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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (37 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (39 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. Modern lead-in to quit or bait | 4 |
| 2A | 5. Heat source for many hydrothermal vents | 5 |
| 3A | 10. Act all teenagerly, say | 4 |
| 4A | 14. [I have something to say ...] | 4 |
| 5A | 15. He has the weight of the world on his shoulders | 5 |
| 6A | 16. River by the Royal Shakespeare Theatre | 4 |
| 7A | 17. Enhancing "blemish" (3x) | 10 |
| 8A | 19. Rip apart | 4 |
| 9A | 20. Something to belly up to | 3 |
| 10A | 21. Tennis's "King of Clay," familiarly | 4 |
| 11A | 22. Cautious | 4 |
| 12A | 23. "My guess is ..." | 5 |
| 13A | 25. Teach, playfully (3x) | 9 |
| 14A | 29. Pinocchio's tell | 4 |
| 15A | 31. South American capital where Simón Bolívar was born | 7 |
| 16A | 32. ___ Wowie (cocktail with a rhyming name) | 4 |
| 17A | 33. PC key | 3 |
| 18A | 34. Wait for it! | 3 |
| 19A | 35. Sweet popcorn coating (4x) | 13 |
| 20A | 39. Sci-fi pilot ___ Solo | 3 |
| 21A | 40. Call, as a poker bet | 3 |
| 22A | 41. Roman author of "Metamorphoses" | 4 |
| 23A | 42. Fred Flintstone's boss at the rock quarry | 7 |
| 24A | 45. Tech review site | 4 |
| 25A | 46. Nut in Sausalito cookies (3x) | 9 |
| 26A | 48. Bundles in a stationery shop | 5 |
| 27A | 52. Pointed remarks | 4 |
| 28A | 53. "Famous" cookie entrepreneur | 4 |
| 29A | 55. Church fixture | 3 |
| 30A | 56. Black mark on a credit report, in brief | 4 |
| 31A | 57. "Unbelievable!" ... or what 17-, 25-, 35- and 46-Across are made from, letter-wise? | 10 |
| 32A | 60. Never Have I ___ (party game) | 4 |
| 33A | 61. April's ___ Day | 5 |
| 34A | 62. Bug on a pug | 4 |
| 35A | 63. Alien incubators in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" | 4 |
| 36A | 64. Acrimonious, as a breakup | 5 |
| 37A | 65. Units of verse | 4 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Modern lead-in to quit or bait"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a feeling of intense anger
- Similar words include: storm, furore, craze
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RAGE
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2A: "5. Heat source for many hydrothermal vents"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that molten rock in the earth's crust
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MAGMA
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3A: "10. Act all teenagerly, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who wastes time
- Similar words include: dilly-dallier, mope around, moon around
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MOPE
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4A: "14. [I have something to say ...]"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the utterance of a sound similar to clearing the throat; intended to get attention, express hesitancy, fill a pause, hide embarrassment, warn a friend, etc.
- Similar words include: hem
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AHEM
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5A: "15. He has the weight of the world on his shoulders"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (greek mythology) a titan who was forced by zeus to bear the sky on his shoulders
- Similar words include: telamon, atlas vertebra, book of maps
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ATLAS
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6A: "16. River by the Royal Shakespeare Theatre"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a river in southwestern england rising in gloucestershire and flowing through bristol to empty into the estuary of the severn
- Similar words include: Upper Avon, River Avon, Upper Avon River
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AVON
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7A: "17. Enhancing "blemish" (3x)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: BEAUTYMARK
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8A: "19. Rip apart"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that tear or be torn violently
- Similar words include: rip, pull, rive
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: REND
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9A: "20. Something to belly up to"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter
- Similar words include: streak, cake, Browning automatic rifle
- Opposite of: unbar
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Answer: BAR
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10A: "21. Tennis's "King of Clay," familiarly"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RAFA
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11A: "22. Cautious"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that marked by keen caution and watchful prudence
- Similar words include: leery, mistrustful, suspicious
- Opposite of: unwary
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Answer: WARY
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12A: "23. "My guess is ...""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: IDSAY
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13A: "25. Teach, playfully (3x)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: EDUMACATE
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14A: "29. Pinocchio's tell"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals
- Similar words include: nozzle, intrude, olfactory organ
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NOSE
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15A: "31. South American capital where Simón Bolívar was born"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the capital and largest city of venezuela
- Similar words include: capital of Venezuela
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: CARACAS
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16A: "32. ___ Wowie (cocktail with a rhyming name)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the second largest of the hawaiian islands
- Similar words include: Maui Island
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MAUI
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17A: "33. PC key"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
- Similar words include: EL, elevation, altitude
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ALT
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18A: "34. Wait for it!"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the extreme end of something; especially something pointed
- Similar words include: peak, lead, tip off
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TIP
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19A: "35. Sweet popcorn coating (4x)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: SALTEDCARAMEL
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20A: "39. Sci-fi pilot ___ Solo"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that imperial dynasty that ruled china (most of the time from 206 bc to ad 220) and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy; remembered as one of the great eras of chinese civilization
- Similar words include: Han dynasty
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HAN
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21A: "40. Call, as a poker bet"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located
- Similar words include: insure, find, go steady
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SEE
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22A: "41. Roman author of "Metamorphoses""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that roman poet remembered for his elegiac verses on love (43 bc - ad 17)
- Similar words include: Publius Ovidius Naso
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OVID
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23A: "42. Fred Flintstone's boss at the rock quarry"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: MRSLATE
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24A: "45. Tech review site"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CNET
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25A: "46. Nut in Sausalito cookies (3x)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any tree of the genus macadamia
- Similar words include: macadamia tree
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: MACADAMIA
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26A: "48. Bundles in a stationery shop"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a large quantity of written matter
- Similar words include: ream
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: REAMS
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27A: "52. Pointed remarks"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow)
- Similar words include: thrusting, dig, thrust
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: JABS
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28A: "53. "Famous" cookie entrepreneur"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a hebrew shepherd and minor prophet
- Similar words include: Book of Amos
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AMOS
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29A: "55. Church fixture"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that long bench with backs; used in church by the congregation
- Similar words include: church bench
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PEW
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30A: "56. Black mark on a credit report, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: REPO
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31A: "57. "Unbelievable!" ... or what 17-, 25-, 35- and 46-Across are made from, letter-wise?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: SOMEPEOPLE
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32A: "60. Never Have I ___ (party game)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that at any time
- Similar words include: e'er, ever so, always
- Opposite of: never
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Answer: EVER
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33A: "61. April's ___ Day"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that tree (as opposed to shrub)
- Similar words include: pergola, spindle, arbour
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ARBOR
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34A: "62. Bug on a pug"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: FLEA
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35A: "63. Alien incubators in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves)
- Similar words include: fuel pod, seedpod, cod
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PODS
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36A: "64. Acrimonious, as a breakup"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that dirty and disorderly
- Similar words include: mussy
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MESSY
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37A: "65. Units of verse"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint
- Similar words include: base, groundwork, metrical unit
- Opposite of: head
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Answer: FEET
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Torah scholar | 5 |
| 2D | 2. Bridge Out ___ (sign) | 5 |
| 3D | 3. They have teeth but don't bite | 5 |
| 4D | 4. Ground-dwelling bird in a eucalyptus forest | 3 |
| 5D | 5. Chichén Itzá builders | 4 |
| 6D | 6. Taking charge? | 6 |
| 7D | 7. Happy-sounding advocacy grp. | 5 |
| 8D | 8. Scuff up, say | 3 |
| 9D | 9. Set, as a price | 3 |
| 10D | 10. Instrument associated with beans and salsa? | 6 |
| 11D | 11. Was a ham | 9 |
| 12D | 12. Scrunchied hairstyle | 8 |
| 13D | 13. "The ___" (final track listed on the original "Abbey Road") | 3 |
| 14D | 18. Audition | 6 |
| 15D | 22. Word that can precede cry or baby | 3 |
| 16D | 24. Picky, picky, picky | 4 |
| 17D | 26. Sch. attended by Steve Martin, James Dean and Jack Black (none of whom stayed to graduate) | 4 |
| 18D | 27. Housemother | 6 |
| 19D | 28. What cards with circles, stars, pluses, squares and wavy lines test for, in brief | 3 |
| 20D | 30. Day break? | 6 |
| 21D | 32. Got it all off his chest? | 9 |
| 22D | 33. Disc golf "hole"-in-one | 3 |
| 23D | 35. Capital city known as the "Jerusalem of the Balkans" | 8 |
| 24D | 36. Consider | 4 |
| 25D | 37. Disinclined | 6 |
| 26D | 38. Small bug with a strong-sounding name | 4 |
| 27D | 39. "Well, let me think" | 3 |
| 28D | 43. Herculean tasks | 6 |
| 29D | 44. Almost a quarter of the Super Bowl's run time | 3 |
| 30D | 45. Sometimes-uncredited appearances | 6 |
| 31D | 47. da-DUM, da-DUM, da-DUM, da-DUM, for example | 5 |
| 32D | 49. Gift from a teacher's pet | 5 |
| 33D | 50. Free-for-all | 5 |
| 34D | 51. Result of a hot pursuit? | 5 |
| 35D | 54. Grand Ole ___ | 4 |
| 36D | 56. One leg press, say | 3 |
| 37D | 57. Uncle ___ | 3 |
| 38D | 58. Minecraft resource | 3 |
| 39D | 59. Command to a jumpy dog | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Torah scholar"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that spiritual leader of a jewish congregation; qualified to expound and apply jewish law
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RABBI
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2D: "2. Bridge Out ___ (sign)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that having the leading position or higher score in a contest
- Similar words include: onwards, leading, forward
- Opposite of: backward, back
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Answer: AHEAD
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3D: "3. They have teeth but don't bite"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion
- Similar words include: geared wheel, gear wheel, train
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GEARS
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4D: "4. Ground-dwelling bird in a eucalyptus forest"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism
- Similar words include: Dromaius novaehollandiae, electromagnetic unit, Emu novaehollandiae
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EMU
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5D: "5. Chichén Itzá builders"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of an american indian people of yucatan and belize and guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between ad 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy
- Similar words include: Mayan language, Mayan
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MAYA
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6D: "6. Taking charge?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ATMFEE
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7D: "7. Happy-sounding advocacy grp."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GLAAD
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8D: "8. Scuff up, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the month following february and preceding april
- Similar words include: spoil, vitiate, mutilate
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MAR
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9D: "9. Set, as a price"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that inquire about
- Similar words include: inquire, need, involve
- Opposite of: obviate
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Answer: ASK
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10D: "10. Instrument associated with beans and salsa?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow gourd containing pebbles or beans; often played in pairs
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: MARACA
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11D: "11. Was a ham"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that exaggerate one's acting
- Similar words include: ham it up, overact, ham
- Opposite of: underact
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Answer: OVERACTED
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12D: "12. Scrunchied hairstyle"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a hair style that draws the hair back so that it hangs down in back of the head like a pony's tail
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: PONYTAIL
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13D: "13. "The ___" (final track listed on the original "Abbey Road")"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that either extremity of something that has length
- Similar words include: remainder, final stage, closing
- Opposite of: begin, beginning
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Answer: END
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14D: "18. Audition"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that trying something to find out about it
- Similar words include: audition, trial, trial run
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TRYOUT
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15D: "22. Word that can precede cry or baby"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the waging of armed conflict against an enemy
- Similar words include: warfare, state of war
- Opposite of: peace, make peace
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Answer: WAR
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16D: "24. Picky, picky, picky"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that of or related to the anus
- Similar words include: anal retentive
- Opposite of: oral
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Answer: ANAL
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17D: "26. Sch. attended by Steve Martin, James Dean and Jack Black (none of whom stayed to graduate)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: UCLA
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18D: "27. Housemother"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a married woman (usually middle-aged with children) who is staid and dignified
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: MATRON
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19D: "28. What cards with circles, stars, pluses, squares and wavy lines test for, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses
- Similar words include: second sight, E.S.P., extrasensory perception
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ESP
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20D: "30. Day break?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a nap in the early afternoon (especially in hot countries)
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SIESTA
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21D: "32. Got it all off his chest?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: MANSCAPED
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22D: "33. Disc golf "hole"-in-one"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
- Similar words include: genius, nail, Allied Command Europe
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ACE
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23D: "35. Capital city known as the "Jerusalem of the Balkans""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that capital and largest city of bosnia; scene of the assassination of francis ferdinand in 1914 which precipitated world war i
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: SARAJEVO
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24D: "36. Consider"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view
- Similar words include: view as, hold, take for
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DEEM
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25D: "37. Disinclined"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed
- Similar words include: loath, loth, antipathetic
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: AVERSE
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26D: "38. Small bug with a strong-sounding name"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a slight but appreciable amount
- Similar words include: pinch, touch, soupcon
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MITE
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27D: "39. "Well, let me think""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HMM
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28D: "43. Herculean tasks"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
- Similar words include: parturiency, trade union movement, drive
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: LABORS
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29D: "44. Almost a quarter of the Super Bowl's run time"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a public promotion of some product or service
- Similar words include: ad, advertising, advertisement
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ADS
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30D: "45. Sometimes-uncredited appearances"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that engraving or carving in low relief on a stone (as in a brooch or ring)
- Similar words include: cameo
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CAMEOS
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31D: "47. da-DUM, da-DUM, da-DUM, da-DUM, for example"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables
- Similar words include: iamb, iambus
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: IAMBS
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32D: "49. Gift from a teacher's pet"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh
- Similar words include: Malus pumila, orchard apple tree
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: APPLE
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33D: "50. Free-for-all"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a noisy riotous fight
- Similar words include: scrimmage, battle royal
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MELEE
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34D: "51. Result of a hot pursuit?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that salty fluid secreted by sweat glands
- Similar words include: travail, sudate, swither
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SWEAT
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35D: "54. Grand Ole ___"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OPRY
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36D: "56. One leg press, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that informal abbreviation of `representative'
- Similar words include: repp
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: REP
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37D: "57. Uncle ___"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target
- Similar words include: surface-to-air missile
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SAM
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38D: "58. Minecraft resource"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ORE
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39D: "59. Command to a jumpy dog"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that kill intentionally and with premeditation
- Similar words include: polish off, murder, forth
- Opposite of: on
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Answer: OFF
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Today's Puzzle Stats
37 Across Clues
39 Down Clues
76 Total Clues
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