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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (40 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
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. Train unit | 3 |
| 2A | 4. One means of going up a hill | 4 |
| 3A | 8. Builds | 6 |
| 4A | 14. Tap it | 3 |
| 5A | 15. Reese Witherspoon's role in "Legally Blonde" | 4 |
| 6A | 16. Fictional land of magic and talking animals | 6 |
| 7A | 17. Baseball great who said "If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600" | 8 |
| 8A | 19. Playground retort | 6 |
| 9A | 20. Untouchable | 6 |
| 10A | 21. Goalie's stat | 5 |
| 11A | 23. Genre for "Sunset Boulevard" | 4 |
| 12A | 24. Designation for some audio connectors | 4 |
| 13A | 25. Inch (toward) | 4 |
| 14A | 29. Had the reins | 3 |
| 15A | 31. Give and take | 4 |
| 16A | 32. Word with stop or prize | 4 |
| 17A | 33. Financial support | 7 |
| 18A | 36. Lose firmness | 3 |
| 19A | 38. Punk subculture | 3 |
| 20A | 39. World capital in central Anatolia | 6 |
| 21A | 40. Woke | 6 |
| 22A | 42. That little thing you do? | 3 |
| 23A | 43. Inits. for cinephiles | 3 |
| 24A | 45. Struggle to decide | 7 |
| 25A | 46. "___ a roll!" | 4 |
| 26A | 48. Spreadsheet units | 4 |
| 27A | 50. In good shape | 3 |
| 28A | 51. Corn syrup brand | 4 |
| 29A | 52. Book of Mormon book | 4 |
| 30A | 53. Plant watcher, for short | 4 |
| 31A | 56. Helped temporarily, with "over" | 5 |
| 32A | 58. Chops | 6 |
| 33A | 60. High-end suit | 6 |
| 34A | 63. Locale for a couples cruise? | 8 |
| 35A | 65. Milieu for the Flying Wallendas | 6 |
| 36A | 66. Obsessed with | 4 |
| 37A | 67. Reed in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame | 3 |
| 38A | 68. Celestial omens, to some | 6 |
| 39A | 69. Make tears | 4 |
| 40A | 70. Mind meld? | 3 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Train unit"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
- Similar words include: railcar, automobile, motorcar
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CAR
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2A: "4. One means of going up a hill"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TBAR
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3A: "8. Builds"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that construct, build, or erect
- Similar words include: rear, raise, set up
- Opposite of: level
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Answer: ERECTS
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4A: "14. Tap it"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the united states an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ALE
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5A: "15. Reese Witherspoon's role in "Legally Blonde""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ELLE
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6A: "16. Fictional land of magic and talking animals"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: NARNIA
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7A: "17. Baseball great who said "If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: BABERUTH
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8A: "19. Playground retort"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ICANSO
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9A: "20. Untouchable"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who is immune to a particular infection
- Similar words include: resistant
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: IMMUNE
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10A: "21. Goalie's stat"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring
- Similar words include: keep open, salve, hold open
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SAVES
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11A: "23. Genre for "Sunset Boulevard""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NOIR
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12A: "24. Designation for some audio connectors"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova)
- Similar words include: manful, virile, manlike
- Opposite of: female
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Answer: MALE
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13A: "25. Inch (toward)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the boundary of a surface
- Similar words include: boundary, sharpness, bound
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EDGE
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14A: "29. Had the reins"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that diode such that light emitted at a p-n junction is proportional to the bias current; color depends on the material used
- Similar words include: top, light-emitting diode, precede
- Opposite of: follow
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Answer: LED
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15A: "31. Give and take"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an equal exchange
- Similar words include: trade, barter, switch
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SWAP
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16A: "32. Word with stop or prize"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle
- Similar words include: room access, doorway, threshold
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DOOR
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17A: "33. Financial support"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of providing approval and support
- Similar words include: bet on, second, financial support
- Opposite of: advance, veer
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Answer: BACKING
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18A: "36. Lose firmness"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a shape that sags
- Similar words include: sag down, flag, swag
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SAG
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19A: "38. Punk subculture"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EMO
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20A: "39. World capital in central Anatolia"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the capital of turkey; located in west-central turkey; it was formerly known as angora and is the home of angora goats
- Similar words include: Turkish capital, Angora, capital of Turkey
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ANKARA
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21A: "40. Woke"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that become active
- Similar words include: rouse, drive out, bestir
- Opposite of: cause to sleep, calm
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Answer: ROUSED
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22A: "42. That little thing you do?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a local and habitual twitching especially in the face
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TIC
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23A: "43. Inits. for cinephiles"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TMC
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24A: "45. Struggle to decide"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cause to agonize
- Similar words include: agonise
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: AGONIZE
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25A: "46. "___ a roll!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IMON
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26A: "48. Spreadsheet units"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line
- Similar words include: row, run-in, dustup
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ROWS
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27A: "50. In good shape"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a display of bad temper
- Similar words include: correspond, convulsion, accommodate
- Opposite of: disagree, unfit
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Answer: FIT
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28A: "51. Corn syrup brand"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: KARO
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29A: "52. Book of Mormon book"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ENOS
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30A: "53. Plant watcher, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a government agency in the department of labor to maintain a safe and healthy work environment
- Similar words include: Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OSHA
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31A: "56. Helped temporarily, with "over""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that rise or move forward
- Similar words include: surge, tide
- Opposite of: ebb
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Answer: TIDED
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32A: "58. Chops"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that food chopped into small bits
- Similar words include: soften, moderate, mince
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: MINCES
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33A: "60. High-end suit"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ARMANI
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34A: "63. Locale for a couples cruise?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: NOAHSARK
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35A: "65. Milieu for the Flying Wallendas"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BIGTOP
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36A: "66. Obsessed with"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: INTO
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37A: "67. Reed in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LOU
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38A: "68. Celestial omens, to some"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit
- Similar words include: comet
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: COMETS
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39A: "69. Make tears"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain
- Similar words include: cry
- Opposite of: laugh
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Answer: WEEP
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40A: "70. Mind meld?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses
- Similar words include: extrasensory perception, clairvoyance, second sight
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ESP
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Part of an airplane | 5 |
| 2D | 2. Where Davy Crockett died, with "the" | 5 |
| 3D | 3. Athlete tackling El Capitan, e.g. | 11 |
| 4D | 4. Relative of a gull | 4 |
| 5D | 5. Down | 4 |
| 6D | 6. ___-country | 3 |
| 7D | 7. See 49-Down | 6 |
| 8D | 8. A bunch of fruit may grow on it | 9 |
| 9D | 9. Hurry | 4 |
| 10D | 10. Wiped out | 6 |
| 11D | 11. ___ International, channel seen in hotel rooms worldwide | 3 |
| 12D | 12. "Deck the Halls" contraction | 3 |
| 13D | 13. ___ Tiago, largest of the Cape Verde islands | 3 |
| 14D | 18. Problem solver's cry | 6 |
| 15D | 22. "___, that love, so gentle in his view, / Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!": "Romeo and Juliet" | 4 |
| 16D | 24. N.Y. Rangers' home | 3 |
| 17D | 26. Investor's question for a start-up, to which 3-, 8-, 35- and 49-/7-Down reply "Yes!"' | 11 |
| 18D | 27. One of the Addams family | 5 |
| 19D | 28. Slowly diminish | 5 |
| 20D | 30. Gossip | 4 |
| 21D | 33. Dyeing technique | 5 |
| 22D | 34. Jungian archetype | 5 |
| 23D | 35. Who popularized the proverb "With great power comes great responsibility" | 9 |
| 24D | 37. Clown | 4 |
| 25D | 41. Weddings | 6 |
| 26D | 44. Traffic director | 4 |
| 27D | 45. Fool | 3 |
| 28D | 47. Write, as music | 6 |
| 29D | 49. With 7-Down, worker who likely knows the ropes | 6 |
| 30D | 54. Subs | 5 |
| 31D | 55. Invite from atop the stairs, say | 5 |
| 32D | 57. When ties get untied, for short | 4 |
| 33D | 58. ___ in three | 4 |
| 34D | 59. Place offering a Rise 'N Shine breakfast | 4 |
| 35D | 60. Epitome of simplicity | 3 |
| 36D | 61. "Flying Down to ___" (1933 film) | 3 |
| 37D | 62. Lion keeper? | 3 |
| 38D | 64. Start to count? | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Part of an airplane"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that small room on a ship or boat where people sleep
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CABIN
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2D: "2. Where Davy Crockett died, with "the""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a siege and massacre at a mission in san antonio in 1836; mexican forces under santa anna besieged and massacred american rebels who were fighting to make texas independent of mexico
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ALAMO
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3D: "3. Athlete tackling El Capitan, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: ROCKCLIMBER
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4D: "4. Relative of a gull"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that small slender gull having narrow wings and a forked tail
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TERN
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5D: "5. Down"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
- Similar words include: dingy, sorry, gentle
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BLUE
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6D: "6. ___-country"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
- Similar words include: EL, altitude, elevation
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ALT
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7D: "7. See 49-Down"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who washes things for a living
- Similar words include: washing machine, automatic washer
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: WASHER
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8D: "8. A bunch of fruit may grow on it"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that gossip spread by spoken communication
- Similar words include: pipeline, word of mouth, grape
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: GRAPEVINE
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9D: "9. Hurry"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any competition
- Similar words include: backwash, slipstream, hie
- Opposite of: linger
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Answer: RACE
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10D: "10. Wiped out"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that remove from memory or existence
- Similar words include: rub out, wipe off, erase
- Opposite of: record
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Answer: ERASED
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11D: "11. ___ International, channel seen in hotel rooms worldwide"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CNN
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12D: "12. "Deck the Halls" contraction"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite
- Similar words include: ti, Ti, titanium
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TIS
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13D: "13. ___ Tiago, largest of the Cape Verde islands"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SAO
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14D: "18. Problem solver's cry"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an alloy of copper and nickel with high electrical resistance and a low temperature coefficient; used as resistance wire
- Similar words include: constantan
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: EUREKA
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15D: "22. "___, that love, so gentle in his view, / Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!": "Romeo and Juliet""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism
- Similar words include: unluckily, unfortunately, ala
- Opposite of: luckily, fortunately
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Answer: ALAS
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16D: "24. N.Y. Rangers' home"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that white crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor; often used in chinese cooking
- Similar words include: monosodium glutamate
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MSG
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17D: "26. Investor's question for a start-up, to which 3-, 8-, 35- and 49-/7-Down reply "Yes!"'"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: DOESITSCALE
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18D: "27. One of the Addams family"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GOMEZ
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19D: "28. Slowly diminish"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that become ground down or deteriorate
- Similar words include: gnaw at, eat at, fret
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ERODE
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20D: "30. Gossip"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
- Similar words include: stain, filth, shit
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DIRT
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21D: "33. Dyeing technique"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a dyed fabric; a removable wax is used where the dye is not wanted
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BATIK
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22D: "34. Jungian archetype"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (jungian psychology) the inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ANIMA
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23D: "35. Who popularized the proverb "With great power comes great responsibility""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: SPIDERMAN
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24D: "37. Clown"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a man who is a stupid incompetent fool
- Similar words include: goofball, jackass, drop the ball
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GOOF
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25D: "41. Weddings"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an organization of employees formed to bargain with the employer
- Similar words include: unification, labor union, brotherhood
- Opposite of: separation, disunion
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Answer: UNIONS
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26D: "44. Traffic director"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any cone-shaped artifact
- Similar words include: strobile, strobilus, retinal cone
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CONE
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27D: "45. Fool"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- Similar words include: stern, behind, piece of ass
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ASS
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28D: "47. Write, as music"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that put into notation, as of music or choreography
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: NOTATE
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29D: "49. With 7-Down, worker who likely knows the ropes"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a framework of wood or metal that contains a glass windowpane and is built into a wall or roof to admit light or air
- Similar words include: windowpane
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: WINDOW
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30D: "54. Subs"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength
- Similar words include: hoagy, Italian sandwich, sub
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HEROS
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31D: "55. Invite from atop the stairs, say"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ASKUP
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32D: "57. When ties get untied, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: INOT
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33D: "58. ___ in three"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the officer below the master on a commercial ship
- Similar words include: match, teammate, Ilex paraguariensis
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MATE
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34D: "59. Place offering a Rise 'N Shine breakfast"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IHOP
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35D: "60. Epitome of simplicity"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)
- Similar words include: ABCs, first rudiment, rudiment
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ABC
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36D: "61. "Flying Down to ___" (1933 film)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the former capital and 2nd largest city of brazil; chief brazilian port; famous as a tourist attraction
- Similar words include: Rio de Janeiro
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RIO
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37D: "62. Lion keeper?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MGM
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38D: "64. Start to count?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
- Similar words include: ane, nonpareil, one and only
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ONE
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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.
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Build Vocabulary
Common crossword words repeat. Learning them speeds up future solving.
Today's Puzzle Stats
40 Across Clues
38 Down Clues
78 Total Clues
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