2412 Mon Dec 16, 2024 NYT by Ailee Yoshida

Break down the NYT Crosswords: December 16, 2024

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

New York Times, Monday, December 16, 2024

Across Clues with Answers:

• The clue is 1. Team that won the most medals at the 2024 Olympics. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: USA

  Possible Answer : United_States, US, Army, United_States_of_America, USA, United_States_Army, America, U.S., U.S.A., US_Army, U._S._Army, the_States




• The clue is 4. Ann ___, Mich.. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ARBOR

  Possible Answer : bower, mandril, spindle, mandrel, arbour, pergola, arbor




• The clue is 9. Some laptops. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: PCS

  Possible Answer : personal_computer, PC, microcomputer




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

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

  The answer: NORA




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

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

  The answer: SUAVE

  Possible Answer : bland, debonaire, politic, debonair, suave, debonnaire, smooth




• The clue is 15. What cilantro tastes like to some people. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SOAP

  Possible Answer : Georgia_home_boy, grievous_bodily_harm, scoop, goop, liquid_ecstasy, lather, max, easy_lay, soap




• The clue is 16. Enemy of the Jedi. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SITH




• The clue is 17. Sound of an unfortunate bird poop landing. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SPLAT

  Possible Answer : splat




• The clue is 18. Blab. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TELL

  Possible Answer : William_Tell, order, tell_apart, Tell, narrate, severalise, secernate, say, differentiate, distinguish, assure, severalize, enjoin, secern, tell, evidence, state, separate, recount, recite




• The clue is 19. Tidbit in a nutritious pudding. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: CHIASEED




• The clue is 21. Bulgy belly button. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OUTIE




• The clue is 22. Hi-___ image. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: RES

  Possible Answer : atomic_number_75, re, Re, RES, Ra, rhenium, ray, reticuloendothelial_system




• The clue is 23. Department handling media inquiries. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: PRESSOFFICE




• The clue is 26. Is distressing to. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: EATSAT




• The clue is 28. End of a college URL. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: EDU




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

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

  The answer: CON

  Possible Answer : confidence_trick, confidence_game, gyp, hornswoggle, con, scam, memorise, bunko_game, sting, learn, gip, hustle, inmate, rook, short-change, defraud, con_game, yardbird, nobble, goldbrick, victimize, bunco, memorize, diddle, mulct, bunko, yard_bird, bunco_game, swindle, convict, flimflam

  Possible Opposite Answer : pro




• The clue is 30. Habeas corpus, e.g.. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: WRIT

  Possible Answer : writ, judicial_writ




• The clue is 31. Like the direction of this answer. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ACROSS

  Possible Answer : crossways, across, crosswise




• The clue is 34. Timeout at work … as represented visually by this puzzle's circled letters. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: COFFEEBREAK




• The clue is 38. Bits of wisdom. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: PEARLS

  Possible Answer : drop, bone, off-white, pearl, bead, ivory




• The clue is 39. Faller during fall. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: LEAF

  Possible Answer : riff, leaf, flick, foliage, flip, leafage, riffle, thumb, folio




• The clue is 42. "Don't mind ___ do". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: IFI




• The clue is 45. Prefix with -ceratops. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TRI




• The clue is 46. Packaging for a stack of cookies. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SLEEVE

  Possible Answer : sleeve, arm




• The clue is 48. Competition whose winner gets a tiara and sash. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: MISSAMERICA




• The clue is 52. Gesture of approval. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: NOD

  Possible Answer : nod




• The clue is 53. Carelessly sits (down). Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: PLOPS

  Possible Answer : plump, plop, plunk_down, plunk, plank, flump, plump_down, plonk




• The clue is 54. Refined grace. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ELEGANCE

  Possible Answer : elegance

  Possible Opposite Answer : inelegance




• The clue is 56. Muppet with his own "world" on "Sesame Street". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ELMO




• The clue is 57. Blingy piece of neckwear. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: CHAIN

  Possible Answer : chain_of_mountains, range, strand, chain, Chain, Ernst_Boris_Chain, concatenation, Sir_Ernst_Boris_Chain, range_of_mountains, mountain_range, string, mountain_chain, chemical_chain

  Possible Opposite Answer : unchain




• The clue is 59. Teddy Grahams shape. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: BEAR

  Possible Answer : endure, suffer, stand, assume, pay, yield, acquit, tolerate, bear, comport, put_up, give_birth, accept, support, deport, abide, birth, stomach, deliver, wear, hold, expect, have_a_bun_in_the_oven, turn_out, behave, brook, take_over, carry, gestate, stick_out, contain, have, conduct, digest

  Possible Opposite Answer : bull




• The clue is 60. Ingredient in bug spray. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: DEET




• The clue is 61. Worth. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: VALUE

  Possible Answer : respect, evaluate, valuate, rate, measure, prize, treasure, esteem, appraise, note_value, prise, value, economic_value, time_value, assess, appreciate

  Possible Opposite Answer : disrespect, disesteem




• The clue is 62. Initials on an "Organic" sticker. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: USDA

  Possible Answer : USDA, Department_of_Agriculture, Agriculture_Department, Agriculture




• The clue is 63. Make a mistake. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ERR

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




• The clue is 64. Phil ___, QB who won two Super Bowls with the Giants. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SIMMS




• The clue is 65. Sun, in San Juan. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SOL

  Possible Answer : Sol, soh, so, sol, colloidal_suspension, colloidal_solution

Down Clues and Answers:

• The clue is 1. Remove, as a bottle cap. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: UNSCREW

  Possible Answer: unscrew

  Possible Opposite Answer : screw

• The clue is 2. "That's the word on the street". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SOIHEAR

• The clue is 3. Good with a paintbrush, perhaps. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ARTISTIC

  Possible Answer: aesthetic, artistic, esthetic

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

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

  The answer: ASSERT

  Possible Answer: verify, asseverate, swan, affirm, put_forward, avow, assert, swear, aver, insist, maintain

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

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

  The answer: RUPEE

  Possible Answer: Pakistani_rupee, Sri_Lanka_rupee, rupee, Mauritian_rupee, Nepalese_rupee, Seychelles_rupee, Indian_rupee

• The clue is 6. Loses one's hair. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: BALDS

  Possible Answer: bald

• The clue is 7. Egg cells. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OVA

  Possible Answer: egg_cell, ovum

• The clue is 8. No longer working: Abbr.. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: RET

  Possible Answer: ret

• The clue is 9. Like lines / that rhyme / and keep / good time. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: POETIC

  Possible Answer: poetical, poetic

• The clue is 10. Cat with a colorful coat. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: CALICO

  Possible Answer: multicolor, multi-coloured, particolored, particoloured, multi-colour, varicoloured, motley, pied, multi-color, multicoloured, painted, varicolored, multicolored, multi-colored, multicolour, calico, piebald

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

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

  The answer: SPLEEN

  Possible Answer: irascibility, lien, spleen, quick_temper, short_temper

• The clue is 13. "I've got it!". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: AHA

• The clue is 15. Double ___ Oreos. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: STUF

• The clue is 20. Place to get a cucumber mask. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SPA

  Possible Answer: watering_place, watering_hole, resort_hotel, spa, health_club, health_spa

• The clue is 21. Coming in handy. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OFUSE

• The clue is 24. Belgrade natives. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SERBS

  Possible Answer: Serbian, Serb

• The clue is 25. This stinks!. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ODOR

  Possible Answer: odour, scent, odor, olfactory_perception, olfactory_sensation, olfactory_property, aroma, smell

• The clue is 27. Word on the street?. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: STOP

  Possible Answer: halt, break_off, hitch, plosive_speech_sound, give_up, quit, hold_back, cease, layover, closure, diaphragm, occlusive, intercept, stay, block_up, stoppage, plosive_consonant, plosive, period, stop_over, blockage, terminate, break, stop, barricade, point, blockade, full_stop, occlusion, discontinue, stop_consonant, hold_on, full_point, bar, block, finish, check, lay_off, kibosh, turn_back, arrest, block_off, contain, end, catch, stopover

  Possible Opposite Answer : continuant_consonant, start, continue, begin

• The clue is 31. Eagle's nest. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: AERIE

  Possible Answer: aerie, eyry, aery, eyrie

• The clue is 32. Animation frame. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: CEL

• The clue is 33. Discount offer. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SALE

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

• The clue is 35. Crumbly Greek cheeses. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: FETAS

• The clue is 36. U-pick locale. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: FARM

  Possible Answer: grow, farm, raise, produce

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

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

  The answer: KEENNESS

  Possible Answer: avidness, acuteness, keenness, eagerness, avidity, sharpness, acuity

  Possible Opposite Answer : dullness

• The clue is 40. Guacamole ingredient. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: AVOCADO

  Possible Answer: avocado_tree, Persea_Americana, aguacate, avocado_pear, avocado, alligator_pear

• The clue is 41. The "F" of F.B.I.. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: FEDERAL

  Possible Answer: Federal, Fed, federal, Union, Union_soldier, Federal_soldier, federal_official

  Possible Opposite Answer : unitary

• The clue is 42. Stand in the way of. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: IMPEDE

  Possible Answer: hinder, occlude, block, close_up, jam, impede, obstruct, obturate

  Possible Opposite Answer : free

• The clue is 43. Lip-plumping injection. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: FILLER

  Possible Answer: makeweight, filler

• The clue is 44. Compound with the same number of atoms in a different arrangement. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ISOMER

  Possible Answer: isomer

• The clue is 46. Behind the ___. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SCENES

  Possible Answer: conniption, scene, vista, prospect, view, scenery, fit, shot, setting, picture, aspect, tantrum, panorama

• The clue is 47. Fall behind. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: LAG

  Possible Answer: interim, lag, remand, meanwhile, immure, fall_behind, incarcerate, jug, imprison, gaol, put_behind_bars, dawdle, meantime, retardation, fall_back, jail, stave, put_away, slowdown

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

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

  The answer: SPOT

  Possible Answer: smudge, maculation, spy, tell_apart, spot, situation, descry, blot, recognize, pick_out, blob, smirch, espy, pip, topographic_point, touch, smear, place, billet, dapple, distinguish, fleck, discern, blemish, daub, point, stain, bit, patch, recognise, berth, make_out, speckle, slur, office, post, spotlight, position

• The clue is 50. King's domain. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: REALM

  Possible Answer: land, kingdom, realm, region

• The clue is 51. Pelvic bone. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ILIUM

  Possible Answer: ilium, Troy, Ilion, Ilium

• The clue is 55. ___ Dhabi. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ABU

• The clue is 57. Drugstore that prints famously long receipts. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: CVS

  Possible Answer: curriculum_vitae, CV, resume

• The clue is 58. Yes, in Japanese. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: HAI

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Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Moderate

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🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (35 clues)

🧩 1A: "1. Speeding check"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a lump on the body caused by a blow
• Similar words include: gibbousness, excrescence, dislodge
• Opposite of: promote

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Answer: BUMP

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🧩 2A: "5. Vocally"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that using the voice; not silently
• Similar words include: loudly, loud, out loud
• Opposite of: softly

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Answer: ALOUD

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🧩 3A: "10. Source for some bubbly"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ASTI

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🧩 4A: "14. Where the the Magi journeyed from"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

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

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Answer: AFAR

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🧩 5A: "15. "Over my dead body!""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

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Answer: GODNO

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🧩 6A: "16. One may be in default"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the temporary provision of money (usually at interest)
• Similar words include: loanword, lend
• Opposite of: borrow

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Answer: LOAN

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🧩 7A: "17. Mixtures in copier cartridges"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

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Answer: TOPEARNERS

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🧩 8A: "19. Target of an exfoliator"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any tiny hole admitting passage of a liquid (fluid or gas)
• Similar words include: rivet, stoma, concentrate
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: PORE

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🧩 9A: "20. Birthplace of Madeleine Albright and Vaclav Havel"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the capital and largest city of the czech republic in the western part of the country; a cultural and commercial center since the 14th century
• Similar words include: Prag, Praha, Czech capital
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: PRAGUE

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🧩 10A: "21. Drink made with an artisanal flourish, maybe"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that strong espresso coffee with a topping of frothed steamed milk
• Similar words include: caffe latte
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: LATTE

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🧩 11A: "22. Begins dealing with"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

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Answer: HASAT

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🧩 12A: "25. Chatted online, in brief"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that challenge the honesty or veracity of
• Similar words include: criminate, incriminate, accuse
• Pattern: _________

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Answer: IMPEACHED

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🧩 13A: "27. Risk-___"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed
• Similar words include: loath, indisposed, antipathetic
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: AVERSE

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🧩 14A: "29. Sporting great who said "Tennis uses the language of life""

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

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Answer: AGASSI

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🧩 15A: "30. School that's a rival of 37-Down"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a university in connecticut
• Similar words include: Elihu Yale, Yale University
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: YALE

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🧩 16A: "31. P.R. piece?"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

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Answer: PUERTO

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🧩 17A: "35. Stat used to calculate a QB's passer rating"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: ATT

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🧩 18A: "36. In vain ... or how to read the answers to 17-, 25-, 49- and 58-Across"

📏 11 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that in an unproductive manner
• Similar words include: unprofitably, unproductively
• Opposite of: profitably, productively

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Answer: FRUITLESSLY

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🧩 19A: "39. Org. that monitors on-air obscenity"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an independent government agency that regulates interstate and international communications by radio and television and wire and cable and satellite
• Similar words include: Federal Communications Commission
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: FCC

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🧩 20A: "41. Matter in a neon sign"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the colorless watery fluid of the blood and lymph that contains no cells, but in which the blood cells (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) are suspended
• Similar words include: blood plasma, plasm
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: PLASMA

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🧩 21A: "42. Subjects of some European fishing bans"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 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
• Similar words include: eel
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: EELS

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🧩 22A: "45. Start of a lovelorn soliloquy"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

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Answer: OROMEO

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🧩 23A: "47. Bridges in Baghdad cross it"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an asian river; a tributary of the euphrates river
• Similar words include: Tigris River
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: TIGRIS

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🧩 24A: "49. Some fishing gear"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

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Answer: ROMANGODS

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🧩 25A: "53. Level in a social hierarchy"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that social status or position conferred by a system based on class
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: CASTE

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🧩 26A: "54. Street urchin"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets
• Similar words include: throwaway, street arab
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: GAMIN

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🧩 27A: "55. Less merry"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a tool used by an engraver
• Similar words include: weighty, grievous, grave
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: GRAVER

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🧩 28A: "57. Abbr. standing in for co-authors"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ETAL

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🧩 29A: "58. Investigate in detail"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

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Answer: PROBLEMONE

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🧩 30A: "62. Pitchfork point"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that prong on a fork or pitchfork or antler
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: TINE

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🧩 31A: "63. Rivian competitor"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a unit of magnetic flux density equal to one weber per square meter
• Similar words include: Nikola Tesla
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: TESLA

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🧩 32A: "64. Gemstone found in hot springs"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a translucent mineral consisting of hydrated silica of variable color; some varieties are used as gemstones
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: OPAL

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🧩 33A: "65. Org. promoting sober motoring"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: SADD

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🧩 34A: "66. Half-___ (desultory)"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

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Answer: ASSED

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🧩 35A: "67. Winter sports venue"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that building that contains a surface for ice skating or roller skating
• Similar words include: skating rink
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: RINK

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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (39 clues)

🧩 1D: "1. Be up"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate
• Similar words include: lick, drub, chiropteran
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: BAT

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🧩 2D: "2. What arrives in the film "Arrival""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown; especially those considered to have extraterrestrial origins
• Similar words include: flying saucer, unidentified flying object
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: UFO

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🧩 3D: "3. Dash display in some cars"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it)
• Similar words include: function, single-valued function, map out
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: MAP

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🧩 4D: "4. Tax ___"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

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Answer: PREPARER

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🧩 5D: "5. Tourist destination outside of Delhi"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a city in northern india; former capital of the mogul empire; site of the taj mahal
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: AGRA

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🧩 6D: "6. Nighttime sound?"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

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Answer: LONGI

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🧩 7D: "7. Classical performance space"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ODEUM

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🧩 8D: "8. One with diplomatic plates in N.Y.C."

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

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Answer: UNREP

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🧩 9D: "9. "Mesa para ___" (request at a Spanish restaurant)"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the federal department in the united states that sets and maintains foreign policies
• Similar words include: exercise, State, State Department
• Opposite of: unmake

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Answer: DOS

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🧩 10D: "10. Wool source"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that wool of the alpaca
• Similar words include: Lama pacos
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: ALPACA

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🧩 11D: "11. Futures experts?"

📏 11 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge)
• Similar words include: predictor, forecaster, prognosticator
• Pattern: ___________

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Answer: SOOTHSAYERS

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🧩 12D: "12. Most pucker-inducing"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that tasting sour like a lemon
• Similar words include: tangy, sharp, lemonlike
• Pattern: _______

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Answer: TARTEST

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🧩 13D: "13. "Gimme!""

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

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Answer: INEEDIT

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🧩 14D: "18. Culture vulture's concerns"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)
• Similar words include: artistry, artistic creation, art
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ARTS

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🧩 15D: "21. Financial center of West Africa"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that chief port and economic center of nigeria; located in southwestern nigeria on the gulf of guinea; former capital of nigeria
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: LAGOS

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🧩 16D: "22. Kind of "fever" that's not actually a fever, and is typically caused by pollen"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that grass mowed and cured for use as fodder
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: HAY

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🧩 17D: "23. Director DuVernay"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AVA

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🧩 18D: "24. It's needed to stay calm"

📏 11 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SELFCOMMAND

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🧩 19D: "26. Rankles no end"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EATSAT

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🧩 20D: "28. Prose postscript"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play
• Similar words include: epilogue
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EPILOG

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🧩 21D: "32. ___ Hagen, Tony-winning actress and theater practitioner"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a reptile genus of iguanidae
• Similar words include: genus Uta
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: UTA

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🧩 22D: "33. Trains for the Chicago White Sox?"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
• Similar words include: ALT, EL, altitude
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ELS

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🧩 23D: "34. Dreamily named rock group?"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs; a state of rapidly shifting eye movements during sleep
• Similar words include: rapid eye movement sleep, paradoxical sleep, rapid eye movement
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: REM

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🧩 24D: "37. School that's a rival of 30-Across, informally"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: UPENN

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🧩 25D: "38. Part of a jouster's protection"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LEGARMOR

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🧩 26D: "39. Thinks nothing of"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that dismiss from the mind; stop remembering
• Similar words include: blank out, draw a blank, leave
• Opposite of: mind, remember

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Answer: FORGETS

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🧩 27D: "40. European land where much of "Game of Thrones" was filmed"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a republic in the western balkans in south-central europe in the eastern adriatic coastal area; formerly part of the habsburg monarchy and yugoslavia; became independent in 1991
• Similar words include: Republic of Croatia, Hrvatska
• Pattern: _______

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Answer: CROATIA

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🧩 28D: "43. On fire"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

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

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Answer: LIT

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🧩 29D: "44. Seattle-to-Mount Rainier dir."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the compass point midway between south and southeast
• Similar words include: south southeast, sou'-sou'-east
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: SSE

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🧩 30D: "46. On its way, in a way"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that send via the postal service
• Similar words include: send, post, get off
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MAILED

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🧩 31D: "48. Drink that might turn your tongue blue"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ICEE

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🧩 32D: "50. Fiends of folklore"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a cruel wicked and inhuman person
• Similar words include: demon, fiend, monster
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OGRES

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🧩 33D: "51. Useless leftovers"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that worthless or dangerous material that should be removed
• Similar words include: impurity, slag, scoria
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DROSS

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🧩 34D: "52. Fur once favored by Russian royalty"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an artist's brush made of sable hairs
• Similar words include: soot black, sable's hair pencil, coal black
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SABLE

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🧩 35D: "56. Baseball Hall-of-Famer Guerrero, to fans"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: VLAD

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🧩 36D: "58. Org. that might sponsor a read-a-thon, in brief"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PTA

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🧩 37D: "59. Mani-pedi brand"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OPI

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🧩 38D: "60. Grammy, in the U.K."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that your grandmother
• Similar words include: Nan River, gran, nanna
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NAN

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🧩 39D: "61. Creature on the state flags of Michigan and Idaho"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in europe and `moose' in north america
• Similar words include: Alces alces, European elk, American elk
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ELK

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🧠 Expert Solving Strategies

🎯 Start Smart

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35 Across Clues

39 Down Clues

74 Total Clues

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