1D: "1. "The Exchange" airer"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: CNBC Remember this word for future puzzles!
2D: "2. Flaw in an argument"
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an opening into or through something
- Similar words include: mess, kettle of fish, fix
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HOLE Remember this word for future puzzles!
3D: "3. Unknown author, for short"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that at another time
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ANON Remember this word for future puzzles!
4D: "4. Squabbles"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an arrangement of objects or people side by side in a line
- Similar words include: dustup, words, quarrel
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ROWS Remember this word for future puzzles!
5D: "5. Unresolved parts of a plot"
9 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: LOOSEENDS Remember this word for future puzzles!
6D: "6. Org. to which you might provide your bank account info"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the bureau of the treasury department responsible for tax collections
- Similar words include: Internal Revenue Service
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IRS Remember this word for future puzzles!
7D: "7. Renewable energy structure"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
- Similar words include: dam up, dekametre, dike
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DAM Remember this word for future puzzles!
8D: "8. Lost traction"
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner
- Similar words include: slew, skid, slue
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SLID Remember this word for future puzzles!
9D: "9. Globelike shape"
8 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a shape that is generated by rotating an ellipse around one of its axes
- Similar words include: ellipsoid of revolution
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: SPHEROID Remember this word for future puzzles!
10D: "10. Dress down"
7 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: CHEWOUT Remember this word for future puzzles!
11D: "11. Poetic contraction"
3 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: OER Remember this word for future puzzles!
12D: "12. Many middle schoolers"
6 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: TWEENS Remember this word for future puzzles!
13D: "13. Ones pressed for cash?"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade
- Similar words include: atmosphere, automated teller machine, cash dispenser
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ATMS Remember this word for future puzzles!
14D: "14. Top of a latte"
5 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid
- Similar words include: form bubbles, spume, sparkle
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: FROTH Remember this word for future puzzles!
15D: "15. Mucho"
5 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: LOTSA Remember this word for future puzzles!
16D: "16. M.L.B. team that once went by OAK on scoreboards"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: ATH Remember this word for future puzzles!
17D: "17. In hot water?"
7 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that devote (oneself) fully to
- Similar words include: immerse, engross, infuse
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: STEEPED Remember this word for future puzzles!
18D: "18. Fashion designer Carolina"
7 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: HERRERA Remember this word for future puzzles!
19D: "23. Shortage"
6 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an acute insufficiency
- Similar words include: shortage, famine, paucity
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: DEARTH Remember this word for future puzzles!
20D: "25. Behind"
6 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: TUSHIE Remember this word for future puzzles!
21D: "26. Certain public transit network"
7 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers
- Similar words include: cable tramway, tramline, streetcar track
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: TRAMWAY Remember this word for future puzzles!
22D: "31. Singer whose "Hello" was the fastest video ever to reach 1 billion views on YouTube"
5 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: ADELE Remember this word for future puzzles!
23D: "34. "People ___ Strange" (the Doors song)"
3 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters
- Similar words include: personify, cost, exist
- Opposite of: differ
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Answer: ARE Remember this word for future puzzles!
24D: "35. Conduct inciting an insurrection"
8 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: SEDITION Remember this word for future puzzles!
25D: "37. World's first billion-dollar corporation"
7 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: USSTEEL Remember this word for future puzzles!
26D: "39. Sac fly result"
3 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a run that is the result of the batter's performance
- Similar words include: run batted in
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RBI Remember this word for future puzzles!
27D: "40. Game piece in Rummikub"
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces
- Similar words include: roofing tile
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TILE Remember this word for future puzzles!
28D: "41. Royal title"
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in africa or arabia)
- Similar words include: amir, ameer, emeer
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EMIR Remember this word for future puzzles!
29D: "42. Where jet-setters may rub elbows"
8 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a support for the arm
- Similar words include: armrest
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: ARMRESTS Remember this word for future puzzles!
30D: "43. Chalice"
3 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle
- Similar words include: cupful, transfuse, loving cup
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CUP Remember this word for future puzzles!
31D: "49. P.D. alert"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: APB Remember this word for future puzzles!
32D: "50. Prefix meaning "sun""
5 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: HELIO Remember this word for future puzzles!
33D: "51. "Heavens to Betsy!""
6 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: DEARME Remember this word for future puzzles!
34D: "54. Subscription-only website feature"
7 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: PAYWALL Remember this word for future puzzles!
35D: "56. Look into"
7 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that inquire into
- Similar words include: research, search
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: EXPLORE Remember this word for future puzzles!
36D: "59. Contribute"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders
- Similar words include: contribute, hyperkinetic syndrome, tot up
- Opposite of: subtract, take away
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Answer: ADD Remember this word for future puzzles!
37D: "60. Chicago paper, informally"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: TRIB Remember this word for future puzzles!
38D: "62. N.Y.C. neighborhood that's home to the Grey Art Museum"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: NOHO Remember this word for future puzzles!
39D: "63. Lower-body exercise"
8 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: KNEEBEND Remember this word for future puzzles!
40D: "64. Occupational suffix"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: EER Remember this word for future puzzles!
41D: "65. J.F.K. predecessor"
3 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: DDE Remember this word for future puzzles!
42D: "67. Aromatic herb"
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mentor in spiritual and philosophical topics who is renowned for profound wisdom
- Similar words include: salvia, sage-green
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SAGE Remember this word for future puzzles!
43D: "68. Hold tightly"
6 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small slip noose made with seizing
- Similar words include: grasp, clutch, grip
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CLENCH Remember this word for future puzzles!
44D: "70. Mariner's greeting"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: AHOY Remember this word for future puzzles!
45D: "71. Natural attraction"
8 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody
- Similar words include: chemical attraction, kinship, phylogenetic relation
- Opposite of: consanguinity
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Answer: AFFINITY Remember this word for future puzzles!
46D: "73. Two peas ___ pod"
3 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: INA Remember this word for future puzzles!
47D: "74. Pitch"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- Similar words include: seafarer, gob, sea dog
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TAR Remember this word for future puzzles!
48D: "75. French wine region"
5 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the longest french river; rises in the massif central and flows north and west to the atlantic ocean
- Similar words include: Loire River
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LOIRE Remember this word for future puzzles!
49D: "76. LeBron James or Nikola Jokic"
7 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: NBASTAR Remember this word for future puzzles!
50D: "77. Delivery person's assignment: Abbr."
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: RTE Remember this word for future puzzles!
51D: "83. "Wheels""
3 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
- Similar words include: machine, automobile, railway car
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CAR Remember this word for future puzzles!
52D: "85. Beverage infused with THC"
7 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: WEEDTEA Remember this word for future puzzles!
53D: "86. Fixed, as a "m-i-t-s-a-k-e""
9 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: RESPELLED Remember this word for future puzzles!
54D: "88. County in western New York"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of an iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of lake erie in northern ohio and northwest pennsylvania and western new york
- Similar words include: Lake Erie
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ERIE Remember this word for future puzzles!
55D: "89. Deck out?"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a particular instance of buying or selling
- Similar words include: consider, care, quite a little
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DEAL Remember this word for future puzzles!
56D: "91. Shoe with a thick sole"
5 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any shape that is triangular in cross section
- Similar words include: Cuban sandwich, squeeze, Italian sandwich
- Opposite of: dislodge
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Answer: WEDGE Remember this word for future puzzles!
57D: "92. Part of an equestrian's ensemble"
8 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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- Think of something that trousers ending above the knee
- Similar words include: knickerbockers, knickers, knee breeches
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: BREECHES Remember this word for future puzzles!
58D: "94. Small songbird"
6 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that widely distributed european titmouse with bright cobalt blue wings and tail and crown of the head
- Similar words include: Parus caeruleus, blue tit
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TOMTIT Remember this word for future puzzles!
59D: "95. Benefit plan option, in brief"
3 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians
- Similar words include: health maintenance organization
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HMO Remember this word for future puzzles!
60D: "96. Wealthy sort"
6 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: FATCAT Remember this word for future puzzles!
61D: "97. Stretchy"
7 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a narrow band of elastic rubber used to hold things (such as papers) together
- Similar words include: pliable, elastic band, rubber band
- Opposite of: inelastic
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Answer: ELASTIC Remember this word for future puzzles!
62D: "98. "Next on my list""
7 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: ABOUTTO Remember this word for future puzzles!
63D: "99. ___ chi"
3 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a native or inhabitant of thailand
- Similar words include: Thai, Siamese
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TAI Remember this word for future puzzles!
64D: "101. Lit up, in a way"
7 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cause to start burning; subject to fire or great heat
- Similar words include: light, stir up, ignite
- Opposite of: extinguish
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Answer: IGNITED Remember this word for future puzzles!
65D: "103. ___ Valley (San Francisco neighborhood)"
3 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: NOE Remember this word for future puzzles!
66D: "106. Less challenging"
6 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that posing no difficulty; requiring little effort
- Similar words include: light, easygoing, promiscuous
- Opposite of: uneasy, difficult
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Answer: EASIER Remember this word for future puzzles!
67D: "109. Shell out"
5 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that pass time in a specific way
- Similar words include: pass, expend, drop
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SPEND Remember this word for future puzzles!
68D: "110. Video game character aptly celebrated on Mar. 10"
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: MARIO Remember this word for future puzzles!
69D: "115. Bicyclist's setting"
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion
- Similar words include: paraphernalia, gear mechanism, appurtenance
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GEAR Remember this word for future puzzles!
70D: "117. Latin list ender"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: ETAL Remember this word for future puzzles!
71D: "119. Lead-in to a conclusion"
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an aromatic gum resin obtained from various arabian or east african trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation
- Similar words include: therefore, frankincense, olibanum
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: THUS Remember this word for future puzzles!
72D: "120. ___ Millions (multistate lottery)"
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: MEGA Remember this word for future puzzles!
73D: "121. Some addresses"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the address of a web page on the world wide web
- Similar words include: universal resource locator, URL, uniform resource locator
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: URLS Remember this word for future puzzles!
74D: "122. Dos + cuatro"
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: SEIS Remember this word for future puzzles!
75D: "124. China's largest ethnic group"
3 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that imperial dynasty that ruled china (most of the time from 206 bc to ad 220) and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy; remembered as one of the great eras of chinese civilization
- Similar words include: Han dynasty
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HAN Remember this word for future puzzles!
76D: "126. Wellness resort offering"
3 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a health resort near a spring or at the seaside
- Similar words include: watering place, resort hotel, watering hole
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SPA Remember this word for future puzzles!
77D: "127. Horn contents at a Viking feast"
3 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the united states an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ALE Remember this word for future puzzles!
78D: "128. Depressed"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation
- Similar words include: blue, low-pitched, dispirited
- Opposite of: high
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Answer: LOW Remember this word for future puzzles!
