March 09, 2022 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

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• Puzzle Overview & Difficulty
• Across Clues (37 clues)
• Down Clues (39 clues)
• Category Breakdown
• Complete Puzzle Statistics
• Pro Solving Tips

Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Wednesday, March 09, 2022

Difficulty Level: Medium Tuesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 76 (37 Across, 39 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.0 letters

Master Today's Across: NYT Wednesday Puzzle March 09, 2022

No.	Clue	Letters
1A	1. Italian sauce with meat and tomatoes	4
2A	5. Person seeking damages	4
3A	9. Letter that's only 25% of the way through the Greek alphabet, surprisingly	4
4A	13. Cheers for banderilleros	4
5A	14. Martial artist/actor who played the emperor of China in 2020's "Mulan"	5
6A	15. Good name for an ophthalmologist	4
7A	16. "You and I should eat that"	10
8A	18. Salmon, e.g.	4
9A	19. Force out	7
10A	20. Flowering plants associated with the Augusta National golf course	7
11A	22. Utter	3
12A	23. Actress Garr	4
13A	25. Dating app description	3
14A	26. Kid at a college bar who seems, to me as a bouncer, too young to allow in	13
15A	32. Palestinian president starting in 2005	5
16A	34. Place	4
17A	35. Calendar box	3
18A	36. Essential point	4
19A	37. Bill worth billions	5
20A	39. When most Geminis are born	4
21A	40. Spoil	3
22A	41. Dog breed whose coat resembles dreadlocks	4
23A	42. Drinks at soda shops	5
24A	43. Easter item that the woman is going to decorate	13
25A	47. More, in Mexico	3
26A	48. Short johns?	4
27A	49. Nowhere to be found, informally	3
28A	52. Risk territory bordering Siberia	7
29A	56. Sponsored boys at baptisms	7
30A	58. Desertlike	4
31A	59. What the couple dressed in lupine costumes said	10
32A	61. It's worth zero in baccarat	4
33A	62. Gets wind of	5
34A	63. Land whose prime minister is known as the Taoiseach	4
35A	64. "For Pete's ___!"	4
36A	65. Stops waffling	4
37A	66. Licks, maybe	4

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. Italian sauce with meat and tomatoes"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RAGU

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "5. Person seeking damages"

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 man who courts a woman
• Words that mean the same thing: petitioner, wooer, suitor
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SUER

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "9. Letter that's only 25% of the way through the Greek alphabet, surprisingly"

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 the 6th letter of the greek alphabet
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ZETA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "13. Cheers for banderilleros"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OLES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "14. Martial artist/actor who played the emperor of China in 2020's "Mulan""

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about celebrity/entertainment.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: JETLI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "15. Good name for an ophthalmologist"

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 plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
• Words that mean the same thing: iris diaphragm, sword lily, flag
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: IRIS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "16. "You and I should eat that""

Quick Info: This answer has 10 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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LETSHAVEIT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "18. Salmon, e.g."

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 light shade of red
• Words that mean the same thing: pinkish, knock, garden pink
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PINK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "19. Force out"

Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that form or shape by forcing through an opening
• Words that mean the same thing: squeeze out
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EXTRUDE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "20. Flowering plants associated with the Augusta National golf course"

Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors
• Words that mean the same thing: azalea
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AZALEAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "22. Utter"

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 chance to speak
• Words that mean the same thing: suppose, enjoin, read
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SAY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "23. Actress Garr"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TERI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "25. Dating app description"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BIO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "26. Kid at a college bar who seems, to me as a bouncer, too young to allow in"

Quick Info: This answer has 13 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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: STUDENTIDCARD

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "32. Palestinian president starting in 2005"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.

Here's how to solve it:

• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ABBAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "34. Place"

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 the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located)
• Words that mean the same thing: web site, land site, locate
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SITE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "35. Calendar box"

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 time for earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
• Words that mean the same thing: mean solar day, daytime, twenty-four hour period
• The opposite would be: night
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DAY

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "36. Essential point"

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 small conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere in the milky way near centaurus
• Words that mean the same thing: Crux Australis, crux of the matter, Southern Cross
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: CRUX

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "37. Bill worth billions"

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 united states computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the united states (born in 1955)
• Words that mean the same thing: Bill Gates, William Henry Gates, logic gate
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GATES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "39. When most Geminis are born"

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 month following may and preceding july
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: JUNE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "40. Spoil"

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 month following february and preceding april
• Words that mean the same thing: impair, spoil, mutilate
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MAR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "41. Dog breed whose coat resembles dreadlocks"

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 100 puls equal 1 afghani in afghanistan
• Words that mean the same thing: pul
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PULI

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "42. Drinks at soda shops"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about food & drink.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a milkshake made with malt powder
• Words that mean the same thing: malt, malt liquor, malted milk
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MALTS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "43. Easter item that the woman is going to decorate"

Quick Info: This answer has 13 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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EGGSHELLPAINT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "47. More, in Mexico"

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 informal terms for a mother
• Words that mean the same thing: milliampere, Bay State, mum
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MAS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "48. Short johns?"

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 room or building equipped with one or more toilets
• Words that mean the same thing: lav, can, lavatory
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: LAVS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "49. Nowhere to be found, informally"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MIA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "52. Risk territory bordering Siberia"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: YAKUTSK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "56. Sponsored boys at baptisms"

Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a male godchild
• Words that mean the same thing: godson
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GODSONS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "58. Desertlike"

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 lacking sufficient water or rainfall
• Words that mean the same thing: waterless, desiccated, desiccate
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ARID

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "59. What the couple dressed in lupine costumes said"

Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again
• Words that mean the same thing: werewolf, lycanthrope, wolfman
• The word looks like this: __________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: WEREWOLVES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Across: "61. It's worth zero in baccarat"

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 male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
• Words that mean the same thing: Billie Jean Moffitt King, mogul, business leader
• The opposite would be: female monarch, queen
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: KING

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Across: "62. Gets wind of"

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 perceive (sound) via the auditory sense
• Words that mean the same thing: find out, see, take heed
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HEARS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Across: "63. Land whose prime minister is known as the Taoiseach"

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 republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of ireland; achieved independence from the united kingdom in 1921
• Words that mean the same thing: Ireland, Irish Republic, Republic of Ireland
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: EIRE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Across: "64. "For Pete's ___!""

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 reason for wanting something done
• Words that mean the same thing: interest, saki, rice beer
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SAKE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Across: "65. Stops waffling"

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 select as an alternative over another
• Words that mean the same thing: opt, choose, prefer
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: OPTS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Across: "66. Licks, 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 wetness caused by water
• Words that mean the same thing: moisture, wet
• The opposite would be: dry
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: WETS

  Great job if you got it right!

March 09, 2022 Wednesday NYT - All Down Answers

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Hats, so to speak	5
2D	2. Siri : Apple :: ___ : Amazon	5
3D	3. Seat of Pennsylvania's Adams County	10
4D	4. Losing team in the "Miracle on Ice" hockey game	4
5D	5. Harsh	6
6D	6. Shoshonean language	3
7D	7. Director Kazan	4
8D	8. Little Nabisco crackers	8
9D	9. Bag brand	6
10D	10. Great Lakes port	4
11D	11. Mother of Beyoncé and Solange Knowles	4
12D	12. Requests	4
13D	14. Affected by ennui	5
14D	17. Most Rwandans and Burundians	5
15D	21. Member of a support staff	4
16D	24. Impart, as values	7
17D	27. Dodgers might not pay it	3
18D	28. "Jeopardy!" impossibility	3
19D	29. XXX film	10
20D	30. Speak hysterically	4
21D	31. Batiking needs	4
22D	32. High point	4
23D	33. Talk big	4
24D	37. "Tell me if you recognize me from just my voice and the feel of my hands over your eyes"	8
25D	38. Last word of the Pledge of Allegiance	3
26D	39. Middle Brady family daughter	3
27D	41. Cool, in old slang	4
28D	42. Botch	5
29D	44. Photocopy flaw	6
30D	45. Waiters at busy restaurants might be handed them	6
31D	46. Declares openly	5
32D	50. Like helium	5
33D	51. Sure-footed pack animals	5
34D	52. Sure-footed pack animals	4
35D	53. Number that's often in Italian	4
36D	54. Sharp twist, as in a hose	4
37D	55. Remain fresh	4
38D	57. Whole bunch	4
39D	60. Tattletale	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. Hats, so to speak"

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 the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
• Words that mean the same thing: use, part, office
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ROLES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Siri : Apple :: ___ : Amazon"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ALEXA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Seat of Pennsylvania's Adams County"

Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a small town in southern pennsylvania; site of a national cemetery
• Words that mean the same thing: Battle of Gettysburg
• The word looks like this: __________
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GETTYSBURG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. Losing team in the "Miracle on Ice" hockey game"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about sports.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that a former communist country in eastern europe and northern asia; established in 1922; included russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (ukraine and byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 december 1991
• Words that mean the same thing: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Soviet Union, Russia
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: USSR

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Harsh"

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 intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality
• Words that mean the same thing: stark, austere, spartan
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SEVERE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Shoshonean language"

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 member of the shoshonean people of utah and colorado and new mexico
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: UTE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Director Kazan"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that english essayist (1775-1834)
• Words that mean the same thing: Lamb, Charles Lamb
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ELIA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. Little Nabisco crackers"

Quick Info: This answer has 8 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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RITZBITS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. Bag brand"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ZIPLOC

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. Great Lakes port"

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 member of an iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of lake erie in northern ohio and northwest pennsylvania and western new york
• Words that mean the same thing: Lake Erie
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ERIE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. Mother of Beyoncé and Solange Knowles"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TINA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Requests"

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 inquire about
• Words that mean the same thing: involve, demand, call for
• The opposite would be: obviate
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ASKS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "14. Affected by ennui"

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 lose interest or become bored with something or somebody
• Words that mean the same thing: wearied, wear upon, tire
• The opposite would be: refresh
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: JADED

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "17. Most Rwandans and Burundians"

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 a member of a bantu people living in rwanda and burundi
• Words that mean the same thing: Hutu
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: HUTUS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "21. Member of a support staff"

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 an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer
• Words that mean the same thing: adjutant, auxiliary, aide-de-camp
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AIDE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "24. Impart, as values"

Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that impart gradually
• Words that mean the same thing: ingrain, impress, tincture
• The word looks like this: _______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: INSTILL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "27. Dodgers might not pay it"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government
• Words that mean the same thing: task, taxation, assess
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TAX

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "28. "Jeopardy!" impossibility"

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 neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front
• Words that mean the same thing: tie-in, wed, affiliation
• The opposite would be: untie, disconnect
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: TIE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "29. XXX film"

Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a hard 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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ADULTMOVIE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "30. Speak hysterically"

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 loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion
• Words that mean the same thing: mouth off, spout, fustian
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RANT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "31. Batiking needs"

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 usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair
• Words that mean the same thing: dye, dyestuff
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: DYES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "32. High point"

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 highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
• Words that mean the same thing: vertex, apex, top
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ACME

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "33. Talk big"

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 an instance of boastful talk
• Words that mean the same thing: gas, boast, bragging
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: BRAG

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "37. "Tell me if you recognize me from just my voice and the feel of my hands over your eyes""

Quick Info: This answer has 8 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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: GUESSWHO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "38. Last word of the Pledge of Allegiance"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that quantifier; used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
• Words that mean the same thing: entirely, altogether, totally
• The opposite would be: some, partly
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ALL

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "39. Middle Brady family daughter"

Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.

Here's how to solve it:

• This could be something that the first month of the year; begins 10 days after the winter solstice
• Words that mean the same thing: January
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: JAN

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "41. Cool, in old slang"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PHAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "42. Botch"

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 do wrongly or improperly
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: MISDO

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "44. Photocopy flaw"

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 a smoky fire to drive away insects
• Words that mean the same thing: smutch, smear, slur
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SMUDGE

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "45. Waiters at busy restaurants might be handed them"

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 an electronic device that generates a series of beeps when the person carrying it is being paged
• Words that mean the same thing: pager, beeper
• The word looks like this: ______
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: PAGERS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "46. Declares openly"

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 to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
• Words that mean the same thing: assert, avouch, avow
• The opposite would be: disavow
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: AVOWS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "50. Like helium"

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 unable to move or resist motion
• Words that mean the same thing: soggy, sluggish, torpid
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: INERT

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "51. Sure-footed pack animals"

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 the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
• Words that mean the same thing: bum, tail end, fanny
• The word looks like this: _____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ASSES

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "52. Sure-footed pack animals"

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 large long-haired wild ox of tibet often domesticated
• Words that mean the same thing: gab, yak, Bos grunniens
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: YAKS

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "53. Number that's often in Italian"

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!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: ARIA

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Down: "54. Sharp twist, as in a hose"

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 painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick' and `wrick' are british)
• Words that mean the same thing: wrick, curve, frizz
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: KINK

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Down: "55. Remain fresh"

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 financial means whereby one lives
• Words that mean the same thing: save, prevent, proceed
• The opposite would be: lose, discontinue
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: KEEP

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 38 Down: "57. Whole bunch"

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 (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
• Words that mean the same thing: curve, mickle, mountain
• The word looks like this: ____
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: SLEW

  Great job if you got it right!

Clue 39 Down: "60. Tattletale"

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 any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse
• Words that mean the same thing: stinkpot, bum, scab
• The word looks like this: ___
• Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
• Ready for the answer? Click here!

  The answer is: RAT

  Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category	Number of Clues	Percentage
General Knowledge	57	75.0%
Short Answer	12	15.8%
Celebrity/Entertainment	4	5.3%
Food & Drink	1	1.3%
Sports	1	1.3%
Movies/Film	1	1.3%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric	Value
Across Clues	37
Down Clues	39
Total Clues	76
Average Answer Length	5.0 letters
Shortest Answer	3 letters
Longest Answer	13 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 Wednesday, and these puzzles are usually medium level
• Most clues today are about general knowledge
• The average word today has about 4 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!

Disclaimer: Crossword clues are property of The New York Times. This educational content is designed to help puzzle enthusiasts improve their solving skills.

Last Updated: September 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM

XWordHint Crossword Answers September 07, 2025 | Expert Breakdown & Tips

Master today's NYT crossword with our expert hint system. We provide synonyms, antonyms, and strategic clues to help you solve without spoiling the fun. Perfect for crossword lovers who want that satisfying "aha!" moment.

Quick Navigation - Table of Contents

• Today's Puzzle Difficulty
• Across Clues Table (71 clues)
• Across Clues - Detailed Hints
• Down Clues Table (69 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. Where Gloria Estefan was born	6
2A	7. Hairstyle that can be casual or formal	4
3A	11. Relative of a sultan	4
4A	15. Strikebreaking sort	4
5A	19. One who gives a good talking-to?	6
6A	20. Spring's opposite, tidally	4
7A	21. Constant nuisance	4
8A	22. Mansión, por ejemplo	4
9A	23. As the British pound rises in value, the dollar ___	11
10A	25. Sure things	9
11A	27. Area with pews	4
12A	28. Part of many a morning routine	5
13A	29. Equipment	4
14A	30. Orchestra section toward the middle of the pit	5
15A	31. With 76-Down, individually	5
16A	33. Fury	3
17A	34. After spending the afternoon at Epcot, we had dinner at a ___ bistro	11
18A	36. Ancestor of the tuba or sousaphone	8
19A	38. Low-quality paper?	3
20A	39. Like a naughty Beetle Bailey, in brief	4
21A	40. Overdone	5
22A	41. The "E" of Q.E.D.	4
23A	43. Depleted	6
24A	48. Facetious suffix with most	3
25A	51. Did Joyce write courtesy of a ___?	12
26A	55. Blunt negative	4
27A	56. Philosopher who purportedly said "The best fighter is never angry"	6
28A	58. Have a bawl	3
29A	59. Son of Hanna-Barbera's Doggie Daddy	5
30A	60. Reason to relocate a picnic blanket, maybe	4
31A	61. Borneo neighbor	7
32A	63. Female moose or elephant	3
33A	65. Fish-eating raptors	4
34A	66. Dab with a towel	4
35A	67. Subdivisions of some counties: Abbr.	4
36A	68. An increase in ham prices forced the deli to ___ sandwiches higher	9
37A	71. Begged	4
38A	72. Scorch the surface	4
39A	73. Andean stimulant	4
40A	74. Source of the films "The Blues Brothers" and "Coneheads," in brief	3
41A	75. Gerald Ford or William Howard Taft, once	7
42A	78. Peter, Paul and Mary, e.g.	4
43A	79. Words before sea or lunch	5
44A	81. Summer mo.	3
45A	83. Decks for reading	6
46A	84. Biblical preposition	4
47A	85. To Washington ___, Germany, seemed far from Tarrytown, N.Y.	12
48A	88. Big word in advertising	3
49A	89. Toady	6
50A	91. Buzz, so to speak	4
51A	92. Charles or Ray who lent their name to a kind of chair	5
52A	94. Unpleasant look	4
53A	97. Social gathering of a sort	3
54A	98. Certain canines	8
55A	102. Some Californians consider Santa ___ on Earth	11
56A	107. ___-cone	3
57A	108. Stockpile	5
58A	109. Anesthetic first used on a patient in 1842	5
59A	110. "Fine as is, actually"	4
60A	111. Canada's first national park, founded in 1885	5
61A	113. "___ Three Lives" (early TV drama)	4
62A	114. The shark-warning notes of "Jaws," for example	9
63A	116. The supermodel was holding a copy of ___ herself on the beach	11
64A	118. Tackle box item	4
65A	119. Home makeover, in brief	4
66A	120. Election Day is one: Abbr.	4
67A	121. Work on the score of	6
68A	122. Carbon compound	4
69A	123. Beat one's chest	4
70A	124. Set of pull-ups?	4
71A	125. Very high	6

Across Clues - Strategic Hints

1A: "1. Where Gloria Estefan was born"

6 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the capital and largest city of cuba; located in western cuba; one of the oldest cities in the americas
• Similar words include: capital of Cuba, Cuban capital
• Pattern: ______

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HAVANA

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2A: "7. Hairstyle that can be casual or formal"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: UPDO

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3A: "11. Relative of a sultan"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in africa or arabia)
• Similar words include: emeer, amir, ameer
• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EMIR

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4A: "15. Strikebreaking sort"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
• Similar words include: blackleg, strikebreaker, rat
• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SCAB

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5A: "19. One who gives a good talking-to?"

6 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a person who delivers a speech or oration
• Similar words include: public speaker, speechmaker, speechifier
• Pattern: ______

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ORATOR

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6A: "20. Spring's opposite, tidally"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon
• Similar words include: neap tide
• Opposite of: springtide

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NEAP

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7A: "21. Constant nuisance"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that something causing misery or death
• Similar words include: scourge, nemesis, curse
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: BANE

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8A: "22. Mansión, por ejemplo"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CASA

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9A: "23. As the British pound rises in value, the dollar ___"

11 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___________

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Answer: BILLWITHERS

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10A: "25. Sure things"

9 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SLAMDUNKS

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11A: "27. Area with pews"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the central area of a church
• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NAVE

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12A: "28. Part of many a morning routine"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the act of removing hair with a razor
• Similar words include: trim, plane, knock off
• Pattern: _____

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SHAVE

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13A: "29. Equipment"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion
• Similar words include: appurtenance, geared wheel, geartrain
• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GEAR

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14A: "30. Orchestra section toward the middle of the pit"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece
• Similar words include: oboe, hautboy, hautbois
• Pattern: _____

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OBOES

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15A: "31. With 76-Down, individually"

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ONEAT

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16A: "33. Fury"

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
• Similar words include: choler, ira, anger
• Pattern: ___

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: IRE

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17A: "34. After spending the afternoon at Epcot, we had dinner at a ___ bistro"

11 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___________

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TONYORLANDO

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18A: "36. Ancestor of the tuba or sousaphone"

8 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BASSHORN

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19A: "38. Low-quality paper?"

3 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a small piece of cloth or paper
• Similar words include: razz, call down, cod
• Pattern: ___

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RAG

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20A: "39. Like a naughty Beetle Bailey, in brief"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that one who is away or absent without leave
• Similar words include: truant
• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AWOL

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21A: "40. Overdone"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
• Similar words include: shopworn, tired, threadbare
• Pattern: _____

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TRITE

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22A: "41. The "E" of Q.E.D."

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ERAT

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23A: "43. Depleted"

6 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: USEDUP

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24A: "48. Facetious suffix with most"

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that standard time in the 5th time zone west of greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian; used in the eastern united states
• Similar words include: Eastern Standard Time, Eastern Time
• Pattern: ___

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EST

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25A: "51. Did Joyce write courtesy of a ___?"

12 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____________

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ULYSSESGRANT

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26A: "55. Blunt negative"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NOPE

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27A: "56. Philosopher who purportedly said "The best fighter is never angry""

6 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LAOTSE

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28A: "58. Have a bawl"

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a dyspneic condition
• Similar words include: cocksucker, sobbing, shit
• Pattern: ___

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SOB

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29A: "59. Son of Hanna-Barbera's Doggie Daddy"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AUGIE

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30A: "60. Reason to relocate a picnic blanket, maybe"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers
• Similar words include: emmet, ant, pismire
• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ANTS

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31A: "61. Borneo neighbor"

7 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a mountainous island in western indonesia
• Pattern: _______

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Answer: SUMATRA

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32A: "63. Female moose or elephant"

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that female of domestic cattle:
• Similar words include: moo-cow, overawe
• Pattern: ___

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: COW

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33A: "65. Fish-eating raptors"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail; of europe and greenland
• Similar words include: Haliatus albicilla, white-tailed sea eagle, European sea eagle
• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ERNS

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34A: "66. Dab with a towel"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a blemish made by dirt
• Similar words include: smear, daub, slur
• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BLOT

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35A: "67. Subdivisions of some counties: Abbr."

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TWPS

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36A: "68. An increase in ham prices forced the deli to ___ sandwiches higher"

9 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MARKCUBAN

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37A: "71. Begged"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that appeal or request earnestly
• Similar words include: plead
• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PLED

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38A: "72. Scorch the surface"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that make very hot and dry
• Similar words include: dried-up, scorch, singe
• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SEAR

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39A: "73. Andean stimulant"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a south american shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the andes; a source of cocaine
• Similar words include: coca plant, Erythroxylon coca, Imogene Coca
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: COCA

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40A: "74. Source of the films "The Blues Brothers" and "Coneheads," in brief"

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: SNL

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41A: "75. Gerald Ford or William Howard Taft, once"

7 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

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Answer: YALEMAN

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42A: "78. Peter, Paul and Mary, e.g."

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
• Similar words include: three, terzetto, ternion
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: TRIO

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43A: "79. Words before sea or lunch"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

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Answer: OUTTO

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44A: "81. Summer mo."

3 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the month following july and preceding september
• Similar words include: August
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: AUG

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45A: "83. Decks for reading"

6 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any of a set of (usually 72) cards that include 22 cards representing virtues and vices and death and fortune etc.; used by fortunetellers
• Similar words include: tarot, tarot card
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: TAROTS

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46A: "84. Biblical preposition"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: UNTO

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47A: "85. To Washington ___, Germany, seemed far from Tarrytown, N.Y."

12 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____________

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Answer: IRVINGBERLIN

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48A: "88. Big word in advertising"

3 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
• Similar words include: fresh, young, novel
• Opposite of: worn, old

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Answer: NEW

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49A: "89. Toady"

6 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

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Answer: YESMAN

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50A: "91. Buzz, so to speak"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a telephone connection
• Similar words include: phone, telephone, bid
• Opposite of: put option

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Answer: CALL

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51A: "92. Charles or Ray who lent their name to a kind of chair"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that united states designer noted for an innovative series of chairs (1907-1978)
• Similar words include: Charles Eames
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: EAMES

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52A: "94. Unpleasant look"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls
• Similar words include: sneer
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: LEER

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53A: "97. Social gathering of a sort"

3 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: BEE

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54A: "98. Certain canines"

8 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars
• Similar words include: dogtooth, cuspid, canine
• Pattern: ________

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Answer: EYETEETH

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55A: "102. Some Californians consider Santa ___ on Earth"

11 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___________

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Answer: BARBARAEDEN

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56A: "107. ___-cone"

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: SNO

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57A: "108. Stockpile"

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services
• Similar words include: hive away, computer storage, storehouse
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: STORE

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58A: "109. Anesthetic first used on a patient in 1842"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies
• Similar words include: ethoxyethane, quintessence, divinyl ether
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: ETHER

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59A: "110. "Fine as is, actually""

4 letters Category: Common Word

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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60A: "111. Canada's first national park, founded in 1885"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a popular vacation spot in the canadian rockies
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: BANFF

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61A: "113. "___ Three Lives" (early TV drama)"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ILED

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62A: "114. The shark-warning notes of "Jaws," for example"

9 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a melodic phrase that accompanies the reappearance of a person or situation (as in wagner's operas)
• Similar words include: leitmotiv
• Pattern: _________

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Answer: LEITMOTIF

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63A: "116. The supermodel was holding a copy of ___ herself on the beach"

11 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___________

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Answer: ELLEFANNING

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64A: "118. Tackle box item"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a formation of people or things one beside another
• Similar words include: job, tune, logical argument
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: LINE

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65A: "119. Home makeover, in brief"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a city in western nevada at the foot of the sierra nevada mountains; known for gambling casinos and easy divorce and remarriage
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: RENO

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66A: "120. Election Day is one: Abbr."

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the third day of the week; the second working day
• Similar words include: Tuesday
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: TUES

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67A: "121. Work on the score of"

6 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that put into notation, as of music or choreography
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: NOTATE

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68A: "122. Carbon compound"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ENOL

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69A: "123. Beat one's chest"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an instance of boastful talk
• Similar words include: shoot a line, line-shooting, boss
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: BRAG

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70A: "124. Set of pull-ups?"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that weapons considered collectively
• Similar words include: sleeve, subdivision, build up
• Opposite of: disarm

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Answer: ARMS

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71A: "125. Very high"

6 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that kill by throwing stones at
• Similar words include: stone, hopped-up, lapidate
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: STONED

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Down Clues - Complete List

No.	Clue	Letters
1D	1. Schmooze	6
2D	2. ___ Afghan Airlines, carrier to the Mideast	6
3D	3. Parts of a heart or trumpet	6
4D	4. No fewer than	7
5D	5. "Stat!"	3
6D	6. Media personalities Melber and Fleischer	4
7D	7. Remove a restraint from	9
8D	8. Irk	5
9D	9. Have the nerve	4
10D	10. Special ___	3
11D	11. Buddy who portrayed TV's Jed Clampett	5
12D	12. Peninsula in southeast Asia	6
13D	13. Consecutively	6
14D	14. Somnial acronym	3
15D	15. Aquatic acronym	5
16D	16. Collection of laws	5
17D	17. "Jeez, sorry I ___!"	5
18D	18. Sarastro in Mozart's "The Magic Flute," e.g.	5
19D	24. Product of the first three primes	6
20D	26. Tiny house occupants	5
21D	29. Get crazy (over)	6
22D	32. Pushes with force	7
23D	34. Smears	4
24D	35. Directs, as cargo	6
25D	37. Edmonton N.H.L. player	5
26D	38. International shoe brand originating in England	6
27D	42. Extremely loyal	8
28D	44. One who's a well-meaning but bad influence on a friend, maybe	7
29D	45. Why do none of the Fruit of the Loom characters ___-colored clothing?	8
30D	46. Current	8
31D	47. Annoyance	4
32D	48. Trains above street level	3
33D	49. White wine named for a region in France	8
34D	50. Peeping ___ for Lady Godiva to appear	8
35D	52. Like some philosophical arguments	8
36D	53. Taj Mahal's city	4
37D	54. Numbskull	5
38D	57. Bar with drafts	7
39D	62. Love, in Lyon	5
40D	64. Spots to go in the U.K.	3
41D	69. End of any Shakespeare play	4
42D	70. Powerless	6
43D	71. Space balls	7
44D	72. Bed-___ (Brooklyn neighborhood, familiarly)	4
45D	73. Shakespeare, vis-à-vis the expression "brave new world"	6
46D	76. See 31-Across	5
47D	77. Sydney's state: Abbr.	3
48D	80. How some risks are taken	6
49D	82. Immaturity	9
50D	86. Secluded valley	4
51D	87. "Take it easy, will you?!"	6
52D	90. Startle	5
53D	93. Mounted below the surface of	7
54D	95. ___ Sunday	6
55D	96. Body part containing photoreceptors	6
56D	99. Relating to the wind's movement	6
57D	100. Vingt + dix	6
58D	101. Equivocated	6
59D	102. Ball girl?	5
60D	103. Didn't dine out	5
61D	104. Large safari sight	5
62D	105. Intoxicating Asian plant whose name sounds like an insect	5
63D	106. Clear, in a way, as a windshield	5
64D	107. Beaver State capital	5
65D	111. Sight of a speeding car, maybe	4
66D	112. Season ticket holders, presumably	4
67D	115. Spherical shape	3
68D	116. Info for a traveler, for short	3
69D	117. Follower of waste and want	3

Down Clues - Strategic Hints

1D: "1. Schmooze"

6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that rub elbows with
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: HOBNOB

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2D: "2. ___ Afghan Airlines, carrier to the Mideast"

6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that city in tunisia
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: ARIANA

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3D: "3. Parts of a heart or trumpet"

6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a structure in a hollow organ (like the heart) with a flap to insure one-way flow of fluid through it
• Similar words include: valve
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: VALVES

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4D: "4. No fewer than"

7 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

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Answer: ATLEAST

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5D: "5. "Stat!""

3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the momentary present
• Similar words include: instantly, directly, immediately
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: NOW

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6D: "6. Media personalities Melber and Fleischer"

4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ARIS

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7D: "7. Remove a restraint from"

9 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that remove the harness from
• Opposite of: harness
• Pattern: _________

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Answer: UNHARNESS

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8D: "8. Irk"

5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an annoyed or irritated mood
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: PEEVE

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9D: "9. Have the nerve"

4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy
• Similar words include: daring, presume, defy
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: DARE

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10D: "10. Special ___"

3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (roman mythology) goddess of abundance and fertility; wife of saturn; counterpart of greek rhea and cybele of ancient asia minor
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: OPS

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11D: "11. Buddy who portrayed TV's Jed Clampett"

5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

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Answer: EBSEN

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12D: "12. Peninsula in southeast Asia"

6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a constitutional monarchy in southeastern asia on borneo and the malay peninsula; achieved independence from the united kingdom in 1957
• Similar words include: Malaysia
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: MALAYA

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13D: "13. Consecutively"

6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

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Answer: INAROW

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14D: "14. Somnial acronym"

3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs; a state of rapidly shifting eye movements during sleep
• Similar words include: REM sleep, rapid eye movement sleep, rapid eye movement
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: REM

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15D: "15. Aquatic acronym"

5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a device (trade name aqua-lung) that lets divers breathe under water; scuba is an acronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus
• Similar words include: aqualung, Aqua-Lung
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: SCUBA

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16D: "16. Collection of laws"

5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy
• Similar words include: canyon
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: CANON

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17D: "17. "Jeez, sorry I ___!""

5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that inquire about
• Similar words include: expect, involve, necessitate
• Opposite of: obviate

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Answer: ASKED

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18D: "18. Sarastro in Mozart's "The Magic Flute," e.g."

5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an adult male singer with the lowest voice
• Similar words include: bass voice, bass
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: BASSO

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19D: "24. Product of the first three primes"

6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the cardinal number that is the product of ten and three
• Similar words include: XXX, xxx, 30
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: THIRTY

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20D: "26. Tiny house occupants"

5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a small replica of a person; used as a toy
• Similar words include: doll, skirt, chick
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: DOLLS

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21D: "29. Get crazy (over)"

6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

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Answer: GOGAGA

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22D: "32. Pushes with force"

7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the force used in pushing
• Similar words include: hurl, push up, throw
• Pattern: _______

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Answer: THRUSTS

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23D: "34. Smears"

4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue
• Similar words include: Jack-tar, gob, old salt
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: TARS

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24D: "35. Directs, as cargo"

6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an established line of travel or access
• Similar words include: rootle, itinerary, road
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: ROUTES

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25D: "37. Edmonton N.H.L. player"

5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a worker who oils engines or machinery
• Similar words include: tank ship, tanker, oil tanker
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: OILER

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26D: "38. International shoe brand originating in England"

6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

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Answer: REEBOK

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27D: "42. Extremely loyal"

8 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

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Answer: TRUEBLUE

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28D: "44. One who's a well-meaning but bad influence on a friend, maybe"

7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

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Answer: ENABLER

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29D: "45. Why do none of the Fruit of the Loom characters ___-colored clothing?"

8 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

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Answer: DONLEMON

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30D: "46. Current"

8 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

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Answer: UPTODATE

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31D: "47. Annoyance"

4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
• Similar words include: gadfly, cuss, plague
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: PEST

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32D: "48. Trains above street level"

3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
• Similar words include: el, elevated railroad, elevation
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: ELS

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33D: "49. White wine named for a region in France"

8 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that semisweet golden-colored table or dessert wine from around bordeaux in france; similar wine from california
• Similar words include: Sauternes
• Pattern: ________

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Answer: SAUTERNE

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34D: "50. Peeping ___ for Lady Godiva to appear"

8 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

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Answer: TOMWAITS

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35D: "52. Like some philosophical arguments"

8 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that of or relating to socrates or to his method of teaching
• Pattern: ________

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Answer: SOCRATIC

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36D: "53. Taj Mahal's city"

4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a city in northern india; former capital of the mogul empire; site of the taj mahal
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: AGRA

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37D: "54. Numbskull"

5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a stupid foolish person
• Similar words include: nincompoop, poop
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: NINNY

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38D: "57. Bar with drafts"

7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter
• Similar words include: ginmill, saloon, bar
• Pattern: _______

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Answer: TAPROOM

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39D: "62. Love, in Lyon"

5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
• Similar words include: affaire, involvement, liaison
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: AMOUR

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40D: "64. Spots to go in the U.K."

3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: WCS

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41D: "69. End of any Shakespeare play"

4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ACTV

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42D: "70. Powerless"

6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (usually followed by `to') not having the necessary means or skill or know-how
• Similar words include: ineffective, ineffectual
• Opposite of: able

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Answer: UNABLE

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43D: "71. Space balls"

7 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; mercury, venus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn, uranus, neptune, and pluto in order of their proximity to the sun; viewed from the constellation hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction
• Similar words include: major planet, satellite, planet
• Pattern: _______

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Answer: PLANETS

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44D: "72. Bed-___ (Brooklyn neighborhood, familiarly)"

4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: STUY

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45D: "73. Shakespeare, vis-à-vis the expression "brave new world""

6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a maker of counterfeit coins
• Similar words include: moneyer, minter
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: COINER

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46D: "76. See 31-Across"

5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

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Answer: ATIME

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47D: "77. Sydney's state: Abbr."

3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the agency that provides units to conduct unconventional and counter-guerilla warfare
• Similar words include: Naval Special Warfare
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: NSW

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48D: "80. How some risks are taken"

6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

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• Pattern: ______

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Answer: ONABET

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49D: "82. Immaturity"

9 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation
• Similar words include: verdancy, viridity, green
• Opposite of: ripeness

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Answer: GREENNESS

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50D: "86. Secluded valley"

4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Think of something that a narrow secluded valley (in the mountains)
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: GLEN

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51D: "87. "Take it easy, will you?!""

6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the act of laying off an employee or a work force
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: LAYOFF

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52D: "90. Startle"

5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that fear resulting from the awareness of danger
• Similar words include: appal, appall, dismay
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: ALARM

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53D: "93. Mounted below the surface of"

7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Pattern: _______

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Answer: SETINTO

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54D: "95. ___ Sunday"

6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a christian celebration of the resurrection of christ; celebrated on the sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox
• Similar words include: east wind, easterly
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: EASTER

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55D: "96. Body part containing photoreceptors"

6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the innermost light-sensitive membrane covering the back wall of the eyeball; it is continuous with the optic nerve
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: RETINA

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56D: "99. Relating to the wind's movement"

6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a member of one of four linguistic divisions of the prehistoric greeks
• Similar words include: Aeolian
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: EOLIAN

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57D: "100. Vingt + dix"

6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

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• Pattern: ______

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Answer: TRENTE

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58D: "101. Equivocated"

6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
• Similar words include: skirt, sidestep, dodge
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: HEDGED

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59D: "102. Ball girl?"

5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: BELLE

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60D: "103. Didn't dine out"

5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Pattern: _____

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Answer: ATEIN

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61D: "104. Large safari sight"

5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that massive powerful herbivorous odd-toed ungulate of southeast asia and africa having very thick skin and one or two horns on the snout
• Similar words include: rhinoceros
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: RHINO

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62D: "105. Intoxicating Asian plant whose name sounds like an insect"

5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast asians
• Similar words include: betel pepper, Piper betel
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: BETEL

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63D: "106. Clear, in a way, as a windshield"

5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that free from mist
• Similar words include: demist
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: DEFOG

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64D: "107. Beaver State capital"

5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that capital of the state of oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the willamette river
• Similar words include: capital of Oregon
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: SALEM

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65D: "111. Sight of a speeding car, maybe"

4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a hazy or indistinct representation
• Similar words include: dim, film over, smutch
• Opposite of: focus

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Answer: BLUR

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66D: "112. Season ticket holders, presumably"

4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces
• Similar words include: rooter, fan, devotee
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: FANS

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67D: "115. Spherical shape"

3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye
• Similar words include: ball, globe, revolve
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: ORB

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68D: "116. Info for a traveler, for short"

3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

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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69D: "117. Follower of waste and want"

3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that negation of a word or group of words
• Similar words include: non
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: NOT

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Today's Puzzle Stats

71 Across Clues

69 Down Clues

140 Total Clues

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