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Date: Saturday, January 16, 2021
Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 64 (30 Across, 34 Down)
Average Word Length: 5.9 letters
Master Today's Across: NYT Saturday Puzzle January 16, 2021
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. Be in charge ... as a doctor? | 12 |
| 2A | 13. Remains to be seen, say | 13 |
| 3A | 14. "Sheesh, just move on!" | 14 |
| 4A | 15. One of the knights of the Round Table | 6 |
| 5A | 16. Con ___ (musical direction) | 4 |
| 6A | 17. Lead-in to some water-dwelling "folk" | 3 |
| 7A | 18. Car loan nos. | 4 |
| 8A | 19. How Superman often poses | 6 |
| 9A | 21. Galoot | 3 |
| 10A | 22. Small hybrid instrument with six strings | 9 |
| 11A | 24. Layperson? | 5 |
| 12A | 26. Where you may be waited on hand and foot? | 3 |
| 13A | 27. Make tracks | 4 |
| 14A | 28. "Where are your manners!" | 4 |
| 15A | 29. Player of Julia in "Julie & Julia" | 5 |
| 16A | 31. Walk all over the place | 5 |
| 17A | 34. 2008 horror film sequel | 4 |
| 18A | 36. What frozen foods may do in paper grocery bags | 4 |
| 19A | 37. "Arthur" airer | 3 |
| 20A | 40. Visibly dizzy, quaintly | 5 |
| 21A | 42. One might have a photographic memory | 9 |
| 22A | 44. Strengthening crosspiece | 3 |
| 23A | 45. Disassociate, as with a Bluetooth device | 6 |
| 24A | 47. Bears: Lat. | 4 |
| 25A | 48. D.O.J. V.I.P.s | 3 |
| 26A | 49. Bass organ | 4 |
| 27A | 50. Pennsylvania city where the Delaware and Lehigh Rivers meet | 6 |
| 28A | 52. World Series opener | 14 |
| 29A | 55. Command to stop saluting | 13 |
| 30A | 56. Savory snack in England | 12 |
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. Be in charge ... as a doctor?"
Quick Info: This answer has 12 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: CALLTHESHOTS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "13. Remains to be seen, say"
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: MUSEUMEXHIBIT
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Clue 3 Across: "14. "Sheesh, just move on!""
Quick Info: This answer has 14 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: LETITGOALREADY
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Clue 4 Across: "15. One of the knights of the Round Table"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 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: GARETH
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Across: "16. Con ___ (musical direction)"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about music.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous
- Words that mean the same thing: animation, spiritedness, vivification
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BRIO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Across: "17. Lead-in to some water-dwelling "folk""
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 denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units
- Words that mean the same thing: k, m, thousand
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MER
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Clue 7 Across: "18. Car loan nos."
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 month following march and preceding may
- Words that mean the same thing: Apr, April
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: APRS
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Clue 8 Across: "19. How Superman often poses"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that (used of arms and legs) bent outward with the joint away from the body
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AKIMBO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Across: "21. Galoot"
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 any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all
- Words that mean the same thing: copycat, caricature, emulator
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: APE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Across: "22. Small hybrid instrument with six strings"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 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: GUITALELE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "24. Layperson?"
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 american revolutionary leader from virginia whose objections led to the drafting of the bill of rights (1725-1792)
- Words that mean the same thing: stonemason, A. E. W. Mason, James Mason
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MASON
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "26. Where you may be waited on hand and foot?"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a hard clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a health resort near a spring or at the seaside
- Words that mean the same thing: health club, watering place, health spa
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SPA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "27. Make tracks"
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 run away quickly
- Words that mean the same thing: take flight, fly
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FLEE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "28. "Where are your manners!""
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 socially incorrect in behavior
- Words that mean the same thing: unmannerly, primitive, lowbred
- The opposite would be: civil
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RUDE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "29. Player of Julia in "Julie & Julia""
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about sports.
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: MERYL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "31. Walk all over the place"
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 disreputable vagrant
- Words that mean the same thing: hobo, vagabond, pad
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TRAMP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "34. 2008 horror film sequel"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about movies/film.
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: SAWV
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Across: "36. What frozen foods may do in paper grocery bags"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about food & drink.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings
- Words that mean the same thing: ooze
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SEEP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "37. "Arthur" airer"
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 solution containing a phosphate buffer
- Words that mean the same thing: atomic number 82, PB, petabit
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PBS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "40. Visibly dizzy, quaintly"
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: AREEL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "42. One might have a photographic memory"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an album into which clippings or notes or pictures can be pasted
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SCRAPBOOK
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "44. Strengthening crosspiece"
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 support resembling the rib of an animal
- Words that mean the same thing: roast, laugh at, poke fun
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RIB
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "45. Disassociate, as with a Bluetooth device"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 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: UNPAIR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "47. Bears: Lat."
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: URSI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "48. D.O.J. V.I.P.s"
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 soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal; occurs in argentite and in free form; used in coins and jewelry and tableware and photography
- Words that mean the same thing: atomic number 47, silver, Ag
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AGS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "49. Bass organ"
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 british imperial capacity unit (liquid or dry) equal to 5 fluid ounces or 142.066 cubic centimeters
- Words that mean the same thing: lamella, branchia
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GILL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "50. Pennsylvania city where the Delaware and Lehigh Rivers meet"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 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: EASTON
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "52. World Series opener"
Quick Info: This answer has 14 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: NATIONALANTHEM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "55. Command to stop saluting"
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: ATEASESOLDIER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "56. Savory snack in England"
Quick Info: This answer has 12 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: CORNISHPASTY
Great job if you got it right!
Solve the Down: NYT Saturday Puzzle January 16, 2021
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. Something absolutely adorable, with "the" | 6 |
| 2D | 2. "___ happens ..." | 4 |
| 3D | 3. Bad way to be poisoned | 8 |
| 4D | 4. Galoot | 3 |
| 5D | 5. So-called "America's Network" | 7 |
| 6D | 6. "Get what I'm saying?" | 6 |
| 7D | 7. Like a deaccessioned book, for short | 5 |
| 8D | 8. Slangy psychedelic | 6 |
| 9D | 9. Make tracks, quaintly | 3 |
| 10D | 10. One with a "Yes we can" attitude | 14 |
| 11D | 11. It was once a challenge to eat | 7 |
| 12D | 12. Compound found in latex | 7 |
| 13D | 13. Company at which business always comes before pleasure? | 14 |
| 14D | 14. Drink from a bowl, maybe | 5 |
| 15D | 15. Jokes | 4 |
| 16D | 20. It's below belowdecks | 4 |
| 17D | 23. What one of the Olympic rings represents: Abbr. | 3 |
| 18D | 25. Word before or after strong | 3 |
| 19D | 30. Predate? | 3 |
| 20D | 31. Polo of TV's "The Fosters" | 4 |
| 21D | 32. Cans | 8 |
| 22D | 33. Twitch or Yelp | 3 |
| 23D | 34. River that begins in the Adirondacks | 7 |
| 24D | 35. Comment that prompts the reply "Doitashimashite" | 7 |
| 25D | 36. Bouillabaisse tidbit | 7 |
| 26D | 38. Chest | 5 |
| 27D | 39. It's got you covered | 4 |
| 28D | 41. Actor profiled in the biography "The Immortal Count" | 6 |
| 29D | 42. Sensational coverage | 6 |
| 30D | 43. Historic town NW of London where some of the Harry Potter series was filmed | 6 |
| 31D | 46. Wild cards in "baseball" poker | 5 |
| 32D | 51. Working hard | 4 |
| 33D | 53. Man's name that's also a suffix | 3 |
| 34D | 54. ___ vapeur (steamed) | 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. Something absolutely adorable, with "the""
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 separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument
- Words that mean the same thing: slashed, gelded, cunning
- The opposite would be: uncut, unmown
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CUTEST
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. "___ happens ...""
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: ASIT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. Bad way to be poisoned"
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: LETHALLY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. Galoot"
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 ancient celtic god
- Words that mean the same thing: lugsail, tote, tug
- The opposite would be: unstuff
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LUG
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. So-called "America's Network""
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: TMOBILE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Down: "6. "Get what I'm saying?""
Quick Info: This answer has 6 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: HEARME
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Down: "7. Like a deaccessioned book, for short"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about literature.
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: EXLIB
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Down: "8. Slangy psychedelic"
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: SHROOM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Down: "9. Make tracks, quaintly"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- Words that mean the same thing: race, rush along, pelt along
- The opposite would be: linger
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HIE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Down: "10. One with a "Yes we can" attitude"
Quick Info: This answer has 14 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: OBAMASUPPORTER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. It was once a challenge to eat"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 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: TIDEPOD
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. Compound found in latex"
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 colorless oily liquid; the monomer for polystyrene
- Words that mean the same thing: phenylethylene, cinnamene, vinylbenzene
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: STYRENE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Down: "13. Company at which business always comes before pleasure?"
Quick Info: This answer has 14 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: MERRIAMWEBSTER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Down: "14. Drink from a bowl, maybe"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about food & drink.
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: LAPUP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Down: "15. Jokes"
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 humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter
- Words that mean the same thing: quip, fret, retch
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GAGS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Down: "20. It's below belowdecks"
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 projection or ridge that suggests a keel
- Words that mean the same thing: stagger, careen, swag
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: KEEL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Down: "23. What one of the Olympic rings represents: Abbr."
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about sports.
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: AFR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Down: "25. Word before or after strong"
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 human limb; technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb
- Words that mean the same thing: subdivision, fortify, sleeve
- The opposite would be: disarm
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ARM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Down: "30. Predate?"
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 (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
- Words that mean the same thing: eventide, evening, even
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EVE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Down: "31. Polo of TV's "The Fosters""
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: TERI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Down: "32. Cans"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 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: REARENDS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Down: "33. Twitch or Yelp"
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: APP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Down: "34. River that begins in the Adirondacks"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 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: SARANAC
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Down: "35. Comment that prompts the reply "Doitashimashite""
Quick Info: This answer has 7 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: ARIGATO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Down: "36. Bouillabaisse tidbit"
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 one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)
- Words that mean the same thing: crenelle, crenel, scollop
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SCALLOP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Down: "38. Chest"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are kept
- Words that mean the same thing: squeeze, embrace, knocker
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BOSOM
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Clue 27 Down: "39. It's got you covered"
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 natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch
- Words that mean the same thing: struggle, scramble, shin
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: SKIN
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Clue 28 Down: "41. Actor profiled in the biography "The Immortal Count""
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that united states film actor (born in hungary) noted for portraying monsters (1884-1956)
- Words that mean the same thing: Bela Lugosi, Bela Ferenc Blasko
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: LUGOSI
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Clue 29 Down: "42. Sensational coverage"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about history.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the sound like water splashing
- Words that mean the same thing: splatter, sprinkle, splattering
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: SPLASH
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Clue 30 Down: "43. Historic town NW of London where some of the Harry Potter series was filmed"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about movies/film.
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- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: BUSHEY
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Clue 31 Down: "46. Wild cards in "baseball" poker"
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 cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one
- Words that mean the same thing: ennead, nine, niner
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: NINES
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Clue 32 Down: "51. Working hard"
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: ATIT
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Clue 33 Down: "53. Man's name that's also a suffix"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
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- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: IAN
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Clue 34 Down: "54. ___ vapeur (steamed)"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about sports.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: ALA
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 39 | 60.9% |
| Short Answer | 12 | 18.8% |
| Sports | 3 | 4.7% |
| Movies/Film | 2 | 3.1% |
| Food & Drink | 2 | 3.1% |
| Geography | 2 | 3.1% |
| Music | 1 | 1.6% |
| Literature | 1 | 1.6% |
| Celebrity/Entertainment | 1 | 1.6% |
| History | 1 | 1.6% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 30 |
| Down Clues | 34 |
| Total Clues | 64 |
| Average Answer Length | 5.9 letters |
| Shortest Answer | 3 letters |
| Longest Answer | 14 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 Saturday, and these puzzles are usually moderate level
- Most clues today are about general knowledge
- The average word today has about 5 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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Last Updated: September 20, 2025 at 02:42 AM
