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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (39 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (39 clues)
- Down Clues - Detailed Hints
- Expert Solving Strategies
- Today's Puzzle Statistics
Today's Puzzle Difficulty: Moderate
Pro Tip: Start with the fill-in-the-blank clues - they're usually the easiest entry points!
Across Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1A | 1. "That so?" or "Uh-huh, that's so" | 4 |
| 2A | 5. Abbr. that often follows a comma | 3 |
| 3A | 8. Hardly anyone counts on this anymore | 6 |
| 4A | 14. Shakespearean villain | 4 |
| 5A | 15. Zip | 3 |
| 6A | 16. Wine and dine | 6 |
| 7A | 17. How something distinctive appears | 11 |
| 8A | 19. Any member of a band dubbed "The President's Own" | 6 |
| 9A | 20. Leveled the playing field, say? | 5 |
| 10A | 21. Fight night sites | 6 |
| 11A | 22. Shortage of a sort | 6 |
| 12A | 25. Cardinal's honorific | 11 |
| 13A | 27. Suppose | 6 |
| 14A | 29. Feel 41-Across | 3 |
| 15A | 30. ___ Summitt, legendary women's basketball coach | 3 |
| 16A | 33. Asian city one can view within Instagram? | 4 |
| 17A | 34. Among others, for short | 4 |
| 18A | 37. Well-informed | 5 |
| 19A | 39. Writer Zora ___ Hurston | 5 |
| 20A | 41. See 29-Across | 3 |
| 21A | 42. Its hands might be near one of yours | 5 |
| 22A | 43. Common daytime spots for first dates | 5 |
| 23A | 44. Part of a list at an awards show | 7 |
| 24A | 46. Biker's selection | 4 |
| 25A | 47. Doc seen for sinusitis | 3 |
| 26A | 48. Austin summer hrs. | 3 |
| 27A | 50. Board meeting handout | 6 |
| 28A | 52. Discusses at length | 8 |
| 29A | 55. Pin number? | 3 |
| 30A | 56. Literary detective whose final case is in 1975's "Curtain" | 6 |
| 31A | 59. Sounds heard in haunted houses | 5 |
| 32A | 61. What might prompt someone to close a window | 6 |
| 33A | 62. Classic computer game whose players avoid hazardous items in a grid … as suggested by this puzzle? | 11 |
| 34A | 66. Eye, slangily | 6 |
| 35A | 67. Actress Long | 3 |
| 36A | 68. "You'll ___" | 4 |
| 37A | 69. Sabotage | 9 |
| 38A | 70. Lift a finger, so to speak | 3 |
| 39A | 71. Output of a social media algorithm | 4 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. "That so?" or "Uh-huh, that's so""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that not only so, but
- Similar words include: yea
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: YEAH
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2A: "5. Abbr. that often follows a comma"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ETC
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3A: "8. Hardly anyone counts on this anymore"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a tablet placed horizontally on top of the capital of a column as an aid in supporting the architrave
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ABACUS
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4A: "14. Shakespearean villain"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the villain in william shakespeare's tragedy who tricked othello into murdering his wife
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IAGO
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5A: "15. Zip"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a quantity of no importance
- Similar words include: zero, null, zilch
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NIL
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6A: "16. Wine and dine"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that provide with choice or abundant food or drink
- Similar words include: treat
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: REGALE
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7A: "17. How something distinctive appears"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that in a prominent way
- Similar words include: conspicuously
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: PROMINENTLY
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8A: "19. Any member of a band dubbed "The President's Own""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of the united states marine corps
- Similar words include: nautical, maritime, devil dog
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: MARINE
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9A: "20. Leveled the playing field, say?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cut with a blade or mower
- Similar words include: mop, pout, mow
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MOWED
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10A: "21. Fight night sites"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a particular environment or walk of life
- Similar words include: stadium, domain, field
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ARENAS
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11A: "22. Shortage of a sort"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an acute insufficiency
- Similar words include: dearth, shortage
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: FAMINE
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12A: "25. Cardinal's honorific"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: HISEMINENCE
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13A: "27. Suppose"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that expect, believe, or suppose
- Similar words include: work out, see, cipher
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: RECKON
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14A: "29. Feel 41-Across"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that aromatic bulb used as seasoning
- Similar words include: garlic, pain, trouble
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AIL
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15A: "30. ___ Summitt, legendary women's basketball coach"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the sound made by a gentle blow
- Similar words include: rap, dab, slick
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PAT
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16A: "33. Asian city one can view within Instagram?"
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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17A: "34. Among others, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ETAL
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18A: "37. Well-informed"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception
- Similar words include: mindful, cognizant, cognisant
- Opposite of: unmindful, unaware
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Answer: AWARE
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19A: "39. Writer Zora ___ Hurston"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NEALE
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20A: "41. See 29-Across"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining
- Similar words include: inauspicious, poorly, complaint
- Opposite of: well
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Answer: ILL
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21A: "42. Its hands might be near one of yours"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small portable timepiece
- Similar words include: lookout, spotter, look on
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: WATCH
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22A: "43. Common daytime spots for first dates"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold
- Similar words include: coffee shop, coffeehouse, cafe
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CAFES
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23A: "44. Part of a list at an awards show"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a politician who is running for public office
- Similar words include: campaigner, candidate
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: NOMINEE
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24A: "46. Biker's selection"
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: gearing, pitch, appurtenance
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GEAR
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25A: "47. Doc seen for sinusitis"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ENT
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26A: "48. Austin summer hrs."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CDT
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27A: "50. Board meeting handout"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to
- Similar words include: order of business, schedule, agendum
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: AGENDA
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28A: "52. Discusses at length"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: GOESINTO
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29A: "55. Pin number?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system
- Similar words include: tenner, decade, x
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TEN
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30A: "56. Literary detective whose final case is in 1975's "Curtain""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: POIROT
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31A: "59. Sounds heard in haunted houses"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an utterance expressing pain or disapproval
- Similar words include: groan, moan
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MOANS
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32A: "61. What might prompt someone to close a window"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that news that updates your information
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: UPDATE
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33A: "62. Classic computer game whose players avoid hazardous items in a grid … as suggested by this puzzle?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that ship equipped to detect and then destroy or neutralize or remove marine mines
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: MINESWEEPER
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34A: "66. Eye, slangily"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others
- Similar words include: Peeping Tom, voyeur
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PEEPER
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35A: "67. Actress Long"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NIA
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36A: "68. "You'll ___""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of
- Similar words include: be, experience, springy
- Opposite of: recorded, dead
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Answer: LIVE
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37A: "69. Sabotage"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that destroy property or hinder normal operations
- Similar words include: countermine, weaken, sabotage
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: UNDERMINE
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38A: "70. Lift a finger, so to speak"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something
- Similar words include: essay, examine, taste
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TRY
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39A: "71. Output of a social media algorithm"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that food for domestic livestock
- Similar words include: prey, provender, run
- Opposite of: starve
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Answer: FEED
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Sound from a puppy | 3 |
| 2D | 2. Balance aid | 3 |
| 3D | 3. What might come after many years? | 3 |
| 4D | 4. Ad ___ | 7 |
| 5D | 5. Interweave | 7 |
| 6D | 6. Scrabble rackful | 5 |
| 7D | 7. Half of a noted crime duo | 5 |
| 8D | 8. Renowned house at Milan Fashion Week | 6 |
| 9D | 9. Cousin of a Danish | 8 |
| 10D | 10. Match, as subject and verb | 5 |
| 11D | 11. Biblical person who says "My punishment is greater than I can bear" | 4 |
| 12D | 12. Bone with a radial notch | 4 |
| 13D | 13. Candy company known for its chocolate and butterscotch | 4 |
| 14D | 18. Neighborhood in N.Y.C. or L.A. | 4 |
| 15D | 22. Home of the most Literature Nobelists in history | 6 |
| 16D | 23. Greece's largest airline | 6 |
| 17D | 24. Only video game to sell 300 million copies | 9 |
| 18D | 26. Selfish cry before an evil laugh | 11 |
| 19D | 28. Moolah | 4 |
| 20D | 30. One of four awarded to Bill Nye | 6 |
| 21D | 31. Crane's place, maybe | 6 |
| 22D | 32. Where the film "Argo" is set | 6 |
| 23D | 35. Features of some windows | 5 |
| 24D | 36. Spanish phone greeting | 3 |
| 25D | 38. Job listing info | 4 |
| 26D | 40. Moped alternative | 8 |
| 27D | 45. Erode | 7 |
| 28D | 49. Figure out | 9 |
| 29D | 51. Out of the park | 4 |
| 30D | 52. Certain Kool-Aid flavor | 5 |
| 31D | 53. On the horizon | 8 |
| 32D | 54. Polite refusal | 5 |
| 33D | 56. ___ platter (Chinese restaurant offering) | 4 |
| 34D | 57. Doing business | 4 |
| 35D | 58. Carded | 4 |
| 36D | 60. The "s" in the acronym "scuba" | 4 |
| 37D | 63. Pizza, e.g. | 3 |
| 38D | 64. Christmas ___ | 3 |
| 39D | 65. Like Malbec wine | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Sound from a puppy"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog)
- Similar words include: yap, yelp, yelping
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: YIP
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2D: "2. Balance aid"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
- Similar words include: auricle, pinna, spike
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EAR
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3D: "3. What might come after many years?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that gone by; or in the past
- Similar words include: agone
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AGO
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4D: "4. Ad ___"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: HOMINEM
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5D: "5. Interweave"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that tie or link together
- Similar words include: knit, interlace, intertwine
- Opposite of: untwine
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Answer: ENTWINE
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6D: "6. Scrabble rackful"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces
- Similar words include: tile, roofing tile
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TILES
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7D: "7. Half of a noted crime duo"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a river in western scotland that flows from the southern uplands into the firth of clyde; navigable by oceangoing vessels as far as glasgow
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CLYDE
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8D: "8. Renowned house at Milan Fashion Week"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ARMANI
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9D: "9. Cousin of a Danish"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: BEARCLAW
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10D: "10. Match, as subject and verb"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that be in accord; be in agreement
- Similar words include: concord, tally, harmonise
- Opposite of: disagree
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Answer: AGREE
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11D: "11. Biblical person who says "My punishment is greater than I can bear""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (old testament) cain and abel were the first children of adam and eve born after the fall of man; cain killed abel out of jealousy and was exiled by god
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CAIN
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12D: "12. Bone with a radial notch"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm
- Similar words include: elbow bone
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ULNA
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13D: "13. Candy company known for its chocolate and butterscotch"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located
- Similar words include: experience, ensure, visit
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SEES
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14D: "18. Neighborhood in N.Y.C. or L.A."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NOHO
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15D: "22. Home of the most Literature Nobelists in history"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a republic in western europe; the largest country wholly in europe
- Similar words include: Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault, French Republic, Anatole France
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: FRANCE
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16D: "23. Greece's largest airline"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an arm of the mediterranean between greece and turkey; a main trade route for the ancient civilizations of crete and greece and rome and persia
- Similar words include: Aegean Sea
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: AEGEAN
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17D: "24. Only video game to sell 300 million copies"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: MINECRAFT
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18D: "26. Selfish cry before an evil laugh"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: MINEALLMINE
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19D: "28. Moolah"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that informal terms for money
- Similar words include: cabbage, borecole, loot
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: KALE
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20D: "30. One of four awarded to Bill Nye"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention
- Similar words include: apparent, letters patent, plain
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PATENT
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21D: "31. Crane's place, maybe"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a covered passageway with shops and stalls on either side
- Similar words include: colonnade
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ARCADE
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22D: "32. Where the film "Argo" is set"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the capital and largest city of iran; located in northern iran
- Similar words include: Teheran, Iranian capital, capital of Iran
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TEHRAN
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23D: "35. Features of some windows"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
- Similar words include: tint, touch, tincture
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TINTS
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24D: "36. Spanish phone greeting"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ALO
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25D: "38. Job listing info"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that something that remunerates
- Similar words include: salary, remuneration, engage
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: WAGE
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26D: "40. Moped alternative"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: ESCOOTER
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27D: "45. Erode"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: EATAWAY
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28D: "49. Figure out"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study
- Similar words include: square up, influence, mold
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: DETERMINE
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29D: "51. Out of the park"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
- Similar words include: get, run, move
- Opposite of: malfunction, stay in place
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Answer: GONE
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30D: "52. Certain Kool-Aid flavor"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various juicy fruit of the genus vitis with green or purple skins; grow in clusters
- Similar words include: grape vine, grapevine, grapeshot
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GRAPE
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31D: "53. On the horizon"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that close in time; about to occur
- Similar words include: close at hand, impendent, impending
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: IMMINENT
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32D: "54. Polite refusal"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NOSIR
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33D: "56. ___ platter (Chinese restaurant offering)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PUPU
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34D: "57. Doing business"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water
- Similar words include: heart-to-heart, undefended, undetermined
- Opposite of: fold, covert
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Answer: OPEN
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35D: "58. Carded"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IDED
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36D: "60. The "s" in the acronym "scuba""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that your consciousness of your own identity
- Similar words include: ego
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SELF
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37D: "63. Pizza, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top
- Similar words include: Proto-Indo European
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PIE
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38D: "64. Christmas ___"
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: even, evening, eventide
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EVE
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39D: "65. Like Malbec wine"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
- Similar words include: loss, cerise, Marxist
- Opposite of: gain
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Answer: RED
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Expert Solving Strategies
Start Smart
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Decode the Clues
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Build Vocabulary
Common crossword words repeat. Learning them speeds up future solving.
Today's Puzzle Stats
39 Across Clues
39 Down Clues
78 Total Clues
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