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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (39 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (39 clues)
- Down Clues - Detailed Hints
- Expert Solving Strategies
- Today's Puzzle Statistics
Today's Puzzle Difficulty: Tricky
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Across Clues - Complete List
No. | Clue | Letters |
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1A | 1. Trendy | 3 |
2A | 4. Remove, as pencil marks | 5 |
3A | 9. Goes past 21 in blackjack | 5 |
4A | 14. Commotion | 3 |
5A | 15. "___ Mia!" (2008 film) | 5 |
6A | 16. How ballerinas perform | 5 |
7A | 17. Fish commonly caught in the upper Midwest | 9 |
8A | 19. Squandered, as a big lead | 5 |
9A | 20. Now and ___ | 4 |
10A | 21. Goof | 3 |
11A | 22. Spooks | 6 |
12A | 23. Arrange numerically, perhaps | 4 |
13A | 24. Player protecting a QB's blind side, often | 10 |
14A | 26. Cafeteria carrier | 4 |
15A | 28. Despise | 4 |
16A | 29. Follows orders | 5 |
17A | 31. Second-largest island in Hawaii | 4 |
18A | 33. Govt.-issued identifiers | 4 |
19A | 37. Saudi Arabian export | 3 |
20A | 38. Household chore traditionally done on Mondays | 7 |
21A | 41. Dessert often filled with fruit | 3 |
22A | 42. Spanish greeting | 4 |
23A | 44. Certain arm muscles, for short | 4 |
24A | 45. Make into law | 5 |
25A | 47. "The Lion King" lion | 4 |
26A | 49. Word after root or draft | 4 |
27A | 50. Salesperson making unsolicited phone contact | 10 |
28A | 55. Banned substances in sports, for short | 4 |
29A | 58. Tips off | 6 |
30A | 59. Kitchenware brand | 3 |
31A | 60. Focus of J. Robert Oppenheimer | 4 |
32A | 61. YouTube medium | 5 |
33A | 62. At stake ... or where you may find 17-, 24-, 38- and 50-Across | 9 |
34A | 64. Water brand whose natural spring was discovered by a French nobleman | 5 |
35A | 65. Many a summer TV airing | 5 |
36A | 66. Modern vaccine component | 3 |
37A | 67. Slow on the uptake | 5 |
38A | 68. Boasts | 5 |
39A | 69. Unit of corn | 3 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Trendy"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh
- Similar words include: articulatio coxae, pelvic girdle, rose hip
- Pattern: ___
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2A: "4. Remove, as pencil marks"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that remove from memory or existence
- Similar words include: rub out, delete, efface
- Opposite of: record
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3A: "9. Goes past 21 in blackjack"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a complete failure
- Similar words include: tear, bout, break
- Opposite of: repair
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4A: "14. Commotion"
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- Think of something that a rapid active commotion
- Similar words include: hustle, fuss, stir
- Pattern: ___
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5A: "15. "___ Mia!" (2008 film)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that informal terms for a mother
- Similar words include: mummy, ma, mom
- Pattern: _____
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6A: "16. How ballerinas perform"
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- Pattern: _____
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7A: "17. Fish commonly caught in the upper Midwest"
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- Pattern: _________
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8A: "19. Squandered, as a big lead"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that exhale hard
- Similar words include: bobble, bollocks, bollix up
- Opposite of: conserve
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9A: "20. Now and ___"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that that time; that moment
- Similar words include: and so, so, and then
- Pattern: ____
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10A: "21. Goof"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that to make a mistake or be incorrect
- Similar words include: stray, drift, mistake
- Pattern: ___
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11A: "22. Spooks"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that sudden mass fear and anxiety over anticipated events
- Similar words include: daunt, frighten away, panic attack
- Pattern: ______
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12A: "23. Arrange numerically, perhaps"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
- Similar words include: sort out, kind, sieve
- Pattern: ____
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13A: "24. Player protecting a QB's blind side, often"
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- Pattern: __________
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14A: "26. Cafeteria carrier"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an open receptacle for holding or displaying or serving articles or food
- Pattern: ____
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15A: "28. Despise"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action
- Similar words include: hatred, detest
- Opposite of: love
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16A: "29. Follows orders"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that be obedient to
- Similar words include: obey
- Opposite of: disobey
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17A: "31. Second-largest island in Hawaii"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the second largest of the hawaiian islands
- Similar words include: Maui Island
- Pattern: ____
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18A: "33. Govt.-issued identifiers"
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- Pattern: ____
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19A: "37. Saudi Arabian export"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water
- Similar words include: anoint, oil color, anele
- Pattern: ___
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20A: "38. Household chore traditionally done on Mondays"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that garments or white goods that can be cleaned by laundering
- Similar words include: washables, wash, washing
- Pattern: _______
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21A: "41. Dessert often filled with fruit"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top
- Similar words include: Proto-Indo European
- Pattern: ___
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22A: "42. Spanish greeting"
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- Pattern: ____
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23A: "44. Certain arm muscles, for short"
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- Pattern: ____
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24A: "45. Make into law"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that order by virtue of superior authority; decree
- Similar words include: reenact, ordain, act out
- Pattern: _____
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25A: "47. "The Lion King" lion"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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26A: "49. Word after root or draft"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a general name for alcoholic beverages made by fermenting a cereal (or mixture of cereals) flavored with hops
- Pattern: ____
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27A: "50. Salesperson making unsolicited phone contact"
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- Pattern: __________
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28A: "55. Banned substances in sports, for short"
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- Pattern: ____
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29A: "58. Tips off"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action
- Similar words include: alarum, alarm, alert
- Pattern: ______
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30A: "59. Kitchenware brand"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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31A: "60. Focus of J. Robert Oppenheimer"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (physics and chemistry) the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element
- Similar words include: particle, corpuscle, molecule
- Pattern: ____
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32A: "61. YouTube medium"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the visible part of a television transmission
- Similar words include: video recording, telecasting, picture
- Pattern: _____
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33A: "62. At stake ... or where you may find 17-, 24-, 38- and 50-Across"
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- Pattern: _________
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34A: "64. Water brand whose natural spring was discovered by a French nobleman"
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- Pattern: _____
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35A: "65. Many a summer TV airing"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a program that is broadcast again
- Similar words include: rebroadcast
- Pattern: _____
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36A: "66. Modern vaccine component"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (biochemistry) a long linear polymer of nucleotides found in the nucleus but mainly in the cytoplasm of a cell where it is associated with microsomes; it transmits genetic information from dna to the cytoplasm and controls certain chemical processes in the cell
- Similar words include: ribonucleic acid
- Pattern: ___
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37A: "67. Slow on the uptake"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
- Similar words include: heavy, slow, impenetrable
- Pattern: _____
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38A: "68. Boasts"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an instance of boastful talk
- Similar words include: gas, crowing, brag
- Pattern: _____
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39A: "69. Unit of corn"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
- Similar words include: capitulum, pinna, auricle
- Pattern: ___
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Down Clues - Complete List
No. | Clue | Letters |
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1D | 1. Stops | 5 |
2D | 2. State whose panhandle touches British Columbia | 5 |
3D | 3. A smile, perhaps | 9 |
4D | 4. Ambulance worker, for short | 3 |
5D | 5. Only once in a while | 6 |
6D | 6. Love, in Italy | 5 |
7D | 7. Blue creature of kids' movies | 5 |
8D | 8. Put away, as dinner | 3 |
9D | 9. Ohio University athlete | 6 |
10D | 10. Loosens, as a shoe | 7 |
11D | 11. Baby deliverer, in folklore | 5 |
12D | 12. Dry (off) | 5 |
13D | 13. Have a feeling | 5 |
14D | 18. ___-level job | 5 |
15D | 22. Part of a flight | 5 |
16D | 25. Sounds of heavy things hitting the ground | 5 |
17D | 27. Silent way to communicate, in brief | 3 |
18D | 29. "___-la-la!" | 3 |
19D | 30. Science class, for short | 3 |
20D | 31. Many a public artwork | 5 |
21D | 32. Singer DiFranco | 3 |
22D | 34. Fifth wheel | 9 |
23D | 35. Actor Cage, informally | 3 |
24D | 36. Part of a tennis match | 3 |
25D | 39. Mythological Titan who bore the weight of the heavens on his shoulders | 5 |
26D | 40. "___-haw!" | 3 |
27D | 43. San ___ Fault | 7 |
28D | 46. Country holding one side of Mount Everest | 5 |
29D | 48. Start of a play | 6 |
30D | 49. Greeting between buddies | 6 |
31D | 50. Capitulated in negotiations | 5 |
32D | 51. Shade of green | 5 |
33D | 52. Opposite of ushered out | 5 |
34D | 53. Unsociable type | 5 |
35D | 54. When repeated, an old newsboy's cry | 5 |
36D | 56. Prima ___ | 5 |
37D | 57. Mascara mishap | 5 |
38D | 62. Sphere | 3 |
39D | 63. Nav. rank | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Stops"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the state of inactivity following an interruption
- Similar words include: kibosh, hitch, check
- Opposite of: start
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2D: "2. State whose panhandle touches British Columbia"
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- Think of something that a state in the rocky mountains
- Similar words include: Gem State, ID
- Pattern: _____
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3D: "3. A smile, perhaps"
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- Pattern: _________
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4D: "4. Ambulance worker, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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5D: "5. Only once in a while"
Solving Hints:
- Similar words include: seldom
- Opposite of: often
- Pattern: ______
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6D: "6. Love, in Italy"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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7D: "7. Blue creature of kids' movies"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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8D: "8. Put away, as dinner"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that take in solid food
- Similar words include: deplete, feed, consume
- Pattern: ___
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9D: "9. Ohio University athlete"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that small lynx of north america
- Similar words include: Lynx rufus, bay lynx
- Pattern: ______
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10D: "10. Loosens, as a shoe"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that undo the ties of
- Similar words include: untie, unlace, unbrace
- Opposite of: tie
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11D: "11. Baby deliverer, in folklore"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that large mostly old world wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage
- Pattern: _____
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12D: "12. Dry (off)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a rectangular piece of absorbent cloth (or paper) for drying or wiping
- Pattern: _____
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13D: "13. Have a feeling"
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- Think of something that a general conscious awareness
- Similar words include: sensory faculty, mother wit, horse sense
- Pattern: _____
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14D: "18. ___-level job"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an item inserted in a written record
- Similar words include: entryway, launching, entrance
- Pattern: _____
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15D: "22. Part of a flight"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that support consisting of a place to rest the foot while ascending or descending a stairway
- Similar words include: step
- Pattern: _____
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16D: "25. Sounds of heavy things hitting the ground"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects)
- Similar words include: crump, thump, clunk
- Pattern: _____
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17D: "27. Silent way to communicate, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the sign language used in the united states
- Similar words include: American sign language
- Pattern: ___
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18D: "29. "___-la-la!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that express admiration and pleasure by uttering `ooh' or `aah'
- Similar words include: aah
- Pattern: ___
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19D: "30. Science class, for short"
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- Pattern: ___
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20D: "31. Many a public artwork"
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- Think of something that a painting that is applied to a wall surface
- Similar words include: wall painting
- Pattern: _____
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21D: "32. Singer DiFranco"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that black tropical american cuckoo
- Pattern: ___
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22D: "34. Fifth wheel"
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- Pattern: _________
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23D: "35. Actor Cage, informally"
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- Pattern: ___
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24D: "36. Part of a tennis match"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
- Similar words include: arrange, hardening, rigid
- Opposite of: rise
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25D: "39. Mythological Titan who bore the weight of the heavens on his shoulders"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (greek mythology) a titan who was forced by zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders
- Similar words include: telamon, map collection, book of maps
- Pattern: _____
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26D: "40. "___-haw!""
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- Pattern: ___
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27D: "43. San ___ Fault"
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- Pattern: _______
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28D: "46. Country holding one side of Mount Everest"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small landlocked asian country high in the himalayas between india and china
- Similar words include: Kingdom of Nepal
- Pattern: _____
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29D: "48. Start of a play"
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- Pattern: ______
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30D: "49. Greeting between buddies"
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- Pattern: ______
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31D: "50. Capitulated in negotiations"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that hollow out as if making a cave or opening
- Similar words include: cave, undermine, spelunk
- Pattern: _____
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32D: "51. Shade of green"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that small ovoid fruit of the european olive tree; important food and source of oil
- Similar words include: Olea europaea, European olive tree
- Pattern: _____
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33D: "52. Opposite of ushered out"
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- Pattern: _____
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34D: "53. Unsociable type"
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- Think of something that a person who avoids the company or assistance of others
- Similar words include: lone wolf, lone hand
- Pattern: _____
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35D: "54. When repeated, an old newsboy's cry"
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- Think of something that a minor actor in crowd scenes
- Similar words include: special, excess, redundant
- Pattern: _____
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36D: "56. Prima ___"
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- Think of something that an italian woman of rank
- Pattern: _____
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37D: "57. Mascara mishap"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that slanderous defamation
- Similar words include: denigrate, vilification, cytologic smear
- Pattern: _____
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38D: "62. Sphere"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye
- Similar words include: globe, ball, eyeball
- Pattern: ___
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39D: "63. Nav. rank"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that half the width of an em
- Similar words include: nut, en
- Pattern: ___
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