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Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Moderate
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🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (40 clues)
🧩 1A: "1. Improvises during a gig"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a berber living in northern morocco
- Similar words include: flick, riffle, Riffian
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RIFFS
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🧩 2A: "6. Consider"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view
- Similar words include: hold, take for, view as
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DEEM
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🧩 3A: "10. Workers alongside R.N.s"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DRS
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🧩 4A: "13. Loved to bits"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that love intensely
- Similar words include: idolised, worshipped, adore
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ADORED
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🧩 5A: "15. "You are something ___!""
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ELSE
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🧩 6A: "16. "Yipes!""
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EEK
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🧩 7A: "17. Independence Day banger"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing
- Similar words include: cracker, banger
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: FIRECRACKER
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🧩 8A: "19. Tuna type in a poke bowl"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AHI
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🧩 9A: "20. Apt anagram of NOTE"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the quality of a person's voice
- Similar words include: tone up, tincture, tint
- Opposite of: atonicity
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Answer: TONE
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🧩 10A: "21. Tissue torn by some athletes, in brief"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ACL
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🧩 11A: "22. "I couldn't ___ less""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
- Similar words include: concern, give care, handle
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CARE
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🧩 12A: "24. Handle some personal baggage?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that fill by packing tightly
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: STOW
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🧩 13A: "25. Rush hour snarl"
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- Pattern: __________
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Answer: TRAFFICJAM
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🧩 14A: "29. Big gulp"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a large and hurried swallow
- Similar words include: draft, draught, slog
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SWIG
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🧩 15A: "31. Great Lake with the most consumable 26-Down"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of an iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of lake erie in northern ohio and northwest pennsylvania and western new york
- Similar words include: Lake Erie
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ERIE
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🧩 16A: "32. Dance in which the guest of honor is often raised in a chair"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HORA
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🧩 17A: "33. In good physical shape"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a display of bad temper
- Similar words include: burst, conniption, agree
- Opposite of: disagree, unfit
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Answer: FIT
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🧩 18A: "35. "Cómo ___ usted?""
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ESTA
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🧩 19A: "37. Channel with a call to order?"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HSN
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🧩 20A: "38. Lego piece in the shape of a person or animal"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: MINIFIG
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🧩 21A: "42. Warm greeting to a spouse or partner"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: HIHONEY
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🧩 22A: "44. Chowed down"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
- Similar words include: eat, consume, deplete
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ATE
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🧩 23A: "45. Herbal refreshments"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water
- Similar words include: tea, Camellia sinensis, afternoon tea
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TEAS
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🧩 24A: "47. Actor Levy of "Schitt's Creek""
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DAN
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🧩 25A: "48. Actor Damon of the "Bourne" movies"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss
- Similar words include: matted, matte, flat
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MATT
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🧩 26A: "50. ___ Way, block in Lower Manhattan where a popular cookie originated"
🎯 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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🧩 27A: "52. Religious faction"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a subdivision of a larger religious group
- Similar words include: religious order, religious sect, faction
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SECT
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🧩 28A: "55. Recipient of two Golden Globe Best Actress nominations for Netflix's "GLOW""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: ALISONBRIE
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🧩 29A: "58. Dry, like Champagne"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (of champagne) extremely dry
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BRUT
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🧩 30A: "60. Some hoppy brews, in brief"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IPAS
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🧩 31A: "61. Thickness of wood or paper"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one of the strands twisted together to make yarn or rope or thread; often used in combination
- Similar words include: provide, supply, run
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PLY
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🧩 32A: "62. Yesteryear"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that time long past
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: YORE
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🧩 33A: "63. ___ Paulo, Brazil"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SAO
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🧩 34A: "64. Cocktail party staple that may contain the ends of 17-, 25-, 38-, 42- and 55-Across"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that tray on which cheeses are served
- Similar words include: cheese tray
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: CHEESEBOARD
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🧩 35A: "68. Tonsil-examining M.D."
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ENT
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🧩 36A: "69. Astronomically long time"
🎯 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: eon
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AEON
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🧩 37A: "70. Completed an alley-oop"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
- Similar words include: dip, plunge, douse
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: DUNKED
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🧩 38A: "71. Total jerk"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- Similar words include: fuck, butt, arse
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ASS
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🧩 39A: "72. This is not working!"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that something left after other parts have been taken away
- Similar words include: lie, rest period, sleep
- Opposite of: change, be active
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Answer: REST
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🧩 40A: "73. Short-tempered"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that easily irritated or annoyed
- Similar words include: pettish, petulant, fractious
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TESTY
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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (38 clues)
🧩 1D: "1. Vessels that may be propelled with poles"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a large number or amount
- Similar words include: gobs, dozens, mint
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RAFTS
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🧩 2D: "2. "Complete ___ Guides" (how-to series)"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person of subnormal intelligence
- Similar words include: imbecile, cretin, idiot
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: IDIOTS
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🧩 3D: "3. "Unless something changes …""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: FORNOW
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🧩 4D: "4. Typical hotel or library amenity"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: FREEWIFI
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🧩 5D: "5. One of 60 in a min."
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the systeme international d'unites
- Similar words include: s, second, Securities and Exchange Commission
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SEC
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🧩 6D: "6. State with certainty"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that state emphatically and authoritatively
- Similar words include: announce, hold, adjudge
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: DECLARE
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🧩 7D: "7. Reindeer relative"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in europe and `moose' in north america
- Similar words include: Alces alces, European elk, Cervus elaphus canadensis
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ELK
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🧩 8D: "8. WNW's opposite"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the compass point midway between east and southeast
- Similar words include: east southeast
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ESE
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🧩 9D: "9. Gracias : Spanish :: ___ : French"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MERCI
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🧩 10D: "10. Salutation in a breakup letter"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: DEARJOHN
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🧩 11D: "11. Practice for opening night"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that engage in a rehearsal (of)
- Similar words include: practise, practice
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: REHEARSE
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🧩 12D: "12. Bit of Winter Olympics gear"
🎯 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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🧩 13D: "14. "Shucks!""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DRAT
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🧩 14D: "18. 43,560 square feet"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a unit of area (4840 square yards) used in english-speaking countries
- Similar words include: Akko, Akka, Accho
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ACRE
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🧩 15D: "23. German cry of annoyance"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ACH
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🧩 16D: "26. See 31-Across"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
- Similar words include: Pisces the Fishes, angle, Pisces
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: FISH
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🧩 17D: "27. Stinking to high heaven"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that offensively malodorous
- Similar words include: funky, smelly, stinking
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: FETID
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🧩 18D: "28. Quite a few"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `as' or `too' or `so' or `that'; amounting to a large but indefinite number
- Opposite of: few
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MANY
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🧩 19D: "30. Special talent"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that something acquired without compensation
- Similar words include: endowment, giving, give
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GIFT
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🧩 20D: "34. Attach with string"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TIEON
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🧩 21D: "36. Sounds of realization"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AHAS
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🧩 22D: "38. Parental term that is phonetically more difficult to say than "dada""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that informal terms for a mother
- Similar words include: mammy, mamma, mum
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MAMA
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🧩 23D: "39. Citizens of Venice and Verona"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a native or inhabitant of italy
- Similar words include: Italian
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: ITALIANS
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🧩 24D: "40. Nasal irrigation devices"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: NETIPOTS
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🧩 25D: "41. Attire"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion
- Similar words include: garment, enclothe, fit out
- Opposite of: undress
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Answer: GARB
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🧩 26D: "43. In single file"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: ONEBYONE
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🧩 27D: "46. Craftiest animal in the Garden of Eden"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
- Similar words include: ophidian, snake
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SERPENT
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🧩 28D: "49. PreCheck org."
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an agency established in 2001 to safeguard united states transportation systems and insure safe air travel
- Similar words include: Transportation Security Administration
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TSA
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🧩 29D: "51. Deep fryer liquids"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water
- Similar words include: inunct, anele, fossil oil
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OILS
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🧩 30D: "53. Chorus from frogs"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog)
- Similar words include: pass away, murmur, pop off
- Opposite of: be born
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Answer: CROAKS
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🧩 31D: "54. Small tower on a castle"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small tower extending above a building
- Similar words include: gun turret, gun enclosure
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TURRET
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🧩 32D: "56. Muppet who lives in a trash can"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an annual award by the academy of motion picture arts and sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance
- Similar words include: Academy Award
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OSCAR
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🧩 33D: "57. Gave a look"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified; often used in combination
- Similar words include: eye, eyeball
- Opposite of: eyeless
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Answer: EYED
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🧩 34D: "59. Stereotypical name for a stuffed bear"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that plaything consisting of a child's toy bear (usually plush and stuffed with soft materials)
- Similar words include: shimmy, shift, teddy bear
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TEDDY
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🧩 35D: "63. ___ of Galilee"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
- Similar words include: ocean
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SEA
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🧩 36D: "65. Tee-___ (giggle)"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HEE
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🧩 37D: "66. Dawn goddess"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (greek mythology) the winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology; daughter of hyperion; identified with roman aurora
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EOS
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🧩 38D: "67. Conjunction that might start an objection"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that and nothing more
- Similar words include: only, merely, just
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: BUT
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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
40 Across Clues
38 Down Clues
78 Total Clues
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