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- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (33 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (35 clues)
- Down Clues - Detailed Hints
- Expert Solving Strategies
- Today's Puzzle Statistics
Today's Puzzle Difficulty: Tricky
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Across Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1A | 1. Disney character who sings "In Summer" | 4 |
| 2A | 5. Product code used in inventory management | 3 |
| 3A | 8. Ropes in | 6 |
| 4A | 14. Ones always grinding at their jobs? | 8 |
| 5A | 16. Connect | 6 |
| 6A | 17. Baking sheets, cake pans, muffin tins, etc. | 8 |
| 7A | 18. Manages | 6 |
| 8A | 19. Pleasant chill in the air, say | 14 |
| 9A | 21. Baylor of N.B.A. fame | 5 |
| 10A | 22. Org. whose work takes many forms? | 3 |
| 11A | 23. Took in | 3 |
| 12A | 24. Smear | 6 |
| 13A | 26. Nahuatl speaker | 5 |
| 14A | 28. Muse aloud | 5 |
| 15A | 29. Actress Seehorn of "Pluribus" | 4 |
| 16A | 30. "I smell trouble ...!" | 4 |
| 17A | 34. Break down while studying? | 15 |
| 18A | 37. First place? | 4 |
| 19A | 38. Docs that deal with sensitive information | 4 |
| 20A | 39. Miracle on the ___ (surprise French/English victory of W.W. I) | 5 |
| 21A | 40. Like many working horses, but not many working dogs | 5 |
| 22A | 42. Binges | 6 |
| 23A | 43. N.Y.C.-based dance group | 3 |
| 24A | 46. Wonder | 3 |
| 25A | 47. Descendants of the Picts | 5 |
| 26A | 48. Someone you might like to get to know better | 14 |
| 27A | 52. Wyndham hotel brand | 6 |
| 28A | 53. Has to keep going | 8 |
| 29A | 55. Extra | 6 |
| 30A | 56. Instruction before an M.R.I. | 8 |
| 31A | 57. Gets wise to? | 6 |
| 32A | 58. Li'l ___ (tykes) | 3 |
| 33A | 59. Fix | 4 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Disney character who sings "In Summer""
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OLAF
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2A: "5. Product code used in inventory management"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SKU
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3A: "8. Ropes in"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that belgian composer (1532-1594)
- Similar words include: Orlando di Lasso, lariat, Lasso
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: LASSOS
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4A: "14. Ones always grinding at their jobs?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: BARISTAS
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5A: "16. Connect"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cause to be attached
- Similar words include: bond, tie, confiscate
- Opposite of: detach
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Answer: ATTACH
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6A: "17. Baking sheets, cake pans, muffin tins, etc."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that heat-resistant dishware in which food can be cooked as well as served
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: OVENWARE
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7A: "18. Manages"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SEESTO
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8A: "19. Pleasant chill in the air, say"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______________
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Answer: SWEATERWEATHER
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9A: "21. Baylor of N.B.A. fame"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ELGIN
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10A: "22. Org. whose work takes many forms?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the bureau of the treasury department responsible for tax collections
- Similar words include: Internal Revenue Service
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IRS
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11A: "23. Took in"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
- Similar words include: exhaust, consume, eat on
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ATE
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12A: "24. Smear"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that speak unfavorably about
- Similar words include: traduce, evil, drag through the mud
- Opposite of: benign
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Answer: MALIGN
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13A: "26. Nahuatl speaker"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of the nahuatl people who established an empire in mexico that was overthrown by cortes in 1519
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AZTEC
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14A: "28. Muse aloud"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation
- Similar words include: sound off, animadvert, guess
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OPINE
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15A: "29. Actress Seehorn of "Pluribus""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that fertility goddess in ancient greek mythology; wife of cronus and mother of zeus; identified with roman ops and cybele of ancient asia minor
- Similar words include: Rhea americana, nandu, Pterocnemia pennata
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RHEA
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16A: "30. "I smell trouble ...!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OHNO
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17A: "34. Break down while studying?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: REVERSEENGINEER
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18A: "37. First place?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
- Similar words include: Shangri-la, paradise, promised land
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EDEN
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19A: "38. Docs that deal with sensitive information"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NDAS
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20A: "39. Miracle on the ___ (surprise French/English victory of W.W. I)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MARNE
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21A: "40. Like many working horses, but not many working dogs"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that furnish with shoes
- Similar words include: shod, shoe, shodden
- Opposite of: unshod
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Answer: SHOED
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22A: "42. Binges"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a brief indulgence of your impulses
- Similar words include: spree, fling
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SPREES
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23A: "43. N.Y.C.-based dance group"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ABT
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24A: "46. Wonder"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration
- Similar words include: veneration, fear, reverence
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AWE
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25A: "47. Descendants of the Picts"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the dialect of english used in scotland
- Similar words include: Scotch, Scotsman, Scottish
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SCOTS
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26A: "48. Someone you might like to get to know better"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______________
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Answer: FRIENDMATERIAL
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27A: "52. Wyndham hotel brand"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: RAMADA
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28A: "53. Has to keep going"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: CANTSTOP
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29A: "55. Extra"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits
- Similar words include: too, excessively, to a fault
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: OVERLY
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30A: "56. Instruction before an M.R.I."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: LIESTILL
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31A: "57. Gets wise to?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an impudent or insolent rejoinder
- Similar words include: sass, lip, back talk
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SASSES
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32A: "58. Li'l ___ (tykes)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an organization of independent states formed in 1945 to promote international peace and security
- Similar words include: UN, United Nations
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: UNS
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33A: "59. Fix"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that remove the ovaries of
- Similar words include: neuter, alter, castrate
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SPAY
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Seller's shorthand for "I'm willing to haggle" | 3 |
| 2D | 2. W.C.s | 4 |
| 3D | 3. "Is this being broadcast now?" | 9 |
| 4D | 4. Posh hotel room amenities | 10 |
| 5D | 5. Cholesterol-lowering drug | 6 |
| 6D | 6. ___ Bass, first female mayor of Los Angeles | 5 |
| 7D | 7. Customer, in tech-speak | 4 |
| 8D | 8. Social activity that may involve wearing a vest | 8 |
| 9D | 9. Relaxed | 6 |
| 10D | 10. "Let it stand" | 4 |
| 11D | 11. One of the Obamas | 5 |
| 12D | 12. It has eight players | 5 |
| 13D | 13. Word with bird or leave | 5 |
| 14D | 15. Arrogant self-assurance | 7 |
| 15D | 20. Becomes aged, in a way | 6 |
| 16D | 24. Extra | 4 |
| 17D | 25. Was a copycat of | 4 |
| 18D | 26. To come | 5 |
| 19D | 27. Shady dealers | 10 |
| 20D | 29. Trade for cash | 6 |
| 21D | 31. "Some free advice ..." | 9 |
| 22D | 32. State bird found in only a single state | 4 |
| 23D | 33. Valuable deposits | 4 |
| 24D | 35. They might be made up in the spring | 8 |
| 25D | 36. Brings in | 7 |
| 26D | 41. Online nickname | 6 |
| 27D | 42. Things made by toddlers and directors | 6 |
| 28D | 43. Hairstyles often associated with the '60s and '70s | 5 |
| 29D | 44. "Well done!" | 5 |
| 30D | 45. x | 5 |
| 31D | 47. Wood finish | 5 |
| 32D | 49. Crispy flaps of crust on sourdough loaves | 4 |
| 33D | 50. Org. with a "Know Your Rights" campaign | 4 |
| 34D | 51. ___ Bunny, toon who debuted in "Space Jam" | 4 |
| 35D | 54. Carry on | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Seller's shorthand for "I'm willing to haggle""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OBO
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2D: "2. W.C.s"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
- Similar words include: can, john, lav
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LAVS
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3D: "3. "Is this being broadcast now?""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: AREWELIVE
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4D: "4. Posh hotel room amenities"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: FINELINENS
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5D: "5. Cholesterol-lowering drug"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a medicine that lowers blood cholesterol levels by inhibiting hmg-coa reductase
- Similar words include: lipid-lowering medication, statin drug, lipid-lowering medicine
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: STATIN
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6D: "6. ___ Bass, first female mayor of Los Angeles"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the tibeto-burman language spoken in the thailand and burmese borderlands
- Similar words include: Karenic
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: KAREN
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7D: "7. Customer, in tech-speak"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who makes use of a thing; someone who uses or employs something
- Similar words include: substance abuser, drug user, exploiter
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: USER
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8D: "8. Social activity that may involve wearing a vest"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: LASERTAG
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9D: "9. Relaxed"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ATEASE
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10D: "10. "Let it stand""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that printing: cancel, as of a correction or deletion
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: STET
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11D: "11. One of the Obamas"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SASHA
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12D: "12. It has eight players"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one
- Similar words include: VIII, ogdoad, octonary
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OCTET
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13D: "13. Word with bird or leave"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the land along the edge of a body of water
- Similar words include: prop, shore up, shoring
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SHORE
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14D: "15. Arrogant self-assurance"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an itinerant australian laborer who carries his personal belongings in a bundle as he travels around in search of work
- Similar words include: swash, tittup, prance
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SWAGGER
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15D: "20. Becomes aged, in a way"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: WIZENS
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16D: "24. Extra"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that english statesman who opposed henry viii's divorce from catherine of aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded; recalled for his concept of utopia, the ideal state
- Similar words include: to a greater extent, Thomas More, more than
- Opposite of: fewer, less
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Answer: MORE
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17D: "25. Was a copycat of"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that imitate uncritically and in every aspect
- Similar words include: caricature, ape
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: APED
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18D: "26. To come"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that having the leading position or higher score in a contest
- Similar words include: beforehand, forward, in advance
- Opposite of: back, backward
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Answer: AHEAD
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19D: "27. Shady dealers"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: CONARTISTS
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20D: "29. Trade for cash"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that save from sins
- Similar words include: save, ransom, pay off
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: REDEEM
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21D: "31. "Some free advice ...""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: HERESATIP
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22D: "32. State bird found in only a single state"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NENE
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23D: "33. Valuable deposits"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined
- Similar words include: ore
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ORES
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24D: "35. They might be made up in the spring"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: SNOWDAYS
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25D: "36. Brings in"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country
- Similar words include: moment, significance, meaning
- Opposite of: export, inconsequence
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Answer: IMPORTS
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26D: "41. Online nickname"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it
- Similar words include: manage, wield, palm
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: HANDLE
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27D: "42. Things made by toddlers and directors"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the place where some action occurs
- Similar words include: tantrum, scenery, picture
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SCENES
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28D: "43. Hairstyles often associated with the '60s and '70s"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a rounded thickly curled hairdo
- Similar words include: Afro, Afro hairdo
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AFROS
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29D: "44. "Well done!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BRAVA
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30D: "45. x"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a more or less definite period of time now or previously present
- Similar words include: clip, multiplication, fourth dimension
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TIMES
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31D: "47. Wood finish"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a soiled or discolored appearance
- Similar words include: sully, maculate, grunge
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: STAIN
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32D: "49. Crispy flaps of crust on sourdough loaves"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
- Similar words include: pinna, ear, auricle
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EARS
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33D: "50. Org. with a "Know Your Rights" campaign"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ACLU
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34D: "51. ___ Bunny, toon who debuted in "Space Jam""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LOLA
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35D: "54. Carry on"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one of the strands twisted together to make yarn or rope or thread; often used in combination
- Similar words include: run, supply, provide
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PLY
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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
33 Across Clues
35 Down Clues
68 Total Clues
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