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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (67 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: 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. Pen name | 3 |
| 2A | 4. Garment whose name is a homophone for a board game | 4 |
| 3A | 8. Keywords accompanying a YouTube video, say | 4 |
| 4A | 12. Bellyaches | 5 |
| 5A | 17. Listing of what's on tap | 4 |
| 6A | 18. Story | 4 |
| 7A | 19. It's right around the present | 4 |
| 8A | 20. Phone notifications | 6 |
| 9A | 22. "For our ad, how should we list the car that we found in the ditch?" | 14 |
| 10A | 25. Massachusetts city named for a colonial patriot | 6 |
| 11A | 26. Like phone numbers in infomercials | 8 |
| 12A | 27. Team players | 8 |
| 13A | 29. Boggy place | 3 |
| 14A | 30. Rightmost word on the front of a penny | 5 |
| 15A | 31. Their horns don't honk | 4 |
| 16A | 33. Kerfuffles | 4 |
| 17A | 34. Moccasin decoration | 4 |
| 18A | 35. "Physics is like ___: Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it" (quote attributed to Richard Feynman) | 3 |
| 19A | 36. Ankle part | 6 |
| 20A | 39. "... and how do we add that it was just struck by lightning?" | 9 |
| 21A | 41. "You will be ___" | 6 |
| 22A | 42. What's to be with Québec? | 4 |
| 23A | 43. Focus of many a small private college | 4 |
| 24A | 44. "... and that the tailpipe is dragging on the ground?" | 12 |
| 25A | 49. 19th-century school item | 5 |
| 26A | 51. Emulates Cicero | 6 |
| 27A | 52. Food or water | 4 |
| 28A | 54. Cover with a black rectangle, say | 6 |
| 29A | 58. Useful pointers? | 5 |
| 30A | 59. Rascal | 5 |
| 31A | 62. Tech models since 1998 | 5 |
| 32A | 65. Country with the all-time greatest number of medals at the Winter Olympics: Abbr. | 3 |
| 33A | 66. Quickbeam and Leaflock, in fantasy | 4 |
| 34A | 67. "... and what about the leaky roof?" | 11 |
| 35A | 69. Point of intersection | 4 |
| 36A | 70. "Here ___!" | 3 |
| 37A | 71. Mideast language | 5 |
| 38A | 72. Surprising result | 5 |
| 39A | 73. Pretend | 5 |
| 40A | 74. Achilles, e.g. | 6 |
| 41A | 76. Family nickname comparable to the Yiddish "bubbe" | 4 |
| 42A | 78. Smooth, now | 6 |
| 43A | 79. Gains prominence | 5 |
| 44A | 82. "... and the broken door locks?" | 12 |
| 45A | 86. "___ just in ..." | 4 |
| 46A | 88. Big name in plastic | 4 |
| 47A | 90. Rudimentary seeds | 6 |
| 48A | 91. "... and the defective speaker system?" | 9 |
| 49A | 93. Rudimentary | 6 |
| 50A | 94. Calling card, for short? | 3 |
| 51A | 97. Safari destinations? | 4 |
| 52A | 98. Drink in a red, white and blue cup | 4 |
| 53A | 99. Donahue on TV Guide's list of "50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time" | 4 |
| 54A | 100. Yemeni neighbor | 5 |
| 55A | 102. Old gridiron org. for the Boston Patriots | 3 |
| 56A | 103. End of "Our Town" or "A Doll's House" | 8 |
| 57A | 105. Spectacular flops | 8 |
| 58A | 108. Upholsterer's sample | 6 |
| 59A | 110. "... and finally, the missing front tires?" | 14 |
| 60A | 112. Capital of Zimbabwe | 6 |
| 61A | 113. Pupil's surroundings | 4 |
| 62A | 114. Like toms and drakes | 4 |
| 63A | 115. State as fact | 4 |
| 64A | 116. U-Haul alternative | 5 |
| 65A | 117. Legend who occasionally used his head to achieve greatness | 4 |
| 66A | 118. SoCal sch. | 4 |
| 67A | 119. Pink part of a Mr. Potato Head set | 3 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Pen name"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: BIC
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2A: "4. Garment whose name is a homophone for a board game"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a dress worn primarily by hindu women; consists of several yards of light material that is draped around the body
- Similar words include: saree
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SARI
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3A: "8. Keywords accompanying a YouTube video, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc.
- Similar words include: tail, give chase, tag end
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TAGS
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4A: "12. Bellyaches"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the lean flesh of a fish that is often farmed; can be baked or braised
- Similar words include: chicane, cavil, carp
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CARPS
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5A: "17. Listing of what's on tap"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a list of dishes available at a restaurant
- Similar words include: bill of fare, carte du jour, computer menu
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MENU
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6A: "18. Story"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a relative position or degree of value in a graded group
- Similar words include: tier up, grade, level
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TIER
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7A: "19. It's right around the present"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person
- Similar words include: roll, twine, enfold
- Opposite of: unwind, unwrap
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Answer: WRAP
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8A: "20. Phone notifications"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action
- Similar words include: warning signal, alerting, alarum
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ALERTS
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9A: "22. "For our ad, how should we list the car that we found in the ditch?""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______________
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Answer: OFFROADVEHICLE
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10A: "25. Massachusetts city named for a colonial patriot"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that american silversmith remembered for his midnight ride (celebrated in a poem by longfellow) to warn the colonists in lexington and concord that british troops were coming (1735-1818)
- Similar words include: venerate, idolize, revers
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: REVERE
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11A: "26. Like phone numbers in infomercials"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: TOLLFREE
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12A: "27. Team players"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person trained to compete in sports
- Similar words include: athlete, jock
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: ATHLETES
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13A: "29. Boggy place"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that 100 fen equal 1 yuan in china
- Similar words include: fenland, marsh, marshland
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: FEN
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14A: "30. Rightmost word on the front of a penny"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that something (as property) held by one party (the trustee) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary)
- Similar words include: corporate trust, confide, reliance
- Opposite of: mistrust, distrust
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Answer: TRUST
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15A: "31. Their horns don't honk"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on; an integrated circuit memory chip allows information to be stored or accessed in any order and all storage locations are equally accessible
- Similar words include: chock up, jam, RAM
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RAMS
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16A: "33. Kerfuffles"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a rapid active commotion
- Similar words include: hustle, flurry, bustle
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ADOS
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17A: "34. Moccasin decoration"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small ball with a hole through the middle
- Similar words include: beadwork, drop, astragal
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BEAD
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18A: "35. "Physics is like ___: Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it" (quote attributed to Richard Feynman)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that activities associated with sexual intercourse
- Similar words include: sexual urge, gender, turn on
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SEX
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19A: "36. Ankle part"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the part of the foot of a vertebrate between the metatarsus and the leg; in human beings the bones of the ankle and heel collectively
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TARSUS
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20A: "39. "... and how do we add that it was just struck by lightning?""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: NEWSHOCKS
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21A: "41. "You will be ___""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
- Similar words include: drop, neglect, lack
- Opposite of: hit, have
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Answer: MISSED
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22A: "42. What's to be with Québec?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ETRE
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23A: "43. Focus of many a small private college"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)
- Similar words include: nontextual matter, artistry, artistic creation
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ARTS
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24A: "44. "... and that the tailpipe is dragging on the ground?""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: LOWEMISSIONS
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25A: "49. 19th-century school item"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (formerly) a writing tablet made of slate
- Similar words include: slating, ticket
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SLATE
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26A: "51. Emulates Cicero"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that talk pompously
- Similar words include: orate
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ORATES
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27A: "52. Food or water"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a condition requiring relief
- Similar words include: ask, indigence, want
- Opposite of: obviate
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Answer: NEED
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28A: "54. Cover with a black rectangle, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication
- Similar words include: redactor, frame, rewriter
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: REDACT
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29A: "58. Useful pointers?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that mechanical device attached to an elevated structure; rotates freely to show the direction of the wind
- Similar words include: weather vane, weathervane, web
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: VANES
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30A: "59. Rascal"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one who is playfully mischievous
- Similar words include: monkey, scallywag, imp
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SCAMP
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31A: "62. Tech models since 1998"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: IMACS
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32A: "65. Country with the all-time greatest number of medals at the Winter Olympics: Abbr."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NOR
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33A: "66. Quickbeam and Leaflock, in fantasy"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ENTS
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34A: "67. "... and what about the leaky roof?""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: BUCKETSEATS
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35A: "69. Point of intersection"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a connecting point at which several lines come together
- Similar words include: client, leaf node, knob
- Opposite of: antinode
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Answer: NODE
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36A: "70. "Here ___!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IGO
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37A: "71. Mideast language"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person of iranian descent
- Similar words include: Persian
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: FARSI
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38A: "72. Surprising result"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an unhappy and worried mental state
- Similar words include: disconcert, discomfit, disturbance
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: UPSET
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39A: "73. Pretend"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make believe with the intent to deceive
- Similar words include: assume, dissemble, affect
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: FEIGN
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40A: "74. Achilles, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment
- Similar words include: sinew
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TENDON
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41A: "76. Family nickname comparable to the Yiddish "bubbe""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NANA
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42A: "78. Smooth, now"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that press and smooth with a heated iron
- Similar words include: press, iron, iron out
- Opposite of: unironed
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Answer: IRONED
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43A: "79. Gains prominence"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a growth in strength or number or importance
- Similar words include: wax, stand up, lift
- Opposite of: go to bed, descent
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Answer: RISES
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44A: "82. "... and the broken door locks?""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: KEYLESSENTRY
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45A: "86. "___ just in ...""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: THIS
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46A: "88. Big name in plastic"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an endorsement made in a passport that allows the bearer to enter the country issuing it
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: VISA
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47A: "90. Rudimentary seeds"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small body that contains the female germ cell of a plant; develops into a seed after fertilization
- Similar words include: ovule
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: OVULES
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48A: "91. "... and the defective speaker system?""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: QUIETRIDE
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49A: "93. Rudimentary"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that serving as an essential component
- Similar words include: primordial, central, cardinal
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PRIMAL
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50A: "94. Calling card, for short?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SIM
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51A: "97. Safari destinations?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the address of a web page on the world wide web
- Similar words include: URL, uniform resource locator, universal resource locator
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: URLS
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52A: "98. Drink in a red, white and blue cup"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ICEE
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53A: "99. Donahue on TV Guide's list of "50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PHIL
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54A: "100. Yemeni neighbor"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a native or inhabitant of oman
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OMANI
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55A: "102. Old gridiron org. for the Boston Patriots"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a federation of north american labor unions that merged with the congress of industrial organizations in 1955
- Similar words include: American Federation of Labor
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AFL
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56A: "103. End of "Our Town" or "A Doll's House""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: ACTTHREE
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57A: "105. Spectacular flops"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sudden and violent collapse
- Similar words include: thrashing, slaughter, fiasco
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: DEBACLES
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58A: "108. Upholsterer's sample"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sample piece of cloth
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SWATCH
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59A: "110. "... and finally, the missing front tires?""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______________
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Answer: REARWHEELDRIVE
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60A: "112. Capital of Zimbabwe"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the capital and largest city of zimbabwe
- Similar words include: capital of Zimbabwe, Salisbury
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: HARARE
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61A: "113. Pupil's surroundings"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
- Similar words include: flag, sword lily, fleur-de-lis
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IRIS
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62A: "114. Like toms and drakes"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova)
- Similar words include: manlike, male person, manly
- Opposite of: female
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Answer: MALE
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63A: "115. State as fact"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that report or maintain
- Similar words include: say, allege, assert
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AVER
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64A: "116. U-Haul alternative"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RYDER
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65A: "117. Legend who occasionally used his head to achieve greatness"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PELE
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66A: "118. SoCal sch."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SDSU
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67A: "119. Pink part of a Mr. Potato Head set"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
- Similar words include: spike, capitulum, pinna
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EAR
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Caption below the first of two photos | 6 |
| 2D | 2. Opposite of exodus | 6 |
| 3D | 3. Dumbbell exercises | 5 |
| 4D | 4. Giant or dwarf | 4 |
| 5D | 5. ___-de-camp | 4 |
| 6D | 6. Backs out, say | 8 |
| 7D | 7. Indignation | 3 |
| 8D | 8. Ninnies | 5 |
| 9D | 9. What someone flat-footed lacks | 4 |
| 10D | 10. Like an honorable knight | 7 |
| 11D | 11. They might be on one's radar | 8 |
| 12D | 12. Pet | 6 |
| 13D | 13. Porters, for example | 4 |
| 14D | 14. Race prior to a race? | 3 |
| 15D | 15. Fifth-year student leader at Hogwarts | 7 |
| 16D | 16. Barely runs? | 7 |
| 17D | 17. Fruit snack brand | 5 |
| 18D | 21. Excites | 5 |
| 19D | 23. Again and again, in verse | 8 |
| 20D | 24. Over-the-top performers | 4 |
| 21D | 28. Item on a rack | 5 |
| 22D | 32. Mercedes alternative | 4 |
| 23D | 34. Idly doodling, maybe | 5 |
| 24D | 37. How the car in this puzzle's theme would be sold | 4 |
| 25D | 38. Blog feed letters | 3 |
| 26D | 40. Disrelishes and then some | 5 |
| 27D | 41. Hands (out) | 5 |
| 28D | 42. Linguistic suffix | 3 |
| 29D | 44. "Fabulous!" | 6 |
| 30D | 45. It has a rind but supposedly no rhyme | 6 |
| 31D | 46. Deliberately malicious | 6 |
| 32D | 47. Opposite of "You'll pay for that!"? | 4 |
| 33D | 48. God who aids the Trojan fleet in the first book of the "Aeneid" | 7 |
| 34D | 50. Long stories have them | 4 |
| 35D | 53. Runs out of gas | 4 |
| 36D | 55. Divinely elect | 6 |
| 37D | 56. Old yeller? | 6 |
| 38D | 57. Faddish | 6 |
| 39D | 59. California's Big ___ | 3 |
| 40D | 60. Keeps in the loop, electronically | 3 |
| 41D | 61. Similar (to) | 4 |
| 42D | 63. Pioneering astronaut Jemison | 3 |
| 43D | 64. "The Good Wife" figure: Abbr. | 3 |
| 44D | 67. Declares off limits | 4 |
| 45D | 68. Fix a litter problem? | 4 |
| 46D | 69. Show signs | 5 |
| 47D | 71. Palm off (on) | 5 |
| 48D | 73. Mooch | 8 |
| 49D | 75. Hangs on a clothesline | 5 |
| 50D | 77. Isis Naija Gaston, ___ Ice Spice | 3 |
| 51D | 78. Madonna's "La ___ Bonita" | 4 |
| 52D | 80. Kick out | 5 |
| 53D | 81. Planned detour | 8 |
| 54D | 83. "Shark Tank" shark Greiner | 4 |
| 55D | 84. Horror franchise that includes 1992's "Army of Darkness" | 8 |
| 56D | 85. It all adds up to this | 3 |
| 57D | 86. "West Side Story" conflict | 7 |
| 58D | 87. Edmund who wrote "View From the Summit" | 7 |
| 59D | 89. "Now, wait just one minute!" | 7 |
| 60D | 91. Suppress | 5 |
| 61D | 92. Like cheesecake vis-à-vis sponge cake | 6 |
| 62D | 93. "That was a close one!" | 4 |
| 63D | 94. What wets the appetite? | 6 |
| 64D | 95. "The idea!" | 6 |
| 65D | 96. Penny pincher | 5 |
| 66D | 99. Intrinsically | 5 |
| 67D | 101. Jazz singer Carmen | 5 |
| 68D | 103. Part of a plot, at times | 4 |
| 69D | 104. The third one is dangerous | 4 |
| 70D | 106. Once-common fish in the Thames | 4 |
| 71D | 107. Veal cordon ___ | 4 |
| 72D | 109. Smidgen | 3 |
| 73D | 111. Inits. at sea | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Caption below the first of two photos"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that earlier in time; previously
- Similar words include: earlier, in front, ahead
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BEFORE
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2D: "2. Opposite of exodus"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the process of flowing in
- Similar words include: inflow
- Opposite of: outflow, efflux
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Answer: INFLUX
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3D: "3. Dumbbell exercises"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
- Similar words include: roll, coil, ringlet
- Opposite of: uncoil
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Answer: CURLS
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4D: "4. Giant or dwarf"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior
- Similar words include: starring, prima, superstar
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: STAR
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5D: "5. ___-de-camp"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer
- Similar words include: auxiliary, aide-de-camp, adjutant
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AIDE
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6D: "6. Backs out, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a relation of direct opposition
- Similar words include: lift, invert, vacate
- Opposite of: obverse
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Answer: REVERSES
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7D: "7. Indignation"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
- Similar words include: wrath, ira, anger
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IRE
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8D: "8. Ninnies"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who is regarded as contemptible
- Similar words include: tease, tantalise, twerp
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TWITS
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9D: "9. What someone flat-footed lacks"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening
- Similar words include: impish, implike, mischievous
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ARCH
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10D: "10. Like an honorable knight"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
- Similar words include: dashing, fop, beau
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: GALLANT
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11D: "11. They might be on one's radar"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a driver who exceeds the safe speed limit
- Similar words include: speeder, speed demon
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: SPEEDERS
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12D: "12. Pet"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a gentle affectionate stroking (or something resembling it)
- Similar words include: fondle
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CARESS
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13D: "13. Porters, for example"
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
- Similar words include: ale
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ALES
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14D: "14. Race prior to a race?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that rate of revolution of a motor
- Similar words include: revolutions per minute, rpm, rev up
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: REV
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15D: "15. Fifth-year student leader at Hogwarts"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a chief officer or chief magistrate
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: PREFECT
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16D: "16. Barely runs?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an unbroken series of events
- Similar words include: blotch, streak, stripe
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: STREAKS
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17D: "17. Fruit snack brand"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states feminist and suffragist (1793-1880)
- Similar words include: Lucretia Coffin Mott, Mott
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MOTTS
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18D: "21. Excites"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cause to go somewhere
- Similar words include: send, place, beam
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SENDS
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19D: "23. Again and again, in verse"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that many times at short intervals
- Similar words include: frequently, often, oft
- Opposite of: rarely, infrequently
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Answer: OFTTIMES
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20D: "24. Over-the-top performers"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)
- Similar words include: jambon, Ham, overact
- Opposite of: underact
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Answer: HAMS
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21D: "28. Item on a rack"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a rectangular piece of absorbent cloth (or paper) for drying or wiping
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TOWEL
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22D: "32. Mercedes alternative"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AUDI
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23D: "34. Idly doodling, maybe"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cause to be bored
- Similar words include: world-weary, bore, blase
- Opposite of: interest
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Answer: BORED
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24D: "37. How the car in this puzzle's theme would be sold"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ASIS
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25D: "38. Blog feed letters"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RSS
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26D: "40. Disrelishes and then some"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action
- Similar words include: hat, hatred, hate
- Opposite of: love
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Answer: HATES
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27D: "41. Hands (out)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a line that indicates a boundary
- Similar words include: boundary line, borderline, border
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: METES
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28D: "42. Linguistic suffix"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the compass point midway between east and southeast
- Similar words include: east southeast
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ESE
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29D: "44. "Fabulous!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: LOVEIT
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30D: "45. It has a rind but supposedly no rhyme"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that round yellow to orange fruit of any of several citrus trees
- Similar words include: orangish, orange tree, Orange River
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ORANGE
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31D: "46. Deliberately malicious"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that lewd or lascivious woman
- Similar words include: easy, unprovoked, sluttish
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: WANTON
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32D: "47. Opposite of "You'll pay for that!"?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ONME
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33D: "48. God who aids the Trojan fleet in the first book of the "Aeneid""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (roman mythology) god of the sea; counterpart of greek poseidon
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: NEPTUNE
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34D: "50. Long stories have them"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
- Similar words include: electric arc, arch, electric discharge
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ARCS
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35D: "53. Runs out of gas"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers
- Similar words include: atomic number 66, dysprosium, pall
- Opposite of: be born
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Answer: DIES
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36D: "55. Divinely elect"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that choose by or as if by divine intervention
- Similar words include: oil, inunct, anele
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ANOINT
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37D: "56. Old yeller?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that used affectionately to refer to an eccentric but amusing old man
- Similar words include: old codger
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CODGER
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38D: "57. Faddish"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that in accord with the latest fad
- Similar words include: voguish
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TRENDY
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39D: "59. California's Big ___"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a port in southern lebanon on the mediterranean sea; formerly a major phoenician seaport famous for silks
- Similar words include: Tyre
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SUR
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40D: "60. Keeps in the loop, electronically"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter
- Similar words include: cubic centimeter, milliliter, ml
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CCS
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41D: "61. Similar (to)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that similar in quality or character
- Similar words include: kindred, consanguineal, consanguineous
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AKIN
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42D: "63. Pioneering astronaut Jemison"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MAE
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43D: "64. "The Good Wife" figure: Abbr."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ATT
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44D: "67. Declares off limits"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a decree that prohibits something
- Similar words include: forbidding, prohibition, banning
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BANS
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45D: "68. Fix a litter problem?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that remove the ovaries of
- Similar words include: neuter, alter, castrate
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SPAY
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46D: "69. Show signs"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in the air in small amounts
- Similar words include: atomic number 10, neon, Ne
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NEONS
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47D: "71. Palm off (on)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that to force onto another
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: FOIST
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48D: "73. Mooch"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that live off somebody's generosity
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: FREELOAD
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49D: "75. Hangs on a clothesline"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages
- Similar words include: dry out, dry, prohibitionist
- Opposite of: wet
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Answer: DRIES
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50D: "77. Isis Naija Gaston, ___ Ice Spice"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AKA
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51D: "78. Madonna's "La ___ Bonita""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ISLA
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52D: "80. Kick out"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that expel or eject without recourse to legal process
- Similar words include: force out
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EVICT
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53D: "81. Planned detour"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: SIDETRIP
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54D: "83. "Shark Tank" shark Greiner"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LORI
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55D: "84. Horror franchise that includes 1992's "Army of Darkness""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: EVILDEAD
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56D: "85. It all adds up to this"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a quantity of money
- Similar words include: tot up, totality, join
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SUM
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57D: "86. "West Side Story" conflict"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: TURFWAR
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58D: "87. Edmund who wrote "View From the Summit""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that new zealand mountaineer who in 1953 first attained the summit of mount everest with his sherpa guide tenzing norgay (born in 1919)
- Similar words include: Edmund Hillary, Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, Sir Edmund Hillary
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: HILLARY
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59D: "89. "Now, wait just one minute!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SEEHERE
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60D: "91. Suppress"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that put down by force or intimidation
- Similar words include: subdue, invalidate, avoid
- Opposite of: validate
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Answer: QUASH
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61D: "92. Like cheesecake vis-à-vis sponge cake"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that possessing material wealth
- Similar words include: racy, deep, robust
- Opposite of: lean, poor
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Answer: RICHER
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62D: "93. "That was a close one!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PHEW
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63D: "94. What wets the appetite?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth; moistens the mouth and starts the digestion of starches
- Similar words include: spittle, spit
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SALIVA
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64D: "95. "The idea!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: INEVER
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65D: "96. Penny pincher"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a stingy hoarder of money and possessions (often living miserably)
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MISER
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66D: "99. Intrinsically"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PERSE
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67D: "101. Jazz singer Carmen"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MCRAE
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68D: "103. Part of a plot, at times"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a unit of area (4840 square yards) used in english-speaking countries
- Similar words include: Akko, Akka, Accho
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ACRE
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69D: "104. The third one is dangerous"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
- Similar words include: railing, vituperate, rail in
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RAIL
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70D: "106. Once-common fish in the Thames"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in europe and america; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
- Similar words include: eel
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EELS
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71D: "107. Veal cordon ___"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cheese containing a blue mold
- Similar words include: blue cheese
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BLEU
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72D: "109. Smidgen"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a slight amount or degree of difference
- Similar words include: shade
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TAD
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73D: "111. Inits. at sea"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a metric unit of length equal to 100 meters
- Similar words include: hectometer, hectometre, hm
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HMS
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67 Across Clues
73 Down Clues
140 Total Clues
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