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- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (32 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (32 clues)
- Down Clues - Detailed Hints
- Expert Solving Strategies
- Today's Puzzle Statistics
Today's Puzzle Difficulty: Tricky
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Across Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1A | 1. Sampras rival during the 1990s | 6 |
| 2A | 7. Get on board | 6 |
| 3A | 13. Let off steam, perhaps | 6 |
| 4A | 14. Perry Como or Bing Crosby | 7 |
| 5A | 15. Frustrated and making poor decisions, informally | 6 |
| 6A | 16. #1 on Wired magazine's list of the 10 most influential video games of the 2010s | 8 |
| 7A | 17. "Aren't we all hoity-toity?!" | 11 |
| 8A | 19. Generate clippings, say | 3 |
| 9A | 20. First name in hog riding | 4 |
| 10A | 21. Established fact | 5 |
| 11A | 22. Let go of | 4 |
| 12A | 23. Body layer | 5 |
| 13A | 25. Events at which to release one's inner geek | 9 |
| 14A | 27. Makers of frightening but (thankfully) rare marine attacks | 5 |
| 15A | 29. Source of half the world's sugar during the late 1800s | 5 |
| 16A | 30. Higher power? | 5 |
| 17A | 31. They're stoked | 5 |
| 18A | 32. Word with blue or open | 5 |
| 19A | 33. Speak, as thou might | 5 |
| 20A | 34. Kind of beard that follows the jawline | 9 |
| 21A | 36. Dunderheaded | 5 |
| 22A | 40. "You ___?" | 4 |
| 23A | 41. Punted | 5 |
| 24A | 43. Foe of the Iroquois during the Beaver Wars | 4 |
| 25A | 44. Org. that's gone to the dogs? | 3 |
| 26A | 45. [womp, womp] | 11 |
| 27A | 47. Major magazine pieces | 8 |
| 28A | 49. Delicatessen offering | 6 |
| 29A | 50. Loser of the 2025 World Series | 7 |
| 30A | 51. Where to follow local customs, it's said | 6 |
| 31A | 52. Underhanded | 6 |
| 32A | 53. Beach shade | 6 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Sampras rival during the 1990s"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: AGASSI
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2A: "7. Get on board"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that go on board
- Similar words include: enter, ship, venture
- Opposite of: disembark
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Answer: EMBARK
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3A: "13. Let off steam, perhaps"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that give expression or utterance to
- Similar words include: air out, air, ventilate
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: VENTED
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4A: "14. Perry Como or Bing Crosby"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a singer of popular ballads
- Similar words include: balladeer
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: CROONER
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5A: "15. Frustrated and making poor decisions, informally"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ONTILT
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6A: "16. #1 on Wired magazine's list of the 10 most influential video games of the 2010s"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: FORTNITE
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7A: "17. "Aren't we all hoity-toity?!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: WELLLADIDAH
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8A: "19. Generate clippings, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a loft in a barn where hay is stored
- Similar words include: cut down, haymow, pout
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MOW
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9A: "20. First name in hog riding"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EVEL
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10A: "21. Established fact"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an assumption that is taken for granted
- Similar words include: open, leave, sacrifice
- Opposite of: starve, take
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Answer: GIVEN
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11A: "22. Let go of"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the event of something burning (often destructive)
- Similar words include: enkindle, flaming, send away
- Opposite of: hire
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Answer: FIRE
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12A: "23. Body layer"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the deep vascular inner layer of the skin
- Similar words include: dermis, corium
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DERMA
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13A: "25. Events at which to release one's inner geek"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: NERDFESTS
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14A: "27. Makers of frightening but (thankfully) rare marine attacks"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
- Similar words include: killer, orca, Orcinus orca
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ORCAS
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15A: "29. Source of half the world's sugar during the late 1800s"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that biennial eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop
- Similar words include: beetroot, beet, Beta vulgaris
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BEETS
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16A: "30. Higher power?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that relating to or derived from the sun or utilizing the energies of the sun
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SOLAR
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17A: "31. They're stoked"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the carboniferous period
- Similar words include: coal, char, ember
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: COALS
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18A: "32. Word with blue or open"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth
- Similar words include: pitch, ski, sky
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SKIES
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19A: "33. Speak, as thou might"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SAYST
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20A: "34. Kind of beard that follows the jawline"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: CHINSTRAP
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21A: "36. Dunderheaded"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the location of something surrounded by other things
- Similar words include: dense, compact, thickheaded
- Opposite of: thinly, thin
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Answer: THICK
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22A: "40. "You ___?""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that sound loudly and sonorously
- Similar words include: telephone, knell, phone
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RANG
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23A: "41. Punted"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that propel with a pole
- Similar words include: punt, pole
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: POLED
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24A: "43. Foe of the Iroquois during the Beaver Wars"
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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25A: "44. Org. that's gone to the dogs?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AKC
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26A: "45. [womp, womp]"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: SADTROMBONE
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27A: "47. Major magazine pieces"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a prominent attribute or aspect of something
- Similar words include: lineament, have, characteristic
- Opposite of: lack
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Answer: FEATURES
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28A: "49. Delicatessen offering"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (old testment) a son of jacob and forefather of one of the tribes of israel
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: REUBEN
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29A: "50. Loser of the 2025 World Series"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the provincial capital and largest city in ontario (and the largest city in canada)
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: TORONTO
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30A: "51. Where to follow local customs, it's said"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: INROME
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31A: "52. Underhanded"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that marked by deception
- Similar words include: surreptitious, sneak, stealthy
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SNEAKY
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32A: "53. Beach shade"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun
- Similar words include: tan, sunburn, burn
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SUNTAN
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Sworn | 6 |
| 2D | 2. City, lake or canton de Suisse | 6 |
| 3D | 3. Tip on quite a few bucks? | 6 |
| 4D | 4. Extremely rare, facetiously | 11 |
| 5D | 5. Act bearishly | 4 |
| 6D | 6. What might come with some baggage? | 5 |
| 7D | 7. Dogsbody | 9 |
| 8D | 8. Io or luna | 4 |
| 9D | 9. When repeated, a small treat | 3 |
| 10D | 10. Shamans, typically | 8 |
| 11D | 11. Claps back | 7 |
| 12D | 12. Mardi Gras parading societies | 6 |
| 13D | 14. Tech job | 5 |
| 14D | 16. Bills first introduced in 1861 | 5 |
| 15D | 18. Currency of Serbia | 5 |
| 16D | 22. Exercise almost to a point of pain | 11 |
| 17D | 24. Van Gogh retreat in southern France | 5 |
| 18D | 26. Significant spread | 5 |
| 19D | 28. Post-show celebration | 9 |
| 20D | 30. Some spa treatments | 8 |
| 21D | 31. Escapade | 5 |
| 22D | 32. Agree to, in a way | 7 |
| 23D | 33. Bath ___ | 5 |
| 24D | 34. Fashions | 6 |
| 25D | 35. Clown locale | 5 |
| 26D | 37. Futuristic sci-fi classic with tales set in 2021 and 2029 | 6 |
| 27D | 38. Field of the annual César Awards | 6 |
| 28D | 39. One of the Wayans brothers | 6 |
| 29D | 42. Day at the movies | 5 |
| 30D | 45. Like some costs | 4 |
| 31D | 46. Many a drop-down | 4 |
| 32D | 48. ___ T | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Sworn"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
- Similar words include: avow, aver, assert
- Opposite of: disavow
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Answer: AVOWED
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2D: "2. City, lake or canton de Suisse"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a city in southwestern switzerland at the western end of lake geneva; it is the headquarters of various international organizations
- Similar words include: Genf, Geneva
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: GENEVE
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3D: "3. Tip on quite a few bucks?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that deciduous horn of a member of the deer family
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ANTLER
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4D: "4. Extremely rare, facetiously"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: STILLMOOING
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5D: "5. Act bearishly"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the activity of persuading someone to buy
- Similar words include: deal, trade, betray
- Opposite of: buy
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Answer: SELL
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6D: "6. What might come with some baggage?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: IDTAG
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7D: "7. Dogsbody"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: ERRANDBOY
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8D: "8. Io or luna"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MOTH
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9D: "9. When repeated, a small treat"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: BON
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10D: "10. Shamans, typically"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one who accepts the doctrine of animism
- Similar words include: animist
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: ANIMISTS
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11D: "11. Claps back"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
- Similar words include: rejoin, rejoinder, riposte
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: RETORTS
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12D: "12. Mardi Gras parading societies"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: KREWES
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13D: "14. Tech job"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who designs and writes and tests computer programs
- Similar words include: computer programmer, software engineer, programmer
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CODER
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14D: "16. Bills first introduced in 1861"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a game resembling handball; played on a court with a front wall and two side walls
- Similar words include: V, basketball team, quint
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: FIVES
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15D: "18. Currency of Serbia"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that 100 dinars equal 1 rial in iran
- Similar words include: Tunisian dinar, Algerian dinar, Kuwaiti dinar
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DINAR
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16D: "22. Exercise almost to a point of pain"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: FEELTHEBURN
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17D: "24. Van Gogh retreat in southern France"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that money given by a buyer to a seller to bind a contract
- Similar words include: earnest money
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ARLES
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18D: "26. Significant spread"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a ceremonial dinner party for many people
- Similar words include: banquet, junket, spread
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: FEAST
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19D: "28. Post-show celebration"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: CASTPARTY
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20D: "30. Some spa treatments"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that care for the skin
- Similar words include: skin care
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: SKINCARE
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21D: "31. Escapade"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of numerous plants of the genus capparis
- Similar words include: gambol, prank, joke
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CAPER
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22D: "32. Agree to, in a way"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SHAKEON
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23D: "33. Bath ___"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
- Similar words include: SALT, common salt, table salt
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SALTS
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24D: "34. Fashions"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the skilled practice of a practical occupation
- Similar words include: foxiness, craftiness, wiliness
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CRAFTS
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25D: "35. Clown locale"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an exhibition of cowboy skills
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RODEO
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26D: "37. Futuristic sci-fi classic with tales set in 2021 and 2029"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: IROBOT
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27D: "38. Field of the annual César Awards"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a medium that disseminates moving pictures
- Similar words include: movie theatre, movie house, picture palace
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CINEMA
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28D: "39. One of the Wayans brothers"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: KEENEN
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29D: "42. Day at the movies"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (greek mythology) wife of nereus and mother of the nereids
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DORIS
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30D: "45. Like some costs"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that fall or descend to a lower place or level
- Similar words include: pass, sink, go down
- Opposite of: float
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Answer: SUNK
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31D: "46. Many a drop-down"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a list of dishes available at a restaurant
- Similar words include: carte, carte du jour, bill of fare
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MENU
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32D: "48. ___ T"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TOA
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Expert Solving Strategies
Start Smart
Begin with fill-in-the-blank clues and short 3-4 letter words. These are your foundation.
Decode the Clues
Question marks indicate wordplay or puns. "Maybe" suggests multiple interpretations.
Use Cross-References
Let intersecting letters guide you. One correct answer unlocks several others.
Build Vocabulary
Common crossword words repeat. Learning them speeds up future solving.
Today's Puzzle Stats
32 Across Clues
32 Down Clues
64 Total Clues
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