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Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Medium
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🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (33 clues)
🧩 1A: "1. Approach boldly"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that speak to someone
- Similar words include: address, hook, solicit
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ACCOST
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🧩 2A: "7. Word with fixed or net"
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- Think of something that anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company
- Similar words include: plus, asset
- Opposite of: liability
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Answer: ASSETS
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🧩 3A: "13. Purple-hatted Nintendo character"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: WALUIGI
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🧩 4A: "15. Mildew, e.g."
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a state or condition being blighted
- Similar words include: plague
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BLIGHT
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🧩 5A: "16. Little Italian toasts"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: CROSTINI
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🧩 6A: "18. One choice at a dry cleaner"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a worker who hangs something
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: HANGER
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🧩 7A: "19. Say but not really mean"
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- Think of something that the opening through which food is taken in and vocalizations emerge
- Similar words include: verbalize, speak, backtalk
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MOUTH
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🧩 8A: "20. English town known for its mineral water"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EPSOM
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🧩 9A: "22. Historical event that acquired its name almost two decades after it ended, in brief"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: WWI
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🧩 10A: "23. Car once promoted with the slogan "It's Your Money … Demand Better," informally"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')
- Similar words include: old
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OLDS
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🧩 11A: "24. Joy of television"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BEHAR
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🧩 12A: "25. Windjammer, e.g."
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a vessel that carries passengers or freight
- Similar words include: transport, send, embark
- Opposite of: disembark
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Answer: SHIP
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🧩 13A: "26. 33-Down platform, for short"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in the air in small amounts
- Similar words include: neon, Nebraska, nor'-east
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NES
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🧩 14A: "27. Deceived, maybe"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LEDON
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🧩 15A: "28. Retreats"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the habitation of wild animals
- Similar words include: den, lair
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LAIRS
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🧩 16A: "29. Move around from here to there"
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- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: CUTANDPASTE
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🧩 17A: "31. Unhelpful response to "Why?""
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- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: JUSTBECAUSE
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🧩 18A: "32. Rabbit food?"
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- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: EASTERCANDY
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🧩 19A: "33. Pats (down)"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)
- Similar words include: tamp down, tamping bar, pack
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TAMPS
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🧩 20A: "34. Progresses slowly"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
- Similar words include: comfort, repose, still
- Opposite of: difficulty
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Answer: EASES
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🧩 21A: "35. Something chewed over"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that food of a ruminant regurgitated to be chewed again
- Similar words include: plug, chew, rechewed food
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CUD
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🧩 22A: "38. Sections of history"
🎯 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, ERA
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ERAS
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🧩 23A: "39. Has legs"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the temporal end; the concluding time
- Similar words include: hold up, death, end
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LASTS
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🧩 24A: "40. Something to climb in a WWE match"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a strong line
- Similar words include: forget me drug, rophy, roach
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ROPE
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🧩 25A: "41. "Stop! We get it!""
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TMI
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🧩 26A: "42. Rube"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
- Similar words include: rube, chawbacon, hick
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: YOKEL
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🧩 27A: "43. Literature Nobelist who wrote "Siddhartha""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that swiss writer (born in germany) whose novels and poems express his interests in eastern spiritual values (1877-1962)
- Similar words include: Hermann Hesse
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HESSE
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🧩 28A: "44. People whose flag depicts the Lion of Judah"
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- Think of something that (jamaica) a black youth subculture and religious movement that arose in the ghettos of kingston, jamaica, in the 1950s; males grow hair in long dreadlocks and wear woolen caps; use marijuana and listen to reggae music
- Similar words include: Rastafari, Rasta, Rastafarian
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: RASTAS
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🧩 29A: "46. Animal that sleeps while floating on its back"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: SEAOTTER
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🧩 30A: "48. University of California campus locale"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: IRVINE
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🧩 31A: "49. "The Ultimate Trivia Destination," per its website"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SPORCLE
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🧩 32A: "50. Moves in the shadows"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner
- Similar words include: malinger, skulk, lurk
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SKULKS
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🧩 33A: "51. Parts of cassette players"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound
- Similar words include: bobbin, reel, spool
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SPOOLS
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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (33 clues)
🧩 1D: "1. "Really, now!""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: AWCMON
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🧩 2D: "2. Actress Lombard of classic Hollywood"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CAROLE
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🧩 3D: "3. "Above the ___, as high as heaven itself?": Shak."
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any collection of particles (e.g., smoke or dust) or gases that is visible
- Similar words include: cloud, obnubilate, mist
- Opposite of: clear up
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Answer: CLOUDS
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🧩 4D: "4. Ejects"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that remove from a position or office
- Similar words include: drum out, expel, oust
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OUSTS
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🧩 5D: "5. Villainous group of science fiction"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SITH
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🧩 6D: "6. ___ Fridays"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TGI
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🧩 7D: "7. Can't stand"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that find repugnant
- Similar words include: loathe, abominate, execrate
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ABHOR
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🧩 8D: "8. Dis"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge
- Similar words include: shaft, slam dance, bang
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SLAM
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🧩 9D: "9. "The only ___ is mediocrity": Martha Graham"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that estrangement from god
- Similar words include: transgress, hell, wickedness
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SIN
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🧩 10D: "10. Ingredient in meringue cookies"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: EGGWHITE
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🧩 11D: "11. #1 on BBC's list of greatest 21st-century TV series"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: THEWIRE
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🧩 12D: "12. Comics"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a relatively long narrow piece of something
- Similar words include: uncase, clean, funnies
- Opposite of: dress
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Answer: STRIPS
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🧩 13D: "14. "This work is getting to be too much""
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- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: INEEDABREAK
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🧩 14D: "17. Apple skins?"
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- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: IPHONECASES
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🧩 15D: "21. Buildings that aren't water-resistant"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: SANDCASTLES
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🧩 16D: "24. "La Cousine ___" (Balzac novel)"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BETTE
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🧩 17D: "25. Overly wise, say"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that improperly forward or bold
- Similar words include: overbold, saucy, impertinent
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SASSY
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🧩 18D: "27. Feels thirsty"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a strong sexual desire
- Similar words include: lust, crave, luxuria
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LUSTS
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🧩 19D: "28. Gives accolades"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that praise, glorify, or honor
- Similar words include: extol, laud, glorify
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LAUDS
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🧩 20D: "29. Edges"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that point formed by two intersecting arcs (as from the intrados of a gothic arch)
- Similar words include: leaflet, cusp
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CUSPS
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🧩 21D: "30. You can see right through them"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors
- Similar words include: dot, window glass, Elvis
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PANES
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🧩 22D: "31. Phenomenon of experiencing something as strangely new even though one has experienced it before"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: JAMAISVU
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🧩 23D: "32. Designate, as funds"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that identification mark on the ear of a domestic animal
- Similar words include: set aside, trademark, hallmark
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: EARMARK
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🧩 24D: "33. Series of mental blocks?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that 100 tetri equal 1 lari in georgia
- Similar words include: tetri
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TETRIS
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🧩 25D: "35. Retail giant that opened its first store in Seattle in 1983"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: COSTCO
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🧩 26D: "36. Persuade to pay more than originally intended"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: UPSELL
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🧩 27D: "37. Popular farm vehicles"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886)
- Similar words include: John Deere, Deere
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: DEERES
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🧩 28D: "39. Falls short, say"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense
- Similar words include: fall behind, suffer, lose
- Opposite of: profit, find
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Answer: LOSES
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🧩 29D: "40. Lead-in to active"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a fashion reminiscent of the past
- Similar words include: ex post facto, retroactive
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RETRO
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🧩 30D: "42. American in Paris?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an american who lives in the north (especially during the american civil war)
- Similar words include: jerk, Yankee-Doodle, Northerner
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: YANK
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🧩 31D: "43. Certain earring"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a light curved skeleton to spread out a skirt
- Similar words include: basket, basketball hoop, ring
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HOOP
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🧩 32D: "45. Poetic contraction"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TIL
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🧩 33D: "47. Some courses for honor students, for short"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: APS
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🧠 Expert Solving Strategies
🎯 Start Smart
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❓ Decode the Clues
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🔤 Use Cross-References
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📚 Build Vocabulary
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📊 Today's Puzzle Stats
33 Across Clues
33 Down Clues
66 Total Clues
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