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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (37 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (41 clues)
- Down Clues - Detailed Hints
- Expert Solving Strategies
- Today's Puzzle Statistics
Today's Puzzle Difficulty: Challenging
Pro Tip: Start with the fill-in-the-blank clues - they're usually the easiest entry points!
Across Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1A | 1. "We're the best!," e.g. | 5 |
| 2A | 6. Lengthy pitch | 5 |
| 3A | 11. Web access co. | 3 |
| 4A | 14. Mushroom in ramen | 5 |
| 5A | 15. Trunks | 5 |
| 6A | 16. Platoon sgt., e.g. | 3 |
| 7A | 17. Feats performed on knights' quests | 11 |
| 8A | 19. "Platoon" setting, for short | 3 |
| 9A | 20. ___ tight | 3 |
| 10A | 21. Dig in | 3 |
| 11A | 22. Appropriate inappropriately | 5 |
| 12A | 24. Go off on | 6 |
| 13A | 27. Bear with a message | 6 |
| 14A | 29. "Colorful" Atlantic Coast Conference team | 12 |
| 15A | 32. Helpful | 5 |
| 16A | 35. Some radar blips | 4 |
| 17A | 36. Reveal private data of, in modern lingo | 3 |
| 18A | 37. Mama's mama | 4 |
| 19A | 38. Jake's love in "The Sun Also Rises" | 5 |
| 20A | 40. Bit of aerial arts equipment | 4 |
| 21A | 41. Word with ball or card | 3 |
| 22A | 42. Lake ___, body formerly known as Lac du Chat | 4 |
| 23A | 43. Botch | 5 |
| 24A | 44. Follow-up to an oath | 12 |
| 25A | 48. Fluid for a lighter | 6 |
| 26A | 49. Crosses off | 6 |
| 27A | 52. Get schooled | 5 |
| 28A | 53. Volleyball team count | 3 |
| 29A | 54. OK signal | 3 |
| 30A | 56. Off-line, online | 3 |
| 31A | 57. Point at the wrong person | 11 |
| 32A | 62. The time of one's life? | 3 |
| 33A | 63. He said "Every great film should seem new every time you see it" | 5 |
| 34A | 64. Smooth transition | 5 |
| 35A | 65. Visibly embarrassed | 3 |
| 36A | 66. Alley components | 5 |
| 37A | 67. Preserved, in a way | 5 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. "We're the best!," e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that speaking of yourself in superlatives
- Similar words include: feature, self-praise, brag
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BOAST
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2A: "6. Lengthy pitch"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson)
- Similar words include: line of gab, patter, play
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SPIEL
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3A: "11. Web access co."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ISP
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4A: "14. Mushroom in ramen"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ENOKI
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5A: "15. Trunks"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the body excluding the head and neck and limbs
- Similar words include: torso, body, trunk
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TORSI
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6A: "16. Platoon sgt., e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NCO
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7A: "17. Feats performed on knights' quests"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: DARINGRESQQ
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8A: "19. "Platoon" setting, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NAM
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9A: "20. ___ tight"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that be around, often idly or without specific purpose
- Similar words include: model, pose, sit around
- Opposite of: stand, arise
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Answer: SIT
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10A: "21. Dig in"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that take in solid food
- Similar words include: feed, exhaust, eat up
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EAT
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11A: "22. Appropriate inappropriately"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
- Similar words include: seize, arrogate, assume
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: USURP
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12A: "24. Go off on"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: RAILAT
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13A: "27. Bear with a message"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SMOKEY
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14A: "29. "Colorful" Atlantic Coast Conference team"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: SYRAQQORANGE
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15A: "32. Helpful"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OFUSE
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16A: "35. Some radar blips"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown; especially those considered to have extraterrestrial origins
- Similar words include: unidentified flying object, flying saucer, UFO
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: UFOS
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17A: "36. Reveal private data of, in modern lingo"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DOX
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18A: "37. Mama's mama"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NANA
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19A: "38. Jake's love in "The Sun Also Rises""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BRETT
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20A: "40. Bit of aerial arts equipment"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a light curved skeleton to spread out a skirt
- Similar words include: basketball hoop, wicket, basket
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HOOP
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21A: "41. Word with ball or card"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech
- Similar words include: prompt, discriminative stimulus, pool stick
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CUE
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22A: "42. Lake ___, body formerly known as Lac du Chat"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of an iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of lake erie in northern ohio and northwest pennsylvania and western new york
- Similar words include: Lake Erie
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ERIE
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23A: "43. Botch"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that do wrongly or improperly
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MISDO
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24A: "44. Follow-up to an oath"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: EXQQMYFRENCH
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25A: "48. Fluid for a lighter"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that occurs in natural gas; used in the manufacture of rubber and fuels
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BUTANE
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26A: "49. Crosses off"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: XESOUT
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27A: "52. Get schooled"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that gain knowledge or skills
- Similar words include: acquire, instruct, get wind
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LEARN
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28A: "53. Volleyball team count"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
- Similar words include: sestet, sixer, half dozen
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SIX
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29A: "54. OK signal"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sign of assent or salutation or command
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NOD
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30A: "56. Off-line, online"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IRL
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31A: "57. Point at the wrong person"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: UNJUSTLYAQQ
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32A: "62. The time of one's life?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that how long something has existed
- Similar words include: years, historic period, get on
- Opposite of: rejuvenate
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Answer: AGE
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33A: "63. He said "Every great film should seem new every time you see it""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EBERT
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34A: "64. Smooth transition"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of changing smoothly from one state or situation to another
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SEGUE
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35A: "65. Visibly embarrassed"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
- Similar words include: redness, flushed, ruddy
- Opposite of: gain
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Answer: RED
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36A: "66. Alley components"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a narrow way or road
- Similar words include: lane
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LANES
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37A: "67. Preserved, in a way"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that remove the moisture from and make dry
- Similar words include: desiccated, dry out, dehydrated
- Opposite of: wet
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Answer: DRIED
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Some queens | 4 |
| 2D | 2. Live | 5 |
| 3D | 3. It comes from the heart | 5 |
| 4D | 4. Glide down a piste | 3 |
| 5D | 5. ___ soldier | 3 |
| 6D | 6. Levels | 6 |
| 7D | 7. One versed in verse | 4 |
| 8D | 8. Agcy. that takes many forms | 3 |
| 9D | 9. Title for a J.D. | 3 |
| 10D | 10. Spirits | 7 |
| 11D | 11. "That's what she said" and others | 9 |
| 12D | 12. Beyond impressive, informally | 9 |
| 13D | 13. Ceremony | 4 |
| 14D | 18. One of several in a watch | 4 |
| 15D | 23. Caribbean music genre | 3 |
| 16D | 25. Rae of "Insecure" | 4 |
| 17D | 26. NaOH | 3 |
| 18D | 27. About 35,000 for the Taj Mahal: Abbr. | 4 |
| 19D | 28. No longer relevant | 4 |
| 20D | 30. ___ Nation (activist organization since 1990) | 5 |
| 21D | 31. Fair | 4 |
| 22D | 32. T.H. White's "The ___ and Future King" | 4 |
| 23D | 33. Knockoff version of a bejeweled Imperial egg, e.g. | 9 |
| 24D | 34. In a class by oneself | 9 |
| 25D | 38. ___ Mawr | 4 |
| 26D | 39. Teeming (with) | 4 |
| 27D | 40. Greeting from Kermit | 4 |
| 28D | 42. Name that sounds like a computer guidebook | 7 |
| 29D | 43. Hosts, for short | 3 |
| 30D | 45. N.F.L. div. | 3 |
| 31D | 46. Lives | 6 |
| 32D | 47. Coming right up | 4 |
| 33D | 50. Eel, at a sushi bar | 5 |
| 34D | 51. "Ratatouille" topper | 5 |
| 35D | 52. Fabrication expert | 4 |
| 36D | 53. "I guess so" | 4 |
| 37D | 55. Barred from competing, for short | 4 |
| 38D | 58. Trail Blazers' grp. | 3 |
| 39D | 59. "Severance" actress Tullock | 3 |
| 40D | 60. Microdosing drug | 3 |
| 41D | 61. "Quit ___ yappin'!" | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Some queens"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep
- Similar words include: be intimate, bottom, layer
- Opposite of: turn out, get up
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Answer: BEDS
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2D: "2. Live"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ONAIR
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3D: "3. It comes from the heart"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AORTA
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4D: "4. Glide down a piste"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used in pairs for gliding over snow
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SKI
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5D: "5. ___ soldier"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion; used in many alloys and to coat other metals to prevent corrosion; obtained chiefly from cassiterite where it occurs as tin oxide
- Similar words include: cannister, put up, canister
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TIN
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6D: "6. Levels"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock)
- Similar words include: class, socio-economic class, layer
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: STRATA
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7D: "7. One versed in verse"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: POET
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8D: "8. Agcy. that takes many forms"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the bureau of the treasury department responsible for tax collections
- Similar words include: Internal Revenue Service
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IRS
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9D: "9. Title for a J.D."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a title of respect for a member of the english gentry ranking just below a knight; placed after the name
- Similar words include: Esquire
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ESQ
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10D: "10. Spirits"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented
- Similar words include: strong drink, spirits, John Barleycorn
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: LIQUORS
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11D: "11. "That's what she said" and others"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an indirect (and usually malicious) implication
- Similar words include: insinuation, innuendo
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: INNUENDOS
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12D: "12. Beyond impressive, informally"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: SCARYGOOD
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13D: "13. Ceremony"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cheap or pretentious or vain display
- Similar words include: eclat, gaudery
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: POMP
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14D: "18. One of several in a watch"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion
- Similar words include: geartrain, gearing, train
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GEAR
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15D: "23. Caribbean music genre"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SKA
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16D: "25. Rae of "Insecure""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ISSA
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17D: "26. NaOH"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a strong solution of sodium or potassium hydroxide
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LYE
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18D: "27. About 35,000 for the Taj Mahal: Abbr."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SQFT
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19D: "28. No longer relevant"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise
- Similar words include: turn over, consider, debate
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MOOT
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20D: "30. ___ Nation (activist organization since 1990)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that offensive term for an openly homosexual man
- Similar words include: fairy, foil, bilk
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: QUEER
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21D: "31. Fair"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display
- Similar words include: exposition, exhibition
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EXPO
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22D: "32. T.H. White's "The ___ and Future King""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that on one occasion
- Similar words include: formerly, one time, in one case
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ONCE
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23D: "33. Knockoff version of a bejeweled Imperial egg, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: FAUXBERGE
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24D: "34. In a class by oneself"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that radically distinctive and without equal
- Similar words include: unparalleled, unique, unequalled
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: UNEQUALED
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25D: "38. ___ Mawr"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BRYN
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26D: "39. Teeming (with)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that most frequent or common
- Similar words include: predominant, plethoric, prevalent
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RIFE
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27D: "40. Greeting from Kermit"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HIHO
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28D: "42. Name that sounds like a computer guidebook"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: EMANUEL
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29D: "43. Hosts, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one million periods per second
- Similar words include: megahertz, megacycle per second, megacycle
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MCS
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30D: "45. N.F.L. div."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: QTR
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31D: "46. Lives"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that have an existence, be extant
- Similar words include: exist, survive, subsist
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: EXISTS
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32D: "47. Coming right up"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that immediately following in time or order
- Similar words include: following, side by side, adjacent
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NEXT
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33D: "50. Eel, at a sushi bar"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: UNAGI
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34D: "51. "Ratatouille" topper"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a tall white hat with a pouched crown; worn by chefs
- Similar words include: pillbox, turban
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TOQUE
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35D: "52. Fabrication expert"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly
- Similar words include: prevaricator
- Opposite of: square shooter
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Answer: LIAR
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36D: "53. "I guess so""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured
- Similar words include: certain, trusted, surely
- Opposite of: uncertain, unsure
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Answer: SURE
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37D: "55. Barred from competing, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DQED
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38D: "58. Trail Blazers' grp."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NBA
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39D: "59. "Severance" actress Tullock"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: JEN
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40D: "60. Microdosing drug"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a powerful hallucinogenic drug manufactured from lysergic acid
- Similar words include: lysergic acid diethylamide
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LSD
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41D: "61. "Quit ___ yappin'!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: YER
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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.
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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
41 Down Clues
78 Total Clues
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