1D: "1. Actor Idris"
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: ELBA
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2D: "2. German dissent"
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: NEIN
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3D: "3. Himalayan menace"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a large hairy humanoid creature said to live in the himalayas
- Similar words include: abominable snowman
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: YETI
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4D: "4. With hands on hips"
6 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (used of arms and legs) bent outward with the joint away from the body
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: AKIMBO
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5D: "5. Common occurrences for scratch golfers"
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (golf) the standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course
- Similar words include: equality, equivalence, equation
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PARS
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6D: "6. Apple consumer"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (old testament) adam's wife in judeo-christian mythology: the first woman and mother of the human race; god created eve from adam's rib and placed adam and eve in the garden of eden
- Similar words include: eventide, evening, even
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EVE
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7D: "7. Mesoamerican staple cooked in a cornhusk"
6 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a city in northern ghana
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TAMALE
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8D: "8. Equilibria"
6 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: STASES
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9D: "9. Heavy coats"
6 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a british term)
- Similar words include: windbreaker, parka, windcheater
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PARKAS
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10D: "10. Torah vessels"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (judaism) sacred chest where the ancient hebrews kept the two tablets containing the ten commandments
- Similar words include: Ark, ark, Ark of the Covenant
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ARKS
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11D: "11. Things marked during attendance"
8 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the state of being absent
- Similar words include: absence seizure, absence
- Opposite of: presence
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Answer: ABSENCES
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12D: "12. End it"
7 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations)
- Similar words include: detachment, separation, dissolution
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: BREAKUP
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13D: "13. They might be green or red"
6 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that spicy sauce of tomatoes and onions and chili peppers to accompany mexican foods
- Similar words include: salsa
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SALSAS
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14D: "14. Dress for a job you probably don't want?"
10 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: HAZMATSUIT
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15D: "15. Apt name for a tuxedo cat"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that chocolate cookie with white cream filling
- Similar words include: oreo cookie
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OREO
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16D: "16. Embellish as with unnecessary words"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog
- Similar words include: pad, embellish, blow up
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LARD
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17D: "17. Alternatively"
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: ELSE
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18D: "19. Screw-up"
5 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an acronym often used by soldiers in world war ii: situation normal all fucked up
- Similar words include: fucked-up
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SNAFU
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19D: "24. Ricochet"
6 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a quick look
- Similar words include: glimpse, coup d'oeil, peek
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: GLANCE
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20D: "26. Supermodel Banks"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: TYRA
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21D: "31. Groovy"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that two-winged insects characterized by active flight
- Similar words include: fly sheet, fly front, pilot
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: FLY
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22D: "32. Crushed, in a way"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that succeed at easily
- Similar words include: ace, pass with flying colors, nail
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ACED
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23D: "33. Rarin' to go"
6 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: GUNGHO
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24D: "34. Land, as a fish"
6 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: REELIN
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25D: "35. Palindromic family member"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
- Similar words include: pa, dada, pappa
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DAD
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26D: "36. Contributed"
5 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of
- Similar words include: supply, tote up, bring
- Opposite of: subtract, take away
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Answer: ADDED
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27D: "37. Shakespeare character who declares "I am not what I am""
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the villain in william shakespeare's tragedy who tricked othello into murdering his wife
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IAGO
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28D: "38. Baker's necessity"
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OVEN
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29D: "39. Loch ___"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a strip of land projecting into a body of water
- Similar words include: cape
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NESS
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30D: "40. Sketches"
5 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a short theatrical episode
- Similar words include: skit
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SKITS
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31D: "45. Vast span"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the longest division of geological time
- Similar words include: aeon
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EON
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32D: "46. [That was a good one]"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: LOL
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33D: "47. The thing in "The Thing," for one"
5 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
- Similar words include: foreigner, unknown, estrange
- Opposite of: citizen, acquaintance
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Answer: ALIEN
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34D: "48. "Open ___ midnight""
3 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: TIL
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35D: "49. United"
3 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
- Similar words include: single, unrivaled, ace
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ONE
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36D: "50. No es ___ (Spanish put-down)"
5 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: BUENO
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37D: "51. Cellular messenger"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of 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
- Similar words include: ribonucleic acid
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RNA
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38D: "53. Audience stat"
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a visual presentation showing how something works
- Similar words include: show, demonstrate, present
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DEMO
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39D: "54. ___-a-brac"
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: BRIC
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40D: "56. David who directed the final four Harry Potter films"
5 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: YATES
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41D: "57. Tape players"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a magnetic tape recorder for recording (and playing back) tv programs
- Similar words include: VCR, videocassette recorder
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: VCRS
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42D: "58. 2020 Christopher Nolan sci-fi movie"
5 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof
- Similar words include: dogma
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TENET
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43D: "59. Uses more than one's fair share of"
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person regarded as greedy and pig-like
- Similar words include: hogg, squealer, hogget
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HOGS
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44D: "63. Tofu alternative"
6 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: SEITAN
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45D: "64. As a joke"
6 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: INJEST
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46D: "65. Obsessive supporters, in modern lingo"
5 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: STANS
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47D: "66. Bull rings?"
10 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: PRANKCALLS
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48D: "67. Some summer purchases, informally"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a radioactive element of the actinide series; found in uranium ores
- Similar words include: atomic number 89, alternating current, AC
- Opposite of: direct current
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Answer: ACS
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49D: "68. Laid off"
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that run disconnected or idle
- Similar words include: idle, slug, tick over
- Opposite of: work, run
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Answer: IDLED
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50D: "69. Madhouse"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition
- Similar words include: zoological garden, menagerie
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ZOO
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51D: "70. Texter's qualifier"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the united nations agency concerned with international maritime activities
- Similar words include: International Maritime Organization
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IMO
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52D: "71. Dude in Jamaica"
3 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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- Think of something that the second day of the week; the first working day
- Similar words include: Monday
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MON
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53D: "72. Root beer order"
3 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the quantity that can be held in a mug
- Similar words include: kisser, physiognomy, patsy
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MUG
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54D: "73. Clutch"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mechanical device for gripping an object
- Similar words include: snatch, catch, take hold of
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GRAB
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55D: "74. Disaster relief org."
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an independent agency of the united states government that provides a single point of accountability for all federal emergency preparedness and mitigation and response activities
- Similar words include: Federal Emergency Management Agency
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: FEMA
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56D: "75. Noted example of oligopoly, in brief"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the production and sale of petroleum
- Similar words include: Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OPEC
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57D: "79. "Have a safe trip""
8 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a successful journey
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: GODSPEED
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58D: "80. Fivers"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: ABES
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59D: "81. "2001" villain"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: HAL
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60D: "82. Far from basic"
6 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that being or containing an acid; of a solution having an excess of hydrogen atoms (having a ph of less than 7)
- Similar words include: acid, acidulent, acidulous
- Opposite of: alkaline
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Answer: ACIDIC
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61D: "84. Baking recipe instruction"
7 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: KNEADIN
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62D: "85. Biden and Bush, once, in brief"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: VPS
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63D: "88. Professional responsibilities, colloquially"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim
- Similar words include: hat, chapeau, lid
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HATS
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64D: "89. Show up"
6 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
- Similar words include: get in, make it, come
- Opposite of: leave
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Answer: ARRIVE
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65D: "90. Cubans, e.g."
6 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a roll of tobacco for smoking
- Similar words include: cigar
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CIGARS
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66D: "91. Spotted wildcat"
6 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that nocturnal wildcat of central america and south america having a dark-spotted buff-brown coat
- Similar words include: Felis pardalis, panther cat
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: OCELOT
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67D: "92. Put your nose where it doesn't belong, say"
6 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly
- Similar words include: tamper
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: MEDDLE
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68D: "93. Flowing tresses"
5 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a persian prophet who founded manichaeism (216-276)
- Similar words include: mane, man, head of hair
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MANES
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69D: "94. One looking after pupils, for short"
6 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: EYEDOC
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70D: "98. Device outmoded by the smartphone"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (trademark) a pocket-sized device used to play music files
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IPOD
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71D: "99. "Holesome" figures"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a ring-shaped surface generated by rotating a circle around an axis that does not intersect the circle
- Similar words include: tore, toroid, torus
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TORI
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72D: "100. Carving material for beginners"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats
- Similar words include: lather, scoop, Georgia home boy
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SOAP
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73D: "101. ___ Arena, concert venue in London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park"
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: ABBA
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74D: "102. Waves a hand in front of, maybe"
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces
- Similar words include: rooter, sports fan, buff
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: FANS
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75D: "103. ___ Romeo"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: ALFA
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76D: "104. Director Johnson of "Knives Out""
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: RIAN
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77D: "105. Word repeated into a mic"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that trying something to find out about it
- Similar words include: mental testing, tryout, exam
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TEST
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78D: "108. Symbol on an Oregon license plate"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that nonresinous wood of a fir tree
- Similar words include: true fir, fir tree
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: FIR
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