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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (39 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (39 clues)
- Down Clues - Detailed Hints
- Expert Solving Strategies
- Today's Puzzle Statistics
Today's Puzzle Difficulty: Medium
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. Wasn't even close, as in comparison | 5 |
| 2A | 6. Fashion name that's become slang for "excellent" | 5 |
| 3A | 11. Binary 10, in decimal value | 3 |
| 4A | 14. Garlicky sauce | 5 |
| 5A | 15. Beef up the arsenal, say | 5 |
| 6A | 16. Tuna variety | 3 |
| 7A | 17. "Sunday in the Park With George," for one | 15 |
| 8A | 20. Big ___ (audacious thing to make) | 3 |
| 9A | 21. Ref. work with over 600,000 words | 3 |
| 10A | 22. Moves (over) | 6 |
| 11A | 23. Signs | 4 |
| 12A | 25. "Nonsense!" | 5 |
| 13A | 27. "Oh, that does make sense" | 4 |
| 14A | 29. Milker's handful | 4 |
| 15A | 31. They may be fixed or variable | 5 |
| 16A | 35. River at Memphis | 4 |
| 17A | 36. "We want more!" | 6 |
| 18A | 38. Ump's call | 3 |
| 19A | 39. Jerry's uncle on "Seinfeld" | 3 |
| 20A | 40. Sent away for | 7 |
| 21A | 41. Historic stretch | 3 |
| 22A | 42. That's a me problem | 3 |
| 23A | 43. Madison Square Garden team | 6 |
| 24A | 44. Sporty Pontiacs of the 1960s | 4 |
| 25A | 45. Actress Thompson of "Westworld" | 5 |
| 26A | 47. Oceanic | 4 |
| 27A | 48. Ill-considered | 4 |
| 28A | 49. Wired | 5 |
| 29A | 51. Unappetizing gruel | 4 |
| 30A | 53. Like a dress that falls short? | 6 |
| 31A | 56. Burlesque accessory | 3 |
| 32A | 57. Vietnamese noodle dish | 3 |
| 33A | 60. Pulitzer-winning composer and lyricist of "Sunday in the Park With George" | 15 |
| 34A | 64. Greenwich Village's Stonewall ___ | 3 |
| 35A | 65. Poet who wrote "Only through time time is conquered" | 5 |
| 36A | 66. Grub, e.g. | 5 |
| 37A | 67. Pathetic | 3 |
| 38A | 68. Linking point | 5 |
| 39A | 69. German industrial city | 5 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Wasn't even close, as in comparison"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that turn pale, as if in fear
- Similar words include: chum up, pale, pal
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PALED
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2A: "6. Fashion name that's become slang for "excellent""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GUCCI
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3A: "11. Binary 10, in decimal value"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
- Similar words include: ii, deuce, II
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TWO
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4A: "14. Garlicky sauce"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that garlic mayonnaise
- Similar words include: garlic sauce, aioli sauce
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AIOLI
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5A: "15. Beef up the arsenal, say"
Solving Hints:
- Similar words include: re-arm
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: REARM
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6A: "16. Tuna variety"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AHI
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7A: "17. "Sunday in the Park With George," for one"
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- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: BROADWAYMUSICAL
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8A: "20. Big ___ (audacious thing to make)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that inquire about
- Similar words include: necessitate, inquire, postulate
- Opposite of: obviate
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Answer: ASK
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9A: "21. Ref. work with over 600,000 words"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles
- Similar words include: O.E.D., Oxford English Dictionary
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OED
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10A: "22. Moves (over)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that run or move very quickly or hastily
- Similar words include: dash, shoot, flash
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SCOOTS
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11A: "23. Signs"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a liquid used for printing or writing or drawing
- Similar words include: ink
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: INKS
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12A: "25. "Nonsense!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PSHAW
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13A: "27. "Oh, that does make sense""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ISEE
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14A: "29. Milker's handful"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the small projection of a mammary gland
- Similar words include: nipple, tit, mammilla
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TEAT
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15A: "31. They may be fixed or variable"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a local tax on property (usually used in the plural)
- Similar words include: range, rank, snitch
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RATES
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16A: "35. River at Memphis"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the world's longest river (4150 miles); flows northward through eastern africa into the mediterranean; the nile river valley in egypt was the site of the world's first great civilization
- Similar words include: Nile River
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NILE
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17A: "36. "We want more!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an extra or repeated performance; usually given in response to audience demand
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ENCORE
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18A: "38. Ump's call"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball
- Similar words include: taboo, verboten, knocked out
- Opposite of: safe
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Answer: OUT
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19A: "39. Jerry's uncle on "Seinfeld""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in leo
- Similar words include: Lion, Leo the Lion
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LEO
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20A: "40. Sent away for"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority
- Similar words include: range, set up, consistent
- Opposite of: disarranged, disordered
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Answer: ORDERED
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21A: "41. Historic stretch"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
- Similar words include: epoch, geological era, earned run average
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ERA
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22A: "42. That's a me problem"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
- Similar words include: self, egotism, self-importance
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EGO
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23A: "43. Madison Square Garden team"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: KNICKS
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24A: "44. Sporty Pontiacs of the 1960s"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GTOS
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25A: "45. Actress Thompson of "Westworld""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TESSA
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26A: "47. Oceanic"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; - w.r.inge
- Similar words include: huge, Brobdingnagian, immense
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: VAST
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27A: "48. Ill-considered"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any red eruption of the skin
- Similar words include: roseola, skin rash, blizzard
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RASH
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28A: "49. Wired"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HYPER
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29A: "51. Unappetizing gruel"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that wet feed (especially for pigs) consisting of mostly kitchen waste mixed with water or skimmed or sour milk
- Similar words include: mush, splosh, pigwash
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SLOP
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30A: "53. Like a dress that falls short?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a garment size for short or slender women
- Similar words include: tiny, lilliputian, diminutive
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PETITE
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31A: "56. Burlesque accessory"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur
- Similar words include: feather boa
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: BOA
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32A: "57. Vietnamese noodle dish"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PHO
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33A: "60. Pulitzer-winning composer and lyricist of "Sunday in the Park With George""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: STEPHENSONDHEIM
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34A: "64. Greenwich Village's Stonewall ___"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
- Similar words include: auberge, lodge, hostelry
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: INN
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35A: "65. Poet who wrote "Only through time time is conquered""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that british poet (born in the united states) who won the nobel prize for literature; his plays are outstanding examples of modern verse drama (1888-1965)
- Similar words include: T. S. Eliot, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Mary Ann Evans
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ELIOT
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36A: "66. Grub, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LARVA
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37A: "67. Pathetic"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; ; - christina rossetti
- Similar words include: sorry, deplorable, distressing
- Opposite of: glad
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Answer: SAD
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38A: "68. Linking point"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the means of connection between things linked in series
- Similar words include: link
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NEXUS
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39A: "69. German industrial city"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a city in western germany; industrial center of the ruhr
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ESSEN
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Old sunscreen initialism | 4 |
| 2D | 2. Gets off one's chest | 4 |
| 3D | 3. Ones who probably aren't buying it? | 10 |
| 4D | 4. She, in São Paulo | 3 |
| 5D | 5. Performed well enough | 5 |
| 6D | 6. Alum | 4 |
| 7D | 7. 180 | 3 |
| 8D | 8. Bit of spy gear, informally | 3 |
| 9D | 9. Defeat decisively | 5 |
| 10D | 10. Mock "Ooh, you frighten me!" | 8 |
| 11D | 11. Kind of shell | 4 |
| 12D | 12. "Wait, ___?" | 4 |
| 13D | 13. Makes less noisy, in a way | 4 |
| 14D | 18. "The Magnificent Seven" or "The Hateful Eight" | 7 |
| 15D | 19. Where Caitlin Clark played Division I basketball | 4 |
| 16D | 24. Once called | 3 |
| 17D | 25. Warm-up lap leader | 7 |
| 18D | 26. They communicate through bill-clattering | 6 |
| 19D | 27. Cove | 5 |
| 20D | 28. Battle of Vicksburg in the Civil War, e.g. | 5 |
| 21D | 30. Salad green | 6 |
| 22D | 32. Tunes with an irresistible rhythm | 10 |
| 23D | 33. Change across the Atlantic | 5 |
| 24D | 34. Squirrel away | 5 |
| 25D | 37. Lies atop | 7 |
| 26D | 40. "Very well ..." | 8 |
| 27D | 44. Miracle-___ | 3 |
| 28D | 46. Modern suffix with situation | 4 |
| 29D | 50. Key's longtime partner in sketch comedy | 5 |
| 30D | 52. 51-Across server | 5 |
| 31D | 53. Trident-shaped letters | 4 |
| 32D | 54. Sicilian landmark | 4 |
| 33D | 55. Look after | 4 |
| 34D | 56. Most online customer service agents nowadays | 4 |
| 35D | 58. Queen's domain | 4 |
| 36D | 59. Sultanate near Yemen | 4 |
| 37D | 61. Cancel | 3 |
| 38D | 62. Trifling amount | 3 |
| 39D | 63. Is blessed with | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Old sunscreen initialism"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a metabolic acid found in yeast and liver cells; used to make dyes and drugs and sun blockers
- Similar words include: para aminobenzoic acid
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PABA
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2D: "2. Gets off one's chest"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that affected manners intended to impress others
- Similar words include: pose, air, gentle wind
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AIRS
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3D: "3. Ones who probably aren't buying it?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: LOOKIELOOS
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4D: "4. She, in São Paulo"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an extreme leftist terrorist group formed in greece in 1971 to oppose the military junta that ruled greece from 1967 to 1974; a revolutionary group opposed to capitalism and imperialism and the united states
- Similar words include: Revolutionary People's Struggle
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ELA
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5D: "5. Performed well enough"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DIDOK
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6D: "6. Alum"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one-hundredth of a right angle
- Similar words include: alumnus, alumna, grade
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GRAD
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7D: "7. 180"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: UEY
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8D: "8. Bit of spy gear, informally"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a river in east central england that flows past cambridge to join the ouse river
- Similar words include: Cam River, River Cam
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CAM
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9D: "9. Defeat decisively"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that leather that has had its grain pattern accentuated
- Similar words include: vanquish, squeeze, infatuation
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CRUSH
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10D: "10. Mock "Ooh, you frighten me!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: IMSCARED
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11D: "11. Kind of shell"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of mexican descent
- Similar words include: greaser, wetback
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TACO
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12D: "12. "Wait, ___?""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: WHAT
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13D: "13. Makes less noisy, in a way"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water
- Similar words include: oil color, anoint, inunct
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OILS
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14D: "18. "The Magnificent Seven" or "The Hateful Eight""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a film about life in the western united states during the period of exploration and development
- Similar words include: westerly, horse opera, western sandwich
- Opposite of: eastern
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Answer: WESTERN
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15D: "19. Where Caitlin Clark played Division I basketball"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of the siouan people formerly living in iowa and minnesota and missouri
- Similar words include: IA, Ioway, Hawkeye State
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IOWA
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16D: "24. Once called"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (meaning literally `born') used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NEE
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17D: "25. Warm-up lap leader"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: PACECAR
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18D: "26. They communicate through bill-clattering"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that large mostly old world wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage
- Similar words include: stork
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: STORKS
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19D: "27. Cove"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
- Similar words include: recess, intake
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: INLET
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20D: "28. Battle of Vicksburg in the Civil War, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack
- Similar words include: military blockade, besieging, beleaguering
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SIEGE
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21D: "30. Salad green"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that widely cultivated herb with leaves valued as salad green; either curly serrated leaves or broad flat ones that are usually blanched
- Similar words include: escarole, chicory escarole, Cichorium endivia
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ENDIVE
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22D: "32. Tunes with an irresistible rhythm"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: TOETAPPERS
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23D: "33. Change across the Atlantic"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the basic monetary unit of most members of the european union (introduced in 1999); in 2002 twelve european nations (germany, france, belgium, luxembourg, the netherlands, italy, spain, portugal, ireland, greece, austria, finland) adopted the euro as their basic unit of money and abandoned their traditional currencies
- Similar words include: euro
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EUROS
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24D: "34. Squirrel away"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a secret store of valuables or money
- Similar words include: cache, lay away, hive up
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: STASH
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25D: "37. Lies atop"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: RESTSON
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26D: "40. "Very well ...""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: OKAYTHEN
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27D: "44. Miracle-___"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: GRO
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28D: "46. Modern suffix with situation"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a vessel that carries passengers or freight
- Similar words include: send, embark, transport
- Opposite of: disembark
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Answer: SHIP
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29D: "50. Key's longtime partner in sketch comedy"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PEELE
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30D: "52. 51-Across server"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle; frequently used to transfer liquids from one container to another
- Similar words include: lade, laden
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LADLE
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31D: "53. Trident-shaped letters"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a unit of pressure
- Similar words include: psi, pounds per square inch
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PSIS
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32D: "54. Sicilian landmark"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an inactive volcano in sicily; last erupted in 1961; the highest volcano in europe (10,500 feet)
- Similar words include: Mount Etna, bunsen burner, Mt Etna
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ETNA
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33D: "55. Look after"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- Similar words include: incline, lean, run
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TEND
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34D: "56. Most online customer service agents nowadays"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that botfly larva; typically develops inside the body of a horse or sheep or human
- Similar words include: bot
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BOTS
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35D: "58. Queen's domain"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a teeming multitude
- Similar words include: beehive
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HIVE
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36D: "59. Sultanate near Yemen"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the arabian peninsula; the economy is dominated by oil
- Similar words include: Sultanate of Oman, Muscat and Oman
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OMAN
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37D: "61. Cancel"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a quantity of no importance
- Similar words include: cipher, zilch, prohibit
- Opposite of: permit, allow
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Answer: NIX
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38D: "62. Trifling amount"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a former french coin of low denomination; often used of any small amount of money
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SOU
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39D: "63. Is blessed with"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing; the right ascension for an observer at a particular location and time of day
- Similar words include: have got, get, stimulate
- Opposite of: refuse, abstain
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Answer: HAS
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Today's Puzzle Stats
39 Across Clues
39 Down Clues
78 Total Clues
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