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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (33 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: 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. Not true | 5 |
| 2A | 6. N.Y.C. club that hosted Blondie and the Ramones | 4 |
| 3A | 10. "Scram!" | 4 |
| 4A | 14. Clientele | 5 |
| 5A | 15. BTS fandom | 4 |
| 6A | 16. Classic TV series with asterisks separating the letters of its name | 4 |
| 7A | 17. Screen addiction, e.g. | 10 |
| 8A | 19. Canyon call back | 4 |
| 9A | 20. Word after B or D | 3 |
| 10A | 21. Length x width, for a rectangle | 4 |
| 11A | 22. What food is at dinner | 5 |
| 12A | 23. Where boxers trade jabs | 12 |
| 13A | 26. Cocktail with gin and lime juice | 6 |
| 14A | 29. Word before cheese or uncle | 3 |
| 15A | 30. Hedonistic sort | 4 |
| 16A | 31. Medium-spicy chili peppers | 9 |
| 17A | 37. Clever chap | 15 |
| 18A | 40. Driving slowly in the fast lane and "replying all" to a mass email, for two | 9 |
| 19A | 41. Vishnu avatar | 4 |
| 20A | 42. "Now ___ seen everything" | 3 |
| 21A | 43. Snail's tentacle or butterfly's antenna | 6 |
| 22A | 45. Nelson Mandela, Malala Yousafzai, Linus Pauling, Martin Luther King Jr. and so on | 12 |
| 23A | 51. Carne ___ (Mexican dish) | 5 |
| 24A | 52. Uncle's wife | 4 |
| 25A | 53. Long sandwich with cold cuts, maybe | 3 |
| 26A | 56. Bouquet holder | 4 |
| 27A | 57. "Meow, meow, meow!," e.g. | 10 |
| 28A | 60. Similar (to) | 4 |
| 29A | 61. Like a child in an amusement park | 4 |
| 30A | 62. "___, meenie, miney, mo" | 5 |
| 31A | 63. Young lady | 4 |
| 32A | 64. Author Morrison who is part of the 45-Across | 4 |
| 33A | 65. Puffs of perfume | 5 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Not true"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality
- Similar words include: put on, fictitious, fictive
- Opposite of: true
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Answer: FALSE
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2A: "6. N.Y.C. club that hosted Blondie and the Ramones"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CBGB
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3A: "10. "Scram!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument
- Similar words include: scarper, scat singing, run
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SCAT
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4A: "14. Clientele"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who makes use of a thing; someone who uses or employs something
- Similar words include: drug user, exploiter, user
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: USERS
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5A: "15. BTS fandom"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a permanent organization of the military land forces of a nation or state
- Similar words include: ground forces, U. S. Army, United States Army
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ARMY
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6A: "16. Classic TV series with asterisks separating the letters of its name"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mixture of mashed malt grains and hot water; used in brewing
- Similar words include: romance, grind, crunch
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MASH
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7A: "17. Screen addiction, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: DEVICEVICE
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8A: "19. Canyon call back"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves
- Similar words include: sound reflection, resound, ring
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ECHO
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9A: "20. Word after B or D"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that time for earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
- Similar words include: sidereal day, twenty-four hour period, Clarence Shepard Day Jr.
- Opposite of: night
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Answer: DAY
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10A: "21. Length x width, for a rectangle"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)
- Similar words include: domain, orbit, expanse
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AREA
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11A: "22. What food is at dinner"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that take in solid food
- Similar words include: wipe out, use up, consume
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EATEN
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12A: "23. Where boxers trade jabs"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: SPARRINGRING
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13A: "26. Cocktail with gin and lime juice"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a cocktail made of gin or vodka and lime juice
- Similar words include: auger, screw auger, wimble
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: GIMLET
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14A: "29. Word before cheese or uncle"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the chance to speak
- Similar words include: pronounce, suppose, allege
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SAY
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15A: "30. Hedonistic sort"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a dissolute man in fashionable society
- Similar words include: rip, blood, rakehell
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ROUE
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16A: "31. Medium-spicy chili peppers"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red
- Similar words include: long pepper, cayenne pepper, jalapeno pepper
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: JALAPENOS
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17A: "37. Clever chap"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: INTELLIGENTGENT
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18A: "40. Driving slowly in the fast lane and "replying all" to a mass email, for two"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: PETPEEVES
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19A: "41. Vishnu avatar"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that avatar of vishnu whose name is synonymous with god; any of three incarnations: ramachandra or parashurama or balarama
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RAMA
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20A: "42. "Now ___ seen everything""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IVE
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21A: "43. Snail's tentacle or butterfly's antenna"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one of a pair of mobile appendages on the head of e.g. insects and crustaceans; typically sensitive to touch and taste
- Similar words include: antenna, approach, advance
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: FEELER
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22A: "45. Nelson Mandela, Malala Yousafzai, Linus Pauling, Martin Luther King Jr. and so on"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: NOBELISTLIST
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23A: "51. Carne ___ (Mexican dish)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ASADA
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24A: "52. Uncle's wife"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle
- Similar words include: auntie, aunty
- Opposite of: uncle
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Answer: AUNT
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25A: "53. Long sandwich with cold cuts, maybe"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the united states
- Similar words include: Italian sandwich, U-boat, hoagie
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SUB
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26A: "56. Bouquet holder"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an open jar of glass or porcelain used as an ornament or to hold flowers
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: VASE
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27A: "57. "Meow, meow, meow!," e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: FELINELINE
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28A: "60. Similar (to)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that similar in quality or character
- Similar words include: kindred, consanguineal, kin
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AKIN
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29A: "61. Like a child in an amusement park"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that highly excited
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AGOG
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30A: "62. "___, meenie, miney, mo""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EENIE
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31A: "63. Young lady"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a girl or young woman who is unmarried
- Similar words include: jeune fille, lassie, young girl
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LASS
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32A: "64. Author Morrison who is part of the 45-Across"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TONI
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33A: "65. Puffs of perfume"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a thin fog with condensation near the ground
- Similar words include: obscure, haze over, cloud
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MISTS
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Elmer who hunts "wabbits" | 4 |
| 2D | 2. On the ocean | 4 |
| 3D | 3. Impose, as a tax | 4 |
| 4D | 4. ___ Lanka | 3 |
| 5D | 5. Make a break from jail | 6 |
| 6D | 6. Spelunker | 5 |
| 7D | 7. Thorny patch | 5 |
| 8D | 8. Big inits. in pickup trucks and vans | 3 |
| 9D | 9. "Ta-ta!" | 3 |
| 10D | 10. Spread, as cream cheese | 5 |
| 11D | 11. Saguaros, e.g. | 5 |
| 12D | 12. Pale | 5 |
| 13D | 13. Underwear that's barely there | 5 |
| 14D | 18. The "E" in Q.E.D. | 4 |
| 15D | 22. Home to the Sphinx | 5 |
| 16D | 23. A quarter or more of one's life, typically | 5 |
| 17D | 24. Majorca and Minorca | 5 |
| 18D | 25. Indian bread | 4 |
| 19D | 26. Rubbery part of a handlebar | 4 |
| 20D | 27. Actress Skye | 4 |
| 21D | 28. Mixed-breed dog | 4 |
| 22D | 31. Talks in an unserious way | 5 |
| 23D | 32. What wines and cheeses do over time | 3 |
| 24D | 33. Wading bird | 5 |
| 25D | 34. Novelist Stephenson | 4 |
| 26D | 35. "My treat!" | 4 |
| 27D | 36. One of seven in the Big Dipper | 4 |
| 28D | 38. Woman's name meaning "night" | 5 |
| 29D | 39. ___ Strauss & Co. | 4 |
| 30D | 43. "Adventures of Huckleberry ___" | 4 |
| 31D | 44. Regard | 6 |
| 32D | 45. Like the force of an armada | 5 |
| 33D | 46. Home to Universal Studios Japan | 5 |
| 34D | 47. On a need-to-know ___ | 5 |
| 35D | 48. Utopias | 5 |
| 36D | 49. Claw | 5 |
| 37D | 50. One of the Super Mario brothers | 5 |
| 38D | 53. Pride and gluttony, for two | 4 |
| 39D | 54. Amount of work on a college transcript | 4 |
| 40D | 55. Drones, e.g. | 4 |
| 41D | 57. What puts the sizzle in bacon | 3 |
| 42D | 58. Freudian "I" | 3 |
| 43D | 59. Floral necklace | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Elmer who hunts "wabbits""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: FUDD
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2D: "2. On the ocean"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that in the direction of the sea
- Similar words include: seawards, seaward
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ASEA
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3D: "3. Impose, as a tax"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a charge imposed and collected
- Similar words include: raise, levy en masse, impose
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LEVY
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4D: "4. ___ Lanka"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SRI
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5D: "5. Make a break from jail"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of escaping physically
- Similar words include: outflow, flight, escape cock
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ESCAPE
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6D: "6. Spelunker"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CAVER
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7D: "7. Thorny patch"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
- Similar words include: Rosa eglanteria, tree heath, sweetbrier
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BRIAR
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8D: "8. Big inits. in pickup trucks and vans"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: GMC
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9D: "9. "Ta-ta!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that you advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent
- Similar words include: arrivederci, good-by, good day
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: BYE
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10D: "10. Spread, as cream cheese"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that slanderous defamation
- Similar words include: slur, blur, spot
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SMEAR
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11D: "11. Saguaros, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any succulent plant of the family cactaceae native chiefly to arid regions of the new world and usually having spines
- Similar words include: cactus
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CACTI
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12D: "12. Pale"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that anemic looking from illness or emotion; ; ; ; ; - mary w. shelley
- Similar words include: white, bloodless, blanched
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ASHEN
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13D: "13. Underwear that's barely there"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip
- Similar words include: G-string, flip-flop, lash
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: THONG
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14D: "18. The "E" in Q.E.D."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ERAT
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15D: "22. Home to the Sphinx"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a republic in northeastern africa known as the united arab republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 bc
- Similar words include: Egyptian Empire, United Arab Republic, Arab Republic of Egypt
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EGYPT
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16D: "23. A quarter or more of one's life, typically"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
- Similar words include: sopor, quietus, catch some Z's
- Opposite of: wake
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Answer: SLEEP
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17D: "24. Majorca and Minorca"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small island
- Similar words include: isle, islet
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ISLES
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18D: "25. Indian bread"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that leavened bread baked in a clay oven in india; usually shaped like a teardrop
- Similar words include: nan
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NAAN
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19D: "26. Rubbery part of a handlebar"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of grasping
- Similar words include: hold, suitcase, travelling bag
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GRIP
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20D: "27. Actress Skye"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IONE
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21D: "28. Mixed-breed dog"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an inferior dog or one of mixed breed
- Similar words include: mongrel, cur
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MUTT
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22D: "31. Talks in an unserious way"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz
- Similar words include: swing, jive, swing music
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: JIVES
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23D: "32. What wines and cheeses do over time"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that how long something has existed
- Similar words include: mature, years, long time
- Opposite of: rejuvenate
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Answer: AGE
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24D: "33. Wading bird"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EGRET
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25D: "34. Novelist Stephenson"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NEAL
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26D: "35. "My treat!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ONME
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27D: "36. One of seven in the Big Dipper"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior
- Similar words include: maven, virtuoso, wiz
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: STAR
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28D: "38. Woman's name meaning "night""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LEILA
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29D: "39. ___ Strauss & Co."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (new testament) disciple of jesus; traditionally considered to be the author of the first gospel
- Similar words include: Saint Matthew the Apostle, St. Matthew the Apostle, St. Matthew
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LEVI
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30D: "43. "Adventures of Huckleberry ___""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a native or inhabitant of finland
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: FINN
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31D: "44. Regard"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded)
- Similar words include: respect, prize, repute
- Opposite of: disrespect, disesteem
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Answer: ESTEEM
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32D: "45. Like the force of an armada"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that connected with or belonging to or used in a navy
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NAVAL
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33D: "46. Home to Universal Studios Japan"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that port city on southern honshu on osaka bay; a commercial and industrial center of japan
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OSAKA
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34D: "47. On a need-to-know ___"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a relation that provides the foundation for something
- Similar words include: fundament, foundation, groundwork
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BASIS
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35D: "48. Utopias"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
- Similar words include: paradise, heaven, Eden
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EDENS
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36D: "49. Claw"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sharp hooked claw especially on a bird of prey
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TALON
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37D: "50. One of the Super Mario brothers"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LUIGI
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38D: "53. Pride and gluttony, for two"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that estrangement from god
- Similar words include: wickedness, sinfulness, sin
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SINS
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39D: "54. Amount of work on a college transcript"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange
- Similar words include: building block, unit of measurement, social unit
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: UNIT
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40D: "55. Drones, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species
- Similar words include: personify, equal, follow
- Opposite of: differ
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Answer: BEES
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41D: "57. What puts the sizzle in bacon"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides)
- Similar words include: fatty tissue, fatten, fatten out
- Opposite of: thin, nonfat
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Answer: FAT
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42D: "58. Freudian "I""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
- Similar words include: self-importance, egotism, self
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EGO
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43D: "59. Floral necklace"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes
- Similar words include: leu, chaplet, wreath
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LEI
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Common crossword words repeat. Learning them speeds up future solving.
Today's Puzzle Stats
33 Across Clues
43 Down Clues
76 Total Clues
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