2408 Fri Aug 23, 2024 NY Times Crossword Clues Hints

Across Clues :

1. "Pretty Little Liars" author Shepard, 5. Trap for the unwary, 10. High-end hotel amenities, 14. Takeoff announcement?, 16. Rocked, in a way, 17. "Future me — don't forget this!", 18. Holly genus, 19. Gave a once-over, 20. Begrudging assent, 22. Jazz trumpeter Jones, 23. Spiny reptile that, despite its name, is actually a lizard, 24. The Flyers, on a scoreboard, 25. Famed recipient of a lesser blessing, 27. "Eww, enough!", 28. Cry of fear, 29. Makes, as a putt, 31. Some Reichstag votes, 35. Stage group often dressed in black, 37. Struggles, 39. [And just like that ...], 40. "TiK ToK" creator, 42. "Any ___?", 44. Makeup ingredient?, 45. Soldier of Sauron, 47. Cubism-inspired style, 48. Like 30-Down, 49. Make a deal official, say, 53. The average person will shed at least one every day, 55. Spice derived from the inner bark of a tropical tree, 56. Like some broken records, 58. Antagonist in a 1604 play … or a 1992 animated movie, 59. Forest, in a metaphor, 61. Breezed (by), 62. Try to get the upper hand?, 63. Afflictions, 64. Infinitesimal, 65. Wine bottle spec

Fri Aug 23, 2024 NY Times Crossword Clues Hints

Down Clues :

1. 0, for 180°, 2. Bit of salty language?, 3. Some announcements from the Fed, 4. Cosmetics brand owned by Estée Lauder, 5. Organ piece, 6. KenKen entries: Abbr., 7. "For real?!", 8. Minos or Midas, 9. Member of la famille, 10. Fan base added to the O.E.D. in 2023, 11. Oral vaccine target, 12. Sphere, 13. Planned Parenthood offering, informally, 15. Warm-up pieces, 21. "How Firm a Foundation," for one, 23. Where VietJet Air is headquartered, 24. Half a half-bushel, 26. Watch, in a way, 30. Winter forecast, 32. Debated, 33. Comedian Aparna who wrote "Unreliable Narrator", 34. Do a certain veterinary job, 36. "It's anyone's guess", 38. West Coast political hub, familiarly, 41. What an integral can compute, 43. Comfort, 46. Fighting, 49. Genre celebrated at the annual Worldcon, 50. Meeting greeting, 51. Well-behaved sort, 52. Color of a proverbial French beast, 54. Chichi, 56. Like the coats of many terriers, 57. Free-roaming residents of Japan's Nara Park, 60. Beat decisively, in video game lingo

Break down the NYT Crosswords: August 23, 2024

Let's go into the puzzle, starting with the across clues and answers, followed by the down clues and answers.

Across Clues with Answers:

• The clue is 1. "Pretty Little Liars" author Shepard. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: SARA




• The clue is 5. Trap for the unwary. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: SNARE

  Possible Answer : trammel, hook, side_drum, snare_drum, gin, entrap, noose, ensnare, trap, snare




• The clue is 10. High-end hotel amenities. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: SPAS

  Possible Answer : health_club, watering_place, spa, health_spa, resort_hotel, watering_hole




• The clue is 14. Takeoff announcement?. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

  The answer: IHAVETORUN




• The clue is 16. Rocked, in a way. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: WORE

  Possible Answer : tire, wear_thin, tire_out, get_into, endure, put_on, fag, don, break, bust, outwear, assume, fatigue, have_on, wear, fall_apart, hold_out, wear_off, bear, wear_out, weary, jade, fag_out, wear_upon, wear_down

  Possible Opposite Answer : refresh




• The clue is 17. "Future me — don't forget this!". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

  The answer: NOTETOSELF




• The clue is 18. Holly genus. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: ILEX

  Possible Answer : genus_Ilex, Ilex




• The clue is 19. Gave a once-over. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: EYEDUP




• The clue is 20. Begrudging assent. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (8 letters)

  The answer: YEAHFINE




• The clue is 22. Jazz trumpeter Jones. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: THAD




• The clue is 23. Spiny reptile that, despite its name, is actually a lizard. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (9 letters)

  The answer: HORNYTOAD




• The clue is 24. The Flyers, on a scoreboard. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: PHI

  Possible Answer : phi




• The clue is 25. Famed recipient of a lesser blessing. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: ESAU

  Possible Answer : Esau




• The clue is 27. "Eww, enough!". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: TMI




• The clue is 28. Cry of fear. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: EEK




• The clue is 29. Makes, as a putt. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: SINKS

  Possible Answer : subside, bury, go_down, dip, sink, slump, drop, pass, sump, drop_down, swallow_hole, settle, slide_down, go_under, sinkhole, fall_off, cesspool, cesspit, lapse

  Possible Opposite Answer : source, float




• The clue is 31. Some Reichstag votes. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: NEINS




• The clue is 35. Stage group often dressed in black. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: CREW

  Possible Answer : work_party, crew, crowd, gang, bunch




• The clue is 37. Struggles. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: TOILS

  Possible Answer : labour, fag, dig, travail, drudge, moil, labor, grind, toil




• The clue is 39. [And just like that ...]. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: SNAP

  Possible Answer : break_down, snapshot, flick, cinch, child's_play, click, piece_of_cake, ginger_snap, snatch_up, shot, snap_fastener, grab, bust, snap_bean, tear, rupture, snap, duck_soup, centering, pushover, shoot, gingersnap, walkover, snarl, photograph, catch, cracking, ginger_nut, press_stud, snatch, elasticity, picnic, lose_it, crack, breeze

  Possible Opposite Answer : inelasticity




• The clue is 40. "TiK ToK" creator. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: KESHA




• The clue is 42. "Any ___?". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: IDEAS

  Possible Answer : melodic_theme, estimation, mind, estimate, thought, idea, theme, musical_theme, approximation




• The clue is 44. Makeup ingredient?. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: DNA

  Possible Answer : deoxyribonucleic_acid, desoxyribonucleic_acid, DNA




• The clue is 45. Soldier of Sauron. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: ORC




• The clue is 47. Cubism-inspired style. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: DECO

  Possible Answer : art_deco, deco




• The clue is 48. Like 30-Down. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: ICY

  Possible Answer : frozen, polar, glacial, arctic, wintry, gelid, frosty, frigid, icy




• The clue is 49. Make a deal official, say. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (9 letters)

  The answer: SHAKEONIT




• The clue is 53. The average person will shed at least one every day. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: LASH

  Possible Answer : welt, eyelash, flog, whip, slash, lash, thong, whiplash, strap, cilium, lather, trounce

  Possible Opposite Answer : unlash




• The clue is 55. Spice derived from the inner bark of a tropical tree. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (8 letters)

  The answer: CINNAMON

  Possible Answer : Ceylon_cinnamon_tree, cinnamon, cinnamon_bark, Cinnamomum_zeylanicum, Ceylon_cinnamon




• The clue is 56. Like some broken records. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: WARPED

  Possible Answer : heave, buckle, warp, garble, distort, falsify, warped




• The clue is 58. Antagonist in a 1604 play … or a 1992 animated movie. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: IAGO

  Possible Answer : Iago




• The clue is 59. Forest, in a metaphor. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

  The answer: BIGPICTURE




• The clue is 61. Breezed (by). Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: FLEW

  Possible Answer : flee, vaporize, wing, aviate, fly, vanish, take_flight, pilot, fell




• The clue is 62. Try to get the upper hand?. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

  The answer: ARMWRESTLE




• The clue is 63. Afflictions. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: ILLS

  Possible Answer : ill, complaint, ailment




• The clue is 64. Infinitesimal. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: TEENY

  Possible Answer : teentsy, itty-bitty, weensy, bitty, wee, itsy-bitsy, weeny, bittie, teeny-weeny, teensy-weensy, teensy, teeny




• The clue is 65. Wine bottle spec. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: YEAR

  Possible Answer : yr, twelvemonth, class, year

Down Clues and Answers:

• The clue is 1. 0, for 180°. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: SINE

  Possible Answer: sine, sin

• The clue is 2. Bit of salty language?. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (9 letters)

  The answer: AHOYTHERE

• The clue is 3. Some announcements from the Fed. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (9 letters)

  The answer: RATEHIKES

• The clue is 4. Cosmetics brand owned by Estée Lauder. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: AVEDA

• The clue is 5. Organ piece. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: STOP

  Possible Answer: halt, layover, block_off, block, hitch, block_up, hold_back, stop_over, discontinue, stop_consonant, contain, turn_back, check, quit, kibosh, break, occlusion, arrest, blockage, stopover, finish, plosive, give_up, period, occlusive, stay, catch, stop, full_point, break_off, cease, barricade, blockade, full_stop, lay_off, intercept, hold_on, diaphragm, closure, point, plosive_consonant, plosive_speech_sound, stoppage, terminate, bar, end

  Possible Opposite Answer : start, continue, begin, continuant_consonant

• The clue is 6. KenKen entries: Abbr.. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: NOS

  Possible Answer: nobelium, No, no, atomic_number_102

  Possible Opposite Answer : yes

• The clue is 7. "For real?!". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (15 letters)

  The answer: AREYOUKIDDINGME

• The clue is 8. Minos or Midas. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: RULER

  Possible Answer: rule, ruler, swayer

• The clue is 9. Member of la famille. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: ENFANT

• The clue is 10. Fan base added to the O.E.D. in 2023. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (8 letters)

  The answer: SWIFTIES

• The clue is 11. Oral vaccine target. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: POLIO

  Possible Answer: acute_anterior_poliomyelitis, polio, infantile_paralysis, poliomyelitis

• The clue is 12. Sphere. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ARENA

  Possible Answer: sphere, field, arena, sports_stadium, orbit, bowl, area, stadium, domain, scene_of_action

• The clue is 13. Planned Parenthood offering, informally. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: SEXED

  Possible Answer: excite, sex, arouse, wind_up, turn_on, sexed

• The clue is 15. Warm-up pieces. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: ETUDES

  Possible Answer: etude

• The clue is 21. "How Firm a Foundation," for one. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: HYMN

  Possible Answer: hymn, anthem

• The clue is 23. Where VietJet Air is headquartered. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: HANOI

  Possible Answer: capital_of_Vietnam, Hanoi

• The clue is 24. Half a half-bushel. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: PECK

  Possible Answer: mint, tidy_sum, passel, quite_a_little, slew, heap, mountain, hen-peck, deal, smack, pick, nag, peck, spate, mess, pile, hatful, peck_at, raft, mickle, stack, muckle, good_deal, wad, beak, pick_up, sight, great_deal, batch, mass, flock, lot, pot, plenty, pick_at

• The clue is 26. Watch, in a way. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: SIT

  Possible Answer: pose, sit_down, model, ride, sit_around, sit, posture, baby-sit, seat

  Possible Opposite Answer : stand, arise

• The clue is 30. Winter forecast. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: SLEET

  Possible Answer: sleet

• The clue is 32. Debated. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (9 letters)

  The answer: INDISPUTE

• The clue is 33. Comedian Aparna who wrote "Unreliable Narrator". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (9 letters)

  The answer: NANCHERLA

• The clue is 34. Do a certain veterinary job. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: SPAY

  Possible Answer: castrate, alter, spay, neuter

• The clue is 36. "It's anyone's guess". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (8 letters)

  The answer: WHOKNOWS

• The clue is 38. West Coast political hub, familiarly. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: SAC

  Possible Answer: pocket, Sauk, theca, pouch, sack, Sac, sac

• The clue is 41. What an integral can compute. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: AREA

  Possible Answer: sphere, field, arena, surface_area, country, orbit, region, area, expanse, domain

• The clue is 43. Comfort. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: SOLACE

  Possible Answer: console, solace, comfort, soothe, solacement, consolation

• The clue is 46. Fighting. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: COMBAT

  Possible Answer: scrap, fighting, fight, combat, armed_combat, battle

• The clue is 49. Genre celebrated at the annual Worldcon. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: SCIFI

• The clue is 50. Meeting greeting. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: HIALL

• The clue is 51. Well-behaved sort. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ANGEL

  Possible Answer: Angel_Falls, Angel, holy_person, holy_man, backer, saint, angel

• The clue is 52. Color of a proverbial French beast. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: NOIRE

• The clue is 54. Chichi. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ARTSY

• The clue is 56. Like the coats of many terriers. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: WIRY

  Possible Answer: stringy, wiry

• The clue is 57. Free-roaming residents of Japan's Nara Park. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: DEER

  Possible Answer: deer, cervid

• The clue is 60. Beat decisively, in video game lingo. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: PWN

NYT Crossword Answers & Hints - July 11, 2025 | XWordHint Today Vibez

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Published on Friday, July 11, 2025 • Daily puzzle hints • Crossword clues © The New York Times

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Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Challenging

💡 Pro Tip: Start with the fill-in-the-blank clues - they're usually the easiest entry points!

🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (35 clues)

🧩 1A: "1. Armies"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a person who invites guests to a social event (such as a party in his or her own home) and who is responsible for them while they are there
• Similar words include: server, horde, innkeeper
• Opposite of: parasite

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Answer: HOSTS

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🧩 2A: "6. Big-eyed, in a way"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: OWLY

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🧩 3A: "10. Accouterment for a queen"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a framework that holds the panes of a window in the window frame
• Similar words include: waistband, waistcloth, window sash
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: SASH

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🧩 4A: "14. Acquirer of GeoCities and Broadcast.com during the dot-com bubble"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
• Similar words include: rube, chawbacon, hayseed
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: YAHOO

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🧩 5A: "15. Butter in South Asian cooking"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that clarified butter used in indian cookery
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: GHEE

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🧩 6A: "16. Prayer, essentially"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a humble request for help from someone in authority
• Similar words include: supplication
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: PLEA

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🧩 7A: "17. Examines something in more depth"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

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Answer: DRILLSDOWN

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🧩 8A: "19. Prefix with directional"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: OMNI

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🧩 9A: "20. Outpace the syllabus, say"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

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Answer: READAHEAD

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🧩 10A: "21. Laughfest"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a loud raucous cry (as of an owl)
• Similar words include: red cent, bird, razzing
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: HOOT

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🧩 11A: "22. They might pop up from time to time"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a public promotion of some product or service
• Similar words include: advert, advertising, advertizement
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: ADS

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🧩 12A: "23. Bolted"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
• Similar words include: break away, run, work
• Opposite of: idle, malfunction

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Answer: RAN

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🧩 13A: "24. Submit"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

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Answer: HANDIN

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🧩 14A: "26. Supermodel Alek"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: WEK

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🧩 15A: "27. Katy Perry song with the lyric "Louder, louder than a lion 'cause I am the champion""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a deep prolonged loud noise
• Similar words include: holler, yowl, wail
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ROAR

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🧩 16A: "29. "Don't Worry Kyoko" singer"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 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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🧩 17A: "30. One on the fast track?"

📏 13 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____________

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Answer: RACECARDRIVER

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🧩 18A: "33. What might come with a twist or two"

📏 13 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

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• Pattern: _____________

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Answer: BALLOONANIMAL

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🧩 19A: "34. "You're warm""

📏 13 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____________

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Answer: GETTINGCLOSER

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🧩 20A: "35. Hookups"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an agency in the department of justice that enforces laws and regulations for the admission of foreign-born persons to the united states
• Similar words include: Immigration and Naturalization Service, In, in
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: INS

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🧩 21A: "36. "Poppycock!""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Pattern: ____

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Answer: PISH

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🧩 22A: "37. Peppery"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning
• Similar words include: live, red-hot, raging
• Opposite of: cold

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Answer: HOT

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🧩 23A: "38. First-rate"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition
• Similar words include: hunky-dory, o.k., okay
• Opposite of: coarse

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Answer: FINEST

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🧩 24A: "40. Phanerozoic, for one"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the longest division of geological time
• Similar words include: aeon
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: EON

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🧩 25A: "41. Isaac Asimov novel "Murder at the ___""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth; worn by arabs
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: ABA

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🧩 26A: "44. "Please, take this off my hands""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the present location; this place
• Similar words include: hither, Hera
• Opposite of: there

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Answer: HERE

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🧩 27A: "45. Tales are related about them"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a small outdoor fire for warmth or cooking (as at a camp)
• Similar words include: campfire
• Pattern: _________

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Answer: CAMPFIRES

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🧩 28A: "48. Org. with the pioneering Artemis program"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an independent agency of the united states government responsible for aviation and spaceflight
• Similar words include: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: NASA

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🧩 29A: "49. Features of many documentaries"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

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Answer: VOICEOVERS

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🧩 30A: "50. Colonial group"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers
• Similar words include: pismire, emmet, ant
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ANTS

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🧩 31A: "51. Tiptop"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
• Similar words include: summit, elevation, superlative
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ACME

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🧩 32A: "52. Actress Rapp of "Mean Girls""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

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Answer: RENEE

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🧩 33A: "53. Fundamental unit in logarithmic equations"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that installation from which a military force initiates operations
• Similar words include: establish, ground, baseborn
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: BASE

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🧩 34A: "54. It may drip in the winter"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 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: wind, poke, pry
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: NOSE

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🧩 35A: "55. Cries of annoyance"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

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Answer: DRATS

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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (35 clues)

🧩 1D: "1. Sea serpent of myth"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (greek mythology) monster with nine heads; when struck off each head was replaced by two new ones
• Similar words include: Snake
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: HYDRA

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🧩 2D: "2. Four-___ (like some shells)"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

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Answer: OARED

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🧩 3D: "3. Most Iranians"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that one of the two main branches of orthodox islam; mainly in iran
• Similar words include: Shiah Islam, Shiah, Shia
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: SHIAS

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🧩 4D: "4. Ordered"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that express in words
• Similar words include: secern, tell apart, secernate
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: TOLD

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🧩 5D: "5. Event requiring special specs"

📏 12 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____________

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Answer: SOLARECLIPSE

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🧩 6D: "6. Nash who wrote "The cow is of the bovine ilk; / One end is moo, the other, milk""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that english psychologist who collaborated with i. a. richards in designing basic english (1889-1957)
• Similar words include: Charles Kay Ogden, C. K. Ogden
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: OGDEN

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🧩 7D: "7. "Hold on there, cowboy!""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: WHOA

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🧩 8D: "8. Dirty"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
• Similar words include: lustful, lascivious, salacious
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: LEWD

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🧩 9D: "9. Kind of coin that features a Buddhist temple on one side"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a yearning for something or to do something
• Similar words include: languish, hankering, pine
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: YEN

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🧩 10D: "10. Cuddle, in a way"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food
• Similar words include: spoonful, smooch
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: SPOON

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🧩 11D: "11. Pedro ___, Oscar-winning screenwriter for "Talk to Her""

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ALMODOVAR

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🧩 12D: "12. One with a watch"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
• Similar words include: spotter, sentry, watch
• Pattern: ________

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Answer: SENTINEL

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🧩 13D: "13. Japanese accord?"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HAI

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🧩 14D: "18. Seal the deal"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SHAKEONIT

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🧩 15D: "21. Film star whose name consists of two presidents"

📏 12 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HARRISONFORD

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🧩 16D: "24. Was destined to fail"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HADNOHOPE

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🧩 17D: "25. 1952 Olympics locale: Abbr."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NOR

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🧩 18D: "26. "Breaking Bad" antihero"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: WALT

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🧩 19D: "27. Alternative to French"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle)
• Similar words include: spread, cattle farm, cattle ranch
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RANCH

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🧩 20D: "28. Kind of cavity"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an examination conducted by spoken communication
• Similar words include: oral exam, viva voce, viva
• Opposite of: aboral, anal

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ORAL

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🧩 21D: "30. Sties, say"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RATSNESTS

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🧩 22D: "31. Machine workers?"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a subordinate who performs an important but routine function
• Similar words include: cog, sprocket
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: COGS

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🧩 23D: "32. "How ___ Your Mother""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: IMET

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🧩 24D: "33. Restaurant chain where chefs make onion volcanoes"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BENIHANA

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🧩 25D: "34. Animated internet pic"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GIF

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🧩 26D: "39. Make vanish"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that remove from memory or existence
• Similar words include: score out, wipe off, delete
• Opposite of: record

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ERASE

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🧩 27D: "40. One making introductions"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers)
• Similar words include: host, master of ceremonies, compere
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: EMCEE

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🧩 28D: "41. Play ground?"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a particular environment or walk of life
• Similar words include: domain, orbit, field
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: ARENA

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🧩 29D: "42. Military topper"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a cap with no brim or bill; made of soft cloth
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BERET

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🧩 30D: "43. Fools"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
• Similar words include: nates, fanny, fundament
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ASSES

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🧩 31D: "45. 2017 animated film set in the Land of the Dead"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics
• Similar words include: coco palm, coconut, Cocos nucifera
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: COCO

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🧩 32D: "46. Directs"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions
• Similar words include: drive, calculate, aspire
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AIMS

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🧩 33D: "47. Indie folk's Bon ___"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that being one more than three
• Similar words include: 4, four, iv
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: IVER

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🧩 34D: "48. Collar"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that tag the base runner to get him out
• Similar words include: nail, arrest, cop
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NAB

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🧩 35D: "49. Car pool transport"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
• Similar words include: avant-garde, vanguard, caravan
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: VAN

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🧠 Expert Solving Strategies

🎯 Start Smart

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