27394 Fri Nov 08, 2024 NYT by Evans Clinchy

Across Clues :

1. "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious ___": Arthur Conan Doyle, 5. Jerks, 11. Potsticker vessel, 14. French bread, 15. Co-star of Netflix's "The Umbrella Academy", 17. Wax-coated wheel, 18. "Hold up, what?!", 19. Sitcom that popularized the phrase "What'choo talkin' 'bout, Willis?", 21. Travels all over, 22. Spoken-word performer ___ Scott-Heron, 23. Big brothers?, 25. Fanaticism, 30. Old Hollywood collectibles, 31. Where to take the high road?, 32. Retailer with the tagline "A Life Outdoors Is a Life Well Lived", 33. Makes angry, 34. ___-watch, 35. Allocate, 36. Goof, 37. "Lord of the Flies" boy, 38. Pizza topping, 39. Robin Williams called it "a hideous, gaudy place; it may not be the end of the world per se, but you can certainly see it from there", 41. Having kinks, say, 42. Earth, e.g., 43. Bump above a belt, 44. One working on a long-distance relationship, 51. Dessert that, despite its name, is better classified as a pie or tart, 52. Word with room or bot, 53. Humble requests, 54. Part of a succession plan, 55. Windows forerunner, in brief, 56. Lowdown, 57. Man, for one

Down Clues :

1. Put coins in, 2. Parent company of Bentley, 3. Pricey flight options, perhaps, 4. Doofuses, 5. Some underground channels, 6. Doesn't just wing it, 7. Settled (on), 8. Parks oneself, 9. Turn upside down, as a Monopoly deed card, 10. Beyond clean, 11. Constitutional, 12. Eyeball, 13. E and G, e.g., 16. ___ Banchero, 2023 N.B.A. Rookie of the Year, 20. Same-old same-olds, 23. Cinematic friend of Scuttle, Flounder and Sebastian, 24. "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore" quipper, 25. Sick burns, 26. Risqué, 27. Dairy-heavy dessert popular throughout Latin America, 28. Fix, as a bow, 29. Bond return, 31. Baltic capital, 34. Life-changing opportunity, maybe, 35. Style of music with a vihuela and guitarrón, 37. Examines closely, 38. Word before or after head, 40. One who's on a roll, 41. Twee, 43. Like many wine barrels, 44. Kept up to speed, in a way, 45. "Dream on!", 46. "Sure, I'm game", 47. When Macbeth becomes Thane of Cawdor, 48. Reclined, 49. It comes down hard, 50. "Sommes" and "serai" are forms of it

Break down the NYT Crosswords: November 08, 2024

Let's go into the puzzle, starting with the across clues and answers, followed by the down clues and answers.

Across Clues with Answers:

• The clue is 1. "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious ___": Arthur Conan Doyle. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: FACT

  Possible Answer : fact




• The clue is 5. Jerks. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: SPASMS

  Possible Answer : muscle_spasm, cramp, spasm




• The clue is 11. Potsticker vessel. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: WOK

  Possible Answer : wok




• The clue is 14. French bread. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: EURO

  Possible Answer : euro




• The clue is 15. Co-star of Netflix's "The Umbrella Academy". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

  The answer: ELLIOTPAGE




• The clue is 17. Wax-coated wheel. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: EDAM

  Possible Answer : Edam




• The clue is 18. "Hold up, what?!". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

  The answer: WAITREALLY




• The clue is 19. Sitcom that popularized the phrase "What'choo talkin' 'bout, Willis?". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (15 letters)

  The answer: DIFFRENTSTROKES




• The clue is 21. Travels all over. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: TOURS

  Possible Answer : turn, hitch, circuit, Tours, tour_of_duty, spell, enlistment, term_of_enlistment, duty_tour, go, tour




• The clue is 22. Spoken-word performer ___ Scott-Heron. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: GIL




• The clue is 23. Big brothers?. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: ABBOTS

  Possible Answer : archimandrite, abbot




• The clue is 25. Fanaticism. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (8 letters)

  The answer: ZEALOTRY

  Possible Answer : fanaticism, fanatism, zealotry




• The clue is 30. Old Hollywood collectibles. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: REELS

  Possible Answer : spin, lurch, stagger, bobbin, swag, keel, whirl, Scottish_reel, gyrate, spin_around, careen, Virginia_reel, reel, spool




• The clue is 31. Where to take the high road?. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: RIDGE

  Possible Answer : ridgepole, ridge, ridgeline, rooftree




• The clue is 32. Retailer with the tagline "A Life Outdoors Is a Life Well Lived". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: REI




• The clue is 33. Makes angry. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: IRES

  Possible Answer : choler, anger, ira, wrath, ire




• The clue is 34. ___-watch. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: BINGE

  Possible Answer : bust, overeat, overgorge, glut, stuff, tear, ingurgitate, gormandize, gormandise, splurge, engorge, bout, overindulge, orgy, englut, binge, pig_out, satiate, gourmandize, scarf_out, gorge




• The clue is 35. Allocate. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: METE

  Possible Answer : boundary_line, borderline, border, mete, delimitation




• The clue is 36. Goof. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: ERR

  Possible Answer : stray, slip, err, drift, mistake




• The clue is 37. "Lord of the Flies" boy. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: PIGGY

  Possible Answer : piggish, porcine, swinish, hoggish, shoat, piglet, shote, piggy




• The clue is 38. Pizza topping. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: BASIL

  Possible Answer : St._Basil, Basil_the_Great, basil, sweet_basil, St._Basil_the_Great, Basil, Basil_of_Caesarea




• The clue is 39. Robin Williams called it "a hideous, gaudy place; it may not be the end of the world per se, but you can certainly see it from there". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (8 letters)

  The answer: LASVEGAS




• The clue is 41. Having kinks, say. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: CURLED

  Possible Answer : kink, curve, curled, curling, curl, coil, loop, wave, curl_up, draw_in

  Possible Opposite Answer : uncoil




• The clue is 42. Earth, e.g.. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: ORB

  Possible Answer : revolve, eyeball, ball, orb, globe, orbit




• The clue is 43. Bump above a belt. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: OUTIE




• The clue is 44. One working on a long-distance relationship. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (15 letters)

  The answer: CULTURALATTACHE




• The clue is 51. Dessert that, despite its name, is better classified as a pie or tart. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

  The answer: CHEESECAKE

  Possible Answer : cheesecake




• The clue is 52. Word with room or bot. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: CHAT

  Possible Answer : chew_the_fat, chit-chat, chat, visit, schmooze, jaw, claver, confabulate, chatter, Old_World_chat, confabulation, New_World_chat, gossip, schmoose, natter, chitchat, chaffer, shoot_the_breeze, confab




• The clue is 53. Humble requests. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

  The answer: ENTREATIES

  Possible Answer : appeal, prayer, entreaty




• The clue is 54. Part of a succession plan. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: HEIR

  Possible Answer : successor, inheritor, heir, heritor




• The clue is 55. Windows forerunner, in brief. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: DOS

  Possible Answer : ut, disk_operating_system, make_out, execute, perform, answer, behave, coiffe, exercise, arrange, manage, dress, Doctor_of_Osteopathy, do, State_Department, coiffure, set, bash, practise, Department_of_State, DOS, cause, get_along, serve, DO, United_States_Department_of_State, DoS, suffice, practice, come, act, make, doh, fare, brawl, coif, State

  Possible Opposite Answer : unmake




• The clue is 56. Lowdown. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: SKINNY

  Possible Answer : tightly_fitting, cheeseparing, close, tightfitting, scraggy, near, penny-pinching, weedy, tight_fitting, tight-fitting, scrawny, skinny, underweight, boney




• The clue is 57. Man, for one. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: ISLE

  Possible Answer : islet, isle

Down Clues and Answers:

• The clue is 1. Put coins in. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: FEED

  Possible Answer: feast, tip, run, course, feed_in, flow, eat, provender, fertilise, prey, fertilize, fee, bung, give, feed

  Possible Opposite Answer : starve

• The clue is 2. Parent company of Bentley. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: AUDI

• The clue is 3. Pricey flight options, perhaps. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

  The answer: CRAFTBEERS

• The clue is 4. Doofuses. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (8 letters)

  The answer: TOMFOOLS

  Possible Answer: sap, fool, saphead, tomfool, muggins

• The clue is 5. Some underground channels. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: SEWERS

  Possible Answer: toilet, gutter, sewerage, cloaca, sewer

• The clue is 6. Doesn't just wing it. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: PLANS

  Possible Answer: program, project, programme, contrive, architectural_plan, design, plan, be_after

• The clue is 7. Settled (on). Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: ALIT

• The clue is 8. Parks oneself. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: SITS

  Possible Answer: sit_down, model, baby-sit, seat, sit_around, pose, ride, posture, sit

  Possible Opposite Answer : stand, arise

• The clue is 9. Turn upside down, as a Monopoly deed card. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (8 letters)

  The answer: MORTGAGE

  Possible Answer: mortgage

• The clue is 10. Beyond clean. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: STERILE

  Possible Answer: uninspired, unfertile, aseptic, sterile, uninventive, unimaginative, infertile

  Possible Opposite Answer : fertile

• The clue is 11. Constitutional. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: WALK

  Possible Answer: pass, manner_of_walking, walk_of_life, walking, walkway, walk, take_the_air, base_on_balls, paseo

  Possible Opposite Answer : ride

• The clue is 12. Eyeball. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: OGLE

  Possible Answer: ogle

• The clue is 13. E and G, e.g.. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: KEYS

  Possible Answer: Florida_key, headstone, winder, samara, tonality, key_fruit, key, cay, identify, discover, Key, Francis_Scott_Key, key_out, keystone, paint, describe, distinguish, name

  Possible Opposite Answer : atonality

• The clue is 16. ___ Banchero, 2023 N.B.A. Rookie of the Year. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: PAOLO

• The clue is 20. Same-old same-olds. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: RUTS

  Possible Answer: groove, rut, furrow, estrus, heat, oestrus

  Possible Opposite Answer : anestrus

• The clue is 23. Cinematic friend of Scuttle, Flounder and Sebastian. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ARIEL

• The clue is 24. "A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore" quipper. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: BERRA

  Possible Answer: Berra, Yogi_Berra, Yogi, Lawrence_Peter_Berra

• The clue is 25. Sick burns. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ZINGS

  Possible Answer: dynamism, pizzaz, pizzazz, zing, oomph

• The clue is 26. Risqué. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: EDGY

  Possible Answer: restive, uptight, highly_strung, high-strung, edgy, nervy, jittery, jumpy, overstrung

• The clue is 27. Dairy-heavy dessert popular throughout Latin America. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

  The answer: TRESLECHES

• The clue is 28. Fix, as a bow. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: RETIE

  Possible Answer: retie

• The clue is 29. Bond return. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: YIELD

  Possible Answer: relent, pay, concede, afford, fruit, give_way, give_in, give, cede, bear, grant, issue, buckle_under, render, generate, payoff, move_over, takings, return, yield, soften, proceeds, production, output, ease_up, knuckle_under, succumb, take

  Possible Opposite Answer : survive, stand

• The clue is 31. Baltic capital. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: RIGA

  Possible Answer: capital_of_Latvia, Riga

• The clue is 34. Life-changing opportunity, maybe. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (8 letters)

  The answer: BIGBREAK

• The clue is 35. Style of music with a vihuela and guitarrón. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (8 letters)

  The answer: MARIACHI

  Possible Answer: mariachi

• The clue is 37. Examines closely. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: PERUSES

  Possible Answer: peruse

• The clue is 38. Word before or after head. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: BUTT

  Possible Answer: laughingstock, fundament, rear_end, coffin_nail, can, target, buns, fag, seat, border, bottom, bunt, tail_end, butt_against, bum, stern, tooshie, nates, butt_on, posterior, fanny, keister, derriere, rear, butt, backside, adjoin, tush, goat, tail, march, prat, edge, butt_joint, ass, cigaret, cigarette, stooge, abut, behind, rump, arse, stub, hind_end, buttocks, hindquarters, butt_end

• The clue is 40. One who's on a roll. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: VOTER

  Possible Answer: elector, voter

• The clue is 41. Twee. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: CUTESY

• The clue is 43. Like many wine barrels. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: OAKEN

  Possible Answer: oaken

• The clue is 44. Kept up to speed, in a way. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: CCED

• The clue is 45. "Dream on!". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: UHNO

• The clue is 46. "Sure, I'm game". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: LETS

  Possible Answer: Lashkar-e-Toiba, allow, let, Lashkar-e-Taiba, countenance, rent, LET, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, get, have, permit, Army_of_the_Pure, Army_of_the_Righteous, net_ball, lease

  Possible Opposite Answer : disallow, forbid, prevent

• The clue is 47. When Macbeth becomes Thane of Cawdor. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: ACTI

• The clue is 48. Reclined. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: LAIN

  Possible Answer: consist, rest, lie_in, lie_down, dwell, lie

  Possible Opposite Answer : stand, arise

• The clue is 49. It comes down hard. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: HAIL

  Possible Answer: acclaim, hail, herald, come

• The clue is 50. "Sommes" and "serai" are forms of it. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: ETRE

NYT Crossword - January 08, 1990 | XWordHint

Published on Monday, January 08, 1990 • Daily puzzle hints • Crossword clues © The New York Times

Master the NYT crossword from January 08, 1990 with our expert hint system. We provide synonyms, antonyms, and strategic clues to help you solve without spoiling the fun.

Puzzle Difficulty: Tricky

Pro Tip: Start with the fill-in-the-blank clues - they're usually the easiest entry points!

Across Clues - Strategic Hints (38 clues)

1A: "1. Actress Prentiss"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: PAULA

2A: "6. Hemingway's sobriquet"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
• Similar words include: pappa, pop, dad
• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: PAPA

3A: "10. G-men"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any federal law-enforcement officer
• Similar words include: Federal Reserve, Fed, FRS
• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: FEDS

4A: "14. Hair styles"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a rounded thickly curled hairdo
• Similar words include: Afro, Afro hairdo
• Pattern: _____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: AFROS

5A: "15. Novelist Kingsley ___"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: AMIS

6A: "16. Soviet stream"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: URAL

7A: "17. Sitcom add-on"

10 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

Click to reveal answer

Answer: LAUGHTRACK

8A: "19. Supreme Court number"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one
• Similar words include: 9, Nina from Carolina, ball club
• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: NINE

9A: "20. Gaelic"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any of several related languages of the celts in ireland and scotland
• Similar words include: Goidelic, Gaelic
• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: ERSE

10A: "21. Speed"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that overly eager speed (and possible carelessness)
• Similar words include: rush, hurriedness, hurry
• Pattern: _____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: HASTE

11A: "22. Want"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a condition requiring relief
• Similar words include: involve, motive, take
• Opposite of: obviate

Click to reveal answer

Answer: NEED

12A: "23. Things with springs"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a piece of furniture that provides a place to sleep
• Similar words include: love, hump, know
• Opposite of: get up, turn out

Click to reveal answer

Answer: BEDS

13A: "24. Route"

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that how something is done or how it happens
• Similar words include: room, elbow room, path
• Pattern: ___

Click to reveal answer

Answer: WAY

14A: "26. Enchantress"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (greek mythology) a sorceress who detained odysseus on her island and turned his men into swine
• Pattern: _____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: CIRCE

15A: "30. Slippery one"

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in europe and america; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
• Pattern: ___

Click to reveal answer

Answer: EEL

16A: "32. Metal beam"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: IBAR

17A: "35. Negatively charged atoms"

6 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a negatively charged ion
• Similar words include: anion
• Pattern: ______

Click to reveal answer

Answer: ANIONS

18A: "37. Ambassador or envoy"

8 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an official engaged in international negotiations
• Similar words include: diplomatist
• Pattern: ________

Click to reveal answer

Answer: DIPLOMAT

19A: "40. Letters to stars"

7 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

Click to reveal answer

Answer: FANMAIL

20A: "42. 'Twixt 12 and 20"

7 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that being of the age 13 through 19
• Similar words include: teenaged, adolescent, teen
• Pattern: _______

Click to reveal answer

Answer: TEENAGE

21A: "43. Surrounded"

8 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

Click to reveal answer

Answer: ENGIRDED

22A: "45. Surpassing: Comb. form"

6 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

Click to reveal answer

Answer: PRETER

23A: "46. Suffix with inchoative verbs"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: ESCE

24A: "47. Period"

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
• Similar words include: geological era, epoch, earned run average
• Pattern: ___

Click to reveal answer

Answer: ERA

25A: "49. Willow"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that flexible twig of a willow tree
• Pattern: _____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: OSIER

26A: "50. Soviet div."

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

Click to reveal answer

Answer: SSR

27A: "52. Press"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a heavy ductile magnetic metallic element; is silver-white in pure form but readily rusts; used in construction and tools and armament; plays a role in the transport of oxygen by the blood
• Similar words include: branding iron, Fe, atomic number 26
• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: IRON

28A: "54. Tear"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service
• Similar words include: charter, pull, engage
• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: RENT

29A: "57. Golfer Palmer"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: ARNIE

30A: "59. In the center"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: AMID

31A: "63. Jewish month"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the sixth month of the civil year; the twelfth month of the ecclesiastic year in the jewish calendar (in february and march)
• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: ADAR

32A: "64. Card-game phrase"

10 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

Click to reveal answer

Answer: JOKERSWILD

33A: "66. "La Bohème" heroine"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: MIMI

34A: "67. First victim"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that norwegian mathematician (1802-1829)
• Similar words include: Niels Henrik Abel, Niels Abel
• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: ABEL

35A: "68. Dance of Bohemian origin"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that music performed for dancing the polka
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: POLKA

36A: "69. Kind of mother or son"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
• Similar words include: ill-use, stride, footfall
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: STEP

37A: "70. Word on a towel"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: HERS

38A: "71. Appease"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that lessen the intensity of or calm
• Similar words include: slake, still, ease
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: ALLAY

Down Clues - Strategic Hints (40 clues)

1D: "1. Wan"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a wooden strip forming part of a fence
• Similar words include: pallid, sick, blanch
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: PALE

2D: "2. Way off"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (old-fashioned) at or from or to a great distance; far
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: AFAR

3D: "3. Wild ox"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that large recently extinct long-horned european wild ox; considered one of the ancestors of domestic cattle
• Similar words include: Bos primigenius, aurochs
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: URUS

4D: "4. Theater section"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that balcony consisting of the forward section of a theater mezzanine
• Similar words include: box
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: LOGE

5D: "5. Wood for skis"

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the residue that remains when something is burned
• Similar words include: ash tree
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: ASH

6D: "6. "I Love a ___," 1931 song"

6 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a ceremonial procession including people marching
• Similar words include: march, troop, exhibit
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: PARADE

7D: "7. Gathered"

7 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that collect or gather
• Similar words include: hoard, amass, cumulate
• Pattern: _______

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Answer: AMASSED

8D: "8. Early inhabitant of Britain"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: PICT

9D: "9. Awry"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that turned or twisted toward one side; - g.k.chesterton
• Similar words include: lopsided, skew-whiff, wonky
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: ASKEW

10D: "10. These often get tickled"

10 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

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Answer: FUNNYBONES

11D: "11. City in the Keystone State"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a member of an iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of lake erie in northern ohio and northwest pennsylvania and western new york
• Similar words include: Lake Erie
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ERIE

12D: "12. Hamlet, e.g."

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a native or inhabitant of denmark
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: DANE

13D: "13. Snow vehicle"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow
• Similar words include: sledge, sleigh
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: SLED

14D: "18. "___ Best of Carson""

3 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

Click to reveal answer

Answer: THE

15D: "23. Former name of Varanasi, India"

7 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

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Answer: BENARES

16D: "25. Wing part"

7 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an airfoil that controls lateral motion
• Pattern: _______

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Answer: AILERON

17D: "26. Bistro"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold
• Similar words include: coffee shop, coffeehouse, coffee bar
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: CAFE

18D: "27. Silly"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that devoid of intelligence
• Similar words include: mindless, vacuous, fatuous
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: INANE

19D: "28. Collar woes?"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that gymnastic apparatus consisting of a pair of heavy metal circles (usually covered with leather) suspended by ropes; used for gymnastic exercises
• Similar words include: pack, annulus, telephone
• Opposite of: open chain

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Answer: RINGS

20D: "29. "Peanuts," e.g."

10 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

Click to reveal answer

Answer: COMICSTRIP

21D: "31. Kindled"

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the humanistic study of a body of literature
• Similar words include: lighted, dismount, light up
• Opposite of: unlighted, extinguish

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Answer: LIT

22D: "33. Strad competitor"

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that italian violin maker in cremona; taught the craft to guarneri and stradivari (1596-1684)
• Similar words include: Nicola Amati, Nicolo Amati
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: AMATI

23D: "34. E. Indian cereal grass"

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that east indian cereal grass whose seed yield a somewhat bitter flour, a staple in the orient
• Similar words include: finger millet, Eleusine coracana, coracan
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: RAGEE

24D: "36. Caesar from Yonkers"

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

Click to reveal answer

Answer: SID

25D: "38. Vim"

3 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that liveliness and energy
• Similar words include: peppiness, ginger
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: PEP

26D: "39. Haw. before 1959"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: TERR

27D: "41. Novelist Harper ___"

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that united states filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in america (born in 1957)
• Similar words include: Tsung Dao Lee, Shelton Jackson Lee, Lighthorse Harry Lee
• Opposite of: windward

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Answer: LEE

28D: "44. A.A. candidate"

7 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a person who drinks liquids
• Similar words include: toper, juicer, imbiber
• Opposite of: nondrinker

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Answer: DRINKER

29D: "48. Gazelles of Arabia"

6 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

Click to reveal answer

Answer: ARIELS

30D: "51. Rani's spouse"

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a prince or king in india
• Similar words include: raja
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: RAJAH

31D: "53. Finished, to Keats"

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

Click to reveal answer

Answer: OER

32D: "54. Bellwethers"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on; an integrated circuit memory chip allows information to be stored or accessed in any order and all storage locations are equally accessible
• Similar words include: cram, pound, RAM
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: RAMS

33D: "55. Redact"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting
• Similar words include: edit out, redact, cut
• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: EDIT

34D: "56. Appoint"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a language unit by which a person or thing is known
• Similar words include: list, key, describe
• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: NAME

35D: "58. Gown"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any loose flowing garment
• Similar words include: vest, gown, cloak
• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: ROBE

36D: "59. G.I. truant"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that one who is away or absent without leave
• Similar words include: truant
• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: AWOL

37D: "60. Factory"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
• Similar words include: mill about, factory, grinder
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: MILL

38D: "61. Actress-writer Chase"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: ILKA

39D: "62. June 6, 1944"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

Click to reveal answer

Answer: DDAY

40D: "65. Baden-Baden is one"

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a health resort near a spring or at the seaside
• Similar words include: health club, resort hotel, health spa
• Pattern: ___

Click to reveal answer

Answer: SPA

Puzzle Stats

38 Across

40 Down

78 Total

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