1A: "1. Sacsayhuamán fortress builders"
5 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a ruler of the incas (or a member of his family)
- Similar words include: Incan, Inca, Inka
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: INCAS
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2A: "6. Literary forerunner of Captain Hook"
4 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that according to the old testament he was a pagan king of israel and husband of jezebel (9th century bc)
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AHAB
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3A: "10. Many an Alpha Beta in "Revenge of the Nerds""
4 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person trained to compete in sports
- Similar words include: jockstrap, supporter, athlete
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: JOCK
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4A: "14. Help-wanted letters"
3 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an internationally recognized distress signal in radio code
- Similar words include: soh, sol, so
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SOS
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5A: "17. Fermented vegan protein"
6 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
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Answer: TEMPEH
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6A: "19. Wrestler/actor John"
4 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
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Answer: CENA
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7A: "20. Coin with 12 stars around the border"
4 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the basic monetary unit of most members of the european union (introduced in 1999); in 2002 twelve european nations (germany, france, belgium, luxembourg, the netherlands, italy, spain, portugal, ireland, greece, austria, finland) adopted the euro as their basic unit of money and abandoned their traditional currencies
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EURO
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8A: "21. Align"
4 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make synchronous and adjust in time or manner
- Similar words include: synchronize, synchronise
- Opposite of: desynchronize, desynchronise
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Answer: SYNC
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9A: "22. Home of the legendary folk hero at 116-Across"
11 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a landlocked federal republic in central europe
- Similar words include: Svizzera, Swiss Confederation, Schweiz
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: SWITZERLAND
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10A: "24. One involved with checks and balances"
9 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an officer charged with receiving and disbursing funds
- Similar words include: financial officer
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: TREASURER
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11A: "26. Without"
4 letters Category: Wordplay
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Answer: SANS
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12A: "27. Green spaces"
8 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock
- Similar words include: browse, grazing land, range
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: PASTURES
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13A: "29. Hero of Arabian tales"
7 letters Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: ALIBABA
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14A: "30. In the past"
3 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that gone by; or in the past
- Similar words include: agone
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AGO
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15A: "31. ___ Mahal"
3 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
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Answer: TAJ
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16A: "32. Expertise demonstrated by 116-Across in a fabled feat of precision"
12 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that skill in shooting
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: MARKSMANSHIP
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17A: "34. Home Run ___ (annual M.L.B. event)"
5 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a felt hat that is round and hard with a narrow brim
- Similar words include: plug hat, bowler hat, bowler
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DERBY
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18A: "36. D.O.J. agency"
3 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the law enforcement and tax collection agency of the treasury department that enforces federal laws concerning alcohol and tobacco products and firearms and explosives and arson
- Similar words include: Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ATF
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19A: "39. Fuel-efficient Toyota"
5 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
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Answer: PRIUS
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20A: "40. Main ideas"
5 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- Similar words include: heart, meat, sum
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GISTS
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21A: "41. Athletic skill mastered by 116-Across"
7 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the sport of shooting arrows with a bow
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ARCHERY
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22A: "44. W-9 fig."
3 letters Category: Common Word
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Answer: SSN
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23A: "45. Banned substance, in sports lingo"
3 letters Category: Common Word
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Answer: PED
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24A: "46. Diego Rivera project"
5 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a painting that is applied to a wall surface
- Similar words include: wall painting
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MURAL
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25A: "48. Apt name for a lawyer"
3 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that french writer whose novels described the sordid side of city life (1804-1857)
- Similar words include: action, Eugene Sue, process
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SUE
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26A: "49. Laughed loudly"
6 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make a loud noise, as of wind, water, or vehicles
- Similar words include: howl, yawl, bellow
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ROARED
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27A: "52. N.C.A.A. hoops powerhouse"
3 letters Category: Common Word
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Answer: UNC
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28A: "53. Like the Statue of Liberty at night"
5 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
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Answer: UPLIT
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29A: "55. Beatle who sang "Yellow Submarine""
5 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that rock star and drummer for the beatles (born in 1940)
- Similar words include: Richard Starkey, Starkey, Ringo Starr
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: STARR
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30A: "57. Sailor's septet"
4 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
- Similar words include: sea, ocean
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SEAS
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31A: "60. Go-getter's opposite"
8 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who fails to meet a financial obligation
- Similar words include: defaulter
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: DEADBEAT
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32A: "62. Through"
3 letters Category: Common Word
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Answer: VIA
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33A: "63. "Drat!," in Dortmund"
3 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
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Answer: ACH
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34A: "65. "The Situation Room" airer"
3 letters Category: Common Word
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Answer: CNN
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35A: "66. Chirruping bird"
7 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of several small dull-colored singing birds feeding on seeds or insects
- Similar words include: Prunella modularis, dunnock, hedge sparrow
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SPARROW
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36A: "67. Pat down"
5 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs
- Similar words include: rollick, run around, frisking
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: FRISK
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37A: "69. City sobriquet that might describe the target for 116-Across, as depicted in this puzzle"
11 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
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Answer: THEBIGAPPLE
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38A: "71. Stuff in a puff"
3 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of
- Similar words include: send, air travel, melody
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AIR
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39A: "72. She-ep?"
3 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of a people living in southern benin and togo and southeastern ghana
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EWE
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40A: "73. Home to the Burj Khalifa, in brief"
3 letters Category: Common Word
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Answer: UAE
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41A: "74. Appointments that may lead to better contacts"
8 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
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Answer: EYEEXAMS
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42A: "76. Dampens"
4 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that wetness caused by water
- Similar words include: moisture, wet
- Opposite of: dry
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Answer: WETS
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43A: "78. "Whoa, ___!""
5 letters Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: NELLY
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44A: "80. Bel ___ cheese"
5 letters Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: PAESE
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45A: "81. Instinctive"
3 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus
- Similar words include: intestine, bowel, catgut
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: GUT
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46A: "82. Religious dissent"
6 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position
- Similar words include: heterodoxy, unorthodoxy
- Opposite of: orthodoxy
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Answer: HERESY
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47A: "84. $5 bill, slangily"
3 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
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Answer: ABE
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48A: "85. Actress Spacek"
5 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive
- Similar words include: sissyish, cissy, emasculate
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SISSY
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49A: "87. Negative logic gate in electrical engineering"
3 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
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Answer: NOR
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50A: "88. Cartesian conclusion"
3 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
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Answer: IAM
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51A: "91. Composer of an overture dedicated to 116-Across"
7 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that italian composer remembered for his operas (1792-1868)
- Similar words include: Giloacchino Antonio Rossini
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ROSSINI
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52A: "93. Gets lost"
5 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument
- Similar words include: scat, bunk, scarper
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SCATS
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53A: "96. Came to a conclusion"
5 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- Similar words include: terminate, over, terminated
- Opposite of: begin
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Answer: ENDED
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54A: "98. "Doctor ___""
3 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a united nations agency to coordinate international health activities and to help governments improve health services
- Similar words include: World Health Organization
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: WHO
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55A: "99. Start of an encrypted URL"
5 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a protocol (utilizing tcp) to transfer hypertext requests and information between servers and browsers
- Similar words include: HTTP, hypertext transfer protocol
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HTTPS
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56A: "103. Streaker in the night sky ... or a punny description of 116-Across"
12 letters Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: SHOOTINGSTAR
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57A: "106. Acid"
3 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a powerful hallucinogenic drug manufactured from lysergic acid
- Similar words include: lysergic acid diethylamide
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LSD
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58A: "108. Unprocessed, as data"
3 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that informal terms for nakedness
- Similar words include: in the raw, bleak, crude
- Opposite of: cooked
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Answer: RAW
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59A: "109. Inspiration for many seasonal festivals"
7 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the yield from plants in a single growing season
- Similar words include: harvest time, harvesting, crop
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: HARVEST
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60A: "110. Oscar-winning 2019 film directed by Bong Joon Ho"
8 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host
- Similar words include: sponge, leech, sponger
- Opposite of: host
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Answer: PARASITE
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61A: "113. Smoke, perhaps"
4 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
- Similar words include: heal, curative, therapeutic
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CURE
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62A: "114. What may begin at the end"
9 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that life after death
- Similar words include: hereafter
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: AFTERLIFE
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63A: "116. Legendary figure who's the subject of this puzzle"
11 letters Category: Common Word
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Answer: WILLIAMTELL
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64A: "118. Orchard selection"
4 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties
- Similar words include: Pyrus communis, pear tree
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PEAR
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65A: "119. Lot calculation"
4 letters Category: Wordplay
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: country, expanse, orbit
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AREA
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66A: "120. "All's well with me""
4 letters Category: Wordplay
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Answer: IMOK
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67A: "121. Human"
6 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a human being
- Similar words include: somebody, person, deadly
- Opposite of: immortal
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Answer: MORTAL
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68A: "122. Masthead figs."
3 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a rapid automatic system to detect plastic explosives in passengers' luggage using x-ray technology and computers; designed for use in airports
- Similar words include: male erecticle dysfunction, ED, explosive detection system
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EDS
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69A: "123. Timid"
4 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that humble in spirit or manner; suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness
- Similar words include: spiritless, mild, modest
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MEEK
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70A: "124. Quibbles"
4 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source
- Similar words include: nit
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NITS
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71A: "125. Ruses"
5 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker
- Similar words include: ploy, stratagem, gambit
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PLOYS
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