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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 (41 clues)
- Down Clues - Detailed Hints
- Expert Solving Strategies
- Today's Puzzle Statistics
Today's Puzzle Difficulty: Tricky
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. Capital located on a fjord | 4 |
| 2A | 5. Battling militarily | 5 |
| 3A | 10. State with the highest Mormon population | 4 |
| 4A | 14. Snow clearer | 4 |
| 5A | 15. Selected | 5 |
| 6A | 16. ___ minimum | 4 |
| 7A | 17. "You missed your chance!" | 10 |
| 8A | 19. Silver weapon brandished by one hoping for gold | 4 |
| 9A | 20. Huge | 7 |
| 10A | 21. "It's legit!" | 7 |
| 11A | 23. ___ Rica | 5 |
| 12A | 24. One with special access, in brief | 3 |
| 13A | 25. Gets a pooch to attack | 12 |
| 14A | 33. One who might call you out if you get home late? | 3 |
| 15A | 36. Hindi term meaning "master"... or "mister" | 5 |
| 16A | 37. "My apologies!" | 5 |
| 17A | 38. Part of a house or a mouth | 4 |
| 18A | 40. Obstetrician's specialty | 5 |
| 19A | 42. Part of a shoe or many a bra | 4 |
| 20A | 43. Setting for Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" | 5 |
| 21A | 45. Dance for flexible people | 5 |
| 22A | 47. It might say "Home Sweet Home" | 3 |
| 23A | 48. Picked at one's food, in an avian metaphor | 12 |
| 24A | 51. Baton Rouge sch. | 3 |
| 25A | 52. Wash with a glycol spray, as an airplane wing | 5 |
| 26A | 56. With 63-Across, question hinted at by the beginnings of 17-, 21-, 25- and 48-Across | 7 |
| 27A | 60. Marsupial whose name sometimes omits its first letter | 7 |
| 28A | 62. Tony ___, former Cowboys QB | 4 |
| 29A | 63. See 56-Across | 10 |
| 30A | 65. All over again | 4 |
| 31A | 66. "No bid from me" | 5 |
| 32A | 67. Bad forecast for a parade | 4 |
| 33A | 68. Ivy in Philadelphia, familiarly | 4 |
| 34A | 69. Letter-shaped groove for a fastener | 5 |
| 35A | 70. Barely made, with "out" | 4 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Capital located on a fjord"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the capital and largest city of norway; the country's main port; located at the head of a fjord on norway's southern coast
- Similar words include: Christiania, capital of Norway
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OSLO
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2A: "5. Battling militarily"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ATWAR
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3A: "10. State with the highest Mormon population"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a state in the western united states; settled in 1847 by mormons led by brigham young
- Similar words include: UT, Beehive State, Mormon State
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: UTAH
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4A: "14. Snow clearer"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a farm tool having one or more heavy blades to break the soil and cut a furrow prior to sowing
- Similar words include: handle, deal, cover
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PLOW
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5A: "15. Selected"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives
- Similar words include: pick out, take, choose
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CHOSE
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6A: "16. ___ minimum"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make public
- Similar words include: stark, strip, stripped
- Opposite of: sheathed, covered
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Answer: BARE
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7A: "17. "You missed your chance!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: TOOLATENOW
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8A: "19. Silver weapon brandished by one hoping for gold"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EPEE
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9A: "20. Huge"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; - w.r.inge
- Similar words include: Brobdingnagian, vast, huge
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: IMMENSE
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10A: "21. "It's legit!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: FORREAL
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11A: "23. ___ Rica"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing)
- Similar words include: rib
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: COSTA
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12A: "24. One with special access, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an important or influential (and often overbearing) person
- Similar words include: high muckamuck, dignitary, high-up
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: VIP
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13A: "25. Gets a pooch to attack"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: SICSTHEDOGON
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14A: "33. One who might call you out if you get home late?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an official at a baseball game
- Similar words include: umpire
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: UMP
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15A: "36. Hindi term meaning "master"... or "mister""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that formerly a term of respect for important white europeans in colonial india; used after the name
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SAHIB
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16A: "37. "My apologies!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone
- Similar words include: grim, no-account, disconsolate
- Opposite of: unregretful
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Answer: SORRY
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17A: "38. Part of a house or a mouth"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building
- Similar words include: ceiling, cap
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ROOF
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18A: "40. Obstetrician's specialty"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
- Similar words include: undertaking, drudge, dig
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LABOR
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19A: "42. Part of a shoe or many a bra"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment)
- Similar words include: entwine, enlace, spike
- Opposite of: untwine
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Answer: LACE
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20A: "43. Setting for Arthur Miller's "The Crucible""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that capital of the state of oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the willamette river
- Similar words include: capital of Oregon
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SALEM
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21A: "45. Dance for flexible people"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the state of being disregarded or forgotten
- Similar words include: oblivion
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LIMBO
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22A: "47. It might say "Home Sweet Home""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a thick flat pad used as a floor covering
- Similar words include: matt, lustrelessness, felt up
- Opposite of: disentangle, unsnarl
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Answer: MAT
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23A: "48. Picked at one's food, in an avian metaphor"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: ATELIKEABIRD
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24A: "51. Baton Rouge sch."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LSU
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25A: "52. Wash with a glycol spray, as an airplane wing"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make or become free of frost or ice
- Similar words include: de-ice, defrost
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DEICE
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26A: "56. With 63-Across, question hinted at by the beginnings of 17-, 21-, 25- and 48-Across"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: WHODOWE
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27A: "60. Marsupial whose name sometimes omits its first letter"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that small furry australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails
- Similar words include: possum, phalanger
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: OPOSSUM
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28A: "62. Tony ___, former Cowboys QB"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ROMO
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29A: "63. See 56-Across"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that recognize with gratitude; be grateful for
- Similar words include: treasure, take account, prize
- Opposite of: depreciate
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Answer: APPRECIATE
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30A: "65. All over again"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that again but in a new or different way
- Similar words include: afresh
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ANEW
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31A: "66. "No bid from me""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: IPASS
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32A: "67. Bad forecast for a parade"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere
- Similar words include: rain down, pelting, rainfall
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RAIN
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33A: "68. Ivy in Philadelphia, familiarly"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that englishman and quaker who founded the colony of pennsylvania (1644-1718)
- Similar words include: William Penn, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PENN
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34A: "69. Letter-shaped groove for a fastener"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TSLOT
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35A: "70. Barely made, with "out""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EKED
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Kind of nerve that connects to the eye | 5 |
| 2D | 2. Manner in which sports replays are shown, familiarly | 5 |
| 3D | 3. Hangs (over) | 5 |
| 4D | 4. Babies that are supposed to be up all night? | 6 |
| 5D | 5. Five things in each of Shakespeare's plays | 4 |
| 6D | 6. "My country, 'tis of ___ ..." | 4 |
| 7D | 7. Was victorious | 3 |
| 8D | 8. Since | 4 |
| 9D | 9. Fixed, as a tapestry or a tatami | 6 |
| 10D | 10. Original name of a popular shared-ride service | 8 |
| 11D | 11. Word after video or Scotch | 4 |
| 12D | 12. About 8,100 square feet, for a baseball infield | 4 |
| 13D | 13. What helps you get a leg up? | 4 |
| 14D | 18. Eroticist Nin | 5 |
| 15D | 22. Purges, with "of" | 4 |
| 16D | 26. Baseball Hall-of-Famer ___ Ripken | 3 |
| 17D | 27. Rock that's fracked to release oil | 5 |
| 18D | 28. Bone in the lower leg | 5 |
| 19D | 29. Fusion weapon, familiarly | 5 |
| 20D | 30. Weight unit at British markets | 4 |
| 21D | 31. Sea sight in black and white | 4 |
| 22D | 32. The decline of Russia? | 4 |
| 23D | 33. Lead-in to Major or Minor in the night sky | 4 |
| 24D | 34. What a drawbridge might cross | 4 |
| 25D | 35. Word with vault or position | 4 |
| 26D | 39. Collapsed | 8 |
| 27D | 41. One of four generated by a grand slam, for short | 3 |
| 28D | 44. Kind of soup often served with sushi | 4 |
| 29D | 46. Surgeon, informally | 5 |
| 30D | 49. Emirate that was the site of Operation Desert Storm | 6 |
| 31D | 50. Longing | 6 |
| 32D | 53. Chris with the 1991 hit "Wicked Game" | 5 |
| 33D | 54. One who's "adorbs" | 5 |
| 34D | 55. Revise, as text | 5 |
| 35D | 56. Prepare for gifting | 4 |
| 36D | 57. Sharpen | 4 |
| 37D | 58. Finding a penny with the tails side up is said to be a bad one | 4 |
| 38D | 59. Actor/rapper Omar | 4 |
| 39D | 60. "In that neighborhood" | 4 |
| 40D | 61. Gnat or nit | 4 |
| 41D | 64. Bud | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Kind of nerve that connects to the eye"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the organ of sight
- Similar words include: visual, opthalmic, optical
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OPTIC
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2D: "2. Manner in which sports replays are shown, familiarly"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SLOMO
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3D: "3. Hangs (over)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile
- Similar words include: loom, brood, hover
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LOOMS
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4D: "4. Babies that are supposed to be up all night?"
Solving Hints:
- Similar words include: owlet
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: OWLETS
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5D: "5. Five things in each of Shakespeare's plays"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a new testament book describing the development of the early church from christ's ascension to paul's sojourn at rome
- Similar words include: number, routine, represent
- Opposite of: refrain
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Answer: ACTS
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6D: "6. "My country, 'tis of ___ ...""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: THEE
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7D: "7. Was victorious"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the basic unit of money in south korea
- Similar words include: come through, North Korean won, gain ground
- Opposite of: lose, fall back
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Answer: WON
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8D: "8. Since"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ASOF
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9D: "9. Fixed, as a tapestry or a tatami"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: REWOVE
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10D: "10. Original name of a popular shared-ride service"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: UBERPOOL
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11D: "11. Word after video or Scotch"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a long thin piece of cloth or paper as used for binding or fastening
- Similar words include: tape recording, magnetic tape, tapeline
- Opposite of: erase
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Answer: TAPE
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12D: "12. About 8,100 square feet, for a baseball infield"
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: orbit, country, region
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AREA
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13D: "13. What helps you get a leg up?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the bottom of a shoe or boot; the back part of a shoe or boot that touches the ground and provides elevation
- Similar words include: list, cad, dog
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HEEL
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14D: "18. Eroticist Nin"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ANAIS
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15D: "22. Purges, with "of""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that relieve from
- Similar words include: rid, disembarrass, free
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RIDS
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16D: "26. Baseball Hall-of-Famer ___ Ripken"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CAL
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17D: "27. Rock that's fracked to release oil"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SHALE
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18D: "28. Bone in the lower leg"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle
- Similar words include: shin, shinbone, shin bone
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TIBIA
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19D: "29. Fusion weapon, familiarly"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HBOMB
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20D: "30. Weight unit at British markets"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram
- Similar words include: g, gm, Hans C. J. Gram
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GRAM
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21D: "31. Sea sight in black and white"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
- Similar words include: killer whale, killer, Orcinus orca
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ORCA
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22D: "32. The decline of Russia?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NYET
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23D: "33. Lead-in to Major or Minor in the night sky"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: URSA
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24D: "34. What a drawbridge might cross"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water
- Similar words include: fosse
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MOAT
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25D: "35. Word with vault or position"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a long (usually round) rod of wood or metal or plastic
- Similar words include: perch, magnetic pole, terminal
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: POLE
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26D: "39. Collapsed"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: FELLDOWN
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27D: "41. One of four generated by a grand slam, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a run that is the result of the batter's performance
- Similar words include: run batted in
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RBI
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28D: "44. Kind of soup often served with sushi"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a thick paste made from fermented soybeans and barley or rice malt; used in japanese cooking to make soups or sauces
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MISO
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29D: "46. Surgeon, informally"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ORDOC
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30D: "49. Emirate that was the site of Operation Desert Storm"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a seaport on the persian gulf and capital of kuwait
- Similar words include: Koweit, Kuwait City, State of Kuwait
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: KUWAIT
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31D: "50. Longing"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state
- Similar words include: trust, want, hope
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: DESIRE
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32D: "53. Chris with the 1991 hit "Wicked Game""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ISAAK
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33D: "54. One who's "adorbs""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CUTIE
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34D: "55. Revise, as text"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make improvements or corrections to
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EMEND
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35D: "56. Prepare for gifting"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person
- Similar words include: enwrap, enfold, wrapping
- Opposite of: unwrap, unwind
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Answer: WRAP
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36D: "57. Sharpen"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors
- Similar words include: perfect
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HONE
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37D: "58. Finding a penny with the tails side up is said to be a bad one"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sign of something about to happen
- Similar words include: presage, Muscat and Oman, foretell
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OMEN
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38D: "59. Actor/rapper Omar"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EPPS
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39D: "60. "In that neighborhood""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ORSO
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40D: "61. Gnat or nit"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
- Similar words include: cuss, blighter, pesterer
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PEST
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41D: "64. Bud"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities
- Similar words include: chum, brother, sidekick
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PAL
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Today's Puzzle Stats
35 Across Clues
41 Down Clues
76 Total Clues
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