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Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Challenging
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🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (77 clues)
🧩 1A: "1. Final act of a play?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces
- Similar words include: bow down, defer, bowknot
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: BOW
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🧩 2A: "4. Iconic sci-fi setting spelled out in this puzzle's shaded squares"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: THEE
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🧩 3A: "8. Skyrocket"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a growth in strength or number or importance
- Similar words include: mount, acclivity, wage increase
- Opposite of: sit down, descent
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Answer: RISE
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🧩 4A: "12. "Reckon so!""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: YUP
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🧩 5A: "15. Working without ___"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ANET
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🧩 6A: "17. Seemingly forever"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (gnosticism) a divine power or nature emanating from the supreme being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe
- Similar words include: aeon, eon
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AEONS
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🧩 7A: "19. Some spa jobs, in brief"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PEDIS
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🧩 8A: "20. Manner of speaking"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the quality of a person's voice
- Similar words include: tonus, shade, step
- Opposite of: atonicity
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Answer: TONE
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🧩 9A: "21. Like used BBQ pits"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that of a light grey
- Similar words include: ash-gray, ash-grey
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ASHY
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🧩 10A: "22. Member of this puzzle's shaded squares who might say "I cannot change the laws of physics, Captain!""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: MISTERSCOTT
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🧩 11A: "24. Like being late or cutting in line"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that socially incorrect in behavior
- Similar words include: bounderish, ill-mannered, raw
- Opposite of: civil
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Answer: RUDE
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🧩 12A: "25. Something clicked to add an attachment"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a machine that inserts staples into sheets of paper in order to fasten them together
- Similar words include: stapling machine
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: STAPLER
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🧩 13A: "27. Take up space"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that have an existence, be extant
- Similar words include: subsist, live, be
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EXIST
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🧩 14A: "28. Kind of protagonist in "Lethal Weapon" or "Die Hard""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: HEROCOP
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🧩 15A: "30. Swear"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
- Similar words include: swan, assert, swear
- Opposite of: disavow
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Answer: AVOW
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🧩 16A: "31. Digital investment choices, informally"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: CRYPTOS
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🧩 17A: "33. Not much, as of wasabi"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ADAB
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🧩 18A: "34. Narrowly get (by)"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EKE
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🧩 19A: "35. "Now that we're all here, please proceed""
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OKGO
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🧩 20A: "38. Lab reports?"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ARFS
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🧩 21A: "41. Overzealous sort"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that usually large hard-shelled seed
- Similar words include: egg, junky, ballock
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NUT
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🧩 22A: "43. Got acquainted"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that come together
- Similar words include: fit, touch, run across
- Opposite of: diverge
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Answer: MET
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🧩 23A: "44. D.M.V.-issued card authenticated by airport security"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: REALID
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🧩 24A: "47. Build a stockpile"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SAVEUP
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🧩 25A: "49. Didn't go fast?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
- Similar words include: wipe out, use up, exhaust
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ATE
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🧩 26A: "50. Employee's status meaning "I'm currently away""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OOO
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🧩 27A: "51. Take down a notch"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- Similar words include: relegate, bump, break
- Opposite of: promote
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Answer: DEMOTE
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🧩 28A: "52. Purveyors of provocative posts"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (scandanavian folklore) a supernatural creature (either a dwarf or a giant) that is supposed to live in caves or in the mountains
- Similar words include: round, trolling, troll
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TROLLS
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🧩 29A: "53. 8.5" x 11": Abbr."
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LTR
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🧩 30A: "54. Kris Kross #1 hit with the lyric "How high? Real high, 'cause I'm just so fly""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sudden and decisive increase
- Similar words include: spring, skip over, derail
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: JUMP
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🧩 31A: "56. El presidente ousted in a 1955 coup"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that argentine soldier who became president of argentina (1895-1974)
- Similar words include: Juan Domingo Peron
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PERON
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🧩 32A: "57. Danger"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
- Similar words include: danger, jeopardize, risk
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PERIL
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🧩 33A: "58. Cry from a victor"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IWON
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🧩 34A: "59. Type that tends to be right-leaning"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right
- Similar words include: italic, Italic, Italic language
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ITALICS
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🧩 35A: "61. Like quality vocals"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ONKEY
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🧩 36A: "63. Looks inside?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: CTSCANS
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🧩 37A: "65. Drug-busting unit"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one thousand grams; the basic unit of mass adopted under the systeme international d'unites
- Similar words include: kg, kilogram
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: KILO
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🧩 38A: "66. City whose Fushimi Inari shrine features 10,000+ red torii gates"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a city in central japan on southern honshu; a famous cultural center that was once the capital of japan
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: KYOTO
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🧩 39A: "67. Brother of Disney's Louie and Dewey Duck"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HUEY
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🧩 40A: "68. Something hit to get fit"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: THEGYM
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🧩 41A: "70. Hands-on professional?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a male massager
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: MASSEUR
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🧩 42A: "72. Baseball team whose mascot is Wally the Green Monster"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: REDSOX
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🧩 43A: "75. Seeing romantically"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: WITH
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🧩 44A: "76. Humble hold 'em holding"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a set of two similar things considered as a unit
- Similar words include: dyad, match, pair off
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PAIR
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🧩 45A: "78. "The Bear" streamer"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HULU
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🧩 46A: "80. Cold War weapon inits."
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another
- Similar words include: intercontinental ballistic missile
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ICBM
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🧩 47A: "81. Beethoven's No. 8?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ACHT
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🧩 48A: "82. Line of luxury hotels"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OMNIS
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🧩 49A: "84. Takes to school, in a way"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport
- Similar words include: bus topology, heap, motorcoach
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BUSES
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🧩 50A: "85. Cosmic explosion"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a star that ejects some of its material in the form of a cloud and become more luminous in the process
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NOVA
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🧩 51A: "86. It goes on the run"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used in pairs for gliding over snow
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SKI
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🧩 52A: "87. Be a wingman, e.g."
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose
- Similar words include: attend, wait on, aid
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ASSIST
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🧩 53A: "88. False"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an artificial or inferior substitute or imitation
- Similar words include: substitute
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ERSATZ
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🧩 54A: "90. Inits. for this puzzle's shaded squares"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that north american republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in north america plus alaska in northwest north america and the hawaiian islands in the pacific ocean; achieved independence in 1776
- Similar words include: U.S., America, United States
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: USS
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🧩 55A: "91. Move like a supermodel"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a proud stiff pompous gait
- Similar words include: ruffle, sashay, swagger
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: STRUT
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🧩 56A: "93. Unit of purity"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; 18-karat gold is 75% gold; 24-karat gold is pure gold
- Similar words include: carat, kt
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: KARAT
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🧩 57A: "95. Lower oneself"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
- Similar words include: condescend, descend
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DEIGN
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🧩 58A: "97. They study how knights move"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that young nobleman attendant on a knight
- Similar words include: squire, gallant
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SQUIRES
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🧩 59A: "99. Canyon's edge"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object
- Similar words include: brim, flange, lip
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RIM
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🧩 60A: "100. On the ___ (raging)"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that hostile or belligerent mood
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: WARPATH
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🧩 61A: "102. Gone skinny-dipping, e.g."
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that travel through water
- Similar words include: float, swim, drown
- Opposite of: sink
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Answer: SWUM
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🧩 62A: "103. Significant stretch"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
- Similar words include: geological era, epoch, earned run average
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ERA
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🧩 63A: "104. Mr. Turkey"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (ethnic slur) offensive and derogatory name for a black man who is abjectly servile and deferential to whites
- Similar words include: tom turkey, turkey cock, gobbler
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TOM
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🧩 64A: "105. Some window installations, informally"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a radioactive element of the actinide series; found in uranium ores
- Similar words include: alternating electric current, alternating current, actinium
- Opposite of: direct current
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Answer: ACS
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🧩 65A: "106. Warp-driven device"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
- Similar words include: tower, hulk, predominate
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LOOM
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🧩 66A: "108. Major exporter of mangoes"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a republic in the west indies on the western part of the island of hispaniola; achieved independence from france in 1804; the poorest and most illiterate nation in the western hemisphere
- Similar words include: Hispaniola, Hayti, Republic of Haiti
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HAITI
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🧩 67A: "110. One giving the highlights?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone whose job is to dye cloth
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DYER
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🧩 68A: "112. By dawn's early light?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees
- Similar words include: due east, E, eastward
- Opposite of: west
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Answer: EAST
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🧩 69A: "114. Intending to, casually"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GONNA
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🧩 70A: "115. Bring upon oneself"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make oneself subject to; bring upon oneself; become liable to
- Similar words include: receive, get, find
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: INCUR
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🧩 71A: "116. Wordlessly indicate "Please give me a hand""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (poker) the initial contribution that each player makes to the pot
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ANTE
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🧩 72A: "117. "___ a broken heart" (Emily Dickinson poem)"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: UNTO
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🧩 73A: "118. Iron Man's suit, e.g."
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that protective covering made of metal and used in combat
- Similar words include: armour
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ARMOR
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🧩 74A: "119. "Fire away!""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ASKME
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🧩 75A: "120. False"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of mocking or ridiculing
- Similar words include: bemock
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MOCK
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🧩 76A: "121. Docking station"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats
- Similar words include: dock, wharf, wharfage
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PIER
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🧩 77A: "122. Some draft picks"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a general name for alcoholic beverages made by fermenting a cereal (or mixture of cereals) flavored with hops
- Similar words include: beer
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BEERS
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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (63 clues)
🧩 1D: "1. Some farm sounds"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that south african term for `boss'
- Similar words include: blat, blate, baa
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BAAS
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🧩 2D: "2. Camped nearby and surveilling, in police jargon"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: ONSTAKEOUT
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🧩 3D: "3. "Our window is closing for escape w-elocity!," as [circled letters] might say"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________________
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: WEHAVETOMAKETHISQUICK
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🧩 4D: "4. Hardly spicy"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that correct by punishment or discipline
- Similar words include: tone down, meek, domesticate
- Opposite of: wild
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Answer: TAME
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🧩 5D: "5. Next in line"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another
- Similar words include: inheritor, successor, heritor
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HEIR
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🧩 6D: "6. Goddess of daybreak"
🎯 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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🧩 7D: "7. Fill in"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that to come or go into
- Similar words include: insert, go into, accede
- Opposite of: exit, drop out
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Answer: ENTER
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🧩 8D: "8. Direct opposite of verso (found hidden in this clue!)"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that right-hand page
- Opposite of: verso
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RECTO
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🧩 9D: "9. It's a promise"
🎯 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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🧩 10D: "10. Enemy of the Jedi"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SITH
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🧩 11D: "11. By Juan's early light?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ESTE
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🧩 12D: "12. "Any time! I'm a doctor, not a do-nothing!," as [circled letters] might say"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________________
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Answer: YOUCANALWAYSCOUNTONME
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🧩 13D: "13. Way back?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: UNDOBUTTON
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🧩 14D: "14. Slight gripe, so to speak"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the short weak cry of a young bird
- Similar words include: chirrup, chirp, cheep
- Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: PEEP
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🧩 15D: "16. Slip of the pen"
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- Think of something that a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind
- Similar words include: typographical error, erratum, literal
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TYPO
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🧩 16D: "18. Tantalizing"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest
- Similar words include: aphrodisiac, aphrodisiacal
- Opposite of: unsexy, anaphrodisiac
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Answer: SEXY
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🧩 17D: "19. A low "Yo!""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PSST
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🧩 18D: "20. Trampled (on)"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that put down or press the foot, place the foot
- Similar words include: trample, step, tread
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TROD
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🧩 19D: "23. Sound of a wardrobe malfunction"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a dissolute man in fashionable society
- Similar words include: profligate, roue, pull
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RIP
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🧩 20D: "26. Euphemistic expression of commitment"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LWORD
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🧩 21D: "29. Speaks roughly"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that uttering in an irritated tone
- Similar words include: wood file, rasping, rasp
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RASPS
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🧩 22D: "31. Cherry or lime"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
- Similar words include: colouring material, discolour, people of color
- Opposite of: black-and-white, discolor
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Answer: COLOR
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🧩 23D: "32. Bask in"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- Similar words include: bask, savour, flavour
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SAVOR
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🧩 24D: "34. Reaction to a social media post, maybe"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EMOJI
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🧩 25D: "36. "Logic dictates that you control your emotions," as [circled letters] might say"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: KEEPCOMPOSURE
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🧩 26D: "37. Sneakily exploits"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a contest with rules to determine a winner
- Similar words include: plot, bet on, gage
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GAMES
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🧩 27D: "39. Thing of the past"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an antiquity that has survived from the distant past
- Similar words include: souvenir, token, keepsake
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RELIC
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🧩 28D: "40. "Stepping on the gas, Captain!," as [circled letters] might say"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: FULLTHRUSTERS
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🧩 29D: "42. Seaside flock"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that small slender gull having narrow wings and a forked tail
- Similar words include: tern
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TERNS
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🧩 30D: "45. "To protect my crew, the gamble was necessary," as [circled letters] might say"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: ITOOKARISK
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🧩 31D: "46. IHOP rival"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: DENNYS
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🧩 32D: "47. Florida beach town, informally"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: STPETE
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🧩 33D: "48. "We received a distress signal. Any injuries?," as [circled letters] might say"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: AREYOUHURT
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🧩 34D: "55. Tough spot"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one
- Similar words include: pledge, betroth, quandary
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PLIGHT
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🧩 35D: "58. Stranded during a winter storm, say"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ICEDIN
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🧩 36D: "60. Texter's sweet sentiment"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ILY
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🧩 37D: "62. Big hits, in brief"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (in india) a unit of length having different values in different localities
- Similar words include: knockout, kayo, KO
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: KOS
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🧩 38D: "64. Make a case against?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that french writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857)
- Similar words include: process, litigate, action
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SUE
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🧩 39D: "68. Old-fashioned contraction"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TWAS
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🧩 40D: "69. Backwoods bumpkin"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
- Similar words include: chawbacon, hayseed, rube
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HICK
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🧩 41D: "70. Bite-size"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a very short skirt
- Similar words include: miniskirt
- Opposite of: midi
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Answer: MINI
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🧩 42D: "71. Former Wisconsin senator Feingold"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the medieval russian state established by scandinavian traders in the 9th century; the capital was first in novgorod and then in kiev
- Similar words include: Rus
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RUSS
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🧩 43D: "73. "Clearly!," in textspeak"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OBVS
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🧩 44D: "74. Major e-tailing season"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a christian holiday celebrating the birth of christ; a quarter day in england, wales, and ireland
- Similar words include: Christmas Day, Christmas, Dec 25
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: XMAS
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🧩 45D: "77. World capital with 400 kilometers of bike lanes"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an industrial center and the nominal capital of the netherlands; center of the diamond-cutting industry; seat of an important stock exchange; known for its canals and art museum
- Similar words include: capital of The Netherlands, Dutch capital
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: AMSTERDAM
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🧩 46D: "79. He might be carrying a big picture"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: LEADACTOR
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🧩 47D: "83. This puzzle's theme"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: STARTREK
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🧩 48D: "84. "I want to come back to the ship," as everyone circled in this puzzle seems to have said to 22-Across"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: BEAMMEUP
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🧩 49D: "87. NPR journalist Shapiro"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ARI
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🧩 50D: "89. Punch"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a quantity of no importance
- Similar words include: zero, nil, cipher
- Opposite of: unzip
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Answer: ZIP
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🧩 51D: "92. Belly, in kidspeak"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TUMTUM
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🧩 52D: "94. Carnival-themed Vegas hotel"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the former capital and 2nd largest city of brazil; chief brazilian port; famous as a tourist attraction
- Similar words include: Rio de Janeiro
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RIO
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🧩 53D: "96. In spades"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that in great numbers
- Similar words include: abounding
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: GALORE
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🧩 54D: "97. Symbols of grace"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult
- Similar words include: roam, swan, avow
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SWANS
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🧩 55D: "98. Object"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SAYNO
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🧩 56D: "100. Garbage"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
- Similar words include: macerate, waste material, liquidate
- Opposite of: conserve
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Answer: WASTE
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🧩 57D: "101. "___ is more important than life" (Klingon proverb)"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction
- Similar words include: respect, laurels, abide by
- Opposite of: dishonor, disrespect
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Answer: HONOR
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🧩 58D: "102. "Transformers" actor ___ LaBeouf"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one of the two main branches of orthodox islam; mainly in iran
- Similar words include: Shiah, Shiah Islam
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SHIA
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🧩 59D: "107. 2004 landing site for Spirit"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small reddish planet that is the 4th from the sun and is periodically visible to the naked eye; minerals rich in iron cover its surface and are responsible for its characteristic color
- Similar words include: deflower, spoil, mar
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MARS
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🧩 60D: "109. Land west of Eng."
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
- Similar words include: ira, anger, choler
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IRE
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🧩 61D: "111. "You get the gist": Abbr."
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ETC
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🧩 62D: "113. Alt-rocker DiFranco"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that black tropical american cuckoo
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ANI
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🧩 63D: "114. Chinwag"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that light informal conversation for social occasions
- Similar words include: yak, chin wagging, gossip
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: GAB
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77 Across Clues
63 Down Clues
140 Total Clues
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