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Date: Saturday, April 25, 2020
Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 70 (35 Across, 35 Down)
Average Word Length: 5.5 letters
Master Today's Across: NYT Saturday Puzzle April 25, 2020
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. From the beginning, on scores | 6 |
| 2A | 7. F-14 fighter jet | 6 |
| 3A | 13. Stumper? | 6 |
| 4A | 14. Relief pitcher of old | 7 |
| 5A | 15. Creep | 6 |
| 6A | 16. Shell pieces | 8 |
| 7A | 17. Service that's out of this world? | 11 |
| 8A | 19. Coast Guard rank: Abbr. | 3 |
| 9A | 20. One may be packed for a trip to the mountains | 3 |
| 10A | 21. Silver, for one | 4 |
| 11A | 22. Fly catcher | 4 |
| 12A | 23. Tiniest amount | 4 |
| 13A | 25. Text massage | 4 |
| 14A | 26. Cooler | 3 |
| 15A | 27. Gained | 3 |
| 16A | 28. Sharp, as criticism | 5 |
| 17A | 29. "Army" leader of old | 5 |
| 18A | 32. "Mamma Mia!" and "Jersey Boys," for two | 15 |
| 19A | 35. Spotify's most-streamed artist of the 2010s | 5 |
| 20A | 36. In the cards | 5 |
| 21A | 37. Start of an exchange | 3 |
| 22A | 38. ___ loss | 3 |
| 23A | 39. Setting for many a season of "Survivor" | 4 |
| 24A | 40. Mottled | 4 |
| 25A | 41. Really sinks in | 4 |
| 26A | 43. Dealer's request | 4 |
| 27A | 44. Bit of A/V equipment | 3 |
| 28A | 45. Org. that awards the Energy Star label | 3 |
| 29A | 46. Parenting term popularized by Amy Chua in a 2011 nonfiction best seller | 11 |
| 30A | 50. Model company | 8 |
| 31A | 52. Last month | 6 |
| 32A | 53. One sometimes working on a shoulder | 7 |
| 33A | 54. Erasmus of Formia, by another name | 6 |
| 34A | 55. Hot | 6 |
| 35A | 56. Kind of bear | 6 |
Let's Solve the Across Clues Together!
Here are helpful hints to solve each clue. Remember, crossword puzzles are like word games - have fun with them!
Clue 1 Across: "1. From the beginning, on scores"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DACAPO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "7. F-14 fighter jet"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- Words that mean the same thing: tom
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TOMCAT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Across: "13. Stumper?"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a person who delivers a speech or oration
- Words that mean the same thing: speechifier, rhetorician, speechmaker
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ORATOR
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Clue 4 Across: "14. Relief pitcher of old"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ROLAIDS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Across: "15. Creep"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the tip of a toe
- Words that mean the same thing: tippytoe, tip
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TIPTOE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Across: "16. Shell pieces"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that shell containing lead pellets that explodes in flight
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SHRAPNEL
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Clue 7 Across: "17. Service that's out of this world?"
Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SATELLITETV
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Clue 8 Across: "19. Coast Guard rank: Abbr."
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CPO
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Clue 9 Across: "20. One may be packed for a trip to the mountains"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about geography.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- Words that mean the same thing: posterior, shtup, keister
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ASS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Across: "21. Silver, for one"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NATE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "22. Fly catcher"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
- Words that mean the same thing: paw, baseball mitt, hand
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MITT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "23. Tiniest amount"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a tiny or scarcely detectable amount
- Words that mean the same thing: smidgeon, shred, scintilla
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: WHIT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "25. Text massage"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting
- Words that mean the same thing: cut, edit out, redact
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EDIT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "26. Cooler"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a writing implement with a point from which ink flows
- Words that mean the same thing: penitentiary, compose, playpen
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PEN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "27. Gained"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the basic unit of money in south korea
- Words that mean the same thing: make headway, acquire, gain ground
- The opposite would be: lost, lose
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: WON
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "28. Sharp, as criticism"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that sour or bitter in taste
- Words that mean the same thing: virulent, astringent, acid
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ACERB
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "29. "Army" leader of old"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ARNIE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Across: "32. "Mamma Mia!" and "Jersey Boys," for two"
Quick Info: This answer has 15 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: JUKEBOXMUSICALS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "35. Spotify's most-streamed artist of the 2010s"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that english explorer and admiral who was the first englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the spanish armada (1540-1596)
- Words that mean the same thing: Sir Francis Drake, Francis Drake
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DRAKE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "36. In the cards"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that decree or designate beforehand
- Words that mean the same thing: fate, fat, fatten out
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FATED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "37. Start of an exchange"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman
- Words that mean the same thing: bosom, nipple, titmouse
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TIT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "38. ___ loss"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the tcp/ip network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange
- Words that mean the same thing: final, sack up, earnings
- The opposite would be: gross
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NET
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "39. Setting for many a season of "Survivor""
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a small island
- Words that mean the same thing: islet
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ISLE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "40. Mottled"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly
- Words that mean the same thing: calico, multicoloured, multi-colour
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PIED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "41. Really sinks in"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a shape that sags
- Words that mean the same thing: flag, droop, sag down
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SAGS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "43. Dealer's request"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that (poker) the initial contribution that each player makes to the pot
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ANTE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "44. Bit of A/V equipment"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MIC
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "45. Org. that awards the Energy Star label"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an independent federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment
- Words that mean the same thing: Environmental Protection Agency
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EPA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "46. Parenting term popularized by Amy Chua in a 2011 nonfiction best seller"
Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TIGERMOTHER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "50. Model company"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a business engaged in the manufacture of automobiles
- Words that mean the same thing: auto maker, car manufacturer, automaker
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CARMAKER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "52. Last month"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that in or of the month preceding the present one
- Words that mean the same thing: ult
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ULTIMO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 32 Across: "53. One sometimes working on a shoulder"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a soldier in a motorized army unit
- Words that mean the same thing: cavalryman, state trooper
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TROOPER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 33 Across: "54. Erasmus of Formia, by another name"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about history.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: STELMO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 34 Across: "55. Hot"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that take without the owner's consent
- Words that mean the same thing: slip, steal
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: STOLEN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 35 Across: "56. Kind of bear"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an island off southern alaska in the gulf of alaska; site of the first european settlement in the area which was founded by the russians in 1784
- Words that mean the same thing: Ursus arctos middendorffi, Kodiak Island, Ursus middendorffi
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: KODIAK
Great job if you got it right!
Solve the Down: NYT Saturday Puzzle April 25, 2020
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. Simple pencil-and-paper game | 4 |
| 2D | 2. Met demand, maybe | 4 |
| 3D | 3. Big-pocketed character on an old show | 15 |
| 4D | 4. Swear | 6 |
| 5D | 5. Combines | 5 |
| 6D | 6. City whose name means "eagle" in Russian | 4 |
| 7D | 7. Attorney's favorite dessert? | 5 |
| 8D | 8. Common name among Norwegian royals | 4 |
| 9D | 9. Concierge handout | 3 |
| 10D | 10. Regional specialty of southern Ohio | 15 |
| 11D | 11. Highly skilled | 5 |
| 12D | 12. Letter-shaped opening | 5 |
| 13D | 14. Speaker of the #1 quote on A.F.I.'s list of the 100 greatest movie quotes | 11 |
| 14D | 16. Flight simulator? | 11 |
| 15D | 18. What one might be represented by | 11 |
| 16D | 22. Chi-Town exchange | 4 |
| 17D | 23. Christian bracelet letters | 4 |
| 18D | 24. Time of day | 4 |
| 19D | 25. Prefix with friendly | 3 |
| 20D | 26. Red stamp word | 4 |
| 21D | 28. Help to hold up, say | 4 |
| 22D | 30. Nastase of tennis | 4 |
| 23D | 31. Begun: Abbr. | 4 |
| 24D | 33. Stretches (out) | 4 |
| 25D | 34. Spot | 3 |
| 26D | 40. Like dates that lack a heart | 6 |
| 27D | 41. Spinoff groups | 5 |
| 28D | 42. Split up | 5 |
| 29D | 43. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Conrad | 5 |
| 30D | 44. Very, musically | 5 |
| 31D | 46. Evidence that's hard to refute | 4 |
| 32D | 47. Strong-smelling secretion | 4 |
| 33D | 48. Anarchist/political activist Goldman | 4 |
| 34D | 49. Swindle | 4 |
| 35D | 51. Unit in chemistry: Abbr. | 3 |
Now Let's Solve the Down Clues!
Down clues go from top to bottom. Use the letters from your across answers to help!
Clue 1 Down: "1. Simple pencil-and-paper game"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about sports.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a very small circular shape
- Words that mean the same thing: Department of Transportation, dose, back breaker
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DOTS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. Met demand, maybe"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an elaborate song for solo voice
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ARIA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. Big-pocketed character on an old show"
Quick Info: This answer has 15 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CAPTAINKANGAROO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. Swear"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes
- Words that mean the same thing: take the stand, bear witness, manifest
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ATTEST
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. Combines"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an excavation that is (usually) filled with water
- Words that mean the same thing: consortium, kitty, pool
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: POOLS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Down: "6. City whose name means "eagle" in Russian"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about geography.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OREL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Down: "7. Attorney's favorite dessert?"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that rich cake usually covered with cream and fruit or nuts; originated in austria
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TORTE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Down: "8. Common name among Norwegian royals"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OLAV
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Down: "9. Concierge handout"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it)
- Words that mean the same thing: mathematical function, map out, represent
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MAP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Down: "10. Regional specialty of southern Ohio"
Quick Info: This answer has 15 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CINCINNATICHILI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. Highly skilled"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
- Words that mean the same thing: superstar, mavin, champion
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ADEPT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. Letter-shaped opening"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TSLOT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Down: "14. Speaker of the #1 quote on A.F.I.'s list of the 100 greatest movie quotes"
Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about movies/film.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RHETTBUTLER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Down: "16. Flight simulator?"
Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: STAIRMASTER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Down: "18. What one might be represented by"
Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: INDEXFINGER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Down: "22. Chi-Town exchange"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MERC
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Down: "23. Christian bracelet letters"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: WWJD
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Down: "24. Time of day"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day
- Words that mean the same thing: 60 minutes, hr, time of day
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HOUR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Down: "25. Prefix with friendly"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ECO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Down: "26. Red stamp word"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that give money, usually in exchange for goods or services
- Words that mean the same thing: gainful, bear, paying
- The opposite would be: unpaid, default
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The answer is: PAID
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Clue 21 Down: "28. Help to hold up, say"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: ABET
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Clue 22 Down: "30. Nastase of tennis"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: ILIE
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Clue 23 Down: "31. Begun: Abbr."
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.
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- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: ESTD
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Clue 24 Down: "33. Stretches (out)"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: EKES
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Clue 25 Down: "34. Spot"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that the seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located
- Words that mean the same thing: visit, go steady, date
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: SEE
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Clue 26 Down: "40. Like dates that lack a heart"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that set into opposition or rivalry
- Words that mean the same thing: alveolate, faveolate, scar
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: PITTED
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Clue 27 Down: "41. Spinoff groups"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a subdivision of a larger religious group
- Words that mean the same thing: sect, religious sect, faction
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: SECTS
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Clue 28 Down: "42. Split up"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that remote and separate physically or socially; ; - w.h.hudson
- Words that mean the same thing: aside, asunder, isolated
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: APART
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Clue 29 Down: "43. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Conrad"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that united states writer (1889-1973)
- Words that mean the same thing: Conrad Potter Aiken, Conrad Aiken
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: AIKEN
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Clue 30 Down: "44. Very, musically"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about music.
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- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: MOLTO
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Clue 31 Down: "46. Evidence that's hard to refute"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a long thin piece of cloth or paper as used for binding or fastening
- Words that mean the same thing: record, videotape, magnetic tape
- The opposite would be: erase
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The answer is: TAPE
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Clue 32 Down: "47. Strong-smelling secretion"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that an odorous glandular secretion from the male musk deer; used as a perfume fixative
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: MUSK
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Clue 33 Down: "48. Anarchist/political activist Goldman"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: EMMA
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Clue 34 Down: "49. Swindle"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
- Words that mean the same thing: castle, mulct, hornswoggle
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: ROOK
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Clue 35 Down: "51. Unit in chemistry: Abbr."
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams; the basic unit of amount of substance adopted under the systeme international d'unites
- Words that mean the same thing: gram molecule, mole
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: MOL
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 52 | 74.3% |
| Short Answer | 7 | 10.0% |
| Abbreviation | 3 | 4.3% |
| Geography | 2 | 2.9% |
| Celebrity/Entertainment | 2 | 2.9% |
| History | 1 | 1.4% |
| Sports | 1 | 1.4% |
| Movies/Film | 1 | 1.4% |
| Music | 1 | 1.4% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 35 |
| Down Clues | 35 |
| Total Clues | 70 |
| Average Answer Length | 5.5 letters |
| Shortest Answer | 3 letters |
| Longest Answer | 15 letters |
Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!
- Start with short words first - they're usually easier!
- Look for clues with blanks to fill in - these are like fill-in-the-blank questions at school
- When letters cross, they must be the same in both words - this helps you check if you're right!
- Today is Saturday, and these puzzles are usually moderate level
- Most clues today are about general knowledge
- The average word today has about 5 letters
- Remember: It's okay to take breaks and come back later with fresh eyes!
- Ask someone for help if you need it - crosswords are more fun with friends!
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Last Updated: September 25, 2025 at 03:22 PM
