1D: "1. Caption below the first of two photos"
6 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that earlier in time; previously
- Similar words include: earlier, in front, ahead
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BEFORE
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2D: "2. Opposite of exodus"
6 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the process of flowing in
- Similar words include: inflow
- Opposite of: outflow, efflux
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Answer: INFLUX
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3D: "3. Dumbbell exercises"
5 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals)
- Similar words include: roll, coil, ringlet
- Opposite of: uncoil
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Answer: CURLS
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4D: "4. Giant or dwarf"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior
- Similar words include: starring, prima, superstar
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: STAR
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5D: "5. ___-de-camp"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer
- Similar words include: auxiliary, aide-de-camp, adjutant
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AIDE
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6D: "6. Backs out, say"
8 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a relation of direct opposition
- Similar words include: lift, invert, vacate
- Opposite of: obverse
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Answer: REVERSES
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7D: "7. Indignation"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
- Similar words include: wrath, ira, anger
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IRE
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8D: "8. Ninnies"
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who is regarded as contemptible
- Similar words include: tease, tantalise, twerp
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TWITS
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9D: "9. What someone flat-footed lacks"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a curved shape in the vertical plane that spans an opening
- Similar words include: impish, implike, mischievous
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ARCH
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10D: "10. Like an honorable knight"
7 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
- Similar words include: dashing, fop, beau
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: GALLANT
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11D: "11. They might be on one's radar"
8 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a driver who exceeds the safe speed limit
- Similar words include: speeder, speed demon
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: SPEEDERS
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12D: "12. Pet"
6 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a gentle affectionate stroking (or something resembling it)
- Similar words include: fondle
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CARESS
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13D: "13. Porters, for example"
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the united states an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume
- Similar words include: ale
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ALES
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14D: "14. Race prior to a race?"
3 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that rate of revolution of a motor
- Similar words include: revolutions per minute, rpm, rev up
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: REV
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15D: "15. Fifth-year student leader at Hogwarts"
7 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a chief officer or chief magistrate
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: PREFECT
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16D: "16. Barely runs?"
7 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an unbroken series of events
- Similar words include: blotch, streak, stripe
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: STREAKS
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17D: "17. Fruit snack brand"
5 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states feminist and suffragist (1793-1880)
- Similar words include: Lucretia Coffin Mott, Mott
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MOTTS
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18D: "21. Excites"
5 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cause to go somewhere
- Similar words include: send, place, beam
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SENDS
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19D: "23. Again and again, in verse"
8 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that many times at short intervals
- Similar words include: frequently, often, oft
- Opposite of: rarely, infrequently
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Answer: OFTTIMES
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20D: "24. Over-the-top performers"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)
- Similar words include: jambon, Ham, overact
- Opposite of: underact
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Answer: HAMS
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21D: "28. Item on a rack"
5 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a rectangular piece of absorbent cloth (or paper) for drying or wiping
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TOWEL
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22D: "32. Mercedes alternative"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: AUDI
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23D: "34. Idly doodling, maybe"
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cause to be bored
- Similar words include: world-weary, bore, blase
- Opposite of: interest
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Answer: BORED
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24D: "37. How the car in this puzzle's theme would be sold"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
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Answer: ASIS
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25D: "38. Blog feed letters"
3 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: RSS
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26D: "40. Disrelishes and then some"
5 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action
- Similar words include: hat, hatred, hate
- Opposite of: love
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Answer: HATES
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27D: "41. Hands (out)"
5 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a line that indicates a boundary
- Similar words include: boundary line, borderline, border
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: METES
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28D: "42. Linguistic suffix"
3 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the compass point midway between east and southeast
- Similar words include: east southeast
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ESE
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29D: "44. "Fabulous!""
6 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
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Answer: LOVEIT
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30D: "45. It has a rind but supposedly no rhyme"
6 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that round yellow to orange fruit of any of several citrus trees
- Similar words include: orangish, orange tree, Orange River
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ORANGE
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31D: "46. Deliberately malicious"
6 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that lewd or lascivious woman
- Similar words include: easy, unprovoked, sluttish
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: WANTON
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32D: "47. Opposite of "You'll pay for that!"?"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: ONME
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33D: "48. God who aids the Trojan fleet in the first book of the "Aeneid""
7 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (roman mythology) god of the sea; counterpart of greek poseidon
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: NEPTUNE
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34D: "50. Long stories have them"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
- Similar words include: electric arc, arch, electric discharge
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ARCS
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35D: "53. Runs out of gas"
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers
- Similar words include: atomic number 66, dysprosium, pall
- Opposite of: be born
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Answer: DIES
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36D: "55. Divinely elect"
6 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that choose by or as if by divine intervention
- Similar words include: oil, inunct, anele
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ANOINT
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37D: "56. Old yeller?"
6 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that used affectionately to refer to an eccentric but amusing old man
- Similar words include: old codger
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CODGER
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38D: "57. Faddish"
6 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that in accord with the latest fad
- Similar words include: voguish
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TRENDY
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39D: "59. California's Big ___"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a port in southern lebanon on the mediterranean sea; formerly a major phoenician seaport famous for silks
- Similar words include: Tyre
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SUR
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40D: "60. Keeps in the loop, electronically"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter
- Similar words include: cubic centimeter, milliliter, ml
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CCS
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41D: "61. Similar (to)"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that similar in quality or character
- Similar words include: kindred, consanguineal, consanguineous
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AKIN
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42D: "63. Pioneering astronaut Jemison"
3 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: MAE
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43D: "64. "The Good Wife" figure: Abbr."
3 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
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Answer: ATT
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44D: "67. Declares off limits"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a decree that prohibits something
- Similar words include: forbidding, prohibition, banning
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BANS
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45D: "68. Fix a litter problem?"
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that remove the ovaries of
- Similar words include: neuter, alter, castrate
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SPAY
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46D: "69. Show signs"
5 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in the air in small amounts
- Similar words include: atomic number 10, neon, Ne
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NEONS
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47D: "71. Palm off (on)"
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that to force onto another
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: FOIST
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48D: "73. Mooch"
8 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that live off somebody's generosity
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: FREELOAD
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49D: "75. Hangs on a clothesline"
5 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages
- Similar words include: dry out, dry, prohibitionist
- Opposite of: wet
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Answer: DRIES
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50D: "77. Isis Naija Gaston, ___ Ice Spice"
3 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
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Answer: AKA
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51D: "78. Madonna's "La ___ Bonita""
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: ISLA
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52D: "80. Kick out"
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that expel or eject without recourse to legal process
- Similar words include: force out
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EVICT
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53D: "81. Planned detour"
8 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
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Answer: SIDETRIP
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54D: "83. "Shark Tank" shark Greiner"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
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Answer: LORI
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55D: "84. Horror franchise that includes 1992's "Army of Darkness""
8 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
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Answer: EVILDEAD
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56D: "85. It all adds up to this"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a quantity of money
- Similar words include: tot up, totality, join
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SUM
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57D: "86. "West Side Story" conflict"
7 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
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Answer: TURFWAR
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58D: "87. Edmund who wrote "View From the Summit""
7 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that new zealand mountaineer who in 1953 first attained the summit of mount everest with his sherpa guide tenzing norgay (born in 1919)
- Similar words include: Edmund Hillary, Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, Sir Edmund Hillary
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: HILLARY
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59D: "89. "Now, wait just one minute!""
7 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
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Answer: SEEHERE
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60D: "91. Suppress"
5 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that put down by force or intimidation
- Similar words include: subdue, invalidate, avoid
- Opposite of: validate
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Answer: QUASH
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61D: "92. Like cheesecake vis-Ã -vis sponge cake"
6 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that possessing material wealth
- Similar words include: racy, deep, robust
- Opposite of: lean, poor
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Answer: RICHER
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62D: "93. "That was a close one!""
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
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Answer: PHEW
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63D: "94. What wets the appetite?"
6 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth; moistens the mouth and starts the digestion of starches
- Similar words include: spittle, spit
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SALIVA
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64D: "95. "The idea!""
6 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: INEVER
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65D: "96. Penny pincher"
5 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a stingy hoarder of money and possessions (often living miserably)
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MISER
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66D: "99. Intrinsically"
5 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: PERSE
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67D: "101. Jazz singer Carmen"
5 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: MCRAE
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68D: "103. Part of a plot, at times"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a unit of area (4840 square yards) used in english-speaking countries
- Similar words include: Akko, Akka, Accho
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ACRE
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69D: "104. The third one is dangerous"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
- Similar words include: railing, vituperate, rail in
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RAIL
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70D: "106. Once-common fish in the Thames"
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in europe and america; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
- Similar words include: eel
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EELS
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71D: "107. Veal cordon ___"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cheese containing a blue mold
- Similar words include: blue cheese
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BLEU
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72D: "109. Smidgen"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a slight amount or degree of difference
- Similar words include: shade
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TAD
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73D: "111. Inits. at sea"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a metric unit of length equal to 100 meters
- Similar words include: hectometer, hectometre, hm
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HMS
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