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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (35 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: Moderate
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. Allow | 5 |
| 2A | 6. Snappy sort, for short? | 4 |
| 3A | 10. Tahoe runners | 4 |
| 4A | 14. Fanny Brice portrayer on Broadway | 10 |
| 5A | 16. Governess of Thornfield Hall | 4 |
| 6A | 17. Sits legs akimbo, pejoratively | 10 |
| 7A | 18. Highway attention-getter | 4 |
| 8A | 19. Calculating | 3 |
| 9A | 20. Symbol of fertility in ancient Egypt | 4 |
| 10A | 21. Settled down | 6 |
| 11A | 23. Shakespearean "Hush!" | 4 |
| 12A | 24. "Sorry to tell ya" | 7 |
| 13A | 25. What "it's not," they say | 13 |
| 14A | 29. Eschew | 5 |
| 15A | 30. Parts of some wedding rituals | 5 |
| 16A | 31. Clubs opening, perhaps | 3 |
| 17A | 34. Prized people | 4 |
| 18A | 35. She was totally taken by Paris | 5 |
| 19A | 36. Popular perfume named after a singing star | 4 |
| 20A | 37. Modern art? | 3 |
| 21A | 38. Germs | 5 |
| 22A | 39. That's a wrap! | 5 |
| 23A | 40. Suspenseful | 13 |
| 24A | 43. Grown-up gummies, e.g. | 7 |
| 25A | 45. Touch | 4 |
| 26A | 46. King and queen | 6 |
| 27A | 47. Strength of character | 4 |
| 28A | 48. One in a cage | 3 |
| 29A | 51. That's a laugh! | 4 |
| 30A | 52. Insomniac's aid | 10 |
| 31A | 55. Juana ___ de la Cruz, classic Mexican writer known as "The Tenth Muse" | 4 |
| 32A | 56. Aces | 10 |
| 33A | 57. Schlep | 4 |
| 34A | 58. Alumni notes datum | 4 |
| 35A | 59. St. ___ (vacation spot) | 5 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Allow"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of
- Similar words include: allow in, accept, allow
- Opposite of: exclude, deny
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Answer: ADMIT
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2A: "6. Snappy sort, for short?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CROC
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3A: "10. Tahoe runners"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric
- Similar words include: mac, macintosh, mackintosh
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MACS
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4A: "14. Fanny Brice portrayer on Broadway"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: LEAMICHELE
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5A: "16. Governess of Thornfield Hall"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a shallow salt lake in south central australia about 35 feet below sea level; the largest lake in the country and the lowest point on the continent
- Similar words include: Lake Eyre
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EYRE
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6A: "17. Sits legs akimbo, pejoratively"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: MANSPREADS
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7A: "18. Highway attention-getter"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a blast of a horn
- Similar words include: booze-up, beep, carouse
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TOOT
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8A: "19. Calculating"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that marked by skill in deception
- Similar words include: guileful, foxy, knavish
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SLY
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9A: "20. Symbol of fertility in ancient Egypt"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species
- Similar words include: batrachian, toad frog, anuran
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TOAD
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10A: "21. Settled down"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ATREST
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11A: "23. Shakespearean "Hush!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that yielding readily to pressure or weight
- Similar words include: flaccid, easygoing, sonant
- Opposite of: hardened, unvoiced
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Answer: SOFT
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12A: "24. "Sorry to tell ya""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: FRAIDSO
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13A: "25. What "it's not," they say"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: ROCKETSCIENCE
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14A: "29. Eschew"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something
- Similar words include: annul, deflect, fend off
- Opposite of: validate, confront
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Answer: AVOID
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15A: "30. Parts of some wedding rituals"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HORAS
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16A: "31. Clubs opening, perhaps"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an authoritative direction or instruction to do something
- Similar words include: call, adjure, press
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: BID
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17A: "34. Prized people"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that art highly prized for its beauty or perfection
- Similar words include: jewel, stone, treasure
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GEMS
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18A: "35. She was totally taken by Paris"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (greek mythology) the beautiful daughter of zeus and leda who was abducted by paris; the greek army sailed to troy to get her back which resulted in the trojan war
- Similar words include: Helen of Troy
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HELEN
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19A: "36. Popular perfume named after a singing star"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RIRI
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20A: "37. Modern art?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters
- Similar words include: live, constitute, represent
- Opposite of: differ
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Answer: ARE
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21A: "38. Germs"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small hard fruit
- Similar words include: semen, ejaculate, come
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SEEDS
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22A: "39. That's a wrap!"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various thermoplastic resins used to make things
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SARAN
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23A: "40. Suspenseful"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: HEARTSTOPPING
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24A: "43. Grown-up gummies, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any substance that can be used as food
- Similar words include: eatable, comestible, victual
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: EDIBLES
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25A: "45. Touch"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- Similar words include: adjoin, butt against, border
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ABUT
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26A: "46. King and queen"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a heading that names a statute or legislative bill; may give a brief summary of the matters it deals with
- Similar words include: deed of conveyance, style, title of respect
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TITLES
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27A: "47. Strength of character"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a hard coarse-grained siliceous sandstone
- Similar words include: gritstone, guts, moxie
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GRIT
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28A: "48. One in a cage"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that support resembling the rib of an animal
- Similar words include: blackguard, ridicule, laugh at
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RIB
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29A: "51. That's a laugh!"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HAHA
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30A: "52. Insomniac's aid"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: WHITENOISE
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31A: "55. Juana ___ de la Cruz, classic Mexican writer known as "The Tenth Muse""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: INES
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32A: "56. Aces"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: HOLESINONE
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33A: "57. Schlep"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal
- Similar words include: hale, handcart, go-cart
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CART
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34A: "58. Alumni notes datum"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days
- Similar words include: yr, twelvemonth, class
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: YEAR
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35A: "59. St. ___ (vacation spot)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: KITTS
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Old-time charity | 4 |
| 2D | 2. Word with good or raw | 4 |
| 3D | 3. A host of | 4 |
| 4D | 4. Hits up online, in a way | 3 |
| 5D | 5. Crept cautiously | 7 |
| 6D | 6. Some memory aids | 11 |
| 7D | 7. ___-a-thon | 4 |
| 8D | 8. Senescent | 3 |
| 9D | 9. It may bring out the kid in you | 8 |
| 10D | 10. Height or width, e.g. | 6 |
| 11D | 11. Sydney Adamu portrayer on "The Bear" | 10 |
| 12D | 12. Peeved | 5 |
| 13D | 13. Brief blowup | 5 |
| 14D | 15. "Tomb Raider" heroine | 5 |
| 15D | 22. Camel and fawn | 4 |
| 16D | 23. Lodge rental | 4 |
| 17D | 24. Barbecuer's aid | 11 |
| 18D | 25. Sitarist's composition | 4 |
| 19D | 26. Totally done with | 4 |
| 20D | 27. Flirtatious | 10 |
| 21D | 28. Nose woes | 5 |
| 22D | 32. Azerbaijan neighbor | 4 |
| 23D | 33. Find fault with, informally | 4 |
| 24D | 35. Lead-in to a clarification | 8 |
| 25D | 36. Riveted | 4 |
| 26D | 38. Word often printed in red | 4 |
| 27D | 39. "Fellow traveler," in Russian | 7 |
| 28D | 41. Certain marketing deluge | 6 |
| 29D | 42. Tony's cousins | 5 |
| 30D | 43. Moral virtue | 5 |
| 31D | 44. Anne's best friend in "Anne of Green Gables" | 5 |
| 32D | 47. ___ monster | 4 |
| 33D | 48. Real hoot | 4 |
| 34D | 49. Ain't proper? | 4 |
| 35D | 50. They have five eyes and communicate by dancing | 4 |
| 36D | 53. Break ground, in a way | 3 |
| 37D | 54. Japanese ogre | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Old-time charity"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that money or goods contributed to the poor
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ALMS
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2D: "2. Word with good or raw"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a particular instance of buying or selling
- Similar words include: administer, bargain, mint
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DEAL
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3D: "3. A host of"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `as' or `too' or `so' or `that'; amounting to a large but indefinite number
- Opposite of: few
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MANY
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4D: "4. Hits up online, in a way"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IMS
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5D: "5. Crept cautiously"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that walk on one's toes
- Similar words include: tip, tippytoe, tiptoe
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: TIPTOED
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6D: "6. Some memory aids"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: CHEATSHEETS
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7D: "7. ___-a-thon"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that something that is read
- Similar words include: interpret, scan, study
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: READ
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8D: "8. Senescent"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')
- Similar words include: one-time, honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness
- Opposite of: new, young
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Answer: OLD
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9D: "9. It may bring out the kid in you"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that julius caesar was born that way)
- Similar words include: caesarian delivery, cesarian, caesarian section
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: CESAREAN
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10D: "10. Height or width, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them
- Similar words include: metric unit, metrical, system of measurement
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: METRIC
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11D: "11. Sydney Adamu portrayer on "The Bear""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: AYOEDEBIRI
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12D: "12. Peeved"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece
- Similar words include: hybridizing, sweep, interbreed
- Opposite of: uncross
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Answer: CROSS
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13D: "13. Brief blowup"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SETTO
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14D: "15. "Tomb Raider" heroine"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small farm worked by a crofter
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CROFT
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15D: "22. Camel and fawn"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun
- Similar words include: burn, bronze, suntan
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TANS
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16D: "23. Lodge rental"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used in pairs for gliding over snow
- Similar words include: ski
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SKIS
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17D: "24. Barbecuer's aid"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: FIRESTARTER
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18D: "25. Sitarist's composition"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RAGA
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19D: "26. Totally done with"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (cricket) the division of play during which six balls are bowled at the batsman by one player from the other team from the same end of the pitch
- Similar words include: complete, concluded, o'er
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OVER
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20D: "27. Flirtatious"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: COMEHITHER
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21D: "28. Nose woes"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)
- Similar words include: frigidity, common cold, cold
- Opposite of: hotness
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Answer: COLDS
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22D: "32. Azerbaijan neighbor"
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: Islamic Republic of Iran, Persia
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IRAN
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23D: "33. Find fault with, informally"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a ringing sound
- Similar words include: dong, nick, dent
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DING
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24D: "35. Lead-in to a clarification"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: HERESWHY
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25D: "36. Riveted"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that feeling great rapture or delight
- Similar words include: rhapsodic, ecstatic, rapturous
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RAPT
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26D: "38. Word often printed in red"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a particular instance of selling
- Similar words include: sales agreement, cut-rate sale, sales event
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SALE
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27D: "39. "Fellow traveler," in Russian"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a russian artificial satellite
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SPUTNIK
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28D: "41. Certain marketing deluge"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: EBLAST
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29D: "42. Tony's cousins"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OBIES
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30D: "43. Moral virtue"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group
- Similar words include: value orientation, value-system, moral principle
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ETHIC
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31D: "44. Anne's best friend in "Anne of Green Gables""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that english aristocrat who was the first wife of prince charles; her death in an automobile accident in paris produced intense national mourning (1961-1997)
- Similar words include: Princess Diana, Lady Diana Frances Spencer, Princess of Wales
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DIANA
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32D: "47. ___ monster"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a river that rises in western new mexico and flows westward through southern arizona to become a tributary of the colorado river
- Similar words include: Gila River
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GILA
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33D: "48. Real hoot"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a public act of violence by an unruly mob
- Similar words include: sidesplitter, scream, thigh-slapper
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RIOT
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34D: "49. Ain't proper?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ISNT
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35D: "50. They have five eyes and communicate by dancing"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species
- Similar words include: live, constitute, represent
- Opposite of: differ
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Answer: BEES
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36D: "53. Break ground, in a way"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HOE
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37D: "54. Japanese ogre"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the military intelligence agency that provides for the intelligence and counterintelligence and investigative and security requirements of the united states navy
- Similar words include: Office of Naval Intelligence
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ONI
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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
35 Across Clues
37 Down Clues
72 Total Clues
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