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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (37 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: Tricky
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Across Clues - Complete List
No. | Clue | Letters |
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1A | 1. Awards for athletic achievements | 5 |
2A | 6. Drove like mad | 4 |
3A | 10. Outer arm muscles, for short | 4 |
4A | 14. Talent seeker | 5 |
5A | 15. Follow instructions | 4 |
6A | 16. Help for a stumped solver | 4 |
7A | 17. "In what season are the Olympics during leap years, sweetie?" "___" | 10 |
8A | 19. Home of the Taj Mahal | 4 |
9A | 20. President Lincoln, informally | 3 |
10A | 21. Carnival attractions | 5 |
11A | 22. Multiple-choice option akin to "None of the above" | 5 |
12A | 23. Heavily edit with beauty filters, as a photo, in modern lingo | 7 |
13A | 25. Fares and fees | 5 |
14A | 26. "Which 'Little Rascals' character has a cowlick, sugar?" "___" | 12 |
15A | 30. Head-turning spectacle | 5 |
16A | 33. Puts out in public | 4 |
17A | 34. Pitcher's stat, for short | 3 |
18A | 35. These are visible when you sport an updo | 4 |
19A | 36. "Got it" | 5 |
20A | 38. Say if you're attending, in brief | 4 |
21A | 39. Bird that can outrun the fastest human sprinters | 3 |
22A | 40. Stories passed down by word of mouth | 4 |
23A | 41. Makes more manageable | 5 |
24A | 42. "What are oils and watercolors examples of, dear?" "___" | 12 |
25A | 46. Watermelon leftovers | 5 |
26A | 47. "In all probability …" | 7 |
27A | 51. Skewered dish served with peanut sauce | 5 |
28A | 52. Symbol of poison, often | 5 |
29A | 54. What happy tails do | 3 |
30A | 55. Without warranty | 4 |
31A | 56. "What do you call a close-fitting hat, doll?" "___" | 10 |
32A | 58. Mule or moccasin | 4 |
33A | 59. Cobra's tooth | 4 |
34A | 60. Order from the doc's office | 5 |
35A | 61. Keep up to date across multiple devices | 4 |
36A | 62. Run away | 4 |
37A | 63. Something a bloodhound picks up | 5 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Awards for athletic achievements"
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- Think of something that catch sight of
- Similar words include: spy, espy, spot
- Pattern: _____
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2A: "6. Drove like mad"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column
- Similar words include: rupture, shoot down, buck
- Pattern: ____
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3A: "10. Outer arm muscles, for short"
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- Pattern: ____
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4A: "14. Talent seeker"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- Similar words include: reconnoiter, pathfinder, reconnoitre
- Pattern: _____
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5A: "15. Follow instructions"
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- Think of something that be obedient to
- Opposite of: disobey
- Pattern: ____
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6A: "16. Help for a stumped solver"
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- Think of something that an indirect suggestion
- Similar words include: speck, tip, intimation
- Pattern: ____
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7A: "17. "In what season are the Olympics during leap years, sweetie?" "___""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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8A: "19. Home of the Taj Mahal"
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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9A: "20. President Lincoln, informally"
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- Pattern: ___
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10A: "21. Carnival attractions"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile)
- Similar words include: drive, razz, free
- Opposite of: walk
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11A: "22. Multiple-choice option akin to "None of the above""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied; - the white queen
- Similar words include: early, former
- Opposite of: same
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12A: "23. Heavily edit with beauty filters, as a photo, in modern lingo"
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- Pattern: _______
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13A: "25. Fares and fees"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that pecuniary reimbursement to the winning party for the expenses of litigation
- Similar words include: be, cost, toll
- Pattern: _____
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14A: "26. "Which 'Little Rascals' character has a cowlick, sugar?" "___""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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15A: "30. Head-turning spectacle"
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- Think of something that the place where some action occurs
- Similar words include: picture, setting, conniption
- Pattern: _____
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16A: "33. Puts out in public"
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- Think of something that affected manners intended to impress others
- Similar words include: pose, breeze, tune
- Pattern: ____
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17A: "34. Pitcher's stat, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
- Similar words include: geological era, epoch, earned run average
- Pattern: ___
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18A: "35. These are visible when you sport an updo"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
- Similar words include: spike, pinna, capitulum
- Pattern: ____
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19A: "36. "Got it""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make mention of
- Similar words include: notice, observe, famed
- Opposite of: ignore
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20A: "38. Say if you're attending, in brief"
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- Pattern: ____
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21A: "39. Bird that can outrun the fastest human sprinters"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism
- Similar words include: Dromaius novaehollandiae, electromagnetic unit, Emu novaehollandiae
- Pattern: ___
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22A: "40. Stories passed down by word of mouth"
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- Think of something that knowledge gained through tradition or anecdote
- Similar words include: traditional knowledge
- Pattern: ____
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23A: "41. Makes more manageable"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
- Similar words include: relief, EAS, repose
- Opposite of: difficulty
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24A: "42. "What are oils and watercolors examples of, dear?" "___""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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25A: "46. Watermelon leftovers"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the natural outer covering of food (usually removed before eating)
- Similar words include: rind
- Pattern: _____
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26A: "47. "In all probability …""
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- Pattern: _______
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27A: "51. Skewered dish served with peanut sauce"
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- Pattern: _____
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28A: "52. Symbol of poison, often"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates
- Pattern: _____
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29A: "54. What happy tails do"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a witty amusing person who makes jokes
- Similar words include: shake, waggle, card
- Pattern: ___
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30A: "55. Without warranty"
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- Pattern: ____
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31A: "56. "What do you call a close-fitting hat, doll?" "___""
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- Pattern: __________
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32A: "58. Mule or moccasin"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material
- Similar words include: horseshoe, brake shoe, skid
- Pattern: ____
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33A: "59. Cobra's tooth"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a bantu language spoken in cameroon
- Pattern: ____
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34A: "60. Order from the doc's office"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a certificate whose value is recognized by the payer and payee; scrip is not currency but may be convertible into currency
- Pattern: _____
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35A: "61. Keep up to date across multiple devices"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make synchronous and adjust in time or manner
- Similar words include: synchronise, synchronize
- Opposite of: desynchronize, desynchronise
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36A: "62. Run away"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that run away quickly
- Similar words include: fly, take flight
- Pattern: ____
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37A: "63. Something a bloodhound picks up"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a distinctive odor that is pleasant
- Similar words include: odourise, olfactory property, perfume
- Opposite of: deodourise, deodorize
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Down Clues - Complete List
No. | Clue | Letters |
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1D | 1. Bit of writing from Joan Didion | 5 |
2D | 2. ___ diver | 5 |
3D | 3. Apples, pears and quinces, botanically | 5 |
4D | 4. "Dee-lish!" | 3 |
5D | 5. Bacteria-free | 7 |
6D | 6. "Should've listened to me!" | 6 |
7D | 7. Instrument similar to a heckelphone | 4 |
8D | 8. Makes go "Vroom!" | 4 |
9D | 9. Appreciation for design | 3 |
10D | 10. "Oh, really?" | 6 |
11D | 11. Moral justification | 9 |
12D | 12. Waiting to be used | 9 |
13D | 13. One of seven in the Big Dipper | 4 |
14D | 18. Jazz lick | 4 |
15D | 22. ___ and aahs | 4 |
16D | 24. Comic ___ (font) | 4 |
17D | 25. Indicator of a penalty, in soccer | 4 |
18D | 27. Casual farewell | 5 |
19D | 28. "A pox on thee!" | 3 |
20D | 29. Keeps talking and talking and talking | 4 |
21D | 30. Come off as | 4 |
22D | 31. Avoiding the limelight, say | 9 |
23D | 32. Quality of a scholar | 9 |
24D | 36. Award nominations, so to speak | 4 |
25D | 37. Pop singer Rita | 3 |
26D | 38. Poverty, symbolically | 4 |
27D | 40. Noble title on TV's "Bridgerton" | 4 |
28D | 41. Having no boundaries | 7 |
29D | 43. "I'll be right there" | 6 |
30D | 44. Room to relax in | 6 |
31D | 45. Savory South Asian rice cake | 4 |
32D | 48. Cognizant | 5 |
33D | 49. Yitzhak ___, two-time Israeli P.M. | 5 |
34D | 50. Country whose national soccer team is nicknamed the Pharaohs | 5 |
35D | 51. Back talk | 4 |
36D | 52. Circus clapper | 4 |
37D | 53. "Citizen ___" | 4 |
38D | 56. Someone you're super-tight with, in brief | 3 |
39D | 57. Secretly loop in, in a way | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Bit of writing from Joan Didion"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an analytic or interpretive literary composition
- Similar words include: seek, examine, prove
- Pattern: _____
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2D: "2. ___ diver"
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: Aqua-Lung, aqualung
- Pattern: _____
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3D: "3. Apples, pears and quinces, botanically"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part
- Similar words include: pome, false fruit
- Pattern: _____
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4D: "4. "Dee-lish!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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5D: "5. Bacteria-free"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that incapable of reproducing
- Similar words include: uninspired, unimaginative, uninventive
- Opposite of: fertile
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6D: "6. "Should've listened to me!""
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- Pattern: ______
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7D: "7. Instrument similar to a heckelphone"
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: hautbois, hautboy
- Pattern: ____
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8D: "8. Makes go "Vroom!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that rate of revolution of a motor
- Similar words include: revolutions per minute, rev, rev up
- Pattern: ____
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9D: "9. Appreciation for design"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the organ of sight
- Similar words include: heart, centre, middle
- Pattern: ___
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10D: "10. "Oh, really?""
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- Pattern: ______
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11D: "11. Moral justification"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that according with conscience or morality
- Similar words include: nicety, justness, correctness
- Opposite of: incorrectness, inappropriateness
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12D: "12. Waiting to be used"
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- Pattern: _________
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13D: "13. One of seven in the Big Dipper"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior
- Similar words include: sensation, mavin, ace
- Pattern: ____
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14D: "18. Jazz lick"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a berber living in northern morocco
- Similar words include: riffle, flick, flip
- Pattern: ____
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15D: "22. ___ and aahs"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that express admiration and pleasure by uttering `ooh' or `aah'
- Similar words include: aah, ooh
- Pattern: ____
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16D: "24. Comic ___ (font)"
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- Pattern: ____
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17D: "25. Indicator of a penalty, in soccer"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes
- Similar words include: batting order, identity card, wag
- Pattern: ____
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18D: "27. Casual farewell"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that coming at a subsequent time or stage
- Similar words include: after, posterior, late
- Opposite of: early
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19D: "28. "A pox on thee!""
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- Pattern: ___
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20D: "29. Keeps talking and talking and talking"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that informal terms for the mouth
- Similar words include: hole, trap, maw
- Pattern: ____
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21D: "30. Come off as"
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- Think of something that give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
- Similar words include: appear, look
- Pattern: ____
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22D: "31. Avoiding the limelight, say"
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- Pattern: _________
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23D: "32. Quality of a scholar"
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- Think of something that profound scholarly knowledge
- Similar words include: learnedness, encyclopedism, learning
- Pattern: _________
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24D: "36. Award nominations, so to speak"
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- Think of something that a sign of assent or salutation or command
- Similar words include: nod
- Pattern: ____
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25D: "37. Pop singer Rita"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mouth or mouthlike opening
- Similar words include: OS, operating system, os
- Pattern: ___
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26D: "38. Poverty, symbolically"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small piece of cloth or paper
- Similar words include: get to, tatter, rag week
- Pattern: ____
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27D: "40. Noble title on TV's "Bridgerton""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a polite name for any woman
- Similar words include: dame, ma'am, peeress
- Opposite of: Lord, nobleman
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28D: "41. Having no boundaries"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that tiresomely long; seemingly without end
- Similar words include: eternal, interminable, dateless
- Pattern: _______
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29D: "43. "I'll be right there""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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30D: "44. Room to relax in"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an upholstered seat for more than one person
- Similar words include: loiter, footle, hang around
- Pattern: ______
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31D: "45. Savory South Asian rice cake"
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- Pattern: ____
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32D: "48. Cognizant"
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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33D: "49. Yitzhak ___, two-time Israeli P.M."
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- Pattern: _____
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34D: "50. Country whose national soccer team is nicknamed the Pharaohs"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a republic in northeastern africa known as the united arab republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 bc
- Similar words include: Arab Republic of Egypt, United Arab Republic, Egyptian Empire
- Pattern: _____
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35D: "51. Back talk"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an impudent or insolent rejoinder
- Similar words include: mouth, sassing, back talk
- Pattern: ____
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36D: "52. Circus clapper"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm; used for sealing documents and parcels and letters
- Similar words include: sealskin, varnish, stamp
- Opposite of: unseal
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37D: "53. "Citizen ___""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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38D: "56. Someone you're super-tight with, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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39D: "57. Secretly loop in, in a way"
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- Pattern: ___
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