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Date: Friday, January 22, 2021
Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 72 (36 Across, 36 Down)
Average Word Length: 5.4 letters
Master Today's Across: NYT Friday Puzzle January 22, 2021
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. Some internet humor | 7 |
| 2A | 8. It shares a key with a "3" | 7 |
| 3A | 15. Apple product launched in 2015 | 7 |
| 4A | 16. Vital hosp. worker | 7 |
| 5A | 17. Beheader of Medusa, in Greek myth | 7 |
| 6A | 18. One engaged in a struggle | 7 |
| 7A | 19. Need for translation, in biology | 3 |
| 8A | 20. Coined word in the title of 2008's Best Picture | 7 |
| 9A | 22. Congresswoman Demings | 3 |
| 10A | 23. Many mainframes | 4 |
| 11A | 25. Brewery stock | 5 |
| 12A | 26. Western city where copper-riveted jeans were invented | 4 |
| 13A | 27. Water nymph | 5 |
| 14A | 29. Big Ten football powerhouse, for short | 3 |
| 15A | 30. Big name in apple juice | 5 |
| 16A | 31. Dangerous thing to catch | 7 |
| 17A | 33. Two swings and a slide, maybe | 7 |
| 18A | 35. Do or ___ (punny hair salon name) | 3 |
| 19A | 36. The Depression, for one | 3 |
| 20A | 37. Rally feature | 7 |
| 21A | 41. Team player who's not really a team player | 7 |
| 22A | 45. Wears | 5 |
| 23A | 46. Burning sensation | 3 |
| 24A | 48. Came to | 5 |
| 25A | 49. African antelope | 4 |
| 26A | 50. Group with the 2000 hit "This I Promise You" | 5 |
| 27A | 52. Website with the headings "Craft Supplies" and "Jewelry & Accessories" | 4 |
| 28A | 53. Cable channel owned by Discovery | 3 |
| 29A | 54. Convenient place to work out | 7 |
| 30A | 56. T.S.A. overseer | 3 |
| 31A | 57. "De-e-eluxe!" | 7 |
| 32A | 59. Elvis Presley sings it in "Blue Hawaii" | 7 |
| 33A | 61. Corpulence | 7 |
| 34A | 62. Tracking device | 7 |
| 35A | 63. Sells | 7 |
| 36A | 64. Some printers | 7 |
Let's Solve the Across Clues Together!
Here are helpful hints to solve each clue. Remember, crossword puzzles are like word games - have fun with them!
Clue 1 Across: "1. Some internet humor"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: LOLCATS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "8. It shares a key with a "3""
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HASHTAG
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Clue 3 Across: "15. Apple product launched in 2015"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IPADPRO
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Clue 4 Across: "16. Vital hosp. worker"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ERNURSE
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Clue 5 Across: "17. Beheader of Medusa, in Greek myth"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that (greek mythology) the son of zeus who slew medusa (with the help of athena and hermes) and rescued andromeda from a sea monster
- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: PERSEUS
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Clue 6 Across: "18. One engaged in a struggle"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the principal character in a work of fiction
- Words that mean the same thing: protagonist
- The opposite would be: antagonist
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The answer is: AGONIST
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Clue 7 Across: "19. Need for translation, in biology"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about science/technology.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that (biochemistry) a long linear polymer of nucleotides found in the nucleus but mainly in the cytoplasm of a cell where it is associated with microsomes; it transmits genetic information from dna to the cytoplasm and controls certain chemical processes in the cell
- Words that mean the same thing: ribonucleic acid
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: RNA
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Clue 8 Across: "20. Coined word in the title of 2008's Best Picture"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SLUMDOG
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Across: "22. Congresswoman Demings"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: VAL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Across: "23. Many mainframes"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IBMS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "25. Brewery stock"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey
- Words that mean the same thing: barm
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: YEAST
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "26. Western city where copper-riveted jeans were invented"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about geography.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a city in western nevada at the foot of the sierra nevada mountains; known for gambling casinos and easy divorce and remarriage
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RENO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "27. Water nymph"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers; of fresh or brackish water
- Words that mean the same thing: water nymph
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NAIAD
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "29. Big Ten football powerhouse, for short"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MSU
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "30. Big name in apple juice"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that united states feminist and suffragist (1793-1880)
- Words that mean the same thing: Lucretia Coffin Mott, Mott
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MOTTS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "31. Dangerous thing to catch"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a small explosive bomb thrown by hand or fired from a missile
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GRENADE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "33. Two swings and a slide, maybe"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PLAYSET
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Across: "35. Do or ___ (punny hair salon name)"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair
- Words that mean the same thing: dyestuff
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DYE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "36. The Depression, for one"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
- Words that mean the same thing: epoch, geological era, earned run average
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ERA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "37. Rally feature"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PEPBAND
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "41. Team player who's not really a team player"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about sports.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BALLHOG
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "45. Wears"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HASON
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Clue 23 Across: "46. Burning sensation"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
- Words that mean the same thing: anger, wrath, ira
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IRE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "48. Came to"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that stop sleeping
- Words that mean the same thing: arouse, awake, waken
- The opposite would be: fall asleep
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AWOKE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "49. African antelope"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that large african antelope with long straight nearly upright horns
- Words that mean the same thing: pasang
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ORYX
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "50. Group with the 2000 hit "This I Promise You""
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NSYNC
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "52. Website with the headings "Craft Supplies" and "Jewelry & Accessories""
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ETSY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "53. Cable channel owned by Discovery"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that considerate and solicitous care
- Words that mean the same thing: tender loving care
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TLC
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "54. Convenient place to work out"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HOMEGYM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "56. T.S.A. overseer"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DHS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "57. "De-e-eluxe!""
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OOHLALA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 32 Across: "59. Elvis Presley sings it in "Blue Hawaii""
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ALOHAOE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 33 Across: "61. Corpulence"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that more than average fatness
- Words that mean the same thing: fleshiness, corpulency
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OBESITY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 34 Across: "62. Tracking device"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a person who fixes the boundaries of land claims
- Words that mean the same thing: locater
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LOCATOR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 35 Across: "63. Sells"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that sell or offer for sale from place to place
- Words that mean the same thing: huckster, vend, hawk
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PEDDLES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 36 Across: "64. Some printers"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: INKJETS
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Solve the Down: NYT Friday Puzzle January 22, 2021
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. Facial piercing | 7 |
| 2D | 2. Place for free spirits | 7 |
| 3D | 3. Where the University of Wyoming is | 7 |
| 4D | 4. Contents of some towers, in brief | 3 |
| 5D | 5. Some sign language users | 4 |
| 6D | 6. In fact | 5 |
| 7D | 7. "Tough luck ... I don't care what you think" | 7 |
| 8D | 8. "Watch it!" | 7 |
| 9D | 9. Cant | 5 |
| 10D | 10. Make out in England | 4 |
| 11D | 11. ___ army, villainous force in Disney's "Mulan" | 3 |
| 12D | 12. Pot supporters | 7 |
| 13D | 13. Actor Armand ___ | 7 |
| 14D | 14. "Beat it!" | 7 |
| 15D | 21. Attachment to Christ? | 3 |
| 16D | 24. Place to build a castle | 7 |
| 17D | 26. Fancy "I" | 7 |
| 18D | 28. Israeli leader with an eye patch | 5 |
| 19D | 30. Actress Gibbs of "The Jeffersons" | 5 |
| 20D | 32. Cubs' hangout | 3 |
| 21D | 34. Pastoral setting | 3 |
| 22D | 37. When a poser might be presented? | 7 |
| 23D | 38. Place for a stud | 7 |
| 24D | 39. Eager, informally | 7 |
| 25D | 40. Causes consternation | 7 |
| 26D | 41. Language of the Literature Nobelist Rabindranath Tagore | 7 |
| 27D | 42. Test in chemistry? | 7 |
| 28D | 43. "Yeah, I'm listening" | 7 |
| 29D | 44. Yellowstone attractions | 7 |
| 30D | 47. Bourbon relative | 3 |
| 31D | 50. Murphy's co-star in 1982's "48 Hrs." | 5 |
| 32D | 51. Robotic adversary in "Battlestar Galactica" | 5 |
| 33D | 54. Bad fall? | 4 |
| 34D | 55. Not serious | 4 |
| 35D | 58. Cause of a trip | 3 |
| 36D | 60. Once-in-a-lifetime trip | 3 |
Now Let's Solve the Down Clues!
Down clues go from top to bottom. Use the letters from your across answers to help!
Clue 1 Down: "1. Facial piercing"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LIPRING
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. Place for free spirits"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OPENBAR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. Where the University of Wyoming is"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a university town in southeast wyoming
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LARAMIE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. Contents of some towers, in brief"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element; occurs in association with zinc ores
- Words that mean the same thing: candela, cd, CD
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CDS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. Some sign language users"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all
- Words that mean the same thing: imitator, emulator, copycat
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: APES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Down: "6. In fact"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that in accordance with truth or fact or reality
- Words that mean the same thing: in truth, unfeignedly, sincerely
- The opposite would be: insincerely
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TRULY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Down: "7. "Tough luck ... I don't care what you think""
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SOSUEME
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Down: "8. "Watch it!""
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HEADSUP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Down: "9. Cant"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
- Words that mean the same thing: jargon, vernacular, cant
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ARGOT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Down: "10. Make out in England"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.
- Words that mean the same thing: buss, kiss, osculate
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SNOG
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. ___ army, villainous force in Disney's "Mulan""
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a member of a nomadic people who invaded europe in the 4th century
- Words that mean the same thing: Kraut, Jerry, Boche
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HUN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. Pot supporters"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a three-legged metal stand for supporting a cooking vessel in a hearth
- Words that mean the same thing: trivet
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TRIVETS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Down: "13. Actor Armand ___"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ASSANTE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Down: "14. "Beat it!""
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GETLOST
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Down: "21. Attachment to Christ?"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that informal terms for a mother
- Words that mean the same thing: mammy, ma, mommy
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MAS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Down: "24. Place to build a castle"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that mold consisting of a box with sand shaped to mold metal
- Words that mean the same thing: sandpit, sandpile
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SANDBOX
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Down: "26. Fancy "I""
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ROYALWE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Down: "28. Israeli leader with an eye patch"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that israeli general and statesman (1915-1981)
- Words that mean the same thing: Moshe Dayan
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DAYAN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Down: "30. Actress Gibbs of "The Jeffersons""
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MARLA
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Clue 20 Down: "32. Cubs' hangout"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that the habitation of wild animals
- Words that mean the same thing: hideout, lair, hideaway
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: DEN
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Clue 21 Down: "34. Pastoral setting"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that a unit of length of thread or yarn
- Words that mean the same thing: pasture, ley, grazing land
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: LEA
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Clue 22 Down: "37. When a poser might be presented?"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: PHOTOOP
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Clue 23 Down: "38. Place for a stud"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that the fleshy pendulous part of the external human ear
- Words that mean the same thing: ear lobe
- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: EARLOBE
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Clue 24 Down: "39. Eager, informally"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: PSYCHED
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Clue 25 Down: "40. Causes consternation"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles
- Words that mean the same thing: dispirit, appal, consternation
- The opposite would be: elate
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The answer is: DISMAYS
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Clue 26 Down: "41. Language of the Literature Nobelist Rabindranath Tagore"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about history.
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- This could be something that (hinduism) a member of a people living in bangladesh and west bengal (mainly hindus)
- Words that mean the same thing: Bangla
- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: BENGALI
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Clue 27 Down: "42. Test in chemistry?"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: HOTDATE
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Clue 28 Down: "43. "Yeah, I'm listening""
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: OKSHOOT
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Clue 29 Down: "44. Yellowstone attractions"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a spring that discharges hot water and steam
- Words that mean the same thing: geyser
- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: GEYSERS
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Clue 30 Down: "47. Bourbon relative"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that the seed of the cereal grass
- Words that mean the same thing: rye whisky, rye whiskey, Secale cereale
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: RYE
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Clue 31 Down: "50. Murphy's co-star in 1982's "48 Hrs.""
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about celebrity/entertainment.
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- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: NOLTE
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Clue 32 Down: "51. Robotic adversary in "Battlestar Galactica""
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.
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- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: CYLON
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Clue 33 Down: "54. Bad fall?"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that precipitation of ice pellets when there are strong rising air currents
- Words that mean the same thing: acclaim, come, herald
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: HAIL
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Clue 34 Down: "55. Not serious"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that the act of mocking or ridiculing
- Words that mean the same thing: bemock
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: MOCK
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Clue 35 Down: "58. Cause of a trip"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that a powerful hallucinogenic drug manufactured from lysergic acid
- Words that mean the same thing: lysergic acid diethylamide
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: LSD
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Clue 36 Down: "60. Once-in-a-lifetime trip"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the fifth pillar of islam is a pilgrimage to mecca during the month of dhu al-hijja; at least once in a lifetime a muslim is expected to make a religious journey to mecca and the kaaba
- Words that mean the same thing: hajj, hadj
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: HAJ
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 49 | 68.1% |
| Short Answer | 14 | 19.4% |
| Celebrity/Entertainment | 4 | 5.6% |
| Science/Technology | 1 | 1.4% |
| Geography | 1 | 1.4% |
| Abbreviation | 1 | 1.4% |
| Sports | 1 | 1.4% |
| History | 1 | 1.4% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 36 |
| Down Clues | 36 |
| Total Clues | 72 |
| Average Answer Length | 5.4 letters |
| Shortest Answer | 3 letters |
| Longest Answer | 7 letters |
Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!
- Start with short words first - they're usually easier!
- Look for clues with blanks to fill in - these are like fill-in-the-blank questions at school
- When letters cross, they must be the same in both words - this helps you check if you're right!
- Today is Friday, and these puzzles are usually moderate level
- Most clues today are about general knowledge
- The average word today has about 5 letters
- Remember: It's okay to take breaks and come back later with fresh eyes!
- Ask someone for help if you need it - crosswords are more fun with friends!
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Last Updated: September 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
