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Date: Saturday, November 21, 2020
Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 68 (34 Across, 34 Down)
Average Word Length: 5.8 letters
November 21, 2020 Across Hints: NYT Saturday Crossword Answers
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. "Isn't it strange?" | 8 |
| 2A | 9. 1, 2, 3, 4 ... 11, 12, 14, etc. | 6 |
| 3A | 15. Natural ingredient in mouthwash | 8 |
| 4A | 16. Record at the register | 6 |
| 5A | 17. Times table? | 8 |
| 6A | 18. Juice | 6 |
| 7A | 19. Bootlegger's foe | 4 |
| 8A | 20. Award winners | 9 |
| 9A | 22. Modern health risk, informally | 4 |
| 10A | 24. Composer whose name is one letter off from an international peace grp. | 6 |
| 11A | 25. How model airplane parts are sold | 6 |
| 12A | 27. Subject of Shakespeare's line "Come, thou mortal wretch" | 3 |
| 13A | 28. Closers of some boxes | 4 |
| 14A | 32. ___/hr. (power meas.) | 3 |
| 15A | 33. Condescending term of address | 3 |
| 16A | 35. Couscous tidbit | 7 |
| 17A | 37. Dark | 7 |
| 18A | 39. Shipment to a mill | 7 |
| 19A | 40. Ally of Britain during the Seven Years' War | 7 |
| 20A | 41. Human Genome Project org. | 3 |
| 21A | 42. 1980s cable competitor of CMT | 3 |
| 22A | 43. Nonvital surgery target | 4 |
| 23A | 44. Book before Deut. | 3 |
| 24A | 46. Finale of a radio countdown | 6 |
| 25A | 48. Having a little of this, a little of that | 6 |
| 26A | 51. Bird that sometimes sings in a duet | 4 |
| 27A | 52. Cal Ripken Jr. or Pee Wee Reese | 9 |
| 28A | 55. Latin word that's 12-Down backward | 4 |
| 29A | 57. Joint | 6 |
| 30A | 58. Einstein referred to his endorsement of it as "one great mistake" | 8 |
| 31A | 60. Neutral at worst | 6 |
| 32A | 61. Longtime locale of Mideast conflict | 8 |
| 33A | 62. "Nevertheless ..." | 6 |
| 34A | 63. 90s kid? | 8 |
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. "Isn't it strange?""
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ________
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The answer is: WEIRDHUH
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Clue 2 Across: "9. 1, 2, 3, 4 ... 11, 12, 14, etc."
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 the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure)
- Words that mean the same thing: floor, storey, ball over
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FLOORS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Across: "15. Natural ingredient in mouthwash"
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: ALOEVERA
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Clue 4 Across: "16. Record at the register"
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: RINGUP
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Clue 5 Across: "17. Times table?"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ________
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The answer is: NEWSDESK
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Clue 6 Across: "18. Juice"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that (physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs
- Words that mean the same thing: get-up-and-go, Department of Energy, vitality
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ENERGY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Across: "19. Bootlegger's foe"
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: TMAN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Across: "20. Award winners"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a hard clue about history.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that someone honored for great achievements; figuratively someone crowned with a laurel wreath
- Words that mean the same thing: laureate
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LAUREATES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Across: "22. Modern health risk, informally"
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: ECIG
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Across: "24. Composer whose name is one letter off from an international peace grp."
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about music.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that romanian violinist and composer (1881-1955)
- Words that mean the same thing: Georges Enesco, George Enescu
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ENESCO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "25. How model airplane parts are sold"
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: INAKIT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "27. Subject of Shakespeare's line "Come, thou mortal wretch""
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 of southern europe; similar to but smaller than the adder
- Words that mean the same thing: Naja haje, Vipera aspis, asp viper
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ASP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "28. Closers of some boxes"
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 bill in a restaurant
- Words that mean the same thing: check, tablet, yellow journalism
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TABS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "32. ___/hr. (power meas.)"
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 unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure; equivalent to 251.997 calories
- Words that mean the same thing: B.Th.U., British thermal unit
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BTU
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "33. Condescending term of address"
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: BUB
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "35. Couscous tidbit"
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: PINENUT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "37. Dark"
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 shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
- Words that mean the same thing: grisly, sick, gruesome
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MACABRE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Across: "39. Shipment to a mill"
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: IRONORE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "40. Ally of Britain during the Seven Years' War"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about history.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a former kingdom in north-central europe including present-day northern germany and northern poland
- Words that mean the same thing: Preussen
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PRUSSIA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "41. Human Genome Project org."
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 agency in the department of health and human services whose mission is to employ science in the pursuit of knowledge to improve human health; is the principal biomedical research agency of the federal government
- Words that mean the same thing: National Institutes of Health
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NIH
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "42. 1980s cable competitor of CMT"
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: TNN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "43. Nonvital surgery target"
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 closed sac that develops abnormally in some body structure
- Words that mean the same thing: vesicle
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CYST
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "44. Book before Deut."
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy 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: NUM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "46. Finale of a radio countdown"
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: TOPHIT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "48. Having a little of this, a little of that"
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 disparaging terms for the common people
- Words that mean the same thing: rabble, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RAGTAG
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "51. Bird that sometimes sings in a duet"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that english architect who designed more than fifty london churches (1632-1723)
- Words that mean the same thing: jenny wren, Sir Christopher Wren
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: WREN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "52. Cal Ripken Jr. or Pee Wee Reese"
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 (baseball) the person who plays the shortstop position
- Words that mean the same thing: short
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SHORTSTOP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "55. Latin word that's 12-Down backward"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about history.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that (used as a sentence connector) therefore or consequently
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ERGO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "57. Joint"
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: DOOBIE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "58. Einstein referred to his endorsement of it as "one great mistake""
Quick Info: This answer has 8 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: ATOMBOMB
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "60. Neutral at worst"
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: NOLOSS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 32 Across: "61. Longtime locale of Mideast conflict"
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: THESINAI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 33 Across: "62. "Nevertheless ...""
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: ANDYET
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 34 Across: "63. 90s kid?"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 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: ASTUDENT
Great job if you got it right!
November 21, 2020 Down Hints: NYT Saturday Crossword Guide
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. In ___ of | 4 |
| 2D | 2. Uncomplicated | 10 |
| 3D | 3. Bill and Hillary Clinton have each won one | 10 |
| 4D | 4. Judith who was the second American woman in space | 6 |
| 5D | 5. Part of a box set, maybe | 3 |
| 6D | 6. Part of a foot | 4 |
| 7D | 7. Alpha ___ Minoris (the North Star) | 5 |
| 8D | 8. With 45-Down, Disney song written by Elton John and Tim Rice | 6 |
| 9D | 9. Maverick | 10 |
| 10D | 10. Machine in a particle physics lab, in brief | 5 |
| 11D | 11. Like some ranking systems | 8 |
| 12D | 12. Despotic boss | 4 |
| 13D | 13. Challenges for Roombas | 4 |
| 14D | 14. ___-fi | 3 |
| 15D | 21. Extra shot at the slots | 6 |
| 16D | 23. Lead agent on "NCIS" | 5 |
| 17D | 25. 28-pound debut of 1981 | 5 |
| 18D | 26. Topic in artificial intelligence | 10 |
| 19D | 29. What's more | 10 |
| 20D | 30. Annual mass event in Nevada's Black Rock Desert | 10 |
| 21D | 31. Blockage unblocker | 5 |
| 22D | 34. Humdingers | 6 |
| 23D | 36. In any possible way, in dialect | 5 |
| 24D | 38. Titular android of early anime cartoons | 8 |
| 25D | 45. See 8-Down | 6 |
| 26D | 47. Offer in advance | 6 |
| 27D | 49. What unexpected problems may do | 5 |
| 28D | 50. Foes of the Romans | 5 |
| 29D | 52. "So ___?" | 4 |
| 30D | 53. Stock market recommendation | 4 |
| 31D | 54. Expert on feet | 4 |
| 32D | 56. Last words? | 4 |
| 33D | 57. 3x platinum Kendrick Lamar song with the lyric "I was born like this" | 3 |
| 34D | 59. Big Sky Conference sch. | 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. In ___ of"
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 state of extreme poverty
- Words that mean the same thing: wishing, need, deprivation
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: WANT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. Uncomplicated"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that easy and not involved or complicated
- Words that mean the same thing: simple, unproblematic, uncomplicated
- The word looks like this: __________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ELEMENTARY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. Bill and Hillary Clinton have each won one"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 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: IOWACAUCUS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. Judith who was the second American woman in space"
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: RESNIK
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. Part of a box set, maybe"
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 digital recording (as of a movie) on an optical disk that can be played on a computer or a television set
- Words that mean the same thing: videodisk, videodisc
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DVD
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Down: "6. Part of a foot"
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 bottom of a shoe or boot; the back part of a shoe or boot that touches the ground and provides elevation
- Words that mean the same thing: cad, dog, blackguard
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HEEL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Down: "7. Alpha ___ Minoris (the North Star)"
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: URSAE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Down: "8. With 45-Down, Disney song written by Elton John and Tim Rice"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about music.
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: HAKUNA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Down: "9. Maverick"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 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: FREESPIRIT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Down: "10. Machine in a particle physics lab, in brief"
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 ions are accelerated along a linear path by voltage differences on electrodes along the path
- Words that mean the same thing: linear accelerator
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LINAC
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. Like some ranking systems"
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: ONETOTEN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. Despotic boss"
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 cruel wicked and inhuman person
- Words that mean the same thing: demon, monster, fiend
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OGRE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Down: "13. Challenges for Roombas"
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 floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile)
- Words that mean the same thing: carpet, carpeting, rug
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RUGS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Down: "14. ___-fi"
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 (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors
- Words that mean the same thing: espy, stag, spot
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SPY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Down: "21. Extra shot at the slots"
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: RESPIN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Down: "23. Lead agent on "NCIS""
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 united states chemist (1839-1903)
- Words that mean the same thing: Josiah Willard Gibbs
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GIBBS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Down: "25. 28-pound debut of 1981"
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: IBMPC
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Down: "26. Topic in artificial intelligence"
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: TURINGTEST
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Down: "29. What's more"
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: ANOTHERONE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Down: "30. Annual mass event in Nevada's Black Rock Desert"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 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: BURNINGMAN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Down: "31. Blockage unblocker"
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 slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: STENT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Down: "34. Humdingers"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an outstanding example of its kind
- Words that mean the same thing: beauty, beaut
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: BEAUTS
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Clue 23 Down: "36. In any possible way, in dialect"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that in no manner; in no way
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: NOHOW
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Clue 24 Down: "38. Titular android of early anime cartoons"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ________
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The answer is: ASTROBOY
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Clue 25 Down: "45. See 8-Down"
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: MATATA
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Clue 26 Down: "47. Offer in advance"
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: PREBID
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Clue 27 Down: "49. What unexpected problems may do"
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 come into existence; take on form or shape
- Words that mean the same thing: originate, develop, grow
- The opposite would be: turn in, go to bed
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The answer is: ARISE
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Clue 28 Down: "50. Foes of the Romans"
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 crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement
- Words that mean the same thing: churl, peasant, barbarian
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: GOTHS
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Clue 29 Down: "52. "So ___?""
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that in the near future
- Words that mean the same thing: presently, before long, shortly
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: SOON
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Clue 30 Down: "53. Stock market recommendation"
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 act of grasping
- Words that mean the same thing: harbor, hold back, arrest
- The opposite would be: disagree, let go of
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The answer is: HOLD
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Clue 31 Down: "54. Expert on feet"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: POET
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Clue 32 Down: "56. Last words?"
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 notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography
- Words that mean the same thing: obituary, necrology
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: OBIT
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Clue 33 Down: "57. 3x platinum Kendrick Lamar song with the lyric "I was born like this""
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about music.
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: desoxyribonucleic acid, deoxyribonucleic 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
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Clue 34 Down: "59. Big Sky Conference sch."
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: MSU
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 51 | 75.0% |
| Short Answer | 8 | 11.8% |
| History | 3 | 4.4% |
| Music | 3 | 4.4% |
| Literature | 1 | 1.5% |
| Celebrity/Entertainment | 1 | 1.5% |
| Science/Technology | 1 | 1.5% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 34 |
| Down Clues | 34 |
| Total Clues | 68 |
| Average Answer Length | 5.8 letters |
| Shortest Answer | 3 letters |
| Longest Answer | 10 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 21, 2025 at 05:39 AM
