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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (63 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (77 clues)
- Down Clues - Detailed Hints
- Expert Solving Strategies
- Today's Puzzle Statistics
Today's Puzzle Difficulty: Tricky
Pro Tip: Start with the fill-in-the-blank clues - they're usually the easiest entry points!
Across Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1A | 1. Ease up | 5 |
| 2A | 6. Setting for a landscape | 6 |
| 3A | 12. Like pickles, but not cucumbers | 6 |
| 4A | 18. Turn up | 6 |
| 5A | 20. If all goes perfectly | 6 |
| 6A | 21. Certain head jurors | 7 |
| 7A | 23. Like some 401(k) contributions | 6 |
| 8A | 24. The Ten Plagues | 14 |
| 9A | 26. Freeze | 4 |
| 10A | 27. Bolo, e.g. | 3 |
| 11A | 29. Farmyard call | 3 |
| 12A | 30. Print-ready | 6 |
| 13A | 31. Sodom and Gomorrah | 16 |
| 14A | 37. Literary fairy queen | 3 |
| 15A | 38. Outpouring of Pandora's box | 4 |
| 16A | 39. Erelong | 4 |
| 17A | 40. Part of T.G.I.F.: Abbr. | 3 |
| 18A | 41. Singsong syllable | 3 |
| 19A | 43. Season ticket holders, presumably | 4 |
| 20A | 45. Shoofly desserts | 4 |
| 21A | 46. Hopeless from the start, for short | 3 |
| 22A | 48. Janis ___, "At Seventeen" singer | 3 |
| 23A | 49. Samson and Delilah | 17 |
| 24A | 55. Baseball Hall-of-Famer Mel | 3 |
| 25A | 56. Fix | 3 |
| 26A | 57. Calendar notation: Abbr. | 4 |
| 27A | 58. Diamond stats | 4 |
| 28A | 59. Certain trig functions | 5 |
| 29A | 61. So-called "Hollywood of the South" | 7 |
| 30A | 64. Big name in bubbly | 4 |
| 31A | 65. Painter's medium | 3 |
| 32A | 66. Noah's Ark | 21 |
| 33A | 74. Nonclerical | 3 |
| 34A | 75. Get the better of | 4 |
| 35A | 76. Like Constantinople, in 1930 | 7 |
| 36A | 77. Interior style | 5 |
| 37A | 80. Ballet bend | 4 |
| 38A | 81. Europa, Ganymede or Callisto vis-à-vis Jupiter | 4 |
| 39A | 83. The third | 3 |
| 40A | 84. Ruckus | 3 |
| 41A | 85. Garden of Eden | 17 |
| 42A | 91. "Scrumdiddlyumptious!" | 3 |
| 43A | 92. Crew need | 3 |
| 44A | 93. Get the ___ (finally become aware) | 4 |
| 45A | 94. Ingredient in some gels | 4 |
| 46A | 95. Designated H.M.O. doctor, in brief | 3 |
| 47A | 96. Vintage film channel | 3 |
| 48A | 98. Letters on a crucifix | 4 |
| 49A | 99. Word with rabbit or all | 4 |
| 50A | 101. Sully | 3 |
| 51A | 103. Moses Parting the Red Sea | 16 |
| 52A | 109. Rush uncontrolledly | 6 |
| 53A | 111. Most common last name in Somalia | 3 |
| 54A | 112. Pressure meas. | 3 |
| 55A | 113. It's verboten | 4 |
| 56A | 114. Jonah and the Whale | 14 |
| 57A | 119. Title woman in a 1965 Beach Boys hit | 6 |
| 58A | 121. Took turns | 7 |
| 59A | 122. Brimless topper | 6 |
| 60A | 123. One bringing home the bacon | 6 |
| 61A | 124. Surprisingly enough | 6 |
| 62A | 125. Bars, legally | 6 |
| 63A | 126. Follows | 5 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Ease up"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make less active or intense
- Similar words include: slake, slack off, die away
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ABATE
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2A: "6. Setting for a landscape"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a heavy, closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents)
- Similar words include: analyze, sail, canvas tent
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CANVAS
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3A: "12. Like pickles, but not cucumbers"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that being or containing an acid; of a solution having an excess of hydrogen atoms (having a ph of less than 7)
- Similar words include: acid, acidulent, acidulous
- Opposite of: alkaline
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Answer: ACIDIC
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4A: "18. Turn up"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining
- Similar words include: turn up, site, situate
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: LOCATE
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5A: "20. If all goes perfectly"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ATBEST
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6A: "21. Certain head jurors"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who exercises control over workers
- Similar words include: honcho, foreman, boss
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: FOREMEN
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7A: "23. Like some 401(k) contributions"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PRETAX
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8A: "24. The Ten Plagues"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______________
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Answer: DEATHONTHENILE
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9A: "26. Freeze"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the state of inactivity following an interruption
- Similar words include: staunch, stop, stoppage
- Opposite of: start
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Answer: HALT
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10A: "27. Bolo, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front
- Similar words include: connect, marry, attach
- Opposite of: untie, disconnect
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Answer: TIE
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11A: "29. Farmyard call"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cry made by sheep
- Similar words include: blate, blat, bleat
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: BAA
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12A: "30. Print-ready"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting
- Similar words include: delete, edit out, edit
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: EDITED
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13A: "31. Sodom and Gomorrah"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________________
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Answer: ATALEOFTWOCITIES
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14A: "37. Literary fairy queen"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MAB
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15A: "38. Outpouring of Pandora's box"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining
- Similar words include: ailment, complaint, ill
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ILLS
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16A: "39. Erelong"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that at another time
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ANON
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17A: "40. Part of T.G.I.F.: Abbr."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the sixth day of the week; the fifth working day
- Similar words include: Friday
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: FRI
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18A: "41. Singsong syllable"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TRA
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19A: "43. Season ticket holders, presumably"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces
- Similar words include: rooter, buff, fan
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: FANS
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20A: "45. Shoofly desserts"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top
- Similar words include: Proto-Indo European, pie, PIE
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PIES
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21A: "46. Hopeless from the start, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DOA
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22A: "48. Janis ___, "At Seventeen" singer"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IAN
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23A: "49. Samson and Delilah"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________________
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Answer: DANGEROUSLIAISONS
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24A: "55. Baseball Hall-of-Famer Mel"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OTT
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25A: "56. Fix"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise
- Similar words include: turnout, fishing rig, trailer truck
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RIG
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26A: "57. Calendar notation: Abbr."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: APPT
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27A: "58. Diamond stats"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a run that is the result of the batter's performance
- Similar words include: run batted in, rbi
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RBIS
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28A: "59. Certain trig functions"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle
- Similar words include: goof, sin, sine
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SINES
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29A: "61. So-called "Hollywood of the South""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that state capital and largest city of georgia; chief commercial center of the southeastern united states; was plundered and burned by sherman's army during the american civil war
- Similar words include: capital of Georgia, battle of Atlanta
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ATLANTA
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30A: "64. Big name in bubbly"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MOET
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31A: "65. Painter's medium"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water
- Similar words include: crude oil, embrocate, rock oil
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OIL
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32A: "66. Noah's Ark"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________________
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Answer: WHERETHEWILDTHINGSARE
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33A: "74. Nonclerical"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a narrative song with a recurrent refrain
- Similar words include: ballad, position, set
- Opposite of: stand, arise
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Answer: LAY
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34A: "75. Get the better of"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a salt deposit that animals regularly lick
- Similar words include: biff, bat, figure out
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LICK
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35A: "76. Like Constantinople, in 1930"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that assign a new name to
- Similar words include: rename
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: RENAMED
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36A: "77. Interior style"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that decoration consisting of the layout and furnishings of a livable interior
- Similar words include: interior decoration
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DECOR
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37A: "80. Ballet bend"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PLIE
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38A: "81. Europa, Ganymede or Callisto vis-à-vis Jupiter"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the natural satellite of the earth
- Similar words include: daydream, moonlight, synodic month
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MOON
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39A: "83. The third"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
- Similar words include: triad, tierce, trine
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: III
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40A: "84. Ruckus"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a rapid active commotion
- Similar words include: fuss, flurry, stir
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ADO
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41A: "85. Garden of Eden"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________________
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Answer: THEAGEOFINNOCENCE
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42A: "91. "Scrumdiddlyumptious!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MMM
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43A: "92. Crew need"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an implement used to propel or steer a boat
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OAR
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44A: "93. Get the ___ (finally become aware)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a written proposal or reminder
- Similar words include: memoranda, memorandum
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MEMO
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45A: "94. Ingredient in some gels"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that succulent plants having rosettes of leaves usually with fiber like hemp and spikes of showy flowers; found chiefly in africa
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ALOE
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46A: "95. Designated H.M.O. doctor, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability
- Similar words include: phencyclidine, caregiver, health care provider
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PCP
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47A: "96. Vintage film channel"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TCM
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48A: "98. Letters on a crucifix"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: INRI
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49A: "99. Word with rabbit or all"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
- Similar words include: capitulum, pinna, ear
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EARS
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50A: "101. Sully"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the month following february and preceding april
- Similar words include: impair, March, mutilate
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MAR
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51A: "103. Moses Parting the Red Sea"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________________
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Answer: THEPRINCEOFTIDES
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52A: "109. Rush uncontrolledly"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the particular occupation for which you are trained
- Similar words include: calling, vocation, life history
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CAREER
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53A: "111. Most common last name in Somalia"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942)
- Similar words include: Cassius Marcellus Clay, Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ALI
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54A: "112. Pressure meas."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a unit of pressure
- Similar words include: pounds per square inch
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PSI
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55A: "113. It's verboten"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NONO
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56A: "114. Jonah and the Whale"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______________
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Answer: THEGREATESCAPE
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57A: "119. Title woman in a 1965 Beach Boys hit"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: RHONDA
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58A: "121. Took turns"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that turn on or around an axis or a center
- Similar words include: turn out, revolve, rotate
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ROTATED
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59A: "122. Brimless topper"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small skullcap; formerly worn by schoolboys and college freshmen
- Similar words include: beany
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BEANIE
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60A: "123. One bringing home the bacon"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who earn wages in return for their labor
- Similar words include: wage earner
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: EARNER
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61A: "124. Surprisingly enough"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: NOLESS
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62A: "125. Bars, legally"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ESTOPS
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63A: "126. Follows"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people)
- Similar words include: attentiveness, listen, heed
- Opposite of: inattentiveness
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Answer: HEEDS
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Leader of the pack | 5 |
| 2D | 2. 2006 mockumentary about a Kazakh journalist | 5 |
| 3D | 3. High-speed travel option | 5 |
| 4D | 4. Squealer's activity | 8 |
| 5D | 5. H, to Hera | 3 |
| 6D | 6. West Pointer | 5 |
| 7D | 7. Thoroughly enjoyed, with "up" | 3 |
| 8D | 8. Org. with the Nuggets and Nets | 3 |
| 9D | 9. Screen | 3 |
| 10D | 10. Rubbish receptacle | 6 |
| 11D | 11. Weasel with a black-tipped tail | 5 |
| 12D | 12. Where the coxswain sits | 3 |
| 13D | 13. Unity | 8 |
| 14D | 14. In a fury | 4 |
| 15D | 15. Blue material | 5 |
| 16D | 16. Counterfeit | 9 |
| 17D | 17. Whoop it up | 9 |
| 18D | 19. Glorify | 5 |
| 19D | 22. ___ Stark, "Game of Thrones" patriarch | 3 |
| 20D | 25. Gullible sort | 4 |
| 21D | 28. Hypotheticals | 3 |
| 22D | 32. Besides | 4 |
| 23D | 33. Part of a trunk | 5 |
| 24D | 34. First-year law student, informally | 4 |
| 25D | 35. "___ Fan Tutte" | 4 |
| 26D | 36. Mathematician Paul | 5 |
| 27D | 42. ___ on a log (celery-stick snack studded with raisins) | 4 |
| 28D | 43. Confidence | 5 |
| 29D | 44. What may be right but not left? | 5 |
| 30D | 45. New Yorkie, say | 3 |
| 31D | 47. Delegate | 6 |
| 32D | 49. Pull to open | 4 |
| 33D | 50. Dilapidated | 5 |
| 34D | 51. Moonfish | 4 |
| 35D | 52. Yankees nickname until 2016 | 4 |
| 36D | 53. "My eye!" | 4 |
| 37D | 54. Wielder of a red lightsaber | 4 |
| 38D | 60. "Casablanca" role | 4 |
| 39D | 62. Folk singer Guthrie | 4 |
| 40D | 63. Approaching | 6 |
| 41D | 64. 1964's Nobel Peace laureate, for short | 3 |
| 42D | 65. Common bridge bid, informally | 5 |
| 43D | 67. Spanish "she" | 4 |
| 44D | 68. Kristen of "Bridesmaids" | 4 |
| 45D | 69. Slushy brand | 4 |
| 46D | 70. Press | 4 |
| 47D | 71. Protein-building acid, informally | 5 |
| 48D | 72. Treat again, as a sprain | 5 |
| 49D | 73. Actress Falco | 4 |
| 50D | 77. Clammy | 4 |
| 51D | 78. "Heeere's Johnny!" announcer | 9 |
| 52D | 79. Measure against | 9 |
| 53D | 80. Tree branch or power line, for a bird | 5 |
| 54D | 81. One making an impression? | 5 |
| 55D | 82. Woman honored in John Lennon's "Woman" | 3 |
| 56D | 86. Where boaters hang with bowlers | 8 |
| 57D | 87. Hyatt alternative | 4 |
| 58D | 88. Spore-producing plant | 4 |
| 59D | 89. Transport (around) | 4 |
| 60D | 90. Castle in "Hamlet" | 8 |
| 61D | 97. Heart of the matter | 4 |
| 62D | 98. Subject for van Gogh | 6 |
| 63D | 99. Aurora's counterpart in Greek mythology | 3 |
| 64D | 100. Lit | 5 |
| 65D | 102. Big name in movie theaters | 5 |
| 66D | 104. First-year West Pointer | 5 |
| 67D | 105. Olympic blades | 5 |
| 68D | 106. "No man is an island" writer | 5 |
| 69D | 107. Was over | 5 |
| 70D | 108. Glides high | 5 |
| 71D | 109. Middle: Abbr. | 3 |
| 72D | 110. Noted Art Deco designer | 4 |
| 73D | 115. Sponsored spots | 3 |
| 74D | 116. Persian or Abyssinian | 3 |
| 75D | 117. Enero a diciembre | 3 |
| 76D | 118. Domino dot | 3 |
| 77D | 120. "Yeah, right!" | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Leader of the pack"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the 1st letter of the greek alphabet
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ALPHA
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2D: "2. 2006 mockumentary about a Kazakh journalist"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BORAT
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3D: "3. High-speed travel option"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ACELA
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4D: "4. Squealer's activity"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
- Similar words include: babble, talk, blab out
- Opposite of: keep quiet
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Answer: TATTLING
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5D: "5. H, to Hera"
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, Euskadi ta Askatasuna
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ETA
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6D: "6. West Pointer"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a military trainee (as at a military academy)
- Similar words include: plebe
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CADET
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7D: "7. Thoroughly enjoyed, with "up""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
- Similar words include: run through, exhaust, eat
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ATE
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8D: "8. Org. with the Nuggets and Nets"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NBA
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9D: "9. Screen"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a doctor who practices veterinary medicine
- Similar words include: veterinarian, veterinary, veteran
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: VET
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10D: "10. Rubbish receptacle"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected
- Similar words include: ashcan, garbage can, trash bin
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ASHBIN
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11D: "11. Weasel with a black-tipped tail"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the ermine in its brown summer coat with black-tipped tail
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: STOAT
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12D: "12. Where the coxswain sits"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (nautical, aeronautical) situated at or toward the stern or tail
- Similar words include: astern, abaft
- Opposite of: fore
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Answer: AFT
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13D: "13. Unity"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the state of cohering or sticking together
- Similar words include: coherence, coherency, cohesiveness
- Opposite of: incoherence
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Answer: COHESION
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14D: "14. In a fury"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IRED
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15D: "15. Blue material"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (usually plural) close-fitting trousers of heavy denim for manual work or casual wear
- Similar words include: blue jean, dungaree, jean
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DENIM
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16D: "16. Counterfeit"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the doctrine that representations of nature or human behavior should be accurate imitations
- Similar words include: false, impersonation, simulated
- Opposite of: formalism
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Answer: IMITATION
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17D: "17. Whoop it up"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that behave as expected during of holidays or rites
- Similar words include: lionize, observe, lionise
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: CELEBRATE
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18D: "19. Glorify"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that praise, glorify, or honor
- Similar words include: proclaim, glorify, laud
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EXTOL
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19D: "22. ___ Stark, "Game of Thrones" patriarch"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NED
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20D: "25. Gullible sort"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a naive or inexperienced person
- Similar words include: naive
- Opposite of: sophisticated
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Answer: NAIF
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21D: "28. Hypotheticals"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IFS
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22D: "32. Besides"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ELSE
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23D: "33. Part of a trunk"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the narrowing of the body between the ribs and hips
- Similar words include: waistline, shank
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: WAIST
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24D: "34. First-year law student, informally"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ONEL
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25D: "35. "___ Fan Tutte""
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: COSI
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26D: "36. Mathematician Paul"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ERDOS
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27D: "42. ___ on a log (celery-stick snack studded with raisins)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers
- Similar words include: emmet, ant, pismire
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ANTS
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28D: "43. Confidence"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny
- Similar words include: religion, religious belief, organized religion
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: FAITH
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29D: "44. What may be right but not left?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians
- Similar words include: fish, weight, tip
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ANGLE
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30D: "45. New Yorkie, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that young of any of various canines such as a dog or wolf
- Similar words include: puppy, whelp
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PUP
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31D: "47. Delegate"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)
- Similar words include: attribute, specify, depute
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ASSIGN
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32D: "49. Pull to open"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a gully that is shallower than a ravine
- Similar words include: hook, describe, get
- Opposite of: deposit, push
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Answer: DRAW
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33D: "50. Dilapidated"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that of or characteristic of rats
- Similar words include: shabby, tatty, moth-eaten
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RATTY
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34D: "51. Moonfish"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that large elliptical brightly colored deep-sea fish of atlantic and pacific and mediterranean
- Similar words include: Lampris regius, moonfish
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OPAH
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35D: "52. Yankees nickname until 2016"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AROD
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36D: "53. "My eye!""
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IBET
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37D: "54. Wielder of a red lightsaber"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SITH
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38D: "60. "Casablanca" role"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ILSA
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39D: "62. Folk singer Guthrie"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ARLO
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40D: "63. Approaching"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: NEARTO
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41D: "64. 1964's Nobel Peace laureate, for short"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MLK
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42D: "65. Common bridge bid, informally"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ONENO
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43D: "67. Spanish "she""
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ELLA
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44D: "68. Kristen of "Bridesmaids""
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: WIIG
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45D: "69. Slushy brand"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ICEE
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46D: "70. Press"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a heavy ductile magnetic metallic element; is silver-white in pure form but readily rusts; used in construction and tools and armament; plays a role in the transport of oxygen by the blood
- Similar words include: press, Fe, atomic number 26
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IRON
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47D: "71. Protein-building acid, informally"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the radical -nh2
- Similar words include: aminic, amino group
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AMINO
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48D: "72. Treat again, as a sprain"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: REICE
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49D: "73. Actress Falco"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EDIE
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50D: "77. Clammy"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a slight wetness
- Similar words include: soften, break, muffle
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DAMP
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51D: "78. "Heeere's Johnny!" announcer"
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- Pattern: _________
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Answer: EDMCMAHON
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52D: "79. Measure against"
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- Pattern: _________
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Answer: COMPARETO
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53D: "80. Tree branch or power line, for a bird"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird)
- Similar words include: alight, rest, rod
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PERCH
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54D: "81. One making an impression?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who mimics (especially an actor or actress)
- Similar words include: mime, mimicker
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MIMIC
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55D: "82. Woman honored in John Lennon's "Woman""
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
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56D: "86. Where boaters hang with bowlers"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: HATTREES
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57D: "87. Hyatt alternative"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OMNI
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58D: "88. Spore-producing plant"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: FERN
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59D: "89. Transport (around)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a heavy open wagon usually having two wheels and drawn by an animal
- Similar words include: hale, handcart, drag
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CART
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60D: "90. Castle in "Hamlet""
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: ELSINORE
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61D: "97. Heart of the matter"
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- Think of something that the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food
- Similar words include: kernel, center, inwardness
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MEAT
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62D: "98. Subject for van Gogh"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
- Similar words include: iris diaphragm, fleur-de-lis, sword lily
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: IRISES
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63D: "99. Aurora's counterpart in Greek mythology"
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- Think of something that (greek mythology) the winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology; daughter of hyperion; identified with roman aurora
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EOS
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64D: "100. Lit"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that lighted up by or as by fire or flame
- Similar words include: aflare, alight, aflame
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AFIRE
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65D: "102. Big name in movie theaters"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler
- Similar words include: royal, imperial, majestic
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: REGAL
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66D: "104. First-year West Pointer"
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- Think of something that a military trainee (as at a military academy)
- Similar words include: cadet
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PLEBE
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67D: "105. Olympic blades"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade
- Similar words include: epee
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EPEES
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68D: "106. "No man is an island" writer"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that english clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631)
- Similar words include: John Donne
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DONNE
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69D: "107. Was over"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- Similar words include: cease, terminate, over
- Opposite of: begin
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Answer: ENDED
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70D: "108. Glides high"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of rising upward into the air
- Similar words include: zoom, sailplane, soar upwards
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SOARS
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71D: "109. Middle: Abbr."
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CTR
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72D: "110. Noted Art Deco designer"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ERTE
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73D: "115. Sponsored spots"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a public promotion of some product or service
- Similar words include: advertizing, advert, advertisement
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ADS
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74D: "116. Persian or Abyssinian"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats; wildcats
- Similar words include: sick, honk, vomit up
- Opposite of: keep down
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Answer: CAT
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75D: "117. Enero a diciembre"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the plo in 1974; has conducted terrorist attacks in 20 countries
- Similar words include: Black September, Fatah Revolutionary Council, Arab Revolutionary Brigades
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ANO
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76D: "118. Domino dot"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a disease of poultry
- Similar words include: hit, mop up, shoot
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PIP
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77D: "120. "Yeah, right!""
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HAH
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63 Across Clues
77 Down Clues
140 Total Clues
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