1D: "1. Leader of the pack"
5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the 1st letter of the greek alphabet
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ALPHA Remember this word for future puzzles!
2D: "2. 2006 mockumentary about a Kazakh journalist"
5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: BORAT Remember this word for future puzzles!
3D: "3. High-speed travel option"
5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: ACELA Remember this word for future puzzles!
4D: "4. Squealer's activity"
8 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
5D: "5. H, to Hera"
3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
6D: "6. West Pointer"
5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
7D: "7. Thoroughly enjoyed, with "up""
3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
8D: "8. Org. with the Nuggets and Nets"
3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: NBA Remember this word for future puzzles!
9D: "9. Screen"
3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
10D: "10. Rubbish receptacle"
6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
11D: "11. Weasel with a black-tipped tail"
5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the ermine in its brown summer coat with black-tipped tail
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: STOAT Remember this word for future puzzles!
12D: "12. Where the coxswain sits"
3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
13D: "13. Unity"
8 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
14D: "14. In a fury"
4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
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Answer: IRED Remember this word for future puzzles!
15D: "15. Blue material"
5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
16D: "16. Counterfeit"
9 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
17D: "17. Whoop it up"
9 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
18D: "19. Glorify"
5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that praise, glorify, or honor
- Similar words include: proclaim, glorify, laud
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EXTOL Remember this word for future puzzles!
19D: "22. ___ Stark, "Game of Thrones" patriarch"
3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: NED Remember this word for future puzzles!
20D: "25. Gullible sort"
4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a naive or inexperienced person
- Similar words include: naive
- Opposite of: sophisticated
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Answer: NAIF Remember this word for future puzzles!
21D: "28. Hypotheticals"
3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: IFS Remember this word for future puzzles!
22D: "32. Besides"
4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: ELSE Remember this word for future puzzles!
23D: "33. Part of a trunk"
5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
24D: "34. First-year law student, informally"
4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: ONEL Remember this word for future puzzles!
25D: "35. "___ Fan Tutte""
4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: COSI Remember this word for future puzzles!
26D: "36. Mathematician Paul"
5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: ERDOS Remember this word for future puzzles!
27D: "42. ___ on a log (celery-stick snack studded with raisins)"
4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
28D: "43. Confidence"
5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
29D: "44. What may be right but not left?"
5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
30D: "45. New Yorkie, say"
3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
31D: "47. Delegate"
6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
32D: "49. Pull to open"
4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
33D: "50. Dilapidated"
5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
34D: "51. Moonfish"
4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
35D: "52. Yankees nickname until 2016"
4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: AROD Remember this word for future puzzles!
36D: "53. "My eye!""
4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: IBET Remember this word for future puzzles!
37D: "54. Wielder of a red lightsaber"
4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: SITH Remember this word for future puzzles!
38D: "60. "Casablanca" role"
4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: ILSA Remember this word for future puzzles!
39D: "62. Folk singer Guthrie"
4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: ARLO Remember this word for future puzzles!
40D: "63. Approaching"
6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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Answer: NEARTO Remember this word for future puzzles!
41D: "64. 1964's Nobel Peace laureate, for short"
3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: MLK Remember this word for future puzzles!
42D: "65. Common bridge bid, informally"
5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: ONENO Remember this word for future puzzles!
43D: "67. Spanish "she""
4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: ELLA Remember this word for future puzzles!
44D: "68. Kristen of "Bridesmaids""
4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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Answer: WIIG Remember this word for future puzzles!
45D: "69. Slushy brand"
4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
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Answer: ICEE Remember this word for future puzzles!
46D: "70. Press"
4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
47D: "71. Protein-building acid, informally"
5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the radical -nh2
- Similar words include: aminic, amino group
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AMINO Remember this word for future puzzles!
48D: "72. Treat again, as a sprain"
5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: REICE Remember this word for future puzzles!
49D: "73. Actress Falco"
4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: EDIE Remember this word for future puzzles!
50D: "77. Clammy"
4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a slight wetness
- Similar words include: soften, break, muffle
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DAMP Remember this word for future puzzles!
51D: "78. "Heeere's Johnny!" announcer"
9 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: EDMCMAHON Remember this word for future puzzles!
52D: "79. Measure against"
9 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: COMPARETO Remember this word for future puzzles!
53D: "80. Tree branch or power line, for a bird"
5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
54D: "81. One making an impression?"
5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
55D: "82. Woman honored in John Lennon's "Woman""
3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
56D: "86. Where boaters hang with bowlers"
8 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: HATTREES Remember this word for future puzzles!
57D: "87. Hyatt alternative"
4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: OMNI Remember this word for future puzzles!
58D: "88. Spore-producing plant"
4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
59D: "89. Transport (around)"
4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
60D: "90. Castle in "Hamlet""
8 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: ELSINORE Remember this word for future puzzles!
61D: "97. Heart of the matter"
4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- 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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
62D: "98. Subject for van Gogh"
6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
63D: "99. Aurora's counterpart in Greek mythology"
3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- 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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
64D: "100. Lit"
5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
65D: "102. Big name in movie theaters"
5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
66D: "104. First-year West Pointer"
5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a military trainee (as at a military academy)
- Similar words include: cadet
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PLEBE Remember this word for future puzzles!
67D: "105. Olympic blades"
5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
68D: "106. "No man is an island" writer"
5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
69D: "107. Was over"
5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
70D: "108. Glides high"
5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
71D: "109. Middle: Abbr."
3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: CTR Remember this word for future puzzles!
72D: "110. Noted Art Deco designer"
4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: ERTE Remember this word for future puzzles!
73D: "115. Sponsored spots"
3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
74D: "116. Persian or Abyssinian"
3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
75D: "117. Enero a diciembre"
3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
76D: "118. Domino dot"
3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a disease of poultry
- Similar words include: hit, mop up, shoot
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PIP Remember this word for future puzzles!
77D: "120. "Yeah, right!""
3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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Answer: HAH Remember this word for future puzzles!
