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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (72 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (71 clues)
- Down Clues - Detailed Hints
- Expert Solving Strategies
- Today's Puzzle Statistics
Today's Puzzle Difficulty: Tricky
Pro Tip: Start with the fill-in-the-blank clues - they're usually the easiest entry points!
Across Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1A | 1. Some Arctic transports | 9 |
| 2A | 10. S.E.C. football powerhouse, for short | 4 |
| 3A | 14. 1950s hangout with a jukebox | 8 |
| 4A | 20. Game piece made of four squares | 9 |
| 5A | 21. "The Kite Runner" protagonist | 4 |
| 6A | 22. Skulks | 6 |
| 7A | 23. Joins gradually | 9 |
| 8A | 24. "Doggone it!" | 4 |
| 9A | 25. Treatment | 6 |
| 10A | 26. Blue colorant obtained from the indigo plant | 4 |
| 11A | 27. Wrangler alternative | 3 |
| 12A | 28. Brightly colored Mediterranean flowers | 8 |
| 13A | 30. Rap's Run-___ | 3 |
| 14A | 31. Course catalog? | 4 |
| 15A | 32. When Aries transitions to Taurus | 5 |
| 16A | 34. Sweetly, on scores | 5 |
| 17A | 35. "I'll pass" | 3 |
| 18A | 36. Input of certain mining | 4 |
| 19A | 38. Montalbán who played Khan in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" | 7 |
| 20A | 40. Timer setting | 4 |
| 21A | 42. Areas of influence | 7 |
| 22A | 45. Mental health org. | 3 |
| 23A | 46. Fraudulently make seem like | 9 |
| 24A | 48. Covers completely | 5 |
| 25A | 49. Wyoming peak | 5 |
| 26A | 51. Like a corporation with a new logo, perhaps | 9 |
| 27A | 54. Comment from someone caught in the rain | 8 |
| 28A | 56. Yellow avenue in Monopoly | 7 |
| 29A | 58. A bit off, say | 6 |
| 30A | 59. Hyatt alternative | 4 |
| 31A | 60. Hard-boiled genre | 4 |
| 32A | 62. TheForce.net for "Star Wars," for example | 7 |
| 33A | 64. Dark side | 3 |
| 34A | 65. Former big name in browsers | 8 |
| 35A | 67. U.F.O.-watching org. | 4 |
| 36A | 68. By way of, informally | 4 |
| 37A | 70. Kemo ___ (the Lone Ranger) | 4 |
| 38A | 71. Sailor's patron | 6 |
| 39A | 72. Fleetwood Mac hit named for a Celtic goddess | 8 |
| 40A | 76. Daddy | 3 |
| 41A | 79. Eponymous British financier James ___ | 7 |
| 42A | 81. By saying this you mean well | 4 |
| 43A | 82. Wrap seller | 4 |
| 44A | 83. Adopted, as a pet | 6 |
| 45A | 85. Wasn't folded in a suitcase, say | 7 |
| 46A | 87. Developed, as baby teeth | 6 |
| 47A | 89. Sci-fi miniaturizer | 9 |
| 48A | 91. Emanations | 5 |
| 49A | 93. Boldly face | 5 |
| 50A | 94. Kind of cipher in which A becomes B, B becomes C, e.g. | 6 |
| 51A | 95. Guardians, on a scoreboard | 3 |
| 52A | 96. Bit of birdspeak | 7 |
| 53A | 98. Damp, mildewy quality | 4 |
| 54A | 99. They hold water | 7 |
| 55A | 102. Silence | 4 |
| 56A | 103. Lying faceup | 6 |
| 57A | 104. ___ Park, Calif. | 5 |
| 58A | 105. Air | 5 |
| 59A | 107. Disney subsidiary | 4 |
| 60A | 111. A little help? | 3 |
| 61A | 112. Evaded, as a sensitive issue | 12 |
| 62A | 114. Some pings, in brief | 3 |
| 63A | 115. "Fie on ___!" (Shakespearean cry) | 4 |
| 64A | 116. Skips over | 6 |
| 65A | 118. Few and far between | 4 |
| 66A | 119. Regulars at parks with ramps, informally | 9 |
| 67A | 121. Reply after having one's memory jogged | 6 |
| 68A | 122. Some time ago | 4 |
| 69A | 123. "What's done is done!" | 9 |
| 70A | 124. Stick (to) | 6 |
| 71A | 125. Garden interloper | 4 |
| 72A | 126. Church parts crossing naves | 9 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Some Arctic transports"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: SKIPLANES
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2A: "10. S.E.C. football powerhouse, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BAMA
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3A: "14. 1950s hangout with a jukebox"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: SODASHOP
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4A: "20. Game piece made of four squares"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: TETROMINO
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5A: "21. "The Kite Runner" protagonist"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in africa or arabia)
- Similar words include: ameer, emir, emeer
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AMIR
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6A: "22. Skulks"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of prowling (walking about in a stealthy manner)
- Similar words include: lurch, prowl
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PROWLS
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7A: "23. Joins gradually"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: EASESINTO
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8A: "24. "Doggone it!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that something of little value
- Similar words include: shucks, damn, hoot
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DARN
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9A: "25. Treatment"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
- Similar words include: cure, redress, remediate
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: REMEDY
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10A: "26. Blue colorant obtained from the indigo plant"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically
- Similar words include: indigo, Indigofera anil, indigotin
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ANIL
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11A: "27. Wrangler alternative"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in america (born in 1957)
- Similar words include: Henry Lee, Robert E. Lee, Bruce Lee
- Opposite of: windward
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Answer: LEE
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12A: "28. Brightly colored Mediterranean flowers"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any plant of the genus helianthemum; vigorous plants of stony alpine meadows and dry scrub regions
- Similar words include: helianthemum, sunrose, sun rose
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: SUNROSES
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13A: "30. Rap's Run-___"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DMC
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14A: "31. Course catalog?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a list of dishes available at a restaurant
- Similar words include: carte du jour, card, fare
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MENU
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15A: "32. When Aries transitions to Taurus"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the month following march and preceding may
- Similar words include: Apr
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: APRIL
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16A: "34. Sweetly, on scores"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that gently and sweetly
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DOLCE
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17A: "35. "I'll pass""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NAH
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18A: "36. Input of certain mining"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn
- Similar words include: datum, information, data point
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DATA
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19A: "38. Montalbán who played Khan in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that english economist who argued that the laws of supply and demand should operate in a free market (1772-1823)
- Similar words include: David Ricardo
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: RICARDO
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20A: "40. Timer setting"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OVEN
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21A: "42. Areas of influence"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a particular environment or walk of life
- Similar words include: field, empyrean, sphere
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SPHERES
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22A: "45. Mental health org."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: APA
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23A: "46. Fraudulently make seem like"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: PALMOFFAS
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24A: "48. Covers completely"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an outer garment that has sleeves and covers the body from shoulder down; worn outdoors
- Similar words include: coat, surface, pelage
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: COATS
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25A: "49. Wyoming peak"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of the large western branch of sioux people which was made up of several groups that lived on the plains
- Similar words include: Teton Sioux, Lakota, Teton Dakota
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TETON
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26A: "51. Like a corporation with a new logo, perhaps"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: REBRANDED
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27A: "54. Comment from someone caught in the rain"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: IMSOAKED
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28A: "56. Yellow avenue in Monopoly"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: VENTNOR
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29A: "58. A bit off, say"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ONSALE
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30A: "59. Hyatt alternative"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OMNI
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31A: "60. Hard-boiled genre"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NOIR
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32A: "62. TheForce.net for "Star Wars," for example"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: FANSITE
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33A: "64. Dark side"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the dark negative feminine principle in chinese dualistic cosmology
- Opposite of: yang
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: YIN
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34A: "65. Former big name in browsers"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a commercial browser
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: NETSCAPE
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35A: "67. U.F.O.-watching org."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SETI
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36A: "68. By way of, informally"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: THRU
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37A: "70. Kemo ___ (the Lone Ranger)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SABE
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38A: "71. Sailor's patron"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: STELMO
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39A: "72. Fleetwood Mac hit named for a Celtic goddess"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: RHIANNON
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40A: "76. Daddy"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
- Similar words include: pour down, toss off, dad
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: POP
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41A: "79. Eponymous British financier James ___"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: BARCLAY
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42A: "81. By saying this you mean well"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BIEN
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43A: "82. Wrap seller"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a shop selling ready-to-eat food products
- Similar words include: food shop, delicatessen
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DELI
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44A: "83. Adopted, as a pet"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TOOKIN
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45A: "85. Wasn't folded in a suitcase, say"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: LAYFLAT
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46A: "87. Developed, as baby teeth"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: GREWIN
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47A: "89. Sci-fi miniaturizer"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: SHRINKRAY
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48A: "91. Emanations"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sensation (as of a cold breeze or bright light) that precedes the onset of certain disorders such as a migraine attack or epileptic seizure
- Similar words include: aura, halo, atmosphere
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AURAS
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49A: "93. Boldly face"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a north american indian warrior
- Similar words include: dauntless, endure, weather
- Opposite of: cowardly, timid
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Answer: BRAVE
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50A: "94. Kind of cipher in which A becomes B, B becomes C, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that conqueror of gaul and master of italy (100-44 bc)
- Similar words include: Gaius Julius Caesar, Sid Caesar, Sidney Caesar
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CAESAR
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51A: "95. Guardians, on a scoreboard"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CLE
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52A: "96. Bit of birdspeak"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make high-pitched sounds, as of birds
- Similar words include: twitter
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: CHITTER
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53A: "98. Damp, mildewy quality"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a necessary or essential thing
- Similar words include: mustiness, moldiness
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MUST
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54A: "99. They hold water"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a tube in which a body fluid circulates
- Similar words include: vessel, vas, watercraft
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: VESSELS
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55A: "102. Silence"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (poetic) tranquil silence
- Similar words include: quiesce, hush up, quieten
- Opposite of: louden
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Answer: HUSH
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56A: "103. Lying faceup"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that lying face upward
- Similar words include: resupine, resistless, unresisting
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SUPINE
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57A: "104. ___ Park, Calif."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MENLO
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58A: "105. Air"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies
- Similar words include: ethyl ether, vinyl ether, ethoxyethane
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ETHER
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59A: "107. Disney subsidiary"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ESPN
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60A: "111. A little help?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous
- Similar words include: pixy, hob, extremely low frequency
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ELF
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61A: "112. Evaded, as a sensitive issue"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: DANCEDAROUND
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62A: "114. Some pings, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IMS
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63A: "115. "Fie on ___!" (Shakespearean cry)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: THEE
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64A: "116. Skips over"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that leave or strike out
- Similar words include: elide
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ELIDES
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65A: "118. Few and far between"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness
- Similar words include: uncommon, rarified, rarefied
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RARE
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66A: "119. Regulars at parks with ramps, informally"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: SKATERATS
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67A: "121. Reply after having one's memory jogged"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: YESYES
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68A: "122. Some time ago"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that on one occasion
- Similar words include: one time, erst, at one time
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ONCE
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69A: "123. "What's done is done!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: GETOVERIT
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70A: "124. Stick (to)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that be compatible or in accordance with
- Similar words include: cohere, bind, stick to
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ADHERE
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71A: "125. Garden interloper"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any plant that crowds out cultivated plants
- Similar words include: locoweed, Mary Jane, sens
- Opposite of: cultivated plant
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Answer: WEED
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72A: "126. Church parts crossing naves"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that structure forming the transverse part of a cruciform church; crosses the nave at right angles
- Similar words include: transept
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: TRANSEPTS
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Make furious | 5 |
| 2D | 2. "The Family Circus" cartoonist Bil ___ | 5 |
| 3D | 3. Tennis line judge's ruling | 5 |
| 4D | 4. Duke Ellington classic with the lyric "That was my heart serenading you" | 14 |
| 5D | 5. West side of L.A.? | 3 |
| 6D | 6. "Is there still time for me to join you?" | 7 |
| 7D | 7. 51 to the hour | 8 |
| 8D | 8. Stage direction | 5 |
| 9D | 9. Phillipa of Broadway | 3 |
| 10D | 10. Grammy winner Erykah | 4 |
| 11D | 11. ___ Gorman, "The Hill We Climb" poet | 6 |
| 12D | 12. Copy | 6 |
| 13D | 13. Iced-tea-and-lemonade refreshments | 13 |
| 14D | 14. Spending romp | 5 |
| 15D | 15. Output of certain mining | 4 |
| 16D | 16. Counterpart of a sub | 3 |
| 17D | 17. Fast start? | 12 |
| 18D | 18. Father, familiarly | 6 |
| 19D | 19. Mentally overpower, with "out" | 5 |
| 20D | 28. Like most moccasins | 6 |
| 21D | 29. Great Dane of cartoons, informally | 5 |
| 22D | 33. More livid | 6 |
| 23D | 37. Keister, in Leicester | 4 |
| 24D | 39. 2015 chart-topping hit for the Weeknd | 14 |
| 25D | 40. Symbolic for its time | 7 |
| 26D | 41. Shoe company with an iconic checkerboard design | 4 |
| 27D | 42. Descendant | 5 |
| 28D | 43. Apple: Fr. | 5 |
| 29D | 44. Is without | 5 |
| 30D | 47. Rabid in appearance | 8 |
| 31D | 50. Woman's nickname that sounds like two letters | 4 |
| 32D | 51. Rice-A-___ | 4 |
| 33D | 52. "Borderlands" director ___ Roth | 3 |
| 34D | 53. Hiding place | 3 |
| 35D | 55. Gene pools? | 8 |
| 36D | 57. Org. with its own alphabet | 4 |
| 37D | 61. Abbr. not found on most smartphones | 4 |
| 38D | 63. "Aren't ___ lucky one?!" | 4 |
| 39D | 66. It has a lot of secretaries | 7 |
| 40D | 67. Shirt collar stiffener | 4 |
| 41D | 69. Where to find six "presents" in this puzzle? | 12 |
| 42D | 71. Knock 'em dead | 4 |
| 43D | 72. Coolidge who sang the theme for "Octopussy" | 4 |
| 44D | 73. Just getting started with | 5 |
| 45D | 74. Green shade | 5 |
| 46D | 75. What Joe Montana was in the '80s | 5 |
| 47D | 76. A TD scores six of these | 3 |
| 48D | 77. "Fancy, that!" | 3 |
| 49D | 78. Prickly denizen of coral reefs | 13 |
| 50D | 80. Famed lawyer in the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial | 14 |
| 51D | 81. Most minimal | 6 |
| 52D | 84. Some Korean exports | 4 |
| 53D | 86. Calmed deceptively | 6 |
| 54D | 88. Baseball slugger's stat | 4 |
| 55D | 90. Bird used to deliver messages on "Game of Thrones" | 5 |
| 56D | 92. Blueprints | 8 |
| 57D | 97. Author Zora Neale ___ | 7 |
| 58D | 98. Noodled on, with "over" | 6 |
| 59D | 100. Girlfriend in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" | 6 |
| 60D | 101. Informant | 6 |
| 61D | 103. "Ta-ta!" | 5 |
| 62D | 104. Tricky pool shot | 5 |
| 63D | 106. Someone enjoying a walk in the park | 5 |
| 64D | 108. Mentally with it | 5 |
| 65D | 109. ___ four | 5 |
| 66D | 110. Fits one inside the other | 5 |
| 67D | 112. Porcine : pigs :: cervine : ___ | 4 |
| 68D | 113. Essential | 4 |
| 69D | 117. It might be good for a change | 3 |
| 70D | 119. One who knows the drill?: Abbr. | 3 |
| 71D | 120. Teslas, e.g., for short | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Make furious"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere
- Similar words include: steam clean, steamer
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: STEAM
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2D: "2. "The Family Circus" cartoonist Bil ___"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: KEANE
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3D: "3. Tennis line judge's ruling"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ITSIN
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4D: "4. Duke Ellington classic with the lyric "That was my heart serenading you""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______________
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Answer: PRELUDETOAKISS
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5D: "5. West side of L.A.?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LOS
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6D: "6. "Is there still time for me to join you?""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: AMILATE
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7D: "7. 51 to the hour"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: NINEPAST
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8D: "8. Stage direction"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that to come or go into
- Similar words include: inscribe, move into, accede
- Opposite of: drop out, exit
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Answer: ENTER
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9D: "9. Phillipa of Broadway"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SOO
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10D: "10. Grammy winner Erykah"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BADU
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11D: "11. ___ Gorman, "The Hill We Climb" poet"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: AMANDA
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12D: "12. Copy"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that polished surface that forms images by reflecting light
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: MIRROR
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13D: "13. Iced-tea-and-lemonade refreshments"
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- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: ARNOLDPALMERS
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14D: "14. Spending romp"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a brief indulgence of your impulses
- Similar words include: fling
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SPREE
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15D: "15. Output of certain mining"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined
- Similar words include: ore
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ORES
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16D: "16. Counterpart of a sub"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DOM
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17D: "17. Fast start?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: ASHWEDNESDAY
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18D: "18. Father, familiarly"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: OLDMAN
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19D: "19. Mentally overpower, with "out""
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PSYCH
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20D: "28. Like most moccasins"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SLIPON
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21D: "29. Great Dane of cartoons, informally"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SCOOB
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22D: "33. More livid"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that feeling or showing extreme anger
- Similar words include: ireful, irate
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: IRATER
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23D: "37. Keister, in Leicester"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- Similar words include: stern, asshole, derriere
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ARSE
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24D: "39. 2015 chart-topping hit for the Weeknd"
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- Pattern: ______________
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Answer: CANTFEELMYFACE
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25D: "40. Symbolic for its time"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: OFANERA
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26D: "41. Shoe company with an iconic checkerboard design"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
- Similar words include: vanguard, avant-garde, caravan
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: VANS
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27D: "42. Descendant"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a descendent or heir
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SCION
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28D: "43. Apple: Fr."
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: POMME
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29D: "44. Is without"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HASNT
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30D: "47. Rabid in appearance"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that become bubbly or frothy or foaming
- Similar words include: effervesce, sparkle, foam
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: FROTHING
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31D: "50. Woman's nickname that sounds like two letters"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EVIE
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32D: "51. Rice-A-___"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RONI
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33D: "52. "Borderlands" director ___ Roth"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ELI
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34D: "53. Hiding place"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the habitation of wild animals
- Similar words include: hideaway, lair, hideout
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DEN
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35D: "55. Gene pools?"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: DNABANKS
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36D: "57. Org. with its own alphabet"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an international organization created in 1949 by the north atlantic treaty for purposes of collective security
- Similar words include: North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NATO
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37D: "61. Abbr. not found on most smartphones"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OPER
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38D: "63. "Aren't ___ lucky one?!""
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ITHE
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39D: "66. It has a lot of secretaries"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a piece of furniture resembling a cupboard with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display
- Similar words include: storage locker, locker, console
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: CABINET
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40D: "67. Shirt collar stiffener"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that continuing or remaining in a place or state
- Similar words include: stay put, outride, persist
- Opposite of: change, depart
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Answer: STAY
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41D: "69. Where to find six "presents" in this puzzle?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: UNDERTHETREE
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42D: "71. Knock 'em dead"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that kill intentionally and with premeditation
- Similar words include: polish off, murder, off
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SLAY
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43D: "72. Coolidge who sang the theme for "Octopussy""
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RITA
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44D: "73. Just getting started with"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NEWAT
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45D: "74. Green shade"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that small ovoid fruit of the european olive tree; important food and source of oil
- Similar words include: Olea europaea, European olive tree
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OLIVE
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46D: "75. What Joe Montana was in the '80s"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one
- Similar words include: IX, ix, nine
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NINER
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47D: "76. A TD scores six of these"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a heavy precious metallic element; grey-white and resistant to corroding; occurs in some nickel and copper ores and is also found native in some deposits
- Similar words include: platinum, atomic number 78, Pt
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PTS
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48D: "77. "Fancy, that!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that express admiration and pleasure by uttering `ooh' or `aah'
- Similar words include: aah
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OOH
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49D: "78. Prickly denizen of coral reefs"
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- Think of something that spines become erect when the body is inflated; worldwide in warm waters
- Similar words include: Diodon hystrix, porcupine fish
- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: PORCUPINEFISH
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50D: "80. Famed lawyer in the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial"
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- Pattern: ______________
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Answer: CLARENCEDARROW
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51D: "81. Most minimal"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that completely unclothed
- Similar words include: unsheathed, simple, bleak
- Opposite of: sheathed, covered
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Answer: BAREST
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52D: "84. Some Korean exports"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: KIAS
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53D: "86. Calmed deceptively"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that calm by deception
- Similar words include: tranquillise, calm, quieten
- Opposite of: agitate
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Answer: LULLED
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54D: "88. Baseball slugger's stat"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a run that is the result of the batter's performance
- Similar words include: rbi, run batted in
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RBIS
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55D: "90. Bird used to deliver messages on "Game of Thrones""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail
- Similar words include: devour, Corvus corax, pig
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RAVEN
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56D: "92. Blueprints"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world
- Similar words include: schema, outline, scheme
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: SCHEMATA
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57D: "97. Author Zora Neale ___"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: HURSTON
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58D: "98. Noodled on, with "over""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that reflect deeply on a subject
- Similar words include: mull, reflect, ponder
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: MULLED
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59D: "100. Girlfriend in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off""
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SLOANE
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60D: "101. Informant"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the place where something begins, where it springs into being
- Similar words include: author, seed, origin
- Opposite of: sink
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Answer: SOURCE
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61D: "103. "Ta-ta!""
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SEEYA
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62D: "104. Tricky pool shot"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically; the cue ball spins around another ball before hitting the object ball
- Similar words include: masse shot
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MASSE
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63D: "106. Someone enjoying a walk in the park"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure)
- Similar words include: tramp, tramper
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HIKER
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64D: "108. Mentally with it"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named
- Similar words include: penetrating, discriminating, penetrative
- Opposite of: flat, dull
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Answer: SHARP
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65D: "109. ___ four"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PETIT
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66D: "110. Fits one inside the other"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young
- Similar words include: nest, snuggle, nestle
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NESTS
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67D: "112. Porcine : pigs :: cervine : ___"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that distinguished from bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
- Similar words include: cervid
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DEER
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68D: "113. Essential"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a condition requiring relief
- Similar words include: pauperization, necessitate, involve
- Opposite of: obviate
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Answer: NEED
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69D: "117. It might be good for a change"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair
- Similar words include: dyestuff
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DYE
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70D: "119. One who knows the drill?: Abbr."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SGT
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71D: "120. Teslas, e.g., for short"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a unit of energy equal to the work done by an electron accelerated through a potential difference of 1 volt
- Similar words include: eV, electron volt
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EVS
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72 Across Clues
71 Down Clues
143 Total Clues
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