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Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Challenging
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🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (37 clues)
🧩 1A: "1. Take to the slopes"
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- Think of something that narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used in pairs for gliding over snow
- Pattern: ___
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🧩 2A: "4. Abolitionist Tubman"
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🧩 3A: "11. Shade of gray or blond"
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- Think of something that the residue that remains when something is burned
- Similar words include: ash tree
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🧩 4A: "14. "That's rough!""
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🧩 5A: "15. Quantities"
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- Think of something that a quantity of money
- Similar words include: quantity, total, measure
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🧩 6A: "16. Dubai's country, for short"
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🧩 7A: "17. Pales in comparison"
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🧩 8A: "20. Greeting in Oahu"
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- Think of something that an acknowledgment that can be used to say hello or goodbye (aloha is hawaiian and ciao is italian)
- Similar words include: ciao
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🧩 9A: "21. French article"
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- Think of something that a chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints)
- Similar words include: LE, lupus erythematosus
- Pattern: ___
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🧩 10A: "22. Countrified"
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- Think of something that living in or characteristic of farming or country life
- Opposite of: urban
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🧩 11A: "23. After the buzzer"
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- Think of something that being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time
- Similar words include: belated, of late, tardily
- Opposite of: early
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🧩 12A: "24. Typical People cover subject, informally"
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🧩 13A: "26. Pharmacy bottlefuls, informally"
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- Think of something that a master's degree in education
- Similar words include: Master of Education, MEd
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🧩 14A: "27. Edible Christmas ornament"
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🧩 15A: "30. Planet with the most moons (274)"
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- Think of something that a giant planet that is surrounded by three planar concentric rings of ice particles; the 6th planet from the sun
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🧩 16A: "33. Not out of the ordinary"
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- Think of something that something regarded as a normative example
- Similar words include: pattern, rule, formula
- Opposite of: paranormal, abnormal
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🧩 17A: "37. Container for oranges"
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- Think of something that a rugged box (usually made of wood); used for shipping
- Similar words include: crateful
- Opposite of: uncrate
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🧩 18A: "38. Certain significant others, informally"
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🧩 19A: "41. 2016 Disney movie"
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🧩 20A: "42. King, in Latin"
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- Think of something that a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
- Similar words include: male monarch, king
- Opposite of: queen, female monarch
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🧩 21A: "43. Visual features of a 27-Across"
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- Think of something that v-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service
- Similar words include: denude, pillage, deprive
- Opposite of: dress
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🧩 22A: "46. U.S. soldiers"
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- Think of something that a unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns
- Similar words include: gilbert, GI, Gi
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🧩 23A: "47. Blown away"
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- Think of something that inspire awe in
- Similar words include: awestricken, awful, awestruck
- Opposite of: unawed
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🧩 24A: "49. ___ cart (type of food stand)"
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- Think of something that (islam) meat from animals that have been slaughtered in the prescribed way according to the shariah
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🧩 25A: "50. University in western Pennsylvania, familiarly"
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- Think of something that a british playwright who created the fictional character sweeney todd (1799-1855)
- Similar words include: George Pitt, First Earl of Chatham, Pitt the Younger
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🧩 26A: "51. Chicana, for example"
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🧩 27A: "54. Bad news for vegetation"
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- Think of something that a state or condition being blighted
- Similar words include: plague
- Pattern: ______
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🧩 28A: "55. 1990s-'00s sitcom starring Brandy"
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🧩 29A: "56. Rapper ___ Wayne"
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🧩 30A: "57. Conscience-stricken"
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- Think of something that feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse
- Opposite of: unashamed
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🧩 31A: "61. He/___"
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🧩 32A: "62. Time to look ahead"
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- Think of something that (old testament) adam's wife in judeo-christian mythology: the first woman and mother of the human race; god created eve from adam's rib and placed adam and eve in the garden of eden
- Similar words include: eventide, evening, even
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🧩 33A: "63. Birds phonetically suggested by a feature of 17-, 27- and 51-Across"
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- Think of something that brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical america having a very large thin-walled beak
- Similar words include: toucan
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🧩 34A: "64. Fútbol cheer"
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🧩 35A: "65. ___ Moines"
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- Think of something that a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry
- Similar words include: stilbestrol, stilbesterol, diethylstilboestrol
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🧩 36A: "66. Prepared to pray"
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- Think of something that rest one's weight on one's knees
- Similar words include: kneel
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🧩 37A: "67. Partner of "ty""
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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (37 clues)
🧩 1D: "1. L.A.'s region"
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- Pattern: _____
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🧩 2D: "2. Eucalyptus eater"
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- Think of something that sluggish tailless australian arboreal marsupial with grey furry ears and coat; feeds on eucalyptus leaves and bark
- Similar words include: native bear, kangaroo bear, Phascolarctos cinereus
- Pattern: _____
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🧩 3D: "3. "Otherwise ...""
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🧩 4D: "4. "Serves you right!""
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🧩 5D: "5. "Te ___" ("I love you," in Spanish)"
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- Pattern: ___
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🧩 6D: "6. Like some R's and oats"
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- Think of something that move by turning over or rotating
- Similar words include: roam, twine, ramble
- Opposite of: unwind
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🧩 7D: "7. "As I was saying before I was so ___ interrupted ...""
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- Think of something that in an impolite manner
- Similar words include: discourteously, impolitely
- Opposite of: politely, courteously
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🧩 8D: "8. Shortly"
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- Pattern: ______
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🧩 9D: "9. And the like, for short"
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🧩 10D: "10. Russian ruler of old"
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- Think of something that a male monarch or emperor (especially of russia prior to 1917)
- Similar words include: czar, tzar
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🧩 11D: "11. Lorde who wrote "Sister Outsider""
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🧩 12D: "12. Partner of soup"
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- Think of something that food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing; usually consisting of or including greens
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🧩 13D: "13. What the Beyoncé title "6 Inch" refers to"
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- Think of something that the bottom of a shoe or boot; the back part of a shoe or boot that touches the ground and provides elevation
- Similar words include: heel, blackguard, reheel
- Pattern: _____
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🧩 14D: "18. Online publication of Vox Media"
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🧩 15D: "19. Tres o cuatro"
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🧩 16D: "24. "Have I Got News for You" channel"
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🧩 17D: "25. Prohibit"
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- Think of something that a decree that prohibits something
- Similar words include: forbiddance, prohibition, shun
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🧩 18D: "28. Greek war god"
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- Think of something that (greek mythology) greek god of war; son of zeus and hera; identified with roman mars
- Similar words include: ar, are
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🧩 19D: "29. Chances at awards, informally"
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🧩 20D: "30. Like this: ESMCLDRBA"
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- Think of something that to move hurriedly
- Similar words include: throw together, beat, skin
- Opposite of: unscramble
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🧩 21D: "31. "Has our broadcast started?""
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- Pattern: _________
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🧩 22D: "32. People living abroad for financial reasons"
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🧩 23D: "34. Business selling trick coins and marked decks"
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🧩 24D: "35. Law professor played by Kerry Washington in 2016's "Confirmation""
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🧩 25D: "36. Things alphabetized in telephone books"
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🧩 26D: "38. Raisin ___"
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- Think of something that broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting
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🧩 27D: "39. Sneaker brand"
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- Think of something that a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells)
- Similar words include: filament, filum
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🧩 28D: "40. A dispiritingly large percentage of phone calls"
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- Think of something that a canned meat made largely from pork
- Similar words include: junk e-mail
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🧩 29D: "44. "No worries""
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🧩 30D: "45. He or I, but not she"
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- Think of something that an abstract part of something
- Similar words include: constituent, factor, chemical element
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🧩 31D: "48. Like, informally"
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- Think of something that the site of an archeological exploration
- Similar words include: shaft, delve, cut into
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🧩 32D: "50. Dessert with a shell"
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- Think of something that dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top
- Similar words include: Proto-Indo European
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🧩 33D: "52. Casual conversation"
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- Think of something that an informal conversation
- Similar words include: confabulate, confabulation, gossip
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🧩 34D: "53. Cones' counterparts in the eye"
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- Think of something that a long thin implement made of metal or wood
- Similar words include: perch, gat, rod
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🧩 35D: "58. Follower of Attila"
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- Think of something that a member of a nomadic people who invaded europe in the 4th century
- Similar words include: Krauthead, Boche, Jerry
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🧩 36D: "59. Great serve"
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- Think of something that the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
- Similar words include: sweep through, nail, single
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🧩 37D: "60. Opposite of bien"
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