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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (61 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (67 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. One bit | 5 |
| 2A | 6. Bad jobs | 6 |
| 3A | 12. Target of an annual vaccine | 3 |
| 4A | 15. x or y | 4 |
| 5A | 19. Swimmer's invitation | 21 |
| 6A | 23. One of two in Hawaii | 21 |
| 7A | 24. Father of the river gods, in Greek myth | 7 |
| 8A | 25. Overwhelm | 5 |
| 9A | 26. Jamaican folk song about dock work | 4 |
| 10A | 27. Ones who've made the team | 6 |
| 11A | 28. One at the U.S. mint? | 4 |
| 12A | 29. Long-handled tool | 3 |
| 13A | 31. What might pile up during a digital detox | 5 |
| 14A | 35. Show great fondness, in a way | 4 |
| 15A | 36. In the lead | 5 |
| 16A | 38. Cow | 5 |
| 17A | 40. Oscar winner Hathaway | 4 |
| 18A | 41. Foxlike | 3 |
| 19A | 42. Winter pellets | 5 |
| 20A | 43. ___ forgiveness | 4 |
| 21A | 44. Say without saying | 6 |
| 22A | 46. Godsends | 5 |
| 23A | 47. Up to 150 years, for a tortoise | 8 |
| 24A | 49. The first "C" of Vietnam's H.C.M.C. | 3 |
| 25A | 50. Beaver's home | 5 |
| 26A | 51. Communicate through a disagreement | 13 |
| 27A | 53. Counterpart of 53-Down | 5 |
| 28A | 54. Display perfect timing, much like dancers | 9 |
| 29A | 55. Agcy. that protects the right to unionize | 4 |
| 30A | 56. Some Indian flatbreads | 5 |
| 31A | 57. First woman to play regularly in a major American men's pro baseball league | 9 |
| 32A | 58. Bond between Lazenby and Dalton | 5 |
| 33A | 59. "Let's do it" | 4 |
| 34A | 60. Setting for Ghassan Kanafani's "All That's Left to You" and Mourid Barghouti's "I Saw Ramallah" | 9 |
| 35A | 61. Like a lion's coat | 5 |
| 36A | 62. Reprimand that might be biting, ironically | 13 |
| 37A | 64. Group of partridges | 5 |
| 38A | 65. "www" string | 3 |
| 39A | 66. Honey boo-boo? | 8 |
| 40A | 67. Like the Taj Mahal and the Hagia Sophia, architecturally | 5 |
| 41A | 68. Up for the day | 6 |
| 42A | 70. Named names | 4 |
| 43A | 71. [Oh God ...] | 5 |
| 44A | 72. Nurse | 3 |
| 45A | 75. Many a spacious apartment | 4 |
| 46A | 76. Stand-up comic ___ Wang | 5 |
| 47A | 78. Where a band might go | 5 |
| 48A | 79. "Gimme!" | 4 |
| 49A | 80. Go undefeated | 5 |
| 50A | 82. Enterprise letters | 3 |
| 51A | 83. "Let's put a smile on your plate" chain | 4 |
| 52A | 84. Lover of Tristan | 6 |
| 53A | 86. Combine, as resources | 4 |
| 54A | 88. Nintendo villain with a "W" on his cap | 5 |
| 55A | 90. Bothersome recurrence | 7 |
| 56A | 91. Controversial business oversight | 21 |
| 57A | 96. Amusement park ride in which one's legs dangle high off the ground | 21 |
| 58A | 97. Lip | 4 |
| 59A | 98. "___ bodkins!" (bygone oath) | 3 |
| 60A | 99. Comes clean, with "up" | 6 |
| 61A | 100. Old Bulgarian rulers | 5 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. One bit"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ATALL
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2A: "6. Bad jobs"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of stealing
- Similar words include: burglarize, rip-off, burgle
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: HEISTS
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3A: "12. Target of an annual vaccine"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease
- Similar words include: grippe, influenza
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: FLU
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4A: "15. x or y"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a straight line through a body or figure that satisfies certain conditions
- Similar words include: axis of rotation, bloc, axis vertebra
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AXIS
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5A: "19. Swimmer's invitation"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________________
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Answer: COMEONINTHEWATERSFINE
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6A: "23. One of two in Hawaii"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________________
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Answer: CONGRESSIONALDISTRICT
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7A: "24. Father of the river gods, in Greek myth"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (greek mythology) god of the stream that flowed around the earth in ancient mythology
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: OCEANUS
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8A: "25. Overwhelm"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that low land that is seasonally flooded; has more woody plants than a marsh and better drainage than a bog
- Similar words include: swampland, inundate, deluge
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SWAMP
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9A: "26. Jamaican folk song about dock work"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DAYO
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10A: "27. Ones who've made the team"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a list of names
- Similar words include: roll
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ROSTER
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11A: "28. One at the U.S. mint?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: UNUM
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12A: "29. Long-handled tool"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HOE
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13A: "31. What might pile up during a digital detox"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that can be regenerated at the recipient's terminal when the recipient logs in
- Similar words include: netmail, electronic mail, e-mail
- Opposite of: snail mail
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Answer: EMAIL
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14A: "35. Show great fondness, in a way"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that be foolish or senile due to old age
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DOTE
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15A: "36. In the lead"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ONTOP
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16A: "38. Cow"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cause to lose courage
- Similar words include: frighten off, scare, dash
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DAUNT
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17A: "40. Oscar winner Hathaway"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that queen of england and scotland and ireland; daughter if james ii and the last of the stuart monarchs; in 1707 she was the last english ruler to exercise the royal veto over parliament (1665-1714)
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ANNE
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18A: "41. Foxlike"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that marked by skill in deception
- Similar words include: slick, knavish, guileful
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SLY
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19A: "42. Winter pellets"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that partially melted snow (or a mixture of rain and snow)
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SLEET
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20A: "43. ___ forgiveness"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the state of owing something (especially money)
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DEBT
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21A: "44. Say without saying"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: HINTAT
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22A: "46. Godsends"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a desirable state
- Similar words include: blessing, boon
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BOONS
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23A: "47. Up to 150 years, for a tortoise"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death)
- Similar words include: lifetime, life-time, life
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: LIFESPAN
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24A: "49. The first "C" of Vietnam's H.C.M.C."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the circulating life energy that in chinese philosophy is thought to be inherent in all things; in traditional chinese medicine the balance of negative and positive forms in the body is believed to be essential for good health
- Similar words include: ch'i, ki, qi
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CHI
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25A: "50. Beaver's home"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that english physicist who studied electromagnetic radiation and was a pioneer of radiotelegraphy (1851-1940)
- Similar words include: auberge, file, order
- Opposite of: dislodge
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Answer: LODGE
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26A: "51. Communicate through a disagreement"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: HAVETHINGSOUT
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27A: "53. Counterpart of 53-Down"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the present time or age
- Similar words include: now, nowadays
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TODAY
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28A: "54. Display perfect timing, much like dancers"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: MOVEASONE
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29A: "55. Agcy. that protects the right to unionize"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an independent agency of the united states government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor unions
- Similar words include: National Labor Relations Board
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NLRB
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30A: "56. Some Indian flatbreads"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ROTIS
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31A: "57. First woman to play regularly in a major American men's pro baseball league"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: TONISTONE
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32A: "58. Bond between Lazenby and Dalton"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states composer of works noted for their use of the american vernacular (1893-1969)
- Similar words include: Dudley Stuart John Moore, Henry Moore, Henry Spencer Moore
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MOORE
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33A: "59. "Let's do it""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IMIN
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34A: "60. Setting for Ghassan Kanafani's "All That's Left to You" and Mourid Barghouti's "I Saw Ramallah""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a former british mandate on the east coast of the mediterranean; divided between jordan and israel in 1948
- Similar words include: Promised Land, Holy Land, Canaan
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: PALESTINE
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35A: "61. Like a lion's coat"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that of a light brown to brownish orange color; the color of tanned leather
- Similar words include: tawny-brown
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TAWNY
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36A: "62. Reprimand that might be biting, ironically"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: TONGUELASHING
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37A: "64. Group of partridges"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small collection of people
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: COVEY
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38A: "65. "www" string"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the address of a web page on the world wide web
- Similar words include: uniform resource locator, universal resource locator
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: URL
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39A: "66. Honey boo-boo?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: BEESTING
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40A: "67. Like the Taj Mahal and the Hagia Sophia, architecturally"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that having a hemispherical vault or dome
- Similar words include: vaulted
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DOMED
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41A: "68. Up for the day"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that come into existence; take on form or shape
- Similar words include: get up, move up, spring up
- Opposite of: turn in, sit down
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Answer: ARISEN
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42A: "70. Named names"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that north american woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the chinese ginseng
- Similar words include: spill the beans, blab out, let the cat out of the bag
- Opposite of: keep quiet
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Answer: SANG
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43A: "71. [Oh God ...]"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an utterance expressing pain or disapproval
- Similar words include: moan
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GROAN
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44A: "72. Nurse"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small drink
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SIP
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45A: "75. Many a spacious apartment"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that floor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a factory or warehouse or other commercial space
- Similar words include: garret, pigeon loft, attic
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LOFT
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46A: "76. Stand-up comic ___ Wang"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SHENG
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47A: "78. Where a band might go"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones
- Similar words include: radiocarpal joint, carpus, wrist joint
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: WRIST
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48A: "79. "Gimme!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MINE
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49A: "80. Go undefeated"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a wide scope
- Similar words include: sweep oar, slam, sail
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SWEEP
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50A: "82. Enterprise letters"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that north american republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in north america plus alaska in northwest north america and the hawaiian islands in the pacific ocean; achieved independence in 1776
- Similar words include: the States, US, U.S.A.
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: USS
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51A: "83. "Let's put a smile on your plate" chain"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IHOP
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52A: "84. Lover of Tristan"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (middle ages) the bride of the king of cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with the king's nephew (tristan) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other
- Similar words include: Iseult
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ISOLDE
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53A: "86. Combine, as resources"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an excavation that is (usually) filled with water
- Similar words include: kitty, pond, consortium
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: POOL
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54A: "88. Nintendo villain with a "W" on his cap"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: WARIO
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55A: "90. Bothersome recurrence"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: FLAREUP
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56A: "91. Controversial business oversight"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________________
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Answer: CORPORATESURVEILLANCE
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57A: "96. Amusement park ride in which one's legs dangle high off the ground"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________________
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Answer: INVERTEDROLLERCOASTER
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58A: "97. Lip"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an impudent or insolent rejoinder
- Similar words include: backtalk, sassing, lip
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SASS
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59A: "98. "___ bodkins!" (bygone oath)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a doctor's degree in optometry
- Similar words include: OD, Doctor of Optometry, oculus dexter
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ODS
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60A: "99. Comes clean, with "up""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (heraldry) an ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield
- Similar words include: fesse, fess
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: FESSES
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61A: "100. Old Bulgarian rulers"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a male monarch or emperor (especially of russia prior to 1917)
- Similar words include: czar, tsar, tzar
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TSARS
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Results of some peace talks | 7 |
| 2D | 2. "Wow!" | 7 |
| 3D | 3. Government act whose name comes from the Greek for "forgetfulness" | 7 |
| 4D | 4. Papal representative | 6 |
| 5D | 5. Michaels of "Saturday Night Live" | 5 |
| 6D | 6. Angry cat's "greeting" | 4 |
| 7D | 7. Nav. rank | 3 |
| 8D | 8. Retort of denial | 7 |
| 9D | 9. Offer emotional support (for) | 6 |
| 10D | 10. Time that's an artist's name backward | 5 |
| 11D | 11. Did the butterfly, e.g. | 4 |
| 12D | 12. Co. whose logo depicts the god Mercury holding flowers | 3 |
| 13D | 13. Dutch city with a namesake jar | 6 |
| 14D | 14. ___ Major | 4 |
| 15D | 15. "Because I Got High" rapper | 7 |
| 16D | 16. 12 letters? | 3 |
| 17D | 17. Magazine for entrepreneurs | 3 |
| 18D | 18. Good to go | 3 |
| 19D | 20. Branch with a stem? | 9 |
| 20D | 21. Number of letters? | 12 |
| 21D | 22. Ocular affliction | 4 |
| 22D | 28. Uintah and Ouray reservation people | 4 |
| 23D | 30. Surpassed | 8 |
| 24D | 32. Group in support of a queen | 9 |
| 25D | 33. Rushing around | 8 |
| 26D | 34. Last Beatles single before Paul McCartney's departure | 7 |
| 27D | 37. Reality TV icon ___ Leakes | 4 |
| 28D | 38. Edging, e.g. | 9 |
| 29D | 39. Title for Macbeth | 5 |
| 30D | 42. Parts of many combo meals | 5 |
| 31D | 43. Selling off, as stocks | 9 |
| 32D | 45. Big inits. in Dutch banking | 3 |
| 33D | 46. Foretelling of | 6 |
| 34D | 47. Bestowing extravagantly (on) | 9 |
| 35D | 48. Source of fragrant cones | 4 |
| 36D | 50. Destiny | 9 |
| 37D | 51. Something that might not be well received when someone asks "How do I look?" | 12 |
| 38D | 52. Was flaky? | 6 |
| 39D | 53. Counterpart of 53-Across | 8 |
| 40D | 54. It's not exactly fast food | 8 |
| 41D | 56. Almsgiving and pilgrimage, for two | 7 |
| 42D | 57. Bit of folklore | 4 |
| 43D | 58. Wonk | 5 |
| 44D | 60. Hammer parts | 5 |
| 45D | 61. Main ingredient in salsa verde | 9 |
| 46D | 63. Purple yam in Filipino desserts | 3 |
| 47D | 64. Sounds from pigeons | 4 |
| 48D | 67. Simple coffee brewing method | 4 |
| 49D | 69. Treeless tracts | 7 |
| 50D | 71. Pleasing rhythms | 7 |
| 51D | 72. Diamond component? | 7 |
| 52D | 73. Gene-activating substance | 7 |
| 53D | 74. Eyes, informally | 7 |
| 54D | 77. Danced at a luau | 6 |
| 55D | 78. Eddies | 6 |
| 56D | 79. Very complicated situation, so to speak | 6 |
| 57D | 81. ___ People's Campaign (1968 S.C.L.C. movement) | 4 |
| 58D | 83. Self-congratulatory declaration | 5 |
| 59D | 85. One of the Five Pillars of Islam, referring to prayer | 5 |
| 60D | 87. "___ take arms against a sea of troubles": Hamlet | 4 |
| 61D | 89. Since | 4 |
| 62D | 90. Some fan-made literary works, informally | 4 |
| 63D | 91. Prefix with normative | 3 |
| 64D | 92. ___ shoestring | 3 |
| 65D | 93. They're parked in parks | 3 |
| 66D | 94. Some OT enders | 3 |
| 67D | 95. Before, poetically | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Results of some peace talks"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters
- Similar words include: accordance, accord, agreement
- Opposite of: disagreement
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Answer: ACCORDS
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2D: "2. "Wow!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: TOOCOOL
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3D: "3. Government act whose name comes from the Greek for "forgetfulness""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a period during which offenders are exempt from punishment
- Similar words include: free pardon, pardon
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: AMNESTY
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4D: "4. Papal representative"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of a legation
- Similar words include: official emissary
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: LEGATE
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5D: "5. Michaels of "Saturday Night Live""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LORNE
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6D: "6. Angry cat's "greeting""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval)
- Similar words include: raspberry, sibilation, razz
- Opposite of: applaud
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Answer: HISS
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7D: "7. Nav. rank"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that half the width of an em
- Similar words include: nut, en
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ENS
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8D: "8. Retort of denial"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ITISNOT
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9D: "9. Offer emotional support (for)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SHOWUP
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10D: "10. Time that's an artist's name backward"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TENAM
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11D: "11. Did the butterfly, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that travel through water
- Similar words include: float, drown, swim
- Opposite of: sink
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Answer: SWAM
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12D: "12. Co. whose logo depicts the god Mercury holding flowers"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: FTD
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13D: "13. Dutch city with a namesake jar"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a city in the western netherlands; residence of the pilgrim fathers for 11 years before they sailed for america in 1620
- Similar words include: Leyden
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: LEIDEN
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14D: "14. ___ Major"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: URSA
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15D: "15. "Because I Got High" rapper"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: AFROMAN
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16D: "16. 12 letters?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one
- Similar words include: 12, dozen, twelve
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: XII
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17D: "17. Magazine for entrepreneurs"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a heterogeneous collection of groups united in their opposition to saddam hussein's government of iraq; formed in 1992 it is comprised of sunni and shiite arabs and kurds who hope to build a new government
- Similar words include: Iraqi National Congress
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: INC
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18D: "18. Good to go"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
- Similar words include: hardening, set up, put
- Opposite of: rise
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Answer: SET
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19D: "20. Branch with a stem?"
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- Think of something that the branch of medical science that deals with the nervous system
- Similar words include: clinical neurology
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: NEUROLOGY
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20D: "21. Number of letters?"
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- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: ALPHABETSONG
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21D: "22. Ocular affliction"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid
- Similar words include: hordeolum, eye infection, sty
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: STYE
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22D: "28. Uintah and Ouray reservation people"
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- Think of something that a member of the shoshonean people of utah and colorado and new mexico
- Similar words include: Ute
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: UTES
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23D: "30. Surpassed"
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- Think of something that shine brighter than
- Similar words include: outshine
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: OUTSHONE
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24D: "32. Group in support of a queen"
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- Pattern: _________
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Answer: ANTCOLONY
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25D: "33. Rushing around"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: INAHURRY
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26D: "34. Last Beatles single before Paul McCartney's departure"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: LETITBE
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27D: "37. Reality TV icon ___ Leakes"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NENE
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28D: "38. Edging, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that win a victory over
- Similar words include: defeat, overcome, kill
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: DEFEATING
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29D: "39. Title for Macbeth"
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- Think of something that a feudal lord or baron
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: THANE
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30D: "42. Parts of many combo meals"
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- Think of something that a sodium salt of carbonic acid; used in making soap powders and glass and paper
- Similar words include: sal soda, soda ash, pop
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SODAS
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31D: "43. Selling off, as stocks"
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- Think of something that take away possessions from someone
- Similar words include: strip, divest, deprive
- Opposite of: invest
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Answer: DIVESTING
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32D: "45. Big inits. in Dutch banking"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ING
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33D: "46. Foretelling of"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a feeling of evil to come
- Similar words include: predict, presentiment, foreshadow
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BODING
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34D: "47. Bestowing extravagantly (on)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns
- Similar words include: lavish, shower
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: LAVISHING
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35D: "48. Source of fragrant cones"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a coniferous tree
- Similar words include: ache, languish, yearn
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PINE
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36D: "50. Destiny"
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- Pattern: _________
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Answer: LOTINLIFE
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37D: "51. Something that might not be well received when someone asks "How do I look?""
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- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: HONESTANSWER
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38D: "52. Was flaky?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that fall as snow
- Similar words include: snow, bamboozle, pull the wool over someone's eyes
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SNOWED
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39D: "53. Counterpart of 53-Across"
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- Think of something that the day after today
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: TOMORROW
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40D: "54. It's not exactly fast food"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that thick dark syrup produced by boiling down juice from sugar cane; especially during sugar refining
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: MOLASSES
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41D: "56. Almsgiving and pilgrimage, for two"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any customary observance or practice
- Similar words include: ritual, rite
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: RITUALS
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42D: "57. Bit of folklore"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
- Similar words include: fib, narration, taradiddle
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TALE
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43D: "58. Wonk"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
- Similar words include: whiz, champion, wiz
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MAVEN
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44D: "60. Hammer parts"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the part of a hammerhead opposite the flat striking surface (may have various shapes)
- Similar words include: peen
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PEENS
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45D: "61. Main ingredient in salsa verde"
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- Think of something that mexican annual naturalized in eastern north america having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes
- Similar words include: Physalis philadelphica, purple ground cherry, Mexican husk tomato
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: TOMATILLO
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46D: "63. Purple yam in Filipino desserts"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: UBE
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47D: "64. Sounds from pigeons"
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- Think of something that the sound made by a pigeon
- Similar words include: coo
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: COOS
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48D: "67. Simple coffee brewing method"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid
- Similar words include: dripping, drop, trickle
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DRIP
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49D: "69. Treeless tracts"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that extensive plain without trees (associated with eastern russia and siberia)
- Similar words include: steppe
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: STEPPES
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50D: "71. Pleasing rhythms"
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- Think of something that a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)
- Similar words include: groove, channel, furrow
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: GROOVES
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51D: "72. Diamond component?"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SILENTA
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52D: "73. Gene-activating substance"
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- Think of something that an agent capable of activating specific genes
- Similar words include: persuader
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: INDUCER
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53D: "74. Eyes, informally"
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- Think of something that a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others
- Similar words include: voyeur, peeper, Peeping Tom
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: PEEPERS
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54D: "77. Danced at a luau"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: HULAED
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55D: "78. Eddies"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that confused movement
- Similar words include: offer, eddy, pass
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: WHIRLS
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56D: "79. Very complicated situation, so to speak"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
- Similar words include: quag, quagmire, slack
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: MORASS
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57D: "81. ___ People's Campaign (1968 S.C.L.C. movement)"
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- Think of something that people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)
- Similar words include: poor people, misfortunate, short
- Opposite of: rich, rich people
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Answer: POOR
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58D: "83. Self-congratulatory declaration"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: IRULE
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59D: "85. One of the Five Pillars of Islam, referring to prayer"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the second pillar of islam is prayer; a prescribed liturgy performed five times a day (preferably in a mosque) and oriented toward mecca
- Similar words include: salaat, salah, salaah
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SALAT
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60D: "87. "___ take arms against a sea of troubles": Hamlet"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ORTO
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61D: "89. Since"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ASOF
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62D: "90. Some fan-made literary works, informally"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: FICS
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63D: "91. Prefix with normative"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an alliance made up of states that had been soviet socialist republics in the soviet union prior to its dissolution in dec 1991
- Similar words include: Ci, curie, Commonwealth of Independent States
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CIS
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64D: "92. ___ shoestring"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ONA
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65D: "93. They're parked in parks"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a motorized wheeled vehicle used for camping or other recreational activities
- Similar words include: recreational vehicle, RV, R.V.
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RVS
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66D: "94. Some OT enders"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TDS
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67D: "95. Before, poetically"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ERE
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61 Across Clues
67 Down Clues
128 Total Clues
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