1D: "1. Results of some peace talks"
7 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters
- Similar words include: accordance, accord, agreement
- Opposite of: disagreement
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Answer: ACCORDS
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2D: "2. "Wow!""
7 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: TOOCOOL
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3D: "3. Government act whose name comes from the Greek for "forgetfulness""
7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a period during which offenders are exempt from punishment
- Similar words include: free pardon, pardon
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: AMNESTY
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4D: "4. Papal representative"
6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of a legation
- Similar words include: official emissary
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: LEGATE
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5D: "5. Michaels of "Saturday Night Live""
5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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Answer: LORNE
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6D: "6. Angry cat's "greeting""
4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval)
- Similar words include: raspberry, sibilation, razz
- Opposite of: applaud
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Answer: HISS
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7D: "7. Nav. rank"
3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that half the width of an em
- Similar words include: nut, en
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ENS
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8D: "8. Retort of denial"
7 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: ITISNOT
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9D: "9. Offer emotional support (for)"
6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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Answer: SHOWUP
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10D: "10. Time that's an artist's name backward"
5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: TENAM
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11D: "11. Did the butterfly, e.g."
4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that travel through water
- Similar words include: float, drown, swim
- Opposite of: sink
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Answer: SWAM
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12D: "12. Co. whose logo depicts the god Mercury holding flowers"
3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: FTD
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13D: "13. Dutch city with a namesake jar"
6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a city in the western netherlands; residence of the pilgrim fathers for 11 years before they sailed for america in 1620
- Similar words include: Leyden
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: LEIDEN
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14D: "14. ___ Major"
4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: URSA
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15D: "15. "Because I Got High" rapper"
7 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: AFROMAN
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16D: "16. 12 letters?"
3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one
- Similar words include: 12, dozen, twelve
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: XII
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17D: "17. Magazine for entrepreneurs"
3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a heterogeneous collection of groups united in their opposition to saddam hussein's government of iraq; formed in 1992 it is comprised of sunni and shiite arabs and kurds who hope to build a new government
- Similar words include: Iraqi National Congress
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: INC
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18D: "18. Good to go"
3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
- Similar words include: hardening, set up, put
- Opposite of: rise
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Answer: SET
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19D: "20. Branch with a stem?"
9 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the branch of medical science that deals with the nervous system
- Similar words include: clinical neurology
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: NEUROLOGY
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20D: "21. Number of letters?"
12 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: ALPHABETSONG
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21D: "22. Ocular affliction"
4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid
- Similar words include: hordeolum, eye infection, sty
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: STYE
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22D: "28. Uintah and Ouray reservation people"
4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of the shoshonean people of utah and colorado and new mexico
- Similar words include: Ute
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: UTES
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23D: "30. Surpassed"
8 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that shine brighter than
- Similar words include: outshine
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: OUTSHONE
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24D: "32. Group in support of a queen"
9 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: ANTCOLONY
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25D: "33. Rushing around"
8 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: INAHURRY
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26D: "34. Last Beatles single before Paul McCartney's departure"
7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: LETITBE
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27D: "37. Reality TV icon ___ Leakes"
4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: NENE
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28D: "38. Edging, e.g."
9 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that win a victory over
- Similar words include: defeat, overcome, kill
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: DEFEATING
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29D: "39. Title for Macbeth"
5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a feudal lord or baron
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: THANE
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30D: "42. Parts of many combo meals"
5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sodium salt of carbonic acid; used in making soap powders and glass and paper
- Similar words include: sal soda, soda ash, pop
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SODAS
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31D: "43. Selling off, as stocks"
9 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that take away possessions from someone
- Similar words include: strip, divest, deprive
- Opposite of: invest
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Answer: DIVESTING
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32D: "45. Big inits. in Dutch banking"
3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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Answer: ING
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33D: "46. Foretelling of"
6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a feeling of evil to come
- Similar words include: predict, presentiment, foreshadow
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BODING
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34D: "47. Bestowing extravagantly (on)"
9 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns
- Similar words include: lavish, shower
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: LAVISHING
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35D: "48. Source of fragrant cones"
4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a coniferous tree
- Similar words include: ache, languish, yearn
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PINE
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36D: "50. Destiny"
9 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: LOTINLIFE
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37D: "51. Something that might not be well received when someone asks "How do I look?""
12 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: HONESTANSWER
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38D: "52. Was flaky?"
6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that fall as snow
- Similar words include: snow, bamboozle, pull the wool over someone's eyes
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SNOWED
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39D: "53. Counterpart of 53-Across"
8 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the day after today
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: TOMORROW
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40D: "54. It's not exactly fast food"
8 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that thick dark syrup produced by boiling down juice from sugar cane; especially during sugar refining
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: MOLASSES
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41D: "56. Almsgiving and pilgrimage, for two"
7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any customary observance or practice
- Similar words include: ritual, rite
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: RITUALS
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42D: "57. Bit of folklore"
4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
- Similar words include: fib, narration, taradiddle
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TALE
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43D: "58. Wonk"
5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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- Think of something that someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
- Similar words include: whiz, champion, wiz
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MAVEN
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44D: "60. Hammer parts"
5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the part of a hammerhead opposite the flat striking surface (may have various shapes)
- Similar words include: peen
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PEENS
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45D: "61. Main ingredient in salsa verde"
9 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that mexican annual naturalized in eastern north america having yellow to purple edible fruit resembling small tomatoes
- Similar words include: Physalis philadelphica, purple ground cherry, Mexican husk tomato
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: TOMATILLO
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46D: "63. Purple yam in Filipino desserts"
3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: UBE
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47D: "64. Sounds from pigeons"
4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the sound made by a pigeon
- Similar words include: coo
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: COOS
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48D: "67. Simple coffee brewing method"
4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid
- Similar words include: dripping, drop, trickle
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DRIP
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49D: "69. Treeless tracts"
7 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that extensive plain without trees (associated with eastern russia and siberia)
- Similar words include: steppe
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: STEPPES
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50D: "71. Pleasing rhythms"
7 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)
- Similar words include: groove, channel, furrow
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: GROOVES
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51D: "72. Diamond component?"
7 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: SILENTA
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52D: "73. Gene-activating substance"
7 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an agent capable of activating specific genes
- Similar words include: persuader
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: INDUCER
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53D: "74. Eyes, informally"
7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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- Think of something that a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others
- Similar words include: voyeur, peeper, Peeping Tom
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: PEEPERS
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54D: "77. Danced at a luau"
6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: HULAED
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55D: "78. Eddies"
6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that confused movement
- Similar words include: offer, eddy, pass
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: WHIRLS
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56D: "79. Very complicated situation, so to speak"
6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
- Similar words include: quag, quagmire, slack
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: MORASS
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57D: "81. ___ People's Campaign (1968 S.C.L.C. movement)"
4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)
- Similar words include: poor people, misfortunate, short
- Opposite of: rich, rich people
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Answer: POOR
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58D: "83. Self-congratulatory declaration"
5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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Answer: IRULE
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59D: "85. One of the Five Pillars of Islam, referring to prayer"
5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the second pillar of islam is prayer; a prescribed liturgy performed five times a day (preferably in a mosque) and oriented toward mecca
- Similar words include: salaat, salah, salaah
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SALAT
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60D: "87. "___ take arms against a sea of troubles": Hamlet"
4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: ORTO
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61D: "89. Since"
4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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Answer: ASOF
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62D: "90. Some fan-made literary works, informally"
4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: FICS
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63D: "91. Prefix with normative"
3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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- Think of something that an alliance made up of states that had been soviet socialist republics in the soviet union prior to its dissolution in dec 1991
- Similar words include: Ci, curie, Commonwealth of Independent States
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CIS
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64D: "92. ___ shoestring"
3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: ONA
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65D: "93. They're parked in parks"
3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a motorized wheeled vehicle used for camping or other recreational activities
- Similar words include: recreational vehicle, RV, R.V.
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RVS
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66D: "94. Some OT enders"
3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: TDS
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67D: "95. Before, poetically"
3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: ERE
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