1D: "1. Includes in a chain, in a way"
3 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter
- Similar words include: mil, cc, millilitre
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CCS Remember this word for future puzzles!
2D: "2. "Give me a break!""
8 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: OHPLEASE Remember this word for future puzzles!
3D: "3. Mole, maybe"
8 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: CIAASSET Remember this word for future puzzles!
4D: "4. Unable to be heard, in a Zoom call"
6 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: ONMUTE Remember this word for future puzzles!
5D: "5. Taiwan-based computer company"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that type genus of the aceraceae; trees or shrubs having winged fruit
- Similar words include: genus Acer
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ACER Remember this word for future puzzles!
6D: "6. "I've got it!""
3 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: AHA Remember this word for future puzzles!
7D: "7. Stat after hitting a triple with someone on base"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a run that is the result of the batter's performance
- Similar words include: run batted in
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RBI Remember this word for future puzzles!
8D: "8. Source of caffeine"
7 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: KOLANUT Remember this word for future puzzles!
9D: "9. It's all there in black and white"
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that weedy annual native to europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
- Similar words include: cheat, Bromus secalinus, chess game
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CHESS Remember this word for future puzzles!
10D: "10. British bathroom"
3 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
- Similar words include: can, bathroom, toilet
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LAV Remember this word for future puzzles!
11D: "11. Out of bed"
6 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that come into existence; take on form or shape
- Similar words include: go up, spring up, stand up
- Opposite of: sit down, go to bed
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Answer: ARISEN Remember this word for future puzzles!
12D: "12. Hanukkah candle holder"
7 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (judaism) a candelabrum with seven branches used in ceremonies to symbolize the seven days of creation
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: MENORAH Remember this word for future puzzles!
13D: "13. ___ California"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: BAJA Remember this word for future puzzles!
14D: "14. "Micro" or "macro" class"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: ECON Remember this word for future puzzles!
15D: "15. Stranger, informally"
5 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: RANDO Remember this word for future puzzles!
16D: "18. Music that's a little offbeat?"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: SKA Remember this word for future puzzles!
17D: "19. Common accompaniment for butter chicken"
11 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: BASMATIRICE Remember this word for future puzzles!
18D: "21. Deface"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the month following february and preceding april
- Similar words include: vitiate, mutilate, deflower
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MAR Remember this word for future puzzles!
19D: "23. ___ of Liberty (American Revolution group)"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a male human offspring
- Similar words include: Son, Logos, boy
- Opposite of: daughter, girl
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Answer: SONS Remember this word for future puzzles!
20D: "26. Constellation shaped like a harp"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small constellation in the northern hemisphere near cygnus and draco; contains the star vega
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LYRA Remember this word for future puzzles!
21D: "28. Nurse"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small drink
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SIP Remember this word for future puzzles!
22D: "31. Sanskrit word for "sitting posture""
5 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (hinduism) a posture or manner of sitting (as in the practice of yoga)
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ASANA Remember this word for future puzzles!
23D: "32. Little demons"
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous
- Similar words include: gremlin, pixy, scallywag
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IMPS Remember this word for future puzzles!
24D: "34. TV giant with a Deportes channel"
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: ESPN Remember this word for future puzzles!
25D: "36. Curve together, as one's hands"
3 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle
- Similar words include: transfuse, cupful, loving cup
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CUP Remember this word for future puzzles!
26D: "38. They might be head-scratching"
11 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the nail at the end of a finger
- Similar words include: fingernail
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: FINGERNAILS Remember this word for future puzzles!
27D: "40. Commuter travel method"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
- Similar words include: revile, vituperate, vilify
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RAIL Remember this word for future puzzles!
28D: "41. Notable feature of Hagrid or Gandalf"
9 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: FULLBEARD Remember this word for future puzzles!
29D: "44. Bumpy ride?"
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cud-chewing mammal used as a draft or saddle animal in desert regions
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CAMEL Remember this word for future puzzles!
30D: "45. Denials"
3 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding curium with carbon ions; 7 isotopes are known
- Similar words include: atomic number 102, no, No
- Opposite of: yes
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Answer: NOS Remember this word for future puzzles!
31D: "47. Season in December"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that period extending from dec. 24 to jan. 6
- Similar words include: Christmastime, Yule, Yuletide
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NOEL Remember this word for future puzzles!
32D: "49. Inits. on a tanning lotion bottle"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the degree to which a sunscreen protects the skin from the direct rays of the sun
- Similar words include: sun protection factor
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SPF Remember this word for future puzzles!
33D: "50. Pool implements"
9 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: CUESTICKS Remember this word for future puzzles!
34D: "52. Spry"
5 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that moving quickly and lightly
- Similar words include: nimble, spry, quick
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AGILE Remember this word for future puzzles!
35D: "54. Fat-removing procedures, in brief"
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: LIPOS Remember this word for future puzzles!
36D: "55. Kiln on a hops farm"
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a kiln for drying hops
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OAST Remember this word for future puzzles!
37D: "57. Org. on TV's "9-1-1""
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: LAPD Remember this word for future puzzles!
38D: "58. Day before a big day"
3 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (old testament) adam's wife in judeo-christian mythology: the first woman and mother of the human race; god created eve from adam's rib and placed adam and eve in the garden of eden
- Similar words include: evening, even, eventide
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EVE Remember this word for future puzzles!
39D: "60. Year in Portugal"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the plo in 1974; has conducted terrorist attacks in 20 countries
- Similar words include: Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims, Abu Nidal Organization, Fatah-RC
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ANO Remember this word for future puzzles!
40D: "61. [Mayday! Mayday!]"
5 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that condition of heightened watchfulness or preparation for action
- Similar words include: watchful, spanking, alarum
- Opposite of: unalert
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Answer: ALERT Remember this word for future puzzles!
41D: "62. What's stored in the cloud"
11 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: DIGITALDATA Remember this word for future puzzles!
42D: "63. Issue for a dehydrated muscle"
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a painful and involuntary muscular contraction
- Similar words include: cramp, muscle spasm
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SPASM Remember this word for future puzzles!
43D: "64. Expressions of shame"
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that utter `tsk,' `tut,' or `tut-tut,' as in disapproval
- Similar words include: tut-tut, tsk, tut
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TSKS Remember this word for future puzzles!
44D: "66. "Fernando" group, 1976"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: ABBA Remember this word for future puzzles!
45D: "68. "Somewhat""
3 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: ISH Remember this word for future puzzles!
46D: "69. Dark half of a famous duality"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the dark negative feminine principle in chinese dualistic cosmology
- Opposite of: yang
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: YIN Remember this word for future puzzles!
47D: "70. Young turkey"
5 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: POULT Remember this word for future puzzles!
48D: "73. GPS guesses, for short"
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional basque party; want to create an independent homeland in spain's western pyrenees
- Similar words include: Euskadi ta Askatasuna, Basque Fatherland and Liberty, ETA
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ETAS Remember this word for future puzzles!
49D: "77. Begin, with "off""
3 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the starting place for each hole on a golf course
- Similar words include: tee up, teeing ground, golf tee
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TEE Remember this word for future puzzles!
50D: "79. Display"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of publicly exhibiting or entertaining
- Similar words include: testify, establish, present
- Opposite of: disprove, hide
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Answer: SHOW Remember this word for future puzzles!
51D: "80. Selection at a paint store, perhaps"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength
- Similar words include: chromaticity, imbue
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HUE Remember this word for future puzzles!
52D: "81. Completely rid (of)"
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
- Similar words include: chuck, sanctify, throw up
- Opposite of: rehabilitate, keep down
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Answer: PURGE Remember this word for future puzzles!
53D: "84. In the middle of a tussle"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: ATIT Remember this word for future puzzles!
54D: "85. ___ Smythe Trophy (award for the N.H.L. playoff M.V.P.)"
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that conduct or direct the steering of a ship or plane
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CONN Remember this word for future puzzles!
55D: "86. Sturdy boot feature"
8 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: STEELTIP Remember this word for future puzzles!
56D: "87. The sky is its limit"
8 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets
- Similar words include: aeroplane, plane
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: AIRPLANE Remember this word for future puzzles!
57D: "88. GoPro, e.g., informally"
3 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a river in east central england that flows past cambridge to join the ouse river
- Similar words include: Cam River, River Cam
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CAM Remember this word for future puzzles!
58D: "90. Slowly appears on scene"
7 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: FADESIN Remember this word for future puzzles!
59D: "92. Exile locale for Napoleon"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: ELBA Remember this word for future puzzles!
60D: "93. With devotion"
7 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that in a devout and pious manner
- Similar words include: devoutly
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: PIOUSLY Remember this word for future puzzles!
61D: "95. 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!
62D: "96. Sources of distress"
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that misery resulting from affliction
- Similar words include: woefulness, suffering, woe
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: WOES Remember this word for future puzzles!
63D: "98. To a greater degree"
6 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: MORESO Remember this word for future puzzles!
64D: "100. Where Benjamin Franklin is buried, familiarly"
6 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: PHILLY Remember this word for future puzzles!
65D: "102. Metal-shaping tool"
5 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a tool used to thicken or spread metal (the end of a bar or a rivet etc.) by forging or hammering or swaging
- Similar words include: upset
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SWAGE Remember this word for future puzzles!
66D: "104. Singer Goulding with the 2015 hit "Love Me Like You Do""
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: ELLIE Remember this word for future puzzles!
67D: "106. Division of Warner Bros. Discovery"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: CNN Remember this word for future puzzles!
68D: "109. Loads"
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the sun (or solar disc) which was the deity of a monotheistic cult under the pharaoh akhenaten
- Similar words include: Aten
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ATON Remember this word for future puzzles!
69D: "110. Operate, as a bar"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined
- Similar words include: be given, run, incline
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TEND Remember this word for future puzzles!
70D: "112. Sch. about 10 miles from the Hollywood Bowl"
3 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: USC Remember this word for future puzzles!
71D: "114. ___ other"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (used of count nouns) every one considered individually
- Similar words include: to each one, apiece, for each one
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EACH Remember this word for future puzzles!
72D: "116. QB's stat: Abbr."
3 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: ATT Remember this word for future puzzles!
73D: "118. Tiny projectile in a food fight"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that seed of a pea plant used for food
- Similar words include: pea plant
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PEA Remember this word for future puzzles!
74D: "119. Texter's "Not sure""
3 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: IDK Remember this word for future puzzles!
75D: "120. Book divisions: Abbr."
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: PGS Remember this word for future puzzles!
