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Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Challenging
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Across Clues - Strategic Hints (41 clues)
1A: "1. 50 things on the Argo"
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- Think of something that an implement used to propel or steer a boat
- Similar words include: oar
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OARS
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2A: "5. Units equal to nine inches"
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- Think of something that the complete duration of something
- Similar words include: cross, yoke, sweep
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SPANS
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3A: "10. Needing more salt, perhaps"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain
- Similar words include: frozen, arctic, frigid
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ICIER
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4A: "15. Swiss-born artist whose name sounds like an art medium"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that swiss painter influenced by kandinsky (1879-1940)
- Similar words include: Paul Klee
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: KLEE
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5A: "16. What pronouns and their antecedents should do"
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- Think of something that be in accord; be in agreement
- Similar words include: tally, concord, correspond
- Opposite of: disagree
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Answer: AGREE
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6A: "17. *Person who persists in a hopeless cause"
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- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: BITTERENDER
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7A: "18. Destroyer of Hindu cosmogony"
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- Think of something that the destroyer; one of the three major divinities in the later hindu pantheon
- Similar words include: Shiva
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SIVA
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8A: "19. *Wildlife parks"
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- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: GAMERESERVES
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9A: "20. Layer of bricks"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that american revolutionary leader from virginia whose objections led to the drafting of the bill of rights (1725-1792)
- Similar words include: George Mason, stonemason, Alfred Edward Woodley Mason
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MASON
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10A: "21. Show obeisance"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BOWTO
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11A: "23. Smart TV features"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DVRS
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12A: "25. Eye covering"
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- Think of something that either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye
- Similar words include: chapeau, eyelid, hat
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LID
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13A: "26. *Enjoy the moment, say"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: TAKEITIN
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14A: "27. Name on a check"
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- Think of something that a person to whom money is paid
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PAYEE
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15A: "29. Porter of Broadway"
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- Think of something that a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head
- Similar words include: kail, kale, borecole
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: COLE
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16A: "30. Sucker's lament"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: IBEENHAD
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17A: "32. Repeat"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SAYOVER
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18A: "34. Cheryl of "Charlie's Angels""
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LADD
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19A: "35. Bit of Q.E.D."
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ERAT
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20A: "37. Features of some stadia"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward
- Similar words include: bonce, domed stadium, attic
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DOMES
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21A: "38. Start of a popular saying about gravity ... or a hint to completing the answers to the starred clues"
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- Pattern: __________
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Answer: WHATGOESUP
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22A: "41. Big name in Russian ballet"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: KIROV
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23A: "43. Capital on the Mediterranean"
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- Think of something that the basic monetary unit of most members of the european union (introduced in 1999); in 2002 twelve european nations (germany, france, belgium, luxembourg, the netherlands, italy, spain, portugal, ireland, greece, austria, finland) adopted the euro as their basic unit of money and abandoned their traditional currencies
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EURO
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24A: "44. Blew away"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that inspire awe in
- Similar words include: awestricken, awe, awful
- Opposite of: unawed
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Answer: AWED
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25A: "48. Legislative bodies"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that assembly possessing high legislative powers
- Similar words include: senate, United States Senate, US Senate
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SENATES
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26A: "50. Old wide-screen format"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: CINERAMA
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27A: "52. Crime show extra, informally"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PERP
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28A: "53. Lead-in to "they""
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HESHE
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29A: "55. *Storm-tracking aid"
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- Pattern: _________
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Answer: LIVERADAR
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30A: "56. Brew designed to survive trips to the subcontinent, in brief"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IPA
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31A: "57. Early PC game whose nonsense working title stuck"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ZORK
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32A: "58. Partner of older"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that having or prompted by wisdom or discernment
- Similar words include: heady, fresh, sassy
- Opposite of: foolish
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Answer: WISER
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33A: "59. Guardian spirits"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality
- Similar words include: mastermind, wizardry, maven
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GENII
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34A: "61. *Musical appreciation?"
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- Pattern: _________
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Answer: TONYAWARD
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35A: "64. Deity with the raven familiars Huginn and Muninn"
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- Think of something that (norse mythology) ruler of the aesir; supreme god of war and poetry and knowledge and wisdom (for which he gave an eye) and husband of frigg; identified with the teutonic wotan
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ODIN
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36A: "66. *Forming a union"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that create (as an entity)
- Similar words include: form, unionize, get up
- Opposite of: disorganize, disorganise
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Answer: ORGANIZING
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37A: "67. ___ Day (April celebration)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that tree (as opposed to shrub)
- Similar words include: mandril, spindle, bower
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ARBOR
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38A: "68. A or B, e.g."
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- Think of something that a brief written record
- Similar words include: preeminence, note of hand, line
- Opposite of: ignore
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Answer: NOTE
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39A: "69. Yani ___, youngest pro golfer to win five major championships (age 22)"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TSENG
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40A: "70. Score keeper?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a support or foundation
- Similar words include: put up, digest, fend
- Opposite of: sit, yield
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Answer: STAND
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41A: "71. Peeved state"
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- Think of something that a state of agitated irritation
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SNIT
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Down Clues - Strategic Hints (40 clues)
1D: "1. Gives a "go""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a state in south central united states
- Similar words include: okeh, Sooner State, Oklahoma
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OKS
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2D: "2. Fictional character with a famous opening line"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ALIBABA
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3D: "3. Took back"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that fail to follow suit when able and required to do so
- Similar words include: countermand, reverse, lift
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: REVOKED
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4D: "4. Sushi treatment that's also a spa treatment"
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- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: SEAWEEDWRAP
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5D: "5. Palm starch"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that powdery starch from certain sago palms; used in asia as a food thickener and textile stiffener
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SAGO
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6D: "6. ___ Tour"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PGA
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7D: "7. What's off to the side in a selfie"
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- Think of something that a human limb; technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb
- Similar words include: build up, subdivision, gird
- Opposite of: disarm
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Answer: ARM
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8D: "8. Demanding attention"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that needy people collectively
- Similar words include: destitute, impoverished, indigent
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NEEDY
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9D: "9. Waits on"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play
- Similar words include: answer, assist, wait on
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SERVES
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10D: "10. Watson and Deep Blue, for two"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IBMS
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11D: "11. Grp. aptly hidden in "special ops""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an independent agency of the united states government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest; headed by the director of central intelligence under the supervision of the president and national security council
- Similar words include: Central Intelligence Agency
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CIA
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12D: "12. "We're head over heels!""
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ITSLOVE
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13D: "13. Prima ballerinas"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ETOILES
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14D: "14. Melt down"
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- Think of something that a substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls
- Similar words include: provide, submit, picture
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: RENDER
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15D: "22. ___ can, item first made and patented in Britain in 1810"
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- Think of something that a silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion; used in many alloys and to coat other metals to prevent corrosion; obtained chiefly from cassiterite where it occurs as tin oxide
- Similar words include: put up, atomic number 50, canister
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TIN
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16D: "24. Turns the page, say"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: READSON
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17D: "26. Up to"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TIL
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18D: "27. Take leave of each other"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that something determined in relation to something that includes it
- Similar words include: take off, portion, partially
- Opposite of: wholly
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Answer: PART
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19D: "28. Just saying?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
- Similar words include: byword, proverb, saw
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ADAGE
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20D: "29. Taste tests, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of examining resemblances
- Similar words include: comparing, comparison, compare
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: COMPARISONS
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21D: "31. Boot"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: HEAVEHO
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22D: "33. Pronoun repeated in "___ do ___""
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: YOU
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23D: "36. Graze"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the event of something coming in contact with the body
- Similar words include: rival, pinch, speck
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TOUCH
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24D: "39. Above 500 on the Scoville scale"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning
- Similar words include: live, raging, red-hot
- Opposite of: cold
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Answer: HOT
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25D: "40. Lake that's home to Kelleys Island"
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- 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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26D: "41. Best candidates for permanent relationships"
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- Think of something that someone in charge of other people
- Similar words include: custodian, keeper, steward
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: KEEPERS
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27D: "42. Callable, say"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: INRANGE
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28D: "45. Gestured to keep moving"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: WAVEDON
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29D: "46. Some retired faculty"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: EMERITI
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30D: "47. ___ es Salaam"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DAR
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31D: "48. Tap"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a plug for a bunghole in a cask
- Similar words include: faucet, tap
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SPIGOT
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32D: "49. Certain mattresses"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SERTAS
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33D: "51. Name that means "my God" in Hebrew"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ELI
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34D: "54. Bit of hybrid field hockey attire"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SKORT
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35D: "57. Criticize wittily"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a brief high-pitched buzzing or humming sound
- Similar words include: dynamism, oomph, pizzazz
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ZING
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36D: "58. District"
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- Think of something that a person who is under the protection or in the custody of another
- Similar words include: Mary Augusta Arnold Ward, hospital ward, cellblock
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: WARD
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37D: "60. Holm or McKellen of "The Hobbit""
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IAN
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38D: "62. Wizards' org."
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NBA
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39D: "63. Over there"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that distant but within sight (`yon' is dialectal)
- Similar words include: yonder
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: YON
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40D: "65. Mesh"
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: net income, net profit, earnings
- Opposite of: gross
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Answer: NET
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Today's Puzzle Stats
41 Across Clues
40 Down Clues
81 Total Clues
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