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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (37 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
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. Hot stuff | 5 |
| 2A | 6. Target | 4 |
| 3A | 10. Worshiper's locale, at times | 4 |
| 4A | 14. Poe's middle name | 5 |
| 5A | 15. Lingerie material | 4 |
| 6A | 16. Glimpse | 4 |
| 7A | 17. Response to "Good morning, everybody!" | 10 |
| 8A | 19. Glazier's product | 4 |
| 9A | 20. Consumed | 3 |
| 10A | 21. Debunked "facts" | 5 |
| 11A | 22. Amish, Shakers and others | 5 |
| 12A | 23. Long (for) | 4 |
| 13A | 24. Former Mideast bigwig | 4 |
| 14A | 25. Response to "Let's get this meeting going" | 13 |
| 15A | 30. Wrap, as rope | 4 |
| 16A | 32. Word before or after butt | 4 |
| 17A | 33. Flesh and blood | 3 |
| 18A | 34. Tree with edible nuts | 5 |
| 19A | 36. "A conversation carried out by other means," per Peter Ustinov | 3 |
| 20A | 37. Give in | 5 |
| 21A | 39. Triumphant cry | 3 |
| 22A | 40. Prefix with -meter | 4 |
| 23A | 42. Chilean money | 4 |
| 24A | 43. Response to "Why is everyone ignoring me?" | 13 |
| 25A | 48. Small valley | 4 |
| 26A | 49. They may be subject to inflation | 4 |
| 27A | 50. Flora and fauna, collectively | 5 |
| 28A | 52. Sharp part of a kite | 5 |
| 29A | 54. Chicago sights, for short | 3 |
| 30A | 57. Apartment option | 4 |
| 31A | 58. Reaction to the unsuccessful "conversation" in this puzzle | 10 |
| 32A | 60. Off base? | 4 |
| 33A | 61. ___ test | 4 |
| 34A | 62. Isolated | 5 |
| 35A | 63. Befuddled state | 4 |
| 36A | 64. Deep-six | 4 |
| 37A | 65. Source of strength and resilience | 5 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Hot stuff"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that molten rock in the earth's crust
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MAGMA
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2A: "6. Target"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
- Similar words include: end, destination, finish
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GOAL
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3A: "10. Worshiper's locale, at times"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a domed or vaulted recess or projection on a building especially the east end of a church; usually contains the altar
- Similar words include: apsis
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: APSE
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4A: "14. Poe's middle name"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ALLAN
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5A: "15. Lingerie material"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment)
- Similar words include: braid, lace up, enlace
- Opposite of: untwine
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Answer: LACE
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6A: "16. Glimpse"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a secret look
- Similar words include: glint, glance, peep
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PEEK
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7A: "17. Response to "Good morning, everybody!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: YOUREMUTED
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8A: "19. Glazier's product"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors
- Similar words include: window glass, paneling, panelling
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PANE
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9A: "20. Consumed"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
- Similar words include: rust, consume, corrode
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ATE
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10A: "21. Debunked "facts""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people
- Similar words include: myth
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MYTHS
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11A: "22. Amish, Shakers and others"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a subdivision of a larger religious group
- Similar words include: religious sect, religious order, sect
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SECTS
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12A: "23. Long (for)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a coniferous tree
- Similar words include: yen, yearn, ache
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PINE
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13A: "24. Former Mideast bigwig"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that title for the former hereditary monarch of iran
- Similar words include: Shah of Iran
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SHAH
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14A: "25. Response to "Let's get this meeting going""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: WECANTHEARYOU
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15A: "30. Wrap, as rope"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
- Similar words include: gyre, gyrate, scroll
- Opposite of: uncoil
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Answer: COIL
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16A: "32. Word before or after butt"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
- Similar words include: channelize, forefront, heading
- Opposite of: foot, rear
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Answer: HEAD
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17A: "33. Flesh and blood"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person having kinship with another or others
- Similar words include: tribe, cognate, clan
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: KIN
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18A: "34. Tree with edible nuts"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts
- Similar words include: Pomaderris apetala, hazelnut tree, hazel tree
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HAZEL
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19A: "36. "A conversation carried out by other means," per Peter Ustinov"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that activities associated with sexual intercourse
- Similar words include: arouse, gender, excite
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SEX
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20A: "37. Give in"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that production of a certain amount
- Similar words include: pay, bear, takings
- Opposite of: survive, stand
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Answer: YIELD
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21A: "39. Triumphant cry"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AHA
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22A: "40. Prefix with -meter"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ALTI
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23A: "42. Chilean money"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the basic unit of money in uruguay; equal to 100 centesimos
- Similar words include: Mexican peso, Chilean peso, Guinea-Bissau peso
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PESO
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24A: "43. Response to "Why is everyone ignoring me?""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: TURNYOURMICON
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25A: "48. Small valley"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small wooded hollow
- Similar words include: dingle
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DELL
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26A: "49. They may be subject to inflation"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
- Similar words include: self-importance, ego, egotism
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EGOS
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27A: "50. Flora and fauna, collectively"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that all the plant and animal life of a particular region
- Similar words include: biology
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BIOTA
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28A: "52. Sharp part of a kite"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sharp hooked claw especially on a bird of prey
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TALON
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29A: "54. Chicago sights, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
- Similar words include: el, ALT, elevated
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ELS
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30A: "57. Apartment option"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that floor consisting of a large unpartitioned space over a factory or warehouse or other commercial space
- Similar words include: attic, garret, pigeon loft
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LOFT
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31A: "58. Reaction to the unsuccessful "conversation" in this puzzle"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: OHFORGETIT
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32A: "60. Off base?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one who is away or absent without leave
- Similar words include: truant
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AWOL
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33A: "61. ___ test"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation
- Similar words include: route
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ROAD
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34A: "62. Isolated"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that isolated from others
- Similar words include: unparalleled, unequaled, unique
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ALONE
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35A: "63. Befuddled state"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility
- Similar words include: fog, daze
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HAZE
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36A: "64. Deep-six"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cover from sight
- Similar words include: lay to rest, immerse, forget
- Opposite of: remember
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Answer: BURY
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37A: "65. Source of strength and resilience"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment
- Similar words include: brawniness, tendon, muscularity
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SINEW
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Bygone Mesoamerican civilization | 4 |
| 2D | 2. Oodles | 4 |
| 3D | 3. Affix, in a way | 4 |
| 4D | 4. Besmirch | 3 |
| 5D | 5. Low on red blood cells, perhaps | 6 |
| 6D | 6. It's in wheat, but not buckwheat | 6 |
| 7D | 7. Requirement for a juror | 4 |
| 8D | 8. Wild cards, at times | 4 |
| 9D | 9. Took the helm | 3 |
| 10D | 10. Look | 6 |
| 11D | 11. Dandy | 10 |
| 12D | 12. Label on an email folder | 4 |
| 13D | 13. Scratches (out) | 4 |
| 14D | 18. Talkative bird | 4 |
| 15D | 22. Like a good tree or a bad deal | 5 |
| 16D | 23. Three-season star of the New York Cosmos | 4 |
| 17D | 24. Word before green or after Red | 3 |
| 18D | 25. Literary title character who's mostly unseen | 10 |
| 19D | 26. Pronoun with two homophones | 5 |
| 20D | 27. Curse | 3 |
| 21D | 28. Mechanic's canfuls | 4 |
| 22D | 29. Edit menu command | 4 |
| 23D | 30. Shoot the breeze | 4 |
| 24D | 31. Locale of the Battleship Missouri Memorial | 4 |
| 25D | 35. Who "turned my whole world upside down," in a 1970s rock hit | 5 |
| 26D | 36. "Rugrats" dad | 3 |
| 27D | 38. Announcements in The Economist, for short | 4 |
| 28D | 41. "What a riot!," in brief | 3 |
| 29D | 44. Irk | 6 |
| 30D | 45. Something to hum | 6 |
| 31D | 46. Sikorsky of aviation fame | 4 |
| 32D | 47. Cuban drums | 6 |
| 33D | 50. Unexciting | 4 |
| 34D | 51. "American Gothic" setting | 4 |
| 35D | 52. First word of "Ode on a Grecian Urn" | 4 |
| 36D | 53. Way off | 4 |
| 37D | 54. Alma mater for George Orwell and Hugh Laurie | 4 |
| 38D | 55. Cue from a cuer | 4 |
| 39D | 56. Hearty dish | 4 |
| 40D | 58. Ball | 3 |
| 41D | 59. Hollywood's Roth or Wallach | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Bygone Mesoamerican civilization"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of an american indian people of yucatan and belize and guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between ad 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy
- Similar words include: Mayan language, Mayan
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MAYA
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2D: "2. Oodles"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ALOT
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3D: "3. Affix, in a way"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive
- Similar words include: paste, mucilage, gum
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GLUE
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4D: "4. Besmirch"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the month following february and preceding april
- Similar words include: mutilate, impair, defect
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MAR
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5D: "5. Low on red blood cells, perhaps"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that lacking vigor or energy
- Similar words include: anaemic
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ANEMIC
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6D: "6. It's in wheat, but not buckwheat"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a protein substance that remains when starch is removed from cereal grains; gives cohesiveness to dough
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: GLUTEN
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7D: "7. Requirement for a juror"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
- Similar words include: curse, swearing, swearword
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OATH
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8D: "8. Wild cards, at times"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
- Similar words include: single, wiz, whizz
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ACES
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9D: "9. Took the helm"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that diode such that light emitted at a p-n junction is proportional to the bias current; color depends on the material used
- Similar words include: conduce, go, take
- Opposite of: follow
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Answer: LED
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10D: "10. Look"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect
- Similar words include: come out, seem, look
- Opposite of: disappear
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Answer: APPEAR
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11D: "11. Dandy"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: PEACHYKEEN
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12D: "12. Label on an email folder"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that 100 senti equal 1 kroon in estonia
- Similar words include: ship, post, transmit
- Opposite of: unsent
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Answer: SENT
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13D: "13. Scratches (out)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EKES
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14D: "18. Talkative bird"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that tropical asian starlings
- Similar words include: mina, minah, mynah bird
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MYNA
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15D: "22. Like a good tree or a bad deal"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (of businesses and businessmen) unscrupulous
- Similar words include: umbrageous, fishy, suspicious
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SHADY
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16D: "23. Three-season star of the New York Cosmos"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PELE
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17D: "24. Word before green or after Red"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
- Similar words include: ocean
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SEA
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18D: "25. Literary title character who's mostly unseen"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: WIZARDOFOZ
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19D: "26. Pronoun with two homophones"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: THEIR
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20D: "27. Curse"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an evil spell
- Similar words include: enchant, curse, glamour
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HEX
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21D: "28. Mechanic's canfuls"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water
- Similar words include: petroleum, crude oil, anoint
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OILS
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22D: "29. Edit menu command"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cancel, annul, or reverse an action or its effect
- Similar words include: loosen, unmake, untie
- Opposite of: wrap, make
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Answer: UNDO
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23D: "30. Shoot the breeze"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an informal conversation
- Similar words include: claver, Old World chat, chew the fat
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CHAT
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24D: "31. Locale of the Battleship Missouri Memorial"
Solving Hints:
- 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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25D: "35. Who "turned my whole world upside down," in a 1970s rock hit"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LAYLA
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26D: "36. "Rugrats" dad"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: STU
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27D: "38. Announcements in The Economist, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public
- Similar words include: IPO, initial offering, initial public offering
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IPOS
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28D: "41. "What a riot!," in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LOL
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29D: "44. Irk"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of numerous plants having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact (especially of the genus urtica or family urticaceae)
- Similar words include: urticate, rile, rag
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: NETTLE
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30D: "45. Something to hum"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence
- Similar words include: line, tonal pattern, melodic line
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: MELODY
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31D: "46. Sikorsky of aviation fame"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IGOR
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32D: "47. Cuban drums"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that music composed for dancing the conga
- Similar words include: conga
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CONGAS
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33D: "50. Unexciting"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that pompous or pretentious talk or writing
- Similar words include: fustian, bombast, rant
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BLAH
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34D: "51. "American Gothic" setting"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of the siouan people formerly living in iowa and minnesota and missouri
- Similar words include: IA, Hawkeye State, Ioway
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IOWA
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35D: "52. First word of "Ode on a Grecian Urn""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100
- Similar words include: chiliad, G, thousand
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: THOU
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36D: "53. Way off"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (old-fashioned) at or from or to a great distance; far
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AFAR
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37D: "54. Alma mater for George Orwell and Hugh Laurie"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ETON
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38D: "55. Cue from a cuer"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a formation of people or things one beside another
- Similar words include: dividing line, wrinkle, agate line
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LINE
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39D: "56. Hearty dish"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that agitation resulting from active worry
- Similar words include: brood, fret, sweat
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: STEW
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40D: "58. Ball"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye
- Similar words include: orbit, eyeball, revolve
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ORB
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41D: "59. Hollywood's Roth or Wallach"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ELI
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Expert Solving Strategies
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Common crossword words repeat. Learning them speeds up future solving.
Today's Puzzle Stats
37 Across Clues
41 Down Clues
78 Total Clues
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