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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (51 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (77 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. Stiff | 5 |
| 2A | 6. ___ Waller-Bridge, star and creator of TV's "Fleabag" | 6 |
| 3A | 12. Ball pit? | 6 |
| 4A | 18. Loves to pieces | 6 |
| 5A | 20. Excoriates | 7 |
| 6A | 21. Drink following a shot | 6 |
| 7A | 22. & 23 & 24 Airport announcement / Requirement to practice, perhaps | 20 |
| 8A | 25. Breakthrough cry | 3 |
| 9A | 26. North African fortress, in one spelling | 6 |
| 10A | 28. America's largest labor union, familiarly | 6 |
| 11A | 30. & 32 & 35 "Now, here's the thing ..." / Some board game surfaces | 20 |
| 12A | 39. Long instrumental piece | 6 |
| 13A | 41. Former alliance of France, Italy, Japan, the U.S., the U.K. and West Germany | 4 |
| 14A | 42. Snuggle | 8 |
| 15A | 43. Slugger's tally | 6 |
| 16A | 45. Letters aptly missing from _ _ _ightl_ | 4 |
| 17A | 47. Website for finding professional services | 4 |
| 18A | 48. & 50 & 54 Serious props / Had an evening meal | 20 |
| 19A | 55. Free of bumps | 6 |
| 20A | 57. "Not exactly ..." | 3 |
| 21A | 58. Philippe's head | 4 |
| 22A | 59. Bit of "Great British Baking Show" fare | 5 |
| 23A | 60. Some animation files | 4 |
| 24A | 61. Eighth Avenue express line in N.Y.C. | 6 |
| 25A | 64. Did some housekeeping | 7 |
| 26A | 66. Amount that "ain't bad," so to speak ... or what to make with six sets of answers in this puzzle? | 13 |
| 27A | 70. Creative evaluation of a sort | 7 |
| 28A | 74. Some eels | 6 |
| 29A | 75. Manufacturer's gross product? | 4 |
| 30A | 79. Worries | 5 |
| 31A | 80. Bevy : quails :: mob : ___ | 4 |
| 32A | 84. Relieve (of) | 3 |
| 33A | 85. Feature of an intersection that forces a turn | 6 |
| 34A | 87. & 88 & 91 Syntax-reversing rhetorical device / Small, peelable citrus fruits | 20 |
| 35A | 92. Taylor Swift's ___ Tour | 4 |
| 36A | 93. Out of the ordinary | 4 |
| 37A | 94. Resident of the so-called "Nation of Poets" | 6 |
| 38A | 96. Early Google algorithm for determining the importance of websites | 8 |
| 39A | 100. Performs a simple operation | 4 |
| 40A | 103. "Why you little ...!" | 6 |
| 41A | 105. & 106 & 108 "No need to hurry" / Like some security measures | 20 |
| 42A | 110. Enter hurriedly | 6 |
| 43A | 112. Chest beaters? | 6 |
| 44A | 114. Business address abbr. | 3 |
| 45A | 115. & 118 & 121 Didn't quite fit in, say / Not as frequently | 20 |
| 46A | 123. Upper-crusters | 6 |
| 47A | 124. What wristwatch straps are designed to accommodate | 7 |
| 48A | 125. Homes characterized by half-timbered walls | 6 |
| 49A | 126. Fine, if not great | 6 |
| 50A | 127. Flexibility | 6 |
| 51A | 128. Not in vogue | 5 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Stiff"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that incapable of or resistant to bending
- Similar words include: unbending, inflexible, set
- Opposite of: nonrigid
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Answer: RIGID
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2A: "6. ___ Waller-Bridge, star and creator of TV's "Fleabag""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
- Similar words include: quint, Sayornis phoebe, pentad
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PHOEBE
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3A: "12. Ball pit?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a bony hollow into which a structure fits
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SOCKET
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4A: "18. Loves to pieces"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that love intensely
- Similar words include: adore
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ADORES
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5A: "20. Excoriates"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: RAILSAT
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6A: "21. Drink following a shot"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture
- Similar words include: pursuer
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CHASER
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7A: "22. & 23 & 24 Airport announcement / Requirement to practice, perhaps"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________/_________
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Answer: GATECHANGE/LICENSURE
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8A: "25. Breakthrough cry"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AHA
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9A: "26. North African fortress, in one spelling"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an older or native quarter of many cities in northern africa; the quarter in which the citadel is located
- Similar words include: casbah
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: KASBAH
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10A: "28. America's largest labor union, familiarly"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: THENEA
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11A: "30. & 32 & 35 "Now, here's the thing ..." / Some board game surfaces"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________/___________
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Answer: SOLISTEN/CHESSTABLES
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12A: "39. Long instrumental piece"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a musical composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting forms
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SONATA
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13A: "41. Former alliance of France, Italy, Japan, the U.S., the U.K. and West Germany"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GSIX
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14A: "42. Snuggle"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: NESTLEUP
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15A: "43. Slugger's tally"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ATBATS
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16A: "45. Letters aptly missing from _ _ _ightl_"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that moving quickly and lightly
- Similar words include: agile, nimble, quick
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SPRY
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17A: "47. Website for finding professional services"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ANGI
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18A: "48. & 50 & 54 Serious props / Had an evening meal"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________/_________
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Answer: MADRESPECT/ATEDINNER
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19A: "55. Free of bumps"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of smoothing
- Similar words include: shine, smooth out, unruffled
- Opposite of: roughen, staccato
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Answer: SMOOTH
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20A: "57. "Not exactly ...""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ISH
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21A: "58. Philippe's head"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TETE
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22A: "59. Bit of "Great British Baking Show" fare"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that small biscuit (rich with cream and eggs) cut into diamonds or sticks and baked in an oven or (especially originally) on a griddle
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SCONE
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23A: "60. Some animation files"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GIFS
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24A: "61. Eighth Avenue express line in N.Y.C."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ATRAIN
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25A: "64. Did some housekeeping"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from
- Similar words include: houseclean, clean house, scavenge
- Opposite of: dirty
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Answer: CLEANED
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26A: "66. Amount that "ain't bad," so to speak ... or what to make with six sets of answers in this puzzle?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: TWOOUTOFTHREE
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27A: "70. Creative evaluation of a sort"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ARTTEST
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28A: "74. Some eels"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that family of brightly colored voracious eels of warm coastal waters; generally nonaggressive to humans but larger species are dangerous if provoked
- Similar words include: moray, moray eel
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: MORAYS
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29A: "75. Manufacturer's gross product?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that air pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog
- Similar words include: smogginess
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SMOG
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30A: "79. Worries"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
- Similar words include: care, maintenance, handle
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CARES
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31A: "80. Bevy : quails :: mob : ___"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism
- Similar words include: Dromaius novaehollandiae, emu, electromagnetic unit
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EMUS
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32A: "84. Relieve (of)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that relieve from
- Similar words include: disembarrass, free
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RID
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33A: "85. Feature of an intersection that forces a turn"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TSHAPE
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34A: "87. & 88 & 91 Syntax-reversing rhetorical device / Small, peelable citrus fruits"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________/___________
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Answer: CHIASMUS/CLEMENTINES
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35A: "92. Taylor Swift's ___ Tour"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
- Similar words include: earned run average, geological era, epoch
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ERAS
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36A: "93. Out of the ordinary"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness
- Similar words include: uncommon, rarefied, rarified
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RARE
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37A: "94. Resident of the so-called "Nation of Poets""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of a tall dark (mostly muslim) people inhabiting somalia
- Similar words include: Somalian
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SOMALI
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38A: "96. Early Google algorithm for determining the importance of websites"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: PAGERANK
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39A: "100. Performs a simple operation"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders
- Similar words include: supply, tot, minimal brain damage
- Opposite of: take away, subtract
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Answer: ADDS
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40A: "103. "Why you little ...!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SONOFA
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41A: "105. & 106 & 108 "No need to hurry" / Like some security measures"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________/_________
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Answer: THERESTIME/ANTITHEFT
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42A: "110. Enter hurriedly"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: RUSHIN
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43A: "112. Chest beaters?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a form of whist in which players avoid winning tricks containing hearts or the queen of spades
- Similar words include: inwardness, bosom, eye
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: HEARTS
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44A: "114. Business address abbr."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: STE
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45A: "115. & 118 & 121 Didn't quite fit in, say / Not as frequently"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________/_________
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Answer: WASABITODD/LESSOFTEN
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46A: "123. Upper-crusters"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status
- Similar words include: elite, elite group
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ELITES
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47A: "124. What wristwatch straps are designed to accommodate"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ANYSIZE
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48A: "125. Homes characterized by half-timbered walls"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an english dynasty descended from henry tudor; tudor monarchs ruled from henry vii to elizabeth i (from 1485 to 1603)
- Similar words include: House of Tudor, Tudor, Antony Tudor
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TUDORS
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49A: "126. Fine, if not great"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous
- Similar words include: comely, decorous, adequate
- Opposite of: indecent, improperly
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Answer: DECENT
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50A: "127. Flexibility"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (of a ship or plane) sideways drift
- Similar words include: allowance, margin, tolerance
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: LEEWAY
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51A: "128. Not in vogue"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that out of fashion
- Similar words include: antique, old-hat, outmoded
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PASSE
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Pieces of Indian music | 5 |
| 2D | 2. Tubers from the Gem State | 6 |
| 3D | 3. Laid eyes on but good | 10 |
| 4D | 4. Country whose flag is known as "An Trídhathach" ("The Tricolor"): Abbr. | 3 |
| 5D | 5. Deal with it! | 4 |
| 6D | 6. Type of Thai red curry | 6 |
| 7D | 7. Lofty pitches | 6 |
| 8D | 8. Corrida cry | 3 |
| 9D | 9. Class for immigrants, in brief | 3 |
| 10D | 10. Tries to rile, as on social media | 5 |
| 11D | 11. Leave one's mark, say | 4 |
| 12D | 12. Scratch-and-sniff samples | 6 |
| 13D | 13. "How interesting!" | 6 |
| 14D | 14. Classic film said to be the most quotable movie of all time | 10 |
| 15D | 15. The Wildcats of the Big 12 Conf. | 3 |
| 16D | 16. Sonnet adverb ... or suffix? | 3 |
| 17D | 17. Green Day drummer ___ Cool | 3 |
| 18D | 19. Soda brand named for a volcano | 6 |
| 19D | 20. Broccoli ___ | 4 |
| 20D | 27. Facts and figures | 5 |
| 21D | 29. Suffix with Brooklyn | 3 |
| 22D | 31. Phrases preceding lyrics | 6 |
| 23D | 33. Basic school subj. | 4 |
| 24D | 34. Like about 88% of the U.A.E.'s residents | 5 |
| 25D | 36. Musician who said "Reality leaves a lot to the imagination" | 6 |
| 26D | 37. The eldest Levy of "Schitt's Creek" | 6 |
| 27D | 38. Like many cathedrals | 6 |
| 28D | 40. Help in a pinch? | 4 |
| 29D | 42. Ural demurral | 4 |
| 30D | 44. Vice president Agnew | 5 |
| 31D | 46. This is the way: Abbr. | 3 |
| 32D | 48. Seasoning that imparts umami flavor, for short | 3 |
| 33D | 49. "___ dreaming?" | 3 |
| 34D | 51. Red-haired hunter in Genesis | 4 |
| 35D | 52. Record of money owed | 4 |
| 36D | 53. Condemn | 5 |
| 37D | 54. Response of comprehension | 4 |
| 38D | 56. Hems and ___ | 4 |
| 39D | 62. Object of spiritual significance | 5 |
| 40D | 63. Award opportunity, in brief | 3 |
| 41D | 65. Out of fear that | 4 |
| 42D | 66. Thomas Hardy's titular Miss Durbeyfield | 4 |
| 43D | 67. Swinger's warning | 4 |
| 44D | 68. Shorten | 4 |
| 45D | 69. Underworld boss? | 5 |
| 46D | 70. Confirm, as a friend request | 6 |
| 47D | 71. Enthusiastic | 6 |
| 48D | 72. First responder's first response | 6 |
| 49D | 73. Initially offered lesser charge | 10 |
| 50D | 75. Union victory site of 1862 | 6 |
| 51D | 76. The Declaration of Independence and the like | 10 |
| 52D | 77. Expose, in verse | 3 |
| 53D | 78. Some microwaves, in brief | 3 |
| 54D | 81. Gloom | 4 |
| 55D | 82. 2028 Summer Olympics host | 3 |
| 56D | 83. "Beat it!" | 5 |
| 57D | 86. Third-most-common suffix in country names, after -ia and -land | 4 |
| 58D | 89. Journalist's opening line | 4 |
| 59D | 90. Polite refusal | 5 |
| 60D | 95. Thoroughfare through N.Y.C.'s Chinatown | 6 |
| 61D | 97. Sandwich with sauerkraut | 6 |
| 62D | 98. Pass before a basket, e.g. | 6 |
| 63D | 99. Of an unspecified position in a sequence | 3 |
| 64D | 101. National flower of Mexico | 6 |
| 65D | 102. One of the Seven Dwarfs | 6 |
| 66D | 104. Dessert, to Brits | 6 |
| 67D | 106. Combined | 5 |
| 68D | 107. Subdue by stunning | 4 |
| 69D | 109. Needing kneading, perhaps | 5 |
| 70D | 111. Leaning type: Abbr. | 4 |
| 71D | 113. Counterpart to nuts | 4 |
| 72D | 115. Brought together | 3 |
| 73D | 116. Kölsch or saison | 3 |
| 74D | 117. [Not my misspelling!] | 3 |
| 75D | 119. The banned ingredient Red No. 3, e.g. | 3 |
| 76D | 120. Big retail inits. in footwear | 3 |
| 77D | 122. Org. banning 119-Down | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Pieces of Indian music"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RAGAS
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2D: "2. Tubers from the Gem State"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a state in the rocky mountains
- Similar words include: ID, Idaho, Gem State
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: IDAHOS
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3D: "3. Laid eyes on but good"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: GOTALOADOF
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4D: "4. Country whose flag is known as "An Trídhathach" ("The Tricolor"): Abbr."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
- Similar words include: ira, choler, anger
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IRE
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5D: "5. Deal with it!"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various platforms built into a vessel
- Similar words include: embellish, coldcock, floor
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DECK
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6D: "6. Type of Thai red curry"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PANANG
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7D: "7. Lofty pitches"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: HIGHCS
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8D: "8. Corrida cry"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OLE
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9D: "9. Class for immigrants, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ESL
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10D: "10. Tries to rile, as on social media"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that anything that serves as an enticement
- Similar words include: bait, razz, lure
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BAITS
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11D: "11. Leave one's mark, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make an etching of
- Similar words include: engrave
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ETCH
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12D: "12. Scratch-and-sniff samples"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a distinctive odor that is pleasant
- Similar words include: perfume, scent, wind
- Opposite of: deodorize, deodourise
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Answer: SCENTS
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13D: "13. "How interesting!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: OHNEAT
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14D: "14. Classic film said to be the most quotable movie of all time"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a port on the atlantic and the largest city of morocco
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: CASABLANCA
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15D: "15. The Wildcats of the Big 12 Conf."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: KSU
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16D: "16. Sonnet adverb ... or suffix?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EER
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17D: "17. Green Day drummer ___ Cool"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TRE
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18D: "19. Soda brand named for a volcano"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of the indian people of northern california and southern oregon
- Similar words include: Mount Shasta
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SHASTA
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19D: "20. Broccoli ___"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RABE
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20D: "27. Facts and figures"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: STATS
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21D: "29. Suffix with Brooklyn"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the compass point midway between east and southeast
- Similar words include: east southeast
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ESE
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22D: "31. Phrases preceding lyrics"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that formally making a person known to another or to the public
- Similar words include: introduction, intro, presentation
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: INTROS
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23D: "33. Basic school subj."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HIST
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24D: "34. Like about 88% of the U.A.E.'s residents"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who is voluntarily absent from home or country
- Similar words include: expatriate, exile
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EXPAT
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25D: "36. Musician who said "Reality leaves a lot to the imagination""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that english rock star and guitarist and songwriter who with paul mccartney wrote most of the music for the beatles (1940-1980)
- Similar words include: John Lennon
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: LENNON
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26D: "37. The eldest Levy of "Schitt's Creek""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that austrian general in the service of the holy roman empire during the war of the spanish succession (1663-1736)
- Similar words include: Prince Eugene of Savoy
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: EUGENE
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27D: "38. Like many cathedrals"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SPIRED
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28D: "40. Help in a pinch?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ABET
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29D: "42. Ural demurral"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NYET
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30D: "44. Vice president Agnew"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SPIRO
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31D: "46. This is the way: Abbr."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RTE
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32D: "48. Seasoning that imparts umami flavor, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that white crystalline compound used as a food additive to enhance flavor; often used in chinese cooking
- Similar words include: monosodium glutamate
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MSG
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33D: "49. "___ dreaming?""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AMI
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34D: "51. Red-haired hunter in Genesis"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (old testament) the eldest son of isaac who would have inherited the covenant that god made with abraham and that abraham passed on to isaac; he traded his birthright to his twin brother jacob for a mess of pottage
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ESAU
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35D: "52. Record of money owed"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a dismissive term for a girl who is immature or who lacks respect
- Similar words include: tab, check
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CHIT
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36D: "53. Condemn"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that express strong disapproval of
- Similar words include: reprobate, condemn, excoriate
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DECRY
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37D: "54. Response of comprehension"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ISEE
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38D: "56. Hems and ___"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus crataegus
- Similar words include: haw, hawthorn
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HAWS
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39D: "62. Object of spiritual significance"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a clan or tribe identified by their kinship to a common totemic object
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TOTEM
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40D: "63. Award opportunity, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NOM
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41D: "65. Out of fear that"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that being ten more than forty
- Similar words include: fifty, 50, l
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LEST
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42D: "66. Thomas Hardy's titular Miss Durbeyfield"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TESS
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43D: "67. Swinger's warning"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that front part of a vessel or aircraft
- Similar words include: stem, bow, forward
- Opposite of: aft
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Answer: FORE
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44D: "68. Shorten"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a state of arrangement or appearance
- Similar words include: crop, tailored, dress
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TRIM
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45D: "69. Underworld boss?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (greek mythology) the god of the underworld in ancient mythology; brother of zeus and husband of persephone
- Similar words include: Aides, Hell, Aidoneus
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HADES
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46D: "70. Confirm, as a friend request"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that consider or hold as true
- Similar words include: consent, take over, swallow
- Opposite of: reject, refuse
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Answer: ACCEPT
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47D: "71. Enthusiastic"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: RAHRAH
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48D: "72. First responder's first response"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that sorting and allocating aid on the basis of need for or likely benefit from medical treatment or food
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TRIAGE
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49D: "73. Initially offered lesser charge"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: TEASERRATE
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50D: "75. Union victory site of 1862"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the second great battle of the american civil war (1862); the battle ended with the withdrawal of confederate troops but it was not a union victory
- Similar words include: battle of Pittsburgh Landing, battle of Shiloh
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SHILOH
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51D: "76. The Declaration of Independence and the like"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a public declaration of intentions (as issued by a political party or government)
- Similar words include: pronunciamento, manifesto
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: MANIFESTOS
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52D: "77. Expose, in verse"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OPE
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53D: "78. Some microwaves, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite
- Similar words include: germanium, Gaia, Gaea
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: GES
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54D: "81. Gloom"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance
- Similar words include: murkiness, fog, fogginess
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MURK
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55D: "82. 2028 Summer Olympics host"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that north american republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in north america plus alaska in northwest north america and the hawaiian islands in the pacific ocean; achieved independence in 1776
- Similar words include: America, U. S. Army, U.S.A.
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: USA
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56D: "83. "Beat it!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form
- Similar words include: get, bugger off, fuck off
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SCRAM
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57D: "86. Third-most-common suffix in country names, after -ia and -land"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: STAN
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58D: "89. Journalist's opening line"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the introductory section of a story
- Similar words include: lead, lead-in
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LEDE
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59D: "90. Polite refusal"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NOSIR
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60D: "95. Thoroughfare through N.Y.C.'s Chinatown"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: MOTTST
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61D: "97. Sandwich with sauerkraut"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (old testment) a son of jacob and forefather of one of the tribes of israel
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: REUBEN
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62D: "98. Pass before a basket, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose
- Similar words include: aid, attend, wait on
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ASSIST
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63D: "99. Of an unspecified position in a sequence"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that last or greatest in an indefinitely large series
- Similar words include: n-th
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NTH
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64D: "101. National flower of Mexico"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of several plants of or developed from the species dahlia pinnata having tuberous roots and showy rayed variously colored flower heads; native to the mountains of mexico and central america and colombia
- Similar words include: Dahlia pinnata
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: DAHLIA
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65D: "102. One of the Seven Dwarfs"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that inclined to sneeze
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SNEEZY
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66D: "104. Dessert, to Brits"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a dish served as the last course of a meal
- Similar words include: dessert, sweet
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: AFTERS
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67D: "106. Combined"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: INONE
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68D: "107. Subdue by stunning"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TASE
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69D: "109. Needing kneading, perhaps"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
- Similar words include: strain, tense up
- Opposite of: relaxed, lax
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Answer: TENSE
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70D: "111. Leaning type: Abbr."
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ITAL
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71D: "113. Counterpart to nuts"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SOUP
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72D: "115. Brought together"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the fourth day of the week; the third working day
- Similar words include: get hitched with, wedded, Wednesday
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: WED
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73D: "116. Kölsch or saison"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the united states an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ALE
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74D: "117. [Not my misspelling!]"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that urge to attack someone
- Similar words include: set
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SIC
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75D: "119. The banned ingredient Red No. 3, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair
- Similar words include: dyestuff
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DYE
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76D: "120. Big retail inits. in footwear"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DSW
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77D: "122. Org. banning 119-Down"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a federal agency in the department of health and human services established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products
- Similar words include: Food and Drug Administration
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: FDA
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51 Across Clues
77 Down Clues
128 Total Clues
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