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Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Medium
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🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (37 clues)
🧩 1A: "1. Letters on a radio switch"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AMFM
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🧩 2A: "5. "Cómo está ___?" ("How are you?," in Spanish)"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: USTED
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🧩 3A: "10. Indian tourist city on the Taj Express route"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a city in northern india; former capital of the mogul empire; site of the taj mahal
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AGRA
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🧩 4A: "14. Garment seen in Hindi cinema"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a dress worn primarily by hindu women; consists of several yards of light material that is draped around the body
- Similar words include: saree
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SARI
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🧩 5A: "15. Glistened"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that be bright by reflecting or casting light
- Similar words include: glitter, smooth, polish
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SHONE
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🧩 6A: "16. Like a grade of B+, say"
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- Think of something that moral excellence or admirableness
- Similar words include: goodness, unspoiled, undecomposed
- Opposite of: badness, evilness
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Answer: GOOD
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🧩 7A: "17. Seed covering"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ARIL
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🧩 8A: "18. Yankees slugger who hit a record-setting 62 home runs in 2022"
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- Pattern: __________
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Answer: AARONJUDGE
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🧩 9A: "20. Rotary phone feature"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the face of a timepiece; graduated to show the hours
- Similar words include: telephone dial
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DIAL
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🧩 10A: "21. Garment from Playtex or Maidenform"
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- Think of something that an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts
- Similar words include: brassiere, bandeau
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: BRA
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🧩 11A: "22. "Meet the Press" group"
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- Think of something that sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something
- Similar words include: venire, control panel, jury
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PANEL
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🧩 12A: "23. Image from a drone"
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- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: AERIALPHOTO
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🧩 13A: "27. Metal from a mine"
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- 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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🧩 14A: "28. Bills with George Washington's face"
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- Think of something that the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
- Similar words include: one, 1, I
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ONES
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🧩 15A: "29. Small dish served in Spain"
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- Think of something that the thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and pipturus albidus
- Similar words include: tappa, tapa bark, tappa bark
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TAPA
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🧩 16A: "31. Accra's country"
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- Think of something that a republic in west africa on the gulf of guinea
- Similar words include: Gold Coast, Republic of Ghana
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GHANA
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🧩 17A: "34. Path of a baseball pop-up"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
- Similar words include: discharge, arch, curve
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ARC
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🧩 18A: "35. Doozy"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a very attractive or seductive looking woman
- Similar words include: sweetheart, stunner, dish
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LULU
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🧩 19A: "39. "Keep dreaming!""
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- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: AINTGONNAHAPPEN
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🧩 20A: "43. Opposite of "nope""
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- Think of something that not only so, but
- Similar words include: yea
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: YEAH
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🧩 21A: "44. "Star Wars" saga heroine"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: REY
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🧩 22A: "45. Desert plants"
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- Think of something that any succulent plant of the family cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the new world and usually having spines
- Similar words include: cactus
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CACTI
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🧩 23A: "46. Home of the New York Mets until 2008"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SHEA
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🧩 24A: "48. College mil. program"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a training program to prepare college students to be commissioned officers
- Similar words include: Reserve Officers Training Corps
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ROTC
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🧩 25A: "50. "___, amas, amat …" (Latin 101 conjugation)"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AMO
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🧩 26A: "53. Outlet from the heart's left ventricle"
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- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: AORTICVALVE
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🧩 27A: "58. Dance to "The Blue Danube," e.g."
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an assured victory (especially in an election)
- Similar words include: waltz around, walk-in, valse
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: WALTZ
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🧩 28A: "60. E.P.A.-banned pesticide"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans; banned in the united states since 1972
- Similar words include: dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DDT
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🧩 29A: "61. Get an F"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that fail to do something; leave something undone
- Similar words include: miscarry, go bad, break
- Opposite of: manage, succeed
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Answer: FAIL
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🧩 30A: "62. Poet with the essay collection "Sister Outsider""
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- Pattern: __________
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Answer: AUDRELORDE
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🧩 31A: "65. Home services app that lists local vendors"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ANGI
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🧩 32A: "66. Jumping-off point for an inventor"
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- Think of something that the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
- Similar words include: approximation, mind, thought
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IDEA
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🧩 33A: "67. Grown-up"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a fully developed person from maturity onward
- Similar words include: big, full-grown, fully grown
- Opposite of: juvenile
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Answer: ADULT
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🧩 34A: "68. Pest control brand"
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- Think of something that a sudden short attack
- Similar words include: foray, bust, maraud
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RAID
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🧩 35A: "69. Four years, for a U.S. president"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a word or expression used for some particular thing
- Similar words include: terminal figure, terminus, condition
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TERM
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🧩 36A: "70. Trait transmitters"
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- Think of something that (genetics) a segment of dna that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding dna as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity
- Similar words include: gene, factor, cistron
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GENES
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🧩 37A: "71. One of 26, approximately, in a marathon"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters
- Similar words include: nautical mile, mi, Admiralty mile
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MILE
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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (41 clues)
🧩 1D: "1. Carne ___ (grilled meat dish)"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ASADA
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🧩 2D: "2. Decluttering maven Kondo"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MARIE
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🧩 3D: "3. Monastery resident"
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- Think of something that a male member of a religious order that originally relied solely on alms
- Similar words include: mendicant
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: FRIAR
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🧩 4D: "4. Very, very small fractions"
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- Think of something that position 1,000,000 in a countable series of things
- Similar words include: one-millionth, millionth
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: MILLIONTHS
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🧩 5D: "5. In working order"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that capable of being put to use
- Similar words include: available, useable, operable
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: USABLE
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🧩 6D: "6. Musical counterparts of flats"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named
- Similar words include: sharp
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SHARPS
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🧩 7D: "7. Bat mitzvah reading"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the whole body of the jewish sacred writings and tradition including the oral tradition
- Similar words include: Laws, Pentateuch
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TORAH
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🧩 8D: "8. Musician Brian who has an asteroid named after him"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ENO
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🧩 9D: "9. TV room"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the habitation of wild animals
- Similar words include: lair, hideaway, hideout
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DEN
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🧩 10D: "10. H2O, in Mexico"
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- Think of something that largest known toad species; native to central america; valuable destroyer of insect pests
- Similar words include: Bufo marinus, agua toad
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AGUA
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🧩 11D: "11. Emphatic rejection"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GODNO
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🧩 12D: "12. Slugger Maris"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ROGER
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🧩 13D: "13. "Skyfall" singer"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ADELE
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🧩 14D: "19. Music genre from Tokyo"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: JPOP
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🧩 15D: "24. Scrambled word: Abbr."
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ANAG
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🧩 16D: "25. Other: Sp."
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OTRA
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🧩 17D: "26. R.p.m. indicator"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that measuring instrument for indicating speed of rotation
- Similar words include: tachometer
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TACH
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🧩 18D: "30. Wool-producing ranch"
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- Pattern: __________
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Answer: ALPACAFARM
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🧩 19D: "31. Merry"
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- Think of something that someone who practices homosexuality; having a sexual attraction to persons of the same sex
- Similar words include: jocund, merry, festal
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: GAY
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🧩 20D: "32. Go quickly, quaintly"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Similar words include: bucket along, pelt along, belt along
- Opposite of: linger
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HIE
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🧩 21D: "33. Actress de Armas"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that mother of the ancient irish gods; sometimes identified with danu
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ANA
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🧩 22D: "34. ___ port in a storm"
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- Think of something that one or some or every or all without specification
- Similar words include: whatsoever, whatever
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ANY
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🧩 23D: "36. Short lines at the register?"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: UPC
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🧩 24D: "37. Permit"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a brutal terrorist group active in kashmir; fights against india with the goal of restoring islamic rule of india
- Similar words include: lease, permit, Lashkar-e-Taiba
- Opposite of: prevent, forbid
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Answer: LET
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🧩 25D: "38. Prefix with cycle or code"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: UNI
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🧩 26D: "40. Black-and-white cookie"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that chocolate cookie with white cream filling
- Similar words include: oreo cookie
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OREO
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🧩 27D: "41. In the neighborhood"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that move towards
- Similar words include: close, approach, draw near
- Opposite of: far
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Answer: NEAR
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🧩 28D: "42. When Hamlet duels with Laertes in "Hamlet""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ACTV
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🧩 29D: "47. Smog, e.g."
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility
- Similar words include: daze, fog
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HAZE
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🧩 30D: "48. Enigma"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a difficult problem
- Similar words include: enigma, conundrum, screen
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: RIDDLE
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🧩 31D: "49. Groups of eight musicians"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one
- Similar words include: ogdoad, octette, 8
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: OCTETS
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🧩 32D: "50. Hang around for"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that look forward to the probable occurrence of
- Similar words include: look, expect, wait
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AWAIT
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🧩 33D: "51. "Harold and ___" (1971 black comedy)"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MAUDE
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🧩 34D: "52. From further in the past"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that advanced in years; (`aged' is pronounced as two syllables)
- Similar words include: honest-to-goodness, senior, one-time
- Opposite of: young, new
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Answer: OLDER
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🧩 35D: "54. Successful dash to the end zone, in brief"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TDRUN
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🧩 36D: "55. Hawaiian porch"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an island of central hawaii; a pineapple-growing area
- Similar words include: Lanai Island
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LANAI
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🧩 37D: "56. Prayer ___"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a period of sleeplessness
- Similar words include: watch
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: VIGIL
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🧩 38D: "57. Skip over, as the "i" in "family""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that leave or strike out
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ELIDE
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🧩 39D: "59. Transit option to N.Y.C.'s Roosevelt Island"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers
- Similar words include: tramcar, streetcar, trolley car
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TRAM
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🧩 40D: "63. Fall behind"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of slowing down or falling behind
- Similar words include: retardation, jail, immure
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LAG
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🧩 41D: "64. Beethoven's "___ to Joy""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ODE
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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
37 Across Clues
41 Down Clues
78 Total Clues
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