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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (35 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (41 clues)
- Down Clues - Detailed Hints
- Expert Solving Strategies
- Today's Puzzle Statistics
Today's Puzzle Difficulty: Medium
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Across Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1A | 1. Where Mongolia is | 4 |
| 2A | 5. Scaredy-cat | 4 |
| 3A | 9. Leafs (through) | 5 |
| 4A | 14. Album for which Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer Prize | 4 |
| 5A | 15. Berry at a smoothie shop | 4 |
| 6A | 16. Company behind the game Pong | 5 |
| 7A | 17. Mentally pooped | 15 |
| 8A | 20. 1960s service site, informally | 3 |
| 9A | 21. Common injury site for a basketball player, informally | 3 |
| 10A | 22. Thick, as plant growth | 4 |
| 11A | 23. Deliberately give instruction in a way that targets an exam | 14 |
| 12A | 28. Commercial that may come with a jingle | 7 |
| 13A | 29. Took a chair | 3 |
| 14A | 30. Eager | 4 |
| 15A | 31. Hair parter | 4 |
| 16A | 34. Continue a subscription | 5 |
| 17A | 38. Barely passing grade | 3 |
| 18A | 39. Decade of W.W. II ... or a homophonic hint to 17-, 23-, 50- and 57-Across | 7 |
| 19A | 41. Around 18, typically, for a high school graduate | 3 |
| 20A | 42. Sometimes-floral organic compound | 5 |
| 21A | 44. Draped Indian garment | 4 |
| 22A | 45. ___-X (computer command to cut text) | 4 |
| 23A | 46. Crosses (out) | 3 |
| 24A | 48. Conjures up, say | 7 |
| 25A | 50. "If I'm being honest ..." | 14 |
| 26A | 54. Cook, in a way, as ahi tuna | 4 |
| 27A | 55. Opposite of 'neath | 3 |
| 28A | 56. Fools' mo. | 3 |
| 29A | 57. "A fight requires more than one person" | 15 |
| 30A | 63. "I'm available to help" | 5 |
| 31A | 64. Modern note-taking aid | 4 |
| 32A | 65. Plant in a marsh | 4 |
| 33A | 66. Spanish babies | 5 |
| 34A | 67. What a paper airplane icon may indicate | 4 |
| 35A | 68. Thing in a grove | 4 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Where Mongolia is"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to europe on the west to form eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations
- Pattern: ____
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2A: "5. Scaredy-cat"
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- Think of something that a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy
- Similar words include: chicken, weakly interacting massive particle, crybaby
- Pattern: ____
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3A: "9. Leafs (through)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains
- Similar words include: varlet, foliate, Thomas Nelson Page
- Pattern: _____
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4A: "14. Album for which Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer Prize"
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- Think of something that something of little value
- Similar words include: darn, curse, infernal
- Opposite of: bless
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5A: "15. Berry at a smoothie shop"
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- Pattern: ____
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6A: "16. Company behind the game Pong"
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- Pattern: _____
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7A: "17. Mentally pooped"
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- Pattern: _______________
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8A: "20. 1960s service site, informally"
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- Pattern: ___
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9A: "21. Common injury site for a basketball player, informally"
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- Pattern: ___
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10A: "22. Thick, as plant growth"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
- Similar words include: alky, boozer, alcoholic
- Pattern: ____
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11A: "23. Deliberately give instruction in a way that targets an exam"
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- Pattern: ______________
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12A: "28. Commercial that may come with a jingle"
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- Pattern: _______
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13A: "29. Took a chair"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the seventh and last day of the week; observed as the sabbath by jews and some christians
- Similar words include: Sabbatum, posture, pose
- Opposite of: stand, arise
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14A: "30. Eager"
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- Think of something that (often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous
- Similar words include: zealous, esurient, greedy
- Pattern: ____
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15A: "31. Hair parter"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair
- Similar words include: comb out, disentangle, ransack
- Pattern: ____
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16A: "34. Continue a subscription"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new
- Similar words include: regenerate, reincarnate
- Pattern: _____
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17A: "38. Barely passing grade"
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- Pattern: ___
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18A: "39. Decade of W.W. II ... or a homophonic hint to 17-, 23-, 50- and 57-Across"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the time of life between 40 and 50
- Similar words include: 40, mid-forties, 1940s
- Pattern: _______
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19A: "41. Around 18, typically, for a high school graduate"
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- Think of something that how long something has existed
- Similar words include: long time, maturate, geezerhood
- Opposite of: rejuvenate
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20A: "42. Sometimes-floral organic compound"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that formed by reaction between an acid and an alcohol with elimination of water
- Pattern: _____
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21A: "44. Draped Indian garment"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a dress worn primarily by hindu women; consists of several yards of light material that is draped around the body
- Similar words include: saree
- Pattern: ____
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22A: "45. ___-X (computer command to cut text)"
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- Pattern: ____
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23A: "46. Crosses (out)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a colorless odorless inert gaseous element occurring in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts
- Similar words include: xenon, disco biscuit, cristal
- Pattern: ___
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24A: "48. Conjures up, say"
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- Think of something that make or cause to be or to become
- Similar words include: produce, create, make
- Pattern: _______
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25A: "50. "If I'm being honest ...""
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- Pattern: ______________
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26A: "54. Cook, in a way, as ahi tuna"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make very hot and dry
- Similar words include: blacken, singe, char
- Pattern: ____
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27A: "55. Opposite of 'neath"
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- Pattern: ___
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28A: "56. Fools' mo."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the month following march and preceding may
- Similar words include: April
- Pattern: ___
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29A: "57. "A fight requires more than one person""
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- Pattern: _______________
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30A: "63. "I'm available to help""
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- Pattern: _____
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31A: "64. Modern note-taking aid"
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- Pattern: ____
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32A: "65. Plant in a marsh"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera arundo and phragmites
- Similar words include: vibrating reed, John Reed, beating-reed instrument
- Pattern: ____
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33A: "66. Spanish babies"
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- Pattern: _____
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34A: "67. What a paper airplane icon may indicate"
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- Think of something that cause to go somewhere
- Similar words include: air, transmit, send off
- Pattern: ____
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35A: "68. Thing in a grove"
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- Think of something that a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
- Similar words include: shoetree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, tree diagram
- Pattern: ____
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Big letters in home security | 3 |
| 2D | 2. ___ Paulo, Brazil | 3 |
| 3D | 3. Comment that might follow "None for me, thanks" | 9 |
| 4D | 4. Relief for an upset stomach | 7 |
| 5D | 5. Simple two-player card game | 3 |
| 6D | 6. Drink cooler | 3 |
| 7D | 7. Angry with | 5 |
| 8D | 8. Throw from a mound | 5 |
| 9D | 9. Butter square | 3 |
| 10D | 10. Any Olympian | 7 |
| 11D | 11. First name of Julius Caesar | 5 |
| 12D | 12. Artist Max | 5 |
| 13D | 13. Worshiper in a turban | 4 |
| 14D | 18. Texter's qualifier | 4 |
| 15D | 19. Cries in a fΓΊtbol stadium | 4 |
| 16D | 23. Barter | 5 |
| 17D | 24. Roof overhangs | 5 |
| 18D | 25. It may have a hard or soft shell | 4 |
| 19D | 26. Things indicated by squiggly lines in cartoons | 5 |
| 20D | 27. Paves the way? | 4 |
| 21D | 32. N.Y.C. subway letters | 3 |
| 22D | 33. Hardwood whose bark is sometimes used as paper | 5 |
| 23D | 35. Leader of an 1831 revolt against slavery | 9 |
| 24D | 36. Spearfishing bird | 5 |
| 25D | 37. People of SW Britain | 5 |
| 26D | 39. Without charge | 4 |
| 27D | 40. The Emerald Isle | 4 |
| 28D | 43. Like skydiving or cliff-diving | 7 |
| 29D | 45. Dashboard or bumper | 7 |
| 30D | 47. Place to put a coin | 4 |
| 31D | 49. Coup d'___ | 4 |
| 32D | 50. Joke with | 5 |
| 33D | 51. Like some wine barrels | 5 |
| 34D | 52. ___ and Clark | 5 |
| 35D | 53. Familiar narrative device | 5 |
| 36D | 54. Leave dumbfounded | 4 |
| 37D | 58. French possessive | 3 |
| 38D | 59. Catch some rays | 3 |
| 39D | 60. Bizarre | 3 |
| 40D | 61. "Golly!" | 3 |
| 41D | 62. Poetic tribute | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Big letters in home security"
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- Pattern: ___
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2D: "2. ___ Paulo, Brazil"
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3D: "3. Comment that might follow "None for me, thanks""
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- Pattern: _________
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4D: "4. Relief for an upset stomach"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an agent that counteracts or neutralizes acidity (especially in the stomach)
- Similar words include: alkalizer, gastric antacid, antiacid
- Pattern: _______
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5D: "5. Simple two-player card game"
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- Think of something that the waging of armed conflict against an enemy
- Similar words include: warfare, state of war
- Opposite of: make peace, peace
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6D: "6. Drink cooler"
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- Think of something that water frozen in the solid state
- Similar words include: frappe, methamphetamine hydrochloride, glass
- Pattern: ___
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7D: "7. Angry with"
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- Pattern: _____
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8D: "8. Throw from a mound"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration
- Similar words include: cant over, flip, cant
- Pattern: _____
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9D: "9. Butter square"
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- Think of something that the sound made by a gentle blow
- Similar words include: glib, rap, dab
- Pattern: ___
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10D: "10. Any Olympian"
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- Think of something that a person trained to compete in sports
- Similar words include: jock
- Pattern: _______
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11D: "11. First name of Julius Caesar"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that roman emperor who succeeded tiberius and whose uncontrolled passions resulted in manifest insanity; noted for his cruelty and tyranny; was assassinated (12-41)
- Similar words include: Caligula, Gaius Caesar
- Pattern: _____
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12D: "12. Artist Max"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that painter (born in germany, resident of france and the united states) who was a cofounder of dadaism; developed the technique of collage (1891-1976)
- Similar words include: Max Ernst
- Pattern: _____
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13D: "13. Worshiper in a turban"
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- Think of something that an adherent of sikhism
- Pattern: ____
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14D: "18. Texter's qualifier"
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- Pattern: ____
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15D: "19. Cries in a fΓΊtbol stadium"
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- Pattern: ____
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16D: "23. Barter"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services
- Similar words include: trade in, switch, craft
- Pattern: _____
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17D: "24. Roof overhangs"
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- Think of something that the overhang at the lower edge of a roof
- Pattern: _____
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18D: "25. It may have a hard or soft shell"
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- Think of something that (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of mexican descent
- Similar words include: greaser, wetback
- Pattern: ____
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19D: "26. Things indicated by squiggly lines in cartoons"
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- Think of something that any property detected by the olfactory system
- Similar words include: smell, olfactory property, aroma
- Pattern: _____
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20D: "27. Paves the way?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- Similar words include: seaman, pitch, tar
- Pattern: ____
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21D: "32. N.Y.C. subway letters"
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- Pattern: ___
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22D: "33. Hardwood whose bark is sometimes used as paper"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood
- Similar words include: birchen, birken, birch tree
- Pattern: _____
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23D: "35. Leader of an 1831 revolt against slavery"
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- Pattern: _________
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24D: "36. Spearfishing bird"
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- Think of something that any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season
- Pattern: _____
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25D: "37. People of SW Britain"
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- Think of something that a native or resident of wales
- Similar words include: Cambrian, welch, Cymric
- Pattern: _____
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26D: "39. Without charge"
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- Think of something that people who are free
- Similar words include: relinquish, gratis, liberate
- Opposite of: confine, lodge
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27D: "40. The Emerald Isle"
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- Think of something that a republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of ireland; achieved independence from the united kingdom in 1921
- Similar words include: Republic of Ireland, Irish Republic, Ireland
- Pattern: ____
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28D: "43. Like skydiving or cliff-diving"
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- Think of something that the furthest or highest degree of something
- Similar words include: utmost, extremum, extreme point
- Pattern: _______
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29D: "45. Dashboard or bumper"
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- Pattern: _______
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30D: "47. Place to put a coin"
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- Think of something that a position in a grammatical linguistic construction in which a variety of alternative units are interchangeable
- Similar words include: time slot, expansion slot, one-armed bandit
- Pattern: ____
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31D: "49. Coup d'___"
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- Pattern: ____
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32D: "50. Joke with"
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- Think of something that someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)
- Similar words include: cod, fluff, pester
- Pattern: _____
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33D: "51. Like some wine barrels"
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- Think of something that consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree
- Pattern: _____
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34D: "52. ___ and Clark"
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- Think of something that united states rock star singer and pianist (born in 1935)
- Similar words include: Frederick Carleton Lewis, Carl Lewis, C. S. Lewis
- Pattern: _____
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35D: "53. Familiar narrative device"
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- Think of something that language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
- Similar words include: figure of speech, image, figure
- Pattern: _____
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36D: "54. Leave dumbfounded"
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- Think of something that make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow
- Similar words include: daze, stupefy, sandbag
- Pattern: ____
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37D: "58. French possessive"
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- Think of something that a toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium; occurs in several allotropic forms; a stable grey metallike allotrope conducts electricity better in the light than in the dark and is used in photocells; occurs in sulfide ores (as pyrite)
- Similar words include: sulfur, reciprocal ohm, southward
- Pattern: ___
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38D: "59. Catch some rays"
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- Think of something that a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun
- Similar words include: sunburn, suntan, burn
- Pattern: ___
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39D: "60. Bizarre"
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- Think of something that not divisible by two
- Similar words include: uneven, unmatched, queer
- Opposite of: even
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40D: "61. "Golly!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity; used to indicate the force to which a body is subjected when it is accelerated
- Similar words include: g, g-force
- Pattern: ___
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41D: "62. Poetic tribute"
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- Think of something that a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
- Pattern: ___
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