. "What ___ you?""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the chance to speak
- Similar words include: pronounce, articulate, sound out
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SAY
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🧩 30A: "55. "Beats me!""
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: NOIDEA
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🧩 31A: "57. Toss from the game"
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- Think of something that put out or expel from a place
- Similar words include: squirt, exhaust, turn out
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EJECT
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🧩 32A: "59. "That's my cue!""
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IMON
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🧩 33A: "60. A+ and B-, but not F"
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- Pattern: __________
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Answer: BLOODTYPES
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🧩 34A: "65. Forgetful actor's request"
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- Think of something that a formation of people or things one beside another
- Similar words include: furrow, subscriber line, demarcation
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LINE
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🧩 35A: "66. Part of a chain"
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- Think of something that the means of connection between things linked in series
- Similar words include: colligate, connect, contact
- Opposite of: disconnect, disconnectedness
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Answer: LINK
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🧩 36A: "67. ___ coffee (whiskey drink)"
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- Think of something that people of ireland or of irish extraction
- Similar words include: Irish people, Irish whisky, Irish Gaelic
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: IRISH
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🧩 37A: "68. Crafty website"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ETSY
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🧩 38A: "69. "We will make amends ere long; / ___ the Puck a liar call": Shak."
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ELSE
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🧩 39A: "70. Day's harvest, for a fisher"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident
- Similar words include: snatch, grab, apprehension
- Opposite of: unhitch
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Answer: CATCH
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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (39 clues)
🧩 1D: "1. Objective"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions
- Similar words include: intention, purpose, train
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AIM
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🧩 2D: "2. Sch. on the banks of the Mississippi"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LSU
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🧩 3D: "3. Ground transportation option"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport
- Similar words include: passenger vehicle, bus topology, motorcoach
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: BUS
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🧩 4D: "4. Commando weapons"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in israel
- Similar words include: Uzi
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: UZIS
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🧩 5D: "5. Perform dreadfully, so to speak"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SUCKAT
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🧩 6D: "6. Figure that roughly equals protons plus neutrons"
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- Pattern: __________
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Answer: ATOMICMASS
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🧩 7D: "7. "Aw, phooey!""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse
- Similar words include: denounce, so-and-so, snitch
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RATS
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🧩 8D: "8. PC file extension"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EXE
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🧩 9D: "9. Congressional divide, literally as well as metaphorically"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods)
- Similar words include: gangway
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AISLE
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🧩 10D: "10. Just the slightest bit"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ATASTE
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🧩 11D: "11. MA and MS, but not BA and BS"
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- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: POSTALCODES
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🧩 12D: "12. Canal with a "low bridge" ("Everybody down!")"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of an iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of lake erie in northern ohio and northwest pennsylvania and western new york
- Similar words include: Lake Erie
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ERIE
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🧩 13D: "13. Out of juice"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that people who are no longer living
- Similar words include: utterly, suddenly, stagnant
- Opposite of: living, live
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Answer: DEAD
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🧩 14D: "18. Zilch"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a quantity of no importance
- Similar words include: naught, cipher, null
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NIL
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🧩 15D: "22. Starting squad"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ATEAM
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🧩 16D: "23. Many a godchild"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a daughter of your brother or sister
- Opposite of: nephew
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NIECE
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🧩 17D: "24. Something to stand for"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a song of devotion or loyalty (as to a nation or school)
- Similar words include: hymn
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ANTHEM
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🧩 18D: "25. X, Y and Z, but not A, B and C"
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- Think of something that all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
- Similar words include: generation, genesis, contemporaries
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: GENERATIONS
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🧩 19D: "29. "The Office" role"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PAM
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🧩 20D: "31. Taco topper"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that spicy sauce of tomatoes and onions and chili peppers to accompany mexican foods
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SALSA
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🧩 21D: "32. Something only some of us will get"
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- Pattern: __________
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Answer: INSIDEJOKE
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🧩 22D: "34. Pop star Gomez"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SELENA
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🧩 23D: "36. Top gun"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
- Similar words include: hotshot, superstar, star
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ACE
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🧩 24D: "37. Word aptly hidden in "turned yellow""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair
- Similar words include: dyestuff
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DYE
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🧩 25D: "39. Writing assignment"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an analytic or interpretive literary composition
- Similar words include: prove, attempt, assay
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ESSAY
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🧩 26D: "41. Hole-___ (singular feat)"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: INONE
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🧩 27D: "42. "Whew!""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a youthful male person
- Similar words include: male child, son
- Opposite of: girl, female child
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Answer: BOY
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🧩 28D: "47. Organ with a distinctive shape"
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- Think of something that either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them and water in urine
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: KIDNEY
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🧩 29D: "49. Overwhelmingly busy"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that marked by intense agitation or emotion
- Similar words include: feverish
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: HECTIC
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🧩 30D: "51. Postpone for now"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a set of data arranged in rows and columns
- Similar words include: set back, postpone, tabular array
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TABLE
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🧩 31D: "53. Exchanged rings with"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the fourth day of the week; the third working day
- Similar words include: marry, splice, wedded
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: WED
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🧩 32D: "55. River through Khartoum"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the world's longest river (4150 miles); flows northward through eastern africa into the mediterranean; the nile river valley in egypt was the site of the world's first great civilization
- Similar words include: Nile River
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NILE
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🧩 33D: "56. Leave out"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that prevent from being included or considered or accepted
- Similar words include: leave out, overleap, except
- Opposite of: attend to, include
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Answer: OMIT
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🧩 34D: "57. A seeming eternity"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the longest division of geological time
- Similar words include: eon, aeon
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EONS
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🧩 35D: "58. Banks of "America's Next Top Model""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TYRA
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🧩 36D: "61. ___ Nas X"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LIL
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🧩 37D: "62. Place to retire?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sizeable hole (usually in the ground)
- Similar words include: quarry, Hell, play off
- Opposite of: Heaven
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Answer: PIT
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🧩 38D: "63. Corner keyboard key"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ESC
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🧩 39D: "64. "Keep it down!""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SHH
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🧠 Expert Solving Strategies
🎯 Start Smart
Begin with fill-in-the-blank clues and short 3-4 letter words. These are your foundation.
❓ Decode the Clues
Question marks indicate wordplay or puns. "Maybe" suggests multiple interpretations.
🔤 Use Cross-References
Let intersecting letters guide you. One correct answer unlocks several others.
📚 Build Vocabulary
Common crossword words repeat. Learning them speeds up future solving.
📊 Today's Puzzle Stats
39 Across Clues
39 Down Clues
78 Total Clues
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