1D: "1. Short cut"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)
- Similar words include: crop, prune, snippet
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SNIP
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2D: "2. Beep, e.g."
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the quality of a person's voice
- Similar words include: inflect, strengthen, quality
- Opposite of: atonicity
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Answer: TONE
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3D: "3. Undercover?"
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: ABED
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4D: "4. Has regrets about"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that european strong-scented perennial herb with grey-green bitter-tasting leaves; an irritant similar to poison ivy
- Similar words include: repent, sorrow, Ruta graveolens
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RUES
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5D: "5. ___ Allen, host of "Chopped""
3 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a tough youth of 1950's and 1960's wearing edwardian style clothes
- Similar words include: Teddy boy
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TED
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6D: "6. Make public, as secret documents"
6 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that break the seal of
- Opposite of: seal
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: UNSEAL
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7D: "7. Novel form of summer escapism?"
8 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: POOLREAD
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8D: "8. Connive with, maybe"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ABET
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9D: "9. Second-generation Japanese American"
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person born in the united states of parents who emigrated from japan
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NISEI
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10D: "10. Alley ___"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: OOP
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11D: "11. How a boss might communicate new policy"
7 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: INAMEMO
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12D: "12. With courtesy"
6 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that in a nice way
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: NICELY
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13D: "13. Immune system agent"
5 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: TCELL
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14D: "14. Toothpaste brand since 1961"
9 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: SENSODYNE
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15D: "15. Italian diminutive suffix"
3 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: INO
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16D: "16. It turns when driven"
5 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who guards prisoners
- Similar words include: have sex, make out, prison guard
- Opposite of: unscrew
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Answer: SCREW
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17D: "17. Logo of the W.N.B.A.'s New York Liberty"
5 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a light usually carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance
- Similar words include: woolly mullein, flashlight, Verbascum thapsus
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TORCH
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18D: "18. Name found in "Americana""
5 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any plant of the genus erica
- Similar words include: true heath
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ERICA
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19D: "19. Go back to square one"
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that device for resetting instruments or controls
- Similar words include: readjust
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RESET
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20D: "24. Sex symbol of the 1950s-'60s, familiarly"
7 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: MARILYN
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21D: "29. Hypercompetitive and driven, say"
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: TYPEA
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22D: "31. Staff"
9 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that group of people willing to obey orders
- Similar words include: force, personnel department, personnel office
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: PERSONNEL
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23D: "33. Street application"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
- Similar words include: old salt, pitch, Jack-tar
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TAR
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24D: "34. Indigenous people of the Salt Lake Valley"
3 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of the shoshonean people of utah and colorado and new mexico
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: UTE
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25D: "35. Weak, as an excuse"
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who doesn't understand what is going on
- Similar words include: crippled, halting, game
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LAME
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26D: "36. "Ibis" poet"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that roman poet remembered for his elegiac verses on love (43 bc - ad 17)
- Similar words include: Publius Ovidius Naso
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OVID
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27D: "37. Bob who painted "Cabin at Sunset," which sold for over $1 million to benefit public media"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that scottish explorer who led arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the northwest passage (1777-1856)
- Similar words include: Sir Ronald Ross, Betsy Griscom Ross, Nellie Ross
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ROSS
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28D: "40. Fragrant holiday purchase"
3 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that nonresinous wood of a fir tree
- Similar words include: true fir, fir tree
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: FIR
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29D: "42. Gawker"
8 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: LOOKYLOO
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30D: "43. Goody-goody sort"
7 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of a group of english protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that the protestant reformation under elizabeth was incomplete and advocated the simplification and regulation of forms of worship
- Similar words include: prude
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: PURITAN
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31D: "45. Young salmon"
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: SMOLT
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32D: "46. Eight-related"
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that of or pertaining to a number system having 8 as its base
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OCTAL
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33D: "47. Like Amazon forests, typically"
5 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (of weather) wet by periods of rain
- Similar words include: showery
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RAINY
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34D: "48. Series finale?"
3 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: ETC
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35D: "50. Maze's goal"
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an opening that permits escape or release
- Similar words include: decease, cash in one's chips, go out
- Opposite of: enter, be born
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Answer: EXIT
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36D: "51. Comes into one's own"
8 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts
- Similar words include: blossom forth, unfold, blossom out
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: BLOSSOMS
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37D: "52. [So-o-o funny!]"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: ROFL
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38D: "56. Reason to head for the hills"
7 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: SKITRIP
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39D: "58. Drill"
9 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a practice session in preparation for a public performance (as of a play or speech or concert)
- Similar words include: dry run
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: REHEARSAL
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40D: "60. "Geaux Tigers!" sch."
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: LSU
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41D: "62. John M. ___, director of 2024's "Wicked""
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: CHU
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42D: "63. Showing signs of working out, say"
3 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a display of bad temper
- Similar words include: tantrum, paroxysm, fit out
- Opposite of: disagree, unfit
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Answer: FIT
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43D: "65. "Let's do this!""
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: ITSON
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44D: "66. Use a divining rod"
5 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod
- Similar words include: dowsing, soak, souse
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DOWSE
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45D: "67. Midwest birthplace of Marlon Brando"
5 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of the siouan people formerly living in the missouri river valley in northeastern nebraska
- Similar words include: Maha
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OMAHA
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46D: "68. Buddies, in Bayonne"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: AMIS
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47D: "69. Wisecrack"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- Similar words include: fit, barb, match
- Opposite of: disagree
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Answer: GIBE
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48D: "73. Musical Yoko"
3 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states musician (born in japan) who married john lennon and collaborated with him on recordings (born in 1933)
- Similar words include: Yoko Ono
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ONO
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49D: "74. Big bang source"
9 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive
- Similar words include: cap, detonating device
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: DETONATOR
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50D: "77. Like London's Kew Gardens"
7 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that of or relating to plants or botany
- Similar words include: botanical
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: BOTANIC
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51D: "79. Surprised greeting"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: OHHI
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52D: "80. Word with black or coffee"
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various edible seeds of plants of the family leguminosae used for food
- Similar words include: edible bean, dome, bonce
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BEAN
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53D: "81. Covenant keepers"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (judaism) sacred chest where the ancient hebrews kept the two tablets containing the ten commandments
- Similar words include: ark, Ark, Ark of the Covenant
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ARKS
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54D: "82. Something in which you might stand for a spell"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: BEE
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55D: "85. "Lay it on me""
5 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a new branch
- Similar words include: frivol away, dart, burgeon forth
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SHOOT
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56D: "87. Ousted, democratically"
8 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: VOTEDOUT
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57D: "89. Sushi topper"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that fish eggs or egg-filled ovary; having a grainy texture
- Similar words include: hard roe
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ROE
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58D: "90. Boutonniere counterpart"
7 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present
- Similar words include: nosegay, posy, bouquet
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: CORSAGE
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59D: "91. Eccentric"
3 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that not divisible by two
- Similar words include: queer, rum, funny
- Opposite of: even
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Answer: ODD
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60D: "94. Many a modern-day septuagenarian"
6 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of the baby boom generation in the 1950s
- Similar words include: baby boomer
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BOOMER
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61D: "96. Pricing game on "The Price Is Right""
6 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: PLINKO
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62D: "97. Avatar, e.g."
5 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an iconic mental representation
- Similar words include: visualize, effigy, picture
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: IMAGE
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63D: "98. Smash hit"
5 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a base hit on which the batter scores a run
- Similar words include: Winslow Homer, home run, homing pigeon
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HOMER
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64D: "99. Teresa of ___"
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: AVILA
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65D: "100. Sacred Sanskrit texts"
5 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (from the sanskrit word for `knowledge') any of the most ancient sacred writings of hinduism written in early sanskrit; traditionally believed to comprise the samhitas, the brahmanas, the aranyakas, and the upanishads
- Similar words include: Veda, Vedic literature
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: VEDAS
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66D: "101. Card game played in Dickens's "The Pickwick Papers""
5 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a card game for four players who form two partnerships; a pack of 52 cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six
- Similar words include: short whist, long whist
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: WHIST
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67D: "102. Drew back"
5 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that start suddenly, as from fright
- Similar words include: shy
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SHIED
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68D: "107. Website with a "Star Seller" program"
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: ETSY
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69D: "108. Binary"
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs
- Similar words include: twofold, treble, three-fold
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DUAL
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70D: "109. Setting for most of the TV series "Pachinko""
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to europe on the west to form eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ASIA
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71D: "110. Time for a social media break, maybe"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a period of 40 weekdays from ash wednesday to holy saturday
- Similar words include: bestow, Lententide, lend
- Opposite of: borrow
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Answer: LENT
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72D: "111. ___ fixe"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: IDEE
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73D: "113. Office address abbr."
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: STE
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74D: "115. Cupcake, in Ireland"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that small rounded bread either plain or sweet
- Similar words include: roll
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: BUN
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75D: "116. Not to"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: FRO
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