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Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Moderate
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🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (37 clues)
🧩 1A: "1. "Catfish" channel"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MTV
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🧩 2A: "4. Center's stat in an N.B.A. game: Abbr."
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that `johnny' was applied as a nickname for confederate soldiers by the federal soldiers in the american civil war; `greyback' derived from their grey confederate uniforms
- Similar words include: Johnny, Rebel, greyback
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: REB
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🧩 3A: "7. Cole ___ (cabbage dishes)"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that basically shredded cabbage
- Similar words include: coleslaw, slaw
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SLAWS
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🧩 4A: "12. Cry of discovery"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AHA
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🧩 5A: "13. Cupid, to ancient Greeks"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (greek mythology) god of love; son of aphrodite; identified with roman cupid
- Similar words include: concupiscence, physical attraction, sexual desire
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EROS
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🧩 6A: "15. Combustible fuel for trucks"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that german engineer (born in france) who invented the diesel engine (1858-1913)
- Similar words include: diesel engine, Rudolf Diesel, Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: DIESEL
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🧩 7A: "16. Corn, to a Midwest farmer"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: CASHCROP
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🧩 8A: "18. Canada's capital"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of the algonquian people of southern ontario
- Similar words include: capital of Canada, Outaouais, Canadian capital
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: OTTAWA
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🧩 9A: "19. Children's song refrain ("Old MacDonald had a farm …")"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EIEIO
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🧩 10A: "20. Characteristic of a penetrating mind"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a funeral lament sung with loud wailing
- Similar words include: corking, piercing, exquisite
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: KEEN
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🧩 11A: "22. "Count me as a yes!""
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IMIN
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🧩 12A: "23. Casino no-no"
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- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: CARDCOUNTING
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🧩 13A: "26. Chapel oath"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an artificial language that is a revision and simplification of esperanto
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IDO
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🧩 14A: "29. Casual top"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the starting place for each hole on a golf course
- Similar words include: golf tee, teeing ground, tee up
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TEE
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🧩 15A: "30. Constellation part"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior
- Similar words include: whizz, genius, adept
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: STAR
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🧩 16A: "31. Cloud ___ (blissful spot, in an idiom)"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one
- Similar words include: ennead, Nina from Carolina, ball club
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NINE
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🧩 17A: "33. Course standard on the links"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (golf) the standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course
- Similar words include: equation, equivalence, equality
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PAR
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🧩 18A: "35. Climaxes"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the most extreme possible amount or value
- Similar words include: bill, blossom, crest
- Opposite of: bottom out
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Answer: PEAKS
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🧩 19A: "39. Carbonated beverage as reintroduced in 1985"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: COCACOLACLASSIC
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🧩 20A: "43. Childish retort"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ARESO
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🧩 21A: "44. Chi preceder"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the 21st letter of the greek alphabet
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PHI
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🧩 22A: "45. Comedian Fey"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TINA
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🧩 23A: "46. Croquet locale"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
- Similar words include: railyard, K, G
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: YARD
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🧩 24A: "49. Concert equipment"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the basic unit of electric current adopted under the systeme international d'unites
- Similar words include: adenylic acid, adenosine monophosphate, A
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AMP
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🧩 25A: "51. Contribute"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders
- Similar words include: lend, supply, sum
- Opposite of: subtract, take away
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Answer: ADD
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🧩 26A: "52. College basketball phenom drafted by the Indiana Fever in 2024"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: CAITLINCLARK
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🧩 27A: "57. Chain of luxury hotels"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OMNI
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🧩 28A: "58. City of Honolulu's island"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an island of central hawaii (between molokai and kauai); the chief island of the state
- Similar words include: Oahu Island
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OAHU
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🧩 29A: "59. Central artery"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AORTA
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🧩 30A: "63. Cellphone's weather app, e.g."
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known
- Similar words include: contraption, whatchamacallit, convenience
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: WIDGET
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🧩 31A: "65. Clear sailing areas … or, homophonically, a feature of 16-, 23-, 39- and 52-Across (and every clue in this puzzle!)"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: OPENSEAS
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🧩 32A: "67. Crested wading birds"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season
- Similar words include: egret
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: EGRETS
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🧩 33A: "68. Crossing guard's command"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of traveling by foot
- Similar words include: manner of walking, pass, paseo
- Opposite of: ride
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Answer: WALK
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🧩 34A: "69. "Can't believe I missed something so obvious!""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DUH
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🧩 35A: "70. Crowd sounds"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a deep prolonged loud noise
- Similar words include: holler, bellowing, roar
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ROARS
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🧩 36A: "71. Charlotte Brontë, to Anne and Emily, informally"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a female person who has the same parents as another person
- Similar words include: silicon, ti, Systeme International d'Unites
- Opposite of: brother
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Answer: SIS
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🧩 37A: "72. Complete dump"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid
- Similar words include: stye, pigsty, pigpen
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: STY
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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (41 clues)
🧩 1D: "1. Ceremonial rod"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (trademark) a liquid that temporarily disables a person; prepared as an aerosol and sprayed in the face, it irritates the eyes and causes dizziness and immobilization
- Similar words include: macer, macebearer, Chemical Mace
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MACE
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🧩 2D: "2. Cuisine with pad see ew"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a native or inhabitant of thailand
- Similar words include: Siamese, Central Thai, Tai
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: THAI
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🧩 3D: "3. Carnation holder"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an open jar of glass or porcelain used as an ornament or to hold flowers
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: VASE
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🧩 4D: "4. Cover again, as with paint"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: RECOAT
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🧩 5D: "5. Calculate something incorrectly, say"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that to make a mistake or be incorrect
- Similar words include: mistake, slip, stray
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ERR
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🧩 6D: "6. Contract from a publisher"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: BOOKDEAL
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🧩 7D: "7. Command to a dog"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that be around, often idly or without specific purpose
- Similar words include: pose, sit down, model
- Opposite of: arise, stand
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Answer: SIT
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🧩 8D: "8. "Could you please stop talking about that?!""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: LETITREST
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🧩 9D: "9. "Completely the same for me""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ASAMI
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🧩 10D: "10. "Call us the champs!""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: WEWIN
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🧩 11D: "11. "Chill," e.g., for "relax""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions; often vituperative or vulgar
- Similar words include: put one across, gull, dupe
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SLANG
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🧩 12D: "14. Contractor's detail, in brief"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work
- Similar words include: specification
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SPEC
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🧩 13D: "15. Cousin of a cruller or bear claw"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small ring-shaped friedcake
- Similar words include: sinker, doughnut
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DONUT
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🧩 14D: "17. Cartoon sound from an intoxicated person"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HIC
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🧩 15D: "21. Canon camera brand named for a goddess"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (greek mythology) the winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology; daughter of hyperion; identified with roman aurora
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EOS
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🧩 16D: "24. Certain tow job, informally"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: REPO
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🧩 17D: "25. California wine valley"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery; used as a vegetable in east asia
- Similar words include: pe-tsai, celery cabbage, Chinese cabbage
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NAPA
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🧩 18D: "26. Cuzco dweller of old"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a ruler of the incas (or a member of his family)
- Similar words include: Incan, Inka
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: INCA
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🧩 19D: "27. Christian of fashion"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that french couturier whose first collection in 1947 created a style that became known as the new look (1905-1957)
- Similar words include: Christian Dior
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DIOR
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🧩 20D: "28. "Christmas comes but ___ a year""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that on one occasion
- Similar words include: at one time, formerly, one time
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ONCE
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🧩 21D: "32. "Calm down there, buddy""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: EASYTIGER
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🧩 22D: "34. Cardi B's genre"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a reproach for some lapse or misdeed
- Similar words include: strike, pat, knock
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RAP
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🧩 23D: "36. China's continent"
🎯 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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🧩 24D: "37. Compassionate"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
- Similar words include: sort, genial, tolerant
- Opposite of: unkind
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Answer: KIND
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🧩 25D: "38. Copious amount"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of a number of fishes of the family carangidae
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SCAD
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🧩 26D: "40. Christmas stocking filler for a naughty child"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the carboniferous period
- Similar words include: char, ember
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: COAL
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🧩 27D: "41. Concoctions with masa, cheese, lettuce and salsa"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: CHALUPAS
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🧩 28D: "42. Capital of Peru"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that capital and largest city and economic center of peru; located in western peru; was capital of the spanish empire in the new world until the 19th century
- Similar words include: capital of Peru
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LIMA
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🧩 29D: "47. Comical sorts"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a public act of violence by an unruly mob
- Similar words include: debauch, wow, howler
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RIOTS
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🧩 30D: "48. Crime lab material"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transmission of genetic information
- Similar words include: deoxyribonucleic acid, desoxyribonucleic acid
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DNA
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🧩 31D: "50. Calls that may start "Is your refrigerator running?," e.g."
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that acting like a clown or buffoon
- Similar words include: harlequinade, buffoonery, joke
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PRANKS
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🧩 32D: "52. Cringe out of fear"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that crouch or curl up
- Similar words include: huddle, crawl, cringe
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: COWER
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🧩 33D: "53. Compadre"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a friend or comrade
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AMIGO
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🧩 34D: "54. Chief Hindu god"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that chief hindu god of the rig-veda; god of rain and thunder
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: INDRA
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🧩 35D: "55. Chicken ___ mein"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the imperial dynasty of china from 1122 to 221 bc; notable for the rise of confucianism and taoism
- Similar words include: chuck, chow chow, grub
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CHOW
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🧩 36D: "56. Certain bout enders, in brief"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (in india) a unit of length having different values in different localities
- Similar words include: knockout, KO, kayo
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: KOS
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🧩 37D: "60. Cincinnati baseball team"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
- Similar words include: red, Red, Marxist
- Opposite of: gain
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Answer: REDS
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🧩 38D: "61. Completely stretched"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that pulled or drawn tight
- Similar words include: tight
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TAUT
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🧩 39D: "62. Cinder-covered"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that of a light grey
- Similar words include: ash-gray, ash-grey
- Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ASHY
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🧩 40D: "64. Coneheads, e.g., for short"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ETS
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🧩 41D: "66. Cooper and Peyton Manning's Q.B. brother"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ELI
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🧠 Expert Solving Strategies
🎯 Start Smart
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❓ Decode the Clues
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🔤 Use Cross-References
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📚 Build Vocabulary
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📊 Today's Puzzle Stats
37 Across Clues
41 Down Clues
78 Total Clues
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