1D: "1. Word on either side of "or no""
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a particular instance of buying or selling
- Similar words include: batch, peck, hand
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DEAL Remember this word for future puzzles!
2D: "2. Overrun"
6 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that invade in great numbers
- Similar words include: overrun, invade
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: INFEST Remember this word for future puzzles!
3D: "3. Add electronically, in a way"
6 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cause to be attached
- Similar words include: seize, confiscate, bind
- Opposite of: detach
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Answer: ATTACH Remember this word for future puzzles!
4D: "4. Like a really big fan"
7 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one who adheres to traditional views
- Similar words include: traditionalist
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: DIEHARD Remember this word for future puzzles!
5D: "5. Go wrong"
3 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that to make a mistake or be incorrect
- Similar words include: slip, drift, mistake
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ERR Remember this word for future puzzles!
6D: "6. Bad thing not to get (especially at the office?)"
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a written proposal or reminder
- Similar words include: memorandum, memoranda
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MEMO Remember this word for future puzzles!
7D: "7. The Cinnamon Dolce or the Blonde Vanilla, at Starbucks"
5 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that strong espresso coffee with a topping of frothed steamed milk
- Similar words include: caffe latte
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LATTE Remember this word for future puzzles!
8D: "8. "Silentium ___ aureum" ("Silence is golden")"
3 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that standard time in the 5th time zone west of greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian; used in the eastern united states
- Similar words include: Eastern Standard Time, Eastern Time
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EST Remember this word for future puzzles!
9D: "9. High degree"
3 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that last or greatest in an indefinitely large series
- Similar words include: n-th
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NTH Remember this word for future puzzles!
10D: "10. "Is it time to rethink this relationship?""
7 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
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Answer: AREWEOK Remember this word for future puzzles!
11D: "11. Hilarious thing"
3 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by: relatively low density and viscosity; relatively great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature; the ability to diffuse readily; and the spontaneous tendency to become distributed uniformly throughout any container
- Similar words include: gun, accelerator pedal, accelerator
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: GAS Remember this word for future puzzles!
12D: "12. Like George H.W. Bush, but not George W. Bush"
7 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: ONETERM Remember this word for future puzzles!
13D: "13. Starters' followers"
7 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the principal dish of a meal
- Similar words include: access, main course, admittance
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ENTREES Remember this word for future puzzles!
14D: "14. Businesses whose employees work standing up"
6 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that gallery where works of art can be displayed
- Similar words include: beauty salon, beauty parlour, beauty shop
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SALONS Remember this word for future puzzles!
15D: "15. Carry in"
5 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that take something or somebody with oneself somewhere
- Similar words include: work, make for, bring in
- Opposite of: take away
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Answer: BRING Remember this word for future puzzles!
16D: "16. "Chiseled" features"
3 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of a class of composite plastics used to make car bodies and cases for computers and other appliances
- Similar words include: Bachelor of Arts, Av, acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ABS Remember this word for future puzzles!
17D: "17. Destiny in life"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
- Similar words include: batch, peck, circumstances
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LOT Remember this word for future puzzles!
18D: "18. Hippocratic oath followers, for short"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: DRS Remember this word for future puzzles!
19D: "21. "Stop! That hurts!""
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: OWOW Remember this word for future puzzles!
20D: "24. Car financing figs."
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the month following march and preceding may
- Similar words include: April, Apr
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: APRS Remember this word for future puzzles!
21D: "29. List shortener"
3 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: ETC Remember this word for future puzzles!
22D: "32. "Hidden Figures" co-star Janelle"
5 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
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Answer: MONAE Remember this word for future puzzles!
23D: "34. Breathable fabric used in mosquito nets"
5 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a light semitransparent fabric
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: VOILE Remember this word for future puzzles!
24D: "35. ___ child"
5 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that located inward; - leonard bernstein; - david denby; - a.r.gurney,jr.
- Similar words include: intimate, inside, internal
- Opposite of: outer
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Answer: INNER Remember this word for future puzzles!
25D: "36. What a bad student might play"
5 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that failure to attend (especially school)
- Similar words include: truancy
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HOOKY Remember this word for future puzzles!
26D: "37. Menzel of Broadway"
5 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: IDINA Remember this word for future puzzles!
27D: "38. Guitar string material"
5 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a thermoplastic polyamide; a family of strong resilient synthetic fibers
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NYLON Remember this word for future puzzles!
28D: "39. Fish traditionally in the British dish "pie and mash""
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in europe and america; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
- Similar words include: eel
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EELS Remember this word for future puzzles!
29D: "41. What kitsch exhibits"
8 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: BADTASTE Remember this word for future puzzles!
30D: "46. ___ Lama"
5 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: DALAI Remember this word for future puzzles!
31D: "47. Part of a bedtime routine"
5 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
- Similar words include: tale, storey, account
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: STORY Remember this word for future puzzles!
32D: "49. Healthy, fiber-rich snack"
7 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
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Answer: DATEBAR Remember this word for future puzzles!
33D: "50. Where some bills originate"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade
- Similar words include: ATM, standard atmosphere, atmosphere
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ATMS Remember this word for future puzzles!
34D: "51. Former transportation secretary Elaine"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: CHAO Remember this word for future puzzles!
35D: "52. Chinese competitor of Amazon"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
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Answer: TEMU Remember this word for future puzzles!
36D: "54. Loses freshness"
6 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that urinate, of cattle and horses
- Similar words include: stale
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: STALES Remember this word for future puzzles!
37D: "56. "In that case ...""
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
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Answer: IFSO Remember this word for future puzzles!
38D: "57. Grp. that Sweden joined in 2024"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an international organization created in 1949 by the north atlantic treaty for purposes of collective security
- Similar words include: North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NATO Remember this word for future puzzles!
39D: "59. Vegas"
7 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: SINCITY Remember this word for future puzzles!
40D: "60. Sensation"
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a vigorous blow
- Similar words include: ruin, crush, hit
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SMASH Remember this word for future puzzles!
41D: "61. Removes from the top of one's profile, as an Instagram post"
6 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that remove the pins from; unfasten the pins of
- Similar words include: unpin
- Opposite of: pin
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Answer: UNPINS Remember this word for future puzzles!
42D: "62. Hearts or spades, but not diamonds"
8 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: CARDGAME Remember this word for future puzzles!
43D: "68. ........."
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a very small circular shape
- Similar words include: pane, stud, dose
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DOTS Remember this word for future puzzles!
44D: "69. Classic Orson Welles protagonist"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: KANE Remember this word for future puzzles!
45D: "70. Ameliorates"
5 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
- Similar words include: easiness, simplicity, Emergency Alert System
- Opposite of: difficulty
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Answer: EASES Remember this word for future puzzles!
46D: "71. Via"
5 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly)
- Similar words include: apply, exploitation, victimisation
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: USING Remember this word for future puzzles!
47D: "72. Feature of undermixed batter"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a compact mass
- Similar words include: hunk, lout, swelling
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LUMP Remember this word for future puzzles!
48D: "73. Greek god whose name becomes a flower if you move the first letter to the end"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (greek mythology) god of love; son of aphrodite; identified with roman cupid
- Similar words include: sexual desire, concupiscence, physical attraction
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EROS Remember this word for future puzzles!
49D: "74. Golden Globe nominee Rooney"
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that hindu god of death; opposite of kama
- Similar words include: Dolichotis patagonum
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MARA Remember this word for future puzzles!
50D: "79. "V," to a violinist"
5 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: UPBOW Remember this word for future puzzles!
51D: "80. Padmé Amidala's home planet in "Star Wars""
5 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: NABOO Remember this word for future puzzles!
52D: "81. "If only!""
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: IWISH Remember this word for future puzzles!
53D: "82. Steel girder"
5 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: IBEAM Remember this word for future puzzles!
54D: "83. Bête ___"
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: NOIRE Remember this word for future puzzles!
55D: "84. Images that can rip off human creators, perhaps"
5 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: AIART Remember this word for future puzzles!
56D: "85. Pretzel topper"
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
- Similar words include: common salt, saltiness, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SALT Remember this word for future puzzles!
57D: "90. Trees with heart-shaped leaves"
7 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that small shrubby tree of eastern north america similar to the judas tree having usually pink flowers; found in damp sheltered underwood
- Similar words include: Cercis canadensis, redbud
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: REDBUDS Remember this word for future puzzles!
58D: "91. Creature, cutesily"
7 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: BEASTIE Remember this word for future puzzles!
59D: "93. Candies that crack with a crunch"
7 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets
- Similar words include: brittle, toffee, toffy
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: TOFFEES Remember this word for future puzzles!
60D: "95. Last of the 13 original colonies to be founded"
7 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a state in southeastern united states; one of the confederate states during the american civil war
- Similar words include: Sakartvelo, GA, Empire State of the South
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: GEORGIA Remember this word for future puzzles!
61D: "97. Some lawn ornaments"
6 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure
- Similar words include: dwarf, gnome
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: GNOMES Remember this word for future puzzles!
62D: "98. Part of E.N.T."
3 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
- Similar words include: capitulum, auricle, pinna
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EAR Remember this word for future puzzles!
63D: "100. Kicked oneself for"
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about
- Similar words include: repent, regret, rue
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RUED Remember this word for future puzzles!
64D: "101. Prettifies"
6 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
- Similar words include: beautify, decorate, deck
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ADORNS Remember this word for future puzzles!
65D: "102. 500 mg 2x/day, e.g."
6 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time
- Similar words include: dose
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: DOSAGE Remember this word for future puzzles!
66D: "104. Source of a natural sweetener"
5 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that tropical american plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber
- Similar words include: century plant, American aloe
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AGAVE Remember this word for future puzzles!
67D: "105. Last name shared by three actors on "Schitt's Creek""
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a charge imposed and collected
- Similar words include: recruit, impose, levy en masse
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LEVY Remember this word for future puzzles!
68D: "106. Russian denials"
5 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: NYETS Remember this word for future puzzles!
69D: "111. The Panthers of the A.C.C."
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a british playwright who created the fictional character sweeney todd (1799-1855)
- Similar words include: Pitt the Elder, George Dibdin-Pitt, Pitt the Younger
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PITT Remember this word for future puzzles!
70D: "113. Midwest city whose name becomes a Southwest city if you move the first letter to the end"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: AMES Remember this word for future puzzles!
71D: "114. Not around, informally"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: MIA Remember this word for future puzzles!
72D: "115. Hirt and Hirschfeld"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord; results in progressive muscle atrophy that starts in the limbs
- Similar words include: AL, Camellia State, Lou Gehrig's disease
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ALS Remember this word for future puzzles!
73D: "116. DÃa de ___ Reyes Magos"
3 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: LOS Remember this word for future puzzles!
74D: "117. They're often depicted with green skin, for short"
3 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: ETS Remember this word for future puzzles!
75D: "119. Something much needed after an all-nighter"
3 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a period of time spent sleeping
- Similar words include: sleep, pile, forty winks
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NAP Remember this word for future puzzles!
76D: "120. Today preceder"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that north american republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in north america plus alaska in northwest north america and the hawaiian islands in the pacific ocean; achieved independence in 1776
- Similar words include: United States, Army, US
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: USA Remember this word for future puzzles!
77D: "121. Leave speechless"
3 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration
- Similar words include: veneration, reverence, fear
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AWE Remember this word for future puzzles!
