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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (39 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (39 clues)
- Down Clues - Detailed Hints
- Expert Solving Strategies
- Today's Puzzle Statistics
Today's Puzzle Difficulty: Challenging
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. Cherokee or Wrangler | 4 |
| 2A | 5. Omelet ingredients | 4 |
| 3A | 9. Big noisy fight | 5 |
| 4A | 14. Cornfield measure | 4 |
| 5A | 15. Little flying pest | 4 |
| 6A | 16. Dale who sang "Happy Trails" with Roy Rogers | 5 |
| 7A | 17. Crew building | 9 |
| 8A | 19. Assigns stars to, as on Yelp | 5 |
| 9A | 20. "Spare" things at a barbecue | 4 |
| 10A | 21. Stately tree | 3 |
| 11A | 23. Before, in poetry | 3 |
| 12A | 24. Atlantic City attraction | 6 |
| 13A | 27. "Is it bigger than a ___?" | 8 |
| 14A | 29. 911 respondent, in brief | 3 |
| 15A | 30. Latina toon explorer | 4 |
| 16A | 32. Beatles song with the lyric "She promises the earth to me" | 4 |
| 17A | 33. Pinocchio's are easily exposed | 4 |
| 18A | 35. "Absolutely, amigo!" | 4 |
| 19A | 37. The White Stripes and the Black Keys, for two | 4 |
| 20A | 39. Close boxing match outcome | 13 |
| 21A | 42. Picket line crosser | 4 |
| 22A | 43. Silverstein who wrote and illustrated "The Giving Tree" | 4 |
| 23A | 44. Contacted on Instagram, informally | 4 |
| 24A | 46. Bills typically found in a tip jar | 4 |
| 25A | 48. Mallorca or Menorca, por ejemplo | 4 |
| 26A | 50. Place for a piercing or a plug | 3 |
| 27A | 51. All-out boxing match | 8 |
| 28A | 54. Sarcastic | 6 |
| 29A | 56. "Hamilton" composer ___-Manuel Miranda | 3 |
| 30A | 57. Singer/actress Rita ___ | 3 |
| 31A | 58. It's "smashed" in a particle accelerator | 4 |
| 32A | 59. Playful aquatic mammal | 5 |
| 33A | 61. Flip out ... or a hint to the beginnings of 17-, 27-, 39- and 51-Across | 9 |
| 34A | 66. Word said while pointing | 5 |
| 35A | 67. "Never Have I ___" (sleepover game) | 4 |
| 36A | 68. Coldest possible temperature on the Kelvin scale | 4 |
| 37A | 69. Informal hoops game | 5 |
| 38A | 70. Winter road application | 4 |
| 39A | 71. Rams' mates | 4 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Cherokee or Wrangler"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a car suitable for traveling over rough terrain
- Similar words include: landrover
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: JEEP
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2A: "5. Omelet ingredients"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food
- Similar words include: ball, orchis, ballock
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EGGS
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3A: "9. Big noisy fight"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a noisy riotous fight
- Similar words include: scrimmage, battle royal
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MELEE
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4A: "14. Cornfield measure"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a unit of area (4840 square yards) used in english-speaking countries
- Similar words include: Akko, Akka, Accho
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ACRE
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5A: "15. Little flying pest"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GNAT
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6A: "16. Dale who sang "Happy Trails" with Roy Rogers"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states anatomist who identified four pituitary hormones and discovered vitamin e (1882-1971)
- Similar words include: Arthur Evans, Herbert McLean Evans, Sir Arthur John Evans
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EVANS
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7A: "17. Crew building"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a shed at the edge of a river or lake; used to store boats
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: BOATHOUSE
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8A: "19. Assigns stars to, as on Yelp"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a local tax on property (usually used in the plural)
- Similar words include: denounce, snitch, grade
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RATES
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9A: "20. "Spare" things at a barbecue"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that support resembling the rib of an animal
- Similar words include: roast, jest at, ridicule
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RIBS
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10A: "21. Stately tree"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various trees of the genus ulmus: important timber or shade trees
- Similar words include: elmwood, elm tree
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ELM
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11A: "23. Before, in poetry"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ERE
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12A: "24. Atlantic City attraction"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a public building for gambling and entertainment
- Similar words include: gambling casino, cassino
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CASINO
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13A: "27. "Is it bigger than a ___?""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a container used to keep bread or cake in
- Similar words include: bread-bin
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: BREADBOX
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14A: "29. 911 respondent, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EMT
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15A: "30. Latina toon explorer"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DORA
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16A: "32. Beatles song with the lyric "She promises the earth to me""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a young woman
- Similar words include: fille, female child, miss
- Opposite of: boy, male child
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Answer: GIRL
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17A: "33. Pinocchio's are easily exposed"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
- Similar words include: Trygve Lie, lie down, lie
- Opposite of: stand, arise
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Answer: LIES
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18A: "35. "Absolutely, amigo!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SISI
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19A: "37. The White Stripes and the Black Keys, for two"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that two items of the same kind
- Similar words include: duad, brace, couplet
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DUOS
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20A: "39. Close boxing match outcome"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: SPLITDECISION
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21A: "42. Picket line crosser"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
- Similar words include: blackleg, rat, fink
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SCAB
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22A: "43. Silverstein who wrote and illustrated "The Giving Tree""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SHEL
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23A: "44. Contacted on Instagram, informally"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DMED
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24A: "46. Bills typically found in a tip jar"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
- Similar words include: one, I, unity
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ONES
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25A: "48. Mallorca or Menorca, por ejemplo"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ISLA
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26A: "50. Place for a piercing or a plug"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
- Similar words include: pinna, spike, auricle
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EAR
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27A: "51. All-out boxing match"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a fight with bare fists
- Similar words include: fisticuffs, fistfight
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: SLUGFEST
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28A: "54. Sarcastic"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SNARKY
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29A: "56. "Hamilton" composer ___-Manuel Miranda"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the vietnam war in washington (born in 1959)
- Similar words include: Maya Lin
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LIN
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30A: "57. Singer/actress Rita ___"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mouth or mouthlike opening
- Similar words include: os, osmium, bone
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ORA
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31A: "58. It's "smashed" in a particle accelerator"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (physics and chemistry) the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element
- Similar words include: corpuscle, speck, mote
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ATOM
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32A: "59. Playful aquatic mammal"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the fur of an otter
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OTTER
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33A: "61. Flip out ... or a hint to the beginnings of 17-, 27-, 39- and 51-Across"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: GOBANANAS
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34A: "66. Word said while pointing"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a location other than here; that place
- Similar words include: at that place, on that point, thither
- Opposite of: here
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Answer: THERE
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35A: "67. "Never Have I ___" (sleepover game)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that at any time
- Similar words include: always, ever so, of all time
- Opposite of: never
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Answer: EVER
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36A: "68. Coldest possible temperature on the Kelvin scale"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a quantity of no importance
- Similar words include: cipher, zilch, zip
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ZERO
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37A: "69. Informal hoops game"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
- Similar words include: sawhorse, knight, sawbuck
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HORSE
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38A: "70. Winter road application"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
- Similar words include: salinity, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, table salt
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SALT
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39A: "71. Rams' mates"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of a people living in southern benin and togo and southeastern ghana
- Similar words include: Ewe, ewe
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EWES
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Quick boxing punch | 3 |
| 2D | 2. Prefix with friendly or warrior | 3 |
| 3D | 3. Slice of history | 3 |
| 4D | 4. ___ dish (lab item) | 5 |
| 5D | 5. Self-esteem builder | 8 |
| 6D | 6. African antelopes | 4 |
| 7D | 7. Something an electric car doesn't use | 3 |
| 8D | 8. Have the reins | 5 |
| 9D | 9. Disney's Ariel and her sisters | 8 |
| 10D | 10. Youngest of the Gabor sisters | 3 |
| 11D | 11. One slow to develop | 11 |
| 12D | 12. Beginning of el aƱo | 5 |
| 13D | 13. English county NE of London | 5 |
| 14D | 18. Female red deer | 4 |
| 15D | 22. "Break a ___!" | 3 |
| 16D | 24. "The Simpsons" collectible | 3 |
| 17D | 25. Out of place | 5 |
| 18D | 26. Pedometer | 11 |
| 19D | 27. Single, double or triple | 7 |
| 20D | 28. Ancient Celtic priest | 5 |
| 21D | 31. Clears (of) | 4 |
| 22D | 34. Word hidden, aptly, in "teen's language" | 5 |
| 23D | 36. Completes, as a cake | 4 |
| 24D | 38. Move stealthily | 5 |
| 25D | 40. Lead-in to "except after C" | 8 |
| 26D | 41. "Let me go first" | 8 |
| 27D | 45. Like some humor and wine | 3 |
| 28D | 47. To be, in Barcelona | 3 |
| 29D | 49. Soon, in poems | 4 |
| 30D | 51. Animal that sleeps upside down | 5 |
| 31D | 52. Certain art print, informally | 5 |
| 32D | 53. Wise sorts | 5 |
| 33D | 55. Astound | 5 |
| 34D | 58. Brother of Cain | 4 |
| 35D | 60. TV medical drama settings, in brief | 3 |
| 36D | 62. Things traveling through fallopian tubes | 3 |
| 37D | 63. Previously unseen | 3 |
| 38D | 64. "Rules ___ rules" | 3 |
| 39D | 65. Abba title sung after the line "The love you gave me, nothing else can save me" | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Quick boxing punch"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow)
- Similar words include: poking, dig, poke
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: JAB
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2D: "2. Prefix with friendly or warrior"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ECO
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3D: "3. Slice of history"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
- Similar words include: geological era, earned run average, epoch
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ERA
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4D: "4. ___ dish (lab item)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PETRI
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5D: "5. Self-esteem builder"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: EGOBOOST
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6D: "6. African antelopes"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that large african antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail
- Similar words include: gnu, wildebeest
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GNUS
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7D: "7. Something an electric car doesn't use"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by: relatively low density and viscosity; relatively great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature; the ability to diffuse readily; and the spontaneous tendency to become distributed uniformly throughout any container
- Similar words include: natural gas, shoot a line, bluster
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: GAS
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8D: "8. Have the reins"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an indication of potential opportunity
- Similar words include: bullock, direct, guide
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: STEER
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9D: "9. Disney's Ariel and her sisters"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that half woman and half fish; lives in the sea
- Similar words include: mermaid
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: MERMAIDS
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10D: "10. Youngest of the Gabor sisters"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EVA
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11D: "11. One slow to develop"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: LATEBLOOMER
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12D: "12. Beginning of el aƱo"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ENERO
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13D: "13. English county NE of London"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a county in southeastern england on the north sea and the thames estuary
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ESSEX
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14D: "18. Female red deer"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of several mostly spotted fishes that resemble groupers
- Similar words include: hinder, back
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HIND
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15D: "22. "Break a ___!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle
- Similar words include: stage, pegleg, peg
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LEG
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16D: "24. "The Simpsons" collectible"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CEL
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17D: "25. Out of place"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that not functioning properly
- Similar words include: awry, imperfectly, wrong
- Opposite of: perfectly
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Answer: AMISS
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18D: "26. Pedometer"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: STEPCOUNTER
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19D: "27. Single, double or triple"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: BASEHIT
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20D: "28. Ancient Celtic priest"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a pre-christian priest among the celts of ancient gaul and britain and ireland
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DRUID
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21D: "31. Clears (of)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that relieve from
- Similar words include: free, disembarrass, rid
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RIDS
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22D: "34. Word hidden, aptly, in "teen's language""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions; often vituperative or vulgar
- Similar words include: argot, slang expression, patois
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SLANG
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23D: "36. Completes, as a cake"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that water frozen in the solid state
- Similar words include: deoxyephedrine, meth, crank
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ICES
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24D: "38. Move stealthily"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who is regarded as underhanded and furtive and contemptible
- Similar words include: surreptitious, stalker, sneaky
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SNEAK
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25D: "40. Lead-in to "except after C""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: IBEFOREE
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26D: "41. "Let me go first""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: ILLSTART
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27D: "45. Like some humor and wine"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages
- Similar words include: prohibitionist, teetotal, ironic
- Opposite of: phlegmy, wet
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Answer: DRY
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28D: "47. To be, in Barcelona"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SER
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29D: "49. Soon, in poems"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that at another time
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ANON
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30D: "51. Animal that sleeps upside down"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a disinclination to work or exert yourself
- Similar words include: tree sloth, acedia, slothfulness
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SLOTH
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31D: "52. Certain art print, informally"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LITHO
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32D: "53. Wise sorts"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mentor in spiritual and philosophical topics who is renowned for profound wisdom
- Similar words include: sag, sag down, swag
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SAGES
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33D: "55. Astound"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that affect with wonder
- Similar words include: pose, bewilder, perplex
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AMAZE
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34D: "58. Brother of Cain"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that norwegian mathematician (1802-1829)
- Similar words include: Niels Henrik Abel, Niels Abel
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ABEL
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35D: "60. TV medical drama settings, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs with yttrium
- Similar words include: Er, erbium, emergency room
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ERS
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36D: "62. Things traveling through fallopian tubes"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the female reproductive cell; the female gamete
- Similar words include: egg cell, ovum
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OVA
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37D: "63. Previously unseen"
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: fresh, young, unexampled
- Opposite of: worn, old
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Answer: NEW
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38D: "64. "Rules ___ rules""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters
- Similar words include: ar, constitute, be
- Opposite of: differ
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Answer: ARE
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39D: "65. Abba title sung after the line "The love you gave me, nothing else can save me""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an internationally recognized distress signal in radio code
- Similar words include: soh, sol, so
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SOS
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Expert Solving Strategies
Start Smart
Begin with fill-in-the-blank clues and short 3-4 letter words. These are your foundation.
Decode the Clues
Question marks indicate wordplay or puns. "Maybe" suggests multiple interpretations.
Use Cross-References
Let intersecting letters guide you. One correct answer unlocks several others.
Build Vocabulary
Common crossword words repeat. Learning them speeds up future solving.
Today's Puzzle Stats
39 Across Clues
39 Down Clues
78 Total Clues
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