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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (63 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (73 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. Words ___ Friends | 4 |
| 2A | 5. Dunderheads | 5 |
| 3A | 10. Starting point of Diana Nyad's 2013 swim to Florida | 4 |
| 4A | 14. Reduce to a pulp | 4 |
| 5A | 18. Actress ___ Grace Moretz | 5 |
| 6A | 19. "The game's ___": Henry V | 5 |
| 7A | 20. Mystery writer? | 4 |
| 8A | 21. Soothing succulent | 4 |
| 9A | 22. HOT woman worth fighting for? | 11 |
| 10A | 24. Throwing weapon known in Japanese as a shuriken | 9 |
| 11A | 26. 2010-12's ___ Spring | 4 |
| 12A | 27. Coronary insert | 5 |
| 13A | 28. GOT in the ballpark? | 10 |
| 14A | 29. Gomez of "Only Murders in the Building" | 6 |
| 15A | 31. Under, poetically | 5 |
| 16A | 33. Trick | 4 |
| 17A | 34. Music to a comedian's ears | 5 |
| 18A | 36. Some 1960s-style protests | 6 |
| 19A | 39. Contents of a black-and-white pod | 5 |
| 20A | 43. BOB Dylan album? | 14 |
| 21A | 47. Impossible to read, perhaps | 6 |
| 22A | 48. Word before cut or class | 3 |
| 23A | 49. Fragrant compound | 5 |
| 24A | 50. "It's ___. Do you know where your children are?" (old P.S.A.) | 5 |
| 25A | 52. Butcher's cut | 4 |
| 26A | 53. Takes a little off | 5 |
| 27A | 55. Time's 2023 Person of the Year | 5 |
| 28A | 58. A.I.-powered video hoaxes | 9 |
| 29A | 60. In ___ | 4 |
| 30A | 61. Portuguese wine | 7 |
| 31A | 63. Put out again | 7 |
| 32A | 64. MOB wives? | 15 |
| 33A | 68. Casino supervisor | 7 |
| 34A | 71. Surround | 7 |
| 35A | 72. Poker in the Olympics? | 4 |
| 36A | 76. How an urgent text may be written | 9 |
| 37A | 79. Affect emotionally | 5 |
| 38A | 80. Carne ___ | 5 |
| 39A | 81. Word on either side of "à" | 4 |
| 40A | 82. Org. founded to fund foreign projects | 5 |
| 41A | 84. Vapes, familiarly | 5 |
| 42A | 86. King's title, in brief | 3 |
| 43A | 87. Turkish summit | 6 |
| 44A | 89. SOAP film? | 14 |
| 45A | 93. Alternative to a Les Paul, for short | 5 |
| 46A | 94. Dad's deflection | 6 |
| 47A | 95. One of the seven deadly sins | 5 |
| 48A | 96. Vegetables rarely cut with a knife | 4 |
| 49A | 98. Switch positions | 5 |
| 50A | 101. Washington or Berlin | 6 |
| 51A | 104. KID napper's demand? | 10 |
| 52A | 109. Loses emotional control, in gamer-speak | 5 |
| 53A | 111. Socialite Sedgwick, the supposed inspiration for Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" | 4 |
| 54A | 112. Winning country at the 2022 World Cup | 9 |
| 55A | 113. THE big game? | 11 |
| 56A | 115. "You're full of baloney!" | 4 |
| 57A | 116. "Right on, man" | 4 |
| 58A | 117. "Baywatch" actress Eleniak | 5 |
| 59A | 118. Breathers | 5 |
| 60A | 119. Goals | 4 |
| 61A | 120. Reference | 4 |
| 62A | 121. Fall perennial | 5 |
| 63A | 122. Primatologists' subjects | 4 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Words ___ Friends"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: WITH
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2A: "5. Dunderheads"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who is not very bright
- Similar words include: stupe, poor fish, stupid
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DOLTS
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3A: "10. Starting point of Diana Nyad's 2013 swim to Florida"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a communist state in the caribbean on the island of cuba
- Similar words include: Republic of Cuba
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CUBA
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4A: "14. Reduce to a pulp"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mixture of mashed malt grains and hot water; used in brewing
- Similar words include: flirt, butterfly, bray
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MASH
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5A: "18. Actress ___ Grace Moretz"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CHLOE
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6A: "19. "The game's ___": Henry V"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that traveling by foot
- Similar words include: underway
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AFOOT
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7A: "20. Mystery writer?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that at another time
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ANON
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8A: "21. Soothing succulent"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that succulent plants having rosettes of leaves usually with fiber like hemp and spikes of showy flowers; found chiefly in africa
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ALOE
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9A: "22. HOT woman worth fighting for?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: HELENOFTROY
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10A: "24. Throwing weapon known in Japanese as a shuriken"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: NINJASTAR
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11A: "26. 2010-12's ___ Spring"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of a semitic people originally from the arabian peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks arabic and who inhabits much of the middle east and northern africa
- Similar words include: Arabian
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ARAB
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12A: "27. Coronary insert"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: STENT
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13A: "28. GOT in the ballpark?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: GIVEORTAKE
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14A: "29. Gomez of "Only Murders in the Building""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SELENA
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15A: "31. Under, poetically"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NEATH
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16A: "33. Trick"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)
- Similar words include: artifice
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RUSE
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17A: "34. Music to a comedian's ears"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the sound of laughing
- Similar words include: laughter, express mirth, jape
- Opposite of: cry
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Answer: LAUGH
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18A: "36. Some 1960s-style protests"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: LIEINS
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19A: "39. Contents of a black-and-white pod"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
- Similar words include: grampus, killer whale, orca
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ORCAS
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20A: "43. BOB Dylan album?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______________
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Answer: BLONDEONBLONDE
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21A: "47. Impossible to read, perhaps"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: INCODE
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22A: "48. Word before cut or class"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation
- Similar words include: low gear, low-spirited, small
- Opposite of: high
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Answer: LOW
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23A: "49. Fragrant compound"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that formed by reaction between an acid and an alcohol with elimination of water
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ESTER
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24A: "50. "It's ___. Do you know where your children are?" (old P.S.A.)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TENPM
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25A: "52. Butcher's cut"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a cut of meat taken from the side and back of an animal between the ribs and the rump
- Similar words include: lumbus
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LOIN
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26A: "53. Takes a little off"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a state of arrangement or appearance
- Similar words include: passementerie, crop, clip
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TRIMS
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27A: "55. Time's 2023 Person of the Year"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states meat-packer who began the use of refrigerated railroad cars (1839-1903)
- Similar words include: fleet, blue-belly, Jonathan Swift
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SWIFT
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28A: "58. A.I.-powered video hoaxes"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: DEEPFAKES
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29A: "60. In ___"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SITU
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30A: "61. Portuguese wine"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a brazilian river; tributary of the amazon river
- Similar words include: Madeira River
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: MADEIRA
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31A: "63. Put out again"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a publication (such as a book) that is reprinted without changes or editing and offered again for sale
- Similar words include: reprinting, reprint
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: REISSUE
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32A: "64. MOB wives?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: MAILORDERBRIDES
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33A: "68. Casino supervisor"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: PITBOSS
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34A: "71. Surround"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering
- Similar words include: envelop, insert, stick in
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ENCLOSE
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35A: "72. Poker in the Olympics?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EPEE
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36A: "76. How an urgent text may be written"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: INALLCAPS
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37A: "79. Affect emotionally"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the event of something coming in contact with the body
- Similar words include: skin senses, hint, adjoin
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TOUCH
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38A: "80. Carne ___"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ASADA
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39A: "81. Word on either side of "à""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TETE
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40A: "82. Org. founded to fund foreign projects"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: USAID
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41A: "84. Vapes, familiarly"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ECIGS
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42A: "86. King's title, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that rate of revolution of a motor
- Similar words include: rev up, revolutions per minute, rpm
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: REV
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43A: "87. Turkish summit"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the mountain peak that noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded
- Similar words include: Mt. Ararat, Mount Ararat
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ARARAT
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44A: "89. SOAP film?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______________
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Answer: SNAKESONAPLANE
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45A: "93. Alternative to a Les Paul, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: STRAT
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46A: "94. Dad's deflection"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ASKMOM
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47A: "95. One of the seven deadly sins"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that excessive desire to acquire or possess more (especially more material wealth) than one needs or deserves
- Similar words include: avaritia, avarice, covetousness
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GREED
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48A: "96. Vegetables rarely cut with a knife"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that seed of a pea plant used for food
- Similar words include: pea, pea plant
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PEAS
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49A: "98. Switch positions"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ONOFF
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50A: "101. Washington or Berlin"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states writer remembered for his stories (1783-1859)
- Similar words include: John Irving, Washington Irving
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: IRVING
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51A: "104. KID napper's demand?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: KEEPITDOWN
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52A: "109. Loses emotional control, in gamer-speak"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances
- Similar words include: shift, joust, sway
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TILTS
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53A: "111. Socialite Sedgwick, the supposed inspiration for Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EDIE
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54A: "112. Winning country at the 2022 World Cup"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a republic in southern south america; second largest country in south america
- Similar words include: genus Argentina, Argentine Republic
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: ARGENTINA
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55A: "113. THE big game?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: TEXASHOLDEM
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56A: "115. "You're full of baloney!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly
- Similar words include: prevaricator
- Opposite of: square shooter
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Answer: LIAR
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57A: "116. "Right on, man""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IDIG
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58A: "117. "Baywatch" actress Eleniak"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ERIKA
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59A: "118. Breathers"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished
- Similar words include: calm, quieten, tranquilize
- Opposite of: agitate
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Answer: LULLS
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60A: "119. Goals"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that either extremity of something that has length
- Similar words include: ending, terminate, destruction
- Opposite of: begin, beginning
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Answer: ENDS
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61A: "120. Reference"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage
- Similar words include: quote, abduce, credit
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CITE
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62A: "121. Fall perennial"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus aster with showy daisylike flowers
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ASTER
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63A: "122. Primatologists' subjects"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all
- Similar words include: anthropoid, aper, emulator
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: APES
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. One of a reporter's W's | 5 |
| 2D | 2. Line of latitude? | 10 |
| 3D | 3. Squishy part of a cat's paw, cutesily | 7 |
| 4D | 4. Brooding sort | 3 |
| 5D | 5. Nutty | 4 |
| 6D | 6. Frequently | 5 |
| 7D | 7. 2025 biography subtitled "The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live" | 5 |
| 8D | 8. Nickname for the 6'9" Dallas Cowboys great Ed Jones | 7 |
| 9D | 9. What a mess | 3 |
| 10D | 10. Kid's repeated request | 4 |
| 11D | 11. Part of U.C.L.A.: Abbr. | 4 |
| 12D | 12. Idiot mistakes | 6 |
| 13D | 13. Pear variety | 5 |
| 14D | 14. Dazzling displays of skill | 13 |
| 15D | 15. Utah ski resort | 4 |
| 16D | 16. Linger in the bath | 4 |
| 17D | 17. Roll call response | 4 |
| 18D | 18. Nickname that's an alternative to Chuck | 4 |
| 19D | 23. Native Oklahomans | 6 |
| 20D | 25. Bad lighting? | 5 |
| 21D | 28. Treaty of ___, official close to the War of 1812 | 5 |
| 22D | 30. Some N.S.F.W. texts | 5 |
| 23D | 32. Madre's hermano | 3 |
| 24D | 35. Spicy dips | 9 |
| 25D | 37. Named, informally | 4 |
| 26D | 38. Madre's baby | 4 |
| 27D | 40. Manipulates dishonestly | 5 |
| 28D | 41. Common Wordle starting word (for all those vowels) | 5 |
| 29D | 42. Feel | 5 |
| 30D | 43. Crunchy sandwiches, for short | 4 |
| 31D | 44. ___ Greiner, inventor and "Shark Tank" personality | 4 |
| 32D | 45. Fresh cut | 5 |
| 33D | 46. Prickly patch | 5 |
| 34D | 47. Fetter | 6 |
| 35D | 51. Disappearing from the earth | 9 |
| 36D | 54. Hip-hop artists with unintelligible lyrics | 13 |
| 37D | 56. Bona ___ | 4 |
| 38D | 57. Council of ___ (Counter-Reformation body) | 5 |
| 39D | 59. Mild oath | 3 |
| 40D | 61. Trading card error | 6 |
| 41D | 62. Bowed, musically | 4 |
| 42D | 65. Big inits. in 1990s internet | 3 |
| 43D | 66. Genre for Stevie Ray Vaughan | 5 |
| 44D | 67. Celebrity chef DiSpirito | 5 |
| 45D | 68. Gyro wraps | 5 |
| 46D | 69. Like krypton | 5 |
| 47D | 70. Turkic language | 5 |
| 48D | 73. Basic drumming pattern | 10 |
| 49D | 74. Steinbeck's "East of ___" | 4 |
| 50D | 75. Place for Christmas lights | 4 |
| 51D | 77. "Not interested" | 4 |
| 52D | 78. Head toward bankruptcy, say | 4 |
| 53D | 80. According to | 5 |
| 54D | 83. Matt of "Oppenheimer" | 5 |
| 55D | 85. Overly bright and showy | 6 |
| 56D | 88. Used DoorDash, say | 5 |
| 57D | 90. ___Mari Method (tidying system) | 3 |
| 58D | 91. Hams | 7 |
| 59D | 92. Advance in a video game | 7 |
| 60D | 94. "That was true for me, too" | 6 |
| 61D | 97. Storage area | 5 |
| 62D | 99. Demand from a disgruntled customer | 5 |
| 63D | 100. Unreliable sort, in slang | 5 |
| 64D | 102. What a Bohr! | 5 |
| 65D | 103. Diamonds, but not clubs | 4 |
| 66D | 104. Dark green | 4 |
| 67D | 105. "The Office" receptionist | 4 |
| 68D | 106. Mild oath | 4 |
| 69D | 107. "Don't worry, boss!" | 4 |
| 70D | 108. Kind of hike | 4 |
| 71D | 110. Position removed by the February Revolution | 4 |
| 72D | 113. Drink "for two," in song | 3 |
| 73D | 114. Portuguese greeting | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. One of a reporter's W's"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: WHERE
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2D: "2. Line of latitude?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: ILLALLOWIT
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3D: "3. Squishy part of a cat's paw, cutesily"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: TOEBEAN
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4D: "4. Brooding sort"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that adult female chicken
- Similar words include: biddy
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HEN
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5D: "5. Nutty"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
- Similar words include: loony, wacky, balmy
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DAFT
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6D: "6. Frequently"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that many times at short intervals
- Similar words include: frequently, much, oft
- Opposite of: rarely, infrequently
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Answer: OFTEN
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7D: "7. 2025 biography subtitled "The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LORNE
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8D: "8. Nickname for the 6'9" Dallas Cowboys great Ed Jones"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: TOOTALL
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9D: "9. What a mess"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid
- Similar words include: stye, pigsty, hordeolum
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: STY
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10D: "10. Kid's repeated request"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CANI
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11D: "11. Part of U.C.L.A.: Abbr."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: UNIV
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12D: "12. Idiot mistakes"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an embarrassing mistake
- Similar words include: bloomer, boner, blooper
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BONERS
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13D: "13. Pear variety"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a former province of western france in the loire valley
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ANJOU
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14D: "14. Dazzling displays of skill"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: MASTERCLASSES
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15D: "15. Utah ski resort"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ALTA
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16D: "16. Linger in the bath"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)
- Similar words include: sop, dowse, hit it up
- Opposite of: undercharge
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Answer: SOAK
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17D: "17. Roll call response"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the present location; this place
- Similar words include: Hera, hither
- Opposite of: there
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Answer: HERE
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18D: "18. Nickname that's an alternative to Chuck"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CHAS
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19D: "23. Native Oklahomans"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of the siouan people formerly living in missouri in the valleys of the missouri and osage rivers; oil was found on osage lands early in the 20th century
- Similar words include: Osage River, Osage
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: OSAGES
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20D: "25. Bad lighting?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that malicious burning to destroy property
- Similar words include: incendiarism, fire-raising
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ARSON
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21D: "28. Treaty of ___, official close to the War of 1812"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that port city in northwestern belgium and industrial center; famous for cloth industry
- Similar words include: Gand, Gent
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GHENT
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22D: "30. Some N.S.F.W. texts"
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- Think of something that a painting of a naked human figure
- Similar words include: nude statue, nude painting, nude person
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NUDES
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23D: "32. Madre's hermano"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TIO
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24D: "35. Spicy dips"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: HOTSALSAS
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25D: "37. Named, informally"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IDED
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26D: "38. Madre's baby"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NENE
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27D: "40. Manipulates dishonestly"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who cooks food
- Similar words include: fix, Cook, ready
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: COOKS
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28D: "41. Common Wordle starting word (for all those vowels)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a farewell remark
- Similar words include: au revoir, bye, bye-bye
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ADIEU
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29D: "42. Feel"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a general conscious awareness
- Similar words include: horse sense, sentiency, sensory faculty
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SENSE
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30D: "43. Crunchy sandwiches, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce
- Similar words include: bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich, BLT
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BLTS
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31D: "44. ___ Greiner, inventor and "Shark Tank" personality"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LORI
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32D: "45. Fresh cut"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NEWDO
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33D: "46. Prickly patch"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that tangled mass of prickly plants
- Similar words include: greenbrier, tree heath, brier patch
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BRIER
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34D: "47. Fetter"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that be a hindrance or obstacle to
- Similar words include: obturate, occlude, obstruct
- Opposite of: free
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Answer: IMPEDE
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35D: "51. Disappearing from the earth"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- Similar words include: snuff it, expire, pass away
- Opposite of: be born
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Answer: PERISHING
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36D: "54. Hip-hop artists with unintelligible lyrics"
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- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: MUMBLERAPPERS
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37D: "56. Bona ___"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: FIDE
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38D: "57. Council of ___ (Counter-Reformation body)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a river in central england that flows generally northeastward to join with the ouse river and form the humber
- Similar words include: Trent River, River Trent, Trento
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TRENT
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39D: "59. Mild oath"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: FIE
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40D: "61. Trading card error"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: MISCUT
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41D: "62. Bowed, musically"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (of instruments in the violin family) to be played with the bow
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ARCO
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42D: "65. Big inits. in 1990s internet"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AOL
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43D: "66. Genre for Stevie Ray Vaughan"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a type of folksong that originated among black americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes
- Similar words include: wild blue yonder, blue air, blueing
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BLUES
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44D: "67. Celebrity chef DiSpirito"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ROCCO
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45D: "68. Gyro wraps"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that usually small round bread that can open into a pocket for filling
- Similar words include: pocket bread, pita
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PITAS
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46D: "69. Like krypton"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that unable to move or resist motion
- Similar words include: sluggish, indifferent, neutral
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: INERT
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47D: "70. Turkic language"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of the mongolian people of central asia who invaded russia in the 13th century
- Similar words include: Tartar, Mongol Tatar
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TATAR
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48D: "73. Basic drumming pattern"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously
- Similar words include: roll, drum roll
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: PARADIDDLE
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49D: "74. Steinbeck's "East of ___""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
- Similar words include: Shangri-la, paradise, promised land
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EDEN
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50D: "75. Place for Christmas lights"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EAVE
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51D: "77. "Not interested""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls
- Similar words include: communicate, cash in one's chips, laissez passer
- Opposite of: fail, running
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Answer: PASS
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52D: "78. Head toward bankruptcy, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe
- Similar words include: go under, subside, sump
- Opposite of: float, source
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Answer: SINK
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53D: "80. According to"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that 20 aspers equal 1 kurus in turkey
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ASPER
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54D: "83. Matt of "Oppenheimer""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the friend of phintias who pledged his life that phintias would return (4th century bc)
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DAMON
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55D: "85. Overly bright and showy"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that tastelessly showy
- Similar words include: cheap, flash, tacky
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: GARISH
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56D: "88. Used DoorDash, say"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ATEIN
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57D: "90. ___Mari Method (tidying system)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: KON
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58D: "91. Hams"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: EMOTERS
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59D: "92. Advance in a video game"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: LEVELUP
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60D: "94. "That was true for me, too""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ASDIDI
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61D: "97. Storage area"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage
- Similar words include: Ionic dialect, bonce, noggin
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ATTIC
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62D: "99. Demand from a disgruntled customer"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: FIXIT
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63D: "100. Unreliable sort, in slang"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a crystal of snow
- Similar words include: flake off, geek, chip
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: FLAKE
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64D: "102. What a Bohr!"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NIELS
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65D: "103. Diamonds, but not clubs"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that art highly prized for its beauty or perfection
- Similar words include: gem, gemstone, jewel
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GEMS
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66D: "104. Dark green"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that informal terms for money
- Similar words include: dough, gelt, sugar
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: KALE
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67D: "105. "The Office" receptionist"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an early name of ireland that is now used in poetry
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ERIN
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68D: "106. Mild oath"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EGAD
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69D: "107. "Don't worry, boss!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ONIT
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70D: "108. Kind of hike"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that something that remunerates
- Similar words include: engage, pay, remuneration
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: WAGE
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71D: "110. Position removed by the February Revolution"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a male monarch or emperor (especially of russia prior to 1917)
- Similar words include: tzar, czar
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TSAR
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72D: "113. Drink "for two," in song"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water
- Similar words include: Camellia sinensis, teatime, afternoon tea
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TEA
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73D: "114. Portuguese greeting"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in india for writing paper
- Similar words include: olla
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OLA
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Today's Puzzle Stats
63 Across Clues
73 Down Clues
136 Total Clues
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