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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 (44 clues)
- Down Clues - Detailed Hints
- Expert Solving Strategies
- Today's Puzzle Statistics
Today's Puzzle Difficulty: Challenging
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Across Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1A | 1. "___ been had!" | 4 |
| 2A | 5. Shoo away, in a way | 6 |
| 3A | 11. Thunderbolt wielder | 4 |
| 4A | 15. First name in daring jumps | 4 |
| 5A | 16. City NE of Olympia | 6 |
| 6A | 17. Familiar with the tricks of | 4 |
| 7A | 18. Emulates a dog around the family dinner table | 4 |
| 8A | 19. Like voice mail messages, for example | 11 |
| 9A | 21. Red "Inside Out" character | 5 |
| 10A | 23. OUT OF ORDER! 🚫🚫🚫 PAPER TRAY REQUIRES MAINTENANCE! | 7 |
| 11A | 24. J.F.K. Library architect | 3 |
| 12A | 25. Verbal hesitations | 3 |
| 13A | 27. "No ___!" | 5 |
| 14A | 31. Like some boarding school attire | 6 |
| 15A | 33. Green dispensaries? | 4 |
| 16A | 37. Iconic repeated Keanu Reeves role | 3 |
| 17A | 38. Bit of condensation | 4 |
| 18A | 39. Type of flooded field | 9 |
| 19A | 42. Protected lands for plants and animals | 14 |
| 20A | 44. OUT OF ORDER! 🚫🚫🚫 USE STAIRS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE! | 9 |
| 21A | 45. One who is acting? | 4 |
| 22A | 46. Corp. money bigwig | 3 |
| 23A | 47. Some pearls of wisdom | 4 |
| 24A | 48. Third-party holding | 6 |
| 25A | 51. Used to have | 5 |
| 26A | 54. ___ Chinmoy, 20th-century Indian spiritual leader | 3 |
| 27A | 55. Time piece? | 3 |
| 28A | 56. Hole in the wall | 7 |
| 29A | 61. Rapper who co-starred in 1994's "Above the Rim" | 5 |
| 30A | 63. Love poem opener | 11 |
| 31A | 67. Article of pool equipment | 4 |
| 32A | 68. Children's author Carle who wrote "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" | 4 |
| 33A | 69. OUT OF ORDER! 🚫🚫🚫 USE SECOND-FLOOR BATHROOM INSTEAD! | 6 |
| 34A | 70. Corn container | 4 |
| 35A | 71. Release steam | 4 |
| 36A | 72. Diocese assemblies | 6 |
| 37A | 73. Final boss in the game God of War | 4 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. "___ been had!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: WEVE
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2A: "5. Shoo away, in a way"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SWATAT
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3A: "11. Thunderbolt wielder"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (greek mythology) the supreme god of ancient greek mythology; son of rhea and cronus whom he dethroned; husband and brother of hera; brother of poseidon and hades; father of many gods; counterpart of roman jupiter
- Similar words include: genus Zeus
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ZEUS
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4A: "15. First name in daring jumps"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EVEL
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5A: "16. City NE of Olympia"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a city in west central washington on an arm of puget sound to the south of seattle
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TACOMA
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6A: "17. Familiar with the tricks of"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ONTO
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7A: "18. Emulates a dog around the family dinner table"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that call upon in supplication; entreat
- Similar words include: pray, tap, beg
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BEGS
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8A: "19. Like voice mail messages, for example"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that record before presentation, as of a broadcast
- Similar words include: prerecord
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: PRERECORDED
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9A: "21. Red "Inside Out" character"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
- Similar words include: choler, ire, angriness
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ANGER
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10A: "23. OUT OF ORDER! 🚫🚫🚫 PAPER TRAY REQUIRES MAINTENANCE!"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone whose occupation is printing
- Similar words include: printing machine, pressman
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: PRINTER
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11A: "24. J.F.K. Library architect"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states architect (born in china in 1917)
- Similar words include: Ieoh Ming Pei, I. M. Pei
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PEI
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12A: "25. Verbal hesitations"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: UHS
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13A: "27. "No ___!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the state of being unsure of something
- Similar words include: dubiety, incertitude, question
- Opposite of: certainty
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Answer: DOUBT
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14A: "31. Like some boarding school attire"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PREPPY
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15A: "33. Green dispensaries?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade
- Similar words include: ATM, standard pressure, automated teller machine
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ATMS
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16A: "37. Iconic repeated Keanu Reeves role"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (used as a combining form) recent or new
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NEO
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17A: "38. Bit of condensation"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small ball with a hole through the middle
- Similar words include: drop, astragal, pearl
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BEAD
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18A: "39. Type of flooded field"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: RICEPADDY
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19A: "42. Protected lands for plants and animals"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______________
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Answer: NATURERESERVES
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20A: "44. OUT OF ORDER! 🚫🚫🚫 USE STAIRS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE!"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a clause in a contract that provides for an increase or a decrease in wages or prices or benefits etc. depending on certain conditions (as a change in the cost of living index)
- Similar words include: escalator clause, moving stairway, moving staircase
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: ESCALATOR
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21A: "45. One who is acting?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who acts and gets things done
- Similar words include: worker, actor
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DOER
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22A: "46. Corp. money bigwig"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the corporate executive having financial authority to make appropriations and authorize expenditures for a firm
- Similar words include: chief financial officer
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CFO
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23A: "47. Some pearls of wisdom"
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: sawing machine, proverb, adage
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SAWS
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24A: "48. Third-party holding"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a written agreement (or property or money) delivered to a third party or put in trust by one party to a contract to be returned after fulfillment of some condition
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ESCROW
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25A: "51. Used to have"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that have ownership or possession of
- Similar words include: possess, own, have
- Opposite of: unowned
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Answer: OWNED
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26A: "54. ___ Chinmoy, 20th-century Indian spiritual leader"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SRI
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27A: "55. Time piece?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
- Similar words include: geological era, epoch, earned run average
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ERA
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28A: "56. Hole in the wall"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a difficult entangling situation
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: RATTRAP
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29A: "61. Rapper who co-starred in 1994's "Above the Rim""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TUPAC
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30A: "63. Love poem opener"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: ROSESARERED
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31A: "67. Article of pool equipment"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that framework for holding objects
- Similar words include: single-foot, gouge, wheel
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RACK
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32A: "68. Children's author Carle who wrote "The Very Hungry Caterpillar""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ERIC
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33A: "69. OUT OF ORDER! 🚫🚫🚫 USE SECOND-FLOOR BATHROOM INSTEAD!"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
- Similar words include: can, sewer, privy
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TOILET
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34A: "70. Corn container"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a cylindrical tower used for storing silage
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SILO
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35A: "71. Release steam"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a hole for the escape of gas or air
- Similar words include: outlet, vent-hole, volcano
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: VENT
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36A: "72. Diocese assemblies"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a council convened to discuss ecclesiastical business
- Similar words include: synod
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SYNODS
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37A: "73. Final boss in the game God of War"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (greek mythology) greek god of war; son of zeus and hera; identified with roman mars
- Similar words include: are, ar
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ARES
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Software accessed via an online browser | 6 |
| 2D | 2. Game-tying goal | 6 |
| 3D | 3. Healthier version of a breakfast side dish | 11 |
| 4D | 4. "Or ___ what?" | 4 |
| 5D | 5. Longtime NASCAR sponsor | 3 |
| 6D | 6. Alters the shape of | 5 |
| 7D | 7. Dell competitor | 4 |
| 8D | 8. Singer Amos | 4 |
| 9D | 9. "You can say that again!" | 4 |
| 10D | 10. Sensitivity | 4 |
| 11D | 11. Secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega | 5 |
| 12D | 12. Ax, so to speak | 3 |
| 13D | 13. Beehive State athlete | 3 |
| 14D | 14. Grassy section | 3 |
| 15D | 20. Source of 3.5 million quotations, for short | 3 |
| 16D | 22. Performer of the 1992 dance song "Supermodel (You Better Work)" | 6 |
| 17D | 26. Greek figures with multiple heads | 6 |
| 18D | 28. Status of 23-, 44- and 69-Across, as indicated by their clues and placement in the grid | 11 |
| 19D | 29. Trampoline mats | 4 |
| 20D | 30. Elf product | 3 |
| 21D | 32. Org. opposed to "speciesism" | 4 |
| 22D | 33. Common street sign symbol | 5 |
| 23D | 34. Several things in a pagoda | 5 |
| 24D | 35. Party starters, in brief | 3 |
| 25D | 36. Sowing machine | 6 |
| 26D | 40. "To your health!," in Germany | 6 |
| 27D | 41. ___ gaz (carbonated: Fr.) | 4 |
| 28D | 42. [Don't open this at the office!] | 4 |
| 29D | 43. One of four rhyming letters | 3 |
| 30D | 44. Modern prefix with village | 3 |
| 31D | 49. "The Matrix" character, with "the" | 6 |
| 32D | 50. Nuts | 6 |
| 33D | 52. Standing | 5 |
| 34D | 53. Aachen article | 3 |
| 35D | 54. "There is more to life than increasing its ___": Gandhi | 5 |
| 36D | 57. Some needle work, in brief | 4 |
| 37D | 58. "Community" character played by Donald Glover | 4 |
| 38D | 59. Apt letters missing from _ _stra_ _ | 4 |
| 39D | 60. Songwriter Guthrie | 4 |
| 40D | 62. ___ Minor | 4 |
| 41D | 63. Fire up | 3 |
| 42D | 64. Prize that a prospector pries | 3 |
| 43D | 65. Sloth, e.g. | 3 |
| 44D | 66. Some N.F.L. linemen | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Software accessed via an online browser"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: WEBAPP
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2D: "2. Game-tying goal"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that divisible by two
- Similar words include: fifty-fifty, even, tied
- Opposite of: odd, uneven
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Answer: EVENER
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3D: "3. Healthier version of a breakfast side dish"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: VEGGIEBACON
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4D: "4. "Or ___ what?""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ELSE
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5D: "5. Longtime NASCAR sponsor"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that standard temperature and pressure
- Similar words include: s.t.p.
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: STP
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6D: "6. Alters the shape of"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a twist or aberration; especially a perverse or abnormal way of judging or acting
- Similar words include: distort, warping, deflection
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: WARPS
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7D: "7. Dell competitor"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that type genus of the aceraceae; trees or shrubs having winged fruit
- Similar words include: genus Acer
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ACER
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8D: "8. Singer Amos"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a ring-shaped surface generated by rotating a circle around an axis that does not intersect the circle
- Similar words include: toroid, torus, tore
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TORI
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9D: "9. "You can say that again!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a primeval egyptian personification of air and breath; worshipped especially at thebes
- Similar words include: Amon, Amun
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AMEN
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10D: "10. Sensitivity"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offense
- Similar words include: tactfulness
- Opposite of: tactlessness
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Answer: TACT
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11D: "11. Secret identity of Don Diego de la Vega"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ZORRO
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12D: "12. Ax, so to speak"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that either extremity of something that has length
- Similar words include: ending, stop, remnant
- Opposite of: beginning, begin
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Answer: END
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13D: "13. Beehive State athlete"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of the shoshonean people of utah and colorado and new mexico
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: UTE
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14D: "14. Grassy section"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots
- Similar words include: sodomite, superoxide dismutase, bugger
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SOD
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15D: "20. Source of 3.5 million quotations, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles
- Similar words include: O.E.D., Oxford English Dictionary
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OED
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16D: "22. Performer of the 1992 dance song "Supermodel (You Better Work)""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: RUPAUL
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17D: "26. Greek figures with multiple heads"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (greek mythology) monster with nine heads; when struck off each head was replaced by two new ones
- Similar words include: Snake, hydra, Hydra
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: HYDRAS
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18D: "28. Status of 23-, 44- and 69-Across, as indicated by their clues and placement in the grid"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: UNDERREPAIR
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19D: "29. Trampoline mats"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep
- Similar words include: have a go at it, lie with, layer
- Opposite of: turn out, get up
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Answer: BEDS
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20D: "30. Elf product"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an artifact designed to be played with
- Similar words include: dally, plaything, diddle
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TOY
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21D: "32. Org. opposed to "speciesism""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PETA
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22D: "33. Common street sign symbol"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mark to indicate a direction or relation
- Similar words include: pointer
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ARROW
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23D: "34. Several things in a pagoda"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a relative position or degree of value in a graded group
- Similar words include: grade, level, tier up
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TIERS
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24D: "35. Party starters, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one million periods per second
- Similar words include: megahertz, megacycle, MHz
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MCS
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25D: "36. Sowing machine"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who seeds clouds
- Similar words include: cloud seeder
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SEEDER
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26D: "40. "To your health!," in Germany"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PROSIT
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27D: "41. ___ gaz (carbonated: Fr.)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AVEC
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28D: "42. [Don't open this at the office!]"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NSFW
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29D: "43. One of four rhyming letters"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional basque party; want to create an independent homeland in spain's western pyrenees
- Similar words include: Basque Fatherland and Liberty, Euskadi ta Askatasuna, Basque Homeland and Freedom
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ETA
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30D: "44. Modern prefix with village"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ECO
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31D: "49. "The Matrix" character, with "the""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an authoritative person who divines the future
- Similar words include: vaticinator, prophesier, prophet
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ORACLE
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32D: "50. Nuts"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who is regarded as eccentric or mad
- Similar words include: whacko, wacko, nutter
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: WACKOS
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33D: "52. Standing"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that construct, build, or erect
- Similar words include: rear, raise, put up
- Opposite of: level, unerect
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Answer: ERECT
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34D: "53. Aachen article"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of several small ungulate mammals of africa and asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes
- Similar words include: coney, DA, hyrax
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DAS
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35D: "54. "There is more to life than increasing its ___": Gandhi"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that distance travelled per unit time
- Similar words include: hie, zip, swiftness
- Opposite of: linger, decelerate
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Answer: SPEED
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36D: "57. Some needle work, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar
- Similar words include: Thematic Apperception Test, tackiness, intertwine
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TATS
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37D: "58. "Community" character played by Donald Glover"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a system of weights used for precious metals and gemstones; based on a 12-ounce pound and an ounce of 480 grains
- Similar words include: Ilion, troy weight, Ilium
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TROY
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38D: "59. Apt letters missing from _ _stra_ _"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse
- Similar words include: rein in, rule, harness
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: REIN
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39D: "60. Songwriter Guthrie"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ARLO
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40D: "62. ___ Minor"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: URSA
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41D: "63. Fire up"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that rate of revolution of a motor
- Similar words include: rpm, revolutions per minute, rev up
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: REV
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42D: "64. Prize that a prospector pries"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ORE
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43D: "65. Sloth, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that estrangement from god
- Similar words include: sinning, trespass, hell
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SIN
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44D: "66. Some N.F.L. linemen"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning
- Similar words include: delirium tremens
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DTS
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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
37 Across Clues
44 Down Clues
81 Total Clues
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