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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (39 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (39 clues)
- Down Clues - Detailed Hints
- Expert Solving Strategies
- Today's Puzzle Statistics
Today's Puzzle Difficulty: Medium
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. Gossiped-about duo | 4 |
| 2A | 5. River whose southernmost source is found in Burundi | 4 |
| 3A | 9. Animal that expresses anger by spitting | 5 |
| 4A | 14. Curbside call | 4 |
| 5A | 15. Egg's outline | 4 |
| 6A | 16. Traditional Vietnamese garment whose name means "long shirt" | 5 |
| 7A | 17. 2000 Eminem single with lines from his "biggest fan" | 4 |
| 8A | 18. St. Benedict, for one | 4 |
| 9A | 19. Central meeting points | 5 |
| 10A | 20. timiL | 12 |
| 11A | 23. 50¢ or $1: Abbr. | 3 |
| 12A | 24. Fish more formally known as a batomorph | 3 |
| 13A | 25. Capital of Portugal, to natives | 6 |
| 14A | 29. Crown of jewels | 6 |
| 15A | 31. Penultimate Greek letter | 3 |
| 16A | 33. One of four seen on Leonardo da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man" | 3 |
| 17A | 34. Goat's cry | 3 |
| 18A | 35. Golfer's suppor- | 9 |
| 19A | 38. Move like a fox | 5 |
| 20A | 40. Get a lode of this! | 3 |
| 21A | 41. John from Britain | 5 |
| 22A | 42. Evade | 9 |
| 23A | 44. "Bad" beginning | 3 |
| 24A | 45. Like news that everyone already knows | 3 |
| 25A | 46. Legal boundaries? | 3 |
| 26A | 47. Kind of cat with a black-and-white coat | 6 |
| 27A | 50. More melted, as a marshmallow | 6 |
| 28A | 53. Tree alongside a ski run | 3 |
| 29A | 54. Bro, e.g. | 3 |
| 30A | 55. P | u | n | c | h | e | s | 12 |
| 31A | 59. Sound of a perfect basketball shot | 5 |
| 32A | 62. "Beware the ___ of a patient man": John Dryden | 4 |
| 33A | 63. Ordered | 4 |
| 34A | 64. Increase, as interest | 5 |
| 35A | 65. German Ms. | 4 |
| 36A | 66. Pupil's surroundings | 4 |
| 37A | 67. Environmentalist Adams | 5 |
| 38A | 68. Site for many stars? | 4 |
| 39A | 69. Sounds of disapproval | 4 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Gossiped-about duo"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list
- Similar words include: point, particular, detail
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ITEM
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2A: "5. River whose southernmost source is found in Burundi"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the world's longest river (4150 miles); flows northward through eastern africa into the mediterranean; the nile river valley in egypt was the site of the world's first great civilization
- Similar words include: Nile River
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NILE
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3A: "9. Animal that expresses anger by spitting"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that wild or domesticated south american cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LLAMA
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4A: "14. Curbside call"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
- Similar words include: cab, hack, taxicab
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TAXI
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5A: "15. Egg's outline"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it
- Similar words include: ovoid, elliptical, ovate
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OVAL
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6A: "16. Traditional Vietnamese garment whose name means "long shirt""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AODAI
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7A: "17. 2000 Eminem single with lines from his "biggest fan""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: STAN
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8A: "18. St. Benedict, for one"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work
- Similar words include: Thelonious Sphere Monk, Thelonious Monk, monastic
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MONK
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9A: "19. Central meeting points"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a connecting point at which several lines come together
- Similar words include: client, node, knob
- Opposite of: antinode
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Answer: NODES
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10A: "20. timiL"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: BACKWARDSCAP
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11A: "23. 50¢ or $1: Abbr."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AMT
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12A: "24. Fish more formally known as a batomorph"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a column of light (as from a beacon)
- Similar words include: shaft of light, irradiation, light beam
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RAY
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13A: "25. Capital of Portugal, to natives"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that capital and largest city and economic and cultural center of portugal; a major port in western portugal on tagus river where it broadens and empties into the atlantic
- Similar words include: Lisbon, capital of Portugal
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: LISBOA
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14A: "29. Crown of jewels"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an ornamental jeweled headdress signifying sovereignty
- Similar words include: crown
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: DIADEM
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15A: "31. Penultimate Greek letter"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a unit of pressure
- Similar words include: pounds per square inch
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PSI
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16A: "33. One of four seen on Leonardo da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man""
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: build up, sleeve, gird
- Opposite of: disarm
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Answer: ARM
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17A: "34. Goat's cry"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MAA
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18A: "35. Golfer's suppor-"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: CUTOFFTEE
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19A: "38. Move like a fox"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner
- Similar words include: malinger, lurk
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SKULK
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20A: "40. Get a lode of this!"
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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21A: "41. John from Britain"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ELTON
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22A: "42. Evade"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a very short skirt
- Similar words include: mini
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: MINISKIRT
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23A: "44. "Bad" beginning"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MAL
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24A: "45. Like news that everyone already knows"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')
- Similar words include: sometime, former, one-time
- Opposite of: young, new
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Answer: OLD
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25A: "46. Legal boundaries?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
- Similar words include: EL, elevated railway, elevated
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ELS
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26A: "47. Kind of cat with a black-and-white coat"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that semiformal evening dress for men
- Similar words include: dinner jacket, black tie, tux
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TUXEDO
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27A: "50. More melted, as a marshmallow"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that soft and sticky
- Similar words include: icky, gooey
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: GOOIER
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28A: "53. Tree alongside a ski run"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that nonresinous wood of a fir tree
- Similar words include: fir tree, true fir
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: FIR
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29A: "54. Bro, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person's brother or sister
- Similar words include: blood relation, blood relative, cognate
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SIB
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30A: "55. P | u | n | c | h | e | s"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: STRIPEDSOCKS
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31A: "59. Sound of a perfect basketball shot"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a brushing or rustling sound
- Similar words include: lap, swoosh, posh
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SWISH
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32A: "62. "Beware the ___ of a patient man": John Dryden"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a feeling of intense anger
- Similar words include: fierceness, madness, hysteria
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: FURY
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33A: "63. Ordered"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a chadic language spoken in northern nigeria
- Similar words include: bid, entreat, press
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BADE
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34A: "64. Increase, as interest"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that tightly woven fabric with raised cords
- Similar words include: temper, irritation, offend
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PIQUE
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35A: "65. German Ms."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a german courtesy title or form of address for an adult woman
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: FRAU
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36A: "66. Pupil's surroundings"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
- Similar words include: fleur-de-lis, sword lily, iris diaphragm
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IRIS
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37A: "67. Environmentalist Adams"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ANSEL
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38A: "68. Site for many stars?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog)
- Similar words include: yelping, yap, yip
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: YELP
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39A: "69. Sounds of disapproval"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that utter `tsk,' `tut,' or `tut-tut,' as in disapproval
- Similar words include: tut, tut-tut, tsk
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TSKS
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Short negative review | 6 |
| 2D | 2. Floor covering in a Japanese tearoom | 6 |
| 3D | 3. "Bingo!" | 11 |
| 4D | 4. Stole material | 4 |
| 5D | 5. Southern denial | 6 |
| 6D | 6. Something tickled on a piano | 5 |
| 7D | 7. "Buy ___. They're not making it anymore" (old saying) | 4 |
| 8D | 8. Philanthropic group with a clock face in its logo | 4 |
| 9D | 9. The so-called "Pineapple Isle" | 5 |
| 10D | 10. Goes around and around | 5 |
| 11D | 11. Make sense, with "up" | 3 |
| 12D | 12. "Maggie ___," classic folk song covered by the Beatles | 3 |
| 13D | 13. ChatGPT, Claude, etc. | 3 |
| 14D | 21. Inflicts | 6 |
| 15D | 22. Muse of history | 4 |
| 16D | 26. Lasting damage from a tough experience, metaphorically | 11 |
| 17D | 27. Milkshake flavor | 4 |
| 18D | 28. Gospel shout | 4 |
| 19D | 30. "Fountain of Milk Spreading Itself Uselessly on Three Shoes" painter, 1945 | 4 |
| 20D | 31. Contented sounds | 5 |
| 21D | 32. "Changed my mind," in editing notation | 4 |
| 22D | 35. Curl | 4 |
| 23D | 36. Hip-knee connectors | 6 |
| 24D | 37. Source of linseed oil | 4 |
| 25D | 38. It's all a haze | 4 |
| 26D | 39. Drug bust unit | 4 |
| 27D | 43. Model Miranda | 4 |
| 28D | 47. Make neat | 6 |
| 29D | 48. Large-eyed African antelope with a duplicative name | 6 |
| 30D | 49. Fixate | 6 |
| 31D | 51. Give out | 5 |
| 32D | 52. Neighbor of Ricky and Lucy, on 1950s TV | 5 |
| 33D | 53. Far from house-trained | 5 |
| 34D | 56. Dodgy | 4 |
| 35D | 57. 100% | 4 |
| 36D | 58. End piece? | 4 |
| 37D | 59. Belinda's business on "The White Lotus" | 3 |
| 38D | 60. Prevail | 3 |
| 39D | 61. Some test figs. | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Short negative review"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ITSBAD
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2D: "2. Floor covering in a Japanese tearoom"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TATAMI
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3D: "3. "Bingo!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: EXACTAMUNDO
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4D: "4. Stole material"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the expensive fur of a mink
- Similar words include: mink coat
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MINK
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5D: "5. Southern denial"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: NOMAAM
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6D: "6. Something tickled on a piano"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses
- Similar words include: pearl, tusk, bone
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: IVORY
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7D: "7. "Buy ___. They're not making it anymore" (old saying)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the land on which real estate is located
- Similar words include: realm, down, commonwealth
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LAND
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8D: "8. Philanthropic group with a clock face in its logo"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in europe and `moose' in north america
- Similar words include: Cervus elaphus, Alces alces, Cervus elaphus canadensis
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ELKS
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9D: "9. The so-called "Pineapple Isle""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an island of central hawaii; a pineapple-growing area
- Similar words include: Lanai Island
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LANAI
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10D: "10. Goes around and around"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines
- Similar words include: iteration, intertwine, loop topology
- Opposite of: open circuit, uncoil
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Answer: LOOPS
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11D: "11. Make sense, with "up""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders
- Similar words include: minimal brain damage, append, sum
- Opposite of: subtract, take away
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Answer: ADD
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12D: "12. "Maggie ___," classic folk song covered by the Beatles"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MAE
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13D: "13. ChatGPT, Claude, etc."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an agency of the united states army responsible for providing timely and relevant and accurate and synchronized intelligence to tactical and operational and strategic level commanders
- Similar words include: Army Intelligence, three-toed sloth, artificial insemination
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AIS
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14D: "21. Inflicts"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cause to happen or to occur as a consequence
- Similar words include: wreak, work, play
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: WREAKS
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15D: "22. Muse of history"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (greek mythology) the muse of history
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CLIO
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16D: "26. Lasting damage from a tough experience, metaphorically"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: BATTLESCARS
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17D: "27. Milkshake flavor"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that chocolate cookie with white cream filling
- Similar words include: oreo cookie
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OREO
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18D: "28. Gospel shout"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a primeval egyptian personification of air and breath; worshipped especially at thebes
- Similar words include: Amun, Amon
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AMEN
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19D: "30. "Fountain of Milk Spreading Itself Uselessly on Three Shoes" painter, 1945"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that surrealist spanish painter (1904-1989)
- Similar words include: Salvador Dali
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DALI
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20D: "31. Contented sounds"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a low vibrating sound typical of a contented cat
- Similar words include: birr, whir, whiz
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PURRS
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21D: "32. "Changed my mind," in editing notation"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that printing: cancel, as of a correction or deletion
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: STET
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22D: "35. Curl"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
- Similar words include: scroll, curlicue, gyre
- Opposite of: uncoil
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Answer: COIL
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23D: "36. Hip-knee connectors"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee
- Similar words include: thighbone, femoris, femur
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: FEMURS
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24D: "37. Source of linseed oil"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that fiber of the flax plant that is made into thread and woven into linen fabric
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: FLAX
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25D: "38. It's all a haze"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog
- Similar words include: smogginess
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SMOG
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26D: "39. Drug bust unit"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one thousand grams; the basic unit of mass adopted under the systeme international d'unites
- Similar words include: kg, kilogram
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: KILO
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27D: "43. Model Miranda"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: KERR
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28D: "47. Make neat"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TIDYUP
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29D: "48. Large-eyed African antelope with a duplicative name"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: DIKDIK
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30D: "49. Fixate"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that haunt like a ghost; pursue
- Similar words include: haunt, ghost
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: OBSESS
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31D: "51. Give out"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an important question that is in dispute and must be settled
- Similar words include: topic, egress, subject
- Opposite of: recall
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Answer: ISSUE
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32D: "52. Neighbor of Ricky and Lucy, on 1950s TV"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ETHEL
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33D: "53. Far from house-trained"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that wild and menacing
- Similar words include: ferine, savage
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: FERAL
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34D: "56. Dodgy"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that subject to accident or chance or change
- Similar words include: fluky, flukey, chancy
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IFFY
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35D: "57. 100%"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that free of extraneous elements of any kind
- Similar words include: everlasting, thoroughgoing, sodding
- Opposite of: unsaturated, impure
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Answer: PURE
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36D: "58. End piece?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography
- Similar words include: necrology, obituary
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OBIT
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37D: "59. Belinda's business on "The White Lotus""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a health resort near a spring or at the seaside
- Similar words include: health spa, watering hole, resort hotel
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SPA
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38D: "60. Prevail"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a victory (as in a race or other competition)
- Similar words include: bring home the bacon, acquire, advance
- Opposite of: fall back, losings
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Answer: WIN
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39D: "61. Some test figs."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a measure of a person's intelligence as indicated by an intelligence test; the ratio of a person's mental age to their chronological age (multiplied by 100)
- Similar words include: IQ, intelligence quotient, I.Q.
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IQS
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Today's Puzzle Stats
39 Across Clues
39 Down Clues
78 Total Clues
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