NY Times Crossword Complete Solution: May 18, 2025
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Across Clues and Answers (65)
Clue #1: 1. Verso's counterpart
Antonyms: verso
Clue #2: 6. Alternative to an onion bagel
Clue #3: 11. Jai ___
Clue #4: 15. Where the Pilgrims first landed in the New World
Clue #5: 19. Skating gold medalist Oksana
Clue #6: 20. Host
Clue #7: 21. Quick look
Clue #8: 22. Has a tab open, say
Clue #9: 23. Hip-hop's "Puba" and "Daddy I.U."?
Clue #10: 25. Station near Madison Square Garden, for short
Clue #11: 26. Fleet
Antonyms: slow
Clue #12: 27. Hung around
Clue #13: 28. Remove from the champagne bucket?
Clue #14: 30. "Just kidding!"
Clue #15: 31. Feeling rash?
Clue #16: 34. Hip-hop artist with the 2019 hit "My Type"
Clue #17: 35. Crisis involving cartels
Clue #18: 39. Goes "Vroom!"
Clue #19: 41. Royal title
Clue #20: 42. Casting a total brat in the school play?
Clue #21: 45. Some govt. securities
Clue #22: 49. ___-tempered
Antonyms: odd, uneven
Clue #23: 50. "Super cool!"
Clue #24: 51. Get ready to take a shot
Clue #25: 53. Ship propeller
Antonyms: unscrew
Clue #26: 54. French for "from"
Clue #27: 55. Release
Antonyms: absorb
Clue #28: 57. Dante's guide in the "Inferno"
Clue #29: 60. Singer Del Rey
Clue #30: 61. "The score upon which reality is written," per Henry Miller
Clue #31: 62. Apps might be seen on one
Clue #32: 63. Sediment, e.g.
Antonyms: dislodge, withdraw
Clue #33: 65. "The co-star of 'Duck Soup' has to be sore after that!"?
Clue #34: 69. Anonymous guy
Clue #35: 70. Pauperism, so to speak
Clue #36: 71. Author of the 2020 memoir "Cubed"
Clue #37: 72. Lots
Clue #38: 73. "Because I'm the boss!"
Clue #39: 75. Pinged online
Clue #40: 76. Condition for which Luvox may be prescribed, in brief
Clue #41: 79. "Wonder Woman" star
Clue #42: 81. Mountain ___
Clue #43: 82. Late singer Payne of One Direction
Clue #44: 84. Modern home of where cuneiform writing originated
Clue #45: 85. Way up or way down
Clue #46: 87. "How long have beavers blocked this river?"?
Clue #47: 92. "As ___ …"
Clue #48: 94. Earthenware pots
Clue #49: 95. Was comparable to
Clue #50: 96. Apparel feature that a bandeau lacks
Clue #51: 100. Function in the role of
Clue #52: 102. Monk's title
Clue #53: 103. Be crazy about Chicago trains with broken A.C.s?
Clue #54: 105. Much in quantity
Clue #55: 109. Baseball family name
Clue #56: 110. Actor Jared
Clue #57: 111. Metric in a competitive family business?
Clue #58: 114. Prince, e.g.
Clue #59: 115. In ___ parentis
Clue #60: 116. Blow
Clue #61: 117. Designer Hilfiger
Clue #62: 118. Lays turf on
Clue #63: 119. Little twerp
Clue #64: 120. Trunk
Clue #65: 121. Head of Slytherin House in the Harry Potter books
Across Clues and Answers (65)
Clue #1: 1. Subject of the 2018 biopic "On the Basis of Sex," familiarly
Clue #2: 2. Noble title
Clue #3: 3. "Ci vediamo in giro!"
Clue #4: 4. Getting ready to listen
Clue #5: 5. Historic district of a city
Clue #6: 6. Gnarly problem, so to speak
Antonyms: bull
Clue #7: 7. Architect of Hong Kong's Bank of China Tower
Clue #8: 8. Certain hallucinatory experience
Clue #9: 9. Directed
Antonyms: follow
Clue #10: 10. Last word of James Joyce's "Ulysses"
Antonyms: no
Clue #11: 11. Dad, in Korean
Clue #12: 12. Ingredients in some potato soups
Clue #13: 13. Son of Aphrodite
Clue #14: 14. "You don't have to tell me"
Clue #15: 15. Time for a pick-me-up, humorously
Clue #16: 16. Lie ahead
Clue #17: 17. Joe of "Home Alone"
Clue #18: 18. First name in perfumes
Clue #19: 24. Label anew
Clue #20: 28. Banks from Los Angeles
Clue #21: 29. Maidenhair and others
Clue #22: 32. Common dog command
Antonyms: go, leave
Clue #23: 33. Chance
Clue #24: 35. Hit up on Instagram, informally
Clue #25: 36. Overnight party with light shows and "cuddle puddles"
Clue #26: 37. Luau strings
Clue #27: 38. Rock group with the 1992 hit "Creep"
Clue #28: 40. Harum-___ (reckless)
Clue #29: 43. Untrue
Clue #30: 44. Notaro of comedy
Clue #31: 46. Drag-and-drop disposal icon
Clue #32: 47. Start of a counting rhyme
Clue #33: 48. Hit with a smack
Clue #34: 52. Time in a Shakespeare title
Antonyms: winter_solstice
Clue #35: 55. Former Israeli P.M. Olmert
Clue #36: 56. Platform for Safari and FaceTime
Clue #37: 57. Borderline
Clue #38: 58. "Need You Tonight" band, 1987
Clue #39: 59. Leave alone
Clue #40: 61. Arbiters of taste
Clue #41: 62. Polite term of address
Clue #42: 64. Stamp on an invoice
Antonyms: unpaid, default
Clue #43: 65. Implied
Clue #44: 66. Valerie Harper title role
Clue #45: 67. One of three immortal elders in "A Wrinkle in Time"
Clue #46: 68. Dickens's ___ Heep
Clue #47: 69. Bouts
Clue #48: 74. Tree whose name sounds like a pronoun
Clue #49: 76. Word with history or hygiene
Antonyms: aboral, anal
Clue #50: 77. Shut up
Clue #51: 78. Threw out of a contest, informally
Clue #52: 80. Philosopher's pursuit
Antonyms: inaccuracy, falsity
Clue #53: 82. Exam with an argumentative writing section, in brief
Clue #54: 83. "You know, I can't quite remember"
Clue #55: 84. "Oh geez, the answer was staring me in the face!"
Clue #56: 86. Goes through screen after screen
Clue #57: 88. "Sadly …"
Antonyms: luckily, fortunately
Clue #58: 89. Special attention, for short
Clue #59: 90. Made nice
Clue #60: 91. Wading birds
Clue #61: 93. Publicly bash
Clue #62: 96. Doldrums
Clue #63: 97. Lumberjacks' competition
Clue #64: 98. Walk around, maybe
Antonyms: validate, confront
Clue #65: 99. Where one might pick up litter
Clue #66: 101. Oozes
Clue #67: 104. Burgle
Clue #68: 106. About
Clue #69: 107. West Point inst.
Clue #70: 108. Fanfare
Clue #71: 111. Like a diamond in a ring
Antonyms: rise
Clue #72: 112. Queer identity, in brief
Clue #73: 113. 12/31
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Saturday April 11, 2025 NY Times Crossword Clue Hints
NYT Crossword Breakdown: April 11, 2025
Let's solve the puzzle, starting with across and down clues and answers.
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Across Clues with Answers:
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Clue 1. Some pops. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (9 letters)
Answer: COCACOLAS
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Clue 10. Line accompanying a doorbell ring. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (5 letters)
Answer: ITSME
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Clue 15. Richard Nixon or Mao Zedong, in a 1987 premiere. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (9 letters)
Answer: OPERAROLE
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Clue 16. Moved in bounds. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (5 letters)
Answer: LOPED
Possible synonyms: lop, dress, snip, clip, prune, discerp, lope, trim, cut_back, crop, sever
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Clue 17. Activity with pints and points. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (9 letters)
Answer: BARTRIVIA
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Clue 18. Not straight. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (5 letters)
Answer: LYING
Possible synonyms: rest, lying, fabrication, lie_in, prevarication, dwell, lie, lie_down, consist
Possible antonyms: stand, arise
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Clue 19. Ones in a war of words?. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (9 letters)
Answer: SLAMPOETS
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Clue 20. Like Iceland's weather most of the year. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (5 letters)
Answer: WINDY
Possible synonyms: verbose, impractical, windy, breezy, tedious, airy, Laputan, wordy, visionary, blowy, long-winded
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Clue 21. Longtime email provider. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (3 letters)
Answer: AOL
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Clue 22. They're high-pressure at their low points. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (6 letters)
Answer: OCEANS
Possible synonyms: ocean, sea
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Clue 24. Action figures from Hasbro. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (6 letters)
Answer: GIJOES
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Clue 27. Japanese "thank you". Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (7 letters)
Answer: ARIGATO
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Clue 30. Morris who directed "The Thin Blue Line". Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (5 letters)
Answer: ERROL
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Clue 31. It's one step down from an F. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (5 letters)
Answer: EFLAT
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Clue 33. "Uh-huh". Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (3 letters)
Answer: YUP
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Clue 34. Vulgarian. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (4 letters)
Answer: BOOR
Possible synonyms: boor, tike, churl, barbarian, Goth, tyke, peasant
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Clue 35. What ice skaters might turn into?. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (5 letters)
Answer: AXELS
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Clue 36. "Sort by" option in a credit card history. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (4 letters)
Answer: DATE
Possible synonyms: escort, date, go_out, particular_date, see, go_steady, date_stamp, appointment, engagement, day_of_the_month
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Clue 37. Messy ___ (hairstyle). Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (3 letters)
Answer: BUN
Possible synonyms: bun, roll
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Clue 38. Liquid-Plumr alternative. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (5 letters)
Answer: DRANO
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Clue 39. Pilot returning to the air, e.g.. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (5 letters)
Answer: RERUN
Possible synonyms: rerun, rebroadcast
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Clue 40. Popeye's fare. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (7 letters)
Answer: SPINACH
Possible synonyms: prickly-seeded_spinach, spinach, spinach_plant, Spinacia_oleracea
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Clue 42. Passionate tributes. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (6 letters)
Answer: PAEANS
Possible synonyms: encomium, pean, eulogy, paean, panegyric
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Clue 44. Screen mover. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (6 letters)
Answer: CURSOR
Possible synonyms: pointer, cursor
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Clue 46. Dose of unreality?. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (3 letters)
Answer: LSD
Possible synonyms: LSD, lysergic_acid_diethylamide
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Clue 47. Sign of romantic chemistry. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (5 letters)
Answer: SPARK
Possible synonyms: actuate, arc, sparkle, Spark, spark_off, twinkle, trip, flicker, light, electric_arc, set_off, trigger, Muriel_Sarah_Spark, spark, trigger_off, Dame_Muriel_Spark, glint, touch_off, discharge, activate, Muriel_Spark, electric_discharge
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Clue 49. Dropped, as a touchy subject. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (9 letters)
Answer: LEFTALONE
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Clue 54. Sign of vitality. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (5 letters)
Answer: PULSE
Possible synonyms: throb, heartbeat, heart_rate, pulsate, beat, pulse_rate, impulse, pulsation, pulse, pulsing
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Clue 55. Neptune, e.g.. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (9 letters)
Answer: ICEPLANET
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Clue 56. French city whose last three letters are a French article. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (5 letters)
Answer: ARLES
Possible synonyms: earnest_money, arles
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Clue 57. Simple question written with two question marks. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (9 letters)
Answer: COMOESTAS
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Clue 58. Private affair. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (5 letters)
Answer: TRYST
Possible synonyms: tryst, rendezvous, assignation
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Clue 59. Certain ephemeral social media post, informally. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (9 letters)
Answer: SNAPSTORY
Down Clues with Answers:
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Clue 1. Makings of some homemade pipes. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (4 letters)
Answer: COBS
Possible synonyms: Larus_marinus, filbert, great_black-backed_gull, cob, hazelnut, cobnut, black-backed_gull
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Clue 2. Fitting name for a girl born in October. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (4 letters)
Answer: OPAL
Possible synonyms: opal
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Clue 3. Michael who played Allan in "Barbie". Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (4 letters)
Answer: CERA
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Clue 4. One into modeling at school. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (8 letters)
Answer: ARTMAJOR
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Clue 5. Go on a full ride, say?. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (7 letters)
Answer: CARPOOL
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Clue 6. Maryland's state bird. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (6 letters)
Answer: ORIOLE
Possible synonyms: New_World_oriole, American_oriole, oriole, Old_World_oriole
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Clue 7. What crossing your hands in front of your chest means in American Sign Language. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (4 letters)
Answer: LOVE
Possible synonyms: bonk, know, get_it_on, love, honey, lie_with, sleep_together, hump, enjoy, dearest, sexual_love, eff, bed, sleep_with, have_it_away, bang, roll_in_the_hay, have_a_go_at_it, make_out, make_love, be_intimate, jazz, have_it_off, have_intercourse, lovemaking, have_sex, erotic_love, love_life, passion, making_love, screw, do_it, beloved, fuck, dear, get_laid
Possible antonyms: hate
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Clue 8. Bush nominee to the Supreme Court. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (5 letters)
Answer: ALITO
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Clue 9. Creature with over 200 tiny eyes along its shell. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (10 letters)
Answer: SEASCALLOP
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Clue 10. "Finish what you're doing". Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (7 letters)
Answer: ILLWAIT
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Clue 11. Futzing (with). Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (6 letters)
Answer: TOYING
Possible synonyms: flirt, toy, toying, dalliance, dally, diddle, flirtation, play, fiddle, flirting, coquetry
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Clue 12. Fabulizes. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (10 letters)
Answer: SPINSAYARN
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Clue 13. On the ___. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (4 letters)
Answer: MEND
Possible synonyms: doctor, restore, furbish_up, fixing, heal, fixture, patch, touch_on, reparation, repair, bushel, fix, mending, mend, darn
Possible antonyms: break
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Clue 14. Pushing boundaries. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (4 letters)
Answer: EDGY
Possible synonyms: highly_strung, jumpy, edgy, restive, jittery, overstrung, nervy, high-strung, uptight
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Clue 23. Things sometimes named after kings and queens. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (4 letters)
Answer: ERAS
Possible synonyms: geological_era, era, epoch, earned_run_average, ERA
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Clue 24. Party. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (5 letters)
Answer: GROUP
Possible synonyms: radical, group, aggroup, chemical_group, grouping, mathematical_group
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Clue 25. How Romeo dies, in the eyes of the audience. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (10 letters)
Answer: IRONICALLY
Possible synonyms: ironically
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Clue 26. Ones lost in lust. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (10 letters)
Answer: SEXAHOLICS
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Clue 28. Some attire worn with tights. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (5 letters)
Answer: TUTUS
Possible synonyms: Tutu, ballet_skirt, Desmond_Tutu, tutu
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Clue 29. P.G.A. Tour event. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (4 letters)
Answer: OPEN
Possible synonyms: unfastened, undefendable, unresolved, outdoors, opened, unfold, loose, out-of-doors, heart-to-heart, give, open_up, undecided, receptive, subject, undefended, assailable, open_air, overt, clear, afford, spread, open, exposed, candid, surface, spread_out, capable, undetermined
Possible antonyms: close, shut, covert, fold, closed, unreceptive
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Clue 30. Wanes. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (4 letters)
Answer: EBBS
Possible synonyms: ebbing, ebb_down, ebb, ebb_out, reflux, wane, ebb_off, ebb_away
Possible antonyms: tide
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Clue 32. Boggy land. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (3 letters)
Answer: FEN
Possible synonyms: marsh, marshland, fenland, fen
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Clue 35. Characters' trajectories. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (4 letters)
Answer: ARCS
Possible synonyms: discharge, arc, electric_arc, bow, arch, curve, spark, electric_discharge
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Clue 36. At the absolute back of the pack. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (8 letters)
Answer: DEADLAST
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Clue 38. Like the night right before dawn, proverbially. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (7 letters)
Answer: DARKEST
Possible synonyms: moody, grim, sullen, sour, black, blue, gloomy, dreary, sinister, drear, dismal, glowering, obscure, coloured, non-white, saturnine, sorry, drab, dark, dark-skinned, benighted, disconsolate, dingy, colored, dour, morose, glum
Possible antonyms: light
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Clue 39. Some real estate deals. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (7 letters)
Answer: RESALES
Possible synonyms: resale
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Clue 41. Tends to. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (6 letters)
Answer: NURSES
Possible synonyms: suckle, entertain, nursemaid, harbour, harbor, breastfeed, lactate, hold, nanny, wet-nurse, suck, give_suck, nurse
Possible antonyms: bottlefeed
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Clue 43. Music genre that's experimental yet radio-friendly. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (6 letters)
Answer: ALTPOP
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Clue 45. Means of intel gathering. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (5 letters)
Answer: RECON
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Clue 47. Minor disagreement. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (4 letters)
Answer: SPAT
Possible synonyms: spew, pettifoggery, patter, bicker, spatter, acclaim, tiff, gaiter, ptyalize, skewer, sprinkle, squabble, clap, spue, spat, fuss, ptyalise, applaud, spit, pitter-patter, spit_out, bickering
Possible antonyms: boo
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Clue 48. [Please keep scratching me!]. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (4 letters)
Answer: PURR
Possible synonyms: whirr, whir, make_vibrant_sounds, whizz, purr, birr, whiz
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Clue 50. Org. that's busy after disasters. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (4 letters)
Answer: FEMA
Possible synonyms: FEMA, Federal_Emergency_Management_Agency
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Clue 51. "You're ___ something!". Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (4 letters)
Answer: ONTO
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Clue 52. Word with mint or miss. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (4 letters)
Answer: NEAR
Possible synonyms: good, cheeseparing, come_near, almost, skinny, come_on, virtually, about, nigh, draw_near, near, draw_close, well-nigh, approach, close, nearly, approximate, dear, most, go_up, penny-pinching
Possible antonyms: far
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Clue 53. Site with shops from around the world. Can you guess the answer?
Hint: (4 letters)
Answer: ETSY