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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (35 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (41 clues)
- Down Clues - Detailed Hints
- Expert Solving Strategies
- Today's Puzzle Statistics
Today's Puzzle Difficulty: Moderate
Pro Tip: Start with the fill-in-the-blank clues - they're usually the easiest entry points!
Across Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1A | 1. Something tapped at a bar | 3 |
| 2A | 4. ___ monster (only venomous lizard native to the U.S.) | 4 |
| 3A | 8. Go caroling, say | 4 |
| 4A | 12. British weekly on business, politics and culture, with "The" | 9 |
| 5A | 15. Devils' center, appropriately | 4 |
| 6A | 16. Ones taking baby pictures in the delivery room, maybe | 10 |
| 7A | 18. Stead | 4 |
| 8A | 19. University just north of Harvard | 5 |
| 9A | 20. Overall impact | 9 |
| 10A | 22. Like drone photography | 6 |
| 11A | 23. "Look here …" | 3 |
| 12A | 24. Study of the mind, for short | 6 |
| 13A | 29. Tavern owner who's often prank-called by Bart Simpson | 3 |
| 14A | 31. Attire for a contemporary dancer | 7 |
| 15A | 33. Source of a certain essential oil | 7 |
| 16A | 37. R, as in a Rolls-Royce? | 7 |
| 17A | 38. Hush-hush | 7 |
| 18A | 39. What the shepherd heard, perhaps | 5 |
| 19A | 40. Highest level of minor-league baseball | 3 |
| 20A | 42. They spike during the holidays | 5 |
| 21A | 43. Apt name for a socialite? | 3 |
| 22A | 45. Some pre-streaming music purchases | 3 |
| 23A | 47. Goose of Hawaii | 4 |
| 24A | 48. Global movement to end violence against women | 4 |
| 25A | 51. That's unbelievable! | 3 |
| 26A | 53. "That's unbelievable!" | 4 |
| 27A | 55. Fish that can burrow into the seabed | 3 |
| 28A | 56. Subtle acknowledgment | 3 |
| 29A | 57. Carpenter or plumber's kit | 7 |
| 30A | 60. Fruit traditionally eaten with the fish it's named for | 11 |
| 31A | 63. Toilette water | 3 |
| 32A | 64. Like goods bought before they hit the shelves | 10 |
| 33A | 65. Alternative to AOL | 3 |
| 34A | 66. Unusual feature of this puzzle … or, when parsed as two words (1,8), another unusual feature of this puzzle | 9 |
| 35A | 67. When a plane is due in, in brief | 3 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Something tapped at a bar"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the quantity contained in a keg
- Similar words include: kegful
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: KEG
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2A: "4. ___ monster (only venomous lizard native to the U.S.)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a river that rises in western new mexico and flows westward through southern arizona to become a tributary of the colorado river
- Similar words include: Gila River
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GILA
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3A: "8. Go caroling, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that deliver by singing
- Similar words include: whistle, spill the beans, peach
- Opposite of: keep quiet
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Answer: SING
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4A: "12. British weekly on business, politics and culture, with "The""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an expert in the science of economics
- Similar words include: economic expert
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: ECONOMIST
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5A: "15. Devils' center, appropriately"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that morally objectionable behavior
- Similar words include: wickedness, iniquity, malign
- Opposite of: goodness, good
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Answer: EVIL
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6A: "16. Ones taking baby pictures in the delivery room, maybe"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: PROUDPAPAS
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7A: "18. Stead"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
- Similar words include: position, place, stead
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LIEU
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8A: "19. University just north of Harvard"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass
- Similar words include: tuft, tussock
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TUFTS
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9A: "20. Overall impact"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: NETEFFECT
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10A: "22. Like drone photography"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer
- Similar words include: aeriform, aery, transmitting aerial
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: AERIAL
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11A: "23. "Look here …""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located
- Similar words include: project, check, understand
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SEE
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12A: "24. Study of the mind, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: COGSCI
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13A: "29. Tavern owner who's often prank-called by Bart Simpson"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MOE
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14A: "31. Attire for a contemporary dancer"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a tight-fitting garment of stretchy material that covers the body from the shoulders to the thighs (and may have long sleeves or legs reaching down to the ankles); worn by ballet dancers and acrobats for practice or performance
- Similar words include: body suit, leotard, cat suit
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: UNITARD
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15A: "33. Source of a certain essential oil"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: TEATREE
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16A: "37. R, as in a Rolls-Royce?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a relation of direct opposition
- Similar words include: reverse gear, blow, rescind
- Opposite of: forward, obverse
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Answer: REVERSE
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17A: "38. Hush-hush"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ONTHEDL
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18A: "39. What the shepherd heard, perhaps"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this)
- Similar words include: baa, blate, blat
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BLEAT
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19A: "40. Highest level of minor-league baseball"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an aneurysm of the abdominal aorta associated with old age and hypertension
- Similar words include: abdominal aortic aneurysm
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AAA
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20A: "42. They spike during the holidays"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that income (at invoice values) received for goods and services over some given period of time
- Similar words include: sales agreement, gross sales, cut-rate sale
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SALES
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21A: "43. Apt name for a socialite?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a young woman making her debut into society
- Similar words include: debutante
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DEB
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22A: "45. Some pre-streaming music purchases"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element; occurs in association with zinc ores
- Similar words include: cadmium, CD, compact disc
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CDS
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23A: "47. Goose of Hawaii"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NENE
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24A: "48. Global movement to end violence against women"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: VDAY
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25A: "51. That's unbelievable!"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
- Similar words include: dwell, prevarication, Trygve Lie
- Opposite of: arise, stand
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Answer: LIE
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26A: "53. "That's unbelievable!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: WHOA
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27A: "55. Fish that can burrow into the seabed"
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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28A: "56. Subtle acknowledgment"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sign of assent or salutation or command
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NOD
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29A: "57. Carpenter or plumber's kit"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: TOOLSET
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30A: "60. Fruit traditionally eaten with the fish it's named for"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that creeping raspberry of north temperate regions with yellow or orange berries
- Similar words include: dwarf mulberry, cloudberry, baked-apple berry
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: SALMONBERRY
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31A: "63. Toilette water"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EAU
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32A: "64. Like goods bought before they hit the shelves"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: PREORDERED
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33A: "65. Alternative to AOL"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MSN
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34A: "66. Unusual feature of this puzzle … or, when parsed as two words (1,8), another unusual feature of this puzzle"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (mathematics) a lack of symmetry
- Similar words include: imbalance, dissymmetry
- Opposite of: symmetry
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Answer: ASYMMETRY
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35A: "67. When a plane is due in, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional basque party; want to create an independent homeland in spain's western pyrenees
- Similar words include: Euskadi ta Askatasuna, Basque Homeland and Freedom, Basque Fatherland and Liberty
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ETA
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Didn't tell, as a secret | 4 |
| 2D | 2. Light beige | 4 |
| 3D | 3. Blooper | 4 |
| 4D | 4. Combatants in the Titanomachy | 4 |
| 5D | 5. Teacher's pest | 3 |
| 6D | 6. Former NPR host Hansen | 5 |
| 7D | 7. In line with | 5 |
| 8D | 8. Beginning of consciousness? | 4 |
| 9D | 9. Group of elite colleges | 5 |
| 10D | 10. Mother's daughter's daughter, perhaps | 5 |
| 11D | 11. Largest human muscle, informally | 5 |
| 12D | 13. Little fastener | 3 |
| 13D | 14. Comic actor Jacques | 4 |
| 14D | 17. Sailors | 6 |
| 15D | 21. A&W specialties | 6 |
| 16D | 22. Broadcasts | 4 |
| 17D | 24. Where the sidewalk ends | 4 |
| 18D | 25. First-year legal student, informally | 4 |
| 19D | 26. Donate | 4 |
| 20D | 27. Like a good sharpshooter's hand | 6 |
| 21D | 28. À la ___ | 5 |
| 22D | 30. Renewable gasoline additive | 7 |
| 23D | 32. Anti-trafficking org. | 3 |
| 24D | 33. ___ Hall ("The Wind in the Willows" residence) | 4 |
| 25D | 34. Cry to a captor | 9 |
| 26D | 35. Idyllic spot | 4 |
| 27D | 36. Ultimatum word | 4 |
| 28D | 41. ___ in the hole | 3 |
| 29D | 44. Marilyn Monroe or Britney Spears | 6 |
| 30D | 46. Cutlass, e.g. | 5 |
| 31D | 48. Italian scooter brand | 5 |
| 32D | 49. Darlings | 5 |
| 33D | 50. Spot for cats and rats | 5 |
| 34D | 52. "My gut says …" | 5 |
| 35D | 54. Today, in Tijuana | 3 |
| 36D | 56. What you'd expect when you're expecting? | 4 |
| 37D | 57. Shot that made its N.B.A. debut in 1979, slangily | 4 |
| 38D | 58. Big ___ (college conference) | 4 |
| 39D | 59. Common sushi fish | 4 |
| 40D | 61. Certain parent | 3 |
| 41D | 62. Make a typo, say | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Didn't tell, as a secret"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g.,
- Similar words include: continue, hold open, prevent
- Opposite of: lose, broken
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Answer: KEPT
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2D: "2. Light beige"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a very light brown
- Similar words include: beige
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ECRU
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3D: "3. Blooper"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a man who is a stupid incompetent fool
- Similar words include: clown, zany, blunder
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GOOF
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4D: "4. Combatants in the Titanomachy"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions
- Similar words include: Supreme Being, immortal, divinity
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GODS
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5D: "5. Teacher's pest"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous
- Similar words include: monkey, scalawag, elf
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IMP
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6D: "6. Former NPR host Hansen"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LIANE
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7D: "7. In line with"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that 20 aspers equal 1 kurus in turkey
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ASPER
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8D: "8. Beginning of consciousness?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that your consciousness of your own identity
- Similar words include: ego
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SELF
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9D: "9. Group of elite colleges"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that old world vine with lobed evergreen leaves and black berrylike fruits
- Similar words include: common ivy, ivy, Hedera helix
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: IVIES
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10D: "10. Mother's daughter's daughter, perhaps"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a daughter of your brother or sister
- Opposite of: nephew
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NIECE
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11D: "11. Largest human muscle, informally"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any one of three large skeletal muscles that form the buttock and move the thigh
- Similar words include: gluteal muscle, gluteus, gluteus muscle
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GLUTE
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12D: "13. Little fastener"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that usually large hard-shelled seed
- Similar words include: nut case, orchis, junkie
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NUT
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13D: "14. Comic actor 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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14D: "17. Sailors"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a man who serves as a sailor
- Similar words include: Jack-tar, old salt, seafarer
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SEAMEN
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15D: "21. A&W specialties"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment
- Similar words include: be adrift, float, drift
- Opposite of: sink
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Answer: FLOATS
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16D: "22. Broadcasts"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that affected manners intended to impress others
- Similar words include: publicize, air out, airwave
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AIRS
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17D: "24. Where the sidewalk ends"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an edge between a sidewalk and a roadway consisting of a line of curbstones (usually forming part of a gutter)
- Similar words include: restrict, moderate, check
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CURB
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18D: "25. First-year legal student, informally"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ONEL
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19D: "26. Donate"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length
- Similar words include: gift, founder, open
- Opposite of: take, starve
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Answer: GIVE
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20D: "27. Like a good sharpshooter's hand"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person loved by another person
- Similar words include: unbendable, regular, calm
- Opposite of: unsteadily, unsteady
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Answer: STEADY
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21D: "28. À la ___"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a list of dishes available at a restaurant
- Similar words include: carte du jour, card, bill of fare
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CARTE
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22D: "30. Renewable gasoline additive"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the intoxicating agent in fermented and distilled liquors; used pure or denatured as a solvent or in medicines and colognes and cleaning solutions and rocket fuel; proposed as a renewable clean-burning additive to gasoline
- Similar words include: ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol, fermentation alcohol
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ETHANOL
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23D: "32. Anti-trafficking org."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that federal agency responsible for enforcing laws and regulations governing narcotics and controlled substances; goal is to immobilize drug trafficking organizations
- Similar words include: Drug Enforcement Agency, Drug Enforcement Administration
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DEA
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24D: "33. ___ Hall ("The Wind in the Willows" residence)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species
- Similar words include: toad frog, batrachian, anuran
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TOAD
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25D: "34. Cry to a captor"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: RELEASEME
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26D: "35. Idyllic spot"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
- Similar words include: Shangri-la, promised land, Garden of Eden
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EDEN
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27D: "36. Ultimatum word"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ELSE
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28D: "41. ___ in the hole"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
- Similar words include: Allied Command Europe, I, hotshot
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ACE
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29D: "44. Marilyn Monroe or Britney Spears"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person with fair skin and hair
- Similar words include: blond, light-haired
- Opposite of: brunet
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Answer: BLONDE
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30D: "46. Cutlass, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
- Similar words include: brand, steel, blade
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SWORD
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31D: "48. Italian scooter brand"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that type genus of the vespidae: various hornets and yellow jackets
- Similar words include: genus Vespa
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: VESPA
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32D: "49. Darlings"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a beloved person; used as terms of endearment
- Similar words include: honey, lamb, love
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DEARS
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33D: "50. Spot for cats and rats"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a narrow street with walls on both sides
- Similar words include: alleyway, bowling alley, skittle alley
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ALLEY
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34D: "52. "My gut says …""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: IDBET
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35D: "54. Today, in Tijuana"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals)
- Similar words include: barge, flatboat, lighter
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HOY
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36D: "56. What you'd expect when you're expecting?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a standard or model or pattern regarded as typical
- Similar words include: average
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NORM
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37D: "57. Shot that made its N.B.A. debut in 1979, slangily"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
- Similar words include: terzetto, ternion, trio
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TREY
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38D: "58. Big ___ (college conference)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees
- Similar words include: due east, Orient, eastern United States
- Opposite of: west
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Answer: EAST
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39D: "59. Common sushi fish"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that tropical american prickly pear of jamaica
- Similar words include: Anguilla sucklandii, tunny, Opuntia tuna
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TUNA
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40D: "61. Certain parent"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that informal terms for a mother
- Similar words include: mamma, ma, momma
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MOM
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41D: "62. Make a typo, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that to make a mistake or be incorrect
- Similar words include: slip, stray, drift
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ERR
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Expert Solving Strategies
Start Smart
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Today's Puzzle Stats
35 Across Clues
41 Down Clues
76 Total Clues
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