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Friday, July 19, 2024

November 06, 2000 NYT Clues Answers

NYT Crossword and Answers - November 06, 2000

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. Mideast's Meir: GOLDA
  • 6. Quench: SLAKE
  • 11. Reverse of ENE: WSW
  • 14. French ___ soup: ONION
  • 15. Old postcard cost: PENNY
  • 16. News agcy.: UPI
  • 17. Special person: SMARTCOOKIE
  • 19. Forty winks: NAP
  • 20. "Help yourself": HERE
  • 21. At an angle: ATILT
  • 22. Store goods: Abbr.: MDSE
  • 23. Humorist Sahl: MORT
  • 25. Highly regards: ESTEEMS
  • 27. Eye chart eyers, at times: SQUINTERS
  • 31. Opposite of vert.: HOR
  • 32. Part of a litter: PUP
  • 33. Cubs slugger Sammy: SOSA
  • 34. Viewed like a tourist: GAWKED
  • 37. Cloak-and-dagger org.: CIA
  • 38. Special person: HOTSHOT
  • 40. Jerusalem's land: Abbr.: ISR
  • 41. When there's darkness, in a Koestler title: ATNOON
  • 43. Makes lace: TATS
  • 44. Code-cracking org.: NSA
  • 45. "Le Coq ___": DOR
  • 46. Alcove from which to watch the street: BAYWINDOW
  • 48. Cane cutter: MACHETE
  • 51. Tiny biter: MITE
  • 52. Roswell sightings: UFOS
  • 53. Killer whales: ORCAS
  • 55. V-J Day ended it: WWII
  • 59. Comic Conway: TIM
  • 60. Special person: CRACKERJACK
  • 62. Bard's before: ERE
  • 63. Composer Erik: SATIE
  • 64. Transplant taker: DONEE
  • 65. ___ Bingle (Crosby moniker): DER
  • 66. Not your or my: THEIR
  • 67. Helps with a heist: ABETS

Down:

  • 1. "Gee whillikers!": GOSH
  • 2. "This round's ___!": ONME
  • 3. Make-up artist?: LIAR
  • 4. Start of the musical scale: DOREMI
  • 5. Small colonist: ANT
  • 6. Unscientific survey: SPOTTEST
  • 7. Fifth-century pope who was sainted: LEOI
  • 8. Bobbysocks reach them: ANKLES
  • 9. Sweaters, e.g.: KNITS
  • 10. CBS symbol: EYE
  • 11. Special person: WUNDERKIND
  • 12. Involuntary jerk: SPASM
  • 13. Uses a towel: WIPES
  • 18. Saturday morning TV showing: CARTOON
  • 22. Cat's plaint: MEOW
  • 24. Not at sea: ONSHORE
  • 26. "Eureka!": THATSIT
  • 27. Pet lovers' org.: SPCA
  • 28. Give up: QUIT
  • 29. Special person: UPANDCOMER
  • 30. Haile Selassie disciple: RASTA
  • 34. Finally learned: GOTWISE
  • 35. Exxon, once: ESSO
  • 36. Gunfight command: DRAW
  • 39. Knockout punch: HAYMAKER
  • 42. Sounds of envy: OOHS
  • 46. Tongue-lash: BERATE
  • 47. A bored worker might look for one: NEWJOB
  • 48. With the sound off: MUTED
  • 49. Like a house ___: AFIRE
  • 50. Synagogue scroll: TORAH
  • 54. 202, to Tiberius: CCII
  • 56. Wind down: WANE
  • 57. "Body Count" rapper: ICET
  • 58. Alibi ___ (excuse makers): IKES
  • 60. Mpls. clock setting: CST
  • 61. Nutritional std.: RDA

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Tuesday NYT Crossword Answers: August 20, 2024 – Hints, Clues, and Solutions

The Crossword hints blog is an one of the most popular crossword clue puzzles with answers solver. Here are the clues and answers for august 20, 2024 nyt puzzle.

Break down the Tuesday NYT Crosswords: August 20, 2024

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

Tuesday NYT Crossword Answers: August 20, 2024 – Hints, Clues, and Solutions
Tuesday NYT Crossword Answers: August 20, 2024 


Across Clues and Answers:
  • The clue is 1. Largest city in Nebraska. Can you find the Answer?

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

    The answer: OMAHA

    Possible Answer : Omaha, Maha


  • The clue is 6. "Excuse me …". Can you find the Answer?

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

    The answer: AHEM

    Possible Answer : ahem, hem


  • The clue is 10. Letters on old Soviet rockets. Can you find the Answer?

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

    The answer: CCCP


  • The clue is 14. Eschew the subway, say. Can you find the Answer?

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

    The answer: CABIT


  • The clue is 15. Boo. Can you find the Answer?

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

    The answer: JEER

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


  • The clue is 16. Surrounding glow. Can you find the Answer?

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

    The answer: AURA

    Possible Answer : nimbus, aura, gloriole, halo, aureole, atmosphere, air, glory


  • The clue is 17. Superscript by a brand name. Can you find the Answer?

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

    The answer: TRADEMARKSYMBOL


  • The clue is 20. Ballpark fig.. Can you find the Answer?

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

    The answer: EST

    Possible Answer : EST, Eastern_Time, Eastern_Standard_Time


  • The clue is 21. Losing line in tic-tac-toe. Can you find the Answer?

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

    The answer: OXO


  • The clue is 22. Major in mass communication?. Can you find the Answer?

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

    The answer: POPE

    Possible Answer : Bishop_of_Rome, pontiff, Roman_Catholic_Pope, Catholic_Pope, Pope, Alexander_Pope, pope, Vicar_of_Christ, Holy_Father


  • The clue is 23. "Won't Get Fooled Again" rockers. Can you find the Answer?

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

    The answer: THEWHO


  • The clue is 26. The "F" of FTW. Can you find the Answer?

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

    The answer: FOR


  • The clue is 27. Actress Wray of "King Kong". Can you find the Answer?

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

    The answer: FAY

    Possible Answer : faery, faerie, fairy, sprite, fay


  • The clue is 30. Fighter jet's landing spot. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (12 letters)

    The answer: AIRFORCEBASE


  • The clue is 34. Neighbor of an Uzbek. Can you find the Answer?

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

    The answer: TAJIK

    Possible Answer : Tajik, Tadzhikistan, Tadzhik, Tajiki, Republic_of_Tajikistan, Tadjik, Tajikistan


  • The clue is 37. Longtime Heat coach Spoelstra. Can you find the Answer?

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

    The answer: ERIK


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

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

    The answer: IRKS

    Possible Answer : gall, irk


  • The clue is 39. Singer with the albums "21," "25" and "30". Can you find the Answer?

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

    The answer: ADELE


  • The clue is 40. Director Ang. Can you find the Answer?

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

    The answer: LEE

    Possible Answer : Gypsy_Rose_Lee, Lee_Yuen_Kam, Robert_Edward_Lee, Lee, Rose_Louise_Hovick, Richard_Henry_Lee, Robert_E._Lee, Henry_Lee, lee_side, Shelton_Jackson_Lee, Spike_Lee, Bruce_Lee, Tsung_Dao_Lee, lee, leeward, downwind, Lighthorse_Harry_Lee

    Possible Opposite Answer : windward


  • The clue is 41. Man of Marseilles. Can you find the Answer?

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

    The answer: HOMME


  • The clue is 42. Not doing much. Can you find the Answer?

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

    The answer: IDLE

    Possible Answer : wild, tick_over, loose, out_of_work, unused, idle, unwarranted, light, stagnate, slug, baseless, unfounded, jobless, laze, groundless, dead

    Possible Opposite Answer : run, busy, work


  • The clue is 43. ___ ring. Can you find the Answer?

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

    The answer: MOOD

    Possible Answer : modality, humour, temper, humor, mood, climate, mode


  • The clue is 44. Areas for altars. Can you find the Answer?

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

    The answer: APSES

    Possible Answer : apse, apsis


  • The clue is 45. Investment banking giant. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (12 letters)

    The answer: GOLDMANSACHS


  • The clue is 48. Lead-in to "-hoo". Can you find the Answer?

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

    The answer: ANY

    Possible Answer : whatever, any, whatsoever


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

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

    The answer: IOS

    Possible Answer : Io


  • The clue is 50. Extended period of inactivity. Can you find the Answer?

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

    The answer: LAYOFF

    Possible Answer : layoff


  • The clue is 54. Final opponent in a video game level. Can you find the Answer?

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

    The answer: BOSS

    Possible Answer : party_boss, Bos, political_boss, foreman, genus_Bos, stamp, hirer, honcho, knob, brag, boss, chief, gaffer, emboss


  • The clue is 56. With 57-Down, lacking in variety. Can you find the Answer?

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

    The answer: ONE

    Possible Answer : unmatchable, peerless, unrivalled, i, unitary, unrivaled, ace, single, I, 1, matchless, one_and_only, unmatched, ane, nonpareil, unity, one


  • The clue is 58. Dave Brubeck's "Blue Rondo ___ Turk". Can you find the Answer?

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

    The answer: ALA

    Possible Answer : ala


  • The clue is 59. Best Picture winner of 1965 ... or a description of the ends of 17-, 30- and 45-Across?. Can you find the Answer?

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

    The answer: THESOUNDOFMUSIC


  • The clue is 64. Chef's creation. Can you find the Answer?

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

    The answer: MEAL

    Possible Answer : repast, meal


  • The clue is 65. "Sure, sure ...". Can you find the Answer?

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

    The answer: IBET


  • The clue is 66. Kick out. Can you find the Answer?

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

    The answer: EVICT

    Possible Answer : evict, force_out


  • The clue is 67. Greek founder of Stoicism. Can you find the Answer?

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

    The answer: ZENO

    Possible Answer : Zeno_of_Elea, Zeno_of_Citium, Zeno


  • The clue is 68. Stun with a jolt. Can you find the Answer?

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

    The answer: TASE


  • The clue is 69. Things on a to-do list. Can you find the Answer?

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

    The answer: TASKS

    Possible Answer : job, labor, chore, project, undertaking, task, tax


Down Clues and Answers:

Sunday, July 13, 2025

NYT Crossword Answers & Hints - July 13, 2025 | XWordHint Today Vibez

NYT Crossword Answers & Hints – July 13, 2025 | XWordHint Today Trends & Vibez

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.

XWordHint Nyt Daily Crossword solve hint Expert crossword hints, answers, and solutions with the current date. Today NYT Crossword Answers - Hints

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 (90 clues)

🧩 1A: "1. Cry from a guard tower"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the state of inactivity following an interruption
  • Similar words include: stop, freeze, stanch
  • Opposite of: start
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: HALT

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 2A: "5. Imaginary fiends"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an evil supernatural being
  • Similar words include: daemon, monster, demon
  • Pattern: ______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: DEMONS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 3A: "11. Assign a number, maybe"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit
  • Similar words include: place, charge per unit, grade
  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: RATE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 4A: "15. Takes orders at a restaurant"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that time during which some action is awaited
  • Similar words include: wait, hold back, waiting
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: WAITS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 5A: "20. Great Plains tribe"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a member of the siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the platte and missouri rivers in nebraska
  • Similar words include: Oto
  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: OTOE

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🧩 6A: "21. "I'll be right with you""

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: INASEC

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 7A: "22. Name that becomes a shape if you switch the second and fourth letters"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: OLAV

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 8A: "23. They might leave you in stitches, for short"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ERDOCS

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🧩 9A: "25. Not marbled, say"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
  • Similar words include: list, tilt, slant
  • Opposite of: rich, fat
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: LEAN

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 10A: "26. Electronic music genre"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a style of fast heavy electronic dance music usually without vocals
  • Pattern: ______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: TECHNO

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 11A: "27. Pai gow game piece"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces
  • Similar words include: roofing tile
  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: TILE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 12A: "28. Relieve"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that give moral or emotional strength to
  • Similar words include: solace, console, comfort
  • Opposite of: irritate
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: SOOTHE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 13A: "29. They have seniority"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a person who is older than you are
  • Similar words include: senior, elder, elderberry bush
  • Pattern: ______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ELDERS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 14A: "31. Bit of red in a salad"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that biennial eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop
  • Similar words include: common beet, beetroot, Beta vulgaris
  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: BEET

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 15A: "32. What accepts all cookies?"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting
  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: OVEN

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 16A: "33. Bottom"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: TUSHIE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 17A: "34. Under, on a score"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: SOTTO

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 18A: "35. ___ of all"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that something that is of no importance
  • Similar words include: to the lowest degree
  • Opposite of: most
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: LEAST

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 19A: "36. They might be padded"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that short descriptive summary (of events)
  • Similar words include: restart, take up, sum up
  • Pattern: _______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: RESUMES

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 20A: "38. Gift in the 2000 movie "The Gift""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses
  • Similar words include: extrasensory perception, second sight, E.S.P.
  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ESP

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 21A: "39. Here, in Paris"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ICI

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 22A: "40. Alternative fuel source"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that partially carbonized vegetable matter saturated with water; can be used as a fuel when dried
  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: PEAT

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 23A: "42. ___ Noël"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: PERE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 24A: "43. Yoga sounds"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: OMS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 25A: "44. '60s war zone"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: NAM

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 26A: "45. "Wicked" protagonist"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ELPHABA

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 27A: "49. 180"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: UEY

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 28A: "52. Acknowledge silently"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: NODAT

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 29A: "54. Leave be"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: LETLIE

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 30A: "56. Big hunk"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a man who serves as a sailor
  • Similar words include: hole, mariner, cakehole
  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: GOB

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 31A: "57. Many idol worshipers"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: TWEENS

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🧩 32A: "59. Cartoonist Silverstein"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: SHEL

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 33A: "62. Took an hour off mid-day, say"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ________
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: HADLUNCH

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🧩 34A: "64. Phrase cooed en español"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: TEAMO

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🧩 35A: "65. Dry, as Spanish wine"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: SECO

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🧩 36A: "66. Monk known as "The Father of English History""

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: STBEDE

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🧩 37A: "69. Geometric art style, familiarly"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a style of design that was popular in the 1920s and 1930s; marked by stylized forms and geometric designs adapted to mass production
  • Similar words include: art deco
  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: DECO

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 38A: "70. Going wrong"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that to make a mistake or be incorrect
  • Similar words include: stray, error-prone, slip
  • Pattern: ______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ERRING

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 39A: "72. Two-stringed Chinese instrument"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ERHU

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🧩 40A: "73. Gave a hoot"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that feel concern or interest
  • Similar words include: give care, care, wish
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: CARED

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 41A: "74. Gentleman's disagreement?"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: NOSIR

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🧩 42A: "75. Website feed inits."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: RSS

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 43A: "76. Basketball shooter's lament"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: IMISSED

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🧩 44A: "78. Flattering lines"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ODE

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🧩 45A: "79. Subj. for John Maynard Keynes"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ECON

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🧩 46A: "81. Alma mater for John Maynard Keynes"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ETON

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🧩 47A: "82. Dot in la mer"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ILE

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🧩 48A: "83. It lets you move north"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: UPARROW

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🧩 49A: "85. Windy City commuting org."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: CTA

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🧩 50A: "88. "A picture is worth a thousand words," e.g."

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
  • Similar words include: saw, byword, proverb
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ADAGE

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🧩 51A: "91. Mulligans"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that do over, as of (part of) a house
  • Similar words include: remake, redo, refashion
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: REDOS

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🧩 52A: "93. Big name in streaming"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ROKU

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🧩 53A: "94. Gossip about"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: DISHON

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🧩 54A: "96. Champion's memento"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a characteristic sound
  • Similar words include: doughnut, border, hoop
  • Opposite of: open chain
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: RING

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🧩 55A: "97. Hold a grudge against"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that feel bitter or indignant about
  • Similar words include: begrudge
  • Opposite of: wish
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: RESENT

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🧩 56A: "98. North Carolina university"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ELON

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🧩 57A: "99. "See if that's OK""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: GOASK

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🧩 58A: "100. Chore-o-graph?"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ________
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: TODOLIST

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🧩 59A: "102. Significant start"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening)
  • Similar words include: nick, indent, incision
  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: DENT

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🧩 60A: "103. Good person"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a decent responsible person with admirable characteristics
  • Similar words include: mensh
  • Pattern: ______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: MENSCH

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🧩 61A: "104. Collectors' org."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the bureau of the treasury department responsible for tax collections
  • Similar words include: Internal Revenue Service
  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: IRS

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🧩 62A: "105. Traded for cash"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: INPAWN

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🧩 63A: "108. Letter-shaped opening"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: TSLOT

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🧩 64A: "110. Postgrad degs."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that informal terms for a mother
  • Similar words include: mamma, Artium Magister, mammy
  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: MAS

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🧩 65A: "111. 1962 Paul Anka hit with the lyric "Kiss me mucho""

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ESOBESO

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🧩 66A: "113. Absorb, as a cost"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that take in solid food
  • Similar words include: feed, wipe out, exhaust
  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: EAT

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🧩 67A: "115. "___ bin ein Berliner""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ICH

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🧩 68A: "117. Goddess of the rainbow"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
  • Similar words include: iris diaphragm, sword lily, fleur-de-lis
  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: IRIS

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🧩 69A: "119. State bird of Minnesota"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a worthless lazy fellow
  • Similar words include: diver, addle-head, addlehead
  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: LOON

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🧩 70A: "120. ___ degree"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that last or greatest in an indefinitely large series
  • Similar words include: n-th
  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: NTH

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🧩 71A: "121. Give bad marks"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the month following february and preceding april
  • Similar words include: mutilate, vitiate, March
  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: MAR

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🧩 72A: "122. Reason for a successful steal, maybe"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: LATETAG

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🧩 73A: "126. Unstable noble gas"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a radioactive gaseous element formed by the disintegration of radium; the heaviest of the inert gasses; occurs naturally (especially in areas over granite) and is considered a hazard to health
  • Similar words include: atomic number 86, Rn
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: RADON

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🧩 74A: "129. French composer Erik"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that french composer noted for his experimentalism and rejection of romanticism (1866-1925)
  • Similar words include: Erik Alfred Leslie Satie, Erik Satie
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: SATIE

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🧩 75A: "131. Eeyore-esque"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that depressingly dark
  • Similar words include: downcast, dingy, drear
  • Pattern: ______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: GLOOMY

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🧩 76A: "133. Black dialect, in brief"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a nonstandard form of american english characteristically spoken by african americans in the united states
  • Similar words include: Black English, Black English Vernacular, Black Vernacular
  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: AAVE

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🧩 77A: "134. Seemingly forever"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that how long something has existed
  • Similar words include: senesce, get on, historic period
  • Opposite of: rejuvenate
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: AGES

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🧩 78A: "135. Roar"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)
  • Similar words include: bellowing, hollering, roaring
  • Pattern: ______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: BELLOW

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🧩 79A: "136. Soft palate appendages"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a small pendant fleshy lobe at the back of the soft palate
  • Similar words include: uvula
  • Pattern: ______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: UVULAE

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🧩 80A: "137. Some M.L.B. highlights"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a run that is the result of the batter's performance
  • Similar words include: run batted in, rbi
  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: RBIS

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🧩 81A: "138. Litigious threat"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ILLSUE

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🧩 82A: "140. Daughter on "Bob's Burgers""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: TINA

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🧩 83A: "141. Group in charge"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit
  • Similar words include: government, authorities, regimen
  • Pattern: ______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: REGIME

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🧩 84A: "142. Puffer or blazer"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an outer garment that has sleeves and covers the body from shoulder down; worn outdoors
  • Similar words include: cake, surface, pelage
  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: COAT

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🧩 85A: "143. Still looming, say"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: TOCOME

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🧩 86A: "144. Shape that becomes a name if you switch the second and fourth letters"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it
  • Similar words include: egg-shaped, ellipse, elliptical
  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: OVAL

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🧩 87A: "145. Wet bar?"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide
  • Similar words include: shallow, school
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: SHOAL

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🧩 88A: "146. Smooth with a whetstone"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors
  • Similar words include: perfect
  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: HONE

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🧩 89A: "147. Like some bobsleighs"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: TWOMAN

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🧩 90A: "148. Hawk"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the activity of persuading someone to buy
  • Similar words include: betray, trade, deal
  • Opposite of: buy
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: SELL

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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (74 clues)

🧩 1D: "1. With 114-Down, some neighborhood bars … or what connect eight pairs of answers in this puzzle?"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: HOLESIN

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🧩 2D: "2. Shopped at a farmers' market, say"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ________
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ATELOCAL

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🧩 3D: "3. Concern for a web game developer"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ________
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: LOADTIME

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🧩 4D: "4. Guiding principle"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof
  • Similar words include: dogma
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: TENET

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🧩 5D: "5. Morse ". . .""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in morse code
  • Similar words include: dot, dit
  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: DITS

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🧩 6D: "6. Opposite of WSW"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the compass point midway between northeast and east
  • Similar words include: east northeast
  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ENE

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🧩 7D: "7. Play featuring a trio of witches"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that king of scotland (died in 1057)
  • Pattern: _______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: MACBETH

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🧩 8D: "8. Actor ___ Jackson Jr."

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: OSHEA

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🧩 9D: "9. State birds of Hawaii"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: NENES

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🧩 10D: "10. Winfield ___, loser to Franklin Pierce for president in 1852"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that award-winning united states film actor (1928-1999)
  • Similar words include: Winfield Scott, Dred Scott, Robert Falcon Scott
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: SCOTT

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🧩 11D: "11. Chopper spinner"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the rotating armature of a motor or generator
  • Similar words include: rotor coil
  • Opposite of: stator
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ROTOR

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🧩 12D: "12. Still in the game"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that possessing life
  • Similar words include: awake, alert, live
  • Opposite of: dead, unanimated
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ALIVE

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🧩 13D: "13. Pranksters may have tall ones"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
  • Similar words include: story, tarradiddle, taradiddle
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: TALES

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🧩 14D: "14. Tie"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: EVENUP

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🧩 15D: "15. Fictional land on "Game of Thrones""

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ________
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: WESTEROS

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🧩 16D: "16. Got going"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
  • Similar words include: provoke, emotional, fire
  • Opposite of: de-energise, de-energize
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: AROUSED

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🧩 17D: "17. Wedding exchange"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an artificial language that is a revision and simplification of esperanto
  • Similar words include: Ido
  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: IDOS

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🧩 18D: "18. See 68-Down"

📏 14 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ______________
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: TOTHEOTHERSIDE

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🧩 19D: "19. Deep split"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that division of a group into opposing factions
  • Similar words include: split
  • Pattern: ______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: SCHISM

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🧩 20D: "24. Falls through the cracks, say"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings
  • Similar words include: ooze, seep
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: SEEPS

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🧩 21D: "30. Strung rungs"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: __________
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ROPELADDER

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🧩 22D: "35. Likely place for a hot mic"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that lap at the front of a coat; continuation of the coat collar
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: LAPEL

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🧩 23D: "37. Certain religious pacifist"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a member of an anabaptist movement in holland noted for its simplicity of life
  • Pattern: _________
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: MENNONITE

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🧩 24D: "41. Gloss over, linguistically"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that leave or strike out
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ELIDE

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🧩 25D: "46. French film director Varda, whom Martin Scorsese once described as "one of the gods of cinema""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: AGNES

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🧩 26D: "47. Italian lawn game"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that italian bowling played on a long narrow dirt court
  • Similar words include: bocce, boccie
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: BOCCI

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🧩 27D: "48. Just hate"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that find repugnant
  • Similar words include: execrate, abominate, loathe
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ABHOR

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🧩 28D: "49. Downright"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise
  • Similar words include: verbalise, staring, everlasting
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: UTTER

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🧩 29D: "50. Still-life vessels"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring
  • Similar words include: ewer, pitcher
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: EWERS

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🧩 30D: "51. Quite a while"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a late time of life
  • Similar words include: twelvemonth, class, year
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: YEARS

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🧩 31D: "53. Jacks and jennies"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
  • Similar words include: piece of tail, backside, fundament
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ASSES

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🧩 32D: "55. The old you?"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: THEE

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🧩 33D: "58. Bygone owner of Capitol Records"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: EMI

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🧩 34D: "60. Tier"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a body of troops arranged in a line
  • Pattern: _______
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Answer: ECHELON

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🧩 35D: "61. Like sperm whales, among all animals"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that characterized by or producing sound of great volume or intensity
  • Similar words include: brassy, tacky, gimcrack
  • Opposite of: soft, piano
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Answer: LOUDEST

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🧩 36D: "63. Slurpable noodle"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: UDON

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🧩 37D: "66. Looked high and low in"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that examine minutely
  • Similar words include: flush, eroded, abrade
  • Pattern: _______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: SCOURED

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🧩 38D: "67. Polliwog"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a larval frog or toad
  • Similar words include: polliwog, pollywog
  • Pattern: _______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: TADPOLE

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🧩 39D: "68. With 18-Down, classic 1967 song by a group whose name is a hint to solving the eight bonus clues (see note)"

📏 14 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ______________
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: BREAKONTHROUGH

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🧩 40D: "71. Biotech crop, in brief"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
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Answer: GMO

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🧩 41D: "74. "Ah, thanks for explaining""

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _________
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: NOWIGETIT

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🧩 42D: "77. As an answer"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: __________
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: INRESPONSE

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🧩 43D: "80. Atlantic food fish"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves)
  • Similar words include: tease, cash on delivery, put on
  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: COD

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🧩 44D: "81. Breakfast brand with a Thick & Fluffy variety"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: EGGO

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🧩 45D: "84. Fruit-shaped candies"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that disparaging terms for small people
  • Similar words include: runt, peewee, shrimp
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: RUNTS

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🧩 46D: "85. Wide rift"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a deep opening in the earth's surface
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: CHASM

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🧩 47D: "86. Puccini opera set in Rome"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: TOSCA

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🧩 48D: "87. Ancient symbols of life"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ANKHS

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🧩 49D: "88. Man's name that sounds like two consonants"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ARTIE

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🧩 50D: "89. Some luxury bags"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that french couturier whose first collection in 1947 created a style that became known as the new look (1905-1957)
  • Similar words include: Dior, Christian Dior
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: DIORS

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🧩 51D: "90. "Consequently ...""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ANDSO

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🧩 52D: "92. ___ noche (tonight, in Tijuana)"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
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Answer: ESTA

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🧩 53D: "95. One of 12 for Jacob"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a male human offspring
  • Similar words include: boy, Word, Logos
  • Opposite of: daughter, girl
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: SON

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🧩 54D: "97. Classic detergent brand"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: RINSO

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🧩 55D: "101. Use for sleeping, say"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: LIEON

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🧩 56D: "103. Stealthy aquatic hunter"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ________
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: MORAYEEL

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🧩 57D: "106. Started broadcasting"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ________
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: WENTLIVE

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🧩 58D: "107. Countrywide"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a person who owes allegiance to that nation
  • Similar words include: internal, home, subject
  • Opposite of: international, local
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: NATIONAL

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🧩 59D: "109. "Lip Gloss" rapper, 2007"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: LILMAMA

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🧩 60D: "112. Stop being buds?"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts
  • Similar words include: flush, flower, blossom out
  • Pattern: _______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: BLOSSOM

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🧩 61D: "114. See 1-Down"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: THEWALL

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🧩 62D: "115. Hosting site with a gallery of memes"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: IMGUR

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🧩 63D: "116. Jersey boys?"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that young of domestic cattle
  • Similar words include: have young, sura, calf
  • Pattern: ______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: CALVES

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🧩 64D: "118. Google action"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
  • Similar words include: lookup, seek, look for
  • Pattern: ______
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: SEARCH

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🧩 65D: "123. Just not done"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a prejudice (especially in polynesia and other south pacific islands) that prohibits the use or mention of something because of its sacred nature
  • Similar words include: verboten, proscribed, tabu
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: TABOO

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🧩 66D: "124. Birdlike"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that pertaining to or characteristic of birds
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: AVIAN

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🧩 67D: "125. Beau ___"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: GESTE

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🧩 68D: "126. Bonnie with 13 Grammys"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: RAITT

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🧩 69D: "127. Beaming"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that softly bright or radiant
  • Similar words include: luminous, lucent, lambent
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: AGLOW

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🧩 70D: "128. AC___ (G.M. subsidiary)"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: DELCO

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🧩 71D: "130. Some saxes"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a singer whose voice lies in the alto clef
  • Similar words include: countertenor, contralto, alto
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ALTOS

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🧩 72D: "132. Grab bag"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: OLIO

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🧩 73D: "135. "We've all ___ there""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
  • Similar words include: be, comprise, embody
  • Opposite of: differ
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: BEEN

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🧩 74D: "139. Thurman who played the bride in "Kill Bill""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a benevolent aspect of devi; `splendor'
  • Similar words include: genus Uma
  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: UMA

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