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Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Moderate
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Across Clues - Strategic Hints (64 clues)
1A: "1. Swanky"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that elegant and fashionable; ; ; ; - julia child
- Similar words include: swish, classy
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: POSH
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2A: "5. Bluffer's declaration"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: IRAISE
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3A: "11. Educational advertisement, for short"
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- Think of something that a protein manufactured exclusively by the prostate gland; psa is produced for the ejaculate where it liquifies the semen and allows sperm cells to swim freely; elevated levels of psa in blood serum are associated with benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostate cancer
- Similar words include: prostate specific antigen
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PSA
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4A: "14. Farm-related prefix"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AGRI
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5A: "18. Ding-dong ditch, e.g."
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- Think of something that a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement
- Similar words include: fantastical, caper, joke
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ANTIC
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6A: "20. Bitter Italian digestif"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: FERNET
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7A: "21. Close of business?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a heterogeneous collection of groups united in their opposition to saddam hussein's government of iraq; formed in 1992 it is comprised of sunni and shiite arabs and kurds who hope to build a new government
- Similar words include: Iraqi National Congress
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: INC
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8A: "22. Spanish province WSW of Bilbao"
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- Think of something that a historical area and former kingdom in northwestern spain
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LEON
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9A: "23. If HOSTESS & PETCO merged and became a medical supply company, they would sell ___"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a medical instrument for listening to the sounds generated inside the body
- Similar words include: stethoscope
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: STETHOSCOPES
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10A: "25. Small fry?"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: TATERTOT
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11A: "27. It can be a pain in the neck"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that either of two masses of lymphatic tissue one on each side of the oral pharynx
- Similar words include: tonsilla, faucial tonsil, palatine tonsil
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TONSIL
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12A: "28. ___ Lingus"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AER
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13A: "29. One of 200+ stations for NBC, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a subordinate or subsidiary associate; a person who is affiliated with another or with an organization
- Similar words include: assort, consort, associate
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: AFFILIATE
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14A: "30. Fitting"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward
- Similar words include: liable, tending, minded
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: APT
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15A: "31. If NEUTROGENA, BIC & VANS merged and opened a winery, they would sell ___"
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- Pattern: _________________
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Answer: CABERNETSAUVIGNON
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16A: "35. Jane ___, longtime writer for The New Yorker"
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- Think of something that united states physicist (born in germany) noted for her research on the structure of the atom (1906-1972)
- Similar words include: Louis B. Mayer, Louis Burt Mayer, Marie Goeppert Mayer
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MAYER
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17A: "36. Author Roald"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods; much cultivated in the tropics
- Similar words include: Cajanus cajan, dhal, pigeon-pea plant
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DAHL
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18A: "37. Cursor icon for clickable links"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
- Similar words include: manus, script, deal
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HAND
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19A: "38. Snack with a Mega Stuf variety"
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- 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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20A: "41. Sit tight"
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- Similar words include: stay, abide
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BIDE
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21A: "44. Tickle"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction
- Similar words include: delectation, transport, ravish
- Opposite of: displease, disenchant
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Answer: DELIGHT
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22A: "48. If IBM, DANNON & ACER merged and started a bakery, they would sell ___"
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- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: CINNAMONBREAD
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23A: "52. Sallie ___ (student loan program)"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MAE
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24A: "53. King in a 1978 novelty hit"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that utter `tsk,' `tut,' or `tut-tut,' as in disapproval
- Similar words include: tsk, tut-tut
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TUT
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25A: "56. Made sense"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ADDEDUP
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26A: "57. Provides assistance"
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- Think of something that a serious (often fatal) disease of the immune system transmitted through blood products especially by sexual contact or contaminated needles
- Similar words include: assistance, financial aid, attention
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AIDS
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27A: "58. Working on one's own well-being"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: SELFCARE
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28A: "60. Russian "no""
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NYET
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29A: "61. Las Vegas's W.N.B.A. team"
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- Think of something that the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
- Similar words include: Allied Command Europe, champion, sensation
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ACES
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30A: "62. October birthstone"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color; some varieties are used as gemstones
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OPAL
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31A: "63. Org. for Nelly Korda and Lydia Ko"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LPGA
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32A: "64. If POST & SCHICK merged and became a kitchenware company, they would sell ___"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one of a pair of slender sticks used as oriental tableware to eat food with
- Similar words include: chopstick
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: CHOPSTICKS
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33A: "67. If EPSON & CHASE merged and became an electronics accessories company, they would sell ___"
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- Pattern: __________
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Answer: PHONECASES
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34A: "69. French filmmaker Jacques"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that french filmmaker (1908-1982)
- Similar words include: Jacques Tati, Jacques Tatischeff
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TATI
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35A: "70. Some train depot figs."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a system for screening luggage in airports; an agent passes a swab around or inside luggage and then runs the swab through a machine that can detect trace amounts of explosives
- Similar words include: ETD, explosive trace detection
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ETDS
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36A: "71. Gent from Kent"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a native or inhabitant of great britain
- Similar words include: Briton, Britisher, britt
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BRIT
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37A: "72. Injudicious"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any red eruption of the skin
- Similar words include: reckless, blizzard, roseola
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RASH
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38A: "73. Debater's skill"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that using language effectively to please or persuade
- Similar words include: hot air, empty words, empty talk
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: RHETORIC
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39A: "75. Golden arrow-shooting deity"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (greek mythology) god of love; son of aphrodite; identified with roman cupid
- Similar words include: sexual desire, concupiscence, physical attraction
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EROS
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40A: "76. Lets breathe"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: AIRSOUT
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41A: "79. "___ Meninas" (Velázquez masterpiece)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily; occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as a rare earth
- Similar words include: lah, Louisiana, la
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LAS
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42A: "80. Big name in the ice cream aisle"
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- Think of something that a mountain or tall hill
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: BEN
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43A: "81. If FORD & WALGREENS merged and became a landscaping company, they would sell ___"
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- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: FLOWERGARDENS
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44A: "83. Like a bicycle or a horse"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: RIDABLE
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45A: "85. Movie princess who wields a blaster pistol"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LEIA
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46A: "86. Winter Olympics setting in 1972, 1998, 2018 and 2022"
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- Think of something that the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to europe on the west to form eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ASIA
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47A: "87. Actress Skye"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IONE
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48A: "90. German article"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EINE
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49A: "92. Atomic number of neodymium"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cardinal number that is the product of ten and six
- Similar words include: lx, LX, 60
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SIXTY
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50A: "95. If GMC, PETSMART & LENOVO merged and became an auto parts company, they would sell ___"
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- Pattern: _________________
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Answer: GLOVECOMPARTMENTS
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51A: "101. West Coast airport code"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SFO
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52A: "104. Like a column starting a row, perhaps"
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- Think of something that (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
- Similar words include: denigrative, slanderous, calumnious
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: LIBELLOUS
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53A: "105. Narrow inlet"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RIA
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54A: "106. Buckwheat, for one"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
- Similar words include: imp, scamp, scallywag
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: RASCAL
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55A: "108. Time-shares?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena
- Similar words include: lap, convergence, intersection
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: OVERLAPS
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56A: "109. If MERCK, MARS & AIG merged and became an art supplies company, they would sell ___"
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- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: MAGICMARKERS
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57A: "112. Most Vermeer works"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water
- Similar words include: rock oil, anele, oil colour
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OILS
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58A: "113. Fair ___ (copyright doctrine)"
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- Think of something that the act of using
- Similar words include: practice, function, utilisation
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: USE
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59A: "114. Verdi opera that becomes the name of a board game when an "H" is inserted"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: OTELLO
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60A: "115. Scorch"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a surface burn
- Similar words include: sear, scorch, swinge
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SINGE
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61A: "116. Old-fashioned invitation enclosure, in brief"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SASE
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62A: "117. Ayo Edebiri's character on "The Bear," familiarly"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SYD
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63A: "118. Analyzed grammatically"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that analyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence)
- Similar words include: parse
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PARSED
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64A: "119. Element of many signs"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in the air in small amounts
- Similar words include: Ne, atomic number 10
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NEON
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Down Clues - Strategic Hints (76 clues)
1D: "1. Corkscrews and such"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a dish that contains pasta as its main ingredient
- Similar words include: alimentary paste
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PASTA
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2D: "2. In the #1 position"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ONTOP
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3D: "3. Inner tube?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: STENT
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4D: "4. Billboard chart listings"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball)
- Similar words include: smash, impinge on, tally
- Opposite of: miss
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Answer: HITS
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5D: "5. Hypotheticals"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IFS
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6D: "6. Suggestion, casually"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: REC
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7D: "7. Cheering loudly"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AROAR
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8D: "8. Like a "wet" signature"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: INPEN
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9D: "9. Be furious"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SEERED
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10D: "10. Visitors from afar, in brief"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ETS
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11D: "11. Hazard for the unwary"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty
- Similar words include: pit, booby trap
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: PITFALL
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12D: "12. Hot mess"
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- Think of something that an acronym often used by soldiers in world war ii: situation normal all fucked up
- Similar words include: fucked-up
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SNAFU
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13D: "13. When Ophelia dies in "Hamlet""
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ACTIV
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14D: "14. 2015 Kendrick Lamar anthem that won two Grammys"
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- Think of something that nonstandard usage
- Similar words include: fine, O.K., OK
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ALRIGHT
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15D: "15. Ace the test"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: GETANA
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16D: "16. Cheer for"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ROOTON
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17D: "17. Mean"
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- Think of something that have in mind as a purpose
- Similar words include: designate, signify, specify
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: INTEND
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18D: "19. Spanish girl"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CHICA
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19D: "24. Skin-care brand with the slogan "Face Anything""
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OLAY
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20D: "26. ___ Lilly and Company"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ELI
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21D: "29. Tapped, as a cigarette"
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- Think of something that convert into ashes
- Similar words include: ash
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ASHED
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22D: "32. Jazz style"
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- Think of something that an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940)
- Similar words include: bop
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BEBOP
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23D: "33. "___, Oh ___" (Thomas Moore poem)"
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- Think of something that an early name of ireland that is now used in poetry
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ERIN
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24D: "34. Magicians' flourishes"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TADAS
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25D: "35. What a fixer-upper might become, pessimistically"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: MONEYPIT
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26D: "38. South American tuber"
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- Think of something that south american wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers
- Similar words include: oka, Oxalis tuberosa, Oxalis crenata
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OCA
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27D: "39. Relieved (of)"
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- Think of something that relieve from
- Similar words include: disembarrass, free
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RID
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28D: "40. Supplementary data and suggestions for further reading, maybe"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: ENDNOTES
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29D: "42. Rival of the Dodgers and Rockies, informally"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: DBACKS
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30D: "43. Great Lakes natives"
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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: Erie, Lake Erie
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ERIES
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31D: "45. Precursor to a clarifying remark"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: IMEAN
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32D: "46. Fancy shopping mall"
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- Think of something that a genus of pyralidae
- Similar words include: genus Galleria
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: GALLERIA
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33D: "47. Playboy's founder, in brief"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HEF
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34D: "49. Fruit drinks"
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- Think of something that a sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice
- Similar words include: fruit drink, ade
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ADES
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35D: "50. Complained under one's breath"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice
- Similar words include: mumble, maunder, mutter
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: MUTTERED
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36D: "51. Ones making margin calls, for short?"
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- Think of something that a rapid automatic system to detect plastic explosives in passengers' luggage using x-ray technology and computers; designed for use in airports
- Similar words include: erectile dysfunction, male erecticle dysfunction, explosive detection system
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EDS
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37D: "53. Purchases that come with metal plates"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: TAPSHOES
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38D: "54. Craving"
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- Think of something that an instinctive motive
- Similar words include: urge on, press, barrack
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: URGE
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39D: "55. Bags with black and green varieties"
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- Think of something that a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water
- Similar words include: Camellia sinensis, afternoon tea, teatime
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TEAS
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40D: "58. Lend, as money"
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- Think of something that a point located with respect to surface features of some region
- Similar words include: bit, descry, blob
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SPOT
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41D: "59. Celebration for seniors"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: CLASSDAY
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42D: "61. "Highway to Hell" band"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ACDC
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43D: "62. "Aha, got it!""
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: OHISEE
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44D: "64. Key near Fn"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CTRL
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45D: "65. Response to a routine delivery?"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HAHA
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46D: "66. 1986 rock autobiography"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ITINA
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47D: "67. Be on the hunt"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of prowling (walking about in a stealthy manner)
- Similar words include: lurch
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PROWL
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48D: "68. Baker v. ___ (landmark voting rights case)"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CARR
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49D: "71. Fratty type"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: BRO
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50D: "74. Kimono sash"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (west indies) followers of a religious system involving witchcraft and sorcery
- Similar words include: obeah
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OBI
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51D: "75. Novelist Ferrante"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ELENA
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52D: "76. From the top"
Solving Hints:
- Similar words include: once again, once more, over again
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AGAIN
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53D: "77. Sea urchin, on a sushi menu"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: UNI
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54D: "78. Govt. agency whose busiest days usually precede major holidays"
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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55D: "81. Some gymnastics moves"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return
- Similar words include: leaf, pass, somerset
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: FLIPS
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56D: "82. Go up"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a growth in strength or number or importance
- Similar words include: wage hike, ascent, wage increase
- Opposite of: set, sit down
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Answer: RISE
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57D: "83. "R" in a car"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a relation of direct opposition
- Similar words include: change by reversal, reversal, invert
- Opposite of: obverse, forward
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Answer: REVERSE
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58D: "84. Puzzled"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cause to be confused emotionally
- Similar words include: deep in thought, baffled, discombobulate
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: BEMUSED
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59D: "87. Cool places to live?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome
- Similar words include: iglu, igloo
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: IGLOOS
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60D: "88. Singer Rodrigo"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: OLIVIA
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61D: "89. Awards partially bestowed by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that swedish chemist remembered for his invention of dynamite and for the bequest that created the nobel prizes (1833-1896)
- Similar words include: Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Nobel, Alfred Nobel
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: NOBELS
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62D: "91. List of mistakes"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind
- Similar words include: misprint, typo, literal error
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ERRATA
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63D: "93. Pibb ___ (soft drink)"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: XTRA
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64D: "94. Ruling Romanovs, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a male monarch or emperor (especially of russia prior to 1917)
- Similar words include: tzar, tsar, czar
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TSARS
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65D: "96. Bend in a pipe"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an extension at the end and at right angles to the main building
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ELL
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66D: "97. Santa ___"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CLAUS
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67D: "98. "Clumsy me!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OOPSY
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68D: "99. University of Memphis athlete"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a fierce or audacious person
- Similar words include: Panthera tigris
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TIGER
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69D: "100. Sends off"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service
- Similar words include: postal service, mail, mail service
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MAILS
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70D: "101. Spectacle"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the place where some action occurs
- Similar words include: tantrum, panorama, fit
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SCENE
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71D: "102. Hit 1996 movie billed as a "homespun murder story""
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- Think of something that largest city in north dakota; located in eastern north dakota on the red river
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: FARGO
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72D: "103. "Love & Death" actress Elizabeth"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OLSEN
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73D: "107. Pelt"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch
- Similar words include: pelt, hide, cutis
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SKIN
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74D: "109. Janitorial implement"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors
- Similar words include: pout, mow, swab
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MOP
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75D: "110. The Guardians, on sports tickers"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CLE
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76D: "111. Hip"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a british teenager or young adult in the 1960s; noted for their clothes consciousness and opposition to the rockers
- Similar words include: modernistic, modern
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MOD
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Today's Puzzle Stats
64 Across Clues
76 Down Clues
140 Total Clues
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