1D: "1. Locks up?"
4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss
- Similar words include: hair's-breadth, pilus, tomentum
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HAIR
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2D: "2. Thereabouts"
4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: ORSO
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3D: "3. "Mamma mia!""
11 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: HOLYCANNOLI
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4D: "4. Women's World Cup powerhouse"
3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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, US, US Army
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: USA
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5D: "5. Counselor's charges"
7 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: MENTEES
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6D: "6. Elaborate invitation from a senior, maybe"
9 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: PROMPOSAL
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7D: "7. Actress Reneé of "The Sex Lives of College Girls""
4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: RAPP
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8D: "8. MSN, for one"
3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: ISP
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9D: "9. Trample"
6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: STEPON
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10D: "10. Palindromic title"
5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a woman of refinement
- Similar words include: lady, brothel keeper, dame
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MADAM
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11D: "11. Superficial"
8 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: SKINDEEP
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12D: "12. One who said "I do""
4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a married woman; a man's partner in marriage
- Similar words include: married woman
- Opposite of: husband
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Answer: WIFE
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13D: "13. Knocked for a loop"
4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that inspire awe in
- Similar words include: awful, awe, awestruck
- Opposite of: unawed
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Answer: AWED
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14D: "14. Pizza ___"
3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top
- Similar words include: Proto-Indo European
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PIE
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15D: "15. Relating to part of the heart"
6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that of or relating to a cavity or chamber in the body (especially one of the upper chambers of the heart)
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ATRIAL
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16D: "16. Doesn't stick to the plan"
9 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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Answer: GOESROGUE
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17D: "17. River through Orsk"
4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: URAL
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18D: "18. Get in on a deal"
4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (poker) the initial contribution that each player makes to the pot
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ANTE
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19D: "24. Race that's too close to call"
8 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: DEADHEAT
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20D: "26. Desperate final effort"
8 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: LASTGASP
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21D: "30. Words traced on a dirty car"
6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: WASHME
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22D: "33. Evil counterpart in an 1886 novella"
4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: HYDE
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23D: "34. Flanders neighbor"
7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states divorcee whose marriage to edward viii created a constitutional crisis leading to his abdication
- Similar words include: Duchess of Windsor, Mrs. Simpson, Sir James Young Simpson
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SIMPSON
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24D: "35. More fraught"
6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that in or of a state of physical or nervous tension
- Similar words include: tense
- Opposite of: relaxed, lax
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Answer: TENSER
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25D: "36. Book before Proverbs"
6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an old testament book consisting of a collection of 150 psalms
- Similar words include: Psalm, Book of Psalms, psalm
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PSALMS
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26D: "37. Get ready to skate"
6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: LACEUP
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27D: "38. Elk"
6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that large north american deer with large much-branched antlers in the male
- Similar words include: elk, American elk, Cervus elaphus
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: WAPITI
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28D: "40. Roman à ___"
4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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- Think of something that a musical notation written on a staff indicating the pitch of the notes following it
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CLEF
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29D: "41. Request in billiards or beer pong"
6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: RERACK
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30D: "42. Watch over"
4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- Similar words include: incline, run, lean
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TEND
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31D: "43. Office building abbr."
3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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Answer: STE
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32D: "49. Milliner's handiwork"
3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim
- Similar words include: chapeau, lid
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HAT
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33D: "50. Mowing, mulching, raking, etc."
8 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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Answer: YARDCARE
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34D: "51. Decorator"
7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: ADORNER
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35D: "52. Basset hounds have big ones"
5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth
- Similar words include: submaxilla, mandibula, lower jawbone
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: JOWLS
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36D: "54. One-named sports legend"
4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: PELE
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37D: "58. Some jeans"
5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a popular brand of jeans
- Similar words include: Saint Matthew, St. Matthew the Apostle, St. Matthew
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LEVIS
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38D: "61. Three or four, say"
4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: AFEW
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39D: "63. Extract said to promote relaxation"
6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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Answer: CBDOIL
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40D: "64. Ton of cargo"
8 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the amount of cargo that can be held by a boat or ship or a freight car
- Similar words include: shipload, carload
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: BOATLOAD
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41D: "65. It contains all of (and all the letters of) Toronto"
7 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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- Think of something that the smallest of the great lakes
- Similar words include: Lake Ontario
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ONTARIO
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42D: "66. One who's screen-sharing"
6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: COSTAR
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43D: "68. Congrats from across the room"
11 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: AIRHIGHFIVE
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44D: "69. Ghostly being"
6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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- Think of something that a mental representation of some haunting experience
- Similar words include: ghost, specter, shade
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: WRAITH
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45D: "70. Dismissive response on movie night"
6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: SEENIT
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46D: "72. Parish leader"
6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person authorized to conduct religious worship
- Similar words include: parson, pastor, minister
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: RECTOR
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47D: "74. Bouvier ___ Flandres (Belgian dog breed)"
3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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- Think of something that a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry
- Similar words include: Delaware, stilboestrol, diethylstilboestrol
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DES
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48D: "75. Crown and ___ (alliterative bar order)"
4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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- Think of something that carbon fuel produced by distillation of coal
- Similar words include: Coca Cola, nose candy, C
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: COKE
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49D: "76. "Can't wait!""
9 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: SOEXCITED
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50D: "78. Linear, for short"
4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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Answer: ONED
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51D: "79. Eponymous hypnotist"
6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that austrian physician who tried to treat diseases with a form of hypnotism (1734-1815)
- Similar words include: Friedrich Anton Mesmer, Franz Anton Mesmer
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: MESMER
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52D: "80. Entrances and exits of camp dwellings"
9 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: TENTFLAPS
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53D: "82. Alma mater for Marvel's Tony Stark and DC Comics's Lex Luthor, in brief"
3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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- Think of something that an engineering university in cambridge
- Similar words include: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MIT
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54D: "84. Cadbury confection"
8 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: CREMEEGG
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55D: "85. Nickname that omits -lin"
4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: CAIT
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56D: "89. Prestigious trophy name"
7 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: HEISMAN
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57D: "91. Loathes"
6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that find repugnant
- Similar words include: loathe, abominate, execrate
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ABHORS
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58D: "92. Where "The Four Agreements" and "The Five Love Languages" may be shelved"
8 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: SELFHELP
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59D: "93. Fernet-___ (Italian digestif brand)"
6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: BRANCA
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60D: "94. Most merchandise at Ace and True Value"
8 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that major items of military weaponry (as tanks or missile)
- Similar words include: computer hardware, ironware
- Opposite of: software
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Answer: HARDWARE
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61D: "97. Rely on"
5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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- Think of something that something (as property) held by one party (the trustee) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary)
- Similar words include: combine, trustingness, believe
- Opposite of: distrust, mistrust
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Answer: TRUST
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62D: "99. Ill-humored"
4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
- Similar words include: off-key, work, saturnine
- Opposite of: sweet, sweeten
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Answer: SOUR
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63D: "100. Fallopian conduit"
4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that conduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases
- Similar words include: thermionic vacuum tube, electron tube, pipe
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TUBE
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64D: "101. Really long yarn"
4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family; originally (12th to 14th centuries) a story of the families that settled iceland and their descendants but now any prose narrative that resembles such an account
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SAGA
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65D: "102. The New York Times's "T," on a phone screen"
4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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- Think of something that (computer science) a graphic symbol (usually a simple picture) that denotes a program or a command or a data file or a concept in a graphical user interface
- Similar words include: picture, image, ikon
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ICON
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66D: "103. Actress Ward"
4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: SELA
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67D: "105. Landed"
4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: ALIT
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68D: "106. World capital that's home to the Kon-Tiki Museum"
4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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- 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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69D: "108. Slang term for a recording studio"
3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a workplace for the conduct of scientific research
- Similar words include: research laboratory, science laboratory, science lab
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LAB
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70D: "110. Genre for Cypress Hill or the Sugarhill Gang"
3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a reproach for some lapse or misdeed
- Similar words include: pink, knap, rap music
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RAP
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71D: "111. Alex and ___ (jewelry company)"
3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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- Think of something that black tropical american cuckoo
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ANI
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