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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: Moderate
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Across Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1A | 1. Leave behind, informally | 5 |
| 2A | 6. Read, as a bar code | 4 |
| 3A | 10. Happy as a ___ | 4 |
| 4A | 14. The Potato State | 5 |
| 5A | 15. Bit of dialogue | 4 |
| 6A | 16. Seized vehicle, in brief | 4 |
| 7A | 17. Hint at, as what's to come | 10 |
| 8A | 19. Sitting on | 4 |
| 9A | 20. Parisian river | 5 |
| 10A | 21. Wedding walkway | 5 |
| 11A | 22. Figs. that include interest | 4 |
| 12A | 25. Hit the jackpot, so to speak | 10 |
| 13A | 28. Hotel units | 5 |
| 14A | 30. Distant | 3 |
| 15A | 31. Refusals | 3 |
| 16A | 32. Place in a pyramid, as a mummified pharaoh | 6 |
| 17A | 34. "There's no such thing ___ publicity" | 5 |
| 18A | 36. Acknowledge during a broadcast, say ... and a hint to the shaded squares | 13 |
| 19A | 40. Brings home the bacon | 5 |
| 20A | 41. Tres ___ cake | 6 |
| 21A | 43. Dads | 3 |
| 22A | 46. Popular coastal destination in India | 3 |
| 23A | 47. Bird featured on many baby shower decorations | 5 |
| 24A | 48. Sequence of steps to accomplish a goal | 10 |
| 25A | 53. "Good heavens!" | 4 |
| 26A | 54. In the countryside | 5 |
| 27A | 55. Toward the back | 5 |
| 28A | 57. Tiny unit of matter | 4 |
| 29A | 58. Wild canid of the Great Lakes region | 10 |
| 30A | 63. Foxholes, e.g. | 4 |
| 31A | 64. Drifter | 4 |
| 32A | 65. Committee head | 5 |
| 33A | 66. Therefore | 4 |
| 34A | 67. The Beatles' "Back in the ___" | 4 |
| 35A | 68. "The ___ Pokey" (children's dance song) | 5 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Leave behind, informally"
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- Think of something that a long narrow excavation in the earth
- Similar words include: chuck, trench, dump
- Pattern: _____
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2A: "6. Read, as a bar code"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region
- Similar words include: read, skim, CAT scan
- Pattern: ____
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3A: "10. Happy as a ___"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness
- Similar words include: dollar, buck, one dollar bill
- Pattern: ____
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4A: "14. The Potato State"
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- Think of something that a state in the rocky mountains
- Similar words include: Gem State, ID
- Pattern: _____
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5A: "15. Bit of dialogue"
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- Think of something that a formation of people or things one beside another
- Similar words include: air, ancestry, origin
- Pattern: ____
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6A: "16. Seized vehicle, in brief"
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- Pattern: ____
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7A: "17. Hint at, as what's to come"
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- Think of something that indicate by signs
- Similar words include: bode, prognosticate, omen
- Pattern: __________
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8A: "19. Sitting on"
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- Think of something that on, to, or at the top
- Pattern: ____
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9A: "20. Parisian river"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a french river that flows through the heart of paris and then northward into the english channel
- Similar words include: Seine River
- Pattern: _____
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10A: "21. Wedding walkway"
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- Think of something that a long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods)
- Similar words include: gangway
- Pattern: _____
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11A: "22. Figs. that include interest"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the month following march and preceding may
- Similar words include: Apr, April
- Pattern: ____
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12A: "25. Hit the jackpot, so to speak"
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- Pattern: __________
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13A: "28. Hotel units"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel)
- Similar words include: elbow room, room, board
- Pattern: _____
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14A: "30. Distant"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by tutsi and to institute hutu control again
- Similar words include: ALIR, Interahamwe, Army for the Liberation of Rwanda
- Opposite of: near
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15A: "31. Refusals"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding curium with carbon ions; 7 isotopes are known
- Similar words include: No, atomic number 102, no
- Opposite of: yes
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16A: "32. Place in a pyramid, as a mummified pharaoh"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that place in a grave or tomb
- Similar words include: lay to rest, bury, inter
- Pattern: ______
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17A: "34. "There's no such thing ___ publicity""
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- Pattern: _____
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18A: "36. Acknowledge during a broadcast, say ... and a hint to the shaded squares"
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- Pattern: _____________
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19A: "40. Brings home the bacon"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- Similar words include: realise, take in, garner
- Pattern: _____
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20A: "41. Tres ___ cake"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that man with strong sexual desires
- Similar words include: letch, satyr, lecher
- Pattern: ______
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21A: "43. Dads"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (ballet) a step in dancing (especially in classical ballet)
- Similar words include: atomic number 91, PA, P.A. system
- Pattern: ___
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22A: "46. Popular coastal destination in India"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a state of southwestern india; a former portuguese colony
- Pattern: ___
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23A: "47. Bird featured on many baby shower decorations"
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- Think of something that large mostly old world wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage
- Pattern: _____
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24A: "48. Sequence of steps to accomplish a goal"
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- Pattern: __________
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25A: "53. "Good heavens!""
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- Pattern: ____
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26A: "54. In the countryside"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that living in or characteristic of farming or country life
- Opposite of: urban
- Pattern: _____
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27A: "55. Toward the back"
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- Pattern: _____
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28A: "57. Tiny unit of matter"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (physics and chemistry) the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element
- Similar words include: molecule, speck, corpuscle
- Pattern: ____
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29A: "58. Wild canid of the Great Lakes region"
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- Pattern: __________
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30A: "63. Foxholes, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the habitation of wild animals
- Similar words include: den, hideaway, hideout
- Pattern: ____
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31A: "64. Drifter"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a disreputable vagrant
- Similar words include: tramp, bum
- Pattern: ____
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32A: "65. Committee head"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a seat for one person, with a support for the back
- Similar words include: president, chairperson, chairwoman
- Pattern: _____
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33A: "66. Therefore"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (used as a sentence connector) therefore or consequently
- Pattern: ____
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34A: "67. The Beatles' "Back in the ___""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a former communist country in eastern europe and northern asia; established in 1922; included russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (ukraine and byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 december 1991
- Similar words include: Russia, Soviet Union, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Pattern: ____
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35A: "68. "The ___ Pokey" (children's dance song)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that effusively or insincerely emotional
- Similar words include: maudlin, kitschy, stilted
- Pattern: _____
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. "What's the ___?" ("Who cares?") | 3 |
| 2D | 2. Wedding vow | 3 |
| 3D | 3. Black goo | 3 |
| 4D | 4. Knight captures bishop, e.g. | 9 |
| 5D | 5. Garden faucet attachment | 4 |
| 6D | 6. Bias | 5 |
| 7D | 7. Fermented apple juice | 5 |
| 8D | 8. Year on the Yucatán | 3 |
| 9D | 9. Just purchased | 3 |
| 10D | 10. Daniel ___, 007 portrayer | 5 |
| 11D | 11. Divulges | 6 |
| 12D | 12. Moon-landing program | 6 |
| 13D | 13. Bikes with small engines | 6 |
| 14D | 18. ___ and hers | 3 |
| 15D | 21. Infuses with bubbles | 7 |
| 16D | 22. "Things ___ looking up!" | 3 |
| 17D | 23. Ping's partner | 4 |
| 18D | 24. Indian flatbread | 4 |
| 19D | 26. "In that case ..." | 4 |
| 20D | 27. Afghan capital | 5 |
| 21D | 29. Obsessor over "the precious" in Tolkien lore | 7 |
| 22D | 33. British nobleman | 5 |
| 23D | 34. Sounds of satisfaction | 3 |
| 24D | 35. Sci-fi series with a "Time Lord" traveling in a TARDIS | 9 |
| 25D | 37. "___, crackle, pop" | 4 |
| 26D | 38. "Yikes ...!" | 4 |
| 27D | 39. Glossary component | 4 |
| 28D | 42. Where the stars are | 3 |
| 29D | 43. Veterans Day event | 6 |
| 30D | 44. Sharper | 6 |
| 31D | 45. Muscular | 6 |
| 32D | 49. "You are not!" retort | 5 |
| 33D | 50. Baby sheep | 5 |
| 34D | 51. ___ Day (tree-planting celebration) | 5 |
| 35D | 52. Maiden name preceder | 3 |
| 36D | 56. Part of a foot | 4 |
| 37D | 58. Wed. follower | 3 |
| 38D | 59. Apple platform | 3 |
| 39D | 60. Sturdy bookcase material | 3 |
| 40D | 61. What one should let sleeping dogs do, proverbially | 3 |
| 41D | 62. Word after deep, stir or small | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. "What's the ___?" ("Who cares?")"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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2D: "2. Wedding vow"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an artificial language that is a revision and simplification of esperanto
- Pattern: ___
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3D: "3. Black goo"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- Similar words include: seafarer, old salt, Jack-tar
- Pattern: ___
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4D: "4. Knight captures bishop, e.g."
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- Pattern: _________
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5D: "5. Garden faucet attachment"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that socks and stockings and tights collectively (the british include underwear)
- Similar words include: hose down, hosepipe, hosiery
- Pattern: ____
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6D: "6. Bias"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a biased way of looking at or presenting something
- Similar words include: lean, cant over, weight
- Pattern: _____
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7D: "7. Fermented apple juice"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a beverage made from juice pressed from apples
- Similar words include: cyder
- Pattern: _____
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8D: "8. Year on the Yucatán"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the plo in 1974; has conducted terrorist attacks in 20 countries
- Similar words include: Black September, Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims, Fatah Revolutionary Council
- Pattern: ___
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9D: "9. Just purchased"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
- Similar words include: novel, young, unexampled
- Opposite of: old, worn
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10D: "10. Daniel ___, 007 portrayer"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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11D: "11. Divulges"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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12D: "12. Moon-landing program"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (greek mythology) greek god of light; god of prophecy and poetry and music and healing; son of zeus and leto; twin brother of artemis
- Similar words include: Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo
- Pattern: ______
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13D: "13. Bikes with small engines"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a motorbike that can be pedaled or driven by a low-powered gasoline engine
- Similar words include: moped
- Pattern: ______
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14D: "18. ___ and hers"
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- Pattern: ___
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15D: "21. Infuses with bubbles"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that expose to fresh air
- Similar words include: air, air out, aerate
- Pattern: _______
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16D: "22. "Things ___ looking up!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters
- Similar words include: live, ar, make up
- Opposite of: differ
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17D: "23. Ping's partner"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an unpleasant smell
- Similar words include: niff
- Pattern: ____
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18D: "24. Indian flatbread"
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- Pattern: ____
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19D: "26. "In that case ...""
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- Pattern: ____
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20D: "27. Afghan capital"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the capital and largest city of afghanistan; located in eastern afghanistan
- Similar words include: capital of Afghanistan
- Pattern: _____
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21D: "29. Obsessor over "the precious" in Tolkien lore"
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- Pattern: _______
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22D: "33. British nobleman"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a nobleman (in various countries) of varying rank
- Similar words include: top executive, king, mogul
- Pattern: _____
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23D: "34. Sounds of satisfaction"
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- Pattern: ___
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24D: "35. Sci-fi series with a "Time Lord" traveling in a TARDIS"
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- Pattern: _________
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25D: "37. "___, crackle, pop""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of catching an object with the hands
- Similar words include: pushover, tear, cinch
- Opposite of: inelasticity
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26D: "38. "Yikes ...!""
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- Pattern: ____
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27D: "39. Glossary component"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a word or expression used for some particular thing
- Similar words include: terminal figure, condition, full term
- Pattern: ____
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28D: "42. Where the stars are"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth
- Similar words include: toss, pitch, flip
- Pattern: ___
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29D: "43. Veterans Day event"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a ceremonial procession including people marching
- Similar words include: promenade, troop, march
- Pattern: ______
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30D: "44. Sharper"
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- Think of something that having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course
- Similar words include: knifelike, acuate, penetrative
- Opposite of: obtuse, chronic
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31D: "45. Muscular"
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- Think of something that having strength or power greater than average or expected
- Similar words include: unassailable, firm, substantial
- Opposite of: impotent, weak
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32D: "49. "You are not!" retort"
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- Pattern: _____
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33D: "50. Baby sheep"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that young sheep
- Similar words include: Lamb, Elia, lamb
- Pattern: _____
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34D: "51. ___ Day (tree-planting celebration)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that tree (as opposed to shrub)
- Similar words include: mandril, pergola, bower
- Pattern: _____
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35D: "52. Maiden name preceder"
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- Think of something that (meaning literally `born') used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman
- Pattern: ___
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36D: "56. Part of a foot"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening
- Similar words include: archway, impish, puckish
- Pattern: ____
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37D: "58. Wed. follower"
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- Pattern: ___
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38D: "59. Apple platform"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (greek mythology) a maiden seduced by zeus; when hera was about to discover them together zeus turned her into a white heifer
- Similar words include: Io
- Pattern: ___
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39D: "60. Sturdy bookcase material"
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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40D: "61. What one should let sleeping dogs do, proverbially"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
- Similar words include: Trygve Halvden Lie, rest, prevarication
- Opposite of: stand, arise
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41D: "62. Word after deep, stir or small"
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- Think of something that english painter and art critic (1866-1934)
- Similar words include: youngster, shaver, electrocute
- Pattern: ___
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