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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 (44 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. Lewis Carroll's "The ___ and the Carpenter" | 6 |
| 2A | 7. Something you might leave at the front door when entering a house | 4 |
| 3A | 11. "Yeah, right!" | 4 |
| 4A | 15. Quantity | 6 |
| 5A | 16. Words from someone who failed to understand | 9 |
| 6A | 18. "Oh, for heaven's sake!" | 16 |
| 7A | 20. Show contempt for, in a way | 7 |
| 8A | 21. Rain delay coverings | 5 |
| 9A | 22. Poet's dusk | 3 |
| 10A | 23. Mystical stuff | 6 |
| 11A | 26. "We don't discriminate in this workplace," in job ads | 3 |
| 12A | 29. Newfoundland or Labrador retriever | 8 |
| 13A | 31. Transcript fig. | 3 |
| 14A | 34. Openly resists | 6 |
| 15A | 36. "Then, window, let day in, and let ___ out": Juliet | 4 |
| 16A | 37. Smile broadly | 4 |
| 17A | 38. Arduous routine | 5 |
| 18A | 39. Get smart? | 4 |
| 19A | 40. "Priscilla" director Coppola | 5 |
| 20A | 41. How a German count might get started | 4 |
| 21A | 42. Swampy land | 4 |
| 22A | 43. Does the dishes? | 6 |
| 23A | 44. Complete collection | 3 |
| 24A | 45. Hoped-for prognosis for an election incumbent | 8 |
| 25A | 47. Twisty curve | 3 |
| 26A | 48. Spews out | 6 |
| 27A | 50. Big name in nail polish | 3 |
| 28A | 51. One-named singer with the 2017 platinum album "Melodrama" | 5 |
| 29A | 53. Trap | 7 |
| 30A | 57. 1957 rock 'n' roll classic suggested by this puzzle's circled letters | 16 |
| 31A | 62. Crème de la crème | 9 |
| 32A | 63. Prom, e.g. | 6 |
| 33A | 64. Iconic bit of NPR merch | 4 |
| 34A | 65. Confront | 4 |
| 35A | 66. Puts icing on | 6 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Lewis Carroll's "The ___ and the Carpenter""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber
- Similar words include: seahorse, sea horse
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: WALRUS
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2A: "7. Something you might leave at the front door when entering a house"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material
- Similar words include: skid, horseshoe, brake shoe
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SHOE
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3A: "11. "Yeah, right!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ASIF
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4A: "15. Quantity"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a quantity of money
- Similar words include: add up, amount of money, number
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: AMOUNT
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5A: "16. Words from someone who failed to understand"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: YOULOSTME
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6A: "18. "Oh, for heaven's sake!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________________
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Answer: GOODNESSGRACIOUS
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7A: "20. Show contempt for, in a way"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SNEERAT
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8A: "21. Rain delay coverings"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that waterproofed canvas
- Similar words include: tarp, tarpaulin
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TARPS
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9A: "22. Poet's dusk"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EEN
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10A: "23. Mystical stuff"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that information known only to a special group
- Similar words include: arcanum, secret
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ARCANA
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11A: "26. "We don't discriminate in this workplace," in job ads"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EEO
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12A: "29. Newfoundland or Labrador retriever"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: DOGBREED
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13A: "31. Transcript fig."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a measure of a student's academic achievement at a college or university; calculated by dividing the total number of grade points received by the total number attempted
- Similar words include: grade point average
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: GPA
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14A: "34. Openly resists"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that resist or confront with resistance
- Similar words include: dare, refuse, defy
- Opposite of: lend oneself
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Answer: DEFIES
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15A: "36. "Then, window, let day in, and let ___ out": Juliet"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a characteristic state or mode of living
- Similar words include: spirit, animation, life story
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LIFE
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16A: "37. Smile broadly"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a signal transmitted along a narrow path; guides airplane pilots in darkness or bad weather
- Similar words include: broadcast, transmit, irradiation
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BEAM
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17A: "38. Arduous routine"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
- Similar words include: crunch, moil, dig
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GRIND
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18A: "39. Get smart?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an impudent or insolent rejoinder
- Similar words include: back talk, lip, backtalk
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SASS
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19A: "40. "Priscilla" director Coppola"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that capital and largest city of bulgaria located in western bulgaria
- Similar words include: Serdica, Bulgarian capital
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SOFIA
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20A: "41. How a German count might get started"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EINS
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21A: "42. Swampy land"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
- Similar words include: bog down, grind to a halt, quagmire
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MIRE
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22A: "43. Does the dishes?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance
- Similar words include: ply, supply, cater
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CATERS
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23A: "44. Complete collection"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
- Similar words include: Seth, lay out, typeset
- Opposite of: rise
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Answer: SET
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24A: "45. Hoped-for prognosis for an election incumbent"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: SAFESEAT
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25A: "47. Twisty curve"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a radioactive transuranic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons
- Similar words include: Es, atomic number 99, einsteinium
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ESS
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26A: "48. Spews out"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that put out or expel from a place
- Similar words include: turf out, expel, eject
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: EJECTS
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27A: "50. Big name in nail polish"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OPI
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28A: "51. One-named singer with the 2017 platinum album "Melodrama""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LORDE
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29A: "53. Trap"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that take or catch as if in a snare or trap
- Similar words include: trammel, entrap, frame
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ENSNARE
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30A: "57. 1957 rock 'n' roll classic suggested by this puzzle's circled letters"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________________
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Answer: GREATBALLSOFFIRE
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31A: "62. Crème de la crème"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: BESTOFALL
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32A: "63. Prom, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a lavish dance requiring formal attire
- Similar words include: courtly, schematic, dinner gown
- Opposite of: informal
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Answer: FORMAL
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33A: "64. Iconic bit of NPR merch"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a capacious bag or basket
- Similar words include: lug, tote bag, tug
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TOTE
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34A: "65. Confront"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear
- Similar words include: grimace, human face, confront
- Opposite of: avoid, back
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Answer: FACE
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35A: "66. Puts icing on"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
- Similar words include: icing, ice, freeze
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: FROSTS
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Tail or finger motion | 3 |
| 2D | 2. Andy's partner in an old radio sitcom | 4 |
| 3D | 3. State bird of Minnesota | 4 |
| 4D | 4. Ill-mannered | 4 |
| 5D | 5. Superfluous | 8 |
| 6D | 6. Purchases for some audiophiles | 7 |
| 7D | 7. Part of GPS: Abbr. | 4 |
| 8D | 8. Not share, as the covers | 3 |
| 9D | 9. Taylor Swift's "___ Song" | 3 |
| 10D | 10. She, in São Paulo | 3 |
| 11D | 11. ___ pear (applelike fruit) | 5 |
| 12D | 12. Cost required to stow furniture, say | 10 |
| 13D | 13. "My turn to play!" | 4 |
| 14D | 14. Come clean, with "up" | 4 |
| 15D | 17. Eightsome | 5 |
| 16D | 19. Belted out | 4 |
| 17D | 23. Comes into play | 6 |
| 18D | 24. Play callers? | 4 |
| 19D | 25. It's for "cookie," to Cookie Monster | 3 |
| 20D | 26. Sides | 5 |
| 21D | 27. Inducing goose bumps | 5 |
| 22D | 28. Worth exploring | 10 |
| 23D | 30. Plays at full blast | 6 |
| 24D | 32. What pants come in that shirts don't | 5 |
| 25D | 33. Accumulate | 5 |
| 26D | 35. Useful contacts | 3 |
| 27D | 37. Online automaton | 3 |
| 28D | 39. Search (through) | 4 |
| 29D | 40. Replaced as a substitute | 8 |
| 30D | 42. ___ and cheese | 3 |
| 31D | 43. Finishes with flair | 7 |
| 32D | 45. Take care of, as a task | 5 |
| 33D | 46. Seeming eternities | 4 |
| 34D | 49. Matchmaking site with a "synagogue attendance" filter | 5 |
| 35D | 51. Pride Month letters | 4 |
| 36D | 52. Black-and-white mouthful | 4 |
| 37D | 53. Actress Fanning | 4 |
| 38D | 54. Lead-in to Cuban or Caribbean | 4 |
| 39D | 55. Glasses sans glass | 4 |
| 40D | 56. Q.E.D. part | 4 |
| 41D | 58. Fave pal | 3 |
| 42D | 59. Small battery | 3 |
| 43D | 60. Cousin of Inc. | 3 |
| 44D | 61. Enrollment center? | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Tail or finger motion"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a witty amusing person who makes jokes
- Similar words include: waggle, wit, shake
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: WAG
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2D: "2. Andy's partner in an old radio sitcom"
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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3D: "3. State bird of Minnesota"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a worthless lazy fellow
- Similar words include: addlehead, birdbrain, addle-head
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LOON
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4D: "4. Ill-mannered"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that socially incorrect in behavior
- Similar words include: raw, natural, unmannered
- Opposite of: civil
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Answer: RUDE
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5D: "5. Superfluous"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that not necessary
- Similar words include: unnecessary
- Opposite of: necessary
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Answer: UNNEEDED
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6D: "6. Purchases for some audiophiles"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that reproducer in which two microphones feed two or more loudspeakers to give a three-dimensional effect to the sound
- Similar words include: stereoscopic photograph, stereophony, stereoscopic picture
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: STEREOS
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7D: "7. Part of GPS: Abbr."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SYST
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8D: "8. Not share, as the covers"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person regarded as greedy and pig-like
- Similar words include: hogget, Sus scrofa, hogg
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HOG
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9D: "9. Taylor Swift's "___ Song""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OUR
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10D: "10. She, in São Paulo"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an extreme leftist terrorist group formed in greece in 1971 to oppose the military junta that ruled greece from 1967 to 1974; a revolutionary group opposed to capitalism and imperialism and the united states
- Similar words include: Revolutionary People's Struggle
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ELA
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11D: "11. ___ pear (applelike fruit)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a native or inhabitant of asia
- Similar words include: Asiatic
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ASIAN
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12D: "12. Cost required to stow furniture, say"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: STORAGEFEE
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13D: "13. "My turn to play!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IMUP
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14D: "14. Come clean, with "up""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (heraldry) an ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield
- Similar words include: Fes, Fez, fesse
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: FESS
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15D: "17. Eightsome"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one
- Similar words include: ogdoad, eighter, VIII
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OCTAD
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16D: "19. Belted out"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that north american woodland herb similar to and used as substitute for the chinese ginseng
- Similar words include: blab, Panax quinquefolius, peach
- Opposite of: keep quiet
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Answer: SANG
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17D: "23. Comes into play"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that come into existence; take on form or shape
- Similar words include: turn out, go up, bob up
- Opposite of: turn in, go to bed
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Answer: ARISES
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18D: "24. Play callers?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (sports) the chief official (as in boxing or american football) who is expected to ensure fair play
- Similar words include: referee, ref
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: REFS
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19D: "25. It's for "cookie," to Cookie Monster"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CEE
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20D: "26. Sides"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the boundary of a surface
- Similar words include: inch, butt on, sharpness
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EDGES
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21D: "27. Inducing goose bumps"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious
- Similar words include: eery
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EERIE
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22D: "28. Worth exploring"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: OFINTEREST
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23D: "30. Plays at full blast"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a loud harsh or strident noise
- Similar words include: blare, din, clamor
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BLARES
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24D: "32. What pants come in that shirts don't"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a set of two similar things considered as a unit
- Similar words include: couplet, brace, pair off
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PAIRS
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25D: "33. Accumulate"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that collect or gather
- Similar words include: pile up, compile, collect
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AMASS
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26D: "35. Useful contacts"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an agency in the department of justice that enforces laws and regulations for the admission of foreign-born persons to the united states
- Similar words include: inch, indium, IN
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: INS
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27D: "37. Online automaton"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that botfly larva; typically develops inside the body of a horse or sheep or human
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: BOT
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28D: "39. Search (through)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that move as if through a sieve
- Similar words include: sieve, strain
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SIFT
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29D: "40. Replaced as a substitute"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: SATINFOR
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30D: "42. ___ and cheese"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric
- Similar words include: mack, mackintosh, macintosh
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MAC
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31D: "43. Finishes with flair"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: CAPSOFF
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32D: "45. Take care of, as a task"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SEETO
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33D: "46. Seeming eternities"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the longest division of geological time
- Similar words include: aeon, eon
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EONS
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34D: "49. Matchmaking site with a "synagogue attendance" filter"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: JDATE
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35D: "51. Pride Month letters"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LGBT
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36D: "52. Black-and-white mouthful"
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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37D: "53. Actress Fanning"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ELLE
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38D: "54. Lead-in to Cuban or Caribbean"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a rounded thickly curled hairdo
- Similar words include: Afro hairdo
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AFRO
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39D: "55. Glasses sans glass"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object
- Similar words include: brim, rim, flange
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RIMS
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40D: "56. Q.E.D. part"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ERAT
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41D: "58. Fave pal"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: BFF
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42D: "59. Small battery"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an aneurysm of the abdominal aorta associated with old age and hypertension
- Similar words include: abdominal aortic aneurysm
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AAA
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43D: "60. Cousin of Inc."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LLC
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44D: "61. Enrollment center?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
- Similar words include: altitude, EL, elevated railway
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ELS
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Expert Solving Strategies
Start Smart
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Decode the Clues
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Build Vocabulary
Common crossword words repeat. Learning them speeds up future solving.
Today's Puzzle Stats
35 Across Clues
44 Down Clues
79 Total Clues
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