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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (35 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (41 clues)
- Down Clues - Detailed Hints
- Expert Solving Strategies
- Today's Puzzle Statistics
Today's Puzzle Difficulty: Challenging
Pro Tip: Start with the fill-in-the-blank clues - they're usually the easiest entry points!
Across Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1A | 1. Value | 5 |
| 2A | 6. Volcanic coating that buried Pompeii | 3 |
| 3A | 9. Overhead light? | 4 |
| 4A | 13. Listlessness | 5 |
| 5A | 14. Situation that precedes overtime | 3 |
| 6A | 15. Fruit-peeling gadget | 5 |
| 7A | 16. Meeting spot for a company's overseers | 9 |
| 8A | 18. Ventilated | 5 |
| 9A | 19. Actor Reeves who plays John Wick | 5 |
| 10A | 20. Clothing | 6 |
| 11A | 21. Wrestler-turned-actor with a trademark do | 3 |
| 12A | 24. 1976 film with Robert De Niro as an alienated cabbie | 10 |
| 13A | 26. Lawyer, or a lawyer's advice | 7 |
| 14A | 29. Gloppy gunk | 3 |
| 15A | 30. Op-___ (newspaper pieces) | 3 |
| 16A | 31. Advantageous quality | 5 |
| 17A | 32. Aristocrat | 5 |
| 18A | 34. Enjoy a vacation day, say | 15 |
| 19A | 40. Reside | 5 |
| 20A | 41. Burr who dueled with Hamilton | 5 |
| 21A | 42. Wane | 3 |
| 22A | 45. One ___ time | 3 |
| 23A | 46. Mark Twain, for Samuel Langhorne Clemens | 7 |
| 24A | 48. Bug killer that goes "smack!" | 10 |
| 25A | 51. Losing general at Appomattox | 3 |
| 26A | 52. Relating to a son or daughter | 6 |
| 27A | 53. Fanny ___, central figure in Broadway's "Funny Girl" | 5 |
| 28A | 56. Poet Dickinson | 5 |
| 29A | 57. Gridiron success ... or, when read as two words, the conclusion to the sequence formed by the starts of 16-, 24-, 34- and 48-Across | 9 |
| 30A | 61. Backpackers' shelters | 5 |
| 31A | 62. Write-___ (unlikely election winners) | 3 |
| 32A | 63. Home with a dome | 5 |
| 33A | 64. Lumps of coal, for a snowman | 4 |
| 34A | 65. Understand | 3 |
| 35A | 66. Relinquished | 5 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Value"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an indefinite quantity of something having a specified value
- Similar words include: deserving, Charles Frederick Worth
- Opposite of: worthlessness
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Answer: WORTH
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2A: "6. Volcanic coating that buried Pompeii"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the residue that remains when something is burned
- Similar words include: ash tree
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ASH
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3A: "9. Overhead light?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint
- Similar words include: nimbus, aureole, annulus
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HALO
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4A: "13. Listlessness"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the feeling of being bored by something tedious
- Similar words include: tedium, boredom
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ENNUI
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5A: "14. Situation that precedes overtime"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front
- Similar words include: splice, linkup, railroad tie
- Opposite of: untie, disconnect
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Answer: TIE
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6A: "15. Fruit-peeling gadget"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a manicurist who trims the fingernails
- Similar words include: paring knife
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PARER
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7A: "16. Meeting spot for a company's overseers"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a room where a committee meets (such as the board of directors of a company)
- Similar words include: council chamber
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: BOARDROOM
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8A: "18. Ventilated"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that expose to fresh air
- Similar words include: beam, broadcast, air
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AIRED
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9A: "19. Actor Reeves who plays John Wick"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: KEANU
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10A: "20. Clothing"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion
- Similar words include: tog out, overdress, fig out
- Opposite of: underdress, dress down
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Answer: ATTIRE
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11A: "21. Wrestler-turned-actor with a trademark do"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MRT
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12A: "24. 1976 film with Robert De Niro as an alienated cabbie"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who drives a taxi for a living
- Similar words include: cabman, cabby, cabdriver
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: TAXIDRIVER
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13A: "26. Lawyer, or a lawyer's advice"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a lawyer who pleads cases in court
- Similar words include: counseling, counselor, pleader
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: COUNSEL
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14A: "29. Gloppy gunk"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any thick, viscous matter
- Similar words include: slime, gunk, ooze
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: GOO
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15A: "30. Op-___ (newspaper pieces)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a rapid automatic system to detect plastic explosives in passengers' luggage using x-ray technology and computers; designed for use in airports
- Similar words include: erectile dysfunction, male erecticle dysfunction, explosive detection system
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EDS
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16A: "31. Advantageous quality"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a useful or valuable quality
- Similar words include: plus
- Opposite of: liability
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Answer: ASSET
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17A: "32. Aristocrat"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a titled peer of the realm
- Similar words include: stately, nobleman, baronial
- Opposite of: noblewoman, Lady
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Answer: NOBLE
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18A: "34. Enjoy a vacation day, say"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: TAKEOFFFROMWORK
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19A: "40. Reside"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that think moodily or anxiously about something
- Similar words include: brood, lie, lie in
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DWELL
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20A: "41. Burr who dueled with Hamilton"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states professional baseball player who hit more home runs than babe ruth (born in 1934)
- Similar words include: Henry Louis Aaron, Hank Aaron
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AARON
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21A: "42. Wane"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
- Similar words include: ebbing, ebb down, wane
- Opposite of: tide
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Answer: EBB
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22A: "45. One ___ time"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ATA
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23A: "46. Mark Twain, for Samuel Langhorne Clemens"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: PENNAME
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24A: "48. Bug killer that goes "smack!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an implement with a flat part (of mesh or plastic) and a long handle; used to kill insects
- Similar words include: flyswat, swatter
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: FLYSWATTER
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25A: "51. Losing general at Appomattox"
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: Shelton Jackson Lee, downwind, Richard Henry Lee
- Opposite of: windward
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Answer: LEE
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26A: "52. Relating to a son or daughter"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that designating the generation or the sequence of generations following the parental generation
- Opposite of: parental
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: FILIAL
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27A: "53. Fanny ___, central figure in Broadway's "Funny Girl""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BRICE
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28A: "56. Poet Dickinson"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EMILY
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29A: "57. Gridiron success ... or, when read as two words, the conclusion to the sequence formed by the starts of 16-, 24-, 34- and 48-Across"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a score in american football; being in possession of the ball across the opponents' goal line
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: TOUCHDOWN
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30A: "61. Backpackers' shelters"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs)
- Similar words include: camp, camp out, tent
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TENTS
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31A: "62. Write-___ (unlikely election winners)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an agency in the department of justice that enforces laws and regulations for the admission of foreign-born persons to the united states
- Similar words include: Indiana, In, IN
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: INS
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32A: "63. Home with a dome"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome
- Similar words include: iglu
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: IGLOO
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33A: "64. Lumps of coal, for a snowman"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that opinion or judgment
- Similar words include: center, heart, oculus
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EYES
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34A: "65. Understand"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located
- Similar words include: get a line, interpret, get wind
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SEE
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35A: "66. Relinquished"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
- Similar words include: surrender, grant, give up
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CEDED
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Spider's creation | 3 |
| 2D | 2. Peace promoter Yoko | 3 |
| 3D | 3. Cell's messenger material | 3 |
| 4D | 4. Istanbul native | 4 |
| 5D | 5. Conceal | 4 |
| 6D | 6. Lacking a key, in music | 6 |
| 7D | 7. Crazy Horse's people | 5 |
| 8D | 8. Adjustable skirt feature | 3 |
| 9D | 9. Port-au-Prince's country | 5 |
| 10D | 10. Get there | 6 |
| 11D | 11. Looked lasciviously | 6 |
| 12D | 12. Commands | 6 |
| 13D | 15. Police officer who monitors an assigned area | 9 |
| 14D | 17. Label as G or R, say | 4 |
| 15D | 20. Spicy marinade with chili peppers | 5 |
| 16D | 21. Exam for a doctor-to-be | 4 |
| 17D | 22. Parks honored in the Capitol's Statuary Hall | 4 |
| 18D | 23. Walrus's long tooth | 4 |
| 19D | 25. Composer Stravinsky | 4 |
| 20D | 27. Have to have | 4 |
| 21D | 28. Passengers getting an illicit free ride | 9 |
| 22D | 32. Org. for Patriot games | 3 |
| 23D | 33. Actor McGregor with a Golden Globe for "Fargo" | 4 |
| 24D | 35. Pertaining to development in the womb | 5 |
| 25D | 36. Off-key, in a way | 4 |
| 26D | 37. Like some history or hygiene | 4 |
| 27D | 38. City surrounding Vatican City | 4 |
| 28D | 39. On bended ___ | 4 |
| 29D | 42. Overly refined | 6 |
| 30D | 43. "Yikes!," to a Brit | 6 |
| 31D | 44. Reporter's attribution atop an article | 6 |
| 32D | 46. Read | 6 |
| 33D | 47. Rock's Carmen or Clapton | 4 |
| 34D | 49. Earthy deposits by a river | 5 |
| 35D | 50. Steak similar to a porterhouse | 5 |
| 36D | 54. Stylish | 4 |
| 37D | 55. Margin | 4 |
| 38D | 57. "___ better to have loved and lost ..." | 3 |
| 39D | 58. Passé | 3 |
| 40D | 59. Misfortune | 3 |
| 41D | 60. Agree silently | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Spider's creation"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving
- Similar words include: vane, net, network
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: WEB
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2D: "2. Peace promoter Yoko"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states musician (born in japan) who married john lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933)
- Similar words include: Yoko Ono
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ONO
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3D: "3. Cell's messenger material"
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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4D: "4. Istanbul native"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a native or inhabitant of turkey
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TURK
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5D: "5. Conceal"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)
- Similar words include: pelt, cover, fell
- Opposite of: show
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Answer: HIDE
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6D: "6. Lacking a key, in music"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that characterized by avoidance of traditional western tonality
- Similar words include: unkeyed
- Opposite of: tonal
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Answer: ATONAL
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7D: "7. Crazy Horse's people"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of a group of north american indian peoples who spoke a siouan language and who ranged from lake michigan to the rocky mountains
- Similar words include: Siouan
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SIOUX
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8D: "8. Adjustable skirt feature"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the edge of a piece of cloth; especially the finished edge that has been doubled under and stitched down
- Similar words include: ahem
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HEM
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9D: "9. Port-au-Prince's country"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a republic in the west indies on the western part of the island of hispaniola; achieved independence from france in 1804; the poorest and most illiterate nation in the western hemisphere
- Similar words include: Republic of Haiti, Hayti, Hispaniola
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HAITI
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10D: "10. Get there"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
- Similar words include: get, make it, go far
- Opposite of: leave
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Answer: ARRIVE
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11D: "11. Looked lasciviously"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that look suggestively or obliquely; look or gaze with a sly, immodest, or malign expression
- Similar words include: leer
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: LEERED
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12D: "12. Commands"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed
- Similar words include: parliamentary procedure, say, fiat
- Opposite of: disorder, disorderliness
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Answer: ORDERS
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13D: "15. Police officer who monitors an assigned area"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a policeman who patrols a given region
- Similar words include: flatfoot
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: PATROLMAN
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14D: "17. Label as G or R, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit
- Similar words include: place, rank, grade
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RATE
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15D: "20. Spicy marinade with chili peppers"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a dish of marinated vegetables and meat or fish; served with rice
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ADOBO
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16D: "21. Exam for a doctor-to-be"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MCAT
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17D: "22. Parks honored in the Capitol's Statuary Hall"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses
- Similar words include: genus Rosa
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ROSA
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18D: "23. Walrus's long tooth"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses
- Similar words include: horn, detusk, ivory
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TUSK
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19D: "25. Composer Stravinsky"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IGOR
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20D: "27. Have to have"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a condition requiring relief
- Similar words include: ask, demand, require
- Opposite of: obviate
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Answer: NEED
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21D: "28. Passengers getting an illicit free ride"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who hides aboard a ship or plane in the hope of getting free passage
- Similar words include: stowaway
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: STOWAWAYS
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22D: "32. Org. for Patriot games"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NFL
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23D: "33. Actor McGregor with a Golden Globe for "Fargo""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EWAN
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24D: "35. Pertaining to development in the womb"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that of or relating to a fetus
- Similar words include: foetal
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: FETAL
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25D: "36. Off-key, in a way"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a level tract of land
- Similar words include: savorless, matte, directly
- Opposite of: indirectly, natural
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Answer: FLAT
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26D: "37. Like some history or hygiene"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an examination conducted by spoken communication
- Similar words include: unwritten, viva voce, oral exam
- Opposite of: aboral, anal
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Answer: ORAL
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27D: "38. City surrounding Vatican City"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that capital and largest city of italy; on the tiber; seat of the roman catholic church; formerly the capital of the roman republic and the roman empire
- Similar words include: Italian capital, Eternal City, Roma
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ROME
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28D: "39. On bended ___"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella
- Similar words include: articulatio genus, knee joint, stifle
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: KNEE
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29D: "42. Overly refined"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay
- Similar words include: decadent
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: EFFETE
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30D: "43. "Yikes!," to a Brit"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BLIMEY
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31D: "44. Reporter's attribution atop an article"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BYLINE
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32D: "46. Read"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that examine or consider with attention and in detail
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PERUSE
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33D: "47. Rock's Carmen or Clapton"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ERIC
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34D: "49. Earthy deposits by a river"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that mud or clay or small rocks deposited by a river or lake
- Similar words include: silt up, silt
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SILTS
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35D: "50. Steak similar to a porterhouse"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TBONE
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36D: "54. Stylish"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that elegance by virtue of being fashionable
- Similar words include: smartness, swank, voguish
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CHIC
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37D: "55. Margin"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the boundary of a surface
- Similar words include: bound, boundary, butt on
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EDGE
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38D: "57. "___ better to have loved and lost ...""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite
- Similar words include: titanium, atomic number 22, Cordyline terminalis
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TIS
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39D: "58. Passé"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')
- Similar words include: sure-enough, erstwhile, onetime
- Opposite of: young, new
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Answer: OLD
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40D: "59. Misfortune"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that misery resulting from affliction
- Similar words include: woefulness, suffering
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: WOE
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41D: "60. Agree silently"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sign of assent or salutation or command
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NOD
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Today's Puzzle Stats
35 Across Clues
41 Down Clues
76 Total Clues
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