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Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Tricky
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🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (59 clues)
🧩 1A: "1. Sign off on"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: AGREETO
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🧩 2A: "8. Feel the pain"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that undergo or be subjected to
- Similar words include: stand, stomach, sustain
- Opposite of: be well, enjoy
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Answer: SUFFER
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🧩 3A: "14. One of music's Three B's"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that german baroque organist and contrapuntist; composed mostly keyboard music; one of the greatest creators of western music (1685-1750)
- Similar words include: Johann Sebastian Bach, bachelor
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BACH
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🧩 4A: "18. They're paving the way"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: ROADGANG
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🧩 5A: "20. Island with ferries to Ibiza"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: MINORCA
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🧩 6A: "21. Tangent line?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that in addition
- Similar words include: likewise, as well, too
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ALSO
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🧩 7A: "22. One of the better morning beverages?"
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- Pattern: ________________
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Answer: NOTYOURAVERAGEOJ
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🧩 8A: "24. Zoom background option"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a hazy or indistinct representation
- Similar words include: smutch, dim, obscure
- Opposite of: focus
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Answer: BLUR
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🧩 9A: "25. Hrs. for Augusta in August"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EDT
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🧩 10A: "26. "___ Q" (1968 hit)"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SUZIE
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🧩 11A: "27. Styling substance"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a colloid in a more solid form than a sol
- Similar words include: gelatin, mousse, colloidal gel
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: GEL
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🧩 12A: "28. "C'mon, the car door's open!""
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GETIN
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🧩 13A: "29. Avoid ___ (GPS option)"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance)
- Similar words include: bell, price, toll
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TOLLS
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🧩 14A: "32. Slice of the economy"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle
- Similar words include: sphere
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SECTOR
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🧩 15A: "35. First non-English-language film to win Best Picture"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host
- Similar words include: leech, sponge, sponger
- Opposite of: host
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Answer: PARASITE
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🧩 16A: "37. Just one inning left after this?"
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- Pattern: _________________
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Answer: THEEIGHTHUNDERWAY
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🧩 17A: "40. Annual gala locale, with "the""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that come together
- Similar words include: suffer, satisfy, come across
- Opposite of: diverge
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Answer: MET
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🧩 18A: "41. Meat sauce in Italian cooking"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RAGU
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🧩 19A: "42. Go-getter sorts"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TYPEAS
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🧩 20A: "43. Trifling"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small pond of standing water
- Similar words include: simple, bare
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MERE
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🧩 21A: "45. View from the Quai d'Orsay"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a french river that flows through the heart of paris and then northward into the english channel
- Similar words include: Seine River
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SEINE
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🧩 22A: "47. Character with a Jamaican accent in Disney's "The Little Mermaid""
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- Pattern: _________
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Answer: SEBASTIAN
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🧩 23A: "51. How a mountain road may rise or fall"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that in a steep manner
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: STEEPLY
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🧩 24A: "54. Threads, e.g."
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: APP
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🧩 25A: "57. Query of worry"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: AREYOUOK
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🧩 26A: "59. Units on a multimeter"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere
- Similar words include: Ohm, Georg Simon Ohm, ohm
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OHMS
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🧩 27A: "60. Seasoning preference when eating Maryland blue crab?"
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- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: EXTRAOLDBAY
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🧩 28A: "64. Berry plant related to a hawthorn"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that wild plum of northeastern united states having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh
- Similar words include: Alleghany plum, Prunus alleghaniensis, blackthorn
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SLOE
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🧩 29A: "65. The lion in summer?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in leo
- Similar words include: Lion, Leo the Lion
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LEO
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🧩 30A: "66. "So here's my question ...""
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: IASKYOU
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🧩 31A: "67. Humorous ending with hater"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice
- Similar words include: fruit drink
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ADE
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🧩 32A: "68. Sephora competitor"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ULTA
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🧩 33A: "70. Two-pound tomahawk steak, for instance?"
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- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: JUMBOENTREE
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🧩 34A: "74. Underwater respirator"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a british imperial capacity unit (liquid or dry) equal to 5 fluid ounces or 142.066 cubic centimeters
- Similar words include: lamella, branchia
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GILL
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🧩 35A: "75. Home on the internet, perhaps"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: MAINPAGE
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🧩 36A: "77. Prescriptions, for short"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RXS
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🧩 37A: "78. Arouses"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that arouse or elicit a feeling
- Similar words include: energise, energize, excite
- Opposite of: calm, stifle
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Answer: EXCITES
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🧩 38A: "80. Slimy scheme for profit"
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- Pattern: _________
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Answer: MONEYGRAB
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🧩 39A: "83. Listing that might include an explanation of benefits"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an assertion of a right (as to money or property)
- Similar words include: take, title, arrogate
- Opposite of: forfeit, disclaim
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Answer: CLAIM
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🧩 40A: "84. Anchors provide this"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that information about recent and important events
- Similar words include: newsworthiness, news program, word
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NEWS
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🧩 41A: "85. Casual shoe"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that person who does no work
- Similar words include: do-nothing, idler, bum
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: LOAFER
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🧩 42A: "89. New Jersey?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that young of domestic cattle
- Similar words include: sura, calfskin
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CALF
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🧩 43A: "91. A.C.C. school"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: UVA
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🧩 44A: "93. "Do I *really* wanna start an online bidding war? Hmm ..."?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________________
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Answer: TOEBAYORNOTTOEBAY
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🧩 45A: "99. Czech brew"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a pale lager with strong flavor of hops; first brewed in the bohemian town of pilsen
- Similar words include: Pilsner
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: PILSENER
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🧩 46A: "101. Move (over)"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SCOOCH
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🧩 47A: "102. Michael of R.E.M."
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that supporting stalk or stem-like structure especially of a pistil or fern frond or supporting a mushroom cap
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: STIPE
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🧩 48A: "103. The government, at times"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a bureaucrat who levies taxes
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TAXER
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🧩 49A: "104. What Pomeranians do"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that informal terms for the mouth
- Similar words include: gob, maw, cakehole
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: YAP
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🧩 50A: "106. The (middle) sound of "silence""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables
- Similar words include: shwa
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SCHWA
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🧩 51A: "108. "___ but a scratch""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite
- Similar words include: si, Ti, titanium
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TIS
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🧩 52A: "109. Creature in Magic: The Gathering"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a cruel wicked and inhuman person
- Similar words include: fiend, monster, demon
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OGRE
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🧩 53A: "110. Give an extra perk to a cigarette smoker?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________________
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Answer: TOSSINTHEASHTRAY
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🧩 54A: "115. Finish filming"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person
- Similar words include: twine, enwrap, enfold
- Opposite of: unwind, unwrap
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Answer: WRAP
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🧩 55A: "116. ___ Attucks, Revolutionary War casualty who posthumously became an abolitionist symbol"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: CRISPUS
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🧩 56A: "117. Cherish"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that accumulated wealth in the form of money or jewels etc.
- Similar words include: hold dear, value, appreciate
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: TREASURE
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🧩 57A: "118. No side"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Similar words include: nay
- Opposite of: yea
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NAYS
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🧩 58A: "119. Become gooey over, as cheese atop a hot burger"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: MELTON
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🧩 59A: "120. They're usually found to the left of Q's"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: TABKEYS
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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (73 clues)
🧩 1D: "1. Actor Will of "BoJack Horseman""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ARNETT
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🧩 2D: "2. British cry of approval"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: GOODOH
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🧩 3D: "3. Scary snake"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken
- Similar words include: rattlesnake, freight train
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: RATTLER
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🧩 4D: "4. Joseph who co-invented rocky road ice cream"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EDY
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🧩 5D: "5. Obstruction to teamwork, maybe"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
- Similar words include: self-importance, self, egotism
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EGO
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🧩 6D: "6. Greek crosses"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the 19th letter of the greek alphabet
- Similar words include: tau
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TAUS
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🧩 7D: "7. Sudden surge"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)
- Similar words include: onset, attack, onslaught
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ONRUSH
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🧩 8D: "8. Round Table title"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that term of address for a man
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SIR
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🧩 9D: "9. "___ cerveza, por favor""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: UNA
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🧩 10D: "10. Phileas in "Around the World in Eighty Days""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: FOGG
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🧩 11D: "11. The power of social media from a marketing standpoint, informally"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: FREEPR
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🧩 12D: "12. Bit of green legislation"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ECOLAW
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🧩 13D: "13. Hindi for "reign""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that british dominion over india (1757-1947)
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RAJ
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🧩 14D: "14. Sweethearts"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk
- Similar words include: sister, babe, infant
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BABES
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🧩 15D: "15. One of the best coffee beverages ever?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: ALLTIMEAULAIT
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🧩 16D: "16. Top execs, collectively"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CSUITE
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🧩 17D: "17. Charlotte N.B.A. player"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that large stinging paper wasp
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: HORNET
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🧩 18D: "19. Montreal newspaper continuously published since 1778, with "The""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a newspaper or official journal
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: GAZETTE
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🧩 19D: "20. Get-together"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: MEETUP
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🧩 20D: "23. French city from which a soup gets its name"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a town in central france (south of paris) noted for hot mineral springs; was capital of the unoccupied part of france during world war ii
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: VICHY
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🧩 21D: "28. Merriment, in one spelling"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: GAYETY
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🧩 22D: "30. Doesn't own, say"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that property that is leased or rented out or let
- Similar words include: take, hire, rent
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: LEASES
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🧩 23D: "31. Largest college fraternity in the U.S., familiarly"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SIGEP
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🧩 24D: "33. No U.S. area code starts with this"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
- Similar words include: unmatched, I, unrivaled
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ONE
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🧩 25D: "34. Nutrition figs."
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RDAS
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🧩 26D: "36. Minnesota county whose seat is St. Paul"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: RAMSEY
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🧩 27D: "38. Artfulness"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
- Similar words include: craft, trickery, chicanery
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GUILE
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🧩 28D: "39. Suffix with journal"
🎯 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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🧩 29D: "44. Some natural borders en México"
🎯 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, Rio
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RIOS
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🧩 30D: "46. Greek goddess of the night"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (greek mythology) greek goddess of the night; daughter of chaos; counterpart of roman nox
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NYX
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🧩 31D: "48. Emperor who founded the Mughal Empire"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BABUR
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🧩 32D: "49. Palindromic constellation"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a constellation in the southern hemisphere near telescopium and norma
- Similar words include: genus Ara
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ARA
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🧩 33D: "50. Noggin"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a ribbonlike strip of pasta
- Similar words include: noggin, bonce, dome
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: NOODLE
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🧩 34D: "51. Latin for "only""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SOLUM
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🧩 35D: "52. What fugitives are on"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: THELAM
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🧩 36D: "53. What might confirm the worst for an athlete's injury?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: EMOTIONALXRAY
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🧩 37D: "54. Many a Bahraini"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of a semitic people originally from the arabian peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks arabic and who inhabits much of the middle east and northern africa
- Similar words include: Arabian
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ARAB
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🧩 38D: "55. Old El ___ (Tex-Mex brand)"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PASO
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🧩 39D: "56. Game with an annual World Series since 1970"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to stir a fire
- Similar words include: stove poker, salamander, fire hook
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: POKER
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🧩 40D: "58. Collapses, with "over""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a projection or ridge that suggests a keel
- Similar words include: swag, lurch, reel
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: KEELS
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🧩 41D: "61. Smartphone clock function"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a timepiece that measures a time interval and signals its end
- Similar words include: timekeeper
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TIMER
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🧩 42D: "62. A bobcat is one, technically"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a text browser
- Similar words include: catamount
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LYNX
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🧩 43D: "63. ..."
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a very small circular shape
- Similar words include: Elvis, dot, battery-acid
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DOTS
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🧩 44D: "69. Actress Bancroft"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that queen of england and scotland and ireland; daughter if james ii and the last of the stuart monarchs; in 1707 she was the last english ruler to exercise the royal veto over parliament (1665-1714)
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ANNE
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🧩 45D: "70. Many-time N.B.A. All-Star Tatum"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: JAYSON
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🧩 46D: "71. Boot out of Australia?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: UGG
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🧩 47D: "72. Creature with flat, transparent larvae called "leptocephali""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in europe and america; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EEL
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🧩 48D: "73. ___ change"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that claim as due or just
- Similar words include: take, accurate, demand
- Opposite of: inexact
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Answer: EXACT
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🧩 49D: "74. Vodka-and-lime cocktail"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a cocktail made of gin or vodka and lime juice
- Similar words include: wimble, auger, screw auger
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: GIMLET
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🧩 50D: "76. Metal material used for dishware before porcelain became popular"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various alloys of tin with small amounts of other metals (especially lead)
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PEWTER
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🧩 51D: "79. Ta-tas"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an acknowledgment that can be used to say hello or goodbye (aloha is hawaiian and ciao is italian)
- Similar words include: ciao, aloha
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CIAOS
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🧩 52D: "81. In the style of"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ALA
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🧩 53D: "82. School bathroom sign"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a youthful male person
- Similar words include: boy, male child, son
- Opposite of: girl, female child
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Answer: BOYS
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🧩 54D: "83. Spin a yarn, perhaps?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that needlework done by interlocking looped stitches with a hooked needle
- Similar words include: crocheting, hook
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: CROCHET
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🧩 55D: "86. Progressive inits. in the U.S. Congress"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AOC
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🧩 56D: "87. Puts icing on"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
- Similar words include: Robert Lee Frost, rime, freeze
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: FROSTS
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🧩 57D: "88. Methuselah's father"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ENOCH
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🧩 58D: "90. Paramount+ docuseries with real-life crime stories"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: FBITRUE
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🧩 59D: "91. Like Manhattan in the 80s and 90s?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a residential part of town away from the central commercial district
- Opposite of: downtown
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: UPTOWN
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🧩 60D: "92. Cialis alternative"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that virility drug (trade name viagra) used to treat erectile dysfunction in men
- Similar words include: sildenafil citrate, sildenafil
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: VIAGRA
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🧩 61D: "94. Long-eared pal of Pooh"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: EEYORE
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🧩 62D: "95. Country whose name Americans spell with a "z""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the largest latin american country and the largest portuguese speaking country in the world; located in the central and northeastern part of south america; world's leading coffee exporter
- Similar words include: Brazil, Federative Republic of Brazil
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BRASIL
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🧩 63D: "96. Stymie"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat in a rowboat
- Similar words include: frustrate, queer, spoil
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: THWART
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🧩 64D: "97. Abode that's abuzz"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a shed containing a number of beehives
- Similar words include: bee house
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: APIARY
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🧩 65D: "98. "Ah, that's right!""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: YESYES
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🧩 66D: "100. Trickles"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings
- Similar words include: seep, ooze
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SEEPS
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🧩 67D: "105. Vowelless attention-getter"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PSST
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🧩 68D: "107. Traveling in waves, say"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that in the direction of the sea
- Similar words include: seawards, seaward
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ASEA
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🧩 69D: "110. Vintage film channel"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TCM
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🧩 70D: "111. Milestone for a start-up, for short"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public
- Similar words include: initial public offering, initial offering
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IPO
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🧩 71D: "112. Sister figure"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a woman religious
- Similar words include: conical buoy, nun buoy
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NUN
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🧩 72D: "113. Pre-___ (exercise program in advance of surgery)"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HAB
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🧩 73D: "114. Vowelless rebuke"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that utter `tsk,' `tut,' or `tut-tut,' as in disapproval
- Similar words include: tut-tut, tut
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TSK
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❓ Decode the Clues
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📊 Today's Puzzle Stats
59 Across Clues
73 Down Clues
132 Total Clues
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