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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (40 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (38 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. Important info to have while you're waiting in a cellphone lot, for short | 3 |
| 2A | 4. Fall or fell | 6 |
| 3A | 10. Cause of a sudden change in interest, informally? | 4 |
| 4A | 14. Close | 4 |
| 5A | 15. Pho soup garnishes | 7 |
| 6A | 16. Conduit of neural signals | 4 |
| 7A | 17. Early models | 10 |
| 8A | 19. Relative of a gull | 4 |
| 9A | 20. "Ain't gonna happen" | 4 |
| 10A | 21. Big bang cause | 3 |
| 11A | 22. Chilling | 5 |
| 12A | 24. The remotest of remote jobs? | 9 |
| 13A | 27. Kid | 5 |
| 14A | 28. Supermodel Banks | 4 |
| 15A | 29. Break into loud cheers, as a crowd | 5 |
| 16A | 31. Answer to "Who's ready to go?" | 3 |
| 17A | 33. Broadcast | 3 |
| 18A | 35. Uno + due | 3 |
| 19A | 36. Mononymous Irish singer | 4 |
| 20A | 37. Animated film that was the highest-grossing movie of 1992 | 7 |
| 21A | 41. "Impossible!" | 7 |
| 22A | 43. Hibernation spots | 4 |
| 23A | 44. Dip target, maybe | 3 |
| 24A | 46. Things entered in a sudoku grid: Abbr. | 3 |
| 25A | 47. Messy dorm room, figuratively | 3 |
| 26A | 48. Fruits often seen in still lifes | 5 |
| 27A | 50. Take back, for short | 4 |
| 28A | 53. City haze | 4 |
| 29A | 55. Canine guard? | 8 |
| 30A | 57. Dishwasher cycle | 5 |
| 31A | 59. "A form of madness," it's said | 3 |
| 32A | 60. Actress Pinkett Smith of "Girls Trip" | 4 |
| 33A | 62. Singer/songwriter Mitchell | 4 |
| 34A | 63. Fruits named after a mythical drink | 10 |
| 35A | 66. Noted cartoon dog | 5 |
| 36A | 67. Its first video, "Me at the zoo," has over 400 million views | 7 |
| 37A | 68. State whose outline can be made by connecting seven particular squares in this puzzle | 4 |
| 38A | 69. Valley | 4 |
| 39A | 70. Give a once-over | 6 |
| 40A | 71. Crafty | 3 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Important info to have while you're waiting in a cellphone lot, for short"
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: Basque Homeland and Freedom, Euskadi ta Askatasuna, Basque Fatherland and Liberty
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ETA
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2A: "4. Fall or fell"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that fall down, as if collapsing
- Similar words include: tip, tumble
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TOPPLE
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3A: "10. Cause of a sudden change in interest, informally?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: REFI
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4A: "14. Close"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut
- Similar words include: closed, exclude, shut out
- Opposite of: admit, open
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Answer: SHUT
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5A: "15. Pho soup garnishes"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud
- Similar words include: bourgeon, stock, sprout
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SPROUTS
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6A: "16. Conduit of neural signals"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that long nerve fiber that conducts away from the cell body of the neuron
- Similar words include: axone
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AXON
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7A: "17. Early models"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a standard or typical example
- Similar words include: prototype, image, paradigm
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: PROTOTYPES
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8A: "19. Relative of a gull"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that small slender gull having narrow wings and a forked tail
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TERN
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9A: "20. "Ain't gonna happen""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NOPE
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10A: "21. Big bang cause"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene
- Similar words include: trinitrotoluene
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TNT
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11A: "22. Chilling"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ONICE
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12A: "24. The remotest of remote jobs?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person trained to travel in a spacecraft
- Similar words include: cosmonaut, spaceman
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: ASTRONAUT
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13A: "27. Kid"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a young person (especially a young man or boy)
- Similar words include: young, early days, spring chicken
- Opposite of: aged
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Answer: YOUTH
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14A: "28. Supermodel Banks"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TYRA
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15A: "29. Break into loud cheers, as a crowd"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that start abruptly
- Similar words include: flare, belch, burst
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ERUPT
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16A: "31. Answer to "Who's ready to go?""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IAM
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17A: "33. Broadcast"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mixture of gases (especially oxygen) required for breathing; the stuff that the wind consists of
- Similar words include: air out, melodic phrase, air travel
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AIR
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18A: "35. Uno + due"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TRE
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19A: "36. Mononymous Irish singer"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BONO
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20A: "37. Animated film that was the highest-grossing movie of 1992"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that in the arabian nights a boy who acquires a magic lamp from which he can summon a genie
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ALADDIN
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21A: "41. "Impossible!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: NOCANDO
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22A: "43. Hibernation spots"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the habitation of wild animals
- Similar words include: hideaway, den, hideout
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DENS
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23A: "44. Dip target, maybe"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PEC
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24A: "46. Things entered in a sudoku grid: Abbr."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding curium with carbon ions; 7 isotopes are known
- Similar words include: No, no, nobelium
- Opposite of: yes
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Answer: NOS
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25A: "47. Messy dorm room, figuratively"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid
- Similar words include: hordeolum, stye, eye infection
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: STY
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26A: "48. Fruits often seen in still lifes"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties
- Similar words include: pear tree, pear, Pyrus communis
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PEARS
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27A: "50. Take back, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: REPO
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28A: "53. City 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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29A: "55. Canine guard?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a fee charged in advance to retain the services of someone
- Similar words include: consideration, servant
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: RETAINER
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30A: "57. Dishwasher cycle"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a liquid preparation used on wet hair to give it a tint
- Similar words include: rinsing, wash, gargle
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RINSE
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31A: "59. "A form of madness," it's said"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the waging of armed conflict against an enemy
- Similar words include: warfare, state of war
- Opposite of: make peace, peace
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Answer: WAR
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32A: "60. Actress Pinkett Smith of "Girls Trip""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: JADA
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33A: "62. Singer/songwriter Mitchell"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: JONI
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34A: "63. Fruits named after a mythical drink"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that variety or mutation of the peach bearing fruit with smooth skin and (usually) yellow flesh
- Similar words include: Prunus persica nectarina, nectarine tree, nectarine
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: NECTARINES
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35A: "66. Noted cartoon dog"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a cartoon character created by walt disney
- Similar words include: Aides, Aidoneus, Hades
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PLUTO
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36A: "67. Its first video, "Me at the zoo," has over 400 million views"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: YOUTUBE
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37A: "68. State whose outline can be made by connecting seven particular squares in this puzzle"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a state in the western united states; settled in 1847 by mormons led by brigham young
- Similar words include: Mormon State, Beehive State, UT
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: UTAH
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38A: "69. Valley"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a narrow secluded valley (in the mountains)
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GLEN
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39A: "70. Give a once-over"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of
- Similar words include: value, appraise, tax
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ASSESS
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40A: "71. Crafty"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that marked by skill in deception
- Similar words include: cunning, wily, guileful
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SLY
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Channel with "2" and "U" spinoffs | 4 |
| 2D | 2. Pharynx setting | 6 |
| 3D | 3. Post-mortem | 7 |
| 4D | 4. General on a Chinese menu | 3 |
| 5D | 5. Decide one will | 5 |
| 6D | 6. Hester of "The Scarlet Letter" | 6 |
| 7D | 7. Grab-and-go breakfast option | 7 |
| 8D | 8. Guitar relative | 4 |
| 9D | 9. Gas brand seen in Edward Hopper's "Portrait of Orleans" | 4 |
| 10D | 10. Betting odds, e.g. | 5 |
| 11D | 11. Concern for a gymnastics judge | 9 |
| 12D | 12. Certain pickleball shot | 8 |
| 13D | 13. Greenwich Village's Stonewall, e.g. | 3 |
| 14D | 18. Groups of four | 7 |
| 15D | 23. Paper competing with the W.S.J. | 3 |
| 16D | 25. Debugger? | 4 |
| 17D | 26. Remedy for a missed exit | 5 |
| 18D | 30. Lowly worker | 4 |
| 19D | 32. Farm sound | 3 |
| 20D | 34. Ready to eat | 4 |
| 21D | 36. Small hound that doesn't bark | 7 |
| 22D | 37. What a premium subscription may help you avoid | 3 |
| 23D | 38. "Time to go!" | 8 |
| 24D | 39. Very soon | 9 |
| 25D | 40. By | 4 |
| 26D | 42. What "Coco" is a nickname for, for tennis's Coco Gauff | 4 |
| 27D | 45. Military hairstyles | 8 |
| 28D | 48. Family-friendly movie ratings | 3 |
| 29D | 49. The Sphinx, for one | 6 |
| 30D | 51. Classic comic strip that's the source for nine Emmys and two Tonys | 7 |
| 31D | 52. Folding a fitted sheet, it may seem | 6 |
| 32D | 54. Edible bulb | 5 |
| 33D | 56. Many Moroccans | 5 |
| 34D | 58. Mononymous Irish singer | 4 |
| 35D | 61. Grayish | 4 |
| 36D | 62. Profile pic format, in brief | 3 |
| 37D | 64. Dawn deity | 3 |
| 38D | 65. In medias ___ | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Channel with "2" and "U" spinoffs"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ESPN
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2D: "2. Pharynx setting"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the passage to the stomach and lungs; in the front part of the neck below the chin and above the collarbone
- Similar words include: pharynx
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: THROAT
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3D: "3. Post-mortem"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease
- Similar words include: post-mortem, PM, post-mortem examination
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: AUTOPSY
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4D: "4. General on a Chinese menu"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TSO
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5D: "5. Decide one will"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OPTTO
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6D: "6. Hester of "The Scarlet Letter""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PRYNNE
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7D: "7. Grab-and-go breakfast option"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: POPTART
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8D: "8. Guitar relative"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid
- Similar words include: luting
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LUTE
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9D: "9. Gas brand seen in Edward Hopper's "Portrait of Orleans""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ESSO
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10D: "10. Betting odds, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient)
- Similar words include: proportion
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RATIO
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11D: "11. Concern for a gymnastics judge"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that putting a condemned person to death
- Similar words include: instruction execution, writ of execution, execution of instrument
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: EXECUTION
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12D: "12. Certain pickleball shot"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash)
- Similar words include: forehanded, forehand stroke, forehand shot
- Opposite of: backhand
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Answer: FOREHAND
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13D: "13. Greenwich Village's Stonewall, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
- Similar words include: hostel, lodge, hostelry
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: INN
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14D: "18. Groups of four"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of three and one
- Similar words include: IV, tetrad, quaternity
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: TETRADS
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15D: "23. Paper competing with the W.S.J."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NYT
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16D: "25. Debugger?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sudden short attack
- Similar words include: foray, bust, maraud
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RAID
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17D: "26. Remedy for a missed exit"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: UTURN
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18D: "30. Lowly worker"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a laborer who is obliged to do menial work
- Similar words include: navvy, drudge, galley slave
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PEON
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19D: "32. Farm sound"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the sound made by a cow or bull
- Similar words include: low
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MOO
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20D: "34. Ready to eat"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used
- Similar words include: mature, good, advanced
- Opposite of: green
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Answer: RIPE
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21D: "36. Small hound that doesn't bark"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that small smooth-haired breed of african origin having a tightly curled tail and the inability to bark
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: BASENJI
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22D: "37. What a premium subscription may help you avoid"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a public promotion of some product or service
- Similar words include: ad, advert, advertizing
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ADS
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23D: "38. "Time to go!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: LETSROLL
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24D: "39. Very soon"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: ANYMINUTE
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25D: "40. By"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that move towards
- Similar words include: dear, draw near, approach
- Opposite of: far
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Answer: NEAR
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26D: "42. What "Coco" is a nickname for, for tennis's Coco Gauff"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CORI
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27D: "45. Military hairstyles"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: CREWCUTS
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28D: "48. Family-friendly movie ratings"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PGS
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29D: "49. The Sphinx, for one"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sculpture representing a human or animal
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: STATUE
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30D: "51. Classic comic strip that's the source for nine Emmys and two Tonys"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an insignificant sum of money; a trifling amount
- Similar words include: peanut, goober, peanut vine
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: PEANUTS
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31D: "52. Folding a fitted sheet, it may seem"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a severe or trying experience
- Similar words include: trial by ordeal
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ORDEAL
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32D: "54. Edible bulb"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the bulb of an onion plant
- Similar words include: onion plant, Allium cepa
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ONION
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33D: "56. Many Moroccans"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of a semitic people originally from the arabian peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks arabic and who inhabits much of the middle east and northern africa
- Similar words include: Arab, Arabian
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ARABS
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34D: "58. Mononymous Irish singer"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ENYA
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35D: "61. Grayish"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that of a light grey
- Similar words include: ash-grey, ash-gray
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ASHY
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36D: "62. Profile pic format, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: JPG
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37D: "64. Dawn deity"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (greek mythology) the winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology; daughter of hyperion; identified with roman aurora
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EOS
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38D: "65. In medias ___"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells
- Similar words include: Re, rhenium, re
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RES
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Today's Puzzle Stats
40 Across Clues
38 Down Clues
78 Total Clues
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