1D: "1. Person from the neighborhood"
5 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops
- Similar words include: local anaesthetic, topical anesthetic, topical anaesthetic
- Opposite of: general, express
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Answer: LOCAL Remember this word for future puzzles!
2D: "2. Volunteer's offer"
5 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: ILLGO Remember this word for future puzzles!
3D: "3. Bogeymen"
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
- Similar words include: fright, awe, fearfulness
- Opposite of: fearlessness
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Answer: FEARS Remember this word for future puzzles!
4D: "4. Maker of Bikini So Teeny nail polish"
5 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: ESSIE Remember this word for future puzzles!
5D: "5. Breakthrough K-pop group"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: BTS Remember this word for future puzzles!
6D: "6. Horror director Aster"
3 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: ARI Remember this word for future puzzles!
7D: "7. Most suggestive"
7 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that full of zest or vigor
- Similar words include: naughty, full-bodied, spicy
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: RACIEST Remember this word for future puzzles!
8D: "8. Like the Eid al-Fitr festival"
7 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that of or relating to or supporting islamism
- Similar words include: Moslem, Muslim
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ISLAMIC Remember this word for future puzzles!
9D: "9. Department store eponym"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: MACY Remember this word for future puzzles!
10D: "10. Pale lager, informally"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: PILS Remember this word for future puzzles!
11D: "11. ___ gobi (Indian potato dish)"
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: ALOO Remember this word for future puzzles!
12D: "12. Feeling down"
3 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation
- Similar words include: abject, depression, small
- Opposite of: high
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Answer: LOW Remember this word for future puzzles!
13D: "13. ___ Taylor (fashion retailer)"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: ANN Remember this word for future puzzles!
14D: "14. Home of the Preakness Stakes"
7 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a racetrack for thoroughbred racing; site of the preakness
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: PIMLICO Remember this word for future puzzles!
15D: "15. Early TV role for Ron Howard"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: OPIE Remember this word for future puzzles!
16D: "16. Atlantic fish"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that bony flesh of herring-like fish usually caught during their migration to fresh water for spawning; especially of atlantic coast
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SHAD Remember this word for future puzzles!
17D: "17. Like Frisbees and some salads"
6 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that throw or toss with a light motion
- Similar words include: dispose, thresh about, discard
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TOSSED Remember this word for future puzzles!
18D: "18. Not stereo"
6 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: INMONO Remember this word for future puzzles!
19D: "19. Hard-boiled Chinese snack"
6 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: TEAEGG Remember this word for future puzzles!
20D: "24. Sapporo competitor"
5 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: ASAHI Remember this word for future puzzles!
21D: "28. Bowler's edge"
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the top edge of a vessel or other container
- Similar words include: rim, lip
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BRIM Remember this word for future puzzles!
22D: "30. Blemish"
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue
- Similar words include: pit, cicatrice, pock
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SCAR Remember this word for future puzzles!
23D: "31. Fixes, as a driveway"
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- Similar words include: sea dog, pitch, Jack
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TARS Remember this word for future puzzles!
24D: "32. Cake not to be eaten"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats
- Similar words include: max, Georgia home boy, easy lay
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SOAP Remember this word for future puzzles!
25D: "33. French for "after""
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: APRES Remember this word for future puzzles!
26D: "36. Barry Bonds and Shohei Ohtani, notably, for short"
6 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: NLMVPS Remember this word for future puzzles!
27D: "37. Hammer wielder"
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (norse mythology) god of thunder and rain and farming; pictured as wielding a hammer emblematic of the thunderbolt; identified with teutonic donar
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: THOR Remember this word for future puzzles!
28D: "38. Furthermore"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: AND Remember this word for future puzzles!
29D: "39. Caustic solutions"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a strong solution of sodium or potassium hydroxide
- Similar words include: lye
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LYES Remember this word for future puzzles!
30D: "40. Mother of Helios, in myth"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (greek mythology) the titaness who was mother of helios and selene and eos in ancient mythology
- Similar words include: Theia
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: THEA Remember this word for future puzzles!
31D: "41. Metaphor for a runaway success"
8 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a raging and rapidly spreading conflagration
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: WILDFIRE Remember this word for future puzzles!
32D: "42. Gen Z put-down of an elder"
8 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: OKBOOMER Remember this word for future puzzles!
33D: "43. Bit of wisdom"
5 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster; much valued as a jewel
- Similar words include: bead, bone, drop
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PEARL Remember this word for future puzzles!
34D: "44. Orbit"
9 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: EYESOCKET Remember this word for future puzzles!
35D: "48. Arcane technique"
8 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: BLACKART Remember this word for future puzzles!
36D: "49. Iron-rich variety of fertile soil"
8 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: REDEARTH Remember this word for future puzzles!
37D: "50. Exclamations in nurseries"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: AWS Remember this word for future puzzles!
38D: "52. Lead-in to "tech""
3 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: CAL Remember this word for future puzzles!
39D: "53. Primatologist's interest"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all
- Similar words include: anthropoid, caricature, copycat
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: APE Remember this word for future puzzles!
40D: "55. Give the cold shoulder, with "out""
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that water frozen in the solid state
- Similar words include: internal-combustion engine, glass, shabu
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ICE Remember this word for future puzzles!
41D: "56. Grating voice"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that uttering in an irritated tone
- Similar words include: rasping, wood file
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RASP Remember this word for future puzzles!
42D: "59. Common diner order"
3 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce
- Similar words include: bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: BLT Remember this word for future puzzles!
43D: "60. Rodgers and Hammerstein musical setting"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a country of southeastern asia that extends southward along the isthmus of kra to the malay peninsula
- Similar words include: Kingdom of Thailand, Thailand
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SIAM Remember this word for future puzzles!
44D: "63. Photog's undergrad degree"
3 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: BFA Remember this word for future puzzles!
45D: "66. Stick on a table"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech
- Similar words include: pool stick, pool cue, cue stick
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CUE Remember this word for future puzzles!
46D: "67. Like Volvo and Nokia, by origin"
6 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the northern family of germanic languages that are spoken in scandinavia and iceland
- Similar words include: North Germanic, Scandinavian, Norse
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: NORDIC Remember this word for future puzzles!
47D: "68. Gold, in Guadalajara"
3 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: ORO Remember this word for future puzzles!
48D: "69. London granny"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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- Think of something that your grandmother
- Similar words include: Nan River, nanna, grandma
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NAN Remember this word for future puzzles!
49D: "70. Standard battle wear"
5 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that protective covering made of metal and used in combat
- Similar words include: armour
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ARMOR Remember this word for future puzzles!
50D: "71. No. 2's"
3 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: VPS Remember this word for future puzzles!
51D: "75. Vodka in blue bottles"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: SKYY Remember this word for future puzzles!
52D: "77. New Zealander"
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that climbing vine native to china; cultivated in new zealand for its fuzzy edible fruit with green meat
- Similar words include: Actinidia chinensis, kiwi vine, Chinese gooseberry
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: KIWI Remember this word for future puzzles!
53D: "79. One studied in the art of invisibility"
5 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of the ninja who were trained in martial arts and hired for espionage or sabotage or assassinations; a person skilled in ninjutsu
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NINJA Remember this word for future puzzles!
54D: "80. Touch"
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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- Think of something that lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- Similar words include: march, adjoin, butt against
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ABUT Remember this word for future puzzles!
55D: "83. Govt. campaign watchdog"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: FEC Remember this word for future puzzles!
56D: "85. Scottish refusals"
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: NAES Remember this word for future puzzles!
57D: "86. Loretta of "M*A*S*H""
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: SWIT Remember this word for future puzzles!
58D: "87. Small keg size"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a range horse of the western united states
- Similar words include: crib, trot, jigger
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PONY Remember this word for future puzzles!
59D: "89. With zeal"
7 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: RABIDLY Remember this word for future puzzles!
60D: "90. Director Kazan"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that english essayist (1775-1834)
- Similar words include: Charles Lamb, Lamb
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ELIA Remember this word for future puzzles!
61D: "91. Neighbors of premolars"
7 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars
- Similar words include: cuspid, dogtooth, canid
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: CANINES Remember this word for future puzzles!
62D: "92. Audibly shocked"
5 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: AGASP Remember this word for future puzzles!
63D: "93. Landlords, more formally"
7 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who grants a lease
- Similar words include: lessor, lease giver
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: LESSORS Remember this word for future puzzles!
64D: "94. Pack carriers"
6 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that wild or domesticated south american cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump
- Similar words include: llama
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: LLAMAS Remember this word for future puzzles!
65D: "95. Crack open?"
6 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: YOMAMA Remember this word for future puzzles!
66D: "96. Is fueled by"
6 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: RUNSON Remember this word for future puzzles!
67D: "101. Fill in a mill"
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that grain intended to be or that has been ground
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GRIST Remember this word for future puzzles!
68D: "102. Right-hand page"
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that right-hand page
- Opposite of: verso
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RECTO Remember this word for future puzzles!
69D: "103. Strike zone?"
5 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a narrow street with walls on both sides
- Similar words include: back street, bowling alley, skittle alley
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ALLEY Remember this word for future puzzles!
70D: "104. Mike or Michael in movies"
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: MYERS Remember this word for future puzzles!
71D: "106. Raison d'___"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: ETRE Remember this word for future puzzles!
72D: "107. Close up tight"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm; used for sealing documents and parcels and letters
- Similar words include: cachet, Navy SEAL, sealing wax
- Opposite of: unseal
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Answer: SEAL Remember this word for future puzzles!
73D: "108. Invitation letters"
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: RSVP Remember this word for future puzzles!
74D: "109. Uber predictions, in brief"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional basque party; want to create an independent homeland in spain's western pyrenees
- Similar words include: Basque Fatherland and Liberty, Basque Homeland and Freedom, ETA
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ETAS Remember this word for future puzzles!
75D: "110. Style"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that how something is done or how it happens
- Similar words include: modality, manner, modal value
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MODE Remember this word for future puzzles!
76D: "113. Zippo competitor"
3 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: BIC Remember this word for future puzzles!
77D: "114. Co-producer of the documentary "The Beatles: Get Back""
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
78D: "115. "The Bells" poet"
3 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states writer and poet (1809-1849)
- Similar words include: Edgar Allan Poe
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: POE Remember this word for future puzzles!
79D: "116. Fenway team, familiarly"
3 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: SOX Remember this word for future puzzles!
