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Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Medium
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🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (35 clues)
🧩 1A: "1. Leftover part of a ticket"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost
- Similar words include: counterfoil, check stub, ticket stub
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: STUB
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🧩 2A: "5. Church assembly"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a council convened to discuss ecclesiastical business
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SYNOD
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🧩 3A: "10. Support to which drywall is attached"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a man who is virile and sexually active
- Similar words include: dot, scantling, constellate
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: STUD
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🧩 4A: "14. Zap, in a way"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TASE
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🧩 5A: "15. Broadcast again"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: REAIR
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🧩 6A: "16. Janis's spouse in the funny pages"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ARLO
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🧩 7A: "17. Adorable perspective on things?"
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- Pattern: __________
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Answer: ACUTEANGLE
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🧩 8A: "19. Plant with tendrils"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: VINE
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🧩 9A: "20. "Kinda ___""
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SORTA
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🧩 10A: "21. Longest key on a keyboard"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: SPACEBAR
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🧩 11A: "23. Driving force"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a force that moves something along
- Similar words include: impulse, impulsion, drift
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: IMPETUS
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🧩 12A: "26. "Famous" cookie maker"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a hebrew shepherd and minor prophet
- Similar words include: Book of Amos
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AMOS
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🧩 13A: "27. Carrier to Sweden"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a specialist regiment of the british army that is trained in commando techniques of warfare and used in clandestine operations (especially against terrorist groups)
- Similar words include: Special Air Service, SA, Sturmabteilung
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SAS
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🧩 14A: "28. Axe or Old Spice?"
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- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: ASCENTOFMAN
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🧩 15A: "33. "Lift""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an advantageous purchase
- Similar words include: buy, slip, bargain
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: STEAL
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🧩 16A: "34. Satchel in Cooperstown"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states baseball player; a black pitcher noted for his longevity (1906-1982)
- Similar words include: Leroy Robert Paige, Satchel Paige
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PAIGE
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🧩 17A: "35. Something an employee wouldn't want to be given"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg
- Similar words include: iron heel, iron boot, kick
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BOOT
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🧩 18A: "38. Mascara mishap"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that slanderous defamation
- Similar words include: cytologic smear, slander, smirch
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SMEAR
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🧩 19A: "41. Posse"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the men and women who man a vehicle (ship, aircraft, etc.)
- Similar words include: bunch, crowd, gang
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CREW
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🧩 20A: "42. Competition that offers a lot of bucks?"
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- Think of something that an exhibition of cowboy skills
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RODEO
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🧩 21A: "44. "You're getting warmer!""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the temporal end; the concluding time
- Similar words include: cheeseparing, conclude, penny-pinching
- Opposite of: far, open
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Answer: CLOSE
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🧩 22A: "46. Major newsmagazine's C.E.O.?"
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- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: AHEADOFTIME
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🧩 23A: "49. Messy class for kindergartners"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the products of human creativity; works of art collectively
- Similar words include: prowess, fine art, nontextual matter
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ART
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🧩 24A: "52. Flaky rock"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves; used as dielectrics because of their resistance to electricity
- Similar words include: isinglass
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MICA
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🧩 25A: "53. Member of the myrtle family that's the source of an essential oil"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: TEATREE
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🧩 26A: "55. Funny outtake compilations"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: GAGREELS
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🧩 27A: "59. Angry with"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MADAT
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🧩 28A: "60. Cookie that's readily stackable"
🎯 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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🧩 29A: "61. Taco tortilla option?"
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- Pattern: __________
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Answer: ACORNSHELL
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🧩 30A: "64. Fred Flintstone's pet"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DINO
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🧩 31A: "65. "Really!""
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NOLIE
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🧩 32A: "66. "I'm buying this round""
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ONME
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🧩 33A: "67. Come across as"
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- Think of something that give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
- Similar words include: appear, look
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SEEM
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🧩 34A: "68. Nose-in-the-air type"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
- Similar words include: schnozzle, snout, snot
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SNOOT
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🧩 35A: "69. Website whose sellers are crafty"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ETSY
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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (41 clues)
🧩 1D: "1. Equilibrium"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an abnormal state in which the normal flow of a liquid (such as blood) is slowed or stopped
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: STASIS
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🧩 2D: "2. City that shares an international airport with Seattle"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a city in west central washington on an arm of puget sound to the south of seattle
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TACOMA
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🧩 3D: "3. Seizes, as control"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
- Similar words include: arrogate, take over, seize
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: USURPS
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🧩 4D: "4. ___ Midler a.k.a. "The Divine Miss M""
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BETTE
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🧩 5D: "5. Spanish woman's title: Abbr."
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SRA
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🧩 6D: "6. Hankering"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a yearning for something or to do something
- Similar words include: hankering, yearn, pine
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: YEN
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🧩 7D: "7. Gives orders yet again, say"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault
- Similar words include: common scold, scold, scolder
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NAGS
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🧩 8D: "8. Bottom of a crankcase"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: OILPAN
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🧩 9D: "9. Imagined"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy
- Similar words include: stargaze, dream, woolgather
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: DREAMT
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🧩 10D: "10. Maintains one's dignity"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: SAVESFACE
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🧩 11D: "11. Chicago paper, for short"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TRIB
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🧩 12D: "12. Arm bone on the pinkie finger side"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm
- Similar words include: elbow bone
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ULNA
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🧩 13D: "13. Go-getter"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who acts and gets things done
- Similar words include: worker, actor
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DOER
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🧩 14D: "18. Bother immensely"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EATAT
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🧩 15D: "22. Certain apartment (with a hyphen) or farm housing (without one)"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a farm building for housing poultry
- Similar words include: cage, henhouse, chicken coop
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: COOP
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🧩 16D: "24. Employs"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of using
- Similar words include: employ, utilisation, utilization
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: USES
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🧩 17D: "25. Deal that's too good to be true, often"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a fraudulent business scheme
- Similar words include: goldbrick, hornswoggle, victimize
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SCAM
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🧩 18D: "29. Choose"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an exclusive group of people
- Similar words include: chosen, elite
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ELECT
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🧩 19D: "30. First modular space station"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MIR
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🧩 20D: "31. Let develop over time"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that how long something has existed
- Similar words include: get on, old age, years
- Opposite of: rejuvenate
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Answer: AGE
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🧩 21D: "32. Unfamiliar"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
- Similar words include: Modern, raw, fresh
- Opposite of: worn, old
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Answer: NEW
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🧩 22D: "33. Spot to sit and sweat"
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- Pattern: _________
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Answer: STEAMROOM
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🧩 23D: "35. Garment with cups"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- 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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🧩 24D: "36. "That's so interesting!""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that express admiration and pleasure by uttering `ooh' or `aah'
- Similar words include: aah
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OOH
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🧩 25D: "37. Poetic tribute"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ODE
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🧩 26D: "39. Came down to the ground"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ALIT
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🧩 27D: "40. World capital that's home to the Spanish Steps"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that capital and largest city of italy; on the tiber; seat of the roman catholic church; formerly the capital of the roman republic and the roman empire
- Similar words include: Roma, Eternal City, capital of Italy
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ROME
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🧩 28D: "43. "Garfield" pooch"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ODIE
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🧩 29D: "45. Sewer lines?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces
- Similar words include: furrow, crinkle, bed
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SEAMS
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🧩 30D: "47. About 71% of the earth's surface"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere
- Similar words include: ocean, sea
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: OCEANS
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🧩 31D: "48. Bird with exceptional vision"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that diurnal birds of prey having long pointed powerful wings adapted for swift flight
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: FALCON
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🧩 32D: "49. Gung-ho"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that characterized by intense emotion
- Similar words include: impassioned, fervid, perfervid
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ARDENT
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🧩 33D: "50. Kingdoms"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a domain in which something is dominant
- Similar words include: land, region, realm
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: REALMS
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🧩 34D: "51. Brand for a cuppa"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TETLEY
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🧩 35D: "54. Chevy model whose name references a body of water"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TAHOE
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🧩 36D: "55. Mercury and Mars, for instance"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions
- Similar words include: divinity, graven image, idol
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GODS
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🧩 37D: "56. Singer India.___"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ARIE
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🧩 38D: "57. Good name for a biomedical researcher?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- 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: factor, cistron
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GENE
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🧩 39D: "58. How Slovenia's Benka Pulko motorcycled over 111,800 miles, according to Guinness"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any activity that is performed alone without assistance
- Similar words include: unaccompanied, alone
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SOLO
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🧩 40D: "62. Kia model whose name references a body of water"
🎯 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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🧩 41D: "63. Bring home"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the tcp/ip network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange
- Similar words include: profit, profits, net income
- Opposite of: gross
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Answer: NET
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🧠 Expert Solving Strategies
🎯 Start Smart
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❓ Decode the Clues
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📚 Build Vocabulary
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📊 Today's Puzzle Stats
35 Across Clues
41 Down Clues
76 Total Clues
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