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Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Tricky
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🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (39 clues)
🧩 1A: "1. "I give up!""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the brother of your father or mother; the husband of your aunt
- Opposite of: aunt
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: UNCLE
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🧩 2A: "6. J.F.K.'s predecessor"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DDE
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🧩 3A: "9. Golden fruit that started the Trojan War, in myth"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh
- Similar words include: Malus pumila, orchard apple tree
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: APPLE
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🧩 4A: "14. Permanent location?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that gallery where works of art can be displayed
- Similar words include: beauty salon, beauty parlour, beauty parlor
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SALON
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🧩 5A: "15. Charged particle"
🎯 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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🧩 6A: "16. Studied, with "over""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that direct one's attention on something
- Similar words include: focus, pore, centre
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PORED
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🧩 7A: "17. Chuckle + ___ = chortle"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a disrespectful laugh
- Similar words include: snicker, raspberry, razzing
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SNORT
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🧩 8A: "18. Prior to now"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that gone by; or in the past
- Similar words include: agone
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AGO
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🧩 9A: "19. Singer Mary J. ___"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BLIGE
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🧩 10A: "20. Who said "Every great film should seem new every time you see it""
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- Pattern: __________
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Answer: ROGEREBERT
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🧩 11A: "23. "That's my cue!""
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IMON
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🧩 12A: "24. Nickname for Eleanor"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NELL
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🧩 13A: "25. Sundry: Abbr."
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MISC
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🧩 14A: "27. Be an agent for, informally"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that informal abbreviation of `representative'
- Similar words include: repp
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: REP
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🧩 15A: "30. Introspective rock genre"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EMO
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🧩 16A: "31. Hamlet's ill-fated love interest"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: OPHELIA
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🧩 17A: "35. Rejoinder to a doubter"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ICANSO
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🧩 18A: "37. Mount with four faces that all face southeast"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mountain in the black hills of south dakota; the likenesses of washington and jefferson and lincoln and roosevelt are carved on it
- Similar words include: Mt. Rushmore, Mount Rushmore
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: RUSHMORE
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🧩 19A: "38. Constantly pushing forward"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GOGO
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🧩 20A: "39. Dads"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (ballet) a step in dancing (especially in classical ballet)
- Similar words include: PA system, papa, protactinium
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PAS
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🧩 21A: "40. Wide-eyed and eager"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that highly excited
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AGOG
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🧩 22A: "41. Argon or neon"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: INERTGAS
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🧩 23A: "44. Grilled Italian sandwich"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that indian grammarian whose grammatical rules for sanskrit are the first known example of descriptive linguistics (circa 400 bc)
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PANINI
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🧩 24A: "46. Some fins"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: DORSALS
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🧩 25A: "47. Catchy song, in modern lingo"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the law enforcement agency of the justice department that operates a nationwide system of prisons and detention facilities to incarcerate inmates sentenced to imprisonment for federal crimes
- Similar words include: bonk, bash, whop
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: BOP
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🧩 26A: "48. Composer Coleman and others"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CYS
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🧩 27A: "49. They can be boosted or bruised"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
- Similar words include: ego, egotism, self
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EGOS
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🧩 28A: "50. Setting of Switzerland's Glacier Express"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a large mountain system in south-central europe; scenic beauty and winter sports make them a popular tourist attraction
- Similar words include: alp, the Alps
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ALPS
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🧩 29A: "52. File format for a profile pic"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: JPEG
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🧩 30A: "55. Western city hinted at seven times in this puzzle's circled letters"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: BENDOREGON
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🧩 31A: "60. Burr in "Hamilton""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states professional baseball player who hit more home runs than babe ruth (born in 1934)
- Similar words include: Hank Aaron, Henry Louis Aaron
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AARON
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🧩 32A: "62. Ctrl-Alt-___"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DEL
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🧩 33A: "63. Think out loud"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation
- Similar words include: reckon, animadvert, speak up
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OPINE
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🧩 34A: "64. Adrien with Oscars"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BRODY
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🧩 35A: "65. Miner matter"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ORE
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🧩 36A: "66. Birthplace of artist Leonardo"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: VINCI
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🧩 37A: "67. Flippant"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that improperly forward or bold
- Similar words include: overbold, smart, impudent
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SASSY
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🧩 38A: "68. Holiday party pour"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface
- Similar words include: peg
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NOG
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🧩 39A: "69. Plein-air painter's prop"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas)
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EASEL
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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (39 clues)
🧩 1D: "1. Bygone world power, for short"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a former communist country in eastern europe and northern asia; established in 1922; included russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (ukraine and byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 december 1991
- Similar words include: Soviet Union, Russia, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: USSR
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🧩 2D: "2. Prefix meaning "one-billionth""
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NANO
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🧩 3D: "3. Bulky slip-on"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that footwear usually with wooden soles
- Similar words include: clog up, back up, clog dancing
- Opposite of: unclog
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Answer: CLOG
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🧩 4D: "4. Italian film star Sophia"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that italian film actress (born in 1934)
- Similar words include: Sophia Loren, Sofia Scicolone
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LOREN
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🧩 5D: "5. Main courses"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the principal dish of a meal
- Similar words include: entrance, accession, entry
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ENTREES
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🧩 6D: "6. El infierno figure"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: DIABLO
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🧩 7D: "7. Modern lead-in to coin"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that formerly the chief magistrate in the republics of venice and genoa
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DOGE
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🧩 8D: "8. Huge"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree; ; ; ; - walter lippman
- Similar words include: tremendous
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: ENORMOUS
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🧩 9D: "9. "Be on the lookout" alert, in brief"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: APB
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🧩 10D: "10. Role for Erik Estrada on TV's "CHiPs" … as well as in real life"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of a police force
- Similar words include: officer, police officer
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: POLICEMAN
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🧩 11D: "11. Stiffly demure"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that assume a prim appearance
- Similar words include: priggish, tight-laced, mincing
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PRIM
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🧩 12D: "12. Toy brand with theme parks on three continents"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (trademark) a child's plastic construction set for making mechanical models
- Similar words include: Lego set
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LEGO
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🧩 13D: "13. Unspoiled paradise"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
- Similar words include: Garden of Eden, heaven, nirvana
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EDEN
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🧩 14D: "21. Muppet who's made guest appearances on "Scrubs" and "The West Wing""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ELMO
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🧩 15D: "22. Suggestions"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the extreme end of something; especially something pointed
- Similar words include: summit, tip, tilt
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TIPS
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🧩 16D: "26. Quiet sound?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SHH
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🧩 17D: "27. Inflexible"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that incapable of or resistant to bending
- Similar words include: inflexible, stiff, fixed
- Opposite of: nonrigid
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Answer: RIGID
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🧩 18D: "28. Low-cost, in ads"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ECONO
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🧩 19D: "29. Handout at a busy restaurant"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an electronic device that generates a series of beeps when the person carrying it is being paged
- Similar words include: beeper
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PAGER
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🧩 20D: "32. "___ will get you from A to B. Imagination can take you everywhere" (statement attributed to Einstein)"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference
- Similar words include: logical system, system of logic
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LOGIC
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🧩 21D: "33. Humor with a twist"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that witty language used to convey insults or scorn; ; ; --jonathan swift
- Similar words include: satire, caustic remark, sarcasm
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: IRONY
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🧩 22D: "34. Protection"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that kindly endorsement and guidance
- Similar words include: egis, auspices, protection
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AEGIS
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🧩 23D: "36. Thor and Odin"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: NORSEGODS
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🧩 24D: "37. Dorm aides, for short"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the network in the reticular formation that serves an alerting or arousal function
- Similar words include: right ascension, atomic number 88, reticular activating system
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RAS
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🧩 25D: "39. Forwent"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: PASSEDON
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🧩 26D: "42. What's touch and go?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc.
- Similar words include: mark, dog, go after
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TAG
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🧩 27D: "43. Hunk of melted mozzarella, e.g."
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a compact mass
- Similar words include: lump, chunk, ball
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GLOB
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🧩 28D: "44. Sport with mallets"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that venetian traveler who explored asia in the 13th century and served kublai khan (1254-1324)
- Similar words include: Marco Polo
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: POLO
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🧩 29D: "45. Give the OK"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that give sanction to
- Similar words include: sanction, okay, O.K.
- Opposite of: disapprove
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Answer: APPROVE
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🧩 30D: "47. Reason to wear a knee brace, perhaps"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BADLEG
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🧩 31D: "51. Old-timey photo filter"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a shade of brown with a tinge of red
- Similar words include: burnt sienna, reddish brown, genus Sepia
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SEPIA
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🧩 32D: "52. Zingers"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow)
- Similar words include: poking, poke, jabbing
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: JABS
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🧩 33D: "53. Prefix with sail or glide"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered
- Similar words include: parity, St. Mary of Bethlehem, Santa Maria de Belem
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PARA
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🧩 34D: "54. Cupid's Greek counterpart"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (greek mythology) god of love; son of aphrodite; identified with roman cupid
- Similar words include: physical attraction, concupiscence, sexual desire
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EROS
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🧩 35D: "56. Infamous Roman ruler"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that roman emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of rome in 64) but the roman empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68)
- Similar words include: Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NERO
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🧩 36D: "57. Options for martinis"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that strong liquor flavored with juniper berries
- Similar words include: knock rummy, gin rummy, snare
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GINS
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🧩 37D: "58. A single time"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that on one occasion
- Similar words include: one time, erstwhile, at one time
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ONCE
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🧩 38D: "59. Actor ___ Patrick Harris"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NEIL
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🧩 39D: "61. Subway Series squad, on scoreboards"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NYY
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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
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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