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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (67 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (73 clues)
- Down Clues - Detailed Hints
- Expert Solving Strategies
- Today's Puzzle Statistics
Today's Puzzle Difficulty: Challenging
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. Huge success | 5 |
| 2A | 6. Seal, say | 5 |
| 3A | 11. From the beginning | 4 |
| 4A | 15. ___ sequencing (lab technique) | 3 |
| 5A | 18. Lively Bohemian dances | 6 |
| 6A | 20. Alternative to a tissue, informally | 5 |
| 7A | 21. Bit in a hippie's necklace | 8 |
| 8A | 23. Poker declaration | 6 |
| 9A | 24. Remove, as a ribbon | 5 |
| 10A | 25. Share confidences with | 8 |
| 11A | 26. Business traveler's convenience | 11 |
| 12A | 28. Divisions on a map | 9 |
| 13A | 29. Brian ___, songwriter who popularized the term "generative music" | 3 |
| 14A | 30. Second volume | 6 |
| 15A | 31. 😂😂😂 | 4 |
| 16A | 32. Broadband inits. | 3 |
| 17A | 33. Fights back tears? | 5 |
| 18A | 34. Michelle Obama, to Princeton | 4 |
| 19A | 36. Indulge (in) | 7 |
| 20A | 40. National Arab American Heritage Month | 5 |
| 21A | 43. Place to hang at home? | 6 |
| 22A | 45. Oppressive political regime, so to speak, with "the" | 6 |
| 23A | 46. Have an ominous presence | 9 |
| 24A | 50. Sound of a joke going over one's head | 6 |
| 25A | 52. Giant Middle-earth creature | 3 |
| 26A | 53. Arched recess | 4 |
| 27A | 54. Person I truly am | 6 |
| 28A | 56. "Hey!" from on high | 6 |
| 29A | 59. Word with pack or rug | 3 |
| 30A | 60. Senior, informally | 7 |
| 31A | 61. Org. that confiscates liquids | 3 |
| 32A | 62. Knocked out of the park | 4 |
| 33A | 65. Pop culture hit about dystopian technology | 8 |
| 34A | 67. Former parent of NBC | 3 |
| 35A | 69. Eliminators of some teams | 8 |
| 36A | 72. Corn chip with a "Fuego" flavor | 4 |
| 37A | 73. In the vein of | 3 |
| 38A | 75. Smallish batteries | 7 |
| 39A | 77. Rapper ___ Milli | 3 |
| 40A | 78. Get involved | 6 |
| 41A | 80. Perceptive | 6 |
| 42A | 81. Hawaiian shindig | 4 |
| 43A | 82. Clothes for a doze, in brief | 3 |
| 44A | 85. Native of the Delaware Valley | 6 |
| 45A | 87. Pursuers of utopian goals | 9 |
| 46A | 89. Coffees that aren't single-origin | 6 |
| 47A | 92. Self-admiring sort | 6 |
| 48A | 94. Major Ukrainian seaport | 5 |
| 49A | 95. Sisterly | 7 |
| 50A | 97. Sneaky plot | 4 |
| 51A | 98. Pilgrims in Saudi Arabia | 5 |
| 52A | 101. Ear-related prefix | 3 |
| 53A | 102. Not fully open | 4 |
| 54A | 104. Hybrid pastry | 6 |
| 55A | 106. P, to Pericles | 3 |
| 56A | 109. Injection associated with a certain toxin | 9 |
| 57A | 112. Annoyances for ticket holders | 11 |
| 58A | 114. Palm Springs or Puerto Vallarta, notably | 8 |
| 59A | 115. Brown songbirds | 5 |
| 60A | 116. Tale-telling brothers | 6 |
| 61A | 117. Turned up | 8 |
| 62A | 118. "Strike up the band!" | 5 |
| 63A | 119. Neighbor of a Saudi | 6 |
| 64A | 120. Nickname for Rachel | 3 |
| 65A | 121. Verbally expresses disdain | 4 |
| 66A | 122. Warning signs | 5 |
| 67A | 123. Tightly packed | 5 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Huge success"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a vigorous blow
- Similar words include: bang up, blast, smashingly
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SMASH
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2A: "6. Seal, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the temporal end; the concluding time
- Similar words include: near, nigh, secretive
- Opposite of: far, distant
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Answer: CLOSE
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3A: "11. From the beginning"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that again but in a new or different way
- Similar words include: afresh
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ANEW
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4A: "15. ___ sequencing (lab technique)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transmission of genetic information
- Similar words include: desoxyribonucleic acid, deoxyribonucleic acid
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DNA
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5A: "18. Lively Bohemian dances"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that music performed for dancing the polka
- Similar words include: polka
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: POLKAS
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6A: "20. Alternative to a tissue, informally"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a square piece of cloth used for wiping the eyes or nose or as a costume accessory
- Similar words include: hankie, hankey, handkerchief
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HANKY
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7A: "21. Bit in a hippie's necklace"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: LOVEBEAD
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8A: "23. Poker declaration"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: IRAISE
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9A: "24. Remove, as a ribbon"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that undo the ties of
- Similar words include: unbrace, loosen, undo
- Opposite of: tie
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Answer: UNTIE
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10A: "25. Share confidences with"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: OPENUPTO
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11A: "26. Business traveler's convenience"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: COMPANYCARD
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12A: "28. Divisions on a map"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a politically organized body of people under a single government
- Similar words include: rural area, res publica, body politic
- Opposite of: urban area
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Answer: COUNTRIES
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13A: "29. Brian ___, songwriter who popularized the term "generative music""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ENO
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14A: "30. Second volume"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BOOKII
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15A: "31. 😂😂😂"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ROFL
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16A: "32. Broadband inits."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a generic name for digital lines that are provided by telephone companies to their local subscribers and that carry data at high speeds
- Similar words include: digital subscriber line
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DSL
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17A: "33. Fights back tears?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that something of little value
- Similar words include: damn, shucks, tinker's dam
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DARNS
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18A: "34. Michelle Obama, to Princeton"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the ammonium double sulfate of aluminum
- Similar words include: ammonium alum, ammonia alum, graduate
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ALUM
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19A: "36. Indulge (in)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that have some of the qualities or attributes of something
- Similar words include: share, partake in, touch
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: PARTAKE
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20A: "40. National Arab American Heritage Month"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the month following march and preceding may
- Similar words include: Apr
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: APRIL
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21A: "43. Place to hang at home?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space
- Similar words include: cupboard, W.C., loo
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CLOSET
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22A: "45. Oppressive political regime, so to speak, with "the""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity
- Similar words include: organisation, organization, system of rules
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SYSTEM
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23A: "46. Have an ominous presence"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: LOOMLARGE
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24A: "50. Sound of a joke going over one's head"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the noise produced by the sudden rush of a fluid (a gas or liquid)
- Similar words include: hiss, swoosh, woosh
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: WHOOSH
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25A: "52. Giant Middle-earth creature"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ENT
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26A: "53. Arched recess"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church; usually contains the altar
- Similar words include: apsis
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: APSE
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27A: "54. Person I truly am"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: REALME
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28A: "56. "Hey!" from on high"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: UPHERE
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29A: "59. Word with pack or rug"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse
- Similar words include: scum bag, rotter, blabber
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RAT
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30A: "60. Senior, informally"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an elderly person
- Similar words include: golden ager, senior citizen, old person
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: OLDSTER
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31A: "61. Org. that confiscates liquids"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an agency established in 2001 to safeguard united states transportation systems and insure safe air travel
- Similar words include: Transportation Security Administration
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TSA
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32A: "62. Knocked out of the park"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that succeed at easily
- Similar words include: ace, sweep through, breeze through
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ACED
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33A: "65. Pop culture hit about dystopian technology"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: MRROBOTO
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34A: "67. Former parent of NBC"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RCA
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35A: "69. Eliminators of some teams"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any final competition to determine a championship
- Similar words include: playoff
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: PLAYOFFS
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36A: "72. Corn chip with a "Fuego" flavor"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TAKI
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37A: "73. In the vein of"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ALA
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38A: "75. Smallish batteries"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: AACELLS
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39A: "77. Rapper ___ Milli"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: FLO
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40A: "78. Get involved"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: STEPIN
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41A: "80. Perceptive"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
- Similar words include: scheming, conniving, sharp
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SHREWD
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42A: "81. Hawaiian shindig"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an elaborate hawaiian feast or party (especially one accompanied by traditional foods and entertainment)
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LUAU
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43A: "82. Clothes for a doze, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PJS
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44A: "85. Native of the Delaware Valley"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: LENAPE
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45A: "87. Pursuers of utopian goals"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations
- Similar words include: idealist, dreamer
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: IDEALISTS
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46A: "89. Coffees that aren't single-origin"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an occurrence of thorough mixing
- Similar words include: portmanteau, combine, go
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BLENDS
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47A: "92. Self-admiring sort"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a conceited and self-centered person
- Similar words include: egocentric, swellhead, egotist
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: EGOIST
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48A: "94. Major Ukrainian seaport"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a port city of south central ukraine on an arm of the black sea
- Similar words include: Odessa
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ODESA
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49A: "95. Sisterly"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that like or characteristic of or befitting a sister
- Similar words include: sisterly, sisterlike
- Opposite of: brotherly
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Answer: SORORAL
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50A: "97. Sneaky plot"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)
- Similar words include: artifice
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RUSE
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51A: "98. Pilgrims in Saudi Arabia"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an arabic term of respect for someone who has made the pilgrimage to mecca
- Similar words include: hadji, haji, hajji
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HAJIS
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52A: "101. Ear-related prefix"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of the siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the platte and missouri rivers in nebraska
- Similar words include: Otoe
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OTO
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53A: "102. Not fully open"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that slightly open
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AJAR
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54A: "104. Hybrid pastry"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CRONUT
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55A: "106. P, to Pericles"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the 17th letter of the greek alphabet
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RHO
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56A: "109. Injection associated with a certain toxin"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: ANTIVENOM
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57A: "112. Annoyances for ticket holders"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: TRAINDELAYS
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58A: "114. Palm Springs or Puerto Vallarta, notably"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: GAYMECCA
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59A: "115. Brown songbirds"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that english architect who designed more than fifty london churches (1632-1723)
- Similar words include: Sir Christopher Wren, wren, Wren
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: WRENS
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60A: "116. Tale-telling brothers"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the younger of the two grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories (1786-1859)
- Similar words include: Wilhelm Grimm, Grimm, Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: GRIMMS
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61A: "117. Turned up"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
- Similar words include: look, appear, come along
- Opposite of: disappear
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Answer: APPEARED
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62A: "118. "Strike up the band!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HITIT
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63A: "119. Neighbor of a Saudi"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a native or inhabitant of yemen
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: YEMENI
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64A: "120. Nickname for Rachel"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RAE
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65A: "121. Verbally expresses disdain"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that utter `tsk,' `tut,' or `tut-tut,' as in disapproval
- Similar words include: tsk, tut-tut, tut
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TUTS
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66A: "122. Warning signs"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sign of something about to happen
- Similar words include: prodigy, betoken, bode
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OMENS
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67A: "123. Tightly packed"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
- Similar words include: thick, dim, impenetrable
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DENSE
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Food enlivener | 5 |
| 2D | 2. Hardly a genius | 5 |
| 3D | 3. Home to a chapel with the Texas flag flying beside it | 5 |
| 4D | 4. Spotify button | 4 |
| 5D | 5. Loves, loves, loves the occasion | 8 |
| 6D | 6. Hurls | 6 |
| 7D | 7. Feature of a Hawaiian house | 5 |
| 8D | 8. Being prosecuted | 7 |
| 9D | 9. Go downhill fast, say | 4 |
| 10D | 10. ___ candy | 3 |
| 11D | 11. Chilly | 5 |
| 12D | 12. Orange juice preference | 6 |
| 13D | 13. With no one ahead or behind | 4 |
| 14D | 14. Lost all liquid resources | 7 |
| 15D | 15. Remove hair from | 8 |
| 16D | 16. Main antagonist on HBO's "Euphoria" | 4 |
| 17D | 17. Clamors | 4 |
| 18D | 19. Mexicali mister | 5 |
| 19D | 22. Ruptures | 6 |
| 20D | 27. Over there, poetically | 3 |
| 21D | 28. Openly reveal one's sexuality | 7 |
| 22D | 31. Process for would-be Greeks | 4 |
| 23D | 33. It's over a quarter of a quarter | 4 |
| 24D | 35. Features of the names of many Apple products | 11 |
| 25D | 37. N.Y.C. stadium eponym | 4 |
| 26D | 38. Doll of a guy? | 3 |
| 27D | 39. Vitals checker, in brief | 3 |
| 28D | 40. Interrupter of dreams, maybe | 5 |
| 29D | 41. Genre for Keith Haring | 6 |
| 30D | 42. Political platforms? | 6 |
| 31D | 43. Saxon's foe | 4 |
| 32D | 44. Competitive athlete's goal, perhaps | 8 |
| 33D | 47. Guthrie who sang "Alice's Restaurant" | 4 |
| 34D | 48. Bureaucratic barriers | 7 |
| 35D | 49. Fuel source | 8 |
| 36D | 51. "Care to dance?" | 7 |
| 37D | 55. Sea, to Seurat | 3 |
| 38D | 57. They may be caught in the summer | 4 |
| 39D | 58. Prefix with sphere | 3 |
| 40D | 60. Tribute in the Tribune, say | 4 |
| 41D | 63. Flow out | 6 |
| 42D | 64. Keys above C's | 6 |
| 43D | 66. Blesses | 3 |
| 44D | 68. "That feels ama-a-azing!" | 3 |
| 45D | 70. Alan with six Emmys | 4 |
| 46D | 71. Composer who led the U.S. Marine Band | 5 |
| 47D | 74. Canniest, for instance | 7 |
| 48D | 76. Artist's feedback session, informally | 4 |
| 49D | 79. Olaf's creator in "Frozen" | 4 |
| 50D | 81. Tops | 4 |
| 51D | 82. Channel supported by pledge drives | 3 |
| 52D | 83. "Jenny From the Block" singer, to fans | 3 |
| 53D | 84. Immune cell variation | 8 |
| 54D | 86. Flow (out) | 4 |
| 55D | 88. Hung around idly | 8 |
| 56D | 90. "Sorry, I'm unavailable!" | 6 |
| 57D | 91. Tried to convey | 7 |
| 58D | 93. Hide | 7 |
| 59D | 96. Surgical instrument | 6 |
| 60D | 98. Lifts with a pulley | 6 |
| 61D | 99. "Dear ___" (greeting in an old advice column) | 3 |
| 62D | 100. Overly fault-finding | 5 |
| 63D | 103. "The Grapes of Wrath" family | 5 |
| 64D | 105. Entered quickly | 5 |
| 65D | 106. Food traditionally eaten with chopsticks | 5 |
| 66D | 107. Songs on Sundays | 5 |
| 67D | 108. Actor Davis who delivered Malcolm X's eulogy | 5 |
| 68D | 109. Gelatinous thickener | 4 |
| 69D | 110. ___ Valley | 4 |
| 70D | 111. Shade lighter than cappuccino | 4 |
| 71D | 112. Decorative auto upgrade | 4 |
| 72D | 113. Mojito garnish | 4 |
| 73D | 115. 50,000-watt clear-channel radio station in Iowa | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Food enlivener"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that aromatic substances of vegetable origin used as a preservative
- Similar words include: zest, spicery, spice up
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SPICE
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2D: "2. Hardly a genius"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person of subnormal intelligence
- Similar words include: retard, half-wit, changeling
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MORON
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3D: "3. Home to a chapel with the Texas flag flying beside it"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a siege and massacre at a mission in san antonio in 1836; mexican forces under santa anna besieged and massacred american rebels who were fighting to make texas independent of mexico
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ALAMO
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4D: "4. Spotify button"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a gait in which steps and hops alternate
- Similar words include: hop, decamp, vamoose
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SKIP
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5D: "5. Loves, loves, loves the occasion"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: HASABALL
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6D: "6. Hurls"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that informal terms for a meal
- Similar words include: sick, chow, disgorge
- Opposite of: keep down
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Answer: CHUCKS
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7D: "7. Feature of a Hawaiian house"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an island of central hawaii; a pineapple-growing area
- Similar words include: Lanai Island
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LANAI
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8D: "8. Being prosecuted"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ONTRIAL
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9D: "9. Go downhill fast, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects
- Similar words include: slide, slue, shoe
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SKID
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10D: "10. ___ candy"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the organ of sight
- Similar words include: optic, centre, center
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EYE
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11D: "11. Chilly"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that remote in manner
- Similar words include: distant, upstage
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ALOOF
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12D: "12. Orange juice preference"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: NOPULP
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13D: "13. With no one ahead or behind"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)
- Similar words include: yet, still, eve
- Opposite of: odd, uneven
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Answer: EVEN
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14D: "14. Lost all liquid resources"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: WENTDRY
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15D: "15. Remove hair from"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that remove body hair
- Similar words include: epilate
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: DEPILATE
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16D: "16. Main antagonist on HBO's "Euphoria""
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NATE
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17D: "17. Clamors"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a rapid active commotion
- Similar words include: hustle, bustle, ado
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ADOS
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18D: "19. Mexicali mister"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a spanish title or form of address for a man; similar to the english `mr' or `sir'
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SENOR
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19D: "22. Ruptures"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of exploding or bursting
- Similar words include: outburst, salvo, erupt
- Opposite of: implode
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Answer: BURSTS
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20D: "27. Over there, poetically"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that distant but within sight (`yon' is dialectal)
- Similar words include: yonder
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: YON
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21D: "28. Openly reveal one's sexuality"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: COMEOUT
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22D: "31. Process for would-be Greeks"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner
- Similar words include: belt along, rushing, festinate
- Opposite of: delay, linger
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Answer: RUSH
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23D: "33. It's over a quarter of a quarter"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a united states coin worth one tenth of a dollar
- Similar words include: dime bag
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DIME
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24D: "35. Features of the names of many Apple products"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: LOWERCASEIS
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25D: "37. N.Y.C. stadium eponym"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states tennis player who was the first black to win united states and english singles championships (1943-1993)
- Similar words include: Arthur Robert Ashe, Arthur Ashe
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ASHE
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26D: "38. Doll of a guy?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that range of what one can know or understand
- Similar words include: cognizance, sight
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: KEN
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27D: "39. Vitals checker, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EMT
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28D: "40. Interrupter of dreams, maybe"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that fear resulting from the awareness of danger
- Similar words include: warning device, alarm clock, warning signal
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ALARM
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29D: "41. Genre for Keith Haring"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: POPART
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30D: "42. Political platforms?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it
- Similar words include: soapbox, pulpit, rostrum
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ROSTRA
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31D: "43. Saxon's foe"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of a european people who once occupied britain and spain and gaul prior to roman times
- Similar words include: Kelt
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CELT
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32D: "44. Competitive athlete's goal, perhaps"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: TOPSPEED
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33D: "47. Guthrie who sang "Alice's Restaurant""
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ARLO
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34D: "48. Bureaucratic barriers"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: REDTAPE
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35D: "49. Fuel source"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines
- Similar words include: gasolene, petrol, gas
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: GASOLINE
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36D: "51. "Care to dance?""
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SHALLWE
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37D: "55. Sea, to Seurat"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units
- Similar words include: 1000, thousand, one thousand
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MER
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38D: "57. They may be caught in the summer"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a column of light (as from a beacon)
- Similar words include: irradiation, ray of light, radiate
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RAYS
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39D: "58. Prefix with sphere"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ECO
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40D: "60. Tribute in the Tribune, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography
- Similar words include: obituary, necrology
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OBIT
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41D: "63. Flow out"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that flow or spill forth
- Similar words include: flow out, pour out
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: EFFUSE
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42D: "64. Keys above C's"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: DFLATS
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43D: "66. Blesses"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a state in south central united states
- Similar words include: okay, O.K., okeh
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OKS
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44D: "68. "That feels ama-a-azing!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that express admiration and pleasure by uttering `ooh' or `aah'
- Similar words include: ooh
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AAH
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45D: "70. Alan with six Emmys"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ALDA
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46D: "71. Composer who led the U.S. Marine Band"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a united states bandmaster and composer of military marches (1854-1932)
- Similar words include: March King, John Philip Sousa
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SOUSA
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47D: "74. Canniest, for instance"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase
- Similar words include: anagrammatize, anagrammatise
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ANAGRAM
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48D: "76. Artist's feedback session, informally"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CRIT
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49D: "79. Olaf's creator in "Frozen""
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ELSA
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50D: "81. Tops"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye
- Similar words include: hat, lid, palpebra
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LIDS
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51D: "82. Channel supported by pledge drives"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a solution containing a phosphate buffer
- Similar words include: pebibyte, petabyte, petabit
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PBS
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52D: "83. "Jenny From the Block" singer, to fans"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: JLO
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53D: "84. Immune cell variation"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: SEROTYPE
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54D: "86. Flow (out)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cause to run
- Similar words include: pullulate, stream, pelt
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: POUR
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55D: "88. Hung around idly"
Solving Hints:
- Similar words include: lollygag, footle, mill around
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: LOITERED
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56D: "90. "Sorry, I'm unavailable!""
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: NOTIME
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57D: "91. Tried to convey"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: DROVEAT
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58D: "93. Hide"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids
- Similar words include: release
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SECRETE
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59D: "96. Surgical instrument"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an acutely pointed gothic arch, like a lance
- Similar words include: lancet arch, lance
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: LANCET
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60D: "98. Lifts with a pulley"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects
- Similar words include: wind, hoist, lift
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: HOISTS
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61D: "99. "Dear ___" (greeting in an old advice column)"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ANN
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62D: "100. Overly fault-finding"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: JUDGY
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63D: "103. "The Grapes of Wrath" family"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: JOADS
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64D: "105. Entered quickly"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RANIN
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65D: "106. Food traditionally eaten with chopsticks"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RAMEN
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66D: "107. Songs on Sundays"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a song of praise (to god or to a saint or to a nation)
- Similar words include: hymn, anthem
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HYMNS
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67D: "108. Actor Davis who delivered Malcolm X's eulogy"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OSSIE
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68D: "109. Gelatinous thickener"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent
- Similar words include: nutrient agar, agar-agar
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AGAR
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69D: "110. ___ Valley"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that plant with an elongated head of broad stalked leaves resembling celery; used as a vegetable in east asia
- Similar words include: pe-tsai, celery cabbage, Chinese cabbage
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NAPA
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70D: "111. Shade lighter than cappuccino"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a very light brown
- Similar words include: beige
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ECRU
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71D: "112. Decorative auto upgrade"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a state of arrangement or appearance
- Similar words include: clean-cut, crop, trimming
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TRIM
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72D: "113. Mojito garnish"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a caustic substance produced by heating limestone
- Similar words include: calcium hydrate, linden tree, calx
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LIME
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73D: "115. 50,000-watt clear-channel radio station in Iowa"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a united nations agency to coordinate international health activities and to help governments improve health services
- Similar words include: World Health Organization
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: WHO
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67 Across Clues
73 Down Clues
140 Total Clues
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