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Date: Friday, January 31, 2020
Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 70 (36 Across, 34 Down)
Average Word Length: 5.5 letters
January 31, 2020 Across Hints: NYT Friday Crossword Answers
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. Hot sauce | 8 |
| 2A | 9. First word for many | 5 |
| 3A | 14. Aid in hypnotism | 8 |
| 4A | 15. Treat whose name means, literally, "flash of lightning" | 6 |
| 5A | 16. Command from the director's chair | 8 |
| 6A | 17. "But thanks for ___!" | 6 |
| 7A | 18. Big gear retailer | 3 |
| 8A | 19. Where all the pieces fall into place | 6 |
| 9A | 21. Environmentalist ___ Leopold, author of the best-selling "A Sand County Almanac" | 4 |
| 10A | 22. Know-it-alls | 6 |
| 11A | 24. "Am ___ brother's keeper?" | 3 |
| 12A | 25. Soft hit | 3 |
| 13A | 26. George ___, original cast member of "S.N.L." | 3 |
| 14A | 27. Ones who "Don't Cry," according to a 2008 country hit | 8 |
| 15A | 30. City south of Luxor | 5 |
| 16A | 33. Muslim ascetic | 5 |
| 17A | 34. Doomed from the start, informally | 3 |
| 18A | 35. Inventors of the compass and movable type | 7 |
| 19A | 37. "What's the skinny?" | 7 |
| 20A | 39. Mr. Sharples, owner of a sitcom diner | 3 |
| 21A | 40. ___ board | 5 |
| 22A | 42. Some jungle greenery | 5 |
| 23A | 43. Fictional place that lent its name to a classic Cadillac | 8 |
| 24A | 45. Back | 3 |
| 25A | 46. Hosp. figure | 3 |
| 26A | 47. Ruler amts. | 3 |
| 27A | 48. Burns | 6 |
| 28A | 52. Statement often accompanied by an eye roll | 4 |
| 29A | 53. Taken with | 6 |
| 30A | 55. Alternative to a wrecking crew | 3 |
| 31A | 56. D-day | 6 |
| 32A | 58. Bit of derring-do | 8 |
| 33A | 60. Noted figure in Raphael's "The School of Athens" | 6 |
| 34A | 61. Spurn on social media | 8 |
| 35A | 62. One of the Kennedys | 5 |
| 36A | 63. Building super's ringful | 8 |
Let's Solve the Across Clues Together!
Here are helpful hints to solve each clue. Remember, crossword puzzles are like word games - have fun with them!
Clue 1 Across: "1. Hot sauce"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SRIRACHA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "9. First word for many"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that informal terms for a mother
- Words that mean the same thing: mom, mommy, mum
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MAMMA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Across: "14. Aid in hypnotism"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an apparatus consisting of an object mounted so that it swings freely under the influence of gravity
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PENDULUM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Across: "15. Treat whose name means, literally, "flash of lightning""
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about history.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that oblong cream puff
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ECLAIR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Across: "16. Command from the director's chair"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ANDSCENE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Across: "17. "But thanks for ___!""
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the verbal act of requesting
- Words that mean the same thing: demand, ask, postulate
- The opposite would be: obviate
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ASKING
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Clue 7 Across: "18. Big gear retailer"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: REI
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Clue 8 Across: "19. Where all the pieces fall into place"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that 100 tetri equal 1 lari in georgia
- Words that mean the same thing: tetri
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TETRIS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Across: "21. Environmentalist ___ Leopold, author of the best-selling "A Sand County Almanac""
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ALDO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Across: "22. Know-it-alls"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a hindu religious teacher; used as a title of respect
- Words that mean the same thing: swami
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SWAMIS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "24. "Am ___ brother's keeper?""
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a hard clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IMY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "25. Soft hit"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LOB
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "26. George ___, original cast member of "S.N.L.""
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: COE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "27. Ones who "Don't Cry," according to a 2008 country hit"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a expert clue about geography.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a woman cowboy
- Words that mean the same thing: cowgirl
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: COWGIRLS
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Clue 15 Across: "30. City south of Luxor"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about geography.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an ancient city on the nile in egypt; two dams across the nile have been built nearby
- Words that mean the same thing: Assuan, Assouan
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ASWAN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "33. Muslim ascetic"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a muslim or hindu mendicant monk who is regarded as a holy man
- Words that mean the same thing: fakeer, faqir, faquir
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FAKIR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "34. Doomed from the start, informally"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DOA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Across: "35. Inventors of the compass and movable type"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that any of the sino-tibetan languages spoken in china; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system
- Words that mean the same thing: Formosan, Taiwanese
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CHINESE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "37. "What's the skinny?""
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ANYNEWS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "39. Mr. Sharples, owner of a sitcom diner"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MEL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "40. ___ board"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a hard grey-black mineral consisting of corundum and either hematite or magnetite; used as an abrasive (especially as a coating on paper)
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EMERY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "42. Some jungle greenery"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores
- Words that mean the same thing: fern
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FERNS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "43. Fictional place that lent its name to a classic Cadillac"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity; sought in south america by 16th-century explorers
- Words that mean the same thing: El Dorado
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ELDORADO
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Clue 24 Across: "45. Back"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that (nautical, aeronautical) situated at or toward the stern or tail
- Words that mean the same thing: astern, abaft
- The opposite would be: fore
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AFT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "46. Hosp. figure"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a nurse who has enough training to be licensed by a state to provide routine care for the sick
- Words that mean the same thing: licensed practical nurse, practical nurse
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LPN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "47. Ruler amts."
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter
- Words that mean the same thing: atomic number 96, centimetre, cm
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CMS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "48. Burns"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that treat, mention, or speak to rudely
- Words that mean the same thing: insult, diss, affront
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DISSES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "52. Statement often accompanied by an eye roll"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a expert clue about geography.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ASIF
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "53. Taken with"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: KEENON
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "55. Alternative to a wrecking crew"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene
- Words that mean the same thing: trinitrotoluene
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TNT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "56. D-day"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GOTIME
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 32 Across: "58. Bit of derring-do"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BOLDMOVE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 33 Across: "60. Noted figure in Raphael's "The School of Athens""
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that greek geometer (3rd century bc)
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EUCLID
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 34 Across: "61. Spurn on social media"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: UNFOLLOW
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 35 Across: "62. One of the Kennedys"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ETHEL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 36 Across: "63. Building super's ringful"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DOORKEYS
Great job if you got it right!
Down Clues Decoded - Friday NYT Crossword January 31, 2020
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. Engages in argument | 5 |
| 2D | 2. Keep the books? | 5 |
| 3D | 3. World power in cricket | 5 |
| 4D | 4. Routes: Abbr. | 3 |
| 5D | 5. One with lots to sell | 10 |
| 6D | 6. Comedic actor John | 6 |
| 7D | 7. Diana is the Roman goddess of it | 4 |
| 8D | 8. "Of thee I sing" addressee | 7 |
| 9D | 9. Hosts | 3 |
| 10D | 10. Lye, for one | 6 |
| 11D | 11. Like the old Sears Roebuck catalog | 9 |
| 12D | 12. [Jaw hits the floor] | 9 |
| 13D | 13. Besides "Gigi," the only Best Picture winner with a four-letter name | 4 |
| 14D | 15. Romp | 7 |
| 15D | 20. Assurance after an accident | 6 |
| 16D | 23. Last name on a shoe box | 4 |
| 17D | 28. Potter's house | 10 |
| 18D | 29. Some freshness | 4 |
| 19D | 30. Ne plus ultra | 4 |
| 20D | 31. Forks over | 9 |
| 21D | 32. Temptation to steal | 9 |
| 22D | 33. What a cat's meow might mean | 6 |
| 23D | 36. Suggested, with "of" | 7 |
| 24D | 38. Brings in | 4 |
| 25D | 41. Famous last word of film | 7 |
| 26D | 44. In the records | 6 |
| 27D | 45. 1980 Peace Nobelist ___ Pérez Esquivel | 6 |
| 28D | 49. Bit of attire for a fancy night out | 5 |
| 29D | 50. Foreign representative | 5 |
| 30D | 51. Is anguished over a decision | 5 |
| 31D | 52. Jon who wrote and illustrated "Palindromania!" | 4 |
| 32D | 54. Roller-skating in the house, say | 4 |
| 33D | 57. "Cool" amount | 3 |
| 34D | 59. Subj. of a federal holiday since 1986 | 3 |
Now Let's Solve the Down Clues!
Down clues go from top to bottom. Use the letters from your across answers to help!
Clue 1 Down: "1. Engages in argument"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable
- Words that mean the same thing: sparring, spar
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SPARS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. Keep the books?"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about literature.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new
- Words that mean the same thing: reincarnate, regenerate
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RENEW
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Clue 3 Down: "3. World power in cricket"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a republic in the asian subcontinent in southern asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the united kingdom in 1947
- Words that mean the same thing: Bharat, Republic of India
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: INDIA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. Routes: Abbr."
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about abbreviation.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RDS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. One with lots to sell"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an agent who conducts an auction
- Words that mean the same thing: auction off, auction
- The word looks like this: __________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AUCTIONEER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Down: "6. Comedic actor John"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CLEESE
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Clue 7 Down: "7. Diana is the Roman goddess of it"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that englishman and pre-raphaelite painter (1827-1910)
- Words that mean the same thing: track down, hunt club, hound
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HUNT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Down: "8. "Of thee I sing" addressee"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that north american republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in north america plus alaska in northwest north america and the hawaiian islands in the pacific ocean; achieved independence in 1776
- Words that mean the same thing: US, U.S., USA
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AMERICA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Down: "9. Hosts"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that one million periods per second
- Words that mean the same thing: Mc, MHz, megacycle
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MCS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Down: "10. Lye, for one"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that any of various water-soluble compounds capable of turning litmus blue and reacting with an acid to form a salt and water
- Words that mean the same thing: base
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ALKALI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. Like the old Sears Roebuck catalog"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MAILORDER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. [Jaw hits the floor]"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MINDBLOWN
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Clue 13 Down: "13. Besides "Gigi," the only Best Picture winner with a four-letter name"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between canis major and the southern cross; now divided into carina and pyxis and puppis and vela
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ARGO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Down: "15. Romp"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EASYWIN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Down: "20. Assurance after an accident"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IMOKAY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Down: "23. Last name on a shoe box"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MCAN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Down: "28. Potter's house"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: __________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GRYFFINDOR
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Clue 18 Down: "29. Some freshness"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an impudent or insolent rejoinder
- Words that mean the same thing: SAS, mouth, backtalk
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SASS
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Clue 19 Down: "30. Ne plus ultra"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- Words that mean the same thing: pinnacle, top, vertex
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: ACME
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Clue 20 Down: "31. Forks over"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: _________
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The answer is: SHELLSOUT
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Clue 21 Down: "32. Temptation to steal"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: _________
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The answer is: WILDPITCH
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Clue 22 Down: "33. What a cat's meow might mean"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: FEEDME
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Clue 23 Down: "36. Suggested, with "of""
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that deliver a hard blow to
- Words that mean the same thing: peck, reek, smack
- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: SMACKED
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Clue 24 Down: "38. Brings in"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the tcp/ip network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange
- Words that mean the same thing: clear, lucre, network
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: NETS
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Clue 25 Down: "41. Famous last word of film"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about movies/film.
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- This could be something that the bud of a rose
- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: ROSEBUD
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Clue 26 Down: "44. In the records"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: ONFILE
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Clue 27 Down: "45. 1980 Peace Nobelist ___ Pérez Esquivel"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: ADOLFO
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Clue 28 Down: "49. Bit of attire for a fancy night out"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a wide scarf worn about their shoulders by women
- Words that mean the same thing: steal, slip
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: STOLE
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Clue 29 Down: "50. Foreign representative"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a diplomat having less authority than an ambassador
- Words that mean the same thing: envoy extraordinary, envoi, minister plenipotentiary
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: ENVOY
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Clue 30 Down: "51. Is anguished over a decision"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that agitation resulting from active worry
- Words that mean the same thing: stew, brood, sweat
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: STEWS
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Clue 31 Down: "52. Jon who wrote and illustrated "Palindromania!""
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that united states novelist (1909-1955)
- Words that mean the same thing: James Agee
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: AGEE
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Clue 32 Down: "54. Roller-skating in the house, say"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: NONO
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Clue 33 Down: "57. "Cool" amount"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that a cypriot monetary unit equal to one thousandth of a pound
- Words that mean the same thing: ml, mile, cc
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: MIL
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Clue 34 Down: "59. Subj. of a federal holiday since 1986"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about history.
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- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: MLK
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 47 | 67.1% |
| Short Answer | 11 | 15.7% |
| Celebrity/Entertainment | 4 | 5.7% |
| Geography | 3 | 4.3% |
| History | 2 | 2.9% |
| Literature | 1 | 1.4% |
| Abbreviation | 1 | 1.4% |
| Movies/Film | 1 | 1.4% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 36 |
| Down Clues | 34 |
| Total Clues | 70 |
| Average Answer Length | 5.5 letters |
| Shortest Answer | 3 letters |
| Longest Answer | 10 letters |
Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!
- Start with short words first - they're usually easier!
- Look for clues with blanks to fill in - these are like fill-in-the-blank questions at school
- When letters cross, they must be the same in both words - this helps you check if you're right!
- Today is Friday, and these puzzles are usually moderate level
- Most clues today are about general knowledge
- The average word today has about 5 letters
- Remember: It's okay to take breaks and come back later with fresh eyes!
- Ask someone for help if you need it - crosswords are more fun with friends!
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Last Updated: September 27, 2025 at 09:37 AM
