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- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (29 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
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Across Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1A | 1. Word with strip or skirt | 5 |
| 2A | 6. Conniption | 3 |
| 3A | 9. Cuban poet/philosopher José | 5 |
| 4A | 14. 2000 hit song with the lyric "But to lose all my senses / That is just so typically me" | 15 |
| 5A | 17. Mail-centric fiction? | 15 |
| 6A | 18. Virginia is in it, in brief | 3 |
| 7A | 19. "Hah!" | 7 |
| 8A | 20. "___ had it!" | 3 |
| 9A | 21. Former home of Mr. and Mrs. Met | 4 |
| 10A | 23. "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" spinoff | 5 |
| 11A | 24. Riot | 4 |
| 12A | 25. Spiller of tea | 5 |
| 13A | 27. Smelling things? | 5 |
| 14A | 28. Date night viewing, often | 13 |
| 15A | 34. High concept? | 9 |
| 16A | 35. They explain what's in the cards | 13 |
| 17A | 39. Comic strip sound of impact | 5 |
| 18A | 40. Infant discomfort | 5 |
| 19A | 42. Battery-powered string instrument player | 4 |
| 20A | 43. Predicated | 5 |
| 21A | 48. It has its highs and lows | 4 |
| 22A | 49. Rocky openings? | 3 |
| 23A | 50. Burrowing animal whose name is made up of two other animals | 7 |
| 24A | 52. It may begin with a +1: Abbr. | 3 |
| 25A | 53. Idolizes | 15 |
| 26A | 56. Indiana Jones or Rocky Balboa, e.g. | 15 |
| 27A | 57. Losing causes? | 5 |
| 28A | 58. Yoga ___ | 3 |
| 29A | 59. The 22nd Amendment limits them | 5 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Word with strip or skirt"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a slice of meat cut from the fleshy part of an animal or large fish
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: STEAK
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2A: "6. Conniption"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a display of bad temper
- Similar words include: meet, gibe, jibe
- Opposite of: unfit, disagree
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Answer: FIT
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3A: "9. Cuban poet/philosopher José"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cuban poet and revolutionary who fought for cuban independence from spain (1853-1895)
- Similar words include: Jose Julian Marti
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MARTI
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4A: "14. 2000 hit song with the lyric "But to lose all my senses / That is just so typically me""
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- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: OOPSIDIDITAGAIN
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5A: "17. Mail-centric fiction?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: EPISTOLARYNOVEL
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6A: "18. Virginia is in it, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a command that is the primary provider of air combat weapon systems to the united states air force; operates fighter, bomber, reconnaissance, battle-management, and rescue aircraft
- Similar words include: Air Combat Command
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ACC
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7A: "19. "Hah!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SOTHERE
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8A: "20. "___ had it!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IVE
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9A: "21. Former home of Mr. and Mrs. Met"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SHEA
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10A: "23. "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" spinoff"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RHODA
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11A: "24. Riot"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a loud raucous cry (as of an owl)
- Similar words include: boo, darn, razz
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HOOT
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12A: "25. Spiller of tea"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (yiddish) a vulgar shrew; a shallow coarse termagant
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: YENTA
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13A: "27. Smelling things?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
- Similar words include: common salt, salt, table salt
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SALTS
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14A: "28. Date night viewing, often"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: FEELGOODMOVIE
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15A: "34. High concept?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: CLOUDNINE
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16A: "35. They explain what's in the cards"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: TAROTREADINGS
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17A: "39. Comic strip sound of impact"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: KAPOW
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18A: "40. Infant discomfort"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that acute abdominal pain (especially in infants)
- Similar words include: intestinal colic, gripes, griping
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: COLIC
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19A: "42. Battery-powered string instrument player"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EBOW
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20A: "43. Predicated"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that use as a basis for; found on
- Similar words include: free-base, found, establish
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BASED
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21A: "48. It has its highs and lows"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon
- Similar words include: lunar time period, surge
- Opposite of: ebb
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Answer: TIDE
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22A: "49. Rocky openings?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: YOS
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23A: "50. Burrowing animal whose name is made up of two other animals"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: MOLERAT
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24A: "52. It may begin with a +1: Abbr."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TEL
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25A: "53. Idolizes"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: PUTSONAPEDESTAL
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26A: "56. Indiana Jones or Rocky Balboa, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: ALLAMERICANHERO
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27A: "57. Losing causes?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a prescribed selection of foods
- Similar words include: dieting, diet
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DIETS
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28A: "58. Yoga ___"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a thick flat pad used as a floor covering
- Similar words include: snarl, lustrelessness, matting
- Opposite of: unsnarl, disentangle
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Answer: MAT
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29A: "59. The 22nd Amendment limits them"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that status with respect to the relations between people or groups
- Similar words include: full term, price, damage
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TERMS
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. "Piece of cake!" | 6 |
| 2D | 2. Reality show whose contestants report to the Judge's Table | 7 |
| 3D | 3. Not gendered | 7 |
| 4D | 4. Dope | 3 |
| 5D | 5. Some emergency resources | 4 |
| 6D | 6. Serious dirt | 5 |
| 7D | 7. State whose official fruit is the huckleberry | 5 |
| 8D | 8. Done to death | 5 |
| 9D | 9. Flow down the neck | 4 |
| 10D | 10. Past word | 3 |
| 11D | 11. Hot pockets? | 7 |
| 12D | 12. 20-20, e.g. | 7 |
| 13D | 13. Small sounds | 6 |
| 14D | 15. One of 412 in the White House | 4 |
| 15D | 16. Supermodel Banks | 4 |
| 16D | 22. Took back one's words | 7 |
| 17D | 24. One struggling to make ends meet | 7 |
| 18D | 26. Grant | 5 |
| 19D | 27. Foe of Dr. Eggman, in video games | 5 |
| 20D | 29. Procured | 3 |
| 21D | 30. "___ Share of Night" (acclaimed 2019 Mariana Enríquez book) | 3 |
| 22D | 31. Complimentary lines | 3 |
| 23D | 32. Tool for tracing family trees | 3 |
| 24D | 33. Prefix with the name of any month | 3 |
| 25D | 35. Mideast salad, in one spelling | 7 |
| 26D | 36. Simon the Zealot, e.g. | 7 |
| 27D | 37. Sparkly bits in a school art project | 7 |
| 28D | 38. Like some deliveries | 7 |
| 29D | 39. Holder of all the digits, from 1 to 0 | 6 |
| 30D | 41. Stage-left orchestra section | 6 |
| 31D | 43. Coccyx or phalange, e.g. | 4 |
| 32D | 44. Unwelcome sound during a dream | 5 |
| 33D | 45. Brown tint | 5 |
| 34D | 46. Construct | 5 |
| 35D | 47. Art movement proclaimed in a 1916 manifesto | 4 |
| 36D | 50. May honorees | 4 |
| 37D | 51. Outdoor item with flaps | 4 |
| 38D | 54. Took a load off | 3 |
| 39D | 55. 2011 platinum single by Tyler, the Creator | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. "Piece of cake!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SOEASY
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2D: "2. Reality show whose contestants report to the Judge's Table"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: TOPCHEF
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3D: "3. Not gendered"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made
- Similar words include: bisexual, sissy, epicene person
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: EPICENE
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4D: "4. Dope"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- Similar words include: can, screw, behind
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ASS
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5D: "5. Some emergency resources"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a case for containing a set of articles
- Similar words include: outfit, kit up, kit
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: KITS
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6D: "6. Serious dirt"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant
- Similar words include: soil, dirt, dirty word
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: FILTH
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7D: "7. State whose official fruit is the huckleberry"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a state in the rocky mountains
- Similar words include: ID, Gem State
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: IDAHO
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8D: "8. Done to death"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that lose interest or become bored with something or somebody
- Similar words include: well-worn, exhaust, outwear
- Opposite of: interest, refresh
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Answer: TIRED
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9D: "9. Flow down the neck"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck
- Similar words include: head of hair
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MANE
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10D: "10. Past word"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that gone by; or in the past
- Similar words include: agone
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AGO
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11D: "11. Hot pockets?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that small circular or square cases of dough with savory fillings
- Similar words include: cappelletti
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: RAVIOLI
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12D: "12. 20-20, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: TIEVOTE
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13D: "13. Small sounds"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands)
- Similar words include: intake, recess, inlet
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: INLETS
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14D: "15. One of 412 in the White House"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a swinging or sliding barrier that will close the entrance to a room or building or vehicle
- Similar words include: doorway, room access, threshold
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DOOR
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15D: "16. Supermodel Banks"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TYRA
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16D: "22. Took back one's words"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ATECROW
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17D: "24. One struggling to make ends meet"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: HAVENOT
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18D: "26. Grant"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen
- Similar words include: earmark, let, set aside
- Opposite of: forbid, prevent
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Answer: ALLOW
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19D: "27. Foe of Dr. Eggman, in video games"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (of speed) having or caused by speed approximately equal to that of sound in air at sea level
- Similar words include: transonic
- Opposite of: subsonic
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Answer: SONIC
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20D: "29. Procured"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
- Similar words include: flummox, drive, aim
- Opposite of: leave, take away
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Answer: GOT
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21D: "30. "___ Share of Night" (acclaimed 2019 Mariana Enríquez book)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OUR
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22D: "31. Complimentary lines"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ODE
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23D: "32. Tool for tracing family trees"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transmission of genetic information
- Similar words include: deoxyribonucleic acid, desoxyribonucleic acid
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DNA
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24D: "33. Prefix with the name of any month"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that used in combination to denote the middle
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MID
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25D: "35. Mideast salad, in one spelling"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: TABOULI
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26D: "36. Simon the Zealot, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an ardent early supporter of a cause or reform
- Similar words include: Apostelic Father
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: APOSTLE
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27D: "37. Sparkly bits in a school art project"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the quality of shining with a bright reflected light
- Similar words include: coruscation, scintillation, glisten
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: GLITTER
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28D: "38. Like some deliveries"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (of pitches) made with the arm moving parallel to the ground
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SIDEARM
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29D: "39. Holder of all the digits, from 1 to 0"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a keyboard that is a data input device for computers; arrangement of keys is modelled after the typewriter keyboard
- Similar words include: computer keyboard
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: KEYPAD
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30D: "41. Stage-left orchestra section"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a large stringed instrument; seated player holds it upright while playing
- Similar words include: violoncello, cello
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CELLOS
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31D: "43. Coccyx or phalange, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
- Similar words include: swot, swot up, ivory
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BONE
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32D: "44. Unwelcome sound during a dream"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that fear resulting from the awareness of danger
- Similar words include: warning device, appal, appall
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ALARM
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33D: "45. Brown tint"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a shade of brown with a tinge of red
- Similar words include: mahogany, genus Sepia, Venetian red
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SEPIA
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34D: "46. Construct"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that construct, build, or erect
- Similar words include: set up, raise, vertical
- Opposite of: unerect, level
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Answer: ERECT
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35D: "47. Art movement proclaimed in a 1916 manifesto"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
- Similar words include: pa, pop, daddy
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DADA
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36D: "50. May honorees"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that informal terms for a mother
- Similar words include: mommy, mammy, mummy
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MOMS
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37D: "51. Outdoor item with flaps"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs)
- Similar words include: collapsible shelter, bivouac, encamp
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TENT
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38D: "54. Took a load off"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the seventh and last day of the week; observed as the sabbath by jews and some christians
- Similar words include: posture, sit, Saturday
- Opposite of: arise, stand
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Answer: SAT
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39D: "55. 2011 platinum single by Tyler, the Creator"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SHE
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Expert Solving Strategies
Start Smart
Begin with fill-in-the-blank clues and short 3-4 letter words. These are your foundation.
Decode the Clues
Question marks indicate wordplay or puns. "Maybe" suggests multiple interpretations.
Use Cross-References
Let intersecting letters guide you. One correct answer unlocks several others.
Build Vocabulary
Common crossword words repeat. Learning them speeds up future solving.
Today's Puzzle Stats
29 Across Clues
39 Down Clues
68 Total Clues
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