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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (33 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (37 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1A | 1. A large quantity | 4 |
| 2A | 5. Where one may park to see the Super Bowl | 4 |
| 3A | 9. Boot | 5 |
| 4A | 14. Humans, gorillas and chimpanzees | 9 |
| 5A | 16. Like a skunk's tail | 5 |
| 6A | 17. Hot-weather coolers | 9 |
| 7A | 18. "Mangia!" | 5 |
| 8A | 19. It's cool while it's hot | 3 |
| 9A | 20. Funny Fey | 4 |
| 10A | 21. Upset | 6 |
| 11A | 22. Green bay? | 10 |
| 12A | 25. Emerged (from) | 7 |
| 13A | 27. Old-fashioned "w00t!" | 6 |
| 14A | 30. Earth goddess in "Das Rheingold" | 4 |
| 15A | 31. Overlay | 5 |
| 16A | 33. Caroline Kepnes thriller written partly in the second person | 3 |
| 17A | 35. Cookie marketing units | 15 |
| 18A | 39. Opposite of the Latin "odi" | 3 |
| 19A | 40. Handled press agents? | 5 |
| 20A | 41. Stinky ___ ("Toy Story 2" antagonist) | 4 |
| 21A | 42. Web host? | 6 |
| 22A | 44. Some diving briefs | 7 |
| 23A | 47. "We should get out of here" | 10 |
| 24A | 49. Actress/singer Steinfeld | 6 |
| 25A | 52. Easily crushed | 4 |
| 26A | 53. Cone ___ (iconic Jean Paul Gaultier undergarment) | 3 |
| 27A | 56. Lineup | 5 |
| 28A | 57. Prayerful form of worship | 9 |
| 29A | 59. Option at a dealership | 5 |
| 30A | 60. "See ya!" | 9 |
| 31A | 61. Flops | 5 |
| 32A | 62. Move, informally | 4 |
| 33A | 63. Word with sound or snake | 4 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. A large quantity"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a large number or amount
- Similar words include: loads, lots, heaps
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TONS
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2A: "5. Where one may park to see the Super Bowl"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an upholstered seat for more than one person
- Similar words include: couch, lounge
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SOFA
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3A: "9. Boot"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that put out or expel from a place
- Similar words include: release, exclude, turn out
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EJECT
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4A: "14. Humans, gorillas and chimpanzees"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: GREATAPES
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5A: "16. Like a skunk's tail"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that used of hair; thick and poorly groomed
- Similar words include: shaggy, shaggy-haired, shaggy-coated
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BUSHY
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6A: "17. Hot-weather coolers"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: ICEWATERS
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7A: "18. "Mangia!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EATUP
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8A: "19. It's cool while it's hot"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an interest followed with exaggerated zeal
- Similar words include: cult, furore, craze
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: FAD
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9A: "20. Funny Fey"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TINA
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10A: "21. Upset"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that put into a rage; make violently angry
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ENRAGE
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11A: "22. Green bay?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: LAURELTREE
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12A: "25. Emerged (from)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that grow out of, have roots in, originate in
- Similar words include: stem, caulescent, cauline
- Opposite of: stemless, acaulescent
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Answer: STEMMED
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13A: "27. Old-fashioned "w00t!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: HUZZAH
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14A: "30. Earth goddess in "Das Rheingold""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ERDA
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15A: "31. Overlay"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
- Similar words include: pall, clothe, drapery
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DRAPE
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16A: "33. Caroline Kepnes thriller written partly in the second person"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: YOU
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17A: "35. Cookie marketing units"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: GIRLSCOUTTROOPS
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18A: "39. Opposite of the Latin "odi""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AMO
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19A: "40. Handled press agents?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that metal shackles; for hands or legs
- Similar words include: atomic number 26, chains, smoothing iron
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: IRONS
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20A: "41. Stinky ___ ("Toy Story 2" antagonist)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PETE
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21A: "42. Web host?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that predatory arachnid with eight legs, two poison fangs, two feelers, and usually two silk-spinning organs at the back end of the body; they spin silk to make cocoons for eggs or traps for prey
- Similar words include: wanderer
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SPIDER
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22A: "44. Some diving briefs"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SPEEDOS
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23A: "47. "We should get out of here""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: LETSBOUNCE
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24A: "49. Actress/singer Steinfeld"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: HAILEE
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25A: "52. Easily crushed"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that succeed at easily
- Similar words include: ace, sail through, breeze through
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ACED
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26A: "53. Cone ___ (iconic Jean Paul Gaultier undergarment)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts
- Similar words include: brassiere, bandeau
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: BRA
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27A: "56. Lineup"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an orderly arrangement
- Similar words include: range, align, regalia
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ARRAY
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28A: "57. Prayerful form of worship"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a feeling of profound love and admiration
- Similar words include: latria, idolization, worship
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: ADORATION
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29A: "59. Option at a dealership"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that property that is leased or rented out or let
- Similar words include: term of a contract, let, letting
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LEASE
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30A: "60. "See ya!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: IGOTTARUN
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31A: "61. Flops"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an enclosed armored military vehicle; has a cannon and moves on caterpillar treads
- Similar words include: tank, armoured combat vehicle, army tank
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TANKS
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32A: "62. Move, informally"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RELO
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33A: "63. Word with sound or snake"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person
- Similar words include: collation, pungency, burn
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BITE
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Something a workaholic is unlikely to say | 4 |
| 2D | 2. Predator in a pod | 4 |
| 3D | 3. Point in a film when an iconic song sets the scene | 10 |
| 4D | 4. Caught | 3 |
| 5D | 5. The Onion's output | 6 |
| 6D | 6. Provided entrees | 11 |
| 7D | 7. Wild | 5 |
| 8D | 8. Mother of a hinny | 3 |
| 9D | 9. Yosemite Sam's role in "Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol" | 8 |
| 10D | 10. City across the Rio Grande from El Paso | 6 |
| 11D | 11. "No ___ mal" ("It's not bad," in Spanish) | 4 |
| 12D | 12. Repeated cry at a kegger | 4 |
| 13D | 13. Sort | 4 |
| 14D | 15. Channing of "Blink Twice" | 5 |
| 15D | 21. Hit the ceiling | 5 |
| 16D | 23. Human rights lawyer Clooney | 4 |
| 17D | 24. "Wow, pretty sweet!" | 11 |
| 18D | 25. Apt anagram of GAMES minus M | 4 |
| 19D | 26. Decorates | 5 |
| 20D | 28. Emmy-winning actress for "The Bear" | 10 |
| 21D | 29. Get on (it) | 5 |
| 22D | 32. "Hurry!" | 3 |
| 23D | 34. A smartphone has many of these | 4 |
| 24D | 36. Suspicious looks | 8 |
| 25D | 37. Island home of what may be the world's oldest living olive tree (2,000+ years) | 5 |
| 26D | 38. The U.A.E. is in it | 4 |
| 27D | 43. "Let me check with them" | 6 |
| 28D | 45. Port of Spain? | 6 |
| 29D | 46. Go up to | 5 |
| 30D | 48. Good Neighbor or Design a Robot, e.g., in 35-Across | 5 |
| 31D | 49. Pull up | 4 |
| 32D | 50. Purview | 4 |
| 33D | 51. Founding member of 38-Down | 4 |
| 34D | 54. Easy triumph | 4 |
| 35D | 55. British monarch between William and George | 4 |
| 36D | 57. It's all around us | 3 |
| 37D | 58. Spreadsheet feature | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Something a workaholic is unlikely to say"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TGIF
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2D: "2. Predator in a pod"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
- Similar words include: sea wolf, killer whale, Orcinus orca
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ORCA
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3D: "3. Point in a film when an iconic song sets the scene"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: NEEDLEDROP
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4D: "4. Caught"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
- Similar words include: find, run across, look
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SAW
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5D: "5. The Onion's output"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that witty language used to convey insults or scorn; ; ; --jonathan swift
- Similar words include: sarcasm, caustic remark, irony
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SATIRE
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6D: "6. Provided entrees"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: OPENEDDOORS
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7D: "7. Wild"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that wild and menacing
- Similar words include: savage, ferine
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: FERAL
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8D: "8. Mother of a hinny"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- Similar words include: behind, AS, can
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ASS
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9D: "9. Yosemite Sam's role in "Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: EBENEZER
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10D: "10. City across the Rio Grande from El Paso"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a city in northern mexico on the rio grande opposite el paso
- Similar words include: Ciudad Juarez
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: JUAREZ
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11D: "11. "No ___ mal" ("It's not bad," in Spanish)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ESTA
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12D: "12. Repeated cry at a kegger"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the dull explosive noise made by an engine
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CHUG
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13D: "13. Sort"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a subdivision of a particular kind of thing
- Similar words include: typecast, case, character
- Opposite of: antitype
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Answer: TYPE
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14D: "15. Channing of "Blink Twice""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states biochemist who discovered how genes act by regulating definite chemical events (1909-1975)
- Similar words include: Edward Lawrie Tatum, Art Tatum, Arthur Tatum
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TATUM
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15D: "21. Hit the ceiling"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that start abruptly
- Similar words include: conflagrate, ignite, break out
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ERUPT
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16D: "23. Human rights lawyer Clooney"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AMAL
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17D: "24. "Wow, pretty sweet!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: THATSSOCOOL
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18D: "25. Apt anagram of GAMES minus M"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SEGA
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19D: "26. Decorates"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a state of arrangement or appearance
- Similar words include: clip, trim down, cut back
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TRIMS
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20D: "28. Emmy-winning actress for "The Bear""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: AYOEDEBIRI
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21D: "29. Get on (it)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HOPTO
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22D: "32. "Hurry!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely
- Similar words include: trial, lam, ravel
- Opposite of: malfunction, idle
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Answer: RUN
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23D: "34. A smartphone has many of these"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of using
- Similar words include: apply, employ, the States
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: USES
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24D: "36. Suspicious looks"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: SIDEEYES
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25D: "37. Island home of what may be the world's oldest living olive tree (2,000+ years)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the largest greek island in the mediterranean; site of the minoan civilization that reached its peak in 1600 bc
- Similar words include: Kriti
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CRETE
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26D: "38. The U.A.E. is in it"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the production and sale of petroleum
- Similar words include: Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OPEC
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27D: "43. "Let me check with them""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ILLASK
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28D: "45. Port of Spain?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PUERTO
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29D: "46. Go up to"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ENDAT
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30D: "48. Good Neighbor or Design a Robot, e.g., in 35-Across"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an emblem (a small piece of plastic or cloth or metal) that signifies your status (rank or membership or affiliation etc.)
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BADGE
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31D: "49. Pull up"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the state of inactivity following an interruption
- Similar words include: stem, gimpy, kibosh
- Opposite of: start
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Answer: HALT
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32D: "50. Purview"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)
- Similar words include: domain, expanse, surface area
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AREA
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33D: "51. Founding member of 38-Down"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a theocratic islamic republic in the middle east in western asia; iran was the core of the ancient empire that was known as persia until 1935; rich in oil
- Similar words include: Persia, Islamic Republic of Iran
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IRAN
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34D: "54. Easy triumph"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a disorderly crowd of people
- Similar words include: spread-eagle, root, gouge
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ROUT
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35D: "55. British monarch between William and George"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that queen of england and scotland and ireland; daughter if james ii and the last of the stuart monarchs; in 1707 she was the last english ruler to exercise the royal veto over parliament (1665-1714)
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ANNE
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36D: "57. It's all around us"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of
- Similar words include: line, aura, broadcast
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AIR
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37D: "58. Spreadsheet feature"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the bill in a restaurant
- Similar words include: lozenge, pill, chit
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TAB
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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.
Use Cross-References
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
33 Across Clues
37 Down Clues
70 Total Clues
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