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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (36 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (40 clues)
- Down Clues - Detailed Hints
- Expert Solving Strategies
- Today's Puzzle Statistics
Today's Puzzle Difficulty: Moderate
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. Grammy-winning singer who's had both a "Farewell Tour" and a "Here We Go Again Tour" | 4 |
| 2A | 5. Carry out orders | 4 |
| 3A | 9. Some images carved in Egyptian tombs | 4 |
| 4A | 13. Class that might be all play and no work? | 5 |
| 5A | 14. "Seriously, dude ..." | 9 |
| 6A | 16. One robed in a kittel, maybe | 5 |
| 7A | 17. Part of an evacuation plan | 9 |
| 8A | 18. Former carrier over Mauna Kea | 9 |
| 9A | 20. References as references | 5 |
| 10A | 21. It ends "But the way of the ungodly shall perish" | 8 |
| 11A | 22. Sin/cos | 3 |
| 12A | 23. Billy goat's cry | 3 |
| 13A | 24. Vulpine | 3 |
| 14A | 26. Revealing statement? | 4 |
| 15A | 30. First movie to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature | 5 |
| 16A | 33. Telegram enders | 5 |
| 17A | 35. Setting for "Biohackers" and "Bones" | 3 |
| 18A | 36. Tag line | 7 |
| 19A | 38. Mocking name for failed businesses of the early 2000s | 7 |
| 20A | 40. Catch | 3 |
| 21A | 41. What "R" might stand for on an envelope | 5 |
| 22A | 43. Company named after a volcano | 5 |
| 23A | 44. Loves of the past | 4 |
| 24A | 46. Be left at a loss? | 3 |
| 25A | 47. Objectivist Rand | 3 |
| 26A | 48. Kind of rally | 3 |
| 27A | 50. Hit list | 8 |
| 28A | 55. "There it is!" | 5 |
| 29A | 58. Seafood dish known as the King of Salads | 9 |
| 30A | 59. Film angling for awards ... or what's depicted three times in this puzzle? | 9 |
| 31A | 61. Utah's ___ Canyon Waterfall | 5 |
| 32A | 62. "Well, I never!" | 9 |
| 33A | 63. Leaves the slip, perhaps | 5 |
| 34A | 64. Comic ___ | 4 |
| 35A | 65. Some informal wear | 4 |
| 36A | 66. Tonsillectomy specialists, for short | 4 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Grammy-winning singer who's had both a "Farewell Tour" and a "Here We Go Again Tour""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CHER
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2A: "5. Carry out orders"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that be obedient to
- Opposite of: disobey
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OBEY
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3A: "9. Some images carved in Egyptian tombs"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that of southern europe; similar to but smaller than the adder
- Similar words include: Egyptian cobra, asp viper, asp
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ASPS
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4A: "13. Class that might be all play and no work?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage
- Similar words include: dramatic event, play, dramatic play
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DRAMA
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5A: "14. "Seriously, dude ...""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: COMEONMAN
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6A: "16. One robed in a kittel, maybe"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that spiritual leader of a jewish congregation; qualified to expound and apply jewish law
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RABBI
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7A: "17. Part of an evacuation plan"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: EXITROUTE
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8A: "18. Former carrier over Mauna Kea"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: ISLANDAIR
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9A: "20. References as references"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
- Similar words include: advert, adduce, cite
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CITES
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10A: "21. It ends "But the way of the ungodly shall perish""
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: PSALMONE
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11A: "22. Sin/cos"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun
- Similar words include: suntan, tangent, bronze
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TAN
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12A: "23. Billy goat's cry"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MAA
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13A: "24. Vulpine"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that marked by skill in deception
- Similar words include: foxy, slick, crafty
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SLY
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14A: "26. Revealing statement?"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TADA
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15A: "30. First movie to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SHREK
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16A: "33. Telegram enders"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
- Similar words include: stopover, blockage, stop consonant
- Opposite of: start, continuant consonant
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Answer: STOPS
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17A: "35. Setting for "Biohackers" and "Bones""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a workplace for the conduct of scientific research
- Similar words include: science lab, science laboratory, research lab
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LAB
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18A: "36. Tag line"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: YOUREIT
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19A: "38. Mocking name for failed businesses of the early 2000s"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: DOTBOMB
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20A: "40. Catch"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that tag the base runner to get him out
- Similar words include: apprehend, pick up, nail
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NAB
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21A: "41. What "R" might stand for on an envelope"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RHODE
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22A: "43. Company named after a volcano"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AETNA
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23A: "44. Loves of the past"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a man who was formerly a certain woman's husband
- Similar words include: X, ex, ex-wife
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EXES
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24A: "46. Be left at a loss?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that be obliged to pay or repay
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OWE
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25A: "47. Objectivist Rand"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AYN
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26A: "48. Kind of rally"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that liveliness and energy
- Similar words include: peppiness, ginger
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PEP
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27A: "50. Hit list"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: POPCHART
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28A: "55. "There it is!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: VOILA
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29A: "58. Seafood dish known as the King of Salads"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: CRABLOUIE
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30A: "59. Film angling for awards ... or what's depicted three times in this puzzle?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: OSCARBAIT
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31A: "61. Utah's ___ Canyon Waterfall"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that english psychologist who collaborated with i. a. richards in designing basic english (1889-1957)
- Similar words include: Charles Kay Ogden, C. K. Ogden
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OGDEN
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32A: "62. "Well, I never!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: WHATNERVE
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33A: "63. Leaves the slip, perhaps"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel
- Similar words include: navigate, sail, canvas
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SAILS
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34A: "64. Comic ___"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SANS
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35A: "65. Some informal wear"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the starting place for each hole on a golf course
- Similar words include: tee up, tee, golf tee
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TEES
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36A: "66. Tonsillectomy specialists, for short"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ENTS
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Vulgar | 5 |
| 2D | 2. "___ español?" | 5 |
| 3D | 3. Funeral home professional | 8 |
| 4D | 4. Hotshot lawyer | 9 |
| 5D | 5. Holder of a large bed | 5 |
| 6D | 6. Least aerodynamic, maybe | 7 |
| 7D | 7. Qatari title | 4 |
| 8D | 8. "And ___, here we are" | 3 |
| 9D | 9. Rub with oil | 6 |
| 10D | 10. Graphic novels? | 4 |
| 11D | 11. What am I, chopped liver? | 4 |
| 12D | 12. Super Mario World console, in brief | 4 |
| 13D | 13. Gen Z slang for awesome style | 4 |
| 14D | 15. Largest of the dolphin family | 4 |
| 15D | 19. ___ good turn | 3 |
| 16D | 22. Toys for tots, perhaps | 4 |
| 17D | 25. 49er's score | 4 |
| 18D | 27. Heaps | 4 |
| 19D | 28. Pulitzer-winning Kendrick Lamar album | 4 |
| 20D | 29. 1974 Eurovision winners | 4 |
| 21D | 30. "Auld Lang ___" | 4 |
| 22D | 31. Chess-playing Mechanical Turk of 1770, for one | 4 |
| 23D | 32. Cartoonist and inventor Goldberg | 4 |
| 24D | 33. Put away | 4 |
| 25D | 34. Tour guide's admonition | 9 |
| 26D | 37. Company that bought out Applebee's in 2007 | 4 |
| 27D | 39. Golf Hall-of-Famer who was honored with a 1953 ticker-tape parade in New York | 8 |
| 28D | 42. Shortchange | 7 |
| 29D | 45. Green icons on Rotten Tomatoes | 6 |
| 30D | 47. Station announcement, in brief | 3 |
| 31D | 49. Take in | 4 |
| 32D | 51. Hall's former partner | 5 |
| 33D | 52. Fear for a launderer | 5 |
| 34D | 53. Bank notes featuring the temple of Angkor Wat | 5 |
| 35D | 54. Hamiltons | 4 |
| 36D | 55. Exchanged words? | 4 |
| 37D | 56. Org. in some company lawsuits | 4 |
| 38D | 57. Little Engine's belief | 4 |
| 39D | 58. Word with giver or taker | 4 |
| 40D | 60. "You ___!" ("I agree!") | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Vulgar"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (of persons) so unrefined as to be lacking in discrimination and sensibility
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CRASS
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2D: "2. "___ español?""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HABLA
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3D: "3. Funeral home professional"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mortician who treats corpses with preservatives
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: EMBALMER
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4D: "4. Hotshot lawyer"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that executive who is very successful in bringing in business to his company or firm
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: RAINMAKER
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5D: "5. Holder of a large bed"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere
- Similar words include: sea
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OCEAN
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6D: "6. Least aerodynamic, maybe"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: BOXIEST
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7D: "7. Qatari title"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in africa or arabia)
- Similar words include: ameer, emeer, amir
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EMIR
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8D: "8. "And ___, here we are""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that up to the present time
- Similar words include: nevertheless, notwithstanding, in time
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: YET
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9D: "9. Rub with oil"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that choose by or as if by divine intervention
- Similar words include: inunct, oil, embrocate
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ANOINT
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10D: "10. Graphic novels?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
- Similar words include: lampblack, soot, vulgarism
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SMUT
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11D: "11. What am I, chopped liver?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned
- Similar words include: crown, poll
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PATE
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12D: "12. Super Mario World console, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SNES
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13D: "13. Gen Z slang for awesome style"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid
- Similar words include: dripping, trickle, dribble
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DRIP
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14D: "15. Largest of the dolphin family"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
- Similar words include: killer, Orcinus orca, sea wolf
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ORCA
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15D: "19. ___ good turn"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DOA
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16D: "22. Toys for tots, perhaps"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind
- Similar words include: typographical error, misprint, literal
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TYPO
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17D: "25. 49er's score"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks
- Similar words include: load
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LODE
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18D: "27. Heaps"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ALOT
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19D: "28. Pulitzer-winning Kendrick Lamar album"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that something of little value
- Similar words include: curse, blame, infernal
- Opposite of: bless
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Answer: DAMN
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20D: "29. 1974 Eurovision winners"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ABBA
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21D: "30. "Auld Lang ___""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SYNE
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22D: "31. Chess-playing Mechanical Turk of 1770, for one"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage
- Similar words include: dupery, put-on, pull someone's leg
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HOAX
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23D: "32. Cartoonist and inventor Goldberg"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
- Similar words include: bumpkin, hayseed, chawbacon
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RUBE
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24D: "33. Put away"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that fill by packing tightly
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: STOW
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25D: "34. Tour guide's admonition"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: STAYCLOSE
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26D: "37. Company that bought out Applebee's in 2007"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IHOP
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27D: "39. Golf Hall-of-Famer who was honored with a 1953 ticker-tape parade in New York"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: BENHOGAN
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28D: "42. Shortchange"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that take away possessions from someone
- Similar words include: strip, impoverish, divest
- Opposite of: enrich
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Answer: DEPRIVE
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29D: "45. Green icons on Rotten Tomatoes"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a single splash
- Similar words include: splat
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SPLATS
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30D: "47. Station announcement, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: APB
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31D: "49. Take in"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- Similar words include: take in, gain, garner
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EARN
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32D: "51. Hall's former partner"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that english conspirator who claimed that there was a jesuit plot to assassinate charles ii (1649-1705)
- Similar words include: Titus Oates, Joyce Carol Oates
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OATES
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33D: "52. Fear for a launderer"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an inspection of the accounting procedures and records by a trained accountant or cpa
- Similar words include: audited account, scrutinize, scrutinise
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AUDIT
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34D: "53. Bank notes featuring the temple of Angkor Wat"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the basic unit of money in cambodia; equal to 100 sen
- Similar words include: riel
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RIELS
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35D: "54. Hamiltons"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system
- Similar words include: ten-spot, decade, X
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TENS
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36D: "55. Exchanged words?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a solemn pledge (to oneself or to another or to a deity) to do something or to behave in a certain manner
- Similar words include: consecrate, vow
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: VOWS
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37D: "56. Org. in some company lawsuits"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a government agency in the department of labor to maintain a safe and healthy work environment
- Similar words include: Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OSHA
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38D: "57. Little Engine's belief"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ICAN
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39D: "58. Word with giver or taker"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
- Similar words include: concern, like, give care
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CARE
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40D: "60. "You ___!" ("I agree!")"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the money risked on a gamble
- Similar words include: play, depend, calculate
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: BET
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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
36 Across Clues
40 Down Clues
76 Total Clues
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