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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 (39 clues)
- Down Clues - Detailed Hints
- Expert Solving Strategies
- Today's Puzzle Statistics
Today's Puzzle Difficulty: Tricky
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. Pop music's Lady ___ | 4 |
| 2A | 5. Kid | 5 |
| 3A | 10. Sandwich shop | 4 |
| 4A | 14. Nerve fiber | 4 |
| 5A | 15. Product of a grapevine? | 5 |
| 6A | 16. Company bigwig | 4 |
| 7A | 17. Opposite of surplus | 4 |
| 8A | 18. Kind of acid that is the building block for a protein | 5 |
| 9A | 19. Something you click that starts "http" | 4 |
| 10A | 20. Comfortably well-off | 13 |
| 11A | 23. Dashboard reading, for short | 3 |
| 12A | 25. Top color in a rainbow | 3 |
| 13A | 26. Pecan or pistachio | 3 |
| 14A | 27. Rub out | 5 |
| 15A | 29. What you might drive while your car is in the shop | 6 |
| 16A | 32. Cereal with "marbits" and a leprechaun mascot | 11 |
| 17A | 35. Above, poetically | 3 |
| 18A | 38. Like pen smudges | 4 |
| 19A | 39. Wall for an outdoor maze | 5 |
| 20A | 40. Italian volcano | 4 |
| 21A | 41. A white one is a wardrobe staple | 3 |
| 22A | 42. Toy that comes out of a spray can | 11 |
| 23A | 44. Horse with a spotted coat | 6 |
| 24A | 46. What The Week puts out once a week | 5 |
| 25A | 47. Result of putting two and two together | 3 |
| 26A | 48. Off-roader, in brief | 3 |
| 27A | 50. What Bart Simpson sometimes calls Lisa | 3 |
| 28A | 51. Fowl play? ... or words that can follow the starts of 20-, 32- and 42-Across | 13 |
| 29A | 57. Universal building block | 4 |
| 30A | 58. "Nuh-uh!" | 5 |
| 31A | 59. Enclose in fancy paper, say | 4 |
| 32A | 62. Root vegetable used for poi | 4 |
| 33A | 63. Playing card better known as a jack | 5 |
| 34A | 64. Classroom helper | 4 |
| 35A | 65. [I'm standing right here!] | 4 |
| 36A | 66. Went downhill or cross-country, say | 5 |
| 37A | 67. Cat call | 4 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Pop music's Lady ___"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that mentally or physically infirm with age
- Similar words include: doddery, doddering, wild
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GAGA
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2A: "5. Kid"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a young person of either sex
- Similar words include: shaver, small fry, tiddler
- Opposite of: parent
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Answer: CHILD
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3A: "10. Sandwich shop"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a shop selling ready-to-eat food products
- Similar words include: food shop, delicatessen
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DELI
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4A: "14. Nerve fiber"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron
- Similar words include: axone
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AXON
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5A: "15. Product of a grapevine?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth
- Similar words include: rumour, bruit, hearsay
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RUMOR
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6A: "16. Company bigwig"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the chief executive department of the united states government
- Similar words include: White House
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EXEC
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7A: "17. Opposite of surplus"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the state of owing something (especially money)
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DEBT
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8A: "18. Kind of acid that is the building block for a protein"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the radical -nh2
- Similar words include: amino group, aminic
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AMINO
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9A: "19. Something you click that starts "http""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the means of connection between things linked in series
- Similar words include: radio link, tie in, inter-group communication
- Opposite of: disconnect, disconnectedness
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Answer: LINK
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10A: "20. Comfortably well-off"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: SITTINGPRETTY
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11A: "23. Dashboard reading, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that rate of revolution of a motor
- Similar words include: rev, revolutions per minute
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RPM
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12A: "25. Top color in a rainbow"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
- Similar words include: red ink, bolshie, cherry-red
- Opposite of: gain
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Answer: RED
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13A: "26. Pecan or pistachio"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that usually large hard-shelled seed
- Similar words include: orchis, nut case, ball
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NUT
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14A: "27. Rub out"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that remove from memory or existence
- Similar words include: rub out, delete, efface
- Opposite of: record
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Answer: ERASE
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15A: "29. What you might drive while your car is in the shop"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who lends money or gives credit in business matters
- Similar words include: lender
- Opposite of: borrower
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Answer: LOANER
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16A: "32. Cereal with "marbits" and a leprechaun mascot"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: LUCKYCHARMS
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17A: "35. Above, poetically"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OER
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18A: "38. Like pen smudges"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that of the color of black ink
- Similar words include: inky-black, ink-black
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: INKY
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19A: "39. Wall for an outdoor maze"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a fence formed by a row of closely planted shrubs or bushes
- Similar words include: skirt, hedgerow, put off
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HEDGE
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20A: "40. Italian volcano"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an inactive volcano in sicily; last erupted in 1961; the highest volcano in europe (10,500 feet)
- Similar words include: Mt Etna, Mount Etna, bunsen
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ETNA
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21A: "41. A white one is a wardrobe staple"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the starting place for each hole on a golf course
- Similar words include: tee up, football tee, golf tee
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TEE
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22A: "42. Toy that comes out of a spray can"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: SILLYSTRING
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23A: "44. Horse with a spotted coat"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small contrasting part of something
- Similar words include: mottle, fleck, cloud
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: DAPPLE
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24A: "46. What The Week puts out once a week"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an important question that is in dispute and must be settled
- Similar words include: come out, cut, event
- Opposite of: recall
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Answer: ISSUE
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25A: "47. Result of putting two and two together"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a quantity of money
- Similar words include: tally, summate, add up
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SUM
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26A: "48. Off-roader, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ATV
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27A: "50. What Bart Simpson sometimes calls Lisa"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a female person who has the same parents as another person
- Similar words include: sister, International System, te
- Opposite of: brother
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Answer: SIS
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28A: "51. Fowl play? ... or words that can follow the starts of 20-, 32- and 42-Across"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: DUCKDUCKGOOSE
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29A: "57. Universal building block"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (physics and chemistry) the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element
- Similar words include: mote, particle, molecule
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ATOM
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30A: "58. "Nuh-uh!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NOWAY
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31A: "59. Enclose in fancy paper, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person
- Similar words include: roll, envelop, wind
- Opposite of: unwrap, unwind
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Answer: WRAP
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32A: "62. Root vegetable used for poi"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants
- Similar words include: dalo, eddo, taro root
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TARO
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33A: "63. Playing card better known as a jack"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
- Similar words include: rascal, scallywag, rapscallion
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: KNAVE
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34A: "64. Classroom helper"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer
- Similar words include: auxiliary, aide-de-camp, adjutant
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AIDE
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35A: "65. [I'm standing right here!]"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the utterance of a sound similar to clearing the throat; intended to get attention, express hesitancy, fill a pause, hide embarrassment, warn a friend, etc.
- Similar words include: hem
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AHEM
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36A: "66. Went downhill or cross-country, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that move along on skis
- Similar words include: ski
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SKIED
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37A: "67. Cat call"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this)
- Similar words include: mew, miaou, miaow
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MEOW
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Gallivant, with "about" | 3 |
| 2D | 2. Tool for Paul Bunyan | 3 |
| 3D | 3. Flabbergasted | 10 |
| 4D | 4. Not pro | 4 |
| 5D | 5. Dog-napping spot? | 5 |
| 6D | 6. Muggy | 5 |
| 7D | 7. "Let's do it!" | 4 |
| 8D | 8. Yearn (for) | 4 |
| 9D | 9. Casually talk about one's connections to celebrities | 9 |
| 10D | 10. Backspace, maybe | 6 |
| 11D | 11. On a plane, keep in mind that the nearest one might be behind you | 4 |
| 12D | 12. Given for a time | 4 |
| 13D | 13. Gross | 4 |
| 14D | 21. Three-point hoops shot | 4 |
| 15D | 22. Trains for a marathon, e.g. | 4 |
| 16D | 23. Ignited again | 5 |
| 17D | 24. It's plum dried out! | 5 |
| 18D | 28. "The Brain — is wider than the ___" (Emily Dickinson poem) | 3 |
| 19D | 29. Stew server | 5 |
| 20D | 30. Bacchanalian party | 4 |
| 21D | 31. Cooking appliance with a rotating spit | 10 |
| 22D | 33. Alvin and his backup singers | 9 |
| 23D | 34. Dante divided it into nine circles | 4 |
| 24D | 36. Ho-hum feeling | 5 |
| 25D | 37. Reacts with violent anger | 5 |
| 26D | 40. Triage sites, for short | 3 |
| 27D | 42. Tater | 4 |
| 28D | 43. DVR pioneer | 4 |
| 29D | 45. Dad's noncommittal response to a kid's request | 6 |
| 30D | 48. Desert plant with many uses | 5 |
| 31D | 49. Played (with) | 5 |
| 32D | 51. What some tech companies mine | 4 |
| 33D | 52. Home of Canyonlands National Park | 4 |
| 34D | 53. Planks strengthen it | 4 |
| 35D | 54. Fall asleep, with "out" | 4 |
| 36D | 55. "The Bridge on the River ___" | 4 |
| 37D | 56. Did some laps | 4 |
| 38D | 60. Hoopla | 3 |
| 39D | 61. Place to pray | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Gallivant, with "about""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an anxiety disorder characterized by chronic free-floating anxiety and such symptoms as tension or sweating or trembling or lightheadedness or irritability etc that has lasted for more than six months
- Similar words include: spur, jazz around, anxiety reaction
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: GAD
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2D: "2. Tool for Paul Bunyan"
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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3D: "3. Flabbergasted"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that utterly astounded
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: GOBSMACKED
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4D: "4. Not pro"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who is opposed (to an action or policy or practice etc.)
- Opposite of: pro
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ANTI
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5D: "5. Dog-napping spot?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a rugged box (usually made of wood); used for shipping
- Similar words include: crateful
- Opposite of: uncrate
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Answer: CRATE
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6D: "6. Muggy"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that containing or characterized by a great deal of water vapor
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HUMID
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7D: "7. "Let's do it!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IMIN
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8D: "8. Yearn (for)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that desire strongly or persistently
- Similar words include: farseeing, prospicient, hanker
- Opposite of: unretentive, short
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Answer: LONG
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9D: "9. Casually talk about one's connections to celebrities"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: DROPNAMES
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10D: "10. Backspace, maybe"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that remove or make invisible
- Similar words include: edit, blue-pencil, cancel
- Opposite of: record
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Answer: DELETE
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11D: "11. On a plane, keep in mind that the nearest one might be behind you"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an opening that permits escape or release
- Similar words include: departure, loss, decease
- Opposite of: be born, enter
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Answer: EXIT
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12D: "12. Given for a time"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a period of 40 weekdays from ash wednesday to holy saturday
- Similar words include: Lententide, impart, bestow
- Opposite of: borrow
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Answer: LENT
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13D: "13. Gross"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that soft and sticky
- Similar words include: stinky, crappy, lousy
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ICKY
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14D: "21. Three-point hoops shot"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
- Similar words include: leash, trio, terzetto
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TREY
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15D: "22. Trains for a marathon, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely
- Similar words include: tally, take to the woods, lead
- Opposite of: idle, malfunction
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Answer: RUNS
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16D: "23. Ignited again"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RELIT
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17D: "24. It's plum dried out!"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- Similar words include: cut, rationalize, snip
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PRUNE
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18D: "28. "The Brain — is wider than the ___" (Emily Dickinson poem)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth
- Similar words include: toss, flip, pitch
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SKY
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19D: "29. Stew server"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle; frequently used to transfer liquids from one container to another
- Similar words include: laden, lade
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LADLE
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20D: "30. Bacchanalian party"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any act of immoderate indulgence
- Similar words include: saturnalia, bacchanalia, binge
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ORGY
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21D: "31. Cooking appliance with a rotating spit"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an oven or broiler equipped with a rotating spit on which meat cooks as it turns
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: ROTISSERIE
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22D: "33. Alvin and his backup singers"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a burrowing ground squirrel of western america and asia; has cheek pouches and a light and dark stripe running down the body
- Similar words include: chipmunk
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: CHIPMUNKS
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23D: "34. Dante divided it into nine circles"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any place of pain and turmoil
- Similar words include: infernal region, blaze, sin
- Opposite of: Heaven
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Answer: HELL
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24D: "36. Ho-hum feeling"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the feeling of being bored by something tedious
- Similar words include: tedium, boredom
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ENNUI
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25D: "37. Reacts with violent anger"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a feeling of intense anger
- Similar words include: razz, remonstrate, crucify
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RAGES
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26D: "40. Triage sites, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs with yttrium
- Similar words include: atomic number 68, Er, ER
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ERS
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27D: "42. Tater"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an edible tuber native to south america; a staple food of ireland
- Similar words include: tater, bourgeon, potato
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SPUD
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28D: "43. DVR pioneer"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TIVO
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29D: "45. Dad's noncommittal response to a kid's request"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ASKMOM
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30D: "48. Desert plant with many uses"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that tropical american plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber
- Similar words include: century plant, American aloe
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AGAVE
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31D: "49. Played (with)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that behave carelessly or indifferently
- Similar words include: toy, diddle, fiddle
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TOYED
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32D: "51. What some tech companies mine"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn
- Similar words include: datum, data point, information
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DATA
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33D: "52. Home of Canyonlands National Park"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a state in the western united states; settled in 1847 by mormons led by brigham young
- Similar words include: UT, Beehive State, Mormon State
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: UTAH
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34D: "53. Planks strengthen it"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small group of indispensable persons or things
- Similar words include: Congress of Racial Equality, gist, core group
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CORE
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35D: "54. Fall asleep, with "out""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that informal term for the nose
- Similar words include: decease, cash in one's chips, pass away
- Opposite of: be born
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Answer: CONK
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36D: "55. "The Bridge on the River ___""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the basic unit of money in china
- Similar words include: yuan
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: KWAI
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37D: "56. Did some laps"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that travel through water
- Similar words include: float, drown, swim
- Opposite of: sink
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Answer: SWAM
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38D: "60. Hoopla"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a rapid active commotion
- Similar words include: flurry, bustle, fuss
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ADO
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39D: "61. Place to pray"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that long bench with backs; used in church by the congregation
- Similar words include: church bench
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PEW
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Today's Puzzle Stats
37 Across Clues
39 Down Clues
76 Total Clues
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