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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (35 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (41 clues)
- Down Clues - Detailed Hints
- Expert Solving Strategies
- Today's Puzzle Statistics
Today's Puzzle Difficulty: Challenging
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. Mentions by username, on social media | 4 |
| 2A | 5. High range | 6 |
| 3A | 11. Hits up on Insta, say | 3 |
| 4A | 14. ___ vez (again, in Spanish) | 4 |
| 5A | 15. Torment | 6 |
| 6A | 16. On the sea, it's akin to "SΓ" | 3 |
| 7A | 17. Where Docs and Sheets are stored | 11 |
| 8A | 19. Jordan joined it in 1984, for short | 3 |
| 9A | 20. Pal | 5 |
| 10A | 21. Only number that appears twice in the Fibonacci sequence | 3 |
| 11A | 22. Rip-off | 4 |
| 12A | 23. Measurements of Wi-Fi performance | 13 |
| 13A | 27. Didn't have a match in Go Fish, say | 4 |
| 14A | 28. Feeling little to no amorous attraction, in L.G.B.T.Q.+ lingo | 3 |
| 15A | 29. Identity prefix | 3 |
| 16A | 32. Baldwin with a record 17 appearances as "Saturday Night Live" host | 4 |
| 17A | 35. Unwanted divisions | 5 |
| 18A | 38. Web volume measured in hits ... or a hint to 17-, 23-, 49- and 61-Across | 15 |
| 19A | 42. 2024 film that won Best Picture | 5 |
| 20A | 43. Boba tea flavor | 4 |
| 21A | 44. Word with run or resort | 3 |
| 22A | 45. Throw, for instance | 3 |
| 23A | 46. Buddhist leader | 4 |
| 24A | 49. Major consequence of a virus, perhaps | 13 |
| 25A | 55. Extreme craving | 4 |
| 26A | 56. "OK," in Osaka | 3 |
| 27A | 57. "Like ___!" ("Whatever!") | 5 |
| 28A | 60. "Sorry, it's ___ from me" | 3 |
| 29A | 61. Cause of some slow data transfers | 11 |
| 30A | 64. Highly monitored area, for short | 3 |
| 31A | 65. Flowery | 6 |
| 32A | 66. Affinity for something, so to speak | 4 |
| 33A | 67. Home of Emanuel Leutze's "Washington Crossing the Delaware," with "the" | 3 |
| 34A | 68. Snipes of "White Men Can't Jump" | 6 |
| 35A | 69. Baking amts. | 4 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Mentions by username, on social media"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc.
- Similar words include: tail, go after, ticket
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TAGS
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2A: "5. High range"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the pitch range of the highest female voice
- Similar words include: threefold, three-fold, double
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TREBLE
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3A: "11. Hits up on Insta, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria
- Similar words include: DM, dm, decimeter
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DMS
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4A: "14. ___ vez (again, in Spanish)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OTRA
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5A: "15. Torment"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a cultivator that pulverizes or smooths the soil
- Similar words include: disk
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: HARROW
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6A: "16. On the sea, it's akin to "SΓ""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AYE
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7A: "17. Where Docs and Sheets are stored"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: GOOGLEDRIVE
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8A: "19. Jordan joined it in 1984, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NBA
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9A: "20. Pal"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a friend or comrade
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AMIGO
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10A: "21. Only number that appears twice in the Fibonacci sequence"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
- Similar words include: 1, peerless, nonpareil
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ONE
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11A: "22. Rip-off"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a fraudulent business scheme
- Similar words include: defraud, gyp, con
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SCAM
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12A: "23. Measurements of Wi-Fi performance"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: NETWORKSPEEDS
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13A: "27. Didn't have a match in Go Fish, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states actor (born in ireland); father of georgiana emma barrymore (1827-1862)
- Similar words include: thread, trace, pass
- Opposite of: repel, deposit
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Answer: DREW
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14A: "28. Feeling little to no amorous attraction, in L.G.B.T.Q.+ lingo"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ARO
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15A: "29. Identity prefix"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an alliance made up of states that had been soviet socialist republics in the soviet union prior to its dissolution in dec 1991
- Similar words include: Commonwealth of Independent States, Ci, curie
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CIS
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16A: "32. Baldwin with a record 17 appearances as "Saturday Night Live" host"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ALEC
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17A: "35. Unwanted divisions"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a gap between cloud masses
- Similar words include: breach, rift, falling out
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RIFTS
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18A: "38. Web volume measured in hits ... or a hint to 17-, 23-, 49- and 61-Across"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: INTERNETTRAFFIC
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19A: "42. 2024 film that won Best Picture"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ANORA
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20A: "43. Boba tea flavor"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants
- Similar words include: dasheen, taro root, edda
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TARO
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21A: "44. Word with run or resort"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used in pairs for gliding over snow
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SKI
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22A: "45. Throw, for instance"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile)
- Similar words include: carpet, carpeting
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RUG
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23A: "46. Buddhist leader"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a tibetan or mongolian priest of lamaism
- Similar words include: genus Lama
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LAMA
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24A: "49. Major consequence of a virus, perhaps"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: COMPUTERCRASH
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25A: "55. Extreme craving"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a strong sexual desire
- Similar words include: hunger, lecherousness, crave
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LUST
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26A: "56. "OK," in Osaka"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HAI
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27A: "57. "Like ___!" ("Whatever!")"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ICARE
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28A: "60. "Sorry, it's ___ from me""
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, Black September
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ANO
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29A: "61. Cause of some slow data transfers"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: SERVERDELAY
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30A: "64. Highly monitored area, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care
- Similar words include: intensive care unit
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ICU
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31A: "65. Flowery"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; ; -john milton
- Similar words include: flowery
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ORNATE
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32A: "66. Affinity for something, so to speak"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals
- Similar words include: wind, poke, olfactory organ
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NOSE
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33A: "67. Home of Emanuel Leutze's "Washington Crossing the Delaware," with "the""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that come together
- Similar words include: fill, receive, run across
- Opposite of: diverge
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Answer: MET
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34A: "68. Snipes of "White Men Can't Jump""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that english clergyman and brother of john wesley who wrote many hymns (1707-1788)
- Similar words include: John Wesley, Charles Wesley
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: WESLEY
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35A: "69. Baking amts."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TSPS
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Party wrap | 4 |
| 2D | 2. Bit of chemistry | 4 |
| 3D | 3. Bad thing to pull while running | 5 |
| 4D | 4. Failed under pressure, in a way | 6 |
| 5D | 5. Hot French beverage | 3 |
| 6D | 6. "Sick, dude!" | 3 |
| 7D | 7. What a bug may cause | 5 |
| 8D | 8. Cusp | 5 |
| 9D | 9. Is gaga for | 5 |
| 10D | 10. Farm female | 3 |
| 11D | 11. "Battles" of those busting moves | 9 |
| 12D | 12. "I messed up" | 5 |
| 13D | 13. Lines in mines | 5 |
| 14D | 18. Tolkien fantasy series inits. | 4 |
| 15D | 22. Little flourish on a letter | 5 |
| 16D | 24. Break off gradually | 4 |
| 17D | 25. Barn nestling | 5 |
| 18D | 26. Lawyer's aide, informally | 4 |
| 19D | 29. Org. in the Jack Ryan movies | 3 |
| 20D | 30. Tabard ___, locale in "The Canterbury Tales" | 3 |
| 21D | 31. Leaves in a huff | 9 |
| 22D | 33. Greek letter representing elasticity in economics | 3 |
| 23D | 34. PC "copy" shortcut | 5 |
| 24D | 36. ___Tok | 3 |
| 25D | 37. STEM part: Abbr. | 3 |
| 26D | 39. Go ballistic | 5 |
| 27D | 40. Big name in pasta sauce | 4 |
| 28D | 41. Pride sound | 4 |
| 29D | 47. ___ Marian (English folklore heroine) | 4 |
| 30D | 48. It's on the up and up | 6 |
| 31D | 49. Fraud victim's filing | 5 |
| 32D | 50. Perfumery unit | 5 |
| 33D | 51. "And ... voilΓ !" | 5 |
| 34D | 52. Comes to deserve | 5 |
| 35D | 53. Measure up to, as in competition | 5 |
| 36D | 54. Nickname for M.L.B.'s Angels | 5 |
| 37D | 58. Feature of one's voice following a loud concert, say | 4 |
| 38D | 59. Potato discards | 4 |
| 39D | 61. Farm female | 3 |
| 40D | 62. It ends in septembre | 3 |
| 41D | 63. Singer Lana Del ___ | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Party wrap"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a one-piece cloak worn by men in ancient rome
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TOGA
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2D: "2. Bit of chemistry"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (physics and chemistry) the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element
- Similar words include: speck, molecule, corpuscle
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ATOM
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3D: "3. Bad thing to pull while running"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the crease at the junction of the inner part of the thigh with the trunk together with the adjacent region and often including the external genitals
- Similar words include: breakwater, seawall, bulwark
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GROIN
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4D: "4. Failed under pressure, in a way"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that droop, sink, or settle from or as if from pressure or loss of tautness
- Similar words include: droop, flag, sag down
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SAGGED
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5D: "5. Hot French beverage"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: THE
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6D: "6. "Sick, dude!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material
- Similar words include: radian
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RAD
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7D: "7. What a bug may cause"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention
- Similar words include: fault, misplay, erroneous belief
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ERROR
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8D: "8. Cusp"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a region marking a boundary
- Similar words include: verge, threshold
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BRINK
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9D: "9. Is gaga for"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a strong positive emotion of regard and affection
- Similar words include: roll in the hay, hump, fuck
- Opposite of: hate
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Answer: LOVES
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10D: "10. Farm female"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of a people living in southern benin and togo and southeastern ghana
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EWE
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11D: "11. "Battles" of those busting moves"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: DANCEOFFS
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12D: "12. "I messed up""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MYBAD
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13D: "13. Lines in mines"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces
- Similar words include: wrinkle, bed, seam
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SEAMS
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14D: "18. Tolkien fantasy series inits."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LOTR
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15D: "22. Little flourish on a letter"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a short line at the end of the main strokes of a character
- Similar words include: seriph
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SERIF
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16D: "24. Break off gradually"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk
- Similar words include: ablactate
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: WEAN
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17D: "25. Barn nestling"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OWLET
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18D: "26. Lawyer's aide, informally"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered
- Similar words include: Feliz Lusitania, paratrooper, Belem
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PARA
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19D: "29. Org. in the Jack Ryan movies"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an independent agency of the united states government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest; headed by the director of central intelligence under the supervision of the president and national security council
- Similar words include: Central Intelligence Agency
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CIA
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20D: "30. Tabard ___, locale in "The Canterbury Tales""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
- Similar words include: hostel, lodge, auberge
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: INN
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21D: "31. Leaves in a huff"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: STORMSOUT
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22D: "33. Greek letter representing elasticity in economics"
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 Homeland and Freedom, Basque Fatherland and Liberty
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ETA
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23D: "34. PC "copy" shortcut"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CTRLC
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24D: "36. ___Tok"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TIK
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25D: "37. STEM part: Abbr."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SCI
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26D: "39. Go ballistic"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that start abruptly
- Similar words include: flare up, break, break through
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ERUPT
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27D: "40. Big name in pasta sauce"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RAGU
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28D: "41. Pride sound"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a deep prolonged loud noise
- Similar words include: holler, bellow, hollo
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ROAR
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29D: "47. ___ Marian (English folklore heroine)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a female domestic
- Similar words include: maiden, maidservant, housemaid
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MAID
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30D: "48. It's on the up and up"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an upward slope or grade (as in a road)
- Similar words include: upgrade, climb, rising
- Opposite of: fall, descent
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Answer: ASCENT
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31D: "49. Fraud victim's filing"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an assertion of a right (as to money or property)
- Similar words include: take, call, arrogate
- Opposite of: forfeit, disclaim
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Answer: CLAIM
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32D: "50. Perfumery unit"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a pound
- Similar words include: oz., snow leopard, troy ounce
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OUNCE
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33D: "51. "And ... voilΓ !""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a location other than here; that place
- Similar words include: at that place, in that respect, in that location
- Opposite of: here
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Answer: THERE
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34D: "52. Comes to deserve"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages
- Similar words include: realise, bring in, garner
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EARNS
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35D: "53. Measure up to, as in competition"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the contestant you hope to defeat
- Similar words include: equal, competition, challenger
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RIVAL
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36D: "54. Nickname for M.L.B.'s Angels"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint
- Similar words include: aura, glory, aureole
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HALOS
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37D: "58. Feature of one's voice following a loud concert, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that uttering in an irritated tone
- Similar words include: rasping, wood file
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RASP
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38D: "59. Potato discards"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that opinion or judgment
- Similar words include: heart, optic, oculus
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EYES
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39D: "61. Farm female"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an adult female hog
- Similar words include: seed, inseminate, sow in
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SOW
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40D: "62. It ends in septembre"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ETE
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41D: "63. Singer Lana Del ___"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: REY
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Today's Puzzle Stats
35 Across Clues
41 Down Clues
76 Total Clues
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