27406 Thu Nov 21, 2024 NYT by Katie Hoody

Across Clues :

1. Classic sitcom streaming on BritBox, familiarly, 6. Cos. offering connections, 10. Jordan's only coastal city, 15. San Francisco organization supporting women in the arts, 16. No longer relevant, 17. Burj Khalifa's home, 18. 1850: 350,000+ words, 21. Instrument that gave rise to the guitalele, in brief, 22. "Bam!", 23. Chevy coupes, 24. 1862: 530,000+ words, 27. Major highway through the southern U.S., 28. Early birds?, 32. Structural supports, 35. On ice longer than normal, say?, 36. Volume divided by height, 37. Tool, 38. Thénardier and Bovary: Abbr., 39. Princess played by Halle Bailey in a 2023 film, 40. Just pulls off, with "out", 41. Taunt, 42. One hanging out in the cold, 43. Students run for it, 45. "Stop with that!", 46. 1957: 550,000+ words, 51. Not easy to find, 54. Sewing machine inventor Howe, 55. Third letter of Athens, in ancient Athens, 56. Cheeky review of 18-, 24- and 46-Across, 59. 1990s sitcom nerd, 60. Dark purple shade, 61. Ancient region considered a birthplace of Western philosophy, 62. Records, 63. Acts like, 64. Some gag Christmas gifts

Down Clues :

1. Performer with a concert tour titled "Straight Up Paula!", 2. Stop with that!, 3. No. 1's, 4. Bird-related prefix, 5. Cry over spilled milk, perhaps?, 6. "Pass the ball to me!", 7. Abnormally deep sleep, 8. Eponymous youth sports organization, the largest of its kind in the U.S., 9. Location within an office building: Abbr., 10. Some eBay revenue, 11. "Why don't you take a picture — it'll last longer!", 12. Help with wrongdoing, 13. ___ grazing (winter farm feeding strategy), 14. Bolsters, 19. Court matters, 20. Place to park a camper, 25. Character in a classic whodunit, 26. Contemptuous chorus, 29. Prince saved from drowning by 39-Across, 30. Piece of old movie equipment, 31. Word with bake or fire, 32. Image file format, 33. Like some barrel-aged spirits, 34. Invoice unit, 35. "That's on me", 38. U.S. city named for a geological formation, 39. Not wired, say, 41. N.B.A. player-turned-sports analyst Rose, 42. ___ Khan, former Pakistani prime minister, 44. Battalion commanders in the U.S.M.C., 45. Dresses down, 47. Not a straight shot, 48. Davis with the memoir "Dying of Politeness", 49. .com commerce, 50. Tots' pops, 51. Theater throwaway, 52. Gala throwaway, 53. Informal green lights, 57. School record, for short, 58. Joey of children's lit

Break down the NYT Crosswords: November 21, 2024

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

New York Times, Thursday, November 21, 2024

Across Clues with Answers:

• The clue is 1. Classic sitcom streaming on BritBox, familiarly. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ABFAB




• The clue is 6. Cos. offering connections. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ISPS




• The clue is 10. Jordan's only coastal city. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: AQABA

  Possible Answer : Akaba, Aqaba, Al_Aqabah




• The clue is 15. San Francisco organization supporting women in the arts. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: BRAVA




• The clue is 16. No longer relevant. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: MOOT

  Possible Answer : deliberate, disputable, debatable, arguable, moot, consider, turn_over, debate




• The clue is 17. Burj Khalifa's home. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: DUBAI

  Possible Answer : Dubai




• The clue is 18. 1850: 350,000+ words. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (16 letters)

  The answer: DAVIDCOPPERFIELD




• The clue is 21. Instrument that gave rise to the guitalele, in brief. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: UKE

  Possible Answer : uke, ukulele




• The clue is 22. "Bam!". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: KAPOW




• The clue is 23. Chevy coupes. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: VETTES




• The clue is 24. 1862: 530,000+ words. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (13 letters)

  The answer: LESMISERABLES




• The clue is 27. Major highway through the southern U.S.. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ITEN




• The clue is 28. Early birds?. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ROOSTERS

  Possible Answer : cock, rooster




• The clue is 32. Structural supports. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: JOISTS

  Possible Answer : joist




• The clue is 35. On ice longer than normal, say?. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: INOT




• The clue is 36. Volume divided by height. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: AREA

  Possible Answer : sphere, field, domain, arena, region, area, expanse, country, surface_area, orbit




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

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

  The answer: PATSY

  Possible Answer : mark, gull, fall_guy, chump, patsy, fool, sucker, mug, soft_touch




• The clue is 38. Thénardier and Bovary: Abbr.. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: MMES




• The clue is 39. Princess played by Halle Bailey in a 2023 film. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ARIEL




• The clue is 40. Just pulls off, with "out". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: EKES




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

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

  The answer: JEER

  Possible Answer : flout, jeer, barrack, scoffing, scoff, jeering, gibe, mockery




• The clue is 42. One hanging out in the cold. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ICICLE

  Possible Answer : icicle




• The clue is 43. Students run for it. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: GYMCLASS




• The clue is 45. "Stop with that!". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: CMON




• The clue is 46. 1957: 550,000+ words. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (13 letters)

  The answer: ATLASSHRUGGED




• The clue is 51. Not easy to find. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SCARCE

  Possible Answer : scarcely, barely, hardly, scarce, just

  Possible Opposite Answer : abundant




• The clue is 54. Sewing machine inventor Howe. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ELIAS

  Possible Answer : Elia, Lamb, Charles_Lamb




• The clue is 55. Third letter of Athens, in ancient Athens. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ETA

  Possible Answer : Basque_Homeland_and_Freedom, eta, Basque_Fatherland_and_Liberty, Euskadi_ta_Askatasuna, ETA




• The clue is 56. Cheeky review of 18-, 24- and 46-Across. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (16 letters)

  The answer: TOOLONGDIDNTREAD




• The clue is 59. 1990s sitcom nerd. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: URKEL




• The clue is 60. Dark purple shade. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: PUCE

  Possible Answer : puce




• The clue is 61. Ancient region considered a birthplace of Western philosophy. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: IONIA

  Possible Answer : Ionia




• The clue is 62. Records. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: BESTS

  Possible Answer : trump, scoop, Best, outdo, outflank, topper, Charles_Herbert_Best, best, C._H._Best

  Possible Opposite Answer : worst




• The clue is 63. Acts like. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: APES

  Possible Answer : caricature, ape, copycat, emulator, aper, imitator, anthropoid




• The clue is 64. Some gag Christmas gifts. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: COALS

  Possible Answer : coal, char, ember

Down Clues and Answers:

• The clue is 1. Performer with a concert tour titled "Straight Up Paula!". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ABDUL

• The clue is 2. Stop with that!. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: BRAKE

  Possible Answer: bracken, Pteridium_aquilinum, pasture_brake, brake

• The clue is 3. No. 1's. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: FAVES

• The clue is 4. Bird-related prefix. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: AVI

• The clue is 5. Cry over spilled milk, perhaps?. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: BADKITTY

• The clue is 6. "Pass the ball to me!". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: IMOPEN

• The clue is 7. Abnormally deep sleep. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SOPOR

  Possible Answer: sopor, sleep

• The clue is 8. Eponymous youth sports organization, the largest of its kind in the U.S.. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (9 letters)

  The answer: POPWARNER

• The clue is 9. Location within an office building: Abbr.. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: STE

• The clue is 10. Some eBay revenue. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ADFEES

• The clue is 11. "Why don't you take a picture — it'll last longer!". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (11 letters)

  The answer: QUITSTARING

• The clue is 12. Help with wrongdoing. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ABET

  Possible Answer: abet

• The clue is 13. ___ grazing (winter farm feeding strategy). Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: BALE

  Possible Answer: Basel, Basle, bale, Bale

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

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

  The answer: AIDS

  Possible Answer: economic_aid, care, tending, acquired_immune_deficiency_syndrome, assistance, assist, AIDS, help, financial_aid, aid, attention

• The clue is 19. Court matters. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: CASES

  Possible Answer: incase, display_case, vitrine, compositor's_case, fount, caseful, pillowcase, cause, subject, character, guinea_pig, event, instance, case, eccentric, grammatical_case, suit, showcase, type, shell, encase, typesetter's_case, slip, face, sheath, example, causa, pillow_slip, font, typeface, lawsuit, casing

• The clue is 20. Place to park a camper. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: RVLOT

• The clue is 25. Character in a classic whodunit. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (11 letters)

  The answer: MISSSCARLET

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

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

  The answer: BOOS

  Possible Answer: snort, boo, raspberry, hiss, Bronx_cheer, razzing, hoot, bird, razz

  Possible Opposite Answer : applaud

• The clue is 29. Prince saved from drowning by 39-Across. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ERIC

• The clue is 30. Piece of old movie equipment. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: REEL

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

• The clue is 31. Word with bake or fire. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SALE

  Possible Answer: cut-rate_sale, sale, sales_agreement, sales_event

• The clue is 32. Image file format. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: JPEG

• The clue is 33. Like some barrel-aged spirits. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OAKY

• The clue is 34. Invoice unit. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ITEM

  Possible Answer: detail, token, point, particular, item

• The clue is 35. "That's on me". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (9 letters)

  The answer: IMESSEDUP

• The clue is 38. U.S. city named for a geological formation. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: MESA

  Possible Answer: table, mesa, Mesa

• The clue is 39. Not wired, say. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ACOUSTIC

  Possible Answer: acoustical, acoustic

• The clue is 41. N.B.A. player-turned-sports analyst Rose. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: JALEN

• The clue is 42. ___ Khan, former Pakistani prime minister. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: IMRAN

• The clue is 44. Battalion commanders in the U.S.M.C.. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: LTCOLS

• The clue is 45. Dresses down. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: CHIDES

  Possible Answer: take_to_task, call_on_the_carpet, jaw, chew_up, rebuke, dress_down, bawl_out, reprimand, scold, lambaste, lecture, chew_out, reproof, trounce, rag, remonstrate, call_down, chide, berate, have_words, lambast

• The clue is 47. Not a straight shot. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SLICE

  Possible Answer: piece, cut, fade, slit, slice_up, gash, slash, slice, slicing

• The clue is 48. Davis with the memoir "Dying of Politeness". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: GEENA

• The clue is 49. .com commerce. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ETAIL

• The clue is 50. Tots' pops. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: DADAS

  Possible Answer: daddy, dadaism, dada, dad, pop, pa, papa, pappa

• The clue is 51. Theater throwaway. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: STUB

  Possible Answer: ticket_stub, check_stub, butt, stub, counterfoil, nub

• The clue is 52. Gala throwaway. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: CORE

  Possible Answer: pith, marrow, meat, substance, gist, heart_and_soul, burden, core, nitty-gritty, CORE, effect, inwardness, kernel, nub, center, nucleus, core_group, Congress_of_Racial_Equality, sum, essence, heart, magnetic_core, centre

• The clue is 53. Informal green lights. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: AOKS

• The clue is 57. School record, for short. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: GPA

  Possible Answer: grade_point_average, GPA

• The clue is 58. Joey of children's lit. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ROO

May 03, 2016 NYT Clues Answers

NYT Crossword and Answers - May 03, 2016

Welcome to NYT Puzzle and answers. The New York Times Crossword is a most popular puzzles. Here are the clues and answers for today puzzle:

Across:

• 1. Laid up: ABED
• 5. Toward a boat's wake: ABAFT
• 10. Kindergarten lesson: ABCS
• 14. Big name in denim: LEVI
• 15. Equestrian, e.g.: RIDER
• 16. Lummox: LOUT
• 17. Wax makers: BEES
• 18. Dough: MOOLA
• 19. Political columnist Klein: EZRA
• 20. How the Great Emancipator got around?: ABRAHAMSLINCOLN
• 23. Controversially patented thing: GENE
• 24. Source of a common allergy: NUT
• 25. How the star of the Indiana Jones films got around?: HARRISONSFORD
• 31. Leveled: RAZED
• 32. See 41-Across: REEF
• 33. "Leave!": OUT
• 35. Give proper attribution: CITE
• 36. Embroidery loop: PICOT
• 38. "Hey, ___" (casual greeting): BABE
• 39. Gobbled up: ATE
• 40. Mother of Helen: LEDA
• 41. With 32-Across, place to snorkel: CORAL
• 42. How a Seattle Mariner great got around?: ICHIROSSUZUKI
• 46. "Sure": YES
• 47. ___ empty stomach: ONAN
• 48. How Queen's former frontman got around?: FREDDIESMERCURY
• 56. Word before window or end: REAR
• 57. Its capital is Oranjestad: ARUBA
• 58. List-ending abbr.: ETAL
• 59. ___ buco: OSSO
• 60. City near Avignon: NIMES
• 61. All the ___: RAGE
• 62. Underworld river: STYX
• 63. Something a composer composes: SCORE
• 64. Bogus: SHAM

Down:

• 1. Actress Jessica: ALBA
• 2. Channel that airs "Sherlock," with "the": BEEB
• 3. ___ since: EVER
• 4. Clash (with): DISAGREE
• 5. Giorgio of fashion: ARMANI
• 6. Wetlands and tundra, e.g.: BIOMES
• 7. Kerfuffles: ADOS
• 8. Cut down: FELL
• 9. Something to keep track of?: TRAINSET
• 10. One of the Furies: ALECTO
• 11. Buffoon: BOZO
• 12. Permanent thing?: CURL
• 13. "South Park" boy: STAN
• 21. What's rounded up in a roundup: HERD
• 22. "___ said!": NUFF
• 25. Where Toussaint L'Ouverture led a revolt: HAITI
• 26. Coyolxauhqui worshiper: AZTEC
• 27. Penguin predators: ORCAS
• 28. Prefix with realism: NEO
• 29. Howard ___, "The Fountainhead" protagonist: ROARK
• 30. Home of the world's tallest building, completed in 2009: DUBAI
• 31. Panasonic competitor: RCA
• 34. ___ Avivian: TEL
• 36. Xerxes' people: PERSIANS
• 37. Swear words?: IDO
• 38. They might bar bargoers: BOUNCERS
• 40. Emulated Pinocchio: LIED
• 41. Peter the Great, for one: CZAR
• 43. Longtime Oreo competitor: HYDROX
• 44. Like the mood in a losing locker room: SOMBER
• 45. Agita: UNEASE
• 48. Big dos: FROS
• 49. Staff break?: REST
• 50. Like one-star puzzles: EASY
• 51. "South Park" boy: ERIC
• 52. ___ wrestler: SUMO
• 53. Salt flats location: UTAH
• 54. Music of Mumbai: RAGA
• 55. Proto-matter of the universe: YLEM

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Master today's NYT crossword with our expert hint system. We provide synonyms, antonyms, and strategic clues to help you solve without spoiling the fun. Perfect for crossword lover who want that satisfying "aha!" moment.

Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Challenging

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

🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (37 clues)

🧩 1A: "1. Take to the slopes"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used in pairs for gliding over snow
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: SKI

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🧩 2A: "4. Abolitionist Tubman"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

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Answer: HARRIET

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🧩 3A: "11. Shade of gray or blond"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 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

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🧩 4A: "14. "That's rough!""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: OOF

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🧩 5A: "15. Quantities"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a quantity of money
• Similar words include: quantity, total, measure
• Pattern: _______

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Answer: AMOUNTS

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🧩 6A: "16. Dubai's country, for short"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

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• Pattern: ___

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Answer: UAE

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🧩 7A: "17. Pales in comparison"

📏 15 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______________

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Answer: CANTHOLDACANDLE

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🧩 8A: "20. Greeting in Oahu"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an acknowledgment that can be used to say hello or goodbye (aloha is hawaiian and ciao is italian)
• Similar words include: ciao
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: ALOHA

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🧩 9A: "21. French article"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

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• Think of something that a chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints)
• Similar words include: LE, lupus erythematosus
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: LES

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🧩 10A: "22. Countrified"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that living in or characteristic of farming or country life
• Opposite of: urban
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: RURAL

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🧩 11A: "23. After the buzzer"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time
• Similar words include: belated, of late, tardily
• Opposite of: early

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Answer: LATE

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🧩 12A: "24. Typical People cover subject, informally"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

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• Pattern: _____

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Answer: CELEB

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🧩 13A: "26. Pharmacy bottlefuls, informally"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a master's degree in education
• Similar words include: Master of Education, MEd
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: MEDS

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🧩 14A: "27. Edible Christmas ornament"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

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• Pattern: _________

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Answer: CANDYCANE

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🧩 15A: "30. Planet with the most moons (274)"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a giant planet that is surrounded by three planar concentric rings of ice particles; the 6th planet from the sun
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: SATURN

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🧩 16A: "33. Not out of the ordinary"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that something regarded as a normative example
• Similar words include: pattern, rule, formula
• Opposite of: paranormal, abnormal

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Answer: NORMAL

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🧩 17A: "37. Container for oranges"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a rugged box (usually made of wood); used for shipping
• Similar words include: crateful
• Opposite of: uncrate

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Answer: CRATE

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🧩 18A: "38. Certain significant others, informally"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BFS

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🧩 19A: "41. 2016 Disney movie"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MOANA

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🧩 20A: "42. King, in Latin"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom
• Similar words include: male monarch, king
• Opposite of: queen, female monarch

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Answer: REX

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🧩 21A: "43. Visual features of a 27-Across"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that v-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service
• Similar words include: denude, pillage, deprive
• Opposite of: dress

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Answer: STRIPES

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🧩 22A: "46. U.S. soldiers"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns
• Similar words include: gilbert, GI, Gi
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: GIS

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🧩 23A: "47. Blown away"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that inspire awe in
• Similar words include: awestricken, awful, awestruck
• Opposite of: unawed

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Answer: AWED

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🧩 24A: "49. ___ cart (type of food stand)"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (islam) meat from animals that have been slaughtered in the prescribed way according to the shariah
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: HALAL

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🧩 25A: "50. University in western Pennsylvania, familiarly"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a british playwright who created the fictional character sweeney todd (1799-1855)
• Similar words include: George Pitt, First Earl of Chatham, Pitt the Younger
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: PITT

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🧩 26A: "51. Chicana, for example"

📏 15 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______________

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Answer: MEXICANAMERICAN

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🧩 27A: "54. Bad news for vegetation"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a state or condition being blighted
• Similar words include: plague
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BLIGHT

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🧩 28A: "55. 1990s-'00s sitcom starring Brandy"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

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Answer: MOESHA

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🧩 29A: "56. Rapper ___ Wayne"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: LIL

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🧩 30A: "57. Conscience-stricken"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse
• Opposite of: unashamed
• Pattern: _______

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Answer: ASHAMED

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🧩 31A: "61. He/___"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HIM

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🧩 32A: "62. Time to look ahead"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (old testament) adam's wife in judeo-christian mythology: the first woman and mother of the human race; god created eve from adam's rib and placed adam and eve in the garden of eden
• Similar words include: eventide, evening, even
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: EVE

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🧩 33A: "63. Birds phonetically suggested by a feature of 17-, 27- and 51-Across"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that brilliantly colored arboreal fruit-eating bird of tropical america having a very large thin-walled beak
• Similar words include: toucan
• Pattern: _______

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Answer: TOUCANS

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🧩 34A: "64. Fútbol cheer"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OLE

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🧩 35A: "65. ___ Moines"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry
• Similar words include: stilbestrol, stilbesterol, diethylstilboestrol
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: DES

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🧩 36A: "66. Prepared to pray"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that rest one's weight on one's knees
• Similar words include: kneel
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: KNELT

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🧩 37A: "67. Partner of "ty""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PLS

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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (37 clues)

🧩 1D: "1. L.A.'s region"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SOCAL

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🧩 2D: "2. Eucalyptus eater"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that sluggish tailless australian arboreal marsupial with grey furry ears and coat; feeds on eucalyptus leaves and bark
• Similar words include: native bear, kangaroo bear, Phascolarctos cinereus
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: KOALA

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🧩 3D: "3. "Otherwise ...""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: IFNOT

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🧩 4D: "4. "Serves you right!""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HAHA

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🧩 5D: "5. "Te ___" ("I love you," in Spanish)"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AMO

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🧩 6D: "6. Like some R's and oats"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that move by turning over or rotating
• Similar words include: roam, twine, ramble
• Opposite of: unwind

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ROLLED

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🧩 7D: "7. "As I was saying before I was so ___ interrupted ...""

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that in an impolite manner
• Similar words include: discourteously, impolitely
• Opposite of: politely, courteously

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Answer: RUDELY

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🧩 8D: "8. Shortly"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: INASEC

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🧩 9D: "9. And the like, for short"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ETC

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🧩 10D: "10. Russian ruler of old"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a male monarch or emperor (especially of russia prior to 1917)
• Similar words include: czar, tzar
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TSAR

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🧩 11D: "11. Lorde who wrote "Sister Outsider""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AUDRE

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🧩 12D: "12. Partner of soup"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that food mixtures either arranged on a plate or tossed and served with a moist dressing; usually consisting of or including greens
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SALAD

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🧩 13D: "13. What the Beyoncé title "6 Inch" refers to"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the bottom of a shoe or boot; the back part of a shoe or boot that touches the ground and provides elevation
• Similar words include: heel, blackguard, reheel
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HEELS

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🧩 14D: "18. Online publication of Vox Media"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: THECUT

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🧩 15D: "19. Tres o cuatro"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NUMERO

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🧩 16D: "24. "Have I Got News for You" channel"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CNN

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🧩 17D: "25. Prohibit"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a decree that prohibits something
• Similar words include: forbiddance, prohibition, shun
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BAN

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🧩 18D: "28. Greek war god"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (greek mythology) greek god of war; son of zeus and hera; identified with roman mars
• Similar words include: ar, are
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ARES

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🧩 19D: "29. Chances at awards, informally"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NOMS

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🧩 20D: "30. Like this: ESMCLDRBA"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that to move hurriedly
• Similar words include: throw together, beat, skin
• Opposite of: unscramble

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SCRAMBLED

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🧩 21D: "31. "Has our broadcast started?""

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AREWELIVE

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🧩 22D: "32. People living abroad for financial reasons"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TAXEXILES

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🧩 23D: "34. Business selling trick coins and marked decks"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MAGICSHOP

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🧩 24D: "35. Law professor played by Kerry Washington in 2016's "Confirmation""

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ANITAHILL

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🧩 25D: "36. Things alphabetized in telephone books"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LASTNAMES

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🧩 26D: "38. Raisin ___"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BRAN

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🧩 27D: "39. Sneaker brand"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a threadlike structure (as a chainlike series of cells)
• Similar words include: filament, filum
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: FILA

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🧩 28D: "40. A dispiritingly large percentage of phone calls"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a canned meat made largely from pork
• Similar words include: junk e-mail
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SPAM

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🧩 29D: "44. "No worries""

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: THATSOK

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🧩 30D: "45. He or I, but not she"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an abstract part of something
• Similar words include: constituent, factor, chemical element
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ELEMENT

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🧩 31D: "48. Like, informally"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the site of an archeological exploration
• Similar words include: shaft, delve, cut into
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DIG

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🧩 32D: "50. Dessert with a shell"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top
• Similar words include: Proto-Indo European
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PIE

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🧩 33D: "52. Casual conversation"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an informal conversation
• Similar words include: confabulate, confabulation, gossip
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CHAT

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🧩 34D: "53. Cones' counterparts in the eye"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a long thin implement made of metal or wood
• Similar words include: perch, gat, rod
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RODS

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🧩 35D: "58. Follower of Attila"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a member of a nomadic people who invaded europe in the 4th century
• Similar words include: Krauthead, Boche, Jerry
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HUN

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🧩 36D: "59. Great serve"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
• Similar words include: sweep through, nail, single
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ACE

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🧩 37D: "60. Opposite of bien"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MAL

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🧠 Expert Solving Strategies

🎯 Start Smart

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❓ Decode the Clues

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🔤 Use Cross-References

Let intersecting letters guide you. One correct answer unlocks several others.

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37 Down Clues

74 Total Clues

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