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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (35 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (43 clues)
- Down Clues - Detailed Hints
- Expert Solving Strategies
- Today's Puzzle Statistics
Today's Puzzle Difficulty: Medium
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. "The ___ is clear!" | 5 |
| 2A | 6. "Mamma Mia" group | 4 |
| 3A | 10. Spaces, as between teeth | 4 |
| 4A | 14. Author Joyce Carol ___ | 5 |
| 5A | 15. Devices for keyless entry | 4 |
| 6A | 16. Amo, amas, ___ | 4 |
| 7A | 17. "Sleepless in Seattle" or "Legally Blonde," informally | 10 |
| 8A | 19. Actress Dunham or Waithe | 4 |
| 9A | 20. Call from an ump | 3 |
| 10A | 21. Group of connected PCs | 3 |
| 11A | 22. Like some columns and bonds | 5 |
| 12A | 23. Methodical way for something to be built | 12 |
| 13A | 27. "This place is fire" | 6 |
| 14A | 30. Sidney who directed "12 Angry Men" and "The Wiz" | 5 |
| 15A | 31. Japanese camera giant | 5 |
| 16A | 32. "The Lion King" villain | 4 |
| 17A | 34. Soph., jr. and sr. | 3 |
| 18A | 37. Slogan encouraging the use of seatbelts | 15 |
| 19A | 41. Swiss peak | 3 |
| 20A | 42. Enormous | 4 |
| 21A | 43. New England state with the slogan "The Way Life Should Be" | 5 |
| 22A | 44. Used, as a chair | 5 |
| 23A | 47. Shaggy hairstyle | 6 |
| 24A | 48. Simple game requiring steady hands | 12 |
| 25A | 52. Improvise, as a speech | 5 |
| 26A | 53. When a plane is due, for short | 3 |
| 27A | 54. Used to be | 3 |
| 28A | 57. College figure | 4 |
| 29A | 58. Suddenly feels repulsed by a romantic partner ... or a hint to 17-, 23-, 37- and 48-Across | 10 |
| 30A | 62. Pole on a sailboat | 4 |
| 31A | 63. Tradition for many high school seniors | 4 |
| 32A | 64. Fasten, as a ship's rope | 5 |
| 33A | 65. In addition | 4 |
| 34A | 66. Levelheaded | 4 |
| 35A | 67. "Goodie" on classic radio | 5 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. "The ___ is clear!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the shore of a sea or ocean
- Similar words include: seashore, sea-coast, glide
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: COAST
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2A: "6. "Mamma Mia" group"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ABBA
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3A: "10. Spaces, as between teeth"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures
- Similar words include: disruption, break, interruption
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GAPS
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4A: "14. Author Joyce Carol ___"
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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5A: "15. Devices for keyless entry"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a vest pocket to hold a pocket watch
- Similar words include: watch pocket, watch chain, fob
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: FOBS
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6A: "16. Amo, amas, ___"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AMAT
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7A: "17. "Sleepless in Seattle" or "Legally Blonde," informally"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: CHICKFLICK
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8A: "19. Actress Dunham or Waithe"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a russian river in siberia; flows northward into the laptev sea
- Similar words include: Lena River
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LENA
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9A: "20. Call from an ump"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball
- Similar words include: verboten, tabu, kayoed
- Opposite of: safe
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Answer: OUT
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10A: "21. Group of connected PCs"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a local computer network for communication between computers; especially a network connecting computers and word processors and other electronic office equipment to create a communication system between offices
- Similar words include: local area network
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LAN
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11A: "22. Like some columns and bonds"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the dialect of ancient greek spoken and written in attica and athens and ionia
- Similar words include: Ionic dialect, Attic, Classical Greek
- Opposite of: nonionic
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Answer: IONIC
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12A: "23. Methodical way for something to be built"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: BRICKBYBRICK
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13A: "27. "This place is fire""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ITSLIT
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14A: "30. Sidney who directed "12 Angry Men" and "The Wiz""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LUMET
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15A: "31. Japanese camera giant"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NIKON
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16A: "32. "The Lion King" villain"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue
- Similar words include: scrape, cicatrice, mark
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SCAR
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17A: "34. Soph., jr. and sr."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days
- Similar words include: year, yr, twelvemonth
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: YRS
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18A: "37. Slogan encouraging the use of seatbelts"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: CLICKITORTICKET
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19A: "41. Swiss peak"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any high mountain
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ALP
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20A: "42. Enormous"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; - w.r.inge
- Similar words include: immense, vast, Brobdingnagian
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HUGE
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21A: "43. New England state with the slogan "The Way Life Should Be""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a state in new england
- Similar words include: Pine Tree State, ME
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MAINE
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22A: "44. Used, as a chair"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SATON
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23A: "47. Shaggy hairstyle"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: MOPTOP
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24A: "48. Simple game requiring steady hands"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: PICKUPSTICKS
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25A: "52. Improvise, as a speech"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ADLIB
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26A: "53. When a plane is due, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional basque party; want to create an independent homeland in spain's western pyrenees
- Similar words include: Basque Homeland and Freedom, Basque Fatherland and Liberty, Euskadi ta Askatasuna
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ETA
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27A: "54. Used to be"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a state in northwestern united states on the pacific
- Similar words include: exist, represent, comprise
- Opposite of: differ
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Answer: WAS
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28A: "57. College figure"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an administrator in charge of a division of a university or college
- Similar words include: James Byron Dean, doyen, James Dean
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DEAN
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29A: "58. Suddenly feels repulsed by a romantic partner ... or a hint to 17-, 23-, 37- and 48-Across"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: GETSTHEICK
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30A: "62. Pole on a sailboat"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a vertical spar for supporting sails
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MAST
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31A: "63. Tradition for many high school seniors"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a formal ball held for a school class toward the end of the academic year
- Similar words include: promenade
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PROM
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32A: "64. Fasten, as a ship's rope"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that something to which a mountain climber's rope can be secured
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BELAY
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33A: "65. In addition"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that in addition
- Similar words include: as well, too, besides
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ALSO
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34A: "66. Levelheaded"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that mentally healthy; free from mental disorder
- Similar words include: reasonable
- Opposite of: insane
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Answer: SANE
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35A: "67. "Goodie" on classic radio"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a song that was formerly popular
- Similar words include: golden oldie
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OLDIE
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. 2017 Pixar film set in Mexico | 4 |
| 2D | 2. Third-largest Hawaiian island | 4 |
| 3D | 3. Going ___ (fighting) | 4 |
| 4D | 4. Part of a min. | 3 |
| 5D | 5. Chiding sound | 3 |
| 6D | 6. Insurance company whose mascot is a duck | 5 |
| 7D | 7. Sound effect for a bop on the head | 5 |
| 8D | 8. Eng. channel | 3 |
| 9D | 9. Request | 3 |
| 10D | 10. Aplenty | 6 |
| 11D | 11. Bag of hotel room freebies, say | 10 |
| 12D | 12. Feel a suddenly overwhelming fear | 5 |
| 13D | 13. Serving of pancakes | 5 |
| 14D | 18. Move like a fairy | 4 |
| 15D | 22. Tech giant founded in 1911 | 3 |
| 16D | 23. Voting group | 4 |
| 17D | 24. Skating locale | 4 |
| 18D | 25. Play loudly, as from a speaker | 5 |
| 19D | 26. Traditional circular dwelling | 4 |
| 20D | 27. Ancient Peruvian | 4 |
| 21D | 28. Cash drawer | 4 |
| 22D | 29. Plays hooky | 10 |
| 23D | 32. Shocks into silence | 5 |
| 24D | 33. Part of a gearwheel | 3 |
| 25D | 35. Nevada city near Lake Tahoe | 4 |
| 26D | 36. Bit of a staircase | 4 |
| 27D | 38. Flapjack franchise | 4 |
| 28D | 39. Reassurance after a loud crash, say | 4 |
| 29D | 40. Puts a limit on | 4 |
| 30D | 45. Resembling | 6 |
| 31D | 46. Spot for three men in a nursery rhyme | 3 |
| 32D | 47. Exam for a future doc | 4 |
| 33D | 48. Culinary personality Lakshmi | 5 |
| 34D | 49. Best imaginable | 5 |
| 35D | 50. Wyoming's Grand ___ National Park | 5 |
| 36D | 51. "Hi, you know who this is" | 5 |
| 37D | 54. Undomesticated | 4 |
| 38D | 55. Smoothie "superfood" | 4 |
| 39D | 56. Scottish terrier breed | 4 |
| 40D | 58. Rte. finder | 3 |
| 41D | 59. Long time in history | 3 |
| 42D | 60. Network for "Succession" and "The Wire" | 3 |
| 43D | 61. Slithery fish | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. 2017 Pixar film set in Mexico"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics
- Similar words include: coconut, Cocos nucifera, coconut palm
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: COCO
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2D: "2. Third-largest Hawaiian island"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an island of central hawaii (between molokai and kauai); the chief island of the state
- Similar words include: Oahu Island
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OAHU
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3D: "3. Going ___ (fighting)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ATIT
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4D: "4. Part of a min."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the systeme international d'unites
- Similar words include: s, unsweet, second
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SEC
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5D: "5. Chiding sound"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that utter `tsk,' `tut,' or `tut-tut,' as in disapproval
- Similar words include: tut, tut-tut
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TSK
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6D: "6. Insurance company whose mascot is a duck"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AFLAC
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7D: "7. Sound effect for a bop on the head"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BOINK
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8D: "8. Eng. channel"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: BBC
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9D: "9. Request"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that inquire about
- Similar words include: involve, demand, inquire
- Opposite of: obviate
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Answer: ASK
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10D: "10. Aplenty"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that in great numbers
- Similar words include: abounding
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: GALORE
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11D: "11. Bag of hotel room freebies, say"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: AMENITYKIT
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12D: "12. Feel a suddenly overwhelming fear"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
- Similar words include: affright, terror, scare
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PANIC
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13D: "13. Serving of pancakes"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an orderly pile
- Similar words include: hatful, sight, plenty
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: STACK
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14D: "18. Move like a fairy"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sudden quick movement
- Similar words include: fleet, dart, flutter
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: FLIT
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15D: "22. Tech giant founded in 1911"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IBM
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16D: "23. Voting group"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a group of countries in special alliance
- Similar words include: axis
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BLOC
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17D: "24. Skating locale"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that building that contains a surface for ice skating or roller skating
- Similar words include: skating rink
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RINK
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18D: "25. Play loudly, as from a speaker"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a loud harsh or strident noise
- Similar words include: clamor, claxon, cacophony
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BLARE
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19D: "26. Traditional circular dwelling"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a circular domed dwelling that is portable and self-supporting; originally used by nomadic mongol and turkic people of central asia but now used as inexpensive alternative or temporary housing
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: YURT
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20D: "27. Ancient Peruvian"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a ruler of the incas (or a member of his family)
- Similar words include: Incan, Inka
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: INCA
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21D: "28. Cash drawer"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together
- Similar words include: money box, trough, public treasury
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TILL
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22D: "29. Plays hooky"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: SKIPSCLASS
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23D: "32. Shocks into silence"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow
- Similar words include: stupefy, stun, daze
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: STUNS
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24D: "33. Part of a gearwheel"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a subordinate who performs an important but routine function
- Similar words include: sprocket
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: COG
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25D: "35. Nevada city near Lake Tahoe"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a city in western nevada at the foot of the sierra nevada mountains; known for gambling casinos and easy divorce and remarriage
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RENO
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26D: "36. Bit of a staircase"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
- Similar words include: pace, ill-use, tread
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: STEP
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27D: "38. Flapjack franchise"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IHOP
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28D: "39. Reassurance after a loud crash, say"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IMOK
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29D: "40. Puts a limit on"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a tight-fitting headdress
- Similar words include: capital, chapiter, hood
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CAPS
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30D: "45. Resembling"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: AKINTO
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31D: "46. Spot for three men in a nursery rhyme"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a relatively large open container that you fill with water and use to wash the body
- Similar words include: bath, tubful, bathing tub
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TUB
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32D: "47. Exam for a future doc"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MCAT
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33D: "48. Culinary personality Lakshmi"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PADMA
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34D: "49. Best imaginable"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the idea of something that is perfect; something that one hopes to attain
- Similar words include: saint, apotheosis, nonpareil
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: IDEAL
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35D: "50. Wyoming's Grand ___ National Park"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of the large western branch of sioux people which was made up of several groups that lived on the plains
- Similar words include: Lakota, Teton Sioux, Teton Dakota
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TETON
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36D: "51. "Hi, you know who this is""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ITSME
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37D: "54. Undomesticated"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a wild primitive state untouched by civilization
- Similar words include: unfounded, violent, waste
- Opposite of: tame
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Answer: WILD
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38D: "55. Smoothie "superfood""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ACAI
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39D: "56. Scottish terrier breed"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SKYE
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40D: "58. Rte. finder"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a navigational system involving satellites and computers that can determine the latitude and longitude of a receiver on earth by computing the time difference for signals from different satellites to reach the receiver
- Similar words include: Global Positioning System
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: GPS
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41D: "59. Long time in history"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
- Similar words include: earned run average, epoch, geological era
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ERA
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42D: "60. Network for "Succession" and "The Wire""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HBO
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43D: "61. Slithery fish"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in europe and america; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EEL
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Common crossword words repeat. Learning them speeds up future solving.
Today's Puzzle Stats
35 Across Clues
43 Down Clues
78 Total Clues
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