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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (71 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (74 clues)
- Down Clues - Detailed Hints
- Expert Solving Strategies
- Today's Puzzle Statistics
Today's Puzzle Difficulty: Moderate
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. "Awesome!" | 3 |
| 2A | 4. Many profs | 4 |
| 3A | 8. What a crush might make you do | 5 |
| 4A | 13. Predator with dermal denticles | 5 |
| 5A | 18. Silent film actor Jannings | 4 |
| 6A | 20. Reclined | 4 |
| 7A | 21. More intense, as an emotion | 5 |
| 8A | 22. Early stage of a drug trial | 6 |
| 9A | 23. Peace symbol | 4 |
| 10A | 24. Adage promoting thrift | 25 |
| 11A | 27. Itty-bitty | 6 |
| 12A | 29. Return filers, for short | 4 |
| 13A | 30. Barely keeps going, with "along" | 5 |
| 14A | 31. Fish with leaf-shaped larvae | 4 |
| 15A | 32. Image on one side of this puzzle's subject | 14 |
| 16A | 35. Start of a historic triple boast | 5 |
| 17A | 37. Seminole's rival, in college athletics | 5 |
| 18A | 38. Liturgical singer | 6 |
| 19A | 39. Quick cut | 4 |
| 20A | 40. Subtitle alternative | 3 |
| 21A | 43. Yogurt drink in Delhi | 5 |
| 22A | 45. Monklike, in a way | 7 |
| 23A | 48. Angle variable in geometry | 5 |
| 24A | 50. Where this puzzle's subject was last made for circulation (in November 2025) | 6 |
| 25A | 53. Periodical, informally | 3 |
| 26A | 55. Genre for Siouxsie and the Banshees | 4 |
| 27A | 56. Duck known for its insulating feathers | 5 |
| 28A | 57. Make smelly | 7 |
| 29A | 59. One of 12, astrologically | 3 |
| 30A | 61. "Balderdash!" | 3 |
| 31A | 62. "It's Your Business" sloganeer, for short | 3 |
| 32A | 63. "Omigosh!" | 3 |
| 33A | 64. Drug enforcer, informally | 4 |
| 34A | 66. "When We Were Young" singer, 2015 | 5 |
| 35A | 68. Its capital is Roma | 6 |
| 36A | 72. Nursery rhyme street vendor's cry | 30 |
| 37A | 77. A failed transaction | 6 |
| 38A | 78. Good, but not great, grade | 5 |
| 39A | 79. Tennis great Arthur | 4 |
| 40A | 80. ___ King Cole | 3 |
| 41A | 81. Fall asleep, with "off" | 3 |
| 42A | 82. Word with constrictor or feather | 3 |
| 43A | 83. Goddess of the dawn | 3 |
| 44A | 85. Car-pooling convenience | 7 |
| 45A | 88. Taco bar adjective | 5 |
| 46A | 91. ___ Féin | 4 |
| 47A | 92. ___ room | 3 |
| 48A | 94. Showing less bias | 6 |
| 49A | 95. Musical staff symbol | 5 |
| 50A | 96. Aggressive move allowed in some forms of kickboxing | 7 |
| 51A | 99. "Sounds like a blast!" | 5 |
| 52A | 101. Mini-gulp | 3 |
| 53A | 102. Some Ivy Leaguers | 4 |
| 54A | 104. Meeting that goes above and beyond? | 6 |
| 55A | 106. Intimate | 5 |
| 56A | 110. Bitter | 5 |
| 57A | 112. Image on one side of this puzzle's subject | 14 |
| 58A | 115. Badge-pinning site | 4 |
| 59A | 117. Tree where the Buddha found enlightenment | 5 |
| 60A | 119. Spanish for "wealthy" | 4 |
| 61A | 120. Get in the game? | 6 |
| 62A | 121. Offer advice ... or a hint to 24- and 72-Across | 17 |
| 63A | 125. D'Arcy of "House of the Dragon" | 4 |
| 64A | 126. Paradise | 6 |
| 65A | 127. Pucker producer, perhaps | 5 |
| 66A | 128. Modernists, informally | 4 |
| 67A | 129. Department store department | 4 |
| 68A | 130. Vikings, for example | 5 |
| 69A | 131. Long members of the onion family | 5 |
| 70A | 132. Nervous | 4 |
| 71A | 133. Slam | 3 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. "Awesome!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material
- Similar words include: radian
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RAD
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2A: "4. Many profs"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation; the highest degree awarded graduate study
- Similar words include: Ph.D., PhD
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PHDS
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3A: "8. What a crush might make you do"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men
- Similar words include: play, mash, chat up
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: FLIRT
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4A: "13. Predator with dermal denticles"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SHARK
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5A: "18. Silent film actor Jannings"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EMIL
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6A: "20. Reclined"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that be located or situated somewhere; occupy a certain position
- Similar words include: dwell, lie in, lie
- Opposite of: stand, arise
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Answer: LAIN
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7A: "21. More intense, as an emotion"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes
- Similar words include: bare-assed, unsanded, natural
- Opposite of: cooked
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Answer: RAWER
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8A: "22. Early stage of a drug trial"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PHASEI
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9A: "23. Peace symbol"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of numerous small pigeons
- Similar words include: Columba, plunk, dive
- Opposite of: hawk
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Answer: DOVE
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10A: "24. Adage promoting thrift"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________________________
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Answer: APENNYSAVEDISAPENNYEARNED
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11A: "27. Itty-bitty"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (used informally) very small
- Similar words include: wee, itsy-bitsy, bitty
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TEENSY
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12A: "29. Return filers, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an accountant who has passed certain examinations and met all other statutory and licensing requirements of a united states state to be certified by that state
- Similar words include: CPA, certified public accountant
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CPAS
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13A: "30. Barely keeps going, with "along""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg
- Similar words include: limp, hitch, hobble
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LIMPS
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14A: "31. Fish with leaf-shaped larvae"
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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15A: "32. Image on one side of this puzzle's subject"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______________
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Answer: ABRAHAMLINCOLN
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16A: "35. Start of a historic triple boast"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ICAME
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17A: "37. Seminole's rival, in college athletics"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that either of two amphibious reptiles related to crocodiles but with shorter broader snouts
- Similar words include: alligator
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GATOR
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18A: "38. Liturgical singer"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the musical director of a choir
- Similar words include: precentor, choirmaster, hazan
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CANTOR
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19A: "39. Quick cut"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)
- Similar words include: clipping, lop, nip off
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SNIP
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20A: "40. Subtitle alternative"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the new sounds added by dubbing
- Similar words include: nickname, knight
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DUB
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21A: "43. Yogurt drink in Delhi"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LASSI
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22A: "45. Monklike, in a way"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline
- Similar words include: abstainer, austere, spartan
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ASCETIC
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23A: "48. Angle variable in geometry"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the 8th letter of the greek alphabet
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: THETA
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24A: "50. Where this puzzle's subject was last made for circulation (in November 2025)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: USMINT
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25A: "53. Periodical, informally"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a periodic publication containing pictures and stories and articles of interest to those who purchase it or subscribe to it
- Similar words include: magazine
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MAG
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26A: "55. Genre for Siouxsie and the Banshees"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
- Similar words include: churl, boor, barbarian
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GOTH
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27A: "56. Duck known for its insulating feathers"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that duck of the northern hemisphere much valued for the fine soft down of the females
- Similar words include: eider duck
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EIDER
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28A: "57. Make smelly"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: STINKUP
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29A: "59. One of 12, astrologically"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in leo
- Similar words include: Leo the Lion, Lion
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LEO
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30A: "61. "Balderdash!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
- Similar words include: bunk, hogwash, buncombe
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ROT
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31A: "62. "It's Your Business" sloganeer, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: WSJ
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32A: "63. "Omigosh!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EEK
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33A: "64. Drug enforcer, informally"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a lawman concerned with narcotics violations
- Similar words include: nark, narcotics agent
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NARC
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34A: "66. "When We Were Young" singer, 2015"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ADELE
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35A: "68. Its capital is Roma"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a republic in southern europe on the italian peninsula; was the core of the roman republic and the roman empire between the 4th century bc and the 5th century ad
- Similar words include: Italy, Italian Republic
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ITALIA
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36A: "72. Nursery rhyme street vendor's cry"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______________________________
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Answer: ONEAPENNYTWOAPENNYHOTCROSSBUNS
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37A: "77. A failed transaction"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: NOSALE
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38A: "78. Good, but not great, grade"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BPLUS
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39A: "79. Tennis great Arthur"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states tennis player who was the first black to win united states and english singles championships (1943-1993)
- Similar words include: Arthur Ashe, Arthur Robert Ashe
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ASHE
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40A: "80. ___ King Cole"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NAT
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41A: "81. Fall asleep, with "off""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sign of assent or salutation or command
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NOD
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42A: "82. Word with constrictor or feather"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur
- Similar words include: feather boa
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: BOA
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43A: "83. Goddess of the dawn"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (greek mythology) the winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology; daughter of hyperion; identified with roman aurora
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EOS
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44A: "85. Car-pooling convenience"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: HOVLANE
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45A: "88. Taco bar adjective"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ASADA
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46A: "91. ___ Féin"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SINN
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47A: "92. ___ room"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: REC
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48A: "94. Showing less bias"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules
- Similar words include: just, middling, bonny
- Opposite of: unfair, foul
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Answer: FAIRER
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49A: "95. Musical staff symbol"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CCLEF
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50A: "96. Aggressive move allowed in some forms of kickboxing"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: KNEEING
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51A: "99. "Sounds like a blast!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OHFUN
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52A: "101. Mini-gulp"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small drink
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SIP
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53A: "102. Some Ivy Leaguers"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ELIS
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54A: "104. Meeting that goes above and beyond?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a meeting of spiritualists
- Similar words include: session, sitting
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SEANCE
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55A: "106. Intimate"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GETAT
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56A: "110. Bitter"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that strong and sharp
- Similar words include: blistering, sulfurous, virulent
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ACRID
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57A: "112. Image on one side of this puzzle's subject"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______________
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Answer: THEUNIONSHIELD
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58A: "115. Badge-pinning site"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a framework that holds the panes of a window in the window frame
- Similar words include: window sash, cincture, waistcloth
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SASH
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59A: "117. Tree where the Buddha found enlightenment"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BODHI
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60A: "119. Spanish for "wealthy""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that law intended to eradicate organized crime by establishing strong sanctions and forfeiture provisions
- Similar words include: RICO Act, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, anti-racketeering law
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RICO
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61A: "120. Get in the game?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ANTEUP
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62A: "121. Offer advice ... or a hint to 24- and 72-Across"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________________
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Answer: PUTINYOURTWOCENTS
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63A: "125. D'Arcy of "House of the Dragon""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EMMA
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64A: "126. Paradise"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a book written by sir thomas more (1516) describing the perfect society on an imaginary island
- Similar words include: Sion, Zion
- Opposite of: dystopia
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Answer: UTOPIA
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65A: "127. Pucker producer, perhaps"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh
- Similar words include: maize, lemon yellow, gamboge
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LEMON
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66A: "128. Modernists, informally"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NEOS
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67A: "129. Department store department"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the force of workers available
- Similar words include: workforce, hands, manpower
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MENS
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68A: "130. Vikings, for example"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an inhabitant of scandinavia
- Similar words include: Norwegian, Norseman, Nordic
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NORSE
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69A: "131. Long members of the onion family"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild allium ampeloprasum
- Similar words include: Allium porrum, scallion, leek
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LEEKS
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70A: "132. Nervous"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that being in a tense state
- Similar words include: high-strung, jumpy, overstrung
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EDGY
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71A: "133. Slam"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that god of the underworld; counterpart of greek pluto
- Similar words include: Orcus
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DIS
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Discount merchandise indicator | 6 |
| 2D | 2. Organism that moves using pseudopodia | 6 |
| 3D | 3. Change the course of | 6 |
| 4D | 4. ___ del Carmen (Mexican resort) | 5 |
| 5D | 5. Two farthings, informally | 7 |
| 6D | 6. Deny responsibility for | 8 |
| 7D | 7. Like certain easy-to-install hardware components | 6 |
| 8D | 8. Much of Diego Rivera's work | 7 |
| 9D | 9. Young Scot | 3 |
| 10D | 10. "You can count on me" | 5 |
| 11D | 11. It can become amber | 5 |
| 12D | 12. Streetcar | 4 |
| 13D | 13. Doo-wop's ___ Na Na | 3 |
| 14D | 14. Protected space for women in the Ottoman Empire | 5 |
| 15D | 15. If necessary | 8 |
| 16D | 16. Scottish dance | 4 |
| 17D | 17. Offspring | 4 |
| 18D | 19. "Enemies, a Love Story" actress | 8 |
| 19D | 22. "GoodFellas" Oscar winner | 5 |
| 20D | 25. Perspective | 7 |
| 21D | 26. Demonstrate frugality, in a way | 10 |
| 22D | 28. Got tinier | 6 |
| 23D | 33. Hosts, in brief | 3 |
| 24D | 34. Tolkien monster | 3 |
| 25D | 36. Exams for ambtious H.S. students | 7 |
| 26D | 39. Date night bookings | 7 |
| 27D | 41. Indigenous people of the Colorado Plateau | 3 |
| 28D | 42. Setting for many a New Yorker cartoon | 3 |
| 29D | 44. Having impeded growth | 7 |
| 30D | 46. Bird with an S-shaped neck | 5 |
| 31D | 47. Place for pliers | 8 |
| 32D | 49. Muslim head scarf | 5 |
| 33D | 50. Target with, as a pickup line | 5 |
| 34D | 51. Scribe in a courtroom, in brief | 5 |
| 35D | 52. Prepares for an interview, say | 5 |
| 36D | 54. Notorious Chicago bootlegger | 8 |
| 37D | 58. What a dog uses to shake | 3 |
| 38D | 60. Island location of Iolani Palace | 4 |
| 39D | 62. Say something fresh | 7 |
| 40D | 65. Tom who wrote "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" | 7 |
| 41D | 67. Information in a prescription | 4 |
| 42D | 69. Out of this world? | 5 |
| 43D | 70. Silly | 5 |
| 44D | 71. Fall bloomer | 5 |
| 45D | 73. "Hoarders" network | 5 |
| 46D | 74. Shoe originally known as a "Weejun" | 11 |
| 47D | 75. Street in Liverpool that has been immortalized in song | 9 |
| 48D | 76. "Wow!" | 3 |
| 49D | 84. Like many farm stand purchases | 7 |
| 50D | 86. "Dodgeball" star Vince | 6 |
| 51D | 87. Specific charge on an invoice | 8 |
| 52D | 88. Cooling units, in brief | 3 |
| 53D | 89. Poli-___ | 3 |
| 54D | 90. Pork-based taco option | 8 |
| 55D | 91. Snowmobile brand | 6 |
| 56D | 93. Made cozy | 8 |
| 57D | 97. Suffix in British English | 3 |
| 58D | 98. Makeup of a nervous system, largely | 7 |
| 59D | 100. Layer of a farm | 3 |
| 60D | 103. Locale for camel racing | 5 |
| 61D | 105. Christians' ___ Creed | 6 |
| 62D | 107. Overflowed (with) | 6 |
| 63D | 108. Reunion attendees | 6 |
| 64D | 109. Cause for a QB's celebration | 6 |
| 65D | 111. Fries in England | 5 |
| 66D | 112. Deuce topper | 5 |
| 67D | 113. "I'll take another card" | 5 |
| 68D | 114. Cheeky | 5 |
| 69D | 115. Like cotton candy | 4 |
| 70D | 116. Lead-in to pilot or pay | 4 |
| 71D | 118. Grayish, say | 4 |
| 72D | 122. Emphatic refusal in Germany | 3 |
| 73D | 123. Stir-fry staple | 3 |
| 74D | 124. Dress (up) | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Discount merchandise indicator"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: REDTAG
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2D: "2. Organism that moves using pseudopodia"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion
- Similar words include: ameba
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: AMOEBA
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3D: "3. Change the course of"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that turn aside; turn away from
- Similar words include: deviate, hive off, disport
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: DIVERT
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4D: "4. ___ del Carmen (Mexican resort)"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PLAYA
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5D: "5. Two farthings, informally"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: HAPENNY
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6D: "6. Deny responsibility for"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that renounce a legal claim or title to
- Opposite of: claim
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: DISCLAIM
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7D: "7. Like certain easy-to-install hardware components"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SNAPIN
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8D: "8. Much of Diego Rivera's work"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mural done with watercolors on wet plaster
- Similar words include: fresco
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: FRESCOS
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9D: "9. Young Scot"
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- Think of something that a boy or man
- Similar words include: gent, fellow, cub
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LAD
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10D: "10. "You can count on me""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: IWILL
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11D: "11. It can become amber"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of a class of solid or semisolid viscous substances obtained either as exudations from certain plants or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules
- Similar words include: rosin
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RESIN
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12D: "12. Streetcar"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers
- Similar words include: trolley, streetcar, tramway
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TRAM
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13D: "13. Doo-wop's ___ Na Na"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SHA
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14D: "14. Protected space for women in the Ottoman Empire"
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- Think of something that living quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a muslim household
- Similar words include: serail, hareem, seraglio
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HAREM
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15D: "15. If necessary"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: ASNEEDED
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16D: "16. Scottish dance"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a roll of photographic film holding a series of frames to be projected by a movie projector
- Similar words include: bobbin, careen, spin
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: REEL
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17D: "17. Offspring"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a young person of either sex
- Similar words include: nestling, minor, child
- Opposite of: parent
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Answer: KIDS
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18D: "19. "Enemies, a Love Story" actress"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: LENAOLIN
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19D: "22. "GoodFellas" Oscar winner"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PESCI
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20D: "25. Perspective"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that place or situation affording some advantage (especially a comprehensive view or commanding perspective)
- Similar words include: advantage
- Opposite of: disadvantage
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Answer: VANTAGE
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21D: "26. Demonstrate frugality, in a way"
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- Pattern: __________
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Answer: PENNYPINCH
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22D: "28. Got tinier"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that wither, as with a loss of moisture
- Similar words include: shrink, funk, shrivel up
- Opposite of: stretch, expand
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Answer: SHRANK
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23D: "33. Hosts, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one million periods per second
- Similar words include: megahertz, MHz, megacycle
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MCS
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24D: "34. Tolkien monster"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ORC
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25D: "36. Exams for ambtious H.S. students"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: APTESTS
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26D: "39. Date night bookings"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that dutch astronomer who calculated the size of the universe and suggested that it is expanding (1872-1934)
- Similar words include: baby-sitter, broody hen, sitter
- Opposite of: stander
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Answer: SITTERS
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27D: "41. Indigenous people of the Colorado Plateau"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of the shoshonean people of utah and colorado and new mexico
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: UTE
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28D: "42. Setting for many a New Yorker cartoon"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter
- Similar words include: taproom, debar, relegate
- Opposite of: unbar
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Answer: BAR
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29D: "44. Having impeded growth"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that check the growth or development of
- Similar words include: scrubby, scrawny, stunt
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: STUNTED
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30D: "46. Bird with an S-shaped neck"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EGRET
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31D: "47. Place for pliers"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: TOOLCASE
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32D: "49. Muslim head scarf"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a headscarf worn by muslim women; conceals the hair and neck and usually has a face veil that covers the face
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HIJAB
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33D: "50. Target with, as a pickup line"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: USEON
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34D: "51. Scribe in a courtroom, in brief"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: STENO
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35D: "52. Prepares for an interview, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that device for converting sound waves into electrical energy
- Similar words include: microphone, mike
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MIKES
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36D: "54. Notorious Chicago bootlegger"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: ALCAPONE
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37D: "58. What a dog uses to shake"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a clawed foot of an animal especially a quadruped
- Similar words include: mitt, hand, manus
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PAW
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38D: "60. Island location of Iolani Palace"
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- Think of something that an island of central hawaii (between molokai and kauai); the chief island of the state
- Similar words include: Oahu Island
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OAHU
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39D: "62. Say something fresh"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: WISEOFF
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40D: "65. Tom who wrote "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues""
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- Think of something that united states choreographer who brought human emotion to classical ballet and spirited reality to broadway musicals (1918-1998)
- Similar words include: Jerome Robbins
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ROBBINS
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41D: "67. Information in a prescription"
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- Think of something that a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time
- Similar words include: social disease, sexually transmitted disease, venereal disease
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DOSE
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42D: "69. Out of this world?"
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- Think of something that of or relating to or associated with the moon
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LUNAR
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43D: "70. Silly"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that devoid of intelligence
- Similar words include: asinine, mindless, fatuous
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: INANE
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44D: "71. Fall bloomer"
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- Think of something that any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus aster with showy daisylike flowers
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ASTER
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45D: "73. "Hoarders" network"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AANDE
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46D: "74. Shoe originally known as a "Weejun""
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- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: PENNYLOAFER
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47D: "75. Street in Liverpool that has been immortalized in song"
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- Pattern: _________
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Answer: PENNYLANE
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48D: "76. "Wow!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OHH
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49D: "84. Like many farm stand purchases"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a fertilizer that is derived from animal or vegetable matter
- Similar words include: constituent, constitutional, organic fertiliser
- Opposite of: inorganic, functional
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Answer: ORGANIC
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50D: "86. "Dodgeball" star Vince"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: VAUGHN
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51D: "87. Specific charge on an invoice"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: LINEITEM
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52D: "88. Cooling units, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a radioactive element of the actinide series; found in uranium ores
- Similar words include: AC, alternating electric current, alternating current
- Opposite of: direct current
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Answer: ACS
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53D: "89. Poli-___"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SCI
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54D: "90. Pork-based taco option"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: ALPASTOR
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55D: "91. Snowmobile brand"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SKIDOO
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56D: "93. Made cozy"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that retreat as if into a cocoon, as from an unfriendly environment
- Similar words include: cocoon
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: COCOONED
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57D: "97. Suffix in British English"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ISE
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58D: "98. Makeup of a nervous system, largely"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a cell that is specialized to conduct nerve impulses
- Similar words include: nerve cell, neuron
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: NEURONS
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59D: "100. Layer of a farm"
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- Think of something that adult female chicken
- Similar words include: biddy
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HEN
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60D: "103. Locale for camel racing"
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- Think of something that a military dictatorship in northern africa on the mediterranean; consists almost entirely of desert; a major exporter of petroleum
- Similar words include: Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LIBYA
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61D: "105. Christians' ___ Creed"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that of or relating to the ancient city of nicaea in asia minor
- Similar words include: Nicaean
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: NICENE
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62D: "107. Overflowed (with)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that be teeming, be abuzz
- Similar words include: swarm, teem, stream
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TEEMED
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63D: "108. Reunion attendees"
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- Think of something that a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university)
- Similar words include: alumnus, graduate, alum
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ALUMNI
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64D: "109. Cause for a QB's celebration"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TDPASS
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65D: "111. Fries in England"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that strips of potato fried in deep fat
- Similar words include: fries, splintering, chip
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CHIPS
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66D: "112. Deuce topper"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
- Similar words include: iii, trio, ternary
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: THREE
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67D: "113. "I'll take another card""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HITME
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68D: "114. Cheeky"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that improperly forward or bold
- Similar words include: fresh, saucy, impudent
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SASSY
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69D: "115. Like cotton candy"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis
- Similar words include: birl, spin out, spin
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SPUN
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70D: "116. Lead-in to pilot or pay"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
- Similar words include: car, machine, automobile
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AUTO
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71D: "118. Grayish, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make dull in appearance
- Similar words include: muted, boring, obtuse
- Opposite of: sharpen, sharp
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Answer: DULL
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72D: "122. Emphatic refusal in Germany"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NIE
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73D: "123. Stir-fry staple"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that pan with a convex bottom; used for frying in chinese cooking
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: WOK
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74D: "124. Dress (up)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that provide with clothes or put clothes on
- Similar words include: fit out, garment, habilitate
- Opposite of: undress
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Answer: TOG
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71 Across Clues
74 Down Clues
145 Total Clues
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