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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (63 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (73 clues)
- Down Clues - Detailed Hints
- Expert Solving Strategies
- Today's Puzzle Statistics
Today's Puzzle Difficulty: Moderate
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. It protects the heart | 7 |
| 2A | 8. Egyptian god of the underworld | 6 |
| 3A | 14. Dr.'s order? | 3 |
| 4A | 17. Substances found in cured meats and explosives | 8 |
| 5A | 18. Theme park with attractions like The Count's Splash Castle and Oscar's Rusty Rotten Rockets | 11 |
| 6A | 21. High marks | 8 |
| 7A | 22. "That's enough bickering!" | 12 |
| 8A | 24. Valletta's land | 5 |
| 9A | 25. Sci-fi protagonist who says "I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life" | 3 |
| 10A | 27. Max's opposite | 3 |
| 11A | 28. Morpheus, to 25-Across | 6 |
| 12A | 29. Good ol' boy | 5 |
| 13A | 31. Actor Thomas ___ Church | 5 |
| 14A | 34. Stares stupidly | 5 |
| 15A | 35. General who crossed the Rubicon | 6 |
| 16A | 37. Snubs | 7 |
| 17A | 39. Ultimate end, to Aristotle | 5 |
| 18A | 40. TV E.T. | 3 |
| 19A | 41. Secondary list of options | 7 |
| 20A | 43. ___ Veronese, "The Wedding at Cana" painter | 5 |
| 21A | 45. Queen ___ Land (region of Antarctica claimed by Norway) | 4 |
| 22A | 47. Classification that anyone can donate to | 6 |
| 23A | 48. Got off | 4 |
| 24A | 49. With warts and all | 4 |
| 25A | 53. Pesto ingredients | 8 |
| 26A | 55. Made less angry now | 8 |
| 27A | 58. Ozone no-no, for short | 3 |
| 28A | 59. The dash in many an emoticon | 4 |
| 29A | 60. It's a "tyrannical discipline," said Sylvia Plath | 6 |
| 30A | 61. Titular role in a 2024 Disney prequel | 6 |
| 31A | 63. Derived from gold | 5 |
| 32A | 66. Steals, informally | 7 |
| 33A | 67. Something a bug produces | 5 |
| 34A | 68. Certain Army noncom | 6 |
| 35A | 70. Points to a church? | 6 |
| 36A | 71. What the 7 may mean in 7/11 | 4 |
| 37A | 73. Brewed beverage | 3 |
| 38A | 74. Perseveres | 8 |
| 39A | 76. Certain drink + what that drink has a lot of = women's lifestyle website | 8 |
| 40A | 80. "Horsefeathers!" | 4 |
| 41A | 82. "Fiddlesticks!" | 4 |
| 42A | 83. Combine using heat without melting, as particles | 6 |
| 43A | 85. Make a lot, say? | 4 |
| 44A | 86. Famed firefighter Red | 5 |
| 45A | 88. "All right, but that's not my opinion" | 7 |
| 46A | 90. L.A.P.D. unit? | 3 |
| 47A | 91. The Lamb | 5 |
| 48A | 93. Devoted effort to looking attractive | 7 |
| 49A | 96. Leaning | 6 |
| 50A | 98. Bandage brand | 5 |
| 51A | 99. Possessed, biblically | 5 |
| 52A | 100. Word before winner or after Wonder | 5 |
| 53A | 101. Brick homes | 6 |
| 54A | 103. Buffalo's home: Abbr. | 3 |
| 55A | 104. "Sprechen ___ Deutsch?" | 3 |
| 56A | 106. Eponym of element 96 | 5 |
| 57A | 109. They'll get there eventually | 12 |
| 58A | 113. Like the cultivation of land | 8 |
| 59A | 115. Country whose border shape is the world's roundest | 11 |
| 60A | 116. Zero | 8 |
| 61A | 117. Co.'s $$$ head | 3 |
| 62A | 118. Steal for ransom | 6 |
| 63A | 119. Whence the phrase "wear one's heart on one's sleeve" | 7 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. It protects the heart"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: RIBCAGE
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2A: "8. Egyptian god of the underworld"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that egyptian god of the underworld and judge of the dead; husband and brother of isis; father of horus
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: OSIRIS
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3A: "14. Dr.'s order?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AMA
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4A: "17. Substances found in cured meats and explosives"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any compound containing the nitrate group (such as a salt or ester of nitric acid)
- Similar words include: nitrate
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: NITRATES
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5A: "18. Theme park with attractions like The Count's Splash Castle and Oscar's Rusty Rotten Rockets"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: SESAMEPLACE
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6A: "21. High marks"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: APLUSSES
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7A: "22. "That's enough bickering!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: STOPITYOUTWO
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8A: "24. Valletta's land"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a republic on the island of malta in the mediterranean; achieved independence from the united kingdom in 1964
- Similar words include: Republic of Malta
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MALTA
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9A: "25. Sci-fi protagonist who says "I don't like the idea that I'm not in control of my life""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (used as a combining form) recent or new
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NEO
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10A: "27. Max's opposite"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
- Similar words include: minute, Hokkianese, Fukien
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MIN
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11A: "28. Morpheus, to 25-Across"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a wise and trusted guide and advisor
- Similar words include: wise man
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: MENTOR
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12A: "29. Good ol' boy"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BUBBA
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13A: "31. Actor Thomas ___ Church"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HADEN
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14A: "34. Stares stupidly"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an awkward stupid person
- Similar words include: goggle, gawp, oaf
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GAWKS
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15A: "35. General who crossed the Rubicon"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that conqueror of gaul and master of italy (100-44 bc)
- Similar words include: Gaius Julius Caesar, Sidney Caesar, Sid Caesar
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CAESAR
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16A: "37. Snubs"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that refuse to acknowledge
- Similar words include: brush aside, brush off, disregard
- Opposite of: know, notice
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Answer: IGNORES
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17A: "39. Ultimate end, to Aristotle"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TELOS
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18A: "40. TV E.T."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ALF
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19A: "41. Secondary list of options"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a secondary menu that appears while you are holding the cursor over an item on the primary menu
- Similar words include: hierarchical menu, cascading menu
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SUBMENU
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20A: "43. ___ Veronese, "The Wedding at Cana" painter"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PAOLO
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21A: "45. Queen ___ Land (region of Antarctica claimed by Norway)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MAUD
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22A: "47. Classification that anyone can donate to"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TYPEAB
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23A: "48. Got off"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ALIT
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24A: "49. With warts and all"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ASIS
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25A: "53. Pesto ingredients"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: PINENUTS
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26A: "55. Made less angry now"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
- Similar words include: pacify, assuage, conciliate
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: PLACATED
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27A: "58. Ozone no-no, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a fluorocarbon with chlorine; formerly used as a refrigerant and as a propellant in aerosol cans
- Similar words include: chlorofluorocarbon
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CFC
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28A: "59. The dash in many an emoticon"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals
- Similar words include: nuzzle, pry, nozzle
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NOSE
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29A: "60. It's a "tyrannical discipline," said Sylvia Plath"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that literature in metrical form
- Similar words include: poesy, verse
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: POETRY
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30A: "61. Titular role in a 2024 Disney prequel"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: MUFASA
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31A: "63. Derived from gold"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that of or relating to or containing or derived from gold
- Similar words include: aurous
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AURIC
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32A: "66. Steals, informally"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make off with belongings of others
- Similar words include: swipe, nobble, abstract
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: FILCHES
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33A: "67. Something a bug produces"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
- Similar words include: computer error, erroneous belief, misplay
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ERROR
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34A: "68. Certain Army noncom"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SGTMAJ
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35A: "70. Points to a church?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top
- Similar words include: spire, steeple
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SPIRES
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36A: "71. What the 7 may mean in 7/11"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the month following june and preceding august
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: JULY
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37A: "73. Brewed beverage"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the united states an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ALE
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38A: "74. Perseveres"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: PUSHESON
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39A: "76. Certain drink + what that drink has a lot of = women's lifestyle website"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: POPSUGAR
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40A: "80. "Horsefeathers!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PISH
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41A: "82. "Fiddlesticks!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DRAT
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42A: "83. Combine using heat without melting, as particles"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cause (ores or powdery metals) to become a coherent mass by heating without melting
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SINTER
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43A: "85. Make a lot, say?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a setting with precious stones so closely set that no metal shows
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PAVE
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44A: "86. Famed firefighter Red"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ADAIR
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45A: "88. "All right, but that's not my opinion""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SAYSYOU
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46A: "90. L.A.P.D. unit?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LOS
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47A: "91. The Lamb"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a teacher and prophet born in bethlehem and active in nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for christianity (circa 4 bc - ad 29)
- Similar words include: Saviour, Good Shepherd, Deliverer
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: JESUS
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48A: "93. Devoted effort to looking attractive"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that clean with one's bill
- Similar words include: congratulate, preen, dress
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: PREENED
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49A: "96. Leaning"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that having an oblique or slanted direction
- Similar words include: diagonal, sloped, slanting
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ASLANT
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50A: "98. Bandage brand"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CURAD
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51A: "99. Possessed, biblically"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HADST
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52A: "100. Word before winner or after Wonder"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
- Similar words include: scratch, lucre, lolly
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BREAD
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53A: "101. Brick homes"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the clay from which adobe bricks are made
- Similar words include: adobe brick, adobe
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ADOBES
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54A: "103. Buffalo's home: Abbr."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mid-atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
- Similar words include: New York, Empire State, New York State
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NYS
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55A: "104. "Sprechen ___ Deutsch?""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SIE
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56A: "106. Eponym of element 96"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second
- Similar words include: Marie Curie, Madame Curie, Ci
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CURIE
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57A: "109. They'll get there eventually"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: LATEBLOOMERS
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58A: "113. Like the cultivation of land"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that relating to rural matters
- Similar words include: agricultural, farming
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: AGRARIAN
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59A: "115. Country whose border shape is the world's roundest"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: SIERRALEONE
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60A: "116. Zero"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: GOOSEEGG
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61A: "117. Co.'s $$$ head"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the corporate executive having financial authority to make appropriations and authorize expenditures for a firm
- Similar words include: chief financial officer
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CFO
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62A: "118. Steal for ransom"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom
- Similar words include: abduct, nobble, snatch
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: KIDNAP
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63A: "119. Whence the phrase "wear one's heart on one's sleeve""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the hero of william shakespeare's tragedy who would not trust his wife
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: OTHELLO
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Kelly of morning TV | 4 |
| 2D | 2. "Come on and let loose for a while!" | 9 |
| 3D | 3. Name of Ohio State's buckeye mascot | 6 |
| 4D | 4. Wrinkly fruits | 7 |
| 5D | 5. Parts of many online handles | 3 |
| 6D | 6. Davis of "Thelma & Louise" | 5 |
| 7D | 7. "___ quam videri" (North Carolina's motto) | 4 |
| 8D | 8. 1940s spy grp. | 3 |
| 9D | 9. Ready ... or a word after ready | 3 |
| 10D | 10. Chemist's variant | 6 |
| 11D | 11. Violent seizure, as of property | 6 |
| 12D | 12. "Sign me up" | 4 |
| 13D | 13. He scattered his brother's remains across the land and usurped his throne | 3 |
| 14D | 14. Soothing goo | 7 |
| 15D | 15. Hawaiian for "long mountain" | 8 |
| 16D | 16. Intermission follower on Broadway | 6 |
| 17D | 17. War zone for Rambo, informally | 3 |
| 18D | 19. Poe's "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon ___" | 3 |
| 19D | 20. Wicket and Teebo of Endor, e.g. | 5 |
| 20D | 23. Hosp. areas | 3 |
| 21D | 26. "I'm flattered!" | 5 |
| 22D | 30. Believing his friend and ally had too much power, he led a party of conspirators to put an end to him | 6 |
| 23D | 32. State capital that's closest to the U.S. Capitol | 9 |
| 24D | 33. Like five Across answers by five Down answers in this puzzle, literally and figuratively | 13 |
| 25D | 35. Kids' summer getaway | 4 |
| 26D | 36. Kyrgyzstani mountain range | 4 |
| 27D | 37. Urchins | 4 |
| 28D | 38. Fans out | 6 |
| 29D | 39. Where idols go head-to-head? | 5 |
| 30D | 42. Small part in a gig | 4 |
| 31D | 44. British isle | 3 |
| 32D | 46. It's in your jeans | 5 |
| 33D | 48. Plot divisions | 5 |
| 34D | 50. Traumatize | 4 |
| 35D | 51. "Assuming that's true ..." | 4 |
| 36D | 52. He led his brother to his demise by endangering his nephew | 4 |
| 37D | 54. "Not gonna lie ..." | 5 |
| 38D | 56. First enactors of democracy | 9 |
| 39D | 57. Fencing contests | 5 |
| 40D | 60. Chemistry lab dropper | 5 |
| 41D | 62. Prepare quickly, as eggs for breakfast | 5 |
| 42D | 63. Chop-chop | 4 |
| 43D | 64. Wrinkly fruit | 4 |
| 44D | 65. GPS lines: Abbr. | 4 |
| 45D | 66. Programming language that's also a musical key | 6 |
| 46D | 69. He sold out his master in exchange for silver | 5 |
| 47D | 71. Baby in a pouch | 4 |
| 48D | 72. Pandemonium | 6 |
| 49D | 75. Title for a guru | 3 |
| 50D | 76. Survivor's affliction, for short | 4 |
| 51D | 77. Elf portrayed by Cate Blanchett in "The Fellowship of the Ring" | 9 |
| 52D | 78. Big name in makeup | 4 |
| 53D | 79. Music score squiggle | 4 |
| 54D | 81. Disagrees (with) | 8 |
| 55D | 84. Ixnays from Irkutsk | 5 |
| 56D | 87. Obnoxious fratty sort, colloquially | 7 |
| 57D | 89. Possible scenario, to a coder | 7 |
| 58D | 91. 2011 Lady Gaga hit | 5 |
| 59D | 92. Steamy | 6 |
| 60D | 94. Paired chips with dips? | 6 |
| 61D | 95. Touch lightly, as a gas pedal | 6 |
| 62D | 97. Floral victory symbol | 6 |
| 63D | 98. Lead-in to Tech | 3 |
| 64D | 100. Spawned | 5 |
| 65D | 102. Camera inits. | 3 |
| 66D | 103. ___ me tangere (Latin warning) | 4 |
| 67D | 105. Jafar's parrot in "Aladdin" | 4 |
| 68D | 107. Driven by envy toward his comrades, he fabricated events that led to their downfall | 4 |
| 69D | 108. Official lang. of Liberia | 3 |
| 70D | 110. Acorn, in the future | 3 |
| 71D | 111. Messenger ___ | 3 |
| 72D | 112. Birth month of most Virgos: Abbr. | 3 |
| 73D | 114. "Ruh-___!" (cry from Astro on "The Jetsons") | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Kelly of morning TV"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RIPA
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2D: "2. "Come on and let loose for a while!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: ITLLBEFUN
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3D: "3. Name of Ohio State's buckeye mascot"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that statesman of ancient rome who (with cassius) led a conspiracy to assassinate julius caesar (85-42 bc)
- Similar words include: Marcus Junius Brutus
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BRUTUS
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4D: "4. Wrinkly fruits"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that melon having yellowish rind and whitish flesh
- Similar words include: casaba melon, casaba
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: CASABAS
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5D: "5. Parts of many online handles"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series); a decay product of uranium and thorium
- Similar words include: astatine, At, atomic number 85
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ATS
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6D: "6. Davis of "Thelma & Louise""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GEENA
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7D: "7. "___ quam videri" (North Carolina's motto)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ESSE
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8D: "8. 1940s spy grp."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mouth or mouthlike opening
- Similar words include: oculus sinister, OS, Os
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OSS
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9D: "9. Ready ... or a word after ready"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
- Similar words include: hardening, lay, determine
- Opposite of: rise
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Answer: SET
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10D: "10. Chemist's variant"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a compound that exists in forms having different arrangements of atoms but the same molecular weight
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ISOMER
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11D: "11. Violent seizure, as of property"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of despoiling a country in warfare
- Similar words include: rape
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: RAPINE
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12D: "12. "Sign me up""
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IMIN
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13D: "13. He scattered his brother's remains across the land and usurped his throne"
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- Think of something that a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
- Similar words include: hardening, lay, determine
- Opposite of: rise
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Answer: SET
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14D: "14. Soothing goo"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ALOEGEL
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15D: "15. Hawaiian for "long mountain""
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: MAUNALOA
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16D: "16. Intermission follower on Broadway"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ACTTWO
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17D: "17. War zone for Rambo, informally"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NAM
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18D: "19. Poe's "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon ___""
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PYM
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19D: "20. Wicket and Teebo of Endor, e.g."
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EWOKS
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20D: "23. Hosp. areas"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a state in northwestern united states on the pacific
- Similar words include: Oregon, operating theater, operating room
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ORS
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21D: "26. "I'm flattered!""
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OHGEE
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22D: "30. Believing his friend and ally had too much power, he led a party of conspirators to put an end to him"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that statesman of ancient rome who (with cassius) led a conspiracy to assassinate julius caesar (85-42 bc)
- Similar words include: Marcus Junius Brutus
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BRUTUS
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23D: "32. State capital that's closest to the U.S. Capitol"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that state capital of maryland; site of the united states naval academy
- Similar words include: capital of Maryland
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: ANNAPOLIS
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24D: "33. Like five Across answers by five Down answers in this puzzle, literally and figuratively"
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- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: DOUBLECROSSED
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25D: "35. Kids' summer getaway"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
- Similar words include: tent, camp down, pack
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CAMP
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26D: "36. Kyrgyzstani mountain range"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ALAI
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27D: "37. Urchins"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous
- Similar words include: rapscallion, scamp, rascal
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IMPS
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28D: "38. Fans out"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an outward bevel around a door or window that makes it seem larger
- Similar words include: spread out, turn out, slip
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SPLAYS
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29D: "39. Where idols go head-to-head?"
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- Think of something that a clan or tribe identified by their kinship to a common totemic object
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TOTEM
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30D: "42. Small part in a gig"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BYTE
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31D: "44. British isle"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AIT
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32D: "46. It's in your jeans"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (usually plural) close-fitting trousers of heavy denim for manual work or casual wear
- Similar words include: dungaree, jean, blue jean
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DENIM
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33D: "48. Plot divisions"
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- Think of something that extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use
- Similar words include: land, Akka, estate
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ACRES
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34D: "50. Traumatize"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue
- Similar words include: scratch, mark, cicatrix
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SCAR
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35D: "51. "Assuming that's true ...""
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IFSO
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36D: "52. He led his brother to his demise by endangering his nephew"
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- Think of something that a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue
- Similar words include: scratch, mark, cicatrix
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SCAR
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37D: "54. "Not gonna lie ...""
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NOCAP
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38D: "56. First enactors of democracy"
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- Think of something that a resident of athens
- Similar words include: Athenian
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: ATHENIANS
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39D: "57. Fencing contests"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a prearranged fight with deadly weapons by two people (accompanied by seconds) in order to settle a quarrel over a point of honor
- Similar words include: duel, affaire d'honneur
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DUELS
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40D: "60. Chemistry lab dropper"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube used to measure or transfer precise volumes of a liquid by drawing the liquid up into the tube
- Similar words include: pipette
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PIPET
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41D: "62. Prepare quickly, as eggs for breakfast"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: FRYUP
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42D: "63. Chop-chop"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that as soon as possible
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ASAP
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43D: "64. Wrinkly fruit"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin
- Similar words include: ugli fruit, tangelo
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: UGLI
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44D: "65. GPS lines: Abbr."
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RTES
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45D: "66. Programming language that's also a musical key"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: FSHARP
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46D: "69. He sold out his master in exchange for silver"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (new testament) supposed brother of st. james; one of the apostles who is invoked in prayer when a situation seems hopeless
- Similar words include: Judah, Jude, Saint Jude
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: JUDAS
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47D: "71. Baby in a pouch"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: JOEY
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48D: "72. Pandemonium"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a state of commotion and noise and confusion
- Similar words include: garboil, tumultuousness, tumult
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: UPROAR
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49D: "75. Title for a guru"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SRI
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50D: "76. Survivor's affliction, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characterized by such symptoms as survivor guilt, reliving the trauma in dreams, numbness and lack of involvement with reality, or recurrent thoughts and images
- Similar words include: posttraumatic stress disorder
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PTSD
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51D: "77. Elf portrayed by Cate Blanchett in "The Fellowship of the Ring""
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- Pattern: _________
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Answer: GALADRIEL
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52D: "78. Big name in makeup"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a river in southwestern england rising in gloucestershire and flowing through bristol to empty into the estuary of the severn
- Similar words include: Upper Avon River, Upper Avon, River Avon
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AVON
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53D: "79. Music score squiggle"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that something left after other parts have been taken away
- Similar words include: residuum, residue, stay
- Opposite of: change, be active
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Answer: REST
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54D: "81. Disagrees (with)"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: HASABEEF
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55D: "84. Ixnays from Irkutsk"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NYETS
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56D: "87. Obnoxious fratty sort, colloquially"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: DUDEBRO
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57D: "89. Possible scenario, to a coder"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: USECASE
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58D: "91. 2011 Lady Gaga hit"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (new testament) supposed brother of st. james; one of the apostles who is invoked in prayer when a situation seems hopeless
- Similar words include: Judah, Jude, Saint Jude
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: JUDAS
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59D: "92. Steamy"
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- Think of something that an erotic person
- Similar words include: titillating
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: EROTIC
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60D: "94. Paired chips with dips?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that compose rhymes
- Similar words include: rhyme, riming, rhyming
- Opposite of: unrhymed
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Answer: RHYMED
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61D: "95. Touch lightly, as a gas pedal"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: EASEON
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62D: "97. Floral victory symbol"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family
- Similar words include: Stan Laurel, laurel wreath, bay wreath
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: LAUREL
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63D: "98. Lead-in to Tech"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CAL
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64D: "100. Spawned"
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- Think of something that make children
- Similar words include: father, mother, bring forth
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BEGOT
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65D: "102. Camera inits."
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SLR
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66D: "103. ___ me tangere (Latin warning)"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NOLI
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67D: "105. Jafar's parrot in "Aladdin""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the villain in william shakespeare's tragedy who tricked othello into murdering his wife
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IAGO
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68D: "107. Driven by envy toward his comrades, he fabricated events that led to their downfall"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the villain in william shakespeare's tragedy who tricked othello into murdering his wife
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IAGO
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69D: "108. Official lang. of Liberia"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ENG
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70D: "110. Acorn, in the future"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring
- Similar words include: oak tree
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OAK
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71D: "111. Messenger ___"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (biochemistry) a long linear polymer of nucleotides found in the nucleus but mainly in the cytoplasm of a cell where it is associated with microsomes; it transmits genetic information from dna to the cytoplasm and controls certain chemical processes in the cell
- Similar words include: ribonucleic acid
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RNA
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72D: "112. Birth month of most Virgos: Abbr."
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- Think of something that the month following august and preceding october
- Similar words include: September, Sept
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SEP
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73D: "114. "Ruh-___!" (cry from Astro on "The Jetsons")"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ROH
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Today's Puzzle Stats
63 Across Clues
73 Down Clues
136 Total Clues
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