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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: Challenging
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Across Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1A | 1. Against | 4 |
| 2A | 5. Greek goddess swallowed by her father and rescued by her future husband | 4 |
| 3A | 9. Suisse peak | 4 |
| 4A | 13. Spoils | 4 |
| 5A | 14. Work of Bellini or Bizet | 5 |
| 6A | 16. Stead | 4 |
| 7A | 17. SEAL ... SWAT... B ... | 10 |
| 8A | 19. Some ways off | 4 |
| 9A | 20. Plane divider | 5 |
| 10A | 21. English town known for its salt | 5 |
| 11A | 23. Sustainable start? | 3 |
| 12A | 24. Contraction that's a homophone of 20-Across | 3 |
| 13A | 26. Author Zora ___ Hurston | 5 |
| 14A | 28. Utopia ... 10 ... ideal ... | 14 |
| 15A | 34. Warms up for a race, say | 4 |
| 16A | 35. Columbus's smallest ship | 4 |
| 17A | 36. "No harm, no foul" | 5 |
| 18A | 37. Bus. page news | 3 |
| 19A | 38. Landing area in a long jump | 7 |
| 20A | 40. Sign for cheap admission | 3 |
| 21A | 41. Word with heavy or scrap | 5 |
| 22A | 43. Slip (out), in a way | 4 |
| 23A | 44. Cry over spilt milk? | 4 |
| 24A | 45. Puff ... Komodo ... Smaug ... | 14 |
| 25A | 48. Take inspiration from | 5 |
| 26A | 49. Quote from Homer | 3 |
| 27A | 50. Cable staple since 1972 | 3 |
| 28A | 51. A replay might be seen in this | 5 |
| 29A | 55. Echo starter | 5 |
| 30A | 59. Prepares to throw | 4 |
| 31A | 61. Fish ... scuba ... Army ... | 10 |
| 32A | 63. Reunion group | 4 |
| 33A | 64. Subject of an Oscars announcement | 5 |
| 34A | 65. What a dog might do to its owner | 4 |
| 35A | 66. Lottery-style gambling game | 4 |
| 36A | 67. Dreamcast developer | 4 |
| 37A | 68. Puts two and two together, say | 4 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Against"
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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2A: "5. Greek goddess swallowed by her father and rescued by her future husband"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that queen of the olympian gods in ancient greek mythology; sister and wife of zeus remembered for her jealously of the many mortal women zeus fell in love with; identified with roman juno
- Similar words include: Here
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HERA
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3A: "9. Suisse peak"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ALPE
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4A: "13. Spoils"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that goods or money obtained illegally
- Similar words include: cabbage, despoil, shekels
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LOOT
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5A: "14. Work of Bellini or Bizet"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes
- Similar words include: opera house
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OPERA
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6A: "16. Stead"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
- Similar words include: place, stead, position
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LIEU
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7A: "17. SEAL ... SWAT... B ..."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: DREAMTEAMS
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8A: "19. Some ways off"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (old-fashioned) at or from or to a great distance; far
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AFAR
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9A: "20. Plane divider"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods)
- Similar words include: gangway
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AISLE
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10A: "21. English town known for its salt"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EPSOM
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11A: "23. Sustainable start?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ECO
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12A: "24. Contraction that's a homophone of 20-Across"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining
- Similar words include: sick, poorly, badly
- Opposite of: well
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Answer: ILL
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13A: "26. Author Zora ___ Hurston"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NEALE
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14A: "28. Utopia ... 10 ... ideal ..."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______________
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Answer: PICTUREPERFECT
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15A: "34. Warms up for a race, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sharp change in direction
- Similar words include: even up, square up, lope
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: JOGS
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16A: "35. Columbus's smallest ship"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the babylonian goddess of the watery deep and daughter of ea
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NINA
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17A: "36. "No harm, no foul""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ITSOK
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18A: "37. Bus. page news"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public
- Similar words include: initial offering, initial public offering
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IPO
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19A: "38. Landing area in a long jump"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a large pit in sandy ground from which sand is dug
- Similar words include: sandpile, sandbox
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SANDPIT
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20A: "40. Sign for cheap admission"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SRO
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21A: "41. Word with heavy or scrap"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.
- Similar words include: metallic, alloy, metallic element
- Opposite of: nonmetallic
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Answer: METAL
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22A: "43. Slip (out), in a way"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings
- Similar words include: ooze
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SEEP
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23A: "44. Cry over spilt milk?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OOPS
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24A: "45. Puff ... Komodo ... Smaug ..."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______________
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Answer: IMAGINEDRAGONS
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25A: "48. Take inspiration from"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OWETO
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26A: "49. Quote from Homer"
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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27A: "50. Cable staple since 1972"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HBO
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28A: "51. A replay might be seen in this"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SLOMO
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29A: "55. Echo starter"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ALEXA
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30A: "59. Prepares to throw"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions
- Similar words include: intention, aim, train
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AIMS
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31A: "61. Fish ... scuba ... Army ..."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: THINKTANKS
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32A: "63. Reunion group"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that group of people related by blood or marriage
- Similar words include: kin, kindred, kin group
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CLAN
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33A: "64. Subject of an Oscars announcement"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers)
- Similar words include: host, compere, master of ceremonies
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EMCEE
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34A: "65. What a dog might do to its owner"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a salt deposit that animals regularly lick
- Similar words include: poke, puzzle out, bat
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LICK
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35A: "66. Lottery-style gambling game"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards
- Similar words include: lotto, bingo, beano
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: KENO
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36A: "67. Dreamcast developer"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SEGA
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37A: "68. Puts two and two together, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders
- Similar words include: minimal brain dysfunction, append, bring
- Opposite of: subtract, take away
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Answer: ADDS
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Alan of PBS's "Scientific American Frontiers" | 4 |
| 2D | 2. Wrapper at a Japanese restaurant | 4 |
| 3D | 3. Steps up to, as the line | 4 |
| 4D | 4. Right-leaning type | 7 |
| 5D | 5. Super-trendy | 3 |
| 6D | 6. Electrified Olympic weapon | 4 |
| 7D | 7. Collect, as rewards | 4 |
| 8D | 8. Huggers | 4 |
| 9D | 9. In the style of | 3 |
| 10D | 10. Something learned the hard way, often | 10 |
| 11D | 11. Organization promoting international goodwill | 10 |
| 12D | 12. Coin with 12 stars on it | 4 |
| 13D | 15. Acting collectively | 5 |
| 14D | 18. Un-solid-ify | 4 |
| 15D | 22. Be worthy of | 5 |
| 16D | 25. Sol's sister | 4 |
| 17D | 27. Toward the back of the boat | 3 |
| 18D | 28. Big wheels in the Vatican? | 10 |
| 19D | 29. Ray Charles's first #1 R&B single (1954) | 10 |
| 20D | 30. Hand sanitizer eliminates the need to do this | 5 |
| 21D | 31. Quit | 5 |
| 22D | 32. Art class staple | 5 |
| 23D | 33. Abrupt endings, of a sort | 4 |
| 24D | 34. 2022 book paying tribute to a 1960s rock legend | 4 |
| 25D | 38. Narrow openings | 5 |
| 26D | 39. Big Apple debut in 2010 | 4 |
| 27D | 42. This clue's number, for the youngest U.S. president | 3 |
| 28D | 44. "Lux-ur-ious!" | 7 |
| 29D | 46. Nick of "Cape Fear" | 5 |
| 30D | 47. Pan in the butt? | 4 |
| 31D | 50. Cybersecurity concern | 4 |
| 32D | 52. Electrical units | 4 |
| 33D | 53. Maze runners, sometimes | 4 |
| 34D | 54. Universal donor's type, informally | 4 |
| 35D | 56. Children's author Blyton | 4 |
| 36D | 57. Popular stick-figure webcomic | 4 |
| 37D | 58. Quizzes | 4 |
| 38D | 60. ___-cone | 3 |
| 39D | 62. New Zealand parrot whose name sounds like a Korean automaker | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Alan of PBS's "Scientific American Frontiers""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ALDA
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2D: "2. Wrapper at a Japanese restaurant"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NORI
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3D: "3. Steps up to, as the line"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one of the digits of the foot
- Similar words include: toe, toenail
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TOES
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4D: "4. Right-leaning type"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right
- Similar words include: Italic, italic, Italic language
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ITALICS
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5D: "5. Super-trendy"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning
- Similar words include: raging, live, blistering
- Opposite of: cold
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Answer: HOT
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6D: "6. Electrified Olympic weapon"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EPEE
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7D: "7. Collect, as rewards"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that gather, as of natural products
- Similar words include: glean, harvest, draw
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: REAP
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8D: "8. Huggers"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that weapons considered collectively
- Similar words include: munition, weapon system, blazon
- Opposite of: disarm
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Answer: ARMS
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9D: "9. In the style of"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ALA
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10D: "10. Something learned the hard way, often"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: LIFELESSON
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11D: "11. Organization promoting international goodwill"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: PEACECORPS
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12D: "12. Coin with 12 stars on it"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the basic monetary unit of most members of the european union (introduced in 1999); in 2002 twelve european nations (germany, france, belgium, luxembourg, the netherlands, italy, spain, portugal, ireland, greece, austria, finland) adopted the euro as their basic unit of money and abandoned their traditional currencies
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EURO
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13D: "15. Acting collectively"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ASONE
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14D: "18. Un-solid-ify"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid
- Similar words include: fade, melt down, thaw
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MELT
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15D: "22. Be worthy of"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any admirable quality or attribute
- Similar words include: deservingness, virtue, meritoriousness
- Opposite of: demerit
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Answer: MERIT
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16D: "25. Sol's sister"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (roman mythology) the goddess of the moon; counterpart of greek selene
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LUNA
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17D: "27. Toward the back of the boat"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (nautical, aeronautical) situated at or toward the stern or tail
- Similar words include: abaft, astern
- Opposite of: fore
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Answer: AFT
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18D: "28. Big wheels in the Vatican?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: POPEMOBILE
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19D: "29. Ray Charles's first #1 R&B single (1954)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: IGOTAWOMAN
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20D: "30. Hand sanitizer eliminates the need to do this"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a liquid preparation used on wet hair to give it a tint
- Similar words include: wash, rinse off, gargle
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RINSE
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21D: "31. Quit"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- Similar words include: concluded, stop, terminated
- Opposite of: begin
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Answer: ENDED
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22D: "32. Art class staple"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses
- Similar words include: newspaper, report, newspaper publisher
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PAPER
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23D: "33. Abrupt endings, of a sort"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a knockout declared by the referee who judges one boxer unable to continue
- Similar words include: technical knockout, TKO
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TKOS
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24D: "34. 2022 book paying tribute to a 1960s rock legend"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: JIMI
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25D: "38. Narrow openings"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a long narrow opening
- Similar words include: pussy, slit, dent
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SLITS
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26D: "39. Big Apple debut in 2010"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IPAD
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27D: "42. This clue's number, for the youngest U.S. president"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that how long something has existed
- Similar words include: geezerhood, mature, old age
- Opposite of: rejuvenate
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Answer: AGE
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28D: "44. "Lux-ur-ious!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: OOHLALA
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29D: "46. Nick of "Cape Fear""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NOLTE
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30D: "47. Pan in the butt?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of numerous agile ruminants related to sheep but having a beard and straight horns
- Similar words include: stooge, laughingstock, Capricorn the Goat
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GOAT
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31D: "50. Cybersecurity concern"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one who works hard at boring tasks
- Similar words include: whoop, nag, ward-heeler
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HACK
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32D: "52. Electrical units"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere
- Similar words include: ohm, Georg Simon Ohm, Ohm
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OHMS
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33D: "53. Maze runners, sometimes"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails
- Similar words include: black eye, computer mouse, mouse
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MICE
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34D: "54. Universal donor's type, informally"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ONEG
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35D: "56. Children's author Blyton"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a town in north central oklahoma
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ENID
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36D: "57. Popular stick-figure webcomic"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: XKCD
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37D: "58. Quizzes"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that inquire about
- Similar words include: need, take, expect
- Opposite of: obviate
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Answer: ASKS
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38D: "60. ___-cone"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SNO
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39D: "62. New Zealand parrot whose name sounds like a Korean automaker"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that large brownish-green new zealand parrot
- Similar words include: Nestor notabilis
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: KEA
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Today's Puzzle Stats
37 Across Clues
39 Down Clues
76 Total Clues
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