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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (36 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (40 clues)
- Down Clues - Detailed Hints
- Expert Solving Strategies
- Today's Puzzle Statistics
Today's Puzzle Difficulty: Medium
Pro Tip: Start with the fill-in-the-blank clues - they're usually the easiest entry points!
Across Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1A | 1. The "R" of REM | 5 |
| 2A | 6. States | 4 |
| 3A | 10. Little devil | 3 |
| 4A | 13. Bring down | 5 |
| 5A | 14. Milkshake ingredient that might get stuck in a straw | 4 |
| 6A | 15. "Whatever" | 3 |
| 7A | 16. Dracula's preferred way to eat wings? | 14 |
| 8A | 19. "When u coming?" | 3 |
| 9A | 20. Jocular suffix for "most" | 3 |
| 10A | 21. First aid stinger | 6 |
| 11A | 22. Cell centers | 6 |
| 12A | 25. Sebastian the ___, mascot of the Miami Hurricanes | 4 |
| 13A | 26. What makes Dracula frantically hop around? | 14 |
| 14A | 30. Clickable pic | 4 |
| 15A | 31. Eldest Corleone brother | 5 |
| 16A | 32. Felt something on your head? | 6 |
| 17A | 35. Food fight projectile | 3 |
| 18A | 36. Speedway sponsor | 3 |
| 19A | 39. Some unidentified visitors, for short | 3 |
| 20A | 40. Wrap up | 3 |
| 21A | 42. Well-rounded figure? | 6 |
| 22A | 44. Showed sudden interest, in a way | 5 |
| 23A | 46. Cry of victory | 4 |
| 24A | 47. When Dracula doesn't feel seen? | 14 |
| 25A | 52. Lead-in to second | 4 |
| 26A | 53. Like Satan, in the Bible | 6 |
| 27A | 54. Knob on an electric guitar | 6 |
| 28A | 57. A.F.L.-___ | 3 |
| 29A | 58. "Despicable Me" antihero | 3 |
| 30A | 61. Get ready to attack Dracula and his pals? | 14 |
| 31A | 64. Like some jobs | 3 |
| 32A | 65. Well-used pencil, say | 4 |
| 33A | 66. Rains hard? | 5 |
| 34A | 67. Anti-traffic org. | 3 |
| 35A | 68. Sport whose athletes wear topknots | 4 |
| 36A | 69. Mythical luster? | 5 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. The "R" of REM"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a part of a river where the current is very fast
- Similar words include: speedy
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RAPID
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2A: "6. States"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the chance to speak
- Similar words include: sound out, enounce, state
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SAYS
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3A: "10. Little devil"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous
- Similar words include: rascal, elf, pixy
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IMP
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4A: "13. Bring down"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
- Similar words include: chagrin, humble, mortify
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ABASE
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5A: "14. Milkshake ingredient that might get stuck in a straw"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that chocolate cookie with white cream filling
- Similar words include: oreo cookie
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OREO
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6A: "15. "Whatever""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MEH
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7A: "16. Dracula's preferred way to eat wings?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______________
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Answer: RIGHTOFFTHEBAT
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8A: "19. "When u coming?""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional basque party; want to create an independent homeland in spain's western pyrenees
- Similar words include: Basque Fatherland and Liberty, Euskadi ta Askatasuna, Basque Homeland and Freedom
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ETA
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9A: "20. Jocular suffix for "most""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that standard time in the 5th time zone west of greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian; used in the eastern united states
- Similar words include: Eastern Time, Eastern Standard Time
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EST
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10A: "21. First aid stinger"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a nonmetallic element belonging to the halogens; used especially in medicine and photography and in dyes; occurs naturally only in combination in small quantities (as in sea water or rocks)
- Similar words include: atomic number 53, tincture of iodine, I
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: IODINE
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11A: "22. Cell centers"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a part of the cell containing dna and rna and responsible for growth and reproduction
- Similar words include: karyon, lens nucleus, nucleus
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: NUCLEI
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12A: "25. Sebastian the ___, mascot of the Miami Hurricanes"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that wading birds of warm regions having long slender down-curved bills
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IBIS
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13A: "26. What makes Dracula frantically hop around?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______________
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Answer: LIGHTONHISFEET
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14A: "30. Clickable pic"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface
- Similar words include: image, ikon, picture
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ICON
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15A: "31. Eldest Corleone brother"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy)
- Similar words include: lad, sonny boy, laddie
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SONNY
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16A: "32. Felt something on your head?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a hat made of felt with a creased crown
- Similar words include: Stetson, trilby, homburg
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: FEDORA
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17A: "35. Food fight projectile"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that seed of a pea plant used for food
- Similar words include: pea plant
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PEA
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18A: "36. Speedway sponsor"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that standard temperature and pressure
- Similar words include: s.t.p.
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: STP
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19A: "39. Some unidentified visitors, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ETS
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20A: "40. Wrap up"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that either extremity of something that has length
- Similar words include: final stage, destruction, remnant
- Opposite of: beginning, begin
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Answer: END
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21A: "42. Well-rounded figure?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a particular environment or walk of life
- Similar words include: vault of heaven, sector, field
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SPHERE
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22A: "44. Showed sudden interest, in a way"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SATUP
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23A: "46. Cry of victory"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IWIN
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24A: "47. When Dracula doesn't feel seen?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______________
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Answer: UPONREFLECTION
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25A: "52. Lead-in to second"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NANO
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26A: "53. Like Satan, in the Bible"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that descend in free fall under the influence of gravity
- Similar words include: fall, precipitate, devolve
- Opposite of: increase, rise
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Answer: FALLEN
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27A: "54. Knob on an electric guitar"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the pitch range of the highest female voice
- Similar words include: double, dual, ternary
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TREBLE
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28A: "57. A.F.L.-___"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a federation of north american industrial unions that merged with the american federation of labor in 1955
- Similar words include: Congress of Industrial Organizations
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CIO
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29A: "58. "Despicable Me" antihero"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: GRU
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30A: "61. Get ready to attack Dracula and his pals?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______________
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Answer: RAISETHESTAKES
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31A: "64. Like some jobs"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that not divisible by two
- Similar words include: curious, leftover, peculiar
- Opposite of: even
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Answer: ODD
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32A: "65. Well-used pencil, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a short piece remaining on a trunk or stem where a branch is lost
- Similar words include: ticket stub, check stub, nub
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: STUB
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33A: "66. Rains hard?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents
- Similar words include: come, hail, acclaim
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HAILS
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34A: "67. Anti-traffic org."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that federal agency responsible for enforcing laws and regulations governing narcotics and controlled substances; goal is to immobilize drug trafficking organizations
- Similar words include: Drug Enforcement Administration, Drug Enforcement Agency
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DEA
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35A: "68. Sport whose athletes wear topknots"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a japanese form of wrestling; you lose if you are forced out of a small ring or if any part of your body (other than your feet) touches the ground
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SUMO
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36A: "69. Mythical luster?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that man with strong sexual desires
- Similar words include: letch, lecher, forest god
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SATYR
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Still red, say | 4 |
| 2D | 2. Not much | 4 |
| 3D | 3. Jupiter and Mars | 9 |
| 4D | 4. "In a way" | 3 |
| 5D | 5. Pick up on | 6 |
| 6D | 6. Loosens up | 7 |
| 7D | 7. Response to "Speak!" | 3 |
| 8D | 8. Cold-weather cryptid | 4 |
| 9D | 9. Neighborhood in Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London" | 4 |
| 10D | 10. Knock back a few | 6 |
| 11D | 11. Big bully | 6 |
| 12D | 12. Aquarium diagnostic | 6 |
| 13D | 17. World capital near the 60th parallel | 4 |
| 14D | 18. Enlighten | 5 |
| 15D | 23. "Sorry, that's incorrect" | 4 |
| 16D | 24. Restaurant chain acronym | 4 |
| 17D | 26. Word with still or shelf | 4 |
| 18D | 27. "New Jack City" co-star, 1991 | 4 |
| 19D | 28. Spanish name found in "business" | 4 |
| 20D | 29. Fastener with an onomatopoeic name | 4 |
| 21D | 33. Bring up | 4 |
| 22D | 34. Pot grower? | 4 |
| 23D | 36. What contains a lot of darn stuff? | 9 |
| 24D | 37. The "Amigos" of film, e.g. | 4 |
| 25D | 38. Big name in magic | 4 |
| 26D | 41. Beer brand on "The Simpsons" | 4 |
| 27D | 43. Feminist sex educator Shere ___ | 4 |
| 28D | 44. Pompous people | 5 |
| 29D | 45. Non-pharmacological component of a clinical trial | 7 |
| 30D | 47. Pristine, as land | 6 |
| 31D | 48. Veterans Day event | 6 |
| 32D | 49. Lake that's the "thumb" of New York's Finger Lakes | 6 |
| 33D | 50. Certain Ivy Leaguers | 4 |
| 34D | 51. Rags, e.g. | 6 |
| 35D | 55. What a bargain hunter hopes to pay | 4 |
| 36D | 56. Ides of March rebuke | 4 |
| 37D | 59. Depend (on) | 4 |
| 38D | 60. Old map inits. | 4 |
| 39D | 62. Sound of a good car engine | 3 |
| 40D | 63. Designation for the Toledo Mud Hens | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Still red, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness
- Similar words include: rarified, rarefied, uncommon
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RARE
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2D: "2. Not much"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ABIT
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3D: "3. Jupiter and Mars"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: PAGANGODS
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4D: "4. "In a way""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ISH
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5D: "5. Pick up on"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of
- Similar words include: observe, notice, find
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: DETECT
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6D: "6. Loosens up"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make (images or sounds) soft or softer
- Similar words include: weaken, relent, break
- Opposite of: harden, sharpen
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Answer: SOFTENS
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7D: "7. Response to "Speak!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ARF
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8D: "8. Cold-weather cryptid"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the himalayas
- Similar words include: abominable snowman
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: YETI
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9D: "9. Neighborhood in Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a district in southwestern manhattan noted for its shops and restaurants and galleries and artist's lofts
- Similar words include: South of Houston
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SOHO
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10D: "10. Knock back a few"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that take in, also metaphorically
- Similar words include: sop up, suck, take in
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: IMBIBE
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11D: "11. Big bully"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person of mean disposition
- Similar words include: unkind person, meany
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: MEANIE
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12D: "12. Aquarium diagnostic"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PHTEST
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13D: "17. World capital near the 60th parallel"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the capital and largest city of norway; the country's main port; located at the head of a fjord on norway's southern coast
- Similar words include: Christiania, capital of Norway
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OSLO
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14D: "18. Enlighten"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make understand
- Similar words include: enlighten
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EDIFY
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15D: "23. "Sorry, that's incorrect""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: UHNO
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16D: "24. Restaurant chain acronym"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IHOP
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17D: "26. Word with still or shelf"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a characteristic state or mode of living
- Similar words include: lifespan, animation, living
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LIFE
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18D: "27. "New Jack City" co-star, 1991"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ICET
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19D: "28. Spanish name found in "business""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: INES
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20D: "29. Fastener with an onomatopoeic name"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of catching an object with the hands
- Similar words include: flick, ginger snap, snatch
- Opposite of: inelasticity
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Answer: SNAP
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21D: "33. Bring up"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the back of a military formation or procession
- Similar words include: seat, put up, nurture
- Opposite of: level, front
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Answer: REAR
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22D: "34. Pot grower?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (poker) the initial contribution that each player makes to the pot
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ANTE
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23D: "36. What contains a lot of darn stuff?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: SEWINGKIT
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24D: "37. The "Amigos" of film, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
- Similar words include: trinity, ternary, terzetto
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TRIO
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25D: "38. Big name in magic"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that englishman and quaker who founded the colony of pennsylvania (1644-1718)
- Similar words include: University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, William Penn
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PENN
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26D: "41. Beer brand on "The Simpsons""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a stiff flour pudding steamed or boiled usually and containing e.g. currants and raisins and citron
- Similar words include: plum duff
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DUFF
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27D: "43. Feminist sex educator Shere ___"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HITE
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28D: "44. Pompous people"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
- Similar words include: snot, prig, snob
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SNOBS
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29D: "45. Non-pharmacological component of a clinical trial"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an innocuous or inert medication; given as a pacifier or to the control group in experiments on the efficacy of a drug
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: PLACEBO
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30D: "47. Pristine, as land"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that lacking pathways
- Similar words include: trackless, untrodden, pathless
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: UNTROD
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31D: "48. Veterans Day event"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a ceremonial procession including people marching
- Similar words include: exhibit, march, troop
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PARADE
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32D: "49. Lake that's the "thumb" of New York's Finger Lakes"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of the iroquoian people formerly living east of lake ontario
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ONEIDA
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33D: "50. Certain Ivy Leaguers"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ELIS
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34D: "51. Rags, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers
- Similar words include: fabric, material, textile
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CLOTHS
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35D: "55. What a bargain hunter hopes to pay"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree
- Similar words include: to a lesser extent
- Opposite of: more
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Answer: LESS
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36D: "56. Ides of March rebuke"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ETTU
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37D: "59. Depend (on)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that have confidence or faith in
- Similar words include: swear, trust, bank
- Opposite of: mistrust
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Answer: RELY
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38D: "60. Old map inits."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a former communist country in eastern europe and northern asia; established in 1922; included russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (ukraine and byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 december 1991
- Similar words include: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Russia, Soviet Union
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: USSR
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39D: "62. Sound of a good car engine"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the state of being or appearing to be actively engaged in an activity
- Similar words include: seethe, Movement of Holy Warriors, thrum
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HUM
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40D: "63. Designation for the Toledo Mud Hens"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an aneurysm of the abdominal aorta associated with old age and hypertension
- Similar words include: abdominal aortic aneurysm
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AAA
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Expert Solving Strategies
Start Smart
Begin with fill-in-the-blank clues and short 3-4 letter words. These are your foundation.
Decode the Clues
Question marks indicate wordplay or puns. "Maybe" suggests multiple interpretations.
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Let intersecting letters guide you. One correct answer unlocks several others.
Build Vocabulary
Common crossword words repeat. Learning them speeds up future solving.
Today's Puzzle Stats
36 Across Clues
40 Down Clues
76 Total Clues
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