1D: "1. Santa ___, city that's home to the Charles M. Schulz Museum"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that large genus of erect or climbing prickly shrubs including roses
- Similar words include: genus Rosa
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ROSA
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2D: "2. One acting on impulse?"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron
- Similar words include: axone
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AXON
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3D: "3. Split from suddenly, in a way"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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- Think of something that a woman who jilts a lover
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: JILT
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4D: "4. Extras"
6 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: ADDONS
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5D: "5. Greek sun god"
6 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (greek mythology) ancient god of the sun; drove his chariot across the sky each day; identified with roman sol
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: HELIOS
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6D: "6. "Let this be a lesson!""
8 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: TAKEHEED
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7D: "7. Shakespearean conjunction"
3 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: ERE
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8D: "8. Deep-seated desires"
5 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain
- Similar words include: aching, hurt, yearn
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ACHES
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9D: "9. Wide and uninhibited, as a grin"
6 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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- Think of something that having or showing prominent teeth
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TOOTHY
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10D: "10. Start of a song with the same tune as "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star""
3 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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- Think of something that the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)
- Similar words include: ABCs, rudiment, first rudiment
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ABC
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11D: "11. Hadron component"
5 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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- Think of something that (physics) hypothetical truly fundamental particle in mesons and baryons; there are supposed to be six flavors of quarks (and their antiquarks), which come in pairs; each has an electric charge of +2/3 or -1/3
- Similar words include: quark cheese
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: QUARK
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12D: "12. Iconic nerd of 1990s TV"
5 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: URKEL
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13D: "13. Needing iron supplements, say"
6 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that lacking vigor or energy
- Similar words include: anaemic
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ANEMIC
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14D: "14. Lines on some grids: Abbr."
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: STS
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15D: "15. Get even?"
9 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: MAKELEVEL
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16D: "16. Oily fruits"
6 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that small ovoid fruit of the european olive tree; important food and source of oil
- Similar words include: Olea europaea, olive, European olive tree
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: OLIVES
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17D: "17. Irritated with"
6 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: SOREAT
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18D: "18. Wolf (down)"
5 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make off with belongings of others
- Similar words include: lift, hook, filch
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SNARF
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19D: "22. Course in a Brazilian meal"
6 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: SALADA
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20D: "24. Word with job or track"
6 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the region that is inside of something
- Similar words include: deep down, inwardly, interior
- Opposite of: outdoors, outwardly
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Answer: INSIDE
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21D: "25. New Mexico county or its seat"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of the pueblo people living in northern new mexico
- Similar words include: Taoist, Tao
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TAOS
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22D: "30. Neuron, e.g."
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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- Think of something that any small compartment
- Similar words include: cadre, mobile phone, cellular phone
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CELL
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23D: "33. Actress Kurylenko of "Quantum of Solace""
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: OLGA
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24D: "34. Eccentric sort"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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- Think of something that someone regarded as eccentric or crazy and standing out from a group
- Similar words include: queer bird, odd fellow, queer duck
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: KOOK
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25D: "35. They shine during the day"
9 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: SOAPSTARS
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26D: "36. Great heights"
9 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that elevation especially above sea level or above the earth's surface
- Similar words include: height, ALT, altitude
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: ALTITUDES
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27D: "37. Move, in Realtor-speak"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: RELO
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28D: "40. Some microbuses, in brief"
3 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: VWS
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29D: "42. Relating to some forces on Earth"
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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- Think of something that of or relating to or caused by tides
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TIDAL
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30D: "44. "I knew it!""
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: AHA
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31D: "45. Peaceful period"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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- Think of something that (roman catholic church) a greeting signifying christian love for those assisting at the eucharist
- Similar words include: kiss of peace
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PAX
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32D: "48. Swamp critter"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: CROC
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33D: "49. "Keep dreaming""
6 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: HECKNO
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34D: "50. Smallest relative of an ostrich"
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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: kiwi fruit, kiwi vine, apteryx
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: KIWI
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35D: "51. Kind of mushroom that comes in a bundle"
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: ENOKI
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36D: "52. "What can ___ to help?""
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: WEDO
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37D: "54. "What took so long?!""
9 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: ABOUTTIME
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38D: "55. Summary of a contract's details"
9 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: TERMSHEET
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39D: "56. Wild guess"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sudden sharp feeling
- Similar words include: poke, prod, twinge
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: STAB
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40D: "60. Treats, in a way, as a swelling"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that water frozen in the solid state
- Similar words include: trash, ice, ICE
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ICES
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41D: "61. So many"
6 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: LOTSOF
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42D: "63. Riddle in Zen Buddhism"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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- Think of something that a paradoxical anecdote or a riddle that has no solution; used in zen buddhism to show the inadequacy of logical reasoning
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: KOAN
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43D: "64. Pretty fishy"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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- Think of something that type genus of the suidae
- Similar words include: genus Sus
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SUS
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44D: "66. Leave alone"
5 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: LETBE
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45D: "68. One might be named for a king or queen"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
- Similar words include: earned run average, geological era, epoch
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ERA
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46D: "70. Pump, say"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material
- Similar words include: horseshoe, brake shoe, skid
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SHOE
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47D: "71. God who rides in a chariot pulled by two goats"
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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- 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
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48D: "72. Got just right"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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- Think of something that succeed at easily
- Similar words include: sail through, nail, pass with flying colors
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ACED
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49D: "73. Souvenir from the seashore"
5 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- Similar words include: cuticle, case, vanquish
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SHELL
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50D: "74. Improve"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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- Think of something that heal or recover
- Similar words include: cure, bring around, mend
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HEAL
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51D: "80. Competitor who has manners"
9 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: GOODLOSER
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52D: "82. "You had one ___!""
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- Similar words include: occupation, chore, task
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: JOB
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53D: "83. Washington, D.C.'s International ___ Museum"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors
- Similar words include: stag, descry, sight
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SPY
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54D: "85. Jessica of "The Better Sister""
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: BIEL
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55D: "87. W-2 requirement, in brief"
3 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: SSN
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56D: "89. Person from South Asia"
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: DESI
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57D: "90. Whisky flavorer"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that partially carbonized vegetable matter saturated with water; can be used as a fuel when dried
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PEAT
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58D: "91. Very involved (in)"
8 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: KNEEDEEP
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59D: "92. Catchall phrase from Latin"
6 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: ETALIA
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60D: "94. Stepped up to the plate"
6 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that strike with, or as if with a baseball bat
- Similar words include: bat, drub, lick
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BATTED
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61D: "95. Woes"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining
- Similar words include: complaint, ill, ailment
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ILLS
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62D: "99. Awe-inspiring light show"
6 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the first light of day
- Similar words include: break of day, dawning, break of the day
- Opposite of: sunset
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Answer: AURORA
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63D: "100. Sushi consisting of thin slices of fish over rice"
6 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: NIGIRI
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64D: "101. "Whew! Finished!""
6 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: OKDONE
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65D: "103. Extol"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that praise, glorify, or honor
- Similar words include: glorify, exalt, extol
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LAUD
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66D: "104. Joints shown by no-show socks"
6 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a gliding joint between the distal ends of the tibia and fibula and the proximal end of the talus
- Similar words include: articulatio talocruralis, ankle joint, mortise joint
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ANKLES
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67D: "106. Gathers (together)"
6 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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- Think of something that a church congregation guided by a pastor
- Similar words include: spate, deal, plenty
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: FLOCKS
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68D: "107. Light into"
6 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: LASHAT
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69D: "108. Biblical tower locale"
5 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by noah's descendants (probably in babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven; god foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer understand one another
- Similar words include: Tower of Babel
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BABEL
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70D: "109. Clears, as profit"
5 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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- Think of something that earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- Similar words include: garner, take in, clear
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EARNS
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71D: "110. Welcome at the door"
5 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: ASKIN
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72D: "111. Something consumed by the ton by whales"
5 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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- Think of something that shrimp-like planktonic crustaceans; major source of food for e.g. baleen whales
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: KRILL
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73D: "117. Home of the Road to Hana, whose 64-mile length contains more than 600 curves"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the second largest of the hawaiian islands
- Similar words include: Maui Island
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MAUI
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74D: "118. Modern-day Persia"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a theocratic islamic republic in the middle east in western asia; iran was the core of the ancient empire that was known as persia until 1935; rich in oil
- Similar words include: Persia, Islamic Republic of Iran
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IRAN
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75D: "119. Neglect to include"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that prevent from being included or considered or accepted
- Similar words include: take out, pretermit, neglect
- Opposite of: include, attend to
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Answer: OMIT
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76D: "121. Route"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that how something is done or how it happens
- Similar words include: elbow room, manner, right smart
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: WAY
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77D: "122. Abbr. in a job posting"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: EEO
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78D: "123. Carnival maker"
3 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: KIA
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