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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (37 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (41 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. Vegas attraction, with "the" | 5 |
| 2A | 6. Bitter-smelling | 5 |
| 3A | 11. Cell signal unit | 3 |
| 4A | 14. Pleasant smell | 5 |
| 5A | 15. Heavyweight African animal, informally | 5 |
| 6A | 16. Application | 3 |
| 7A | 17. Circle, cone, cube, cylinder, heart, pentagon, star, triangle | 11 |
| 8A | 19. So-so, in modern slang | 3 |
| 9A | 20. Scrapes (out), as a living | 4 |
| 10A | 21. Mental slip-up | 5 |
| 11A | 22. Univ. degrees for executives | 4 |
| 12A | 23. Many a prom tuxedo | 6 |
| 13A | 25. Train track part | 4 |
| 14A | 27. Airheads, Dots, Fun Dip, Heath, Kit Kat, Life Savers, M&M's, Milk Duds, Nerds, Oh Henry!, Peeps, Pez, Rolo, Skittles, Twix, Twizzlers | 12 |
| 15A | 33. Growth in a fish tank | 5 |
| 16A | 36. Steaming mad | 5 |
| 17A | 37. Girlfriend or boyfriend, informally | 3 |
| 18A | 38. Gruesome | 4 |
| 19A | 39. Cooks just the outsides of | 5 |
| 20A | 40. Nuisance | 4 |
| 21A | 41. A narcissist has a big one | 3 |
| 22A | 42. Giving the go-ahead | 5 |
| 23A | 43. Keto and Paleo, for two | 5 |
| 24A | 44. Boot, good, loom, moon, pool, rook, woof | 12 |
| 25A | 47. In one's birthday suit | 4 |
| 26A | 48. Skeptic's remark | 6 |
| 27A | 52. Home of a "500" race, familiarly | 4 |
| 28A | 54. Great ___ National Park (Nevada attraction) | 5 |
| 29A | 58. Shoe's bottom | 4 |
| 30A | 59. Play-___ | 3 |
| 31A | 60. Andrew, Ketanji Brown, Mahalia, Reggie, Stonewall | 11 |
| 32A | 62. Musical Yoko | 3 |
| 33A | 63. With everything on the line | 5 |
| 34A | 64. Like a pyramid or sphere | 5 |
| 35A | 65. Femur and fibula site | 3 |
| 36A | 66. Not sharp, as a pencil | 5 |
| 37A | 67. Vulgar | 5 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Vegas attraction, with "the""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a relatively long narrow piece of something
- Similar words include: pillage, disrobe, uncase
- Opposite of: dress
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Answer: STRIP
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2A: "6. Bitter-smelling"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that strong and sharp
- Similar words include: acid, blistering, caustic
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ACRID
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3A: "11. Cell signal unit"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter
- Similar words include: stripe, ginmill, relegate
- Opposite of: unbar
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Answer: BAR
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4A: "14. Pleasant smell"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any property detected by the olfactory system
- Similar words include: scent, smell, perfume
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AROMA
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5A: "15. Heavyweight African animal, informally"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast asia and africa having very thick skin and one or two horns on the snout
- Similar words include: rhinoceros
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RHINO
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6A: "16. Application"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of using
- Similar words include: enjoyment, use of goods and services, role
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: USE
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7A: "17. Circle, cone, cube, cylinder, heart, pentagon, star, triangle"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: FIGUREEIGHT
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8A: "19. So-so, in modern slang"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that used in combination to denote the middle
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MID
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9A: "20. Scrapes (out), as a living"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EKES
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10A: "21. Mental slip-up"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mistake resulting from inattention
- Similar words include: oversight, sink, reversion
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LAPSE
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11A: "22. Univ. degrees for executives"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a master's degree in business
- Similar words include: Master in Business Administration, MBA, Master in Business
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MBAS
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12A: "23. Many a prom tuxedo"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that property that is leased or rented out or let
- Similar words include: letting, lease, renting
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: RENTAL
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13A: "25. Train track part"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
- Similar words include: rails, train, vilify
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RAIL
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14A: "27. Airheads, Dots, Fun Dip, Heath, Kit Kat, Life Savers, M&M's, Milk Duds, Nerds, Oh Henry!, Peeps, Pez, Rolo, Skittles, Twix, Twizzlers"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: SWEETSIXTEEN
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15A: "33. Growth in a fish tank"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves
- Similar words include: alga
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ALGAE
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16A: "36. Steaming mad"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that feeling or showing extreme anger
- Similar words include: ireful
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: IRATE
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17A: "37. Girlfriend or boyfriend, informally"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: BAE
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18A: "38. Gruesome"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that covered with blood
- Similar words include: sanguinary, slaughterous, butcherly
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GORY
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19A: "39. Cooks just the outsides of"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make very hot and dry
- Similar words include: sear, singe, blacken
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SEARS
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20A: "40. Nuisance"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
- Similar words include: pesterer, cuss, gadfly
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PEST
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21A: "41. A narcissist has a big one"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
- Similar words include: self, egotism, self-importance
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EGO
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22A: "42. Giving the go-ahead"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OKING
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23A: "43. Keto and Paleo, for two"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a prescribed selection of foods
- Similar words include: dieting, diet
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DIETS
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24A: "44. Boot, good, loom, moon, pool, rook, woof"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: DOUBLEOSEVEN
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25A: "47. In one's birthday suit"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a painting of a naked human figure
- Similar words include: nude person, nude painting, nude sculpture
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NUDE
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26A: "48. Skeptic's remark"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: IFEVER
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27A: "52. Home of a "500" race, familiarly"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: INDY
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28A: "54. Great ___ National Park (Nevada attraction)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids
- Similar words include: basinful, drainage area, washbowl
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BASIN
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29A: "58. Shoe's bottom"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the underside of footwear or a golf club
- Similar words include: exclusive, resole, solitary
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SOLE
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30A: "59. Play-___"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization
- Similar words include: ut, do
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DOH
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31A: "60. Andrew, Ketanji Brown, Mahalia, Reggie, Stonewall"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: JACKSONFIVE
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32A: "62. Musical Yoko"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states musician (born in japan) who married john lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933)
- Similar words include: Yoko Ono
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ONO
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33A: "63. With everything on the line"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ALLIN
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34A: "64. Like a pyramid or sphere"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that matter that is solid at room temperature and pressure
- Similar words include: substantial, strong, whole
- Opposite of: liquid, hollow
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Answer: SOLID
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35A: "65. Femur and fibula site"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle
- Similar words include: peg, wooden leg, pegleg
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LEG
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36A: "66. Not sharp, as a pencil"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make less intense
- Similar words include: outspoken, stark, plainspoken
- Opposite of: sharpen, enliven
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Answer: BLUNT
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37A: "67. Vulgar"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CRASS
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Less risky | 5 |
| 2D | 2. Tot's three-wheeler | 5 |
| 3D | 3. Comic actor Seth | 5 |
| 4D | 4. "If you want me to be honest ..." | 8 |
| 5D | 5. Golfing standard | 3 |
| 6D | 6. Region | 4 |
| 7D | 7. Intel product | 4 |
| 8D | 8. Makes unfair, in a way | 4 |
| 9D | 9. Receives from a will | 8 |
| 10D | 10. Nickname for Dorothy | 3 |
| 11D | 11. Insect that stings | 9 |
| 12D | 12. Home to Hanoi and Hong Kong | 4 |
| 13D | 13. Cincinnati team | 4 |
| 14D | 18. ___ Woods, "Legally Blonde" protagonist | 4 |
| 15D | 22. Sch. with a T station | 3 |
| 16D | 24. Amazement | 3 |
| 17D | 26. Lumberjack's tool | 3 |
| 18D | 28. Letters before "And on that farm ..." | 5 |
| 19D | 29. The "T" of L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+ | 5 |
| 20D | 30. Platoon V.I.P. | 5 |
| 21D | 31. Sunrise direction | 4 |
| 22D | 32. Ping-Pong dividers | 4 |
| 23D | 33. Like most cheeses with rinds | 4 |
| 24D | 34. Nike's swoosh, e.g. | 4 |
| 25D | 35. Punxsutawney Phil, for one | 9 |
| 26D | 39. Classic arcade game with bull's-eye rings | 8 |
| 27D | 40. Strongly desires | 8 |
| 28D | 42. Like a centenarian | 3 |
| 29D | 43. "For suresies" | 3 |
| 30D | 45. Purchase | 3 |
| 31D | 46. Bottle served at a trattoria | 4 |
| 32D | 49. Exclamation while pulling a rabbit from a hat | 5 |
| 33D | 50. The King of Rock and Roll | 5 |
| 34D | 51. Marsh plants | 5 |
| 35D | 52. Object of adoration | 4 |
| 36D | 53. Zero | 4 |
| 37D | 55. Rights advocacy org. since 1920 | 4 |
| 38D | 56. Dermatologist's focus | 4 |
| 39D | 57. "It ___ that simple ..." | 4 |
| 40D | 60. Quick punch | 3 |
| 41D | 61. Foreign policy grp. | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Less risky"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that free from danger or the risk of harm
- Similar words include: dependable, secure, safe
- Opposite of: out, dangerous
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Answer: SAFER
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2D: "2. Tot's three-wheeler"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a vehicle with three wheels that is moved by foot pedals
- Similar words include: tricycle, velocipede
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TRIKE
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3D: "3. Comic actor Seth"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ROGEN
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4D: "4. "If you want me to be honest ...""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: IMUSTSAY
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5D: "5. Golfing standard"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (golf) the standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course
- Similar words include: equality, equation, equivalence
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PAR
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6D: "6. Region"
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: field, orbit, arena
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AREA
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7D: "7. Intel product"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small fragment of something broken off from the whole
- Similar words include: bit, chipping, micro chip
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CHIP
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8D: "8. Makes unfair, in a way"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise
- Similar words include: getup, articulated lorry, set up
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RIGS
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9D: "9. Receives from a will"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that obtain from someone after their death
- Similar words include: inherit
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: INHERITS
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10D: "10. Nickname for Dorothy"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a very small circular shape
- Similar words include: acid, battery-acid, point
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DOT
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11D: "11. Insect that stings"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that robust hairy social bee of temperate regions
- Similar words include: humblebee
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: BUMBLEBEE
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12D: "12. Home to Hanoi and Hong Kong"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to europe on the west to form eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ASIA
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13D: "13. Cincinnati team"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
- Similar words include: bolshy, loss, Marxist
- Opposite of: gain
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Answer: REDS
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14D: "18. ___ Woods, "Legally Blonde" protagonist"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ELLE
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15D: "22. Sch. with a T station"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an engineering university in cambridge
- Similar words include: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MIT
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16D: "24. Amazement"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration
- Similar words include: fear, reverence, veneration
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AWE
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17D: "26. Lumberjack's tool"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle
- Similar words include: ax
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AXE
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18D: "28. Letters before "And on that farm ...""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EIEIO
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19D: "29. The "T" of L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TRANS
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20D: "30. Platoon V.I.P."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SARGE
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21D: "31. Sunrise direction"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees
- Similar words include: eastern United States, eastward, due east
- Opposite of: west
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Answer: EAST
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22D: "32. Ping-Pong dividers"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the tcp/ip network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange
- Similar words include: profit, net profit, net income
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NETS
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23D: "33. Like most cheeses with rinds"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that people who are old collectively
- Similar words include: cured, maturate, elderly
- Opposite of: rejuvenate, young
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Answer: AGED
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24D: "34. Nike's swoosh, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a company emblem or device
- Similar words include: logotype
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LOGO
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25D: "35. Punxsutawney Phil, for one"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that reddish brown north american marmot
- Similar words include: woodchuck, Marmota monax
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: GROUNDHOG
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26D: "39. Classic arcade game with bull's-eye rings"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: SKEEBALL
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27D: "40. Strongly desires"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: PINESFOR
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28D: "42. Like a centenarian"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')
- Similar words include: quondam, sometime, one-time
- Opposite of: young, new
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Answer: OLD
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29D: "43. "For suresies""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DEF
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30D: "45. Purchase"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an advantageous purchase
- Similar words include: corrupt, bribe, purchase
- Opposite of: sell
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Answer: BUY
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31D: "46. Bottle served at a trattoria"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that fermented juice (of grapes especially)
- Similar words include: wine
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: VINO
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32D: "49. Exclamation while pulling a rabbit from a hat"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: VOILA
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33D: "50. The King of Rock and Roll"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
- Similar words include: acid, Zen, battery-acid
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ELVIS
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34D: "51. Marsh plants"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera arundo and phragmites
- Similar words include: beating-reed instrument, Walter Reed, reed
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: REEDS
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35D: "52. Object of adoration"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a material effigy that is worshipped
- Similar words include: matinee idol, god, paragon
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IDOL
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36D: "53. Zero"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a canonical hour that is the ninth hour of the day counting from sunrise
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NONE
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37D: "55. Rights advocacy org. since 1920"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ACLU
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38D: "56. Dermatologist's focus"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch
- Similar words include: shinny, pelt, struggle
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SKIN
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39D: "57. "It ___ that simple ...""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ISNT
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40D: "60. Quick punch"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow)
- Similar words include: thrust, dig, jabbing
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: JAB
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41D: "61. Foreign policy grp."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security; supervises the central intelligence agency
- Similar words include: National Security Council
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NSC
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Today's Puzzle Stats
37 Across Clues
41 Down Clues
78 Total Clues
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