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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (64 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (74 clues)
- Down Clues - Detailed Hints
- Expert Solving Strategies
- Today's Puzzle Statistics
Today's Puzzle Difficulty: Challenging
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" sidekick | 3 |
| 2A | 4. Sommelier's asset | 4 |
| 3A | 8. "Qué ___!" (Spanish "Awesome!") | 5 |
| 4A | 13. Locale of the food dishes larb and thum mak hoong | 4 |
| 5A | 17. The British throne? | 3 |
| 6A | 18. Mexican sandwich | 5 |
| 7A | 19. Encroach on, as space | 6 |
| 8A | 21. Land that poets call Hibernia | 4 |
| 9A | 22. Firefly vis-à-vis a fruit fly? | 9 |
| 10A | 24. Peridot vis-à-vis jade? | 11 |
| 11A | 26. N.F.L.'er with horns on his helmet | 5 |
| 12A | 27. Notwithstanding | 7 |
| 13A | 29. Low-quality, machine-generated content, in modern lingo | 6 |
| 14A | 30. Implied | 5 |
| 15A | 32. Cologne waters | 5 |
| 16A | 33. Southern dish made from hominy | 5 |
| 17A | 34. Muscle Beach vis-à-vis Venice Beach? | 12 |
| 18A | 37. Dal ___ (musical notation) | 5 |
| 19A | 40. "Right, gotcha" | 4 |
| 20A | 41. Stark sister from Winterfell | 4 |
| 21A | 42. Goalie's goal | 4 |
| 22A | 43. Apt rhyme for crop and chop | 3 |
| 23A | 46. Music artist on the 2012 album "Yokokimthurston" | 3 |
| 24A | 47. "Happy Days" actor Scott | 4 |
| 25A | 49. Oil vis-à-vis water? | 12 |
| 26A | 54. Maximally ritzy | 7 |
| 27A | 56. New hire at a factory | 7 |
| 28A | 57. Who can see right through you, in brief? | 3 |
| 29A | 58. Chevy S.U.V. | 5 |
| 30A | 60. Fertile soils | 5 |
| 31A | 61. Showed again, in a way | 5 |
| 32A | 63. Zipper up vis-à-vis zipper down? | 10 |
| 33A | 67. Weight room vis-à-vis the cardio room? | 10 |
| 34A | 70. Sugar amounts | 5 |
| 35A | 71. Things some checkers check | 5 |
| 36A | 73. Man's name that means "prosperous" in Arabic | 5 |
| 37A | 74. Thurman of "Pulp Fiction" | 3 |
| 38A | 75. "Lizzie ___," Disney Channel sitcom starring Hilary Duff | 7 |
| 39A | 78. "Poker Face" actress Lyonne | 7 |
| 40A | 82. Maui vis-à-vis Oahu? | 12 |
| 41A | 85. Shivering fit | 4 |
| 42A | 86. Apple runs on it | 3 |
| 43A | 87. Intelligence org. | 3 |
| 44A | 88. Not on solid ground | 4 |
| 45A | 89. Sitarist Shankar | 4 |
| 46A | 91. Pious offerings | 4 |
| 47A | 92. Amphibians taken on at least six different space missions | 5 |
| 48A | 94. Blazer vis-à-vis a windbreaker? | 12 |
| 49A | 98. Like a bad apple | 5 |
| 50A | 101. Name on a museum plaque, maybe | 5 |
| 51A | 102. Like ears and brains | 5 |
| 52A | 103. Undivided | 6 |
| 53A | 105. Surfer's navigational aid | 7 |
| 54A | 107. Orléans river | 5 |
| 55A | 109. Delaware vis-à-vis the other 12 colonies? | 11 |
| 56A | 111. "OMG THIS IS AWESOME!!!!" vis-à-vis "good job i guess"? | 9 |
| 57A | 114. Face covering? | 4 |
| 58A | 115. Blues singer Ma ___ | 6 |
| 59A | 116. "___ we all?" | 5 |
| 60A | 117. Spring for a fancy hotel? | 3 |
| 61A | 118. B.B. King's "___ Dynamite" | 4 |
| 62A | 119. Subject of inflation | 5 |
| 63A | 120. Brood | 4 |
| 64A | 121. M.L.B.'ers with a red "B" on their caps | 3 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. "Aladdin" sidekick"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ABU
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2A: "4. Sommelier's asset"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals
- Similar words include: pry, horn in, nuzzle
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NOSE
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3A: "8. "Qué ___!" (Spanish "Awesome!")"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BUENO
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4A: "13. Locale of the food dishes larb and thum mak hoong"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern asia; achieved independence from france in 1949
- Similar words include: Lao, Laotian, Lao People's Democratic Republic
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LAOS
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5A: "17. The British throne?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
- Similar words include: toilet, bathroom, can
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LAV
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6A: "18. Mexican sandwich"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TORTA
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7A: "19. Encroach on, as space"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation
- Similar words include: obtrude upon, occupy, overrun
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: INVADE
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8A: "21. Land that poets call Hibernia"
Solving Hints:
- 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: Irish Republic, Republic of Ireland, Ireland
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EIRE
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9A: "22. Firefly vis-à-vis a fruit fly?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who litters public places with refuse
- Similar words include: litterer, litter lout
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: LITTERBUG
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10A: "24. Peridot vis-à-vis jade?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: OLIVERSTONE
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11A: "26. N.F.L.'er with horns on his helmet"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LARAM
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12A: "27. Notwithstanding"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
- Similar words include: scorn, contempt, disdain
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: DESPITE
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13A: "29. Low-quality, machine-generated content, in modern lingo"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: AISLOP
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14A: "30. Implied"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that implied by or inferred from actions or statements
- Similar words include: silent, understood
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TACIT
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15A: "32. Cologne waters"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states parapsychologist (1895-1980)
- Similar words include: Rhein, Rhine River, Joseph Banks Rhine
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RHINE
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16A: "33. Southern dish made from hominy"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that coarsely ground hulled corn boiled as a breakfast dish in the southern united states
- Similar words include: backbone, guts, gritstone
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GRITS
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17A: "34. Muscle Beach vis-à-vis Venice Beach?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: BUTCHERBLOCK
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18A: "37. Dal ___ (musical notation)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (music) a notation written at the beginning or end of a passage that is to be repeated
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SEGNO
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19A: "40. "Right, gotcha""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OHOK
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20A: "41. Stark sister from Winterfell"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ARYA
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21A: "42. Goalie's goal"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring
- Similar words include: keep open, economise, salve
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SAVE
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22A: "43. Apt rhyme for crop and chop"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cut off from a whole
- Similar words include: clip, snip, crop
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LOP
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23A: "46. Music artist on the 2012 album "Yokokimthurston""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states musician (born in japan) who married john lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933)
- Similar words include: Yoko Ono
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ONO
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24A: "47. "Happy Days" actor Scott"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BAIO
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25A: "49. Oil vis-à-vis water?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: LIGHTERFLUID
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26A: "54. Maximally ritzy"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that elegant and fashionable; ; ; ; - julia child
- Similar words include: posh, swish, classy
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: POSHEST
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27A: "56. New hire at a factory"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who is being trained
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: TRAINEE
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28A: "57. Who can see right through you, in brief?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an agency established in 2001 to safeguard united states transportation systems and insure safe air travel
- Similar words include: Transportation Security Administration
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TSA
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29A: "58. Chevy S.U.V."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TAHOE
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30A: "60. Fertile soils"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials
- Similar words include: loam
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LOAMS
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31A: "61. Showed again, in a way"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that broadcast again, as of a film
- Similar words include: rebroadcast, rerun
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RERAN
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32A: "63. Zipper up vis-à-vis zipper down?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: SHUTTERFLY
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33A: "67. Weight room vis-à-vis the cardio room?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: BUFFERZONE
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34A: "70. Sugar amounts"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a compact mass
- Similar words include: clump, lubber, puffiness
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LUMPS
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35A: "71. Things some checkers check"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred
- Similar words include: fact
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: FACTS
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36A: "73. Man's name that means "prosperous" in Arabic"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: YASIR
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37A: "74. Thurman of "Pulp Fiction""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a benevolent aspect of devi; `splendor'
- Similar words include: genus Uma
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: UMA
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38A: "75. "Lizzie ___," Disney Channel sitcom starring Hilary Duff"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: MCGUIRE
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39A: "78. "Poker Face" actress Lyonne"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: NATASHA
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40A: "82. Maui vis-à-vis Oahu?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: EASTERISLAND
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41A: "85. Shivering fit"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a fit of shivering or shaking
- Similar words include: acute accent, acute, chills and fever
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AGUE
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42A: "86. Apple runs on it"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (greek mythology) a maiden seduced by zeus; when hera was about to discover them together zeus turned her into a white heifer
- Similar words include: Io
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IOS
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43A: "87. Intelligence org."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the united states cryptologic organization that coordinates and directs highly specialized activities to protect united states information systems and to produce foreign intelligence information
- Similar words include: National Security Agency
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NSA
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44A: "88. Not on solid ground"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that in the direction of the sea
- Similar words include: seaward, seawards
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ASEA
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45A: "89. Sitarist Shankar"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RAVI
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46A: "91. Pious offerings"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that money or goods contributed to the poor
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ALMS
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47A: "92. Amphibians taken on at least six different space missions"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of north america and europe and northern asia
- Similar words include: triton, newt
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NEWTS
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48A: "94. Blazer vis-à-vis a windbreaker?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: BOMBERJACKET
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49A: "98. Like a bad apple"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that containing meal or made of meal
- Similar words include: farinaceous, granulose, gritty
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MEALY
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50A: "101. Name on a museum plaque, maybe"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that person who makes a gift of property
- Similar words include: bestower, giver, presenter
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DONOR
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51A: "102. Like ears and brains"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that propel in a high arc
- Similar words include: lob, lobate
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LOBED
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52A: "103. Undivided"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that uncastrated adult male horse
- Similar words include: intact, total, stallion
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ENTIRE
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53A: "105. Surfer's navigational aid"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SITEMAP
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54A: "107. Orléans river"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the longest french river; rises in the massif central and flows north and west to the atlantic ocean
- Similar words include: Loire River
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LOIRE
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55A: "109. Delaware vis-à-vis the other 12 colonies?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: SOONERSTATE
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56A: "111. "OMG THIS IS AWESOME!!!!" vis-à-vis "good job i guess"?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that machine-readable text that is not sequential but is organized so that related items of information are connected; --ted nelson
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: HYPERTEXT
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57A: "114. Face covering?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin; characterized by papules or pustules or comedones
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ACNE
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58A: "115. Blues singer Ma ___"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: RAINEY
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59A: "116. "___ we all?""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ARENT
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60A: "117. Spring for a fancy hotel?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a health resort near a spring or at the seaside
- Similar words include: health spa, resort hotel, health club
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SPA
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61A: "118. B.B. King's "___ Dynamite""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SHES
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62A: "119. Subject of inflation"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a body of students who are taught together
- Similar words include: form, order, rank
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GRADE
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63A: "120. Brood"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who wastes time
- Similar words include: dillydallier, dallier, mope around
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MOPE
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64A: "121. M.L.B.'ers with a red "B" on their caps"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SOX
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Every last one | 3 |
| 2D | 2. Illegal thing to jump | 4 |
| 3D | 3. Artistic designs that glow under black light | 9 |
| 4D | 4. Mainstream sort, slangily | 6 |
| 5D | 5. Scepter topper | 3 |
| 6D | 6. Beefcake | 4 |
| 7D | 7. With excitement | 7 |
| 8D | 8. "Gandhi," ""Amadeus" or "Malcolm X" | 6 |
| 9D | 9. Break a tie? | 6 |
| 10D | 10. Digital party request | 5 |
| 11D | 11. Where a congregation congregates | 4 |
| 12D | 12. Keats wrote one to a nightingale | 3 |
| 13D | 13. "Time to get moving!" | 8 |
| 14D | 14. Garlicky emulsification | 5 |
| 15D | 15. "... never mind" | 5 |
| 16D | 16. Slips through the cracks | 5 |
| 17D | 18. Cover letters, say? | 5 |
| 18D | 20. Time of one's life, in modern slang | 3 |
| 19D | 23. Record number? | 5 |
| 20D | 25. 37-Across, in English | 4 |
| 21D | 28. Sandy hazard for sailors | 5 |
| 22D | 31. Backstabber, e.g. | 7 |
| 23D | 34. Playful tap on the head | 4 |
| 24D | 35. "Hmm ... pass" | 4 |
| 25D | 36. Homie | 3 |
| 26D | 37. Meet, as all the requirements | 7 |
| 27D | 38. "I can't ___!" | 4 |
| 28D | 39. Richard who had his first starring role in 1978's "Days of Heaven" | 4 |
| 29D | 42. SeaWorld orca | 5 |
| 30D | 44. Notable part of "Hey Jude" or "Layla" | 5 |
| 31D | 45. Fibonacci or Galileo, by birth | 5 |
| 32D | 47. "Heck if I know" | 7 |
| 33D | 48. Eponym of a U.S. Open stadium | 4 |
| 34D | 50. "How was ___ know?" | 3 |
| 35D | 51. Up for ___ | 5 |
| 36D | 52. Iron compound in magnets | 7 |
| 37D | 53. Copenhagen native | 4 |
| 38D | 55. Start of an unencrypted web address | 4 |
| 39D | 59. Gives off | 7 |
| 40D | 60. Spandex trademark | 5 |
| 41D | 62. "The Snowy Day" author ___ Jack Keats | 4 |
| 42D | 63. Turn on an axis | 4 |
| 43D | 64. Not an extraterrestrial | 5 |
| 44D | 65. Amherst sch. | 5 |
| 45D | 66. Pugilist Ali | 5 |
| 46D | 68. One displaying enthusiastic devotion | 7 |
| 47D | 69. Biblical brother who sold his birthright | 4 |
| 48D | 72. Half a score | 3 |
| 49D | 76. Sticking point? | 4 |
| 50D | 77. General idea | 4 |
| 51D | 79. Bit of smooth eveningwear | 9 |
| 52D | 80. Typical landing page, online | 4 |
| 53D | 81. Executive's underling: Abbr. | 4 |
| 54D | 83. Bra straps might cause them | 8 |
| 55D | 84. Sick kid's in-house caregiver | 5 |
| 56D | 85. Any of 17 Monopoly spaces: Abbr. | 3 |
| 57D | 90. Presidential first name drawn from the Bible | 7 |
| 58D | 91. Nail the test | 5 |
| 59D | 93. Brontë orphan | 4 |
| 60D | 94. Like a video with an inflated view count, maybe | 6 |
| 61D | 95. Feature of the jacks of spades and hearts | 6 |
| 62D | 96. Dolly Parton classic | 6 |
| 63D | 97. Cancel, as a NASA mission | 5 |
| 64D | 98. Western landforms | 5 |
| 65D | 99. Father of Methuselah | 5 |
| 66D | 100. Observe Yom Kippur, say | 5 |
| 67D | 101. "The Crown" role | 5 |
| 68D | 104. Mess up | 3 |
| 69D | 105. What one should do periodically while caramelizing onions | 4 |
| 70D | 106. Criminal hothead? | 4 |
| 71D | 108. Trade show | 4 |
| 72D | 110. Lose tautness | 3 |
| 73D | 112. Zing | 3 |
| 74D | 113. Be a burden on | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Every last one"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that quantifier; used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
- Similar words include: whole, altogether, totally
- Opposite of: partly, some
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Answer: ALL
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2D: "2. Illegal thing to jump"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial
- Similar words include: bail bond, bond
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BAIL
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3D: "3. Artistic designs that glow under black light"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: UVTATTOOS
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4D: "4. Mainstream sort, slangily"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: NORMIE
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5D: "5. Scepter topper"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye
- Similar words include: eyeball, revolve, orbit
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ORB
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6D: "6. Beefcake"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a man who is virile and sexually active
- Similar words include: he-man, dot, studhorse
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: STUD
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7D: "7. With excitement"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that with eagerness; in an eager manner
- Similar words include: thirstily
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: EAGERLY
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8D: "8. "Gandhi," ""Amadeus" or "Malcolm X""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BIOPIC
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9D: "9. Break a tie?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: UNLINK
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10D: "10. Digital party request"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EVITE
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11D: "11. Where a congregation congregates"
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- Think of something that the central area of a church
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NAVE
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12D: "12. Keats wrote one to a nightingale"
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- Think of something that a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ODE
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13D: "13. "Time to get moving!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: LETSROLL
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14D: "14. Garlicky emulsification"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that garlic mayonnaise
- Similar words include: garlic sauce, aioli sauce
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AIOLI
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15D: "15. "... never mind""
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ORNOT
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16D: "16. Slips through the cracks"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings
- Similar words include: ooze, seep
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SEEPS
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17D: "18. Cover letters, say?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an english pirate who operated in the caribbean and off the atlantic coast of north america (died in 1718)
- Similar words include: Edward Thatch, Blackbeard, learn
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TEACH
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18D: "20. Time of one's life, in modern slang"
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- Think of something that a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
- Similar words include: epoch, geological era, earned run average
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ERA
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19D: "23. Record number?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a line or route along which something travels or moves
- Similar words include: cart track, trail, traverse
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TRACK
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20D: "25. 37-Across, in English"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened)
- Similar words include: subscribe, sign of the zodiac, mark
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SIGN
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21D: "28. Sandy hazard for sailors"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide
- Similar words include: school, shallow
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SHOAL
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22D: "31. Backstabber, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who betrays his country by committing treason
- Similar words include: treasonist, double-crosser, double-dealer
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: TRAITOR
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23D: "34. Playful tap on the head"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BOOP
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24D: "35. "Hmm ... pass""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: UHNO
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25D: "36. Homie"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: BRO
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26D: "37. Meet, as all the requirements"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that meet the requirements or expectations of
- Similar words include: live up to, fulfill, gratify
- Opposite of: fall short of, dissatisfy
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Answer: SATISFY
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27D: "38. "I can't ___!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)
- Similar words include: eventide, flush, fifty-fifty
- Opposite of: odd, uneven
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Answer: EVEN
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28D: "39. Richard who had his first starring role in 1978's "Days of Heaven""
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GERE
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29D: "42. SeaWorld orca"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SHAMU
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30D: "44. Notable part of "Hey Jude" or "Layla""
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OUTRO
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31D: "45. Fibonacci or Galileo, by birth"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PISAN
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32D: "47. "Heck if I know""
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: BEATSME
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33D: "48. Eponym of a U.S. Open stadium"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states tennis player who was the first black to win united states and english singles championships (1943-1993)
- Similar words include: Arthur Ashe, Arthur Robert Ashe
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ASHE
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34D: "50. "How was ___ know?""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ITO
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35D: "51. Up for ___"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mechanical device for gripping an object
- Similar words include: snap, snaffle, catch
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GRABS
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36D: "52. Iron compound in magnets"
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- Think of something that a solid solution in which alpha iron is the solvent
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: FERRITE
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37D: "53. Copenhagen native"
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- Think of something that a native or inhabitant of denmark
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DANE
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38D: "55. Start of an unencrypted web address"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a protocol (utilizing tcp) to transfer hypertext requests and information between servers and browsers
- Similar words include: hypertext transfer protocol
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HTTP
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39D: "59. Gives off"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that flow or spill forth
- Similar words include: effuse, pour out, flow out
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: EFFUSES
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40D: "60. Spandex trademark"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LYCRA
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41D: "62. "The Snowy Day" author ___ Jack Keats"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a jewish priest and scribe sent by the persian king to restore jewish law and worship in jerusalem
- Similar words include: Book of Ezra
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EZRA
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42D: "63. Turn on an axis"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- Similar words include: cut, slip, skid
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SLUE
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43D: "64. Not an extraterrestrial"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any living or extinct member of the family hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage
- Similar words include: homo, human being, man
- Opposite of: nonhuman
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Answer: HUMAN
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44D: "65. Amherst sch."
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: UMASS
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45D: "66. Pugilist Ali"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LAILA
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46D: "68. One displaying enthusiastic devotion"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: FANGIRL
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47D: "69. Biblical brother who sold his birthright"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (old testament) the eldest son of isaac who would have inherited the covenant that god made with abraham and that abraham passed on to isaac; he traded his birthright to his twin brother jacob for a mess of pottage
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ESAU
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48D: "72. Half a score"
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- Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system
- Similar words include: tenner, ten-spot, decade
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TEN
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49D: "76. Sticking point?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food
- Similar words include: crop
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CRAW
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50D: "77. General idea"
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- Think of something that the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- Similar words include: center, nitty-gritty, centre
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GIST
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51D: "79. Bit of smooth eveningwear"
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- Pattern: _________
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Answer: SILKDRESS
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52D: "80. Typical landing page, online"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that where you live at a particular time
- Similar words include: national, abode, home base
- Opposite of: away
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Answer: HOME
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53D: "81. Executive's underling: Abbr."
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ASST
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54D: "83. Bra straps might cause them"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: TANLINES
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55D: "84. Sick kid's in-house caregiver"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DRMOM
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56D: "85. Any of 17 Monopoly spaces: Abbr."
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AVE
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57D: "90. Presidential first name drawn from the Bible"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the first of the old testament patriarchs and the father of isaac; according to genesis, god promised to give abraham's family (the hebrews) the land of canaan (the promised land); god tested abraham by asking him to sacrifice his son
- Similar words include: Ibrahim
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ABRAHAM
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58D: "91. Nail the test"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ACEIT
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59D: "93. Brontë orphan"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a shallow salt lake in south central australia about 35 feet below sea level; the largest lake in the country and the lowest point on the continent
- Similar words include: Lake Eyre
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EYRE
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60D: "94. Like a video with an inflated view count, maybe"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BOTTED
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61D: "95. Feature of the jacks of spades and hearts"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ONEEYE
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62D: "96. Dolly Parton classic"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: JOLENE
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63D: "97. Cancel, as a NASA mission"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of terminating a project or procedure before it is completed
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ABORT
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64D: "98. Western landforms"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that flat tableland with steep edges
- Similar words include: mesa, Mesa, table
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MESAS
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65D: "99. Father of Methuselah"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ENOCH
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66D: "100. Observe Yom Kippur, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make amends for
- Similar words include: repent, expiate, abye
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ATONE
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67D: "101. "The Crown" role"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that english aristocrat who was the first wife of prince charles; her death in an automobile accident in paris produced intense national mourning (1961-1997)
- Similar words include: Princess Diana, Princess of Wales, Lady Diana Frances Spencer
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DIANA
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68D: "104. Mess up"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that to make a mistake or be incorrect
- Similar words include: mistake, stray, slip
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ERR
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69D: "105. What one should do periodically while caramelizing onions"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event
- Similar words include: arouse, call forth, shake up
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: STIR
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70D: "106. Criminal hothead?"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PYRO
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71D: "108. Trade show"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display
- Similar words include: exposition, exhibition
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EXPO
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72D: "110. Lose tautness"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a shape that sags
- Similar words include: swag, flag, droop
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SAG
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73D: "112. Zing"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that liveliness and energy
- Similar words include: ginger, peppiness
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PEP
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74D: "113. Be a burden on"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government
- Similar words include: task, taxation, assess
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TAX
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64 Across Clues
74 Down Clues
138 Total Clues
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