1D: "1. Major N.Y.S.E. events"
4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public
- Similar words include: IPO, initial public offering, initial offering
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IPOS Remember this word for future puzzles!
2D: "2. Beat handily"
4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
- Similar words include: thrash, cream, lick
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DRUB Remember this word for future puzzles!
3D: "3. "See ya later!""
4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: TATA Remember this word for future puzzles!
4D: "4. Deck out"
5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
- Similar words include: embellish, invest, clothe
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ADORN Remember this word for future puzzles!
5D: "5. Walk"
6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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Answer: GOFREE Remember this word for future puzzles!
6D: "6. Cable co. that was purchased by AT&T in 1999"
3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: TCI Remember this word for future puzzles!
7D: "7. "What ___?""
4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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Answer: ELSE Remember this word for future puzzles!
8D: "8. William, Edward and Harry, e.g."
5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a british peer of the highest rank
- Similar words include: duke
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DUKES Remember this word for future puzzles!
9D: "9. To a ___ degree"
6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that of less size or importance
- Similar words include: less
- Opposite of: more, greater
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Answer: LESSER Remember this word for future puzzles!
10D: "10. Stage booster"
3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the basic unit of electric current adopted under the systeme international d'unites
- Similar words include: adenosine monophosphate, ampere, A
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AMP Remember this word for future puzzles!
11D: "11. Domain for salty dogs"
3 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: ocean
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SEA Remember this word for future puzzles!
12D: "12. Urges to attack, with "on""
4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that urge to attack someone
- Similar words include: set, sic
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SICS Remember this word for future puzzles!
13D: "13. What this hand has: A♣ A♦️ K♠ Q❤️ 6♠"
7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
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Answer: ONEPAIR Remember this word for future puzzles!
14D: "14. Fluency-building subj."
3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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Answer: ESL Remember this word for future puzzles!
15D: "15. Prosthetic facial feature of Peter Falk"
8 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: GLASSEYE Remember this word for future puzzles!
16D: "16. Convey"
9 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: GETACROSS Remember this word for future puzzles!
17D: "17. Pete who co-wrote "If I Had a Hammer""
6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states folk singer who was largely responsible for the interest in folk music in the 1960s (born in 1919)
- Similar words include: Pete Seeger, Alan Seeger, Peter Seeger
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SEEGER Remember this word for future puzzles!
18D: "18. Skin care company"
6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: AVEENO Remember this word for future puzzles!
19D: "19. Football snapper"
6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an area that is approximately central within some larger region
- Similar words include: focus on, center of attention, shopping center
- Opposite of: right
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Answer: CENTER Remember this word for future puzzles!
20D: "24. Thingamabob"
6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that something unspecified whose name is either forgotten or not known
- Similar words include: whatchamacallum, whatchamacallit, gubbins
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: DOODAD Remember this word for future puzzles!
21D: "29. Either side of a cheerleader's "A""
3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a human limb; technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb
- Similar words include: sleeve, weapon system, branch
- Opposite of: disarm
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Answer: ARM Remember this word for future puzzles!
22D: "32. Kind of orange"
5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a scar where the umbilical cord was attached
- Similar words include: navel point, belly button, bellybutton
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NAVEL Remember this word for future puzzles!
23D: "34. It's not optional"
4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a necessary or essential thing
- Similar words include: moldiness, mustiness
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MUST Remember this word for future puzzles!
24D: "35. Silicon Valley giant"
5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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Answer: INTEL Remember this word for future puzzles!
25D: "37. Easily detached"
8 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a reckless and impetuous person
- Similar words include: brainish, madcap, impulsive
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: TEARAWAY Remember this word for future puzzles!
26D: "38. Pioneering DVR brand"
4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: TIVO Remember this word for future puzzles!
27D: "39. George Orwell's first name at birth"
4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: ERIC Remember this word for future puzzles!
28D: "40. Purchase for the Atari 2600"
9 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that ammunition consisting of a cylindrical casing containing an explosive charge and a bullet; fired from a rifle or handgun
- Similar words include: pickup, magazine
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: CARTRIDGE Remember this word for future puzzles!
29D: "42. One cutting corners"
8 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: MITERSAW Remember this word for future puzzles!
30D: "44. Neat"
4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that receptacle that holds odds and ends (as sewing materials)
- Similar words include: clean up, tidy up, goodish
- Opposite of: untidy
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Answer: TIDY Remember this word for future puzzles!
31D: "46. One of Adolf Anderssen's sacrifices in the "Immortal Game" against Lionel Kieseritzky"
5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
- Similar words include: king, pansy, queen mole rat
- Opposite of: king, male monarch
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Answer: QUEEN Remember this word for future puzzles!
32D: "48. "Trade discount" quintet"
5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: AEIOU Remember this word for future puzzles!
33D: "52. German for "city""
5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: STADT Remember this word for future puzzles!
34D: "53. Something to pitch"
4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
- Similar words include: tent, inner circle, encampment
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CAMP Remember this word for future puzzles!
35D: "54. Univ. worker"
4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university
- Similar words include: professor
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PROF Remember this word for future puzzles!
36D: "55. Site-seeing list?"
9 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: ACCESSLOG Remember this word for future puzzles!
37D: "56. Forte"
4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity
- Similar words include: gimcrack, flashy, trashy
- Opposite of: piano, softly
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Answer: LOUD Remember this word for future puzzles!
38D: "57. Animal whose name sounds like a pronoun"
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 Remember this word for future puzzles!
39D: "61. V-shaped designs"
8 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that v-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service
- Similar words include: stripes, grade insignia, chevron
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: CHEVRONS Remember this word for future puzzles!
40D: "64. Visit, as for a safety check"
8 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: LOOKINON Remember this word for future puzzles!
41D: "66. Mathematician Lovelace"
3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an enzyme found in mammals that can catalyze the deamination of adenosine into inosine and ammonia
- Similar words include: adenosine deaminase
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ADA Remember this word for future puzzles!
42D: "68. Human organ with the ability to regenerate itself"
5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that large and complicated reddish-brown glandular organ located in the upper right portion of the abdominal cavity; secretes bile and functions in metabolism of protein and carbohydrate and fat; synthesizes substances involved in the clotting of the blood; synthesizes vitamin a; detoxifies poisonous substances and breaks down worn-out erythrocytes
- Similar words include: liver-colored
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LIVER Remember this word for future puzzles!
43D: "70. Frayed"
4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that be dressed in
- Similar words include: fall apart, wear upon, haggard
- Opposite of: new, refresh
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Answer: WORN Remember this word for future puzzles!
44D: "71. Court order"
4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (law) a legal document issued by a court or judicial officer
- Similar words include: judicial writ
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: WRIT Remember this word for future puzzles!
45D: "72. With, in Oise"
4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: AVEC Remember this word for future puzzles!
46D: "73. Exam marks"
5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a metallic tapping sound
- Similar words include: mark off, tick off, tick
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TICKS Remember this word for future puzzles!
47D: "74. N.H.L. team with the longest Stanley Cup drought, familiarly"
5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants
- Similar words include: leafage, folio, thumb
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LEAFS Remember this word for future puzzles!
48D: "75. Smallest Canadian prov."
3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states architect (born in china in 1917)
- Similar words include: Ieoh Ming Pei, I. M. Pei
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PEI Remember this word for future puzzles!
49D: "80. Canning package?"
9 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- Similar words include: rift, falling out, severing
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: SEVERANCE Remember this word for future puzzles!
50D: "82. Mallorca, por ejemplo"
4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: ISLA Remember this word for future puzzles!
51D: "83. Reason for turbulence"
5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning
- Similar words include: force, rage, violent storm
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: STORM Remember this word for future puzzles!
52D: "85. Anatomical appendage that only humans and gorillas have"
5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small pendant fleshy lobe at the back of the soft palate
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: UVULA Remember this word for future puzzles!
53D: "87. Modern "seize the day""
4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: YOLO Remember this word for future puzzles!
54D: "88. Stunned"
4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that inspire awe in
- Similar words include: awe, awestruck, awestricken
- Opposite of: unawed
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Answer: AWED Remember this word for future puzzles!
55D: "90. Computer model inputs"
8 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: DATASETS Remember this word for future puzzles!
56D: "92. Ship that transported the Golden Fleece"
4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between canis major and the southern cross; now divided into carina and pyxis and puppis and vela
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ARGO Remember this word for future puzzles!
57D: "93. Hardly a team player"
6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a conceited and self-centered person
- Similar words include: swellhead, egocentric, egotist
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: EGOIST Remember this word for future puzzles!
58D: "95. Betrays, in a way"
7 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: FLIPSON Remember this word for future puzzles!
59D: "98. Like an unnatural smile"
6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :
- Similar words include: impel, pull, force
- Opposite of: pull, push
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Answer: FORCED Remember this word for future puzzles!
60D: "99. Tech debut of 2007"
6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: IPHONE Remember this word for future puzzles!
61D: "100. Examine creepily"
6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: LEERAT Remember this word for future puzzles!
62D: "101. ___ Mae Brown (Whoopi's role in "Ghost")"
3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: ODA Remember this word for future puzzles!
63D: "102. World's most-produced organic compound"
6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a flammable colorless gaseous alkene; obtained from petroleum and natural gas and used in manufacturing many other chemicals; sometimes used as an anesthetic
- Similar words include: ethylene
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ETHENE Remember this word for future puzzles!
64D: "104. Puts up a false front"
6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a high steep bank (usually formed by river erosion)
- Similar words include: bluff, four flush, bluff out
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BLUFFS Remember this word for future puzzles!
65D: "108. Property of curium, but not cerium"
5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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Answer: HARDC Remember this word for future puzzles!
66D: "110. Eavesdrop, e.g."
5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a spy who makes uninvited inquiries into the private affairs of others
- Similar words include: stag, spy, snooper
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SNOOP Remember this word for future puzzles!
67D: "113. Surrealist Magritte"
4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: RENE Remember this word for future puzzles!
68D: "115. Fit of irritation"
4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a state of agitated irritation
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SNIT Remember this word for future puzzles!
69D: "117. Fish in niçoise salad"
4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that tropical american prickly pear of jamaica
- Similar words include: tuna fish, Anguilla sucklandii, tunny
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TUNA Remember this word for future puzzles!
70D: "118. Cuts off"
4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that either extremity of something that has length
- Similar words include: stop, oddment, end
- Opposite of: beginning, begin
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Answer: ENDS Remember this word for future puzzles!
71D: "119. Actor Brody of "The O.C.""
4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (old testament) in judeo-christian mythology; the first man and the husband of eve and the progenitor of the human race
- Similar words include: XTC, cristal, go
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ADAM Remember this word for future puzzles!
72D: "121. "Spring forward" hrs."
3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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Answer: DST Remember this word for future puzzles!
73D: "123. Illegally interfere with, as an election"
3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise
- Similar words include: outfit, turnout, manipulate
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RIG Remember this word for future puzzles!
74D: "124. Remote abbr."
3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: VOL Remember this word for future puzzles!
75D: "125. Special ___"
3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (roman mythology) goddess of abundance and fertility; wife of saturn; counterpart of greek rhea and cybele of ancient asia minor
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OPS Remember this word for future puzzles!
