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Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Moderate
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🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (57 clues)
🧩 1A: "1. Maintains, as a superstition"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: CLINGSTO
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🧩 2A: "9. Subject of the 2017 musical film "The Greatest Showman""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states showman who popularized the circus (1810-1891)
- Similar words include: P. T. Barnum, Phineas Taylor Barnum
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BARNUM
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🧩 3A: "15. "Same with me""
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ASAMI
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🧩 4A: "20. Not funny"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that lacking humor; - truman capote
- Similar words include: humourless, unhumorous
- Opposite of: humorous
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Answer: HUMORLESS
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🧩 5A: "22. Ralph Ellison novel about a nameless protagonist's journey in racist America"
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- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: INVISIBLEMAN
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🧩 6A: "24. Forgiving middle-aged dads for their dad jokes, say?"
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- Pattern: ______________________
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Answer: EXONERATINGGENERATIONX
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🧩 7A: "26. Picket line?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a barrier that serves to enclose an area
- Similar words include: surround, contend, argue
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: FENCE
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🧩 8A: "27. Bud in Cooperstown"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SELIG
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🧩 9A: "28. Dorm room staple food"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RAMEN
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🧩 10A: "29. Cross-country conveyances"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used in pairs for gliding over snow
- Similar words include: ski
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SKIS
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🧩 11A: "30. Darth Vader's childhood nickname"
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- Think of something that black tropical american cuckoo
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ANI
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🧩 12A: "32. Inflexible"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that incapable of or resistant to bending
- Similar words include: inflexible, fixed, set
- Opposite of: nonrigid
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Answer: RIGID
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🧩 13A: "34. Have away with words?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting
- Similar words include: delete, edit out, blue-pencil
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EDIT
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🧩 14A: "36. Muppet of Mexican descent"
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- Think of something that erect plant with small clusters of pink trumpet-shaped flowers of southwestern united states
- Similar words include: Centaurium calycosum
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ROSITA
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🧩 15A: "39. Knows just when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em, maybe"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
- Similar words include: shaft, chisel, screw
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CHEATS
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🧩 16A: "42. Gives lip"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an impudent or insolent rejoinder
- Similar words include: sassing, back talk, mouth
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SASSES
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🧩 17A: "47. Attire for Larry Page and Sergey Brin when visiting Google incognito?"
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- Pattern: ______________________
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Answer: TECHNOCRATSTRENCHCOATS
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🧩 18A: "51. Columbus sch."
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OSU
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🧩 19A: "52. Carnage"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that vice president of the united states under bill clinton (born in 1948)
- Similar words include: bloodshed, Al Gore, panel
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GORE
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🧩 20A: "53. Down Easter"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a native or resident of maine
- Similar words include: Down Easter
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: MAINER
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🧩 21A: "54. One with a set of pipes"
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- Think of something that a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function
- Similar words include: electronic organ, electric organ, pipe organ
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ORGAN
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🧩 22A: "55. Come out of one's shell"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles
- Similar words include: shed, moult, slough
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MOLT
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🧩 23A: "57. Sherlock's sister on TV"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ENOLA
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🧩 24A: "60. ___ bag"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that valuable goods
- Similar words include: flag, loot, careen
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SWAG
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🧩 25A: "62. Much-maligned 2019 movie about which one review said "It's 'Battlefield Earth' with whiskers""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats; wildcats
- Similar words include: cat, quat, purge
- Opposite of: keep down
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Answer: CATS
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🧩 26A: "63. One of classical music's Three B's"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that german composer who developed the romantic style of both lyrical and classical music (1833-1897)
- Similar words include: Johannes Brahms
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BRAHMS
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🧩 27A: "66. Landscaper's supply"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a protective covering of rotting vegetable matter spread to reduce evaporation and soil erosion
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MULCH
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🧩 28A: "69. Tundra or taiga"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BIOME
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🧩 29A: "71. "You think that hunk of junk'll pass inspection? Please!"?"
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- Pattern: ______________________
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Answer: STREETLEGALLETSGETREAL
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🧩 30A: "78. Trademarked refrigerant"
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- Think of something that any one or more chlorofluorocarbons (or related compounds) that are used as an aerosol propellant, organic solvent, or refrigerant
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: FREON
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🧩 31A: "79. Uncle Sam's land, informally"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: USOFA
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🧩 32A: "80. Lithe"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience
- Similar words include: sylphlike, lithe, lithesome
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SVELTE
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🧩 33A: "81. +/-"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ORSO
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🧩 34A: "84. Drink mixed in mixed drinks"
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- Think of something that a sodium salt of carbonic acid; used in making soap powders and glass and paper
- Similar words include: washing soda, pop, sal soda
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SODA
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🧩 35A: "86. Handy"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that being of use or service
- Similar words include: useful
- Opposite of: useless
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Answer: UTILE
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🧩 36A: "89. Avatar of Vishnu"
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- Think of something that avatar of vishnu whose name is synonymous with god; any of three incarnations: ramachandra or parashurama or balarama
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RAMA
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🧩 37A: "90. Back in, in a way"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a fashion reminiscent of the past
- Similar words include: retroactive, ex post facto
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RETRO
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🧩 38A: "92. Try to hit in laser tag"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: FIREAT
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🧩 39A: "95. Older sister of Rachel, in Genesis"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LEAH
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🧩 40A: "98. Basic BASIC statements"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IFS
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🧩 41A: "99. Real chess playa?"
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- Pattern: ______________________
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Answer: CHECKMATINGCHICKMAGNET
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🧩 42A: "104. Contemporary of Gauss and Faraday"
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- Think of something that a former unit of electric current (slightly smaller than the si ampere)
- Similar words include: international ampere, A, amp
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: AMPERE
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🧩 43A: "105. James who played Scotty on "Star Trek""
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: DOOHAN
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🧩 44A: "106. "No ___, Bob""
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SIRREE
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🧩 45A: "107. Part of une pièce de théâtre"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ACTE
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🧩 46A: "110. Plunderers of Rome"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person of french descent
- Similar words include: frog, Gallia, Gaul
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GAULS
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🧩 47A: "112. Hindu honorific"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SRI
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🧩 48A: "113. Clock toggle"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AMPM
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🧩 49A: "117. Hollowed out, as an apple"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that remove the core or center from
- Similar words include: core
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CORED
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🧩 50A: "120. Hogwarts's "Half-Blood Prince""
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SNAPE
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🧩 51A: "122. Burnt pigment"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an earth pigment
- Similar words include: chocolate, burnt umber, coffee
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: UMBER
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🧩 52A: "126. Greeting from a famous Italian character to a famous Italian American actress?"
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- Pattern: ______________________
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Answer: MARISATOMEIITSAMEMARIO
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🧩 53A: "130. DC power player in the late 1800s?"
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- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: THOMASEDISON
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🧩 54A: "131. Good thing to play in a trick-taking game"
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- Pattern: _________
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Answer: TRUMPCARD
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🧩 55A: "132. Magical symbol"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SIGIL
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🧩 56A: "133. Dispensing, with "out""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: METING
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🧩 57A: "134. Art lovers"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature
- Similar words include: esthete, aesthete
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: ESTHETES
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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (84 clues)
🧩 1D: "1. One always cooking up new ideas?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a professional cook
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CHEF
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🧩 2D: "2. Ritzy"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that elegant and sumptuous
- Similar words include: de luxe, deluxe
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LUXE
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🧩 3D: "3. "That's my cue""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IMON
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🧩 4D: "4. ___ compensation (stock options, for instance)"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: NONCASH
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🧩 5D: "5. Revegetation, e.g."
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the phenomenon of vitality and freshness being restored
- Similar words include: green, rejuvenation
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: GREENING
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🧩 6D: "6. Canon option, in brief"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SLR
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🧩 7D: "7. They may be Thai or chai"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water
- Similar words include: tea, tea leaf, afternoon tea
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TEAS
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🧩 8D: "8. Cuisinart competitor"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OSTER
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🧩 9D: "9. Noted rapper with an oxymoronic name"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: BIGGIESMALLS
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🧩 10D: "10. Director Lee"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a civilian reserve component of the united states air force that provides prompt mobilization during war and assistance during national emergencies
- Similar words include: Air National Guard
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ANG
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🧩 11D: "11. Traveler in no need of hotels, for short"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RVER
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🧩 12D: "12. Columbian caravel"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the babylonian goddess of the watery deep and daughter of ea
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NINA
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🧩 13D: "13. "I'm your guy""
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: USEME
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🧩 14D: "14. Bogged down"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cause to get stuck as if in a mire
- Similar words include: involved, muck, mire
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MIRED
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🧩 15D: "15. ___-right (political category)"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
- Similar words include: EL, elevation, altitude
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ALT
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🧩 16D: "16. Twice tres"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SEIS
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🧩 17D: "17. Out of control"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that frenzied as if possessed by a demon
- Similar words include: amuck, berserk, demoniacal
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AMOK
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🧩 18D: "18. Nail salon request, familiarly"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MANI
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🧩 19D: "19. 1980s band among Australia's all-time best-selling groups"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: INXS
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🧩 20D: "21. Quartz compound"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (sio2); various forms occur widely in the earth's crust as quartz or cristobalite or tridymite or lechatelierite
- Similar words include: silicon dioxide, silicon oxide
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SILICA
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🧩 21D: "23. Cast out"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that expel from a community or group
- Similar words include: bar, blackball, relegate
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BANISH
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🧩 22D: "25. When doubled, "Sleep well""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
- Similar words include: Nox, nighttime, dark
- Opposite of: day
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Answer: NIGHT
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🧩 23D: "31. Langston Hughes poem that begins "___, sing America""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ITOO
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🧩 24D: "33. Word with mine or dump"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn
- Similar words include: information, data point, datum
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DATA
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🧩 25D: "35. ___ the Town (punny fast-food restaurant name)"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of mexican descent
- Similar words include: wetback, greaser
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TACO
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🧩 26D: "36. Vacation package offerer, perhaps"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a hotel located in a resort area
- Similar words include: recourse, fall back, stamping ground
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: RESORT
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🧩 27D: "37. Visionary?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that combination of lenses at the viewing end of optical instruments
- Similar words include: optical, visual, optic
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: OCULAR
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🧩 28D: "38. Lot unit"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a unit of area (4840 square yards) used in english-speaking countries
- Similar words include: Akko, Akka, Accho
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ACRE
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🧩 29D: "40. Prefix with angular"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TRI
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🧩 30D: "41. D.C. 100: Abbr."
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that street names for marijuana
- Similar words include: sess, dope, green goddess
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SENS
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🧩 31D: "43. Mickey Mouse's boss in "Fantasia""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one who practices magic or sorcery
- Similar words include: magician, wizard, necromancer
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: SORCERER
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🧩 32D: "44. Whale of a tale"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family; originally (12th to 14th centuries) a story of the families that settled iceland and their descendants but now any prose narrative that resembles such an account
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SAGA
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🧩 33D: "45. Géorgie, par exemple"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ETAT
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🧩 34D: "46. Identity thief's acquisitions, in brief"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SSNS
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🧩 35D: "47. The pyramids, essentially"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
- Similar words include: tomb, grave
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TOMBS
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🧩 36D: "48. Stimpy's TV pal"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: REN
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🧩 37D: "49. Rookies"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NEWBS
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🧩 38D: "50. Bond's man?"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CRAIG
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🧩 39D: "56. Skill taught to Luke Skywalker"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: THEFORCE
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🧩 40D: "58. Texter's gasp"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OMG
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🧩 41D: "59. Feast with kalua pig"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an elaborate hawaiian feast or party (especially one accompanied by traditional foods and entertainment)
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LUAU
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🧩 42D: "61. Skedaddles"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
- Similar words include: choke, become, give way
- Opposite of: stay in place, come
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Answer: GOES
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🧩 43D: "64. ___ de Glace (glacier in the French Alps)"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units
- Similar words include: k, m, 1000
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MER
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🧩 44D: "65. Fr. holy women"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: STES
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🧩 45D: "67. Desperate pursuit of fame, in modern lingo"
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- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: CLOUTCHASING
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🧩 46D: "68. Weight"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the property of being large in mass
- Similar words include: heftiness, heave up, heave
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HEFT
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🧩 47D: "70. Channel that popularized video jockeys"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MTV
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🧩 48D: "72. Shower scrubber"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus luffa; used as a washing sponge or strainer
- Similar words include: loofah, loufah sponge, luffa
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LOOFA
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🧩 49D: "73. Split"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ENDIT
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🧩 50D: "74. Mai ___"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a native or inhabitant of thailand
- Similar words include: Siamese, Thai
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TAI
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🧩 51D: "75. TV friend of Jerry, George and Kramer"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ELAINE
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🧩 52D: "76. Money for your money"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ATMFEE
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🧩 53D: "77. Slightest"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that something that is of no importance
- Similar words include: to the lowest degree
- Opposite of: most
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Answer: LEAST
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🧩 54D: "81. Black-and-white hunter"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
- Similar words include: grampus, killer, sea wolf
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ORCA
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🧩 55D: "82. Longtime NPR host Diane"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: REHM
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🧩 56D: "83. Part of a flight"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- Similar words include: ill-use, footmark, gradation
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: STEP
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🧩 57D: "85. Bone-dry"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that lacking sufficient water or rainfall
- Similar words include: waterless, desiccate, desiccated
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ARID
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🧩 58D: "87. Business entity inits."
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LLC
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🧩 59D: "88. Shrill cries"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EEKS
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🧩 60D: "91. Slimy veggie"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant
- Similar words include: Abelmoschus esculentus, gumbo, lady's-finger
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OKRA
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🧩 61D: "93. Brian who co-founded the Long Now Foundation"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ENO
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🧩 62D: "94. In awe"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that highly excited
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AGOG
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🧩 63D: "96. Chums, in Chamonix"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AMIS
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🧩 64D: "97. "Bah, humbug!""
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: HARRUMPH
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🧩 65D: "100. Nashville and New Orleans, for musicians"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that joint capital (with riyadh) of saudi arabia; located in western saudi arabia; as the birthplace of muhammad it is the holiest city of islam
- Similar words include: Mecca, mecca
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: MECCAS
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🧩 66D: "101. Stomping ground"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a frequently visited place
- Similar words include: obsess, stamping ground, ghost
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HAUNT
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🧩 67D: "102. Bringing up the rear"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: INLAST
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🧩 68D: "103. [Yuck!]"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a contorted facial expression
- Similar words include: make a face, pull a face, face
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: GRIMACE
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🧩 69D: "108. Sacred object"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a clan or tribe identified by their kinship to a common totemic object
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TOTEM
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🧩 70D: "109. Lose ground?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that become ground down or deteriorate
- Similar words include: gnaw, eat at, gnaw at
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ERODE
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🧩 71D: "111. Slash on a scoresheet"
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- Think of something that an extra component of a machine or other apparatus
- Similar words include: superfluous, unembellished, part with
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SPARE
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🧩 72D: "113. Qtys."
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AMTS
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🧩 73D: "114. When repeated, a tropical fish"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MAHI
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🧩 74D: "115. ___ rock (genre for Pink Floyd and Dream Theater, familiarly)"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PROG
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🧩 75D: "116. Apt name for a narcissist?"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MIMI
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🧩 76D: "118. Release"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that expel (gases or odors)
- Similar words include: breathe, pass off, utter
- Opposite of: absorb
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Answer: EMIT
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🧩 77D: "119. He loved Lucy"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DESI
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🧩 78D: "121. Nesting pair in the Outback"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism
- Similar words include: Emu novaehollandiae, electromagnetic unit, Dromaius novaehollandiae
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EMUS
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🧩 79D: "123. Army ___"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a very troublesome child
- Similar words include: terror, holy terror, bratwurst
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BRAT
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🧩 80D: "124. The Emerald Isle"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of ireland; achieved independence from the united kingdom in 1921
- Similar words include: Irish Republic, Republic of Ireland, Ireland
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EIRE
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🧩 81D: "125. Photosensitive cells"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a long thin implement made of metal or wood
- Similar words include: rod cell, pole, perch
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RODS
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🧩 82D: "127. Seasoning for una margarita"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SAL
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🧩 83D: "128. Bit of plasma"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a particle that is electrically charged (positive or negative); an atom or molecule or group that has lost or gained one or more electrons
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ION
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🧩 84D: "129. One whose uniform bears the Star of Life, for short"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EMT
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❓ Decode the Clues
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📊 Today's Puzzle Stats
57 Across Clues
84 Down Clues
141 Total Clues
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