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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis
Date: Monday, April 22, 2024
Difficulty Level: Medium Tuesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 78 (37 Across, 41 Down)
Average Word Length: 4.8 letters
Master Today's Across: NYT Monday Puzzle April 22, 2024
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. *Nonrenewable energy source … and the start of an eight-step word ladder | 4 |
| 2A | 5. To any extent | 5 |
| 3A | 10. Singer Lambert | 4 |
| 4A | 14. British princess who was an Olympic equestrian | 4 |
| 5A | 15. ___ Hart, "Chicago" role | 5 |
| 6A | 16. Kind of bean mentioned in "The Silence of the Lambs" | 4 |
| 7A | 17. Leave no leaves, say | 4 |
| 8A | 18. Sustainably produced electricity | 10 |
| 9A | 20. Baroque ___ (1600-1750) | 3 |
| 10A | 21. *Air-conditioned, say | 4 |
| 11A | 22. Sweetie pie | 3 |
| 12A | 23. Traditional head garments for Sikh men | 7 |
| 13A | 25. Most clichéd | 7 |
| 14A | 29. Slowpoke in a shell | 5 |
| 15A | 30. *Sheep's coat | 4 |
| 16A | 31. Double-helix material | 3 |
| 17A | 32. ___ non grata (unwelcome sort) | 7 |
| 18A | 35. *Energy source whose production contributes to 36-Across | 4 |
| 19A | 36. One symptom of climate change | 13 |
| 20A | 39. *Energy source whose production contributes to 36-Across | 4 |
| 21A | 40. Big name in TV ratings | 7 |
| 22A | 41. ___ Dhabi | 3 |
| 23A | 42. *Pleasant to recall, as a memory | 4 |
| 24A | 43. Puccini opera about an opera singer | 5 |
| 25A | 47. Spilling the tea, so to speak | 7 |
| 26A | 49. Goes extinct | 7 |
| 27A | 51. Ages and ages | 3 |
| 28A | 52. *Discovery | 4 |
| 29A | 53. "I'm not loving it" | 3 |
| 30A | 54. Carbon-based energy source | 10 |
| 31A | 58. Diddly-squat | 4 |
| 32A | 59. Border on | 4 |
| 33A | 60. Major blood vessel | 5 |
| 34A | 61. Lena of "Chocolat" | 4 |
| 35A | 62. Fabric tears | 4 |
| 36A | 63. Barking orders, say | 5 |
| 37A | 64. *Renewable energy source … and the end of the word ladder | 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. *Nonrenewable energy source … and the start of an eight-step word ladder"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the carboniferous period
- Words that mean the same thing: ember, char
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: COAL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "5. To any extent"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 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!
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The answer is: ATALL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Across: "10. Singer Lambert"
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 (old testament) in judeo-christian mythology; the first man and the husband of eve and the progenitor of the human race
- Words that mean the same thing: hug drug, ecstasy, go
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ADAM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Across: "14. British princess who was an Olympic equestrian"
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 queen of england and scotland and ireland; daughter if james ii and the last of the stuart monarchs; in 1707 she was the last english ruler to exercise the royal veto over parliament (1665-1714)
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ANNE
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Clue 5 Across: "15. ___ Hart, "Chicago" role"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 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!
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The answer is: ROXIE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Across: "16. Kind of bean mentioned in "The Silence of the Lambs""
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!
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The answer is: FAVA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Across: "17. Leave no leaves, say"
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 dissolute man in fashionable society
- Words that mean the same thing: pitch, run down, rip
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RAKE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Across: "18. Sustainably produced electricity"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a hard clue about geography.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: __________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GREENPOWER
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Clue 9 Across: "20. Baroque ___ (1600-1750)"
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 period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
- Words that mean the same thing: geological era, epoch, earned run average
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ERA
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Clue 10 Across: "21. *Air-conditioned, say"
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 quality of being at a refreshingly low temperature
- Words that mean the same thing: assuredness, coolheaded, cool off
- The opposite would be: heat, warm
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: COOL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "22. Sweetie pie"
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!
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The answer is: HON
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "23. Traditional head garments for Sikh men"
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 traditional muslim headdress consisting of a long scarf wrapped around the head
- Words that mean the same thing: pillbox, toque, turban
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TURBANS
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Clue 13 Across: "25. Most clichéd"
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 repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
- Words that mean the same thing: timeworn, tired, trite
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TRITEST
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "29. Slowpoke in a shell"
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 freshwater or marine or terrestrial gastropod mollusk usually having an external enclosing spiral shell
- Words that mean the same thing: escargot
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SNAIL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "30. *Sheep's coat"
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 fabric made from the hair of sheep
- Words that mean the same thing: woolen, fleece, woollen
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: WOOL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "31. Double-helix material"
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 (biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transmission of genetic information
- Words that mean the same thing: deoxyribonucleic acid, desoxyribonucleic acid
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DNA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "32. ___ non grata (unwelcome sort)"
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 an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
- Words that mean the same thing: character, theatrical role, image
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PERSONA
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Clue 18 Across: "35. *Energy source whose production contributes to 36-Across"
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 hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees
- Words that mean the same thing: woodwind, forest, Natalie Wood
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: WOOD
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "36. One symptom of climate change"
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!
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The answer is: GLOBALWARMING
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "39. *Energy source whose production contributes to 36-Across"
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 any substance that can be metabolized by an animal to give energy and build tissue
- Words that mean the same thing: intellectual nourishment, nutrient, food for thought
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FOOD
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "40. Big name in TV ratings"
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 danish composer (1865-1931)
- Words that mean the same thing: Carl Nielsen, Carl August Nielsen
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NIELSEN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "41. ___ Dhabi"
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!
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The answer is: ABU
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "42. *Pleasant to recall, as a memory"
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 having or displaying warmth or affection
- Words that mean the same thing: warm, lovesome, adoring
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FOND
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "43. Puccini opera about an opera singer"
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!
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The answer is: TOSCA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "47. Spilling the tea, so to speak"
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 provide (usually but not necessarily food)
- Words that mean the same thing: serve up, dish, serve
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DISHING
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Clue 26 Across: "49. Goes extinct"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 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!
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The answer is: DIESOUT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "51. Ages and ages"
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 longest division of geological time
- Words that mean the same thing: aeon
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EON
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "52. *Discovery"
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 a productive insight
- Words that mean the same thing: breakthrough, discovery, get
- The opposite would be: lose
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FIND
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "53. "I'm not loving it""
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!
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The answer is: MEH
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "54. Carbon-based energy source"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 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!
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The answer is: FOSSILFUEL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "58. Diddly-squat"
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 a quantity of no importance
- Words that mean the same thing: zero, cypher, nil
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NADA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 32 Across: "59. Border on"
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 lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- Words that mean the same thing: butt against, border, adjoin
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ABUT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 33 Across: "60. Major blood vessel"
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 large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AORTA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 34 Across: "61. Lena of "Chocolat""
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!
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The answer is: OLIN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 35 Across: "62. Fabric tears"
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 dissolute man in fashionable society
- Words that mean the same thing: rake, rend, riptide
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RIPS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 36 Across: "63. Barking orders, say"
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 offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power
- Words that mean the same thing: autocratic, high-and-mighty, magisterial
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BOSSY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 37 Across: "64. *Renewable energy source … and the end of the word ladder"
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 air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
- Words that mean the same thing: nose, wander, wind up
- The opposite would be: unwind
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: WIND
Great job if you got it right!
NYT Monday Crossword Down Clues - April 22, 2024 Answers
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. These manuscript marks: ^^^ | 6 |
| 2D | 2. Out jogging | 6 |
| 3D | 3. Capital of Turkey | 6 |
| 4D | 4. "Abbott Elementary" actress Sheryl ___ Ralph | 3 |
| 5D | 5. Element whose name anagrams to GROAN | 5 |
| 6D | 6. Pamplona bulls | 5 |
| 7D | 7. Skater's jump with one and a half turns | 4 |
| 8D | 8. Work of fiction? | 3 |
| 9D | 9. Cariou who played Sweeney Todd | 3 |
| 10D | 10. In progress | 5 |
| 11D | 11. Suddenly became clear to | 8 |
| 12D | 12. Chicago's Michigan ___: Abbr. | 3 |
| 13D | 13. Damage, as a surface | 3 |
| 14D | 19. Dr. on TV | 4 |
| 15D | 21. "The Alienist" author Carr | 5 |
| 16D | 24. Two-legged stand | 5 |
| 17D | 25. Having a key, in music | 5 |
| 18D | 26. Laughs heartily | 5 |
| 19D | 27. Make out, in Britspeak | 4 |
| 20D | 28. Smidgen | 3 |
| 21D | 30. Knocked the socks off | 5 |
| 22D | 33. Talked incessantly | 5 |
| 23D | 34. Support for a cast … or a word meaning "cast" | 5 |
| 24D | 35. Some excessive drinkers | 5 |
| 25D | 36. Its name translates as "waterless place" in Mongolian | 4 |
| 26D | 37. Botches badly | 8 |
| 27D | 38. Allocated, with "out" | 5 |
| 28D | 39. With 49-Down, trendy eating plans | 3 |
| 29D | 42. Done, in Dijon | 4 |
| 30D | 44. Mogadishu resident | 6 |
| 31D | 45. Signaled to begin, as a conductor might | 6 |
| 32D | 46. Close by | 6 |
| 33D | 48. "S.N.L." V.I.P.s | 5 |
| 34D | 49. See 39-Down | 5 |
| 35D | 50. Mosaic decoration | 5 |
| 36D | 52. Controversial coats | 4 |
| 37D | 54. A long way away | 3 |
| 38D | 55. Kimono sash | 3 |
| 39D | 56. "Chocolate" breed, for short | 3 |
| 40D | 57. Rock's ___ Fighters | 3 |
| 41D | 58. As we speak | 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. These manuscript marks: ^^^"
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 a mark used by an author or editor to indicate where something is to be inserted into a text
- Words that mean the same thing: caret
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CARETS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. Out jogging"
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!
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The answer is: ONARUN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. Capital of Turkey"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about geography.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the capital of turkey; located in west-central turkey; it was formerly known as angora and is the home of angora goats
- Words that mean the same thing: capital of Turkey, Turkish capital, Angora
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ANKARA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. "Abbott Elementary" actress Sheryl ___ Ralph"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that united states filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in america (born in 1957)
- Words that mean the same thing: downwind, leeward, Tsung Dao Lee
- The opposite would be: windward
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LEE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. Element whose name anagrams to GROAN"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about science/technology.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a colorless and odorless inert gas; one of the six inert gases; comprises approximately 1% of the earth's atmosphere
- Words that mean the same thing: atomic number 18, Ar
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ARGON
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Down: "6. Pamplona bulls"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 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!
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The answer is: TOROS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Down: "7. Skater's jump with one and a half turns"
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!
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The answer is: AXEL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Down: "8. Work of fiction?"
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 a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
- Words that mean the same thing: prevarication, lie down, lie in
- The opposite would be: stand, arise
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LIE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Down: "9. Cariou who played Sweeney Todd"
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!
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The answer is: LEN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Down: "10. In progress"
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 traveling by foot
- Words that mean the same thing: underway
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AFOOT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. Suddenly became clear to"
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!
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The answer is: DAWNEDON
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. Chicago's Michigan ___: Abbr."
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AVE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Down: "13. Damage, as a surface"
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 month following february and preceding april
- Words that mean the same thing: defect, impair, March
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MAR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Down: "19. Dr. on TV"
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!
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The answer is: PHIL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Down: "21. "The Alienist" author Carr"
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!
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The answer is: CALEB
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Clue 16 Down: "24. Two-legged stand"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: BIPOD
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Clue 17 Down: "25. Having a key, in music"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about music.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that employing variations in pitch to distinguish meanings of otherwise similar words
- Words that mean the same thing: tonic
- The opposite would be: atonal
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The answer is: TONAL
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Clue 18 Down: "26. Laughs heartily"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a deep prolonged loud noise
- Words that mean the same thing: boom, bellow, holler
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: ROARS
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Clue 19 Down: "27. Make out, in Britspeak"
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 touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.
- Words that mean the same thing: kiss, buss, osculate
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: SNOG
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Clue 20 Down: "28. Smidgen"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that a slight amount or degree of difference
- Words that mean the same thing: shade
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: TAD
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Clue 21 Down: "30. Knocked the socks off"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that impress greatly
- Words that mean the same thing: wow
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: WOWED
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Clue 22 Down: "33. Talked incessantly"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: RANON
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Clue 23 Down: "34. Support for a cast … or a word meaning "cast""
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a highball with liquor and water with sugar and lemon or lime juice
- Words that mean the same thing: slingback, triangular bandage, scarf bandage
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: SLING
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Clue 24 Down: "35. Some excessive drinkers"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about food & drink.
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- This could be something that a chronic drinker
- Words that mean the same thing: drunkard, drunk, wino
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: WINOS
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Clue 25 Down: "36. Its name translates as "waterless place" in Mongolian"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a desert in central china
- Words that mean the same thing: Gobi Desert
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: GOBI
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Clue 26 Down: "37. Botches badly"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ________
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The answer is: LOUSESUP
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Clue 27 Down: "38. Allocated, with "out""
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: METED
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Clue 28 Down: "39. With 49-Down, trendy eating plans"
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 an interest followed with exaggerated zeal
- Words that mean the same thing: rage, cult, furore
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: FAD
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Clue 29 Down: "42. Done, in Dijon"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: FINI
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Clue 30 Down: "44. Mogadishu resident"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about food & drink.
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- This could be something that a member of a tall dark (mostly muslim) people inhabiting somalia
- Words that mean the same thing: Somalian
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: SOMALI
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Clue 31 Down: "45. Signaled to begin, as a conductor might"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: CUEDIN
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Clue 32 Down: "46. Close by"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: ATHAND
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Clue 33 Down: "48. "S.N.L." V.I.P.s"
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 person who invites guests to a social event (such as a party in his or her own home) and who is responsible for them while they are there
- Words that mean the same thing: server, emcee, host
- The opposite would be: parasite
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The answer is: HOSTS
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Clue 34 Down: "49. See 39-Down"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a prescribed selection of foods
- Words that mean the same thing: dieting, diet
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: DIETS
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Clue 35 Down: "50. Mosaic decoration"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that (dentistry) a filling consisting of a solid substance (as gold or porcelain) fitted to a cavity in a tooth and cemented into place
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: INLAY
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Clue 36 Down: "52. Controversial coats"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that the dressed hairy coat of a mammal
- Words that mean the same thing: pelt, fur
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: FURS
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Clue 37 Down: "54. A long way away"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that a terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by tutsi and to institute hutu control again
- Words that mean the same thing: ALIR, Former Armed Forces, Interahamwe
- The opposite would be: near
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The answer is: FAR
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Clue 38 Down: "55. Kimono sash"
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 (west indies) followers of a religious system involving witchcraft and sorcery
- Words that mean the same thing: obeah
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: OBI
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Clue 39 Down: "56. "Chocolate" breed, for short"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a workplace for the conduct of scientific research
- Words that mean the same thing: science lab, laboratory, science laboratory
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: LAB
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Clue 40 Down: "57. Rock's ___ Fighters"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: FOO
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Clue 41 Down: "58. As we speak"
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 momentary present
- Words that mean the same thing: directly, instantly, nowadays
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: NOW
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 49 | 62.8% |
| Short Answer | 15 | 19.2% |
| Celebrity/Entertainment | 5 | 6.4% |
| Geography | 2 | 2.6% |
| Abbreviation | 2 | 2.6% |
| Food & Drink | 2 | 2.6% |
| Sports | 1 | 1.3% |
| Science/Technology | 1 | 1.3% |
| Music | 1 | 1.3% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 37 |
| Down Clues | 41 |
| Total Clues | 78 |
| Average Answer Length | 4.8 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 Monday, 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!
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