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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (37 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. Print, Copy, ___, Fax (printer selections) | 4 |
| 2A | 5. Former Giants QB Manning | 3 |
| 3A | 8. Element discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie | 6 |
| 4A | 14. Sparkling wine of Italy, familiarly | 4 |
| 5A | 15. Odd ___ out (misfit) | 3 |
| 6A | 16. "In spite of all that ..." | 6 |
| 7A | 17. Endless TikTok scrolling or Tetris playing, e.g. | 8 |
| 8A | 19. Rented | 6 |
| 9A | 20. Wastebasket, jokingly | 12 |
| 10A | 22. Only U.S. president from Delaware | 5 |
| 11A | 25. Grand production | 4 |
| 12A | 26. ___ Plaines, Ill. | 3 |
| 13A | 27. Smelter's material | 3 |
| 14A | 28. Popular sushi fish | 3 |
| 15A | 30. Like the Mariana Trench among all the world's underwater places | 7 |
| 16A | 33. Guy who goes a-courting | 4 |
| 17A | 35. "You've ___ this!" | 3 |
| 18A | 37. Rodeo rope | 5 |
| 19A | 38. Illegal distribution of narcotics | 11 |
| 20A | 42. Whimpers | 5 |
| 21A | 44. Right-angled shape | 3 |
| 22A | 45. Corner piece on a chessboard | 4 |
| 23A | 48. Top placement in a bracket, for a March Madness team | 7 |
| 24A | 51. Caustic paint stripper | 3 |
| 25A | 53. Be in arrears | 3 |
| 26A | 54. Onetime AT&T competitor | 3 |
| 27A | 55. Tiny amount | 4 |
| 28A | 57. Answer | 5 |
| 29A | 59. Where to pick up luggage at an airport | 12 |
| 30A | 63. Regrettably unfortunate | 6 |
| 31A | 64. Went into reverse ... or what the ends of 17-, 20-, 38- and 59-Across might be | 8 |
| 32A | 68. Word after Irish or jet | 6 |
| 33A | 69. Longtime record label or Beastie Boy | 3 |
| 34A | 70. Valentine's Day flower | 4 |
| 35A | 71. Size up | 6 |
| 36A | 72. Glide down a slope | 3 |
| 37A | 73. ___ of the Horse (2026 in the Chinese zodiac) | 4 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Print, Copy, ___, Fax (printer selections)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region
- Similar words include: skim, read, CAT scan
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SCAN
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2A: "5. Former Giants QB Manning"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ELI
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3A: "8. Element discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores
- Similar words include: atomic number 88, Ra
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: RADIUM
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4A: "14. Sparkling wine of Italy, familiarly"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ASTI
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5A: "15. Odd ___ out (misfit)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman)
- Similar words include: human, Isle of Man, valet
- Opposite of: civilian, woman
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Answer: MAN
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6A: "16. "In spite of all that ...""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: EVENSO
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7A: "17. Endless TikTok scrolling or Tetris playing, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: TIMESINK
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8A: "19. Rented"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that let for money
- Similar words include: charter, hired, let
- Opposite of: unchartered
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Answer: LEASED
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9A: "20. Wastebasket, jokingly"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: CIRCULARFILE
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10A: "22. Only U.S. president from Delaware"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BIDEN
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11A: "25. Grand production"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
- Similar words include: larger-than-life, heroic, epical
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EPIC
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12A: "26. ___ Plaines, Ill."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry
- Similar words include: stilboestrol, diethylstilboestrol, stilbestrol
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DES
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13A: "27. Smelter's material"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ORE
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14A: "28. Popular sushi fish"
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
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EEL
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15A: "30. Like the Mariana Trench among all the world's underwater places"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that relatively deep or strong; affecting one deeply
- Similar words include: cryptical, abstruse, cryptic
- Opposite of: shallow
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Answer: DEEPEST
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16A: "33. Guy who goes a-courting"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a man who is the lover of a girl or young woman
- Similar words include: fellow, gallant, dude
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BEAU
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17A: "35. "You've ___ this!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
- Similar words include: catch, gravel, contract
- Opposite of: leave, end
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Answer: GOT
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18A: "37. Rodeo rope"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that belgian composer (1532-1594)
- Similar words include: Orlando di Lasso, lariat, riata
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LASSO
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19A: "38. Illegal distribution of narcotics"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: DRUGTRAFFIC
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20A: "42. Whimpers"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cry weakly or softly
- Similar words include: wail, whimper, pule
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MEWLS
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21A: "44. Right-angled shape"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an extension at the end and at right angles to the main building
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ELL
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22A: "45. Corner piece on a chessboard"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
- Similar words include: mulct, victimize, hornswoggle
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ROOK
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23A: "48. Top placement in a bracket, for a March Madness team"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ONESEED
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24A: "51. Caustic paint stripper"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a strong solution of sodium or potassium hydroxide
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LYE
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25A: "53. Be in arrears"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that be obliged to pay or repay
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OWE
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26A: "54. Onetime AT&T competitor"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MCI
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27A: "55. Tiny amount"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid); ; ; ; --kipling
- Similar words include: driblet, drop
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DRIB
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28A: "57. Answer"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation
- Similar words include: response, answer, respond
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: REPLY
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29A: "59. Where to pick up luggage at an airport"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: BAGGAGECLAIM
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30A: "63. Regrettably unfortunate"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ASHAME
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31A: "64. Went into reverse ... or what the ends of 17-, 20-, 38- and 59-Across might be"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: BACKEDUP
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32A: "68. Word after Irish or jet"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one who sets written material into type
- Similar words include: typesetter, typographer, compositor
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SETTER
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33A: "69. Longtime record label or Beastie Boy"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MCA
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34A: "70. Valentine's Day flower"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of many shrubs of the genus rosa that bear roses
- Similar words include: rear, spring up, grow
- Opposite of: go to bed, turn in
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Answer: ROSE
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35A: "71. Size up"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of
- Similar words include: tax, value, valuate
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ASSESS
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36A: "72. Glide down a slope"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used in pairs for gliding over snow
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SKI
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37A: "73. ___ of the Horse (2026 in the Chinese zodiac)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days
- Similar words include: twelvemonth, yr, class
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: YEAR
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Stayed on the bench | 3 |
| 2D | 2. Long-running CBS procedural with spinoffs | 3 |
| 3D | 3. Fixture at a "cash only" establishment | 3 |
| 4D | 4. Nephew's sister | 5 |
| 5D | 5. Dubai dignitary | 4 |
| 6D | 6. Round Table knight who betrayed King Arthur | 8 |
| 7D | 7. Cover with tattoos, colloquially | 5 |
| 8D | 8. Equip with new shoestrings | 6 |
| 9D | 9. State with certainty | 4 |
| 10D | 10. Like many users of sign language | 4 |
| 11D | 11. News exclusive from someone in the know | 11 |
| 12D | 12. Of no help | 7 |
| 13D | 13. California city with a humble-sounding name | 7 |
| 14D | 18. Basic trig ratio | 4 |
| 15D | 21. Box top | 3 |
| 16D | 22. Go up and down in the water | 3 |
| 17D | 23. Livid feeling | 3 |
| 18D | 24. Major drags on a team's progress, metaphorically | 11 |
| 19D | 29. Item in an Easter hunt | 3 |
| 20D | 31. Sprite | 3 |
| 21D | 32. Team of two | 4 |
| 22D | 34. Internet addresses, for short | 4 |
| 23D | 36. Uno + due | 3 |
| 24D | 39. Take advantage of | 3 |
| 25D | 40. Like the original Broadway cast of "The Wiz" | 8 |
| 26D | 41. Travel by air | 3 |
| 27D | 42. Kenya's second-largest city | 7 |
| 28D | 43. Boxes up securely | 7 |
| 29D | 46. "Wise" bird | 3 |
| 30D | 47. F sharp major, for one | 3 |
| 31D | 49. Lawn-neatening tools | 6 |
| 32D | 50. Rap's Dr. ___ | 3 |
| 33D | 52. Actor Estrada of "CHiPs" | 4 |
| 34D | 56. Warhead weapons, for short | 5 |
| 35D | 58. Manicurist's board | 5 |
| 36D | 60. Bit of boarding pass info | 4 |
| 37D | 61. Iowa college town | 4 |
| 38D | 62. "Superfood" berry | 4 |
| 39D | 65. Stag's mate | 3 |
| 40D | 66. Team for Olympians Simone Biles and Mikaela Shiffrin | 3 |
| 41D | 67. ___ capita | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Stayed on the bench"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the seventh and last day of the week; observed as the sabbath by jews and some christians
- Similar words include: seat, posture, sit
- Opposite of: arise, stand
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Answer: SAT
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2D: "2. Long-running CBS procedural with spinoffs"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CSI
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3D: "3. Fixture at a "cash only" establishment"
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: automatic teller, automated teller machine, automatic teller machine
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ATM
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4D: "4. Nephew's sister"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a daughter of your brother or sister
- Opposite of: nephew
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NIECE
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5D: "5. Dubai dignitary"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in africa or arabia)
- Similar words include: emeer, amir, ameer
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EMIR
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6D: "6. Round Table knight who betrayed King Arthur"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (arthurian legend) one of the knights of the round table; friend of king arthur until (according to some versions of the legend) he became the lover of arthur's wife guinevere
- Similar words include: Sir Lancelot
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: LANCELOT
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7D: "7. Cover with tattoos, colloquially"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: INKUP
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8D: "8. Equip with new shoestrings"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: RELACE
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9D: "9. State with certainty"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that report or maintain
- Similar words include: allege, avow, affirm
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AVER
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10D: "10. Like many users of sign language"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that people who have severe hearing impairments
- Similar words include: deafen, indifferent
- Opposite of: hearing
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Answer: DEAF
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11D: "11. News exclusive from someone in the know"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: INSIDESCOOP
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12D: "12. Of no help"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully
- Opposite of: useful
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: USELESS
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13D: "13. California city with a humble-sounding name"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: MODESTO
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14D: "18. Basic trig ratio"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle
- Similar words include: sin
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SINE
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15D: "21. Box top"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye
- Similar words include: hat, chapeau, palpebra
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LID
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16D: "22. Go up and down in the water"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a former monetary unit in great britain
- Similar words include: bobsleigh, bobber, dock
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: BOB
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17D: "23. Livid feeling"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
- Similar words include: anger, wrath, ira
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IRE
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18D: "24. Major drags on a team's progress, metaphorically"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: DEADWEIGHTS
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19D: "29. Item in an Easter hunt"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds
- Similar words include: nut, bollock, testis
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EGG
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20D: "31. Sprite"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous
- Similar words include: pixie, imp, gremlin
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ELF
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21D: "32. Team of two"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a set of two similar things considered as a unit
- Similar words include: yoke, dyad, couplet
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PAIR
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22D: "34. Internet addresses, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the address of a web page on the world wide web
- Similar words include: uniform resource locator, universal resource locator, URL
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: URLS
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23D: "36. Uno + due"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TRE
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24D: "39. Take advantage of"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of using
- Similar words include: expend, apply, habituate
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: USE
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25D: "40. Like the original Broadway cast of "The Wiz""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: ALLBLACK
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26D: "41. Travel by air"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that two-winged insects characterized by active flight
- Similar words include: take flight, vaporize, vanish
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: FLY
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27D: "42. Kenya's second-largest city"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a port city in southern kenya on a coral island in a bay of the indian ocean
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: MOMBASA
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28D: "43. Boxes up securely"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that enclose in, or as if in, a case
- Similar words include: incase, encase, case
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ENCASES
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29D: "46. "Wise" bird"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes
- Similar words include: hooter, bird of Minerva, bird of night
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OWL
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30D: "47. F sharp major, for one"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated
- Similar words include: fundamental, identify, cay
- Opposite of: atonality
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Answer: KEY
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31D: "49. Lawn-neatening tools"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who puts finishing edges on a garment
- Similar words include: edger
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: EDGERS
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32D: "50. Rap's Dr. ___"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DRE
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33D: "52. Actor Estrada of "CHiPs""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ERIK
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34D: "56. Warhead weapons, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a ballistic missile that is capable of traveling from one continent to another
- Similar words include: ICBM, intercontinental ballistic missile
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ICBMS
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35D: "58. Manicurist's board"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a hard grey-black mineral consisting of corundum and either hematite or magnetite; used as an abrasive (especially as a coating on paper)
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EMERY
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36D: "60. Bit of boarding pass info"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a movable barrier in a fence or wall
- Similar words include: logic gate
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GATE
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37D: "61. Iowa college town"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AMES
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38D: "62. "Superfood" berry"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ACAI
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39D: "65. Stag's mate"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the united states; created in 1977
- Similar words include: Energy, Energy Department, Department of Energy
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DOE
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40D: "66. Team for Olympians Simone Biles and Mikaela Shiffrin"
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: America, Army, United States
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: USA
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41D: "67. ___ capita"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PER
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Today's Puzzle Stats
37 Across Clues
41 Down Clues
78 Total Clues
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