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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (30 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (38 clues)
- Down Clues - Detailed Hints
- Expert Solving Strategies
- Today's Puzzle Statistics
Today's Puzzle Difficulty: Medium
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Across Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1A | 1. Student's plan | 15 |
| 2A | 16. Italian pianist who composed the scores for "Nomadland" and "The Father" | 15 |
| 3A | 17. Sort of habitat in a bottle garden | 15 |
| 4A | 18. Gumbo ingredients | 5 |
| 5A | 19. Top | 4 |
| 6A | 20. California's ___ Nuevo State Park | 3 |
| 7A | 21. Contests | 4 |
| 8A | 22. Contents of Pandora's box | 5 |
| 9A | 24. Some baseball stats | 4 |
| 10A | 25. The 21,728th page of 1989's 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary | 3 |
| 11A | 26. Bad way to make a group decision | 5 |
| 12A | 27. Batman : Bruce :: Wonder Woman : ___ | 5 |
| 13A | 28. Stray | 5 |
| 14A | 29. Place for driving | 5 |
| 15A | 30. Rolled chip brand from Mexico | 5 |
| 16A | 31. MX-5 and CX-50 maker | 5 |
| 17A | 32. Province in the names of many Chinese restaurants | 5 |
| 18A | 33. Great volumes | 5 |
| 19A | 34. Petunia's partner, in cartoons | 5 |
| 20A | 35. Rounded, in a way | 5 |
| 21A | 36. Jazz form | 3 |
| 22A | 39. Botanical bristles | 4 |
| 23A | 40. Origin of "The Tale of Genji," considered by many to be the world's first novel | 5 |
| 24A | 41. Mountain West campus city | 4 |
| 25A | 42. Network | 3 |
| 26A | 43. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious | 4 |
| 27A | 44. Beer alternative to a 38-Down | 5 |
| 28A | 45. Pooped | 15 |
| 29A | 49. Completely at ease | 15 |
| 30A | 50. "I mean, duh!" | 15 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Student's plan"
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- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: ACADEMICPROGRAM
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2A: "16. Italian pianist who composed the scores for "Nomadland" and "The Father""
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- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: LUDOVICOEINAUDI
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3A: "17. Sort of habitat in a bottle garden"
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- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: CLOSEDECOSYSTEM
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4A: "18. Gumbo ingredients"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant
- Similar words include: okra, lady's-finger, Hibiscus esculentus
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OKRAS
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5A: "19. Top"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the highest point (of something)
- Similar words include: acme, solar apex, apex of the sun's way
- Opposite of: antapex
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Answer: APEX
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6A: "20. California's ___ Nuevo State Park"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the plo in 1974; has conducted terrorist attacks in 20 countries
- Similar words include: Black September, Arab Revolutionary Brigades, Fatah Revolutionary Council
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ANO
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7A: "21. Contests"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others
- Similar words include: compete, contend, vie
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: VIES
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8A: "22. Contents of Pandora's box"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that morally objectionable behavior
- Similar words include: evil, immorality, evilness
- Opposite of: good, goodness
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Answer: EVILS
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9A: "24. Some baseball stats"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a run that is the result of the batter's performance
- Similar words include: run batted in, rbi
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RBIS
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10A: "25. The 21,728th page of 1989's 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that either extremity of something that has length
- Similar words include: last, close, remnant
- Opposite of: beginning, begin
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Answer: END
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11A: "26. Bad way to make a group decision"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that isolated from others
- Similar words include: unequalled, lone, unique
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ALONE
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12A: "27. Batman : Bruce :: Wonder Woman : ___"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that english aristocrat who was the first wife of prince charles; her death in an automobile accident in paris produced intense national mourning (1961-1997)
- Similar words include: Lady Diana Frances Spencer, Princess Diana, Princess of Wales
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DIANA
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13A: "28. Stray"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
- Similar words include: scallywag, scalawag, rapscallion
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ROGUE
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14A: "29. Place for driving"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:
- Similar words include: kitchen stove, crop, graze
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RANGE
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15A: "30. Rolled chip brand from Mexico"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TAKIS
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16A: "31. MX-5 and CX-50 maker"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MAZDA
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17A: "32. Province in the names of many Chinese restaurants"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a province in southeastern central china between the nan ling mountains and the chang jiang; noted for its timber and valuable mineral resources
- Similar words include: Hunan province
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HUNAN
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18A: "33. Great volumes"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a (usually) large and scholarly book
- Similar words include: tome
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TOMES
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19A: "34. Petunia's partner, in cartoons"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PORKY
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20A: "35. Rounded, in a way"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that having a hemispherical vault or dome
- Similar words include: vaulted
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DOMED
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21A: "36. Jazz form"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the law enforcement agency of the justice department that operates a nationwide system of prisons and detention facilities to incarcerate inmates sentenced to imprisonment for federal crimes
- Similar words include: bonk, whap, Federal Bureau of Prisons
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: BOP
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22A: "39. Botanical bristles"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses
- Similar words include: awn
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AWNS
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23A: "40. Origin of "The Tale of Genji," considered by many to be the world's first novel"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a string of more than 3,000 islands to the east of asia extending 1,300 miles between the sea of japan and the western pacific ocean
- Similar words include: Japanese Archipelago, Japanese Islands, Nihon
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: JAPAN
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24A: "41. Mountain West campus city"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a city in western nevada at the foot of the sierra nevada mountains; known for gambling casinos and easy divorce and remarriage
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RENO
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25A: "42. Network"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving
- Similar words include: World Wide Web, entanglement, WWW
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: WEB
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26A: "43. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AONE
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27A: "44. Beer alternative to a 38-Down"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a camp defended by a circular formation of wagons
- Similar words include: laager, lager beer
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LAGER
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28A: "45. Pooped"
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- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: PLUMTUCKEREDOUT
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29A: "49. Completely at ease"
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- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: ASLOOSEASAGOOSE
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30A: "50. "I mean, duh!""
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- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: WELLITSNOWONDER
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Hollow, of a sort | 6 |
| 2D | 2. Actor Kieran of "Succession" | 6 |
| 3D | 3. Found darling | 6 |
| 4D | 4. South Asian crepes | 5 |
| 5D | 5. What are ahead of their times? | 4 |
| 6D | 6. Prefix with point | 3 |
| 7D | 7. Much of a comet, typically | 3 |
| 8D | 8. The solution referred to in Sherlock Holmes's "seven-per-cent solution" | 7 |
| 9D | 9. You and me both! | 6 |
| 10D | 10. Stops lying, say | 5 |
| 11D | 11. Jet-black stone | 4 |
| 12D | 12. Much of Jupiter | 3 |
| 13D | 13. Vegetable also called a Swedish turnip | 8 |
| 14D | 14. DNA compound whose name includes the letters D, N and A | 7 |
| 15D | 15. Pink-flowered tree | 6 |
| 16D | 22. Basketball Hall-of-Famer Baylor | 5 |
| 17D | 23. Who you would be in France? | 4 |
| 18D | 24. Watermelon detritus | 5 |
| 19D | 26. Fine | 5 |
| 20D | 27. Out of it | 5 |
| 21D | 28. Octet on a chessboard | 5 |
| 22D | 29. Instant ___ | 5 |
| 23D | 30. Former Australian prime minister Malcolm | 8 |
| 24D | 31. Home to the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, in brief | 4 |
| 25D | 32. "What's the alternative?" | 7 |
| 26D | 33. Like about 4% of the citizens of Kansas | 7 |
| 27D | 34. Soft, yellow fruit | 6 |
| 28D | 35. Salsas, e.g. | 6 |
| 29D | 36. "No acting up!" | 6 |
| 30D | 37. Like paper napkins | 6 |
| 31D | 38. Beer alternative to a 44-Across | 6 |
| 32D | 40. Tilt | 5 |
| 33D | 41. ___ test (home inspection component) | 5 |
| 34D | 43. Yours, in Tours | 4 |
| 35D | 44. Whose business is just around the block? | 4 |
| 36D | 46. Chemistry class unit: Abbr. | 3 |
| 37D | 47. "___ Beso" | 3 |
| 38D | 48. Unprocessed | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Hollow, of a sort"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small recess opening off a larger room
- Similar words include: bay
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ALCOVE
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2D: "2. Actor Kieran of "Succession""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CULKIN
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3D: "3. Found darling"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that love intensely
- Similar words include: idolised, idolized, worshipped
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ADORED
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4D: "4. South Asian crepes"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DOSAS
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5D: "5. What are ahead of their times?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (old testament) adam's wife in judeo-christian mythology: the first woman and mother of the human race; god created eve from adam's rib and placed adam and eve in the garden of eden
- Similar words include: Eve, eventide, even
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EVES
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6D: "6. Prefix with point"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that used in combination to denote the middle
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MID
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7D: "7. Much of a comet, typically"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that water frozen in the solid state
- Similar words include: meth, frost, methamphetamine hydrochloride
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ICE
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8D: "8. The solution referred to in Sherlock Holmes's "seven-per-cent solution""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a narcotic (alkaloid) extracted from coca leaves; used as a surface anesthetic or taken for pleasure; can become powerfully addictive
- Similar words include: cocain
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: COCAINE
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9D: "9. You and me both!"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
- Similar words include: masses, the great unwashed, mass
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PEOPLE
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10D: "10. Stops lying, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a growth in strength or number or importance
- Similar words include: rise up, cost increase, rebel
- Opposite of: set, sit down
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Answer: RISES
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11D: "11. Jet-black stone"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a chalcedony with alternating black and white bands; used in making cameos
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ONYX
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12D: "12. Much of Jupiter"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by: relatively low density and viscosity; relatively great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature; the ability to diffuse readily; and the spontaneous tendency to become distributed uniformly throughout any container
- Similar words include: swash, throttle, shoot a line
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: GAS
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13D: "13. Vegetable also called a Swedish turnip"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food
- Similar words include: Swedish turnip, Brassica napus napobrassica, swede
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: RUTABAGA
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14D: "14. DNA compound whose name includes the letters D, N and A"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (biochemistry) purine base found in dna and rna; pairs with thymine in dna and with uracil in rna
- Similar words include: A
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ADENINE
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15D: "15. Pink-flowered tree"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that evergreen australasian tree having white or silvery bark and young leaves and yellow flowers
- Similar words include: silver wattle, buck's fizz, Acacia dealbata
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: MIMOSA
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16D: "22. Basketball Hall-of-Famer Baylor"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ELGIN
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17D: "23. Who you would be in France?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: VOUS
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18D: "24. Watermelon detritus"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the natural outer covering of food (usually removed before eating)
- Similar words include: rind
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RINDS
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19D: "26. Fine"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AOKAY
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20D: "27. Out of it"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that to cause someone to lose clear vision, especially from intense light
- Similar words include: stuporous, logy, stun
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DAZED
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21D: "28. Octet on a chessboard"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a row or line of people (especially soldiers or police) standing abreast of one another
- Similar words include: membership, social station, place
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RANKS
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22D: "29. Instant ___"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RAMEN
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23D: "30. Former Australian prime minister Malcolm"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: TURNBULL
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24D: "31. Home to the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MOMA
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25D: "32. "What's the alternative?""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: HOWELSE
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26D: "33. Like about 4% of the citizens of Kansas"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: TOPEKAN
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27D: "34. Soft, yellow fruit"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that tropical american shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit
- Similar words include: melon tree, papaia, Asimina triloba
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PAWPAW
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28D: "35. Salsas, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an artistic form of nonverbal communication
- Similar words include: terpsichore, trip the light fantastic toe, dance
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: DANCES
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29D: "36. "No acting up!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BEGOOD
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30D: "37. Like paper napkins"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ONEUSE
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31D: "38. Beer alternative to a 44-Across"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person employed to carry luggage and supplies
- Similar words include: hall porter, ostiary, door guard
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PORTER
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32D: "40. Tilt"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances
- Similar words include: tilt
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: JOUST
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33D: "41. ___ test (home inspection component)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium; the heaviest of the inert gasses; occurs naturally (especially in areas over granite) and is considered a hazard to health
- Similar words include: atomic number 86, Rn
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RADON
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34D: "43. Yours, in Tours"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ATOI
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35D: "44. Whose business is just around the block?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (trademark) a child's plastic construction set for making mechanical models
- Similar words include: Lego set
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LEGO
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36D: "46. Chemistry class unit: Abbr."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams; the basic unit of amount of substance adopted under the systeme international d'unites
- Similar words include: mole, gram molecule
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MOL
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37D: "47. "___ Beso""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ESO
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38D: "48. Unprocessed"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that informal terms for nakedness
- Similar words include: sore, unsanded, bleak
- Opposite of: cooked
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Answer: RAW
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Expert Solving Strategies
Start Smart
Begin with fill-in-the-blank clues and short 3-4 letter words. These are your foundation.
Decode the Clues
Question marks indicate wordplay or puns. "Maybe" suggests multiple interpretations.
Use Cross-References
Let intersecting letters guide you. One correct answer unlocks several others.
Build Vocabulary
Common crossword words repeat. Learning them speeds up future solving.
Today's Puzzle Stats
30 Across Clues
38 Down Clues
68 Total Clues
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