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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 (79 clues)
- Down Clues - Detailed Hints
- Expert Solving Strategies
- Today's Puzzle Statistics
Today's Puzzle Difficulty: Tricky
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. "Aladdin" villain | 5 |
| 2A | 6. "It's yours!" | 4 |
| 3A | 10. Sarcastic "Sure" | 4 |
| 4A | 14. Heat setting, in brief? | 3 |
| 5A | 17. Dutch Caribbean isle | 5 |
| 6A | 18. Explosive sound | 6 |
| 7A | 20. Lacking constraints | 8 |
| 8A | 22. MARTIN SHEEN | 12 |
| 9A | 24. LIAM NEESON | 8 |
| 10A | 25. Chef Hussain of "The Great British Bake Off" fame | 6 |
| 11A | 26. Discount Chinese e-tailer | 4 |
| 12A | 28. Jumbo shrimp | 5 |
| 13A | 29. Ben & Jerry's alternative | 4 |
| 14A | 31. Pink-slips | 4 |
| 15A | 33. NORMAN REEDUS | 11 |
| 16A | 37. GREG KINNEAR | 10 |
| 17A | 40. Conditions of equilibrium | 6 |
| 18A | 41. Historian's division | 3 |
| 19A | 42. Undying? | 5 |
| 20A | 43. Offer illegally, as tickets | 5 |
| 21A | 45. Publicly proclaim | 4 |
| 22A | 46. Scatters messily | 6 |
| 23A | 48. MORGAN FREEMAN | 13 |
| 24A | 55. Class for some recent arrivals, for short | 3 |
| 25A | 56. Kind of green | 3 |
| 26A | 59. Chemist Lilly | 3 |
| 27A | 60. Chilean poet who served as a Communist senator | 6 |
| 28A | 61. Four to two, e.g. | 6 |
| 29A | 64. Friar with a famous "razor" | 5 |
| 30A | 68. Turns on the waterworks | 5 |
| 31A | 69. Ones making periodic appearances ... or the link between the capitalized clues and their answers | 19 |
| 32A | 73. 2024's "Joker: ___ à Deux" | 5 |
| 33A | 74. Alfresco area | 5 |
| 34A | 75. "Everything cool between us?" | 6 |
| 35A | 76. Poorly nourished | 6 |
| 36A | 78. Fill at a fill-up | 3 |
| 37A | 80. ___ card | 3 |
| 38A | 81. Rite Aid rival | 3 |
| 39A | 84. CHRISTIAN SLATER | 13 |
| 40A | 89. City on the Illinois River | 6 |
| 41A | 92. Grumpy grimace | 4 |
| 42A | 93. Discontinued Swedish cars | 5 |
| 43A | 96. Inauthentic | 5 |
| 44A | 97. "Catch-22" topic | 3 |
| 45A | 100. Join, as two metal surfaces | 6 |
| 46A | 102. ISABELLA ROSSELLINI | 10 |
| 47A | 104. KEVIN KLINE | 11 |
| 48A | 107. Erté's style, informally | 4 |
| 49A | 108. Canadian fuel brand | 4 |
| 50A | 109. All-vowel musical refrain | 5 |
| 51A | 110. Actress Falco with four Emmys | 4 |
| 52A | 112. Sugary secretion | 6 |
| 53A | 114. BEA ARTHUR | 8 |
| 54A | 118. MARLON BRANDO | 12 |
| 55A | 122. Submitted by the deadline | 8 |
| 56A | 123. B.L.T. or P.B.J., cutesily | 6 |
| 57A | 124. Musician/actress Haim | 5 |
| 58A | 125. Syllable of censure | 3 |
| 59A | 126. Instants | 4 |
| 60A | 127. High-protein bean | 4 |
| 61A | 128. Big name in truck rentals | 5 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. "Aladdin" villain"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that indonesian terrorist and islamic militant who commands the laskar jihad; uses violence to achieve political ends (1965-2000)
- Similar words include: Jafar Umar Thalib, Jaffar Umar Thalib, Jaffar
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: JAFAR
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2A: "6. "It's yours!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent
- Similar words include: trade, betray, deal
- Opposite of: unsold, buy
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Answer: SOLD
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3A: "10. Sarcastic "Sure""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IBET
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4A: "14. Heat setting, in brief?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NBA
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5A: "17. Dutch Caribbean isle"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a popular island resort in the netherlands antilles
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ARUBA
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6A: "18. Explosive sound"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: KABOOM
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7A: "20. Lacking constraints"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: FREEFORM
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8A: "22. MARTIN SHEEN"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: HENRIMATISSE
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9A: "24. LIAM NEESON"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: SALMINEO
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10A: "25. Chef Hussain of "The Great British Bake Off" fame"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: NADIYA
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11A: "26. Discount Chinese e-tailer"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TEMU
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12A: "28. Jumbo shrimp"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various edible decapod crustaceans
- Similar words include: shrimp
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PRAWN
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13A: "29. Ben & Jerry's alternative"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EDYS
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14A: "31. Pink-slips"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc.
- Similar words include: backside, prat, rump
- Opposite of: hire
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Answer: CANS
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15A: "33. NORMAN REEDUS"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: DONNASUMMER
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16A: "37. GREG KINNEAR"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: REGINAKING
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17A: "40. Conditions of equilibrium"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: STASES
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18A: "41. Historian's division"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
- Similar words include: earned run average, epoch, geological era
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ERA
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19A: "42. Undying?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that possessing life
- Similar words include: active, alert, live
- Opposite of: unanimated, dead
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Answer: ALIVE
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20A: "43. Offer illegally, as tickets"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the skin that covers the top of the head
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SCALP
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21A: "45. Publicly proclaim"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
- Similar words include: verify, assert, aver
- Opposite of: disavow
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Answer: AVOW
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22A: "46. Scatters messily"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that spread by scattering ( is archaic)
- Similar words include: strew, straw
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: STREWS
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23A: "48. MORGAN FREEMAN"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: GEORGEFOREMAN
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24A: "55. Class for some recent arrivals, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ESL
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25A: "56. Kind of green"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that seed of a pea plant used for food
- Similar words include: pea plant
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PEA
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26A: "59. Chemist Lilly"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ELI
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27A: "60. Chilean poet who served as a Communist senator"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that chilean poet (1904-1973)
- Similar words include: Neftali Ricardo Reyes, Reyes, Pablo Neruda
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: NERUDA
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28A: "61. Four to two, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon
- Similar words include: straight, second power, squarely
- Opposite of: crooked, round
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Answer: SQUARE
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29A: "64. Friar with a famous "razor""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that english scholastic philosopher and assumed author of occam's razor (1285-1349)
- Similar words include: William of Ockham, Ockham, William of Occam
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OCCAM
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30A: "68. Turns on the waterworks"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition
- Similar words include: weep, rallying cry, scream
- Opposite of: laugh
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Answer: CRIES
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31A: "69. Ones making periodic appearances ... or the link between the capitalized clues and their answers"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________________
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Answer: RECURRINGCHARACTERS
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32A: "73. 2024's "Joker: ___ à Deux""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
- Similar words include: mental disorder, mental disturbance, psychological disorder
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: FOLIE
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33A: "74. Alfresco area"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence
- Similar words include: terrace
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PATIO
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34A: "75. "Everything cool between us?""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: WEGOOD
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35A: "76. Poorly nourished"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ILLFED
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36A: "78. Fill at a fill-up"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by: relatively low density and viscosity; relatively great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature; the ability to diffuse readily; and the spontaneous tendency to become distributed uniformly throughout any container
- Similar words include: blow, gun, swash
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: GAS
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37A: "80. ___ card"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SIM
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38A: "81. Rite Aid rival"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a summary of your academic and work history
- Similar words include: CV, curriculum vitae, resume
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CVS
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39A: "84. CHRISTIAN SLATER"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: ELAINESTRITCH
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40A: "89. City on the Illinois River"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a city in central illinois on the illinois river
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PEORIA
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41A: "92. Grumpy grimace"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a disdainful grimace
- Similar words include: pout, wry face
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MOUE
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42A: "93. Discontinued Swedish cars"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SAABS
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43A: "96. Inauthentic"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives
- Similar words include: bogus, bastard, hypocrite
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PHONY
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44A: "97. "Catch-22" topic"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the waging of armed conflict against an enemy
- Similar words include: warfare, state of war
- Opposite of: peace, make peace
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Answer: WAR
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45A: "100. Join, as two metal surfaces"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an alloy (usually of lead and tin) used when melted to join two metal surfaces
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SOLDER
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46A: "102. ISABELLA ROSSELLINI"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: BRIELARSON
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47A: "104. KEVIN KLINE"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: EVELKNIEVEL
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48A: "107. Erté's style, informally"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a style of design that was popular in the 1920s and 1930s; marked by stylized forms and geometric designs adapted to mass production
- Similar words include: art deco
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DECO
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49A: "108. Canadian fuel brand"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ESSO
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50A: "109. All-vowel musical refrain"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EIEIO
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51A: "110. Actress Falco with four Emmys"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EDIE
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52A: "112. Sugary secretion"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sweet liquid secretion that is attractive to pollinators
- Similar words include: ambrosia
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: NECTAR
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53A: "114. BEA ARTHUR"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: BABERUTH
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54A: "118. MARLON BRANDO"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: ORLANDOBLOOM
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55A: "122. Submitted by the deadline"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: INONTIME
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56A: "123. B.L.T. or P.B.J., cutesily"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SAMMIE
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57A: "124. Musician/actress Haim"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ALANA
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58A: "125. Syllable of censure"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that utter `tsk,' `tut,' or `tut-tut,' as in disapproval
- Similar words include: tut-tut, tut
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TSK
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59A: "126. Instants"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the systeme international d'unites
- Similar words include: sec, second, secant
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SECS
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60A: "127. High-protein bean"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers; extensively cultivated for food and forage and soil improvement but especially for its nutritious oil-rich seeds; native to asia
- Similar words include: soja bean, soja, Glycine max
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SOYA
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61A: "128. Big name in truck rentals"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RYDER
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. God, to Bob Marley | 3 |
| 2D | 2. "___ you done?" | 3 |
| 3D | 3. Musical comedy that was 1968's highest-grossing film | 9 |
| 4D | 4. Caustic | 8 |
| 5D | 5. Bootlegger's concern | 4 |
| 6D | 6. Like 666, popularly | 7 |
| 7D | 7. Band that's big in Japan? | 3 |
| 8D | 8. Disoriented | 4 |
| 9D | 9. Administered, as a drug | 5 |
| 10D | 10. Potentialities | 3 |
| 11D | 11. Something found under a top | 3 |
| 12D | 12. Wriggler in a stream | 3 |
| 13D | 13. "___ fugit" | 6 |
| 14D | 14. Star's opposite | 6 |
| 15D | 15. Stout figure? | 6 |
| 16D | 16. Supreme Egyptian god | 6 |
| 17D | 18. Inuit watercraft | 6 |
| 18D | 19. Office messages | 5 |
| 19D | 21. Like some mattresses and offers | 4 |
| 20D | 23. Mineral that makes cosmetics shimmer | 4 |
| 21D | 27. Remove an identifier from, as on Instagram | 5 |
| 22D | 29. Clear | 5 |
| 23D | 30. Shoulder press targets, to trainers | 5 |
| 24D | 32. Hit a ___ | 4 |
| 25D | 34. Where a flock may gather | 4 |
| 26D | 35. Beginning on | 4 |
| 27D | 36. Attach with a needle and thread | 5 |
| 28D | 38. Unused | 3 |
| 29D | 39. Extreme happiness | 4 |
| 30D | 44. Double-breasted pieces of menswear | 9 |
| 31D | 47. Trigger | 4 |
| 32D | 49. Like Scrooge McDuck | 4 |
| 33D | 50. Right-hand page of a book | 5 |
| 34D | 51. Made muffs | 5 |
| 35D | 52. John ___ Day (California commemoration) | 4 |
| 36D | 53. Citrus refreshments | 4 |
| 37D | 54. "N.Y. State of Mind" rapper | 3 |
| 38D | 57. 1994 Costner title role | 4 |
| 39D | 58. Diva's time to shine | 4 |
| 40D | 61. "Dune" genre | 5 |
| 41D | 62. Mary or Elizabeth | 5 |
| 42D | 63. Towering creature in "The Two Towers" | 3 |
| 43D | 65. Sound in a cornfield | 3 |
| 44D | 66. Half brother of Apollo | 4 |
| 45D | 67. Christmas presence? | 4 |
| 46D | 69. Sushi bar serving | 4 |
| 47D | 70. Jazz great Fitzgerald | 4 |
| 48D | 71. Along with "CODA" and "Argo," the only other four-letter Best Picture winner | 4 |
| 49D | 72. Give gratis | 4 |
| 50D | 73. Shakespearean shout | 3 |
| 51D | 77. That's the spirit! | 5 |
| 52D | 79. Strike defier | 4 |
| 53D | 81. Part of an intersection | 9 |
| 54D | 82. Barolos e Brunellos | 5 |
| 55D | 83. Turn someone down | 5 |
| 56D | 85. Unshared numbers | 4 |
| 57D | 86. Hostile manner, informally | 4 |
| 58D | 87. Actor and disability activist Christopher | 5 |
| 59D | 88. Like some liquors | 4 |
| 60D | 90. Org. regulating air quality | 3 |
| 61D | 91. "You sure about that?" | 8 |
| 62D | 94. Periods of 730 days | 7 |
| 63D | 95. Withdraw from a union | 6 |
| 64D | 97. Teensy amount | 6 |
| 65D | 98. Feathered fliers | 6 |
| 66D | 99. Shoe brand named for an antelope | 6 |
| 67D | 100. Hybrid tennis bottoms | 6 |
| 68D | 101. Second tries | 5 |
| 69D | 103. El Pollo ___ (chicken chain) | 4 |
| 70D | 105. Creditor's claim | 4 |
| 71D | 106. Turkish money | 5 |
| 72D | 111. Fad toy of 1996 | 4 |
| 73D | 113. Snowboarder's transport | 4 |
| 74D | 115. Often-illegal turn, slangily | 3 |
| 75D | 116. Cinephile's cable choice | 3 |
| 76D | 117. Boars and bulls | 3 |
| 77D | 119. Comedian Sedaris | 3 |
| 78D | 120. I, to Augustus | 3 |
| 79D | 121. Smudge or smear, say | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. God, to Bob Marley"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: JAH
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2D: "2. "___ you done?""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters
- Similar words include: ar, be, personify
- Opposite of: differ
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Answer: ARE
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3D: "3. Musical comedy that was 1968's highest-grossing film"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: FUNNYGIRL
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4D: "4. Caustic"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a substance that abrades or wears down
- Similar words include: harsh, abrasive material, scratchy
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: ABRASIVE
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5D: "5. Bootlegger's concern"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sudden short attack
- Similar words include: foray, foray into, bust
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RAID
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6D: "6. Like 666, popularly"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell
- Similar words include: demonic, hellish, fiendish
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SATANIC
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7D: "7. Band that's big in Japan?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (west indies) followers of a religious system involving witchcraft and sorcery
- Similar words include: obeah
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OBI
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8D: "8. Disoriented"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that people who are destined to die soon
- Similar words include: turn a loss, miss, befuddled
- Opposite of: won, gain
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Answer: LOST
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9D: "9. Administered, as a drug"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that treat with an agent; add (an agent) to
- Similar words include: dose, drug
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DOSED
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10D: "10. Potentialities"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IFS
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11D: "11. Something found under a top"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts
- Similar words include: bandeau, brassiere
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: BRA
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12D: "12. Wriggler in a stream"
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
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EEL
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13D: "13. "___ fugit""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TEMPUS
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14D: "14. Star's opposite"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: NONAME
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15D: "15. Stout figure?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who brews beer or ale from malt and hops and water
- Similar words include: beer maker
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BREWER
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16D: "16. Supreme Egyptian god"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: AMONRA
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17D: "18. Inuit watercraft"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small canoe consisting of a light frame made watertight with animal skins; used by eskimos
- Similar words include: kayak
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: KAYAKS
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18D: "19. Office messages"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a written proposal or reminder
- Similar words include: memorandum, memoranda, memo
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MEMOS
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19D: "21. Like some mattresses and offers"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments
- Similar words include: unbendable, solid, unfluctuating
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: FIRM
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20D: "23. Mineral that makes cosmetics shimmer"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves; used as dielectrics because of their resistance to electricity
- Similar words include: isinglass
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MICA
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21D: "27. Remove an identifier from, as on Instagram"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: UNTAG
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22D: "29. Clear"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that remove from memory or existence
- Similar words include: wipe off, efface, delete
- Opposite of: record
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Answer: ERASE
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23D: "30. Shoulder press targets, to trainers"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DELTS
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24D: "32. Hit a ___"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sharp protuberance
- Similar words include: split, hang-up, rip
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SNAG
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25D: "34. Where a flock may gather"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the central area of a church
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NAVE
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26D: "35. Beginning on"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ASOF
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27D: "36. Attach with a needle and thread"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SEWON
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28D: "38. Unused"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
- Similar words include: novel, fresh, newly
- Opposite of: old, worn
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Answer: NEW
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29D: "39. Extreme happiness"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that great merriment
- Similar words include: gloating, hilarity, mirthfulness
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GLEE
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30D: "44. Double-breasted pieces of menswear"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: POLOCOATS
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31D: "47. Trigger"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
- Similar words include: branch line, urging, spine
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SPUR
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32D: "49. Like Scrooge McDuck"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that people who have possessions and wealth (considered as a group)
- Similar words include: deep, productive, fat
- Opposite of: poor people, lean
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Answer: RICH
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33D: "50. Right-hand page of a book"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that right-hand page
- Opposite of: verso
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RECTO
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34D: "51. Made muffs"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that to make a mistake or be incorrect
- Similar words include: stray, mistake, slip
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ERRED
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35D: "52. John ___ Day (California commemoration)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states naturalist (born in england) who advocated the creation of national parks (1838-1914)
- Similar words include: John Muir
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MUIR
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36D: "53. Citrus refreshments"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice
- Similar words include: ade, fruit drink
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ADES
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37D: "54. "N.Y. State of Mind" rapper"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral halite (rock salt)
- Similar words include: atomic number 11, Na, sodium
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NAS
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38D: "57. 1994 Costner title role"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EARP
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39D: "58. Diva's time to shine"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an elaborate song for solo voice
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ARIA
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40D: "61. "Dune" genre"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SCIFI
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41D: "62. Mary or Elizabeth"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
- Similar words include: poof, pouf, tabby
- Opposite of: male monarch, king
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Answer: QUEEN
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42D: "63. Towering creature in "The Two Towers""
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ENT
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43D: "65. Sound in a cornfield"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the sound made by corvine birds
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CAW
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44D: "66. Half brother of Apollo"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (greek mythology) greek god of war; son of zeus and hera; identified with roman mars
- Similar words include: ar, are
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ARES
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45D: "67. Christmas presence?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (new testament) the sages who visited jesus and mary and joseph shortly after jesus was born; the gospel according to matthew says they were guided by a star and brought gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh; because there were three gifts it is usually assumed that there were three of them
- Similar words include: Wise Men, magus
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MAGI
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46D: "69. Sushi bar serving"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that rotary motion of an object around its own axis
- Similar words include: drum roll, curlicue, roll up
- Opposite of: unwind
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Answer: ROLL
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47D: "70. Jazz great Fitzgerald"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ELLA
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48D: "71. Along with "CODA" and "Argo," the only other four-letter Best Picture winner"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GIGI
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49D: "72. Give gratis"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge
- Similar words include: comprehensive, comprehensive examination
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: COMP
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50D: "73. Shakespearean shout"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: FIE
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51D: "77. That's the spirit!"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an evil supernatural being
- Similar words include: daimon, fiend, devil
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DEMON
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52D: "79. Strike defier"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
- Similar words include: strikebreaker, rat, blackleg
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SCAB
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53D: "81. Part of an intersection"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a junction where one street or road crosses another
- Similar words include: crossing, carrefour, crossway
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: CROSSROAD
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54D: "82. Barolos e Brunellos"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that fermented juice (of grapes especially)
- Similar words include: vino, wine
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: VINOS
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55D: "83. Turn someone down"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SAYNO
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56D: "85. Unshared numbers"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any activity that is performed alone without assistance
- Similar words include: solo
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SOLI
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57D: "86. Hostile manner, informally"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TUDE
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58D: "87. Actor and disability activist Christopher"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that female ruff
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: REEVE
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59D: "88. Like some liquors"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure
- Similar words include: voiceless, gruelling, laborious
- Opposite of: soft, easy
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Answer: HARD
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60D: "90. Org. regulating air quality"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an independent federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment
- Similar words include: Environmental Protection Agency
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EPA
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61D: "91. "You sure about that?""
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: OHREALLY
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62D: "94. Periods of 730 days"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: BIENNIA
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63D: "95. Withdraw from a union"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that withdraw from an organization or communion
- Similar words include: splinter, break away
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SECEDE
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64D: "97. Teensy amount"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: WEEBIT
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65D: "98. Feathered fliers"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: AVIANS
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66D: "99. Shoe brand named for an antelope"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: REEBOK
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67D: "100. Hybrid tennis bottoms"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SKORTS
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68D: "101. Second tries"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that do over, as of (part of) a house
- Similar words include: redo, make over, reconstruct
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: REDOS
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69D: "103. El Pollo ___ (chicken chain)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
- Similar words include: nutty, loony, nuts
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LOCO
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70D: "105. Creditor's claim"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged
- Similar words include: spleen
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LIEN
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71D: "106. Turkish money"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the basic unit of money on malta; equal to 100 cents
- Similar words include: Italian lira, lira, Turkish lira
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LIRAS
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72D: "111. Fad toy of 1996"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ELMO
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73D: "113. Snowboarder's transport"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TBAR
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74D: "115. Often-illegal turn, slangily"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: UIE
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75D: "116. Cinephile's cable choice"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TMC
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76D: "117. Boars and bulls"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; the most difficult gas to liquefy; occurs in economically extractable amounts in certain natural gases (as those found in texas and kansas)
- Similar words include: atomic number 2, helium, he
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HES
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77D: "119. Comedian Sedaris"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AMY
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78D: "120. I, to Augustus"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
- Similar words include: unrivaled, unitary, unmatched
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ONE
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79D: "121. Smudge or smear, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the month following february and preceding april
- Similar words include: spoil, impair, defect
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MAR
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61 Across Clues
79 Down Clues
140 Total Clues
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