1A: "1. Tennis superstar Nadal, familiarly"
4 letters Category: Wordplay
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Answer: RAFA Remember this word for future puzzles!
2A: "5. "Wicked" director Jon M. ___"
3 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
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Answer: CHU Remember this word for future puzzles!
3A: "8. Unspecified degree"
3 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that last or greatest in an indefinitely large series
- Similar words include: n-th
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NTH Remember this word for future puzzles!
4A: "11. Pack (down)"
4 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)
- Similar words include: tamper, pack, tamping bar
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TAMP Remember this word for future puzzles!
5A: "15. "Sign me up!""
4 letters Category: Wordplay
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Answer: IMIN Remember this word for future puzzles!
6A: "16. Bygone carrier that had a fleet of "Clippers""
5 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
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Answer: PANAM Remember this word for future puzzles!
7A: "19. Really like"
5 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that love intensely
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ADORE Remember this word for future puzzles!
8A: "21. Woodwind related to the cor anglais"
4 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece
- Similar words include: hautbois, hautboy
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OBOE Remember this word for future puzzles!
9A: "22. Article of sports equipment that typically has two rubber sheets of different colors"
14 letters Category: Wordplay
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Answer: PINGPONGPADDLE Remember this word for future puzzles!
10A: "24. Delivery option"
5 letters Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: FEDEX Remember this word for future puzzles!
11A: "25. Sound from a ragdoll"
4 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a low vibrating sound typical of a contented cat
- Similar words include: birr, whirr, whir
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PURR Remember this word for future puzzles!
12A: "26. Division signs, more formally"
5 letters Category: Wordplay
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Answer: OBELI Remember this word for future puzzles!
13A: "27. Word sung three times in a row in "Take Me Out to the Ball Game""
4 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
- Similar words include: origin, stem, tooth root
- Opposite of: descendant
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Answer: ROOT Remember this word for future puzzles!
14A: "28. Et ___ (and others)"
4 letters Category: Wordplay
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Answer: ALIA Remember this word for future puzzles!
15A: "29. Games on some kids' menus"
5 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost
- Similar words include: labyrinth, maze, tangle
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MAZES Remember this word for future puzzles!
16A: "30. Boss at a blaze"
9 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
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Answer: FIRECHIEF Remember this word for future puzzles!
17A: "32. Game on some kids' menus"
16 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________________
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Answer: CRISSCROSSPUZZLE Remember this word for future puzzles!
18A: "34. "King Kong" actress Wray"
3 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers
- Similar words include: faerie, sprite, faery
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: FAY Remember this word for future puzzles!
19A: "35. What might pop up from time to time?"
7 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who proposes a toast; someone who drinks to the health of success of someone or some venture
- Similar words include: wassailer
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: TOASTER Remember this word for future puzzles!
20A: "37. Item in a numismatist's collection"
4 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money
- Similar words include: strike, mint
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: COIN Remember this word for future puzzles!
21A: "38. "S.N.L." alum Nora"
4 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
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Answer: DUNN Remember this word for future puzzles!
22A: "39. Champagne giant"
4 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
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Answer: MOET Remember this word for future puzzles!
23A: "42. Patient watchers"
6 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one skilled in caring for young children or the sick (usually under the supervision of a physician)
- Similar words include: breastfeed, harbour, nursemaid
- Opposite of: bottlefeed
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Answer: NURSES Remember this word for future puzzles!
24A: "46. Birthstone before opal"
8 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a precious transparent stone of rich blue corundum valued as a gemstone
- Similar words include: sky-blue, lazuline, azure
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: SAPPHIRE Remember this word for future puzzles!
25A: "49. Longtime NASCAR sponsor"
3 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that standard temperature and pressure
- Similar words include: s.t.p.
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: STP Remember this word for future puzzles!
26A: "51. Ladybug's prey"
5 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various small plant-sucking insects
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: APHID Remember this word for future puzzles!
27A: "53. Debaters who use deceptive arguments"
8 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of a group of greek philosophers and teachers in the 5th century bc who speculated on a wide range of subjects
- Similar words include: Sophist, sophist, casuist
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: SOPHISTS Remember this word for future puzzles!
28A: "55. Stag"
5 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that isolated from others
- Similar words include: only, unaccompanied, unequaled
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ALONE Remember this word for future puzzles!
29A: "56. Oscar-winning actress Loren"
6 letters Category: Common Word
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Answer: SOPHIA Remember this word for future puzzles!
30A: "57. Lower-right button on YouTube ads"
4 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a gait in which steps and hops alternate
- Similar words include: hop-skip, bound off, hop
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SKIP Remember this word for future puzzles!
31A: "59. ___ nous (between us)"
5 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
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Answer: ENTRE Remember this word for future puzzles!
32A: "60. Kristen of "Bridesmaids""
4 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
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Answer: WIIG Remember this word for future puzzles!
33A: "61. Seduce"
5 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that dispose or incline or entice to
- Similar words include: invite, lure, influence
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TEMPT Remember this word for future puzzles!
34A: "62. "In my estimation ...""
5 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
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Answer: IDSAY Remember this word for future puzzles!
35A: "64. Rubber end of a golf club"
4 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of grasping
- Similar words include: travelling bag, traction, clutch
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GRIP Remember this word for future puzzles!
36A: "65. Ninth inning, usually"
3 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that either extremity of something that has length
- Similar words include: conclusion, destruction, goal
- Opposite of: beginning, begin
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Answer: END Remember this word for future puzzles!
37A: "66. Flooded"
5 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that covered with water
- Similar words include: afloat, overflowing, flooded
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AWASH Remember this word for future puzzles!
38A: "67. Iridescent jewelry material"
5 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell
- Similar words include: mother-of-pearl
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NACRE Remember this word for future puzzles!
39A: "68. Rug cleaner, for short"
3 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that informal term for vacation
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: VAC Remember this word for future puzzles!
40A: "69. Lead-in to aging or anxiety"
4 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who is opposed (to an action or policy or practice etc.)
- Opposite of: pro
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ANTI Remember this word for future puzzles!
41A: "70. Two-time capital of the Mughal Empire"
5 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a city in north central india
- Similar words include: Old Delhi
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DELHI Remember this word for future puzzles!
42A: "71. Biting pests"
5 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies
- Similar words include: gnat
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GNATS Remember this word for future puzzles!
43A: "72. Follower of catch or latch"
4 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
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Answer: ONTO Remember this word for future puzzles!
44A: "74. Former times"
5 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the time that has elapsed
- Similar words include: yesteryear, past tense, past times
- Opposite of: future
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Answer: PASTS Remember this word for future puzzles!
45A: "76. Cameron who voiced Princess Fiona in the "Shrek" movies"
4 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first european to get round the cape of good hope (thus establishing a sea route from the atlantic to asia) (1450-1500)
- Similar words include: Dias, Bartholomeu Diaz, Bartholomeu Dias
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DIAZ Remember this word for future puzzles!
46A: "77. Flo Rida title sung before the words "just a little""
4 letters Category: Common Word
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Answer: ICRY Remember this word for future puzzles!
47A: "78. Big cat hybrid"
5 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that offspring of a male lion and a female tiger
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LIGER Remember this word for future puzzles!
48A: "79. No Shave November growth, informally"
6 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
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Answer: STACHE Remember this word for future puzzles!
49A: "81. Mimic"
3 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all
- Similar words include: aper, anthropoid, copycat
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: APE Remember this word for future puzzles!
50A: "82. Connecticut governor Lamont"
3 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
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Answer: NED Remember this word for future puzzles!
51A: "83. N.B.A. team that plays at Gainbridge Fieldhouse"
6 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a horse used to set the pace in racing
- Similar words include: pacer, pacesetter, pacemaker
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PACERS Remember this word for future puzzles!
52A: "84. Compound that ripens bananas"
6 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a flammable colorless gaseous alkene; obtained from petroleum and natural gas and used in manufacturing many other chemicals; sometimes used as an anesthetic
- Similar words include: ethylene
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ETHENE Remember this word for future puzzles!
53A: "86. Computer menu heading"
4 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting
- Similar words include: redact, blue-pencil, cut
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EDIT Remember this word for future puzzles!
54A: "88. Owlish, in a way"
4 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a way of doing or being
- Similar words include: knowing, Isaac Mayer Wise, heady
- Opposite of: foolish
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Answer: WISE Remember this word for future puzzles!
55A: "89. Brontë heroine"
4 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a shallow salt lake in south central australia about 35 feet below sea level; the largest lake in the country and the lowest point on the continent
- Similar words include: Lake Eyre
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EYRE Remember this word for future puzzles!
56A: "91. Bit of entertainment for a morning commute, maybe"
7 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that distribute (multimedia files) over the internet for playback on a mobile device or a personal computer
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: PODCAST Remember this word for future puzzles!
57A: "94. A-one ... or an "A" worth one"
3 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
- Similar words include: nail, topnotch, champion
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ACE Remember this word for future puzzles!
58A: "97. Beachy footwear"
15 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
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Answer: FLIPFLOPSANDALS Remember this word for future puzzles!
59A: "103. "I'm fine, but thanks anyway!""
9 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
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Answer: OHTHATSOK Remember this word for future puzzles!
60A: "105. Literally, "the god""
5 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that muslim name for the one and only god
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ALLAH Remember this word for future puzzles!
61A: "106. Provocative"
4 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that being in a tense state
- Similar words include: restive, jittery, overstrung
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EDGY Remember this word for future puzzles!
62A: "107. Parcel of land"
4 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal)
- Similar words include: plot of land, secret plan, plat
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PLOT Remember this word for future puzzles!
63A: "108. Classic origami design"
5 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states writer (1871-1900)
- Similar words include: Harold Hart Crane, Stephen Crane, stretch out
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CRANE Remember this word for future puzzles!
64A: "109. Medallions might be seen in them"
4 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a compartment at the front of a motor vehicle or locomotive where driver sits
- Similar words include: hack, cab, cabriolet
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CABS Remember this word for future puzzles!
65A: "110. ___ Games, event first held in 70-Across"
5 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a native or inhabitant of asia
- Similar words include: Asiatic
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ASIAN Remember this word for future puzzles!
66A: "111. Tupac and Eminem, for two"
13 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
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Answer: HIPHOPARTISTS Remember this word for future puzzles!
67A: "113. Give off"
4 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that expel (gases or odors)
- Similar words include: let loose, give out, utter
- Opposite of: absorb
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Answer: EMIT Remember this word for future puzzles!
68A: "114. Like an authoritarian"
5 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the rear part of a ship
- Similar words include: buttocks, nates, butt
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: STERN Remember this word for future puzzles!
69A: "115. ___ Montoya, "The Princess Bride" swordsman"
5 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
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Answer: INIGO Remember this word for future puzzles!
70A: "116. Telly channel, with "the""
4 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
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Answer: BEEB Remember this word for future puzzles!
71A: "117. Well-grounded"
4 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that mentally healthy; free from mental disorder
- Similar words include: reasonable
- Opposite of: insane
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Answer: SANE Remember this word for future puzzles!
72A: "118. Hit title for Abba or Rihanna"
3 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an internationally recognized distress signal in radio code
- Similar words include: sol, soh, so
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SOS Remember this word for future puzzles!
73A: "119. Email category"
3 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
- Similar words include: newfangled, young, novel
- Opposite of: old, worn
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Answer: NEW Remember this word for future puzzles!
74A: "120. Website with a "Craft Supplies & Tools" page"
4 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
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Answer: ETSY Remember this word for future puzzles!
