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Date: Thursday, August 22, 2019
Difficulty Level: Medium Tuesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 80 (39 Across, 41 Down)
Average Word Length: 5.0 letters
Master Today's Across: NYT Thursday Puzzle August 22, 2019
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. Extremely slow speed | 10 |
| 2A | 7. Have a sudden inspiration? | 4 |
| 3A | 11. Sign of spring | 6 |
| 4A | 14. Finalize, as plans | 6 |
| 5A | 15. Scholarly sorts | 8 |
| 6A | 17. Blood component | 6 |
| 7A | 18. 1971 title role for Charlton Heston, with "the" | 8 |
| 8A | 19. Cotillion V.I.P. | 3 |
| 9A | 20. Victoria's Secret spec | 4 |
| 10A | 22. Hebrew song whose title means "My God! My God!" | 6 |
| 11A | 23. They're served with spoon straws | 5 |
| 12A | 25. Outdoor section of a zoo | 4 |
| 13A | 26. Pizazz | 5 |
| 14A | 28. "Look to the ___, thou sluggard" (Proverbs 6:6) | 3 |
| 15A | 30. What a shift shifts | 5 |
| 16A | 34. Stick around | 6 |
| 17A | 36. Apple platform | 3 |
| 18A | 38. Word with cap or crab | 4 |
| 19A | 39. E.R. inserts | 3 |
| 20A | 40. Seedy hangout ... or a hint to finishing four Across answers in this puzzle | 7 |
| 21A | 43. When "Roseanne" aired for most of its original run: Abbr. | 3 |
| 22A | 44. What junkyards do | 4 |
| 23A | 46. Something a push-up strengthens, for short | 3 |
| 24A | 47. Mrs. John Quincy Adams | 6 |
| 25A | 49. Conveys | 10 |
| 26A | 51. Born, in Bordeaux | 3 |
| 27A | 53. Beneath: Ger. | 5 |
| 28A | 54. Device that runs 36-Across | 4 |
| 29A | 56. Oscar winner for "Shakespeare in Love" | 5 |
| 30A | 58. Often-abbreviated outburst | 6 |
| 31A | 61. "Should ___ acquaintance ..." | 4 |
| 32A | 62. Something to hold money in | 6 |
| 33A | 65. Grow quickly | 8 |
| 34A | 67. More relaxed | 6 |
| 35A | 69. "For real?" | 8 |
| 36A | 70. Shade on the visible spectrum | 6 |
| 37A | 71. Versatile offensive football positions, for short | 3 |
| 38A | 72. Hardens | 4 |
| 39A | 73. Vacillate wildly | 6 |
Let's Solve the Across Clues Together!
Here are helpful hints to solve each clue. Remember, crossword puzzles are like word games - have fun with them!
Clue 1 Across: "1. Extremely slow speed"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: __________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SNAILSPACE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "7. Have a sudden inspiration?"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a short labored intake of breath with the mouth open
- Words that mean the same thing: pant, puff, heave
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GASP
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Clue 3 Across: "11. Sign of spring"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in gemini
- Words that mean the same thing: Gemini the Twins, Twin, Twins
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GEMINI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Across: "14. Finalize, as plans"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FIRMUP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Across: "15. Scholarly sorts"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the literary intelligentsia
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LITERATI
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Clue 6 Across: "17. Blood component"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the colorless watery fluid of the blood and lymph that contains no cells, but in which the blood cells (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) are suspended
- Words that mean the same thing: plasm, blood plasma
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PLASMA
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Clue 7 Across: "18. 1971 title role for Charlton Heston, with "the""
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OMEGAMAN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Across: "19. Cotillion V.I.P."
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a young woman making her debut into society
- Words that mean the same thing: debutante
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DEB
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Across: "20. Victoria's Secret spec"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BCUP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Across: "22. Hebrew song whose title means "My God! My God!""
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about music.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ELIELI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "23. They're served with spoon straws"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that decorate with frosting
- Words that mean the same thing: frost, ice
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ICEES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "25. Outdoor section of a zoo"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all
- Words that mean the same thing: aper, imitator, anthropoid
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: APES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "26. Pizazz"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a natural talent
- Words that mean the same thing: elan, flare, dash
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FLAIR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "28. "Look to the ___, thou sluggard" (Proverbs 6:6)"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers
- Words that mean the same thing: emmet, pismire
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ANT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "30. What a shift shifts"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion
- Words that mean the same thing: gear wheel, appurtenance, gear mechanism
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GEARS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "34. Stick around"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that remain present although waning or gradually dying
- Words that mean the same thing: loiter, mill about, footle
- The opposite would be: rush
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LINGER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "36. Apple platform"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that (greek mythology) a maiden seduced by zeus; when hera was about to discover them together zeus turned her into a white heifer
- Words that mean the same thing: Io
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IOS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Across: "38. Word with cap or crab"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals
- Words that mean the same thing: coke, hoodwink, snowfall
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SNOW
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "39. E.R. inserts"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
- Words that mean the same thing: quadruplet, quatern, quaternary
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IVS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "40. Seedy hangout ... or a hint to finishing four Across answers in this puzzle"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DIVEBAR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "43. When "Roseanne" aired for most of its original run: Abbr."
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TUE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "44. What junkyards do"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant
- Words that mean the same thing: malodour, foetor, stink
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: REEK
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "46. Something a push-up strengthens, for short"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PEC
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "47. Mrs. John Quincy Adams"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LOUISA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "49. Conveys"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that something that serves as a means of transportation
- Words that mean the same thing: transportation, channel, delight
- The opposite would be: disenchant
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TRANSPORTS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "51. Born, in Bordeaux"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that (meaning literally `born') used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NEE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "53. Beneath: Ger."
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: UNTER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "54. Device that runs 36-Across"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IPAD
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "56. Oscar winner for "Shakespeare in Love""
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about movies/film.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DENCH
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "58. Often-abbreviated outburst"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OMIGOD
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "61. "Should ___ acquaintance ...""
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a scottish word
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AULD
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 32 Across: "62. Something to hold money in"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a written agreement (or property or money) delivered to a third party or put in trust by one party to a contract to be returned after fulfillment of some condition
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ESCROW
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 33 Across: "65. Grow quickly"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool)
- Words that mean the same thing: mushroom cloud, mushroom-shaped cloud
- The opposite would be: toadstool
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MUSHROOM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 34 Across: "67. More relaxed"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that not compact or dense in structure or arrangement
- Words that mean the same thing: informal, wanton, open
- The opposite would be: affixed, compact
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LOOSER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 35 Across: "69. "For real?""
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ISITTRUE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 36 Across: "70. Shade on the visible spectrum"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically
- Words that mean the same thing: indigotin, indigo plant, anil
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: INDIGO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 37 Across: "71. Versatile offensive football positions, for short"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur; it is used in alloys and as a semiconductor; occurs mainly as tellurides in ores of copper and nickel and silver and gold
- Words that mean the same thing: tellurium, ti, te
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 38 Across: "72. Hardens"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
- Words that mean the same thing: fructify, sic, gear up
- The opposite would be: rise
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SETS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 39 Across: "73. Vacillate wildly"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end
- Words that mean the same thing: dandle board, teeterboard, totter
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SEESAW
Great job if you got it right!
NYT Thursday Crossword Down Clues - August 22, 2019 Answers
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. Dirty Harry's grp. | 4 |
| 2D | 2. It flows past Memphis | 4 |
| 3D | 3. Locale for much of the world's oil shipping | 10 |
| 4D | 4. Responds to on WhatsApp, say | 3 |
| 5D | 5. Proceeded heavily and awkwardly | 8 |
| 6D | 6. Elbow room | 5 |
| 7D | 7. Hardly Michelin-star fare | 4 |
| 8D | 8. Order in target practice | 3 |
| 9D | 9. Brew | 5 |
| 10D | 10. Pirate's prop | 6 |
| 11D | 11. Up for it | 4 |
| 12D | 12. Latin catchall | 4 |
| 13D | 13. Certain skirt | 4 |
| 14D | 16. Employee incentives | 6 |
| 15D | 21. 2019 Women's World Cup winner | 3 |
| 16D | 24. Quick smoke? | 3 |
| 17D | 25. Simple step | 4 |
| 18D | 26. Use goo-goo eyes and make small talk, say | 5 |
| 19D | 27. Neighbor of the gallbladder | 5 |
| 20D | 29. One crying "Uncle!," maybe | 5 |
| 21D | 31. Converse | 10 |
| 22D | 32. Get out of bed | 5 |
| 23D | 33. Admit to office, with "in" | 5 |
| 24D | 35. Halloween decoration letters | 3 |
| 25D | 37. Actor Mineo | 3 |
| 26D | 41. What soda and snack machines do | 4 |
| 27D | 42. Start of a fight | 8 |
| 28D | 45. Mail man? | 6 |
| 29D | 48. N.C.A.A. hoops powerhouse | 3 |
| 30D | 50. Has on | 6 |
| 31D | 52. Campus extension? | 3 |
| 32D | 55. Be crazy about | 5 |
| 33D | 57. Jill ___, winning 2019 Women's World Cup coach | 5 |
| 34D | 58. Overlook | 4 |
| 35D | 59. Creative influence | 4 |
| 36D | 60. Goddess depicted with horns | 4 |
| 37D | 61. NASA's ___ Research Center | 4 |
| 38D | 63. Nintendo rival | 4 |
| 39D | 64. Brag | 4 |
| 40D | 66. Opposite of closeted | 3 |
| 41D | 68. Sophocles' "___ to Man" | 3 |
Now Let's Solve the Down Clues!
Down clues go from top to bottom. Use the letters from your across answers to help!
Clue 1 Down: "1. Dirty Harry's grp."
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SFPD
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. It flows past Memphis"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be 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
- Words that mean the same thing: Nile River
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NILE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. Locale for much of the world's oil shipping"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: __________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ARABIANSEA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. Responds to on WhatsApp, say"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IMS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. Proceeded heavily and awkwardly"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about history.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that move heavily or clumsily
- Words that mean the same thing: log, pound, lumber
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LUMBERED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Down: "6. Elbow room"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the unlimited expanse in which everything is located
- Words that mean the same thing: place, outer space, infinite
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SPACE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Down: "7. Hardly Michelin-star fare"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that any gummy shapeless matter; usually unpleasant
- Words that mean the same thing: treacle, mush, slop
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GLOP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Down: "8. Order in target practice"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions
- Words that mean the same thing: shoot for, direct, bearing
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AIM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Down: "9. Brew"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a steep place (as on a hill)
- Words that mean the same thing: outrageous, unconscionable, infuse
- The opposite would be: gradual
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: STEEP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Down: "10. Pirate's prop"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg
- Words that mean the same thing: peg, leg, wooden leg
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PEGLEG
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. Up for it"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a contest with rules to determine a winner
- Words that mean the same thing: halt, halting, gimpy
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GAME
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. Latin catchall"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ETAL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Down: "13. Certain skirt"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a very short skirt
- Words that mean the same thing: miniskirt
- The opposite would be: midi
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MINI
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Clue 14 Down: "16. Employee incentives"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that the amount a salary is increased
- Words that mean the same thing: evoke, leaven, lift
- The opposite would be: descent, level
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The answer is: RAISES
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Clue 15 Down: "21. 2019 Women's World Cup winner"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
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- This could be 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
- Words that mean the same thing: U.S.A., U.S., America
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: USA
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Clue 16 Down: "24. Quick smoke?"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
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- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: CIG
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Clue 17 Down: "25. Simple step"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: ATOB
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Clue 18 Down: "26. Use goo-goo eyes and make small talk, say"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men
- Words that mean the same thing: coquet, romance, coquetry
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: FLIRT
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Clue 19 Down: "27. Neighbor of the gallbladder"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be 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
- Words that mean the same thing: liver-colored
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: LIVER
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Clue 20 Down: "29. One crying "Uncle!," maybe"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a daughter of your brother or sister
- The opposite would be: nephew
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: NIECE
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Clue 21 Down: "31. Converse"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that exact opposite
- The word looks like this: __________
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The answer is: ANTITHESIS
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Clue 22 Down: "32. Get out of bed"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that become active
- Words that mean the same thing: bestir, force out, turn on
- The opposite would be: calm, cause to sleep
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The answer is: ROUSE
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Clue 23 Down: "33. Admit to office, with "in""
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that utter obscenities or profanities
- Words that mean the same thing: depose, blaspheme, verify
- The opposite would be: mistrust
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The answer is: SWEAR
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Clue 24 Down: "35. Halloween decoration letters"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that a dissolute man in fashionable society
- Words that mean the same thing: blood, snag, roue
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: RIP
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Clue 25 Down: "37. Actor Mineo"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about celebrity/entertainment.
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- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: SAL
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Clue 26 Down: "41. What soda and snack machines do"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that sell or offer for sale from place to place
- Words that mean the same thing: hawk, peddle, huckster
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: VEND
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Clue 27 Down: "42. Start of a fight"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about celebrity/entertainment.
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- The word looks like this: ________
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The answer is: ROUNDONE
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Clue 28 Down: "45. Mail man?"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in great britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit
- Words that mean the same thing: dub, horse
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: KNIGHT
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Clue 29 Down: "48. N.C.A.A. hoops powerhouse"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: UNC
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Clue 30 Down: "50. Has on"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition
- Words that mean the same thing: mutant, mutation, disport
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: SPORTS
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Clue 31 Down: "52. Campus extension?"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
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- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: EDU
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Clue 32 Down: "55. Be crazy about"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that love intensely
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: ADORE
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Clue 33 Down: "57. Jill ___, winning 2019 Women's World Cup coach"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that (norse mythology) goddess of old age who defeated thor in a wrestling match
- Words that mean the same thing: Elli
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: ELLIS
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Clue 34 Down: "58. Overlook"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that prevent from being included or considered or accepted
- Words that mean the same thing: overleap, miss, pretermit
- The opposite would be: include, attend to
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The answer is: OMIT
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Clue 35 Down: "59. Creative influence"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that in ancient greek mythology any of 9 daughters of zeus and mnemosyne; protector of an art or science
- Words that mean the same thing: mull over, chew over, ruminate
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: MUSE
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Clue 36 Down: "60. Goddess depicted with horns"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that egyptian goddess of fertility; daughter of geb; sister and wife of osiris
- Words that mean the same thing: Inter-Services Intelligence, ISI, Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ISIS
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Clue 37 Down: "61. NASA's ___ Research Center"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: AMES
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Clue 38 Down: "63. Nintendo rival"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: SEGA
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Clue 39 Down: "64. Brag"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that black birds having a raucous call
- Words that mean the same thing: brag, gloat, crowing
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: CROW
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Clue 40 Down: "66. Opposite of closeted"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that (baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball
- Words that mean the same thing: KO'd, come out, knocked out
- The opposite would be: safe
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The answer is: OUT
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Clue 41 Down: "68. Sophocles' "___ to Man""
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: ODE
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 57 | 71.2% |
| Short Answer | 14 | 17.5% |
| Abbreviation | 3 | 3.8% |
| Celebrity/Entertainment | 3 | 3.8% |
| Music | 1 | 1.2% |
| Movies/Film | 1 | 1.2% |
| History | 1 | 1.2% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 39 |
| Down Clues | 41 |
| Total Clues | 80 |
| Average Answer Length | 5.0 letters |
| Shortest Answer | 3 letters |
| Longest Answer | 10 letters |
Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!
- Start with short words first - they're usually easier!
- Look for clues with blanks to fill in - these are like fill-in-the-blank questions at school
- When letters cross, they must be the same in both words - this helps you check if you're right!
- Today is Thursday, and these puzzles are usually medium level
- Most clues today are about general knowledge
- The average word today has about 4 letters
- Remember: It's okay to take breaks and come back later with fresh eyes!
- Ask someone for help if you need it - crosswords are more fun with friends!
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Last Updated: September 30, 2025 at 08:22 PM
