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Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Medium
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🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (37 clues)
🧩 1A: "1. Beat at chess"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that engage in sexual intercourse
- Similar words include: pair, snarl, felt up
- Opposite of: unmated, disentangle
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Answer: MATED
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🧩 2A: "6. Speech therapists' targets"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a speech defect that involves pronouncing `s' like voiceless `th' and `z' like voiced `th'
- Similar words include: lisp, LISP, list-processing language
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LISPS
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🧩 3A: "11. Adds to the chain, in a way"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter
- Similar words include: cubic centimetre, cc, mil
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CCS
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🧩 4A: "14. † symbols, on manuscripts"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OBELI
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🧩 5A: "15. Square"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: UNHIP
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🧩 6A: "16. It may be brown or blonde"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the united states an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ALE
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🧩 7A: "17. "Nice of you to show up""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: COMMONSNIPE
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🧩 8A: "19. Something to play by"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
- Similar words include: pinna, capitulum, auricle
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EAR
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🧩 9A: "20. Marching syllable"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HUP
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🧩 10A: "21. Utter nonsense"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
- Similar words include: rotting, bunkum, decompose
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ROT
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🧩 11A: "22. Vocal flourish used by Lady Gaga in "Shallow" and "Bad Romance""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: MELISMA
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🧩 12A: "24. Tries, tries again"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that to say, state, or perform again
- Similar words include: repeat, restate, retell
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: ITERATES
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🧩 13A: "27. Univision article"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: UNA
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🧩 14A: "28. "Hey, England, happy Fourth of July!""
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- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: AMERICANCROW
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🧩 15A: "33. Cow or cobra, in yoga"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (hinduism) a posture or manner of sitting (as in the practice of yoga)
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ASANA
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🧩 16A: "36. Do it!"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
- Similar words include: job, labor, chore
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TASK
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🧩 17A: "37. Suffix with Sudan or Bhutan"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the compass point midway between east and southeast
- Similar words include: east southeast
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ESE
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🧩 18A: "38. With 41-Across, a hint to this puzzle's theme"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
- Similar words include: birdie, hoot, Bronx cheer
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BIRD
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🧩 19A: "39. Stereotypical attire for tech bros"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a man's sleeveless garment worn underneath a coat
- Similar words include: robe, vest, waistcoat
- Opposite of: divest
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Answer: VESTS
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🧩 20A: "41. See 38-Across"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a telephone connection
- Similar words include: foretell, margin call, song
- Opposite of: put option
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Answer: CALL
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🧩 21A: "42. Head into?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on; an integrated circuit memory chip allows information to be stored or accessed in any order and all storage locations are equally accessible
- Similar words include: read/write memory, force, Aries
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RAM
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🧩 22A: "43. Speak hoarsely"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that uttering in an irritated tone
- Similar words include: wood file, rasping
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RASP
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🧩 23A: "44. ___ blanc (type of white grape)"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of several purple or white wine grapes used especially for burgundies and champagnes
- Similar words include: Pinot grape
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PINOT
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🧩 24A: "45. "Say 'goodnight' Alexa." "Goodnight Alexa""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: AMAZONPARROT
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🧩 25A: "49. Trash"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that god of the underworld; counterpart of greek pluto
- Similar words include: Orcus
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DIS
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🧩 26A: "50. Relative of a votive candle"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: TEALIGHT
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🧩 27A: "54. Attire for an acrobat"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a tight-fitting garment of stretchy material that covers the body from the shoulders to the thighs (and may have long sleeves or legs reaching down to the ankles); worn by ballet dancers and acrobats for practice or performance
- Similar words include: cat suit, leotard, body suit
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: UNITARD
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🧩 28A: "58. Era in which daylight saving was introduced as a way to conserve energy, in brief"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: WWI
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🧩 29A: "59. Lion in ancient Rome"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in leo
- Similar words include: Leo the Lion, Lion
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LEO
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🧩 30A: "60. "omg, u r too much""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LOL
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🧩 31A: "61. "Bottom-of-the-barrel barrel prices! Buy today!""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: COOPERSHAWK
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🧩 32A: "64. Love, at Wimbledon"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a quantity of no importance
- Similar words include: zilch, nothing, cypher
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NIL
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🧩 33A: "65. Softened"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that move gently or carefully
- Similar words include: facilitate, ease, alleviated
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EASED
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🧩 34A: "66. "___: The Origins of Our Discontents," Isabel Wilkerson best seller"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that social status or position conferred by a system based on class
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CASTE
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🧩 35A: "67. Like one who might prefer platonic relationships, informally"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ARO
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🧩 36A: "68. Fathers' last words?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a primeval egyptian personification of air and breath; worshipped especially at thebes
- Similar words include: Amen, Amun, Amon
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AMENS
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🧩 37A: "69. "Challenge accepted!""
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ITSON
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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (41 clues)
🧩 1D: "1. Japanese rice cake"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MOCHI
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🧩 2D: "2. Approximately"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that on the move
- Similar words include: well-nigh, almost, nigh
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ABOUT
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🧩 3D: "3. Home for the Sun Devils"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TEMPE
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🧩 4D: "4. ___ City (nickname for New Haven, Conn.)"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various trees of the genus ulmus: important timber or shade trees
- Similar words include: elm tree, elmwood
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ELM
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🧩 5D: "5. Many a Joseph Cornell artwork"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene
- Similar words include: cyclorama, panorama
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: DIORAMA
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🧩 6D: "6. Shine"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a quality that outshines the usual
- Similar words include: lustre, sheen, shininess
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: LUSTER
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🧩 7D: "7. Tavern"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
- Similar words include: lodge, hostelry, auberge
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: INN
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🧩 8D: "8. A matchbook, for a wobbly table, say"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SHIM
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🧩 9D: "9. "___ down!" ("Shut up!")"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco
- Similar words include: shriek, organ pipe, pipe up
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PIPE
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🧩 10D: "10. Explore a cave"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that explore natural caves
- Similar words include: cave
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SPELUNK
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🧩 11D: "11. Like the Roman Empire around 48 B.C."
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that julius caesar was born that way)
- Similar words include: cesarian section, cesarian, cesarean
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: CAESAREAN
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🧩 12D: "12. One might be cooked "casino"-style"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness
- Similar words include: one dollar bill, dollar, dollar bill
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CLAM
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🧩 13D: "13. Will be, in Spanish"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an amber, watery fluid, rich in proteins, that separates out when blood coagulates
- Similar words include: serum, blood serum
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SERA
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🧩 14D: "18. Musical building block"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a brief written record
- Similar words include: bank bill, Federal Reserve note, take down
- Opposite of: ignore
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Answer: NOTE
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🧩 15D: "23. Company name ender"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a heterogeneous collection of groups united in their opposition to saddam hussein's government of iraq; formed in 1992 it is comprised of sunni and shiite arabs and kurds who hope to build a new government
- Similar words include: Iraqi National Congress
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: INC
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🧩 16D: "25. South African currency"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the basic unit of money in south africa; equal to 100 cents
- Similar words include: Witwatersrand, Reef, Ayn Rand
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RAND
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🧩 17D: "26. Doesn't get hit, say"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SITSPAT
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🧩 18D: "29. Hard animal to herd"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats; wildcats
- Similar words include: vomit, cat-o'-nine-tails, qat
- Opposite of: keep down
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Answer: CAT
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🧩 19D: "30. Bad ending?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- Similar words include: buns, piece of ass, buttocks
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ASS
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🧩 20D: "31. Site of a Nobel Prize award ceremony every December 10"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the capital and largest city of norway; the country's main port; located at the head of a fjord on norway's southern coast
- Similar words include: capital of Norway, Christiania
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OSLO
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🧩 21D: "32. Lasting lash effect"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions
- Similar words include: wale, lather, weal
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: WELT
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🧩 22D: "33. "East of Eden" girl"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ABRA
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🧩 23D: "34. Setting for "The King and I""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a country of southeastern asia that extends southward along the isthmus of kra to the malay peninsula
- Similar words include: Thailand, Kingdom of Thailand
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SIAM
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🧩 24D: "35. Mammal that can roll up into a ball"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that burrowing chiefly nocturnal mammal with body covered with strong horny plates
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: ARMADILLO
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🧩 25D: "39. One might help you move"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
- Similar words include: avant-garde, new wave, vanguard
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: VAN
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🧩 26D: "40. Medium capacity?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses
- Similar words include: extrasensory perception, clairvoyance, second sight
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ESP
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🧩 27D: "41. ___ Field (M.L.B. venue since 2009)"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CITI
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🧩 28D: "43. Skin condition that causes facial flushing"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a skin disease of adults (more often women) in which blood vessels of the face enlarge resulting in a flushed appearance
- Similar words include: acne rosacea
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ROSACEA
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🧩 29D: "44. Major that might require International Relations and U.S. Government classes, informally"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: POLISCI
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🧩 30D: "46. Pimple"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or papule; common symptom in acne
- Similar words include: pimple, hickey
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ZIT
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🧩 31D: "47. Ties another knot, so to speak"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: REWEDS
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🧩 32D: "48. Comical growl"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RAWR
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🧩 33D: "51. Word with cut or shot"
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- Think of something that a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure
- Similar words include: glassful, chicken feed, glass in
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GLASS
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🧩 34D: "52. Observe closely, as orders"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HEWTO
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🧩 35D: "53. Symbol"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an individual instance of a type of symbol
- Similar words include: souvenir, nominal, relic
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TOKEN
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🧩 36D: "54. Forearm bone"
🎯 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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🧩 37D: "55. Genre for "Double Indemnity""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NOIR
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🧩 38D: "56. Last word in the first line of "Home on the Range""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- Similar words include: roll, swan, drift
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ROAM
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🧩 39D: "57. One tablespoon, maybe"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time
- Similar words include: pane, dosage, VD
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DOSE
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🧩 40D: "62. Write"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a writing implement with a point from which ink flows
- Similar words include: penitentiary, write, compose
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PEN
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🧩 41D: "63. Porkpie, e.g."
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim
- Similar words include: chapeau, lid
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HAT
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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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