1D: "1. Pieces of Indian music"
5 letters π Category: Common Word
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Answer: RAGAS
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2D: "2. Tubers from the Gem State"
6 letters π Category: Common Word
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"
10 letters π Category: Common Word
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Answer: GOTALOADOF
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4D: "4. Country whose flag is known as "An TrΓdhathach" ("The Tricolor"): Abbr."
3 letters π Category: Proper Noun
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- 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!"
4 letters π Category: Proper Noun
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"
6 letters π Category: Wordplay
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Answer: PANANG
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7D: "7. Lofty pitches"
6 letters π Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: HIGHCS
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8D: "8. Corrida cry"
3 letters π Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: OLE
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9D: "9. Class for immigrants, in brief"
3 letters π Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: ESL
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10D: "10. Tries to rile, as on social media"
5 letters π Category: General Knowledge
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"
4 letters π Category: Common Word
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- 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"
6 letters π Category: Wordplay
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!""
6 letters π Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: OHNEAT
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14D: "14. Classic film said to be the most quotable movie of all time"
10 letters π Category: Abbreviation
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- 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."
3 letters π Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: KSU
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16D: "16. Sonnet adverb ... or suffix?"
3 letters π Category: Wordplay
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Answer: EER
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17D: "17. Green Day drummer ___ Cool"
3 letters π Category: Wordplay
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Answer: TRE
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18D: "19. Soda brand named for a volcano"
6 letters π Category: Abbreviation
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 ___"
4 letters π Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: RABE
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20D: "27. Facts and figures"
5 letters π Category: Wordplay
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Answer: STATS
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21D: "29. Suffix with Brooklyn"
3 letters π Category: Wordplay
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"
6 letters π Category: Abbreviation
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."
4 letters π Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: HIST
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24D: "34. Like about 88% of the U.A.E.'s residents"
5 letters π Category: General Knowledge
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""
6 letters π Category: General Knowledge
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""
6 letters π Category: Wordplay
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"
6 letters π Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: SPIRED
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28D: "40. Help in a pinch?"
4 letters π Category: Common Word
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"
4 letters π Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: NYET
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30D: "44. Vice president Agnew"
5 letters π Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: SPIRO
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31D: "46. This is the way: Abbr."
3 letters π Category: Wordplay
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Answer: RTE
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32D: "48. Seasoning that imparts umami flavor, for short"
3 letters π Category: Common Word
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?""
3 letters π Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: AMI
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34D: "51. Red-haired hunter in Genesis"
4 letters π Category: Common Word
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"
4 letters π Category: Proper Noun
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"
5 letters π Category: Proper Noun
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- 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"
4 letters π Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: ISEE
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38D: "56. Hems and ___"
4 letters π Category: Proper Noun
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"
5 letters π Category: Proper Noun
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- 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"
3 letters π Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: NOM
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41D: "65. Out of fear that"
4 letters π Category: Abbreviation
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"
4 letters π Category: Common Word
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Answer: TESS
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43D: "67. Swinger's warning"
4 letters π Category: Wordplay
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"
4 letters π Category: Wordplay
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?"
5 letters π Category: Abbreviation
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"
6 letters π Category: Wordplay
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"
6 letters π Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: RAHRAH
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48D: "72. First responder's first response"
6 letters π Category: Abbreviation
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"
10 letters π Category: Wordplay
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Answer: TEASERRATE
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50D: "75. Union victory site of 1862"
6 letters π Category: Wordplay
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"
10 letters π Category: Abbreviation
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"
3 letters π Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: OPE
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53D: "78. Some microwaves, in brief"
3 letters π Category: Abbreviation
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"
4 letters π Category: Wordplay
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- 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"
3 letters π Category: General Knowledge
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!""
5 letters π Category: Proper Noun
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"
4 letters π Category: Common Word
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Answer: STAN
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58D: "89. Journalist's opening line"
4 letters π Category: Proper Noun
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"
5 letters π Category: Common Word
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Answer: NOSIR
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60D: "95. Thoroughfare through N.Y.C.'s Chinatown"
6 letters π Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: MOTTST
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61D: "97. Sandwich with sauerkraut"
6 letters π Category: Abbreviation
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."
6 letters π Category: Proper Noun
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"
3 letters π Category: Common Word
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"
6 letters π Category: Proper Noun
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"
6 letters π Category: Abbreviation
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"
6 letters π Category: Common Word
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"
5 letters π Category: Common Word
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Answer: INONE
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68D: "107. Subdue by stunning"
4 letters π Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: TASE
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69D: "109. Needing kneading, perhaps"
5 letters π Category: Abbreviation
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."
4 letters π Category: Common Word
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Answer: ITAL
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71D: "113. Counterpart to nuts"
4 letters π Category: Wordplay
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"
3 letters π Category: Abbreviation
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. KΓΆlsch or saison"
3 letters π Category: Common Word
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!]"
3 letters π Category: Proper Noun
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."
3 letters π Category: General Knowledge
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"
3 letters π Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: DSW
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77D: "122. Org. banning 119-Down"
3 letters π Category: General Knowledge
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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