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Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Moderate
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🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (33 clues)
🧩 1A: "1. Who wrote in an 1852 novel "Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states writer of a novel about slavery that advanced the abolitionists' cause (1811-1896)
- Similar words include: Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: STOWE
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🧩 2A: "6. Stick around camp?"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: TENTPOLE
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🧩 3A: "14. Synthetic fabric sometimes called "elastane"""
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LYCRA
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🧩 4A: "15. Competition conducted in rounds over rounds"
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- Pattern: _________
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Answer: BARTRIVIA
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🧩 5A: "16. Microscope component"
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- Think of something that the organ of sight
- Similar words include: ocular, eye, visual
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OPTIC
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🧩 6A: "17. Establishments with many green rooms"
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- Pattern: _________
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Answer: ECOHOTELS
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🧩 7A: "18. "Aw, that's so nice of you!""
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- Pattern: _________
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Answer: GEETHANKS
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🧩 8A: "20. Toadlike"
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- Think of something that (of skin) covered with warts or projections that resemble warts
- Similar words include: verrucose, wartlike
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: WARTY
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🧩 9A: "21. Stuff"
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- Think of something that fill to satisfaction
- Similar words include: satiate, fill, replete
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SATE
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🧩 10A: "22. Some fridges"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LGS
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🧩 11A: "23. Way to the left?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the countries of (originally) europe and (now including) north america and south america
- Similar words include: western United States, Benjamin West, due west
- Opposite of: east
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Answer: WEST
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🧩 12A: "24. Rum-soaked cake"
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- Think of something that a small cake leavened with yeast
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BABA
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🧩 13A: "26. Frameable frame"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CEL
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🧩 14A: "27. Anytown, ___"
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- 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: the States, United States Army, America
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: USA
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🧩 15A: "30. Many an I.R.S. public service announcement"
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- Pattern: _________
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Answer: SCAMALERT
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🧩 16A: "33. Heart"
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- Think of something that a small conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere in the milky way near centaurus
- Similar words include: crux of the matter, Crux Australis, Southern Cross
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CRUX
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🧩 17A: "34. Reassuring words when help is needed"
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- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: YOUCANCOUNTONME
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🧩 18A: "36. Means of defense for an elephant"
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- Think of something that a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses
- Similar words include: detusk, horn, ivory
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TUSK
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🧩 19A: "37. "That would make the most sense to me""
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- Pattern: _________
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Answer: IASSUMESO
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🧩 20A: "38. Some residents: Abbr."
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DRS
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🧩 21A: "39. Blubber"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides)
- Similar words include: fatty, fatten, avoirdupois
- Opposite of: thin, leanness
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Answer: FAT
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🧩 22A: "40. Like Antarctica, notably"
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- Think of something that lacking sufficient water or rainfall
- Similar words include: desiccate, waterless, desiccated
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ARID
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🧩 23A: "41. Disaccustom"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk
- Similar words include: ablactate
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: WEAN
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🧩 24A: "43. Their tracks diffract light into rainbows"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element; occurs in association with zinc ores
- Similar words include: cd, compact disk, standard candle
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CDS
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🧩 25A: "44. Tricky situation"
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- Think of something that a point located with respect to surface features of some region
- Similar words include: recognise, smear, spy
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SPOT
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🧩 26A: "48. Eurasian ermine"
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- Think of something that the ermine in its brown summer coat with black-tipped tail
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: STOAT
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🧩 27A: "50. Surfaces for making cookies"
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- Pattern: _________
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Answer: SHEETPANS
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🧩 28A: "52. Guiding principle, metaphorically"
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- Pattern: _________
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Answer: NORTHSTAR
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🧩 29A: "54. 2023 title role for Timothée Chalamet"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: WONKA
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🧩 30A: "55. Events akin to streaks"
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- Pattern: _________
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Answer: UNDIERUNS
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🧩 31A: "56. Opposite of entropy"
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- Think of something that (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed
- Similar words include: regulate, Holy Order, rank
- Opposite of: disorderliness, disorder
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Answer: ORDER
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🧩 32A: "57. "Don't give up""
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: BESTRONG
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🧩 33A: "58. Corset supports"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a woman's close-fitting foundation garment
- Similar words include: check, persist, remain
- Opposite of: depart, move
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Answer: STAYS
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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (37 clues)
🧩 1D: "1. Tedious trials"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that work doggedly or persistently
- Similar words include: tramp, footslog, slog
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SLOGS
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🧩 2D: "2. Ambitious and uncompromising, say"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TYPEA
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🧩 3D: "3. The planets, since 2006"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one
- Similar words include: ogdoad, octonary, octette
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OCTET
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🧩 4D: "4. Follow to the letter?"
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- Pattern: _________
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Answer: WRITEBACK
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🧩 5D: "5. Grocery pricing term"
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- Think of something that (used of count nouns) every one considered individually
- Similar words include: for each one, from each one, to each one
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EACH
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🧩 6D: "6. Sailing maneuvers"
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- Think of something that the heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails
- Similar words include: wear round, hang on, interchange
- Opposite of: disassemble
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Answer: TACKS
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🧩 7D: "7. Freudian drive to survive"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (greek mythology) god of love; son of aphrodite; identified with roman cupid
- Similar words include: physical attraction, concupiscence, sexual desire
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EROS
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🧩 8D: "8. High degree"
🎯 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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🧩 9D: "9. Part of a masonry kit"
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- Think of something that a small hand tool with a handle and flat metal blade; used for scooping or spreading plaster or similar materials
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TROWEL
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🧩 10D: "10. Breads that may be used as scoops"
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- Think of something that usually small round bread that can open into a pocket for filling
- Similar words include: pocket bread, pita
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PITAS
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🧩 11D: "11. Nullifies"
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- Think of something that the act of upsetting something
- Similar words include: repeal, revolutionise, overrule
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: OVERTURNS
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🧩 12D: "12. Pleasing cadence"
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- Think of something that a jaunty rhythm in music
- Similar words include: swing
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LILT
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🧩 13D: "13. "Don't stress yourself""
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- Think of something that posing no difficulty; requiring little effort
- Similar words include: slowly, well-situated, well-off
- Opposite of: uneasy, difficult
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Answer: EASY
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🧩 14D: "15. Hybrid feline whose coat may feature rosettes"
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- Pattern: _________
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Answer: BENGALCAT
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🧩 15D: "19. One of two official languages of Kosovo"
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- Think of something that a native or inhabitant of albania
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: ALBANIAN
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🧩 16D: "23. Caregiver known as a "nutrix" in ancient Rome"
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- Think of something that a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else
- Similar words include: amah, wet-nurse, wet nurse
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: WETNURSE
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🧩 17D: "25. Org. with a serpent in its logo"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AMA
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🧩 18D: "26. Warriors for a cause"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a disputant who advocates reform
- Similar words include: meliorist, reformist, crusader
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: CRUSADERS
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🧩 19D: "28. Bouts held in a dohyo"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a japanese form of wrestling; you lose if you are forced out of a small ring or if any part of your body (other than your feet) touches the ground
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SUMO
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🧩 20D: "29. Medieval warrior's weapon"
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- Think of something that an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle
- Similar words include: ax
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AXE
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🧩 21D: "30. Turned"
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- Think of something that a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
- Similar words include: turn, acidity, sourness
- Opposite of: sweeten, sweet
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Answer: SOUR
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🧩 22D: "31. #@$% and &?*!, by implication"
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- Pattern: _________
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Answer: CUSSWORDS
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🧩 23D: "32. Sister of Helios"
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- Think of something that (greek mythology) the winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology; daughter of hyperion; identified with roman aurora
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EOS
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🧩 24D: "33. Table tennis or beach volleyball"
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- Pattern: _________
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Answer: COEDSPORT
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🧩 25D: "34. Abbr. on a pay stub"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: YTD
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🧩 26D: "35. Letters said out of embarrassment"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TMI
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🧩 27D: "39. Pops"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
- Similar words include: Padre, founder, begetter
- Opposite of: mother, female parent
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Answer: FATHER
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🧩 28D: "42. Face-plant, so to speak"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EATIT
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🧩 29D: "43. Iris ___, author of "The Chinese in America""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the longest river of asia; flows eastward from tibet into the east china sea near shanghai
- Similar words include: Changjiang, Yangtze, Yangtze River
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CHANG
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🧩 30D: "45. Animal that's mostly white, helping it hide in its natural habitat"
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- Think of something that large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of china and tibet; in some classifications considered a member of the bear family or of a separate family ailuropodidae
- Similar words include: red panda, giant panda, coon bear
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PANDA
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🧩 31D: "46. Pitch-perfect"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ONKEY
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🧩 32D: "47. Alexis, Feodor and Peter, among others"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a male monarch or emperor (especially of russia prior to 1917)
- Similar words include: tzar, czar, tsar
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TSARS
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🧩 33D: "48. Slight"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an instance of driving away or warding off
- Similar words include: rebuff, cold shoulder, ignore
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SNUB
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🧩 34D: "49. What's hard to read in a text"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the quality of a person's voice
- Similar words include: pure tone, quality, flavor
- Opposite of: atonicity
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Answer: TONE
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🧩 35D: "50. Floor"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow
- Similar words include: bedaze, stupefy, daze
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: STUN
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🧩 36D: "51. Rare bills and dice rolls"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
- Similar words include: II, 2, deuce
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TWOS
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🧩 37D: "53. Sign of a sellout"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SRO
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📊 Today's Puzzle Stats
33 Across Clues
37 Down Clues
70 Total Clues
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