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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (71 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (69 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. Where Gloria Estefan was born | 6 |
| 2A | 7. Hairstyle that can be casual or formal | 4 |
| 3A | 11. Relative of a sultan | 4 |
| 4A | 15. Strikebreaking sort | 4 |
| 5A | 19. One who gives a good talking-to? | 6 |
| 6A | 20. Spring's opposite, tidally | 4 |
| 7A | 21. Constant nuisance | 4 |
| 8A | 22. Mansión, por ejemplo | 4 |
| 9A | 23. As the British pound rises in value, the dollar ___ | 11 |
| 10A | 25. Sure things | 9 |
| 11A | 27. Area with pews | 4 |
| 12A | 28. Part of many a morning routine | 5 |
| 13A | 29. Equipment | 4 |
| 14A | 30. Orchestra section toward the middle of the pit | 5 |
| 15A | 31. With 76-Down, individually | 5 |
| 16A | 33. Fury | 3 |
| 17A | 34. After spending the afternoon at Epcot, we had dinner at a ___ bistro | 11 |
| 18A | 36. Ancestor of the tuba or sousaphone | 8 |
| 19A | 38. Low-quality paper? | 3 |
| 20A | 39. Like a naughty Beetle Bailey, in brief | 4 |
| 21A | 40. Overdone | 5 |
| 22A | 41. The "E" of Q.E.D. | 4 |
| 23A | 43. Depleted | 6 |
| 24A | 48. Facetious suffix with most | 3 |
| 25A | 51. Did Joyce write courtesy of a ___? | 12 |
| 26A | 55. Blunt negative | 4 |
| 27A | 56. Philosopher who purportedly said "The best fighter is never angry" | 6 |
| 28A | 58. Have a bawl | 3 |
| 29A | 59. Son of Hanna-Barbera's Doggie Daddy | 5 |
| 30A | 60. Reason to relocate a picnic blanket, maybe | 4 |
| 31A | 61. Borneo neighbor | 7 |
| 32A | 63. Female moose or elephant | 3 |
| 33A | 65. Fish-eating raptors | 4 |
| 34A | 66. Dab with a towel | 4 |
| 35A | 67. Subdivisions of some counties: Abbr. | 4 |
| 36A | 68. An increase in ham prices forced the deli to ___ sandwiches higher | 9 |
| 37A | 71. Begged | 4 |
| 38A | 72. Scorch the surface | 4 |
| 39A | 73. Andean stimulant | 4 |
| 40A | 74. Source of the films "The Blues Brothers" and "Coneheads," in brief | 3 |
| 41A | 75. Gerald Ford or William Howard Taft, once | 7 |
| 42A | 78. Peter, Paul and Mary, e.g. | 4 |
| 43A | 79. Words before sea or lunch | 5 |
| 44A | 81. Summer mo. | 3 |
| 45A | 83. Decks for reading | 6 |
| 46A | 84. Biblical preposition | 4 |
| 47A | 85. To Washington ___, Germany, seemed far from Tarrytown, N.Y. | 12 |
| 48A | 88. Big word in advertising | 3 |
| 49A | 89. Toady | 6 |
| 50A | 91. Buzz, so to speak | 4 |
| 51A | 92. Charles or Ray who lent their name to a kind of chair | 5 |
| 52A | 94. Unpleasant look | 4 |
| 53A | 97. Social gathering of a sort | 3 |
| 54A | 98. Certain canines | 8 |
| 55A | 102. Some Californians consider Santa ___ on Earth | 11 |
| 56A | 107. ___-cone | 3 |
| 57A | 108. Stockpile | 5 |
| 58A | 109. Anesthetic first used on a patient in 1842 | 5 |
| 59A | 110. "Fine as is, actually" | 4 |
| 60A | 111. Canada's first national park, founded in 1885 | 5 |
| 61A | 113. "___ Three Lives" (early TV drama) | 4 |
| 62A | 114. The shark-warning notes of "Jaws," for example | 9 |
| 63A | 116. The supermodel was holding a copy of ___ herself on the beach | 11 |
| 64A | 118. Tackle box item | 4 |
| 65A | 119. Home makeover, in brief | 4 |
| 66A | 120. Election Day is one: Abbr. | 4 |
| 67A | 121. Work on the score of | 6 |
| 68A | 122. Carbon compound | 4 |
| 69A | 123. Beat one's chest | 4 |
| 70A | 124. Set of pull-ups? | 4 |
| 71A | 125. Very high | 6 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Where Gloria Estefan was born"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the capital and largest city of cuba; located in western cuba; one of the oldest cities in the americas
- Similar words include: capital of Cuba, Cuban capital
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: HAVANA
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2A: "7. Hairstyle that can be casual or formal"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: UPDO
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3A: "11. Relative of a sultan"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in africa or arabia)
- Similar words include: emeer, amir, ameer
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EMIR
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4A: "15. Strikebreaking sort"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
- Similar words include: blackleg, strikebreaker, rat
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SCAB
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5A: "19. One who gives a good talking-to?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who delivers a speech or oration
- Similar words include: public speaker, speechmaker, speechifier
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ORATOR
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6A: "20. Spring's opposite, tidally"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon
- Similar words include: neap tide
- Opposite of: springtide
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Answer: NEAP
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7A: "21. Constant nuisance"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that something causing misery or death
- Similar words include: scourge, nemesis, curse
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BANE
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8A: "22. Mansión, por ejemplo"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CASA
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9A: "23. As the British pound rises in value, the dollar ___"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: BILLWITHERS
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10A: "25. Sure things"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: SLAMDUNKS
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11A: "27. Area with pews"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the central area of a church
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NAVE
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12A: "28. Part of many a morning routine"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of removing hair with a razor
- Similar words include: trim, plane, knock off
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SHAVE
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13A: "29. Equipment"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion
- Similar words include: appurtenance, geared wheel, geartrain
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GEAR
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14A: "30. Orchestra section toward the middle of the pit"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece
- Similar words include: oboe, hautboy, hautbois
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OBOES
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15A: "31. With 76-Down, individually"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ONEAT
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16A: "33. Fury"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
- Similar words include: choler, ira, anger
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IRE
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17A: "34. After spending the afternoon at Epcot, we had dinner at a ___ bistro"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: TONYORLANDO
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18A: "36. Ancestor of the tuba or sousaphone"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: BASSHORN
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19A: "38. Low-quality paper?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small piece of cloth or paper
- Similar words include: razz, call down, cod
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RAG
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20A: "39. Like a naughty Beetle Bailey, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one who is away or absent without leave
- Similar words include: truant
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AWOL
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21A: "40. Overdone"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
- Similar words include: shopworn, tired, threadbare
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TRITE
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22A: "41. The "E" of Q.E.D."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ERAT
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23A: "43. Depleted"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: USEDUP
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24A: "48. Facetious suffix with most"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that standard time in the 5th time zone west of greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian; used in the eastern united states
- Similar words include: Eastern Standard Time, Eastern Time
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EST
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25A: "51. Did Joyce write courtesy of a ___?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: ULYSSESGRANT
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26A: "55. Blunt negative"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NOPE
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27A: "56. Philosopher who purportedly said "The best fighter is never angry""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: LAOTSE
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28A: "58. Have a bawl"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a dyspneic condition
- Similar words include: cocksucker, sobbing, shit
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SOB
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29A: "59. Son of Hanna-Barbera's Doggie Daddy"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AUGIE
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30A: "60. Reason to relocate a picnic blanket, maybe"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers
- Similar words include: emmet, ant, pismire
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ANTS
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31A: "61. Borneo neighbor"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mountainous island in western indonesia
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SUMATRA
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32A: "63. Female moose or elephant"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that female of domestic cattle:
- Similar words include: moo-cow, overawe
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: COW
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33A: "65. Fish-eating raptors"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail; of europe and greenland
- Similar words include: Haliatus albicilla, white-tailed sea eagle, European sea eagle
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ERNS
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34A: "66. Dab with a towel"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a blemish made by dirt
- Similar words include: smear, daub, slur
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BLOT
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35A: "67. Subdivisions of some counties: Abbr."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TWPS
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36A: "68. An increase in ham prices forced the deli to ___ sandwiches higher"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: MARKCUBAN
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37A: "71. Begged"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that appeal or request earnestly
- Similar words include: plead
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PLED
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38A: "72. Scorch the surface"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make very hot and dry
- Similar words include: dried-up, scorch, singe
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SEAR
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39A: "73. Andean stimulant"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a south american shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the andes; a source of cocaine
- Similar words include: coca plant, Erythroxylon coca, Imogene Coca
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: COCA
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40A: "74. Source of the films "The Blues Brothers" and "Coneheads," in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SNL
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41A: "75. Gerald Ford or William Howard Taft, once"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: YALEMAN
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42A: "78. Peter, Paul and Mary, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
- Similar words include: three, terzetto, ternion
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TRIO
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43A: "79. Words before sea or lunch"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OUTTO
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44A: "81. Summer mo."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the month following july and preceding september
- Similar words include: August
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AUG
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45A: "83. Decks for reading"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of a set of (usually 72) cards that include 22 cards representing virtues and vices and death and fortune etc.; used by fortunetellers
- Similar words include: tarot, tarot card
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TAROTS
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46A: "84. Biblical preposition"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: UNTO
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47A: "85. To Washington ___, Germany, seemed far from Tarrytown, N.Y."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: IRVINGBERLIN
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48A: "88. Big word in advertising"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
- Similar words include: fresh, young, novel
- Opposite of: worn, old
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Answer: NEW
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49A: "89. Toady"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: YESMAN
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50A: "91. Buzz, so to speak"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a telephone connection
- Similar words include: phone, telephone, bid
- Opposite of: put option
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Answer: CALL
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51A: "92. Charles or Ray who lent their name to a kind of chair"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states designer noted for an innovative series of chairs (1907-1978)
- Similar words include: Charles Eames
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EAMES
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52A: "94. Unpleasant look"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls
- Similar words include: sneer
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LEER
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53A: "97. Social gathering of a sort"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: BEE
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54A: "98. Certain canines"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars
- Similar words include: dogtooth, cuspid, canine
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: EYETEETH
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55A: "102. Some Californians consider Santa ___ on Earth"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: BARBARAEDEN
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56A: "107. ___-cone"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SNO
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57A: "108. Stockpile"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services
- Similar words include: hive away, computer storage, storehouse
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: STORE
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58A: "109. Anesthetic first used on a patient in 1842"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies
- Similar words include: ethoxyethane, quintessence, divinyl ether
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ETHER
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59A: "110. "Fine as is, actually""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that printing: cancel, as of a correction or deletion
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: STET
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60A: "111. Canada's first national park, founded in 1885"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a popular vacation spot in the canadian rockies
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BANFF
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61A: "113. "___ Three Lives" (early TV drama)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ILED
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62A: "114. The shark-warning notes of "Jaws," for example"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a melodic phrase that accompanies the reappearance of a person or situation (as in wagner's operas)
- Similar words include: leitmotiv
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: LEITMOTIF
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63A: "116. The supermodel was holding a copy of ___ herself on the beach"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: ELLEFANNING
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64A: "118. Tackle box item"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a formation of people or things one beside another
- Similar words include: job, tune, logical argument
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LINE
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65A: "119. Home makeover, in brief"
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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66A: "120. Election Day is one: Abbr."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the third day of the week; the second working day
- Similar words include: Tuesday
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TUES
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67A: "121. Work on the score of"
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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68A: "122. Carbon compound"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ENOL
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69A: "123. Beat one's chest"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an instance of boastful talk
- Similar words include: shoot a line, line-shooting, boss
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BRAG
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70A: "124. Set of pull-ups?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that weapons considered collectively
- Similar words include: sleeve, subdivision, build up
- Opposite of: disarm
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Answer: ARMS
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71A: "125. Very high"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that kill by throwing stones at
- Similar words include: stone, hopped-up, lapidate
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: STONED
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Schmooze | 6 |
| 2D | 2. ___ Afghan Airlines, carrier to the Mideast | 6 |
| 3D | 3. Parts of a heart or trumpet | 6 |
| 4D | 4. No fewer than | 7 |
| 5D | 5. "Stat!" | 3 |
| 6D | 6. Media personalities Melber and Fleischer | 4 |
| 7D | 7. Remove a restraint from | 9 |
| 8D | 8. Irk | 5 |
| 9D | 9. Have the nerve | 4 |
| 10D | 10. Special ___ | 3 |
| 11D | 11. Buddy who portrayed TV's Jed Clampett | 5 |
| 12D | 12. Peninsula in southeast Asia | 6 |
| 13D | 13. Consecutively | 6 |
| 14D | 14. Somnial acronym | 3 |
| 15D | 15. Aquatic acronym | 5 |
| 16D | 16. Collection of laws | 5 |
| 17D | 17. "Jeez, sorry I ___!" | 5 |
| 18D | 18. Sarastro in Mozart's "The Magic Flute," e.g. | 5 |
| 19D | 24. Product of the first three primes | 6 |
| 20D | 26. Tiny house occupants | 5 |
| 21D | 29. Get crazy (over) | 6 |
| 22D | 32. Pushes with force | 7 |
| 23D | 34. Smears | 4 |
| 24D | 35. Directs, as cargo | 6 |
| 25D | 37. Edmonton N.H.L. player | 5 |
| 26D | 38. International shoe brand originating in England | 6 |
| 27D | 42. Extremely loyal | 8 |
| 28D | 44. One who's a well-meaning but bad influence on a friend, maybe | 7 |
| 29D | 45. Why do none of the Fruit of the Loom characters ___-colored clothing? | 8 |
| 30D | 46. Current | 8 |
| 31D | 47. Annoyance | 4 |
| 32D | 48. Trains above street level | 3 |
| 33D | 49. White wine named for a region in France | 8 |
| 34D | 50. Peeping ___ for Lady Godiva to appear | 8 |
| 35D | 52. Like some philosophical arguments | 8 |
| 36D | 53. Taj Mahal's city | 4 |
| 37D | 54. Numbskull | 5 |
| 38D | 57. Bar with drafts | 7 |
| 39D | 62. Love, in Lyon | 5 |
| 40D | 64. Spots to go in the U.K. | 3 |
| 41D | 69. End of any Shakespeare play | 4 |
| 42D | 70. Powerless | 6 |
| 43D | 71. Space balls | 7 |
| 44D | 72. Bed-___ (Brooklyn neighborhood, familiarly) | 4 |
| 45D | 73. Shakespeare, vis-à-vis the expression "brave new world" | 6 |
| 46D | 76. See 31-Across | 5 |
| 47D | 77. Sydney's state: Abbr. | 3 |
| 48D | 80. How some risks are taken | 6 |
| 49D | 82. Immaturity | 9 |
| 50D | 86. Secluded valley | 4 |
| 51D | 87. "Take it easy, will you?!" | 6 |
| 52D | 90. Startle | 5 |
| 53D | 93. Mounted below the surface of | 7 |
| 54D | 95. ___ Sunday | 6 |
| 55D | 96. Body part containing photoreceptors | 6 |
| 56D | 99. Relating to the wind's movement | 6 |
| 57D | 100. Vingt + dix | 6 |
| 58D | 101. Equivocated | 6 |
| 59D | 102. Ball girl? | 5 |
| 60D | 103. Didn't dine out | 5 |
| 61D | 104. Large safari sight | 5 |
| 62D | 105. Intoxicating Asian plant whose name sounds like an insect | 5 |
| 63D | 106. Clear, in a way, as a windshield | 5 |
| 64D | 107. Beaver State capital | 5 |
| 65D | 111. Sight of a speeding car, maybe | 4 |
| 66D | 112. Season ticket holders, presumably | 4 |
| 67D | 115. Spherical shape | 3 |
| 68D | 116. Info for a traveler, for short | 3 |
| 69D | 117. Follower of waste and want | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Schmooze"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that rub elbows with
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: HOBNOB
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2D: "2. ___ Afghan Airlines, carrier to the Mideast"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that city in tunisia
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ARIANA
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3D: "3. Parts of a heart or trumpet"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a structure in a hollow organ (like the heart) with a flap to insure one-way flow of fluid through it
- Similar words include: valve
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: VALVES
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4D: "4. No fewer than"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ATLEAST
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5D: "5. "Stat!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the momentary present
- Similar words include: instantly, directly, immediately
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NOW
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6D: "6. Media personalities Melber and Fleischer"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ARIS
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7D: "7. Remove a restraint from"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that remove the harness from
- Opposite of: harness
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: UNHARNESS
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8D: "8. Irk"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an annoyed or irritated mood
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PEEVE
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9D: "9. Have the nerve"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy
- Similar words include: daring, presume, defy
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DARE
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10D: "10. Special ___"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (roman mythology) goddess of abundance and fertility; wife of saturn; counterpart of greek rhea and cybele of ancient asia minor
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OPS
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11D: "11. Buddy who portrayed TV's Jed Clampett"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EBSEN
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12D: "12. Peninsula in southeast Asia"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a constitutional monarchy in southeastern asia on borneo and the malay peninsula; achieved independence from the united kingdom in 1957
- Similar words include: Malaysia
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: MALAYA
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13D: "13. Consecutively"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: INAROW
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14D: "14. Somnial acronym"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs; a state of rapidly shifting eye movements during sleep
- Similar words include: REM sleep, rapid eye movement sleep, rapid eye movement
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: REM
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15D: "15. Aquatic acronym"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a device (trade name aqua-lung) that lets divers breathe under water; scuba is an acronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus
- Similar words include: aqualung, Aqua-Lung
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SCUBA
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16D: "16. Collection of laws"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy
- Similar words include: canyon
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CANON
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17D: "17. "Jeez, sorry I ___!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that inquire about
- Similar words include: expect, involve, necessitate
- Opposite of: obviate
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Answer: ASKED
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18D: "18. Sarastro in Mozart's "The Magic Flute," e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an adult male singer with the lowest voice
- Similar words include: bass voice, bass
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BASSO
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19D: "24. Product of the first three primes"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cardinal number that is the product of ten and three
- Similar words include: XXX, xxx, 30
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: THIRTY
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20D: "26. Tiny house occupants"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small replica of a person; used as a toy
- Similar words include: doll, skirt, chick
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DOLLS
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21D: "29. Get crazy (over)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: GOGAGA
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22D: "32. Pushes with force"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the force used in pushing
- Similar words include: hurl, push up, throw
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: THRUSTS
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23D: "34. Smears"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- Similar words include: Jack-tar, gob, old salt
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TARS
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24D: "35. Directs, as cargo"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an established line of travel or access
- Similar words include: rootle, itinerary, road
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ROUTES
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25D: "37. Edmonton N.H.L. player"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a worker who oils engines or machinery
- Similar words include: tank ship, tanker, oil tanker
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OILER
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26D: "38. International shoe brand originating in England"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: REEBOK
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27D: "42. Extremely loyal"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: TRUEBLUE
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28D: "44. One who's a well-meaning but bad influence on a friend, maybe"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ENABLER
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29D: "45. Why do none of the Fruit of the Loom characters ___-colored clothing?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: DONLEMON
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30D: "46. Current"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: UPTODATE
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31D: "47. Annoyance"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
- Similar words include: gadfly, cuss, plague
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PEST
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32D: "48. Trains above street level"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
- Similar words include: el, elevated railroad, elevation
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ELS
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33D: "49. White wine named for a region in France"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that semisweet golden-colored table or dessert wine from around bordeaux in france; similar wine from california
- Similar words include: Sauternes
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: SAUTERNE
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34D: "50. Peeping ___ for Lady Godiva to appear"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: TOMWAITS
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35D: "52. Like some philosophical arguments"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that of or relating to socrates or to his method of teaching
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: SOCRATIC
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36D: "53. Taj Mahal's city"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a city in northern india; former capital of the mogul empire; site of the taj mahal
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AGRA
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37D: "54. Numbskull"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a stupid foolish person
- Similar words include: nincompoop, poop
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NINNY
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38D: "57. Bar with drafts"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter
- Similar words include: ginmill, saloon, bar
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: TAPROOM
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39D: "62. Love, in Lyon"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
- Similar words include: affaire, involvement, liaison
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AMOUR
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40D: "64. Spots to go in the U.K."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: WCS
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41D: "69. End of any Shakespeare play"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ACTV
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42D: "70. Powerless"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (usually followed by `to') not having the necessary means or skill or know-how
- Similar words include: ineffective, ineffectual
- Opposite of: able
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Answer: UNABLE
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43D: "71. Space balls"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; mercury, venus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn, uranus, neptune, and pluto in order of their proximity to the sun; viewed from the constellation hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction
- Similar words include: major planet, satellite, planet
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: PLANETS
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44D: "72. Bed-___ (Brooklyn neighborhood, familiarly)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: STUY
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45D: "73. Shakespeare, vis-à-vis the expression "brave new world""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a maker of counterfeit coins
- Similar words include: moneyer, minter
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: COINER
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46D: "76. See 31-Across"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ATIME
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47D: "77. Sydney's state: Abbr."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the agency that provides units to conduct unconventional and counter-guerilla warfare
- Similar words include: Naval Special Warfare
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NSW
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48D: "80. How some risks are taken"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ONABET
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49D: "82. Immaturity"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation
- Similar words include: verdancy, viridity, green
- Opposite of: ripeness
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Answer: GREENNESS
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50D: "86. Secluded valley"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a narrow secluded valley (in the mountains)
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GLEN
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51D: "87. "Take it easy, will you?!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of laying off an employee or a work force
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: LAYOFF
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52D: "90. Startle"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that fear resulting from the awareness of danger
- Similar words include: appal, appall, dismay
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ALARM
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53D: "93. Mounted below the surface of"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SETINTO
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54D: "95. ___ Sunday"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a christian celebration of the resurrection of christ; celebrated on the sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox
- Similar words include: east wind, easterly
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: EASTER
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55D: "96. Body part containing photoreceptors"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the innermost light-sensitive membrane covering the back wall of the eyeball; it is continuous with the optic nerve
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: RETINA
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56D: "99. Relating to the wind's movement"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of one of four linguistic divisions of the prehistoric greeks
- Similar words include: Aeolian
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: EOLIAN
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57D: "100. Vingt + dix"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TRENTE
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58D: "101. Equivocated"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- Similar words include: skirt, sidestep, dodge
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: HEDGED
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59D: "102. Ball girl?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BELLE
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60D: "103. Didn't dine out"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ATEIN
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61D: "104. Large safari sight"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast asia and africa having very thick skin and one or two horns on the snout
- Similar words include: rhinoceros
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RHINO
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62D: "105. Intoxicating Asian plant whose name sounds like an insect"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast asians
- Similar words include: betel pepper, Piper betel
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BETEL
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63D: "106. Clear, in a way, as a windshield"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that free from mist
- Similar words include: demist
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DEFOG
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64D: "107. Beaver State capital"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that capital of the state of oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the willamette river
- Similar words include: capital of Oregon
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SALEM
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65D: "111. Sight of a speeding car, maybe"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a hazy or indistinct representation
- Similar words include: dim, film over, smutch
- Opposite of: focus
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Answer: BLUR
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66D: "112. Season ticket holders, presumably"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces
- Similar words include: rooter, fan, devotee
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: FANS
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67D: "115. Spherical shape"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye
- Similar words include: ball, globe, revolve
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ORB
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68D: "116. Info for a traveler, for short"
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: Basque Homeland and Freedom, Euskadi ta Askatasuna, Basque Fatherland and Liberty
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ETA
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69D: "117. Follower of waste and want"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that negation of a word or group of words
- Similar words include: non
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NOT
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71 Across Clues
69 Down Clues
140 Total Clues
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