27438 Wed Dec 25, 2024 NY Times Crossword Clues Hints

Break down the NYT Crosswords: December 25, 2024

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

Wed Dec 25, 2024 NY Times Crossword Clues

Across Clues with Answers:

• The clue is 1. Franken and Sharpton. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ALS

  Possible Answer : atomic_number_13, Alabama, Lou_Gehrig's_disease, aluminium, amyotrophic_lateral_sclerosis, Al, AL, Heart_of_Dixie, ALS, Camellia_State, aluminum




• The clue is 4. Like many college dorms. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: COED




• The clue is 8. Wood-shaping tool. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: RASP

  Possible Answer : wood_file, rasping, rasp




• The clue is 12. State school near the Allegheny River, familiarly. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: PITT

  Possible Answer : Pitt_the_Younger, Pitt, William_Pitt, First_Earl_of_Chatham, George_Dibdin_Pitt, Second_Earl_of_Chatham, George_Pitt, George_Dibdin-Pitt, Pitt_the_Elder




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

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

  The answer: SUCKA




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

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

  The answer: EMIR

  Possible Answer : ameer, emir, emeer, amir




• The clue is 16. Destination for the Taj Express. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: AGRA

  Possible Answer : Agra




• The clue is 17. Upper atmosphere. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ETHER

  Possible Answer : ethyl_ether, ether, divinyl_ether, aether, ethoxyethane, quintessence, vinyl_ether, diethyl_ether




• The clue is 18. Atmosphere in the room. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: VIBE

  Possible Answer : vibe, vibration




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

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

  The answer: CHUM

  Possible Answer : brother, pal, Oncorhynchus_keta, buddy, crony, chum, chum_salmon, sidekick




• The clue is 20. Ding-dongs. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: MORONS

  Possible Answer : changeling, idiot, cretin, retard, imbecile, moron, half-wit, Moron




• The clue is 22. "___ anges dans nos campagnes" (French carol). Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: LES

  Possible Answer : lupus_erythematosus, LE




• The clue is 23. Start of an encrypted web address. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: HTTPS

  Possible Answer : hypertext_transfer_protocol, HTTP




• The clue is 25. More, on a music score. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: PIU




• The clue is 26. What some fear A.I. might become. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: AWARE

  Possible Answer : cognisant, aware, cognizant, mindful

  Possible Opposite Answer : unaware, unmindful




• The clue is 28. Format for an English final, maybe. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ESSAYTEST




• The clue is 30. Instruction from a taxi driver. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: GETIN




• The clue is 31. ___ Blanc. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: MONT




• The clue is 32. Best in a hot dog competition. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OUTEAT




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

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

  The answer: GETUPS

  Possible Answer : outfit, rig, turnout, getup




• The clue is 37. Actress Rooney of 2015's "Carol". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: MARA

  Possible Answer : Dolichotis_patagonum, mara, Mara




• The clue is 39. Sailor's "Stop!". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: AVAST




• The clue is 40. Large waterfalls. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: CATARACTS

  Possible Answer : cataract




• The clue is 45. Unidentified person, in slang. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: RANDO




• The clue is 46. Ox's stablemate in a traditional Nativity scene. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ASS

  Possible Answer : rear, shag, nooky, seat, tush, derriere, buns, fanny, arsenic, tooshie, screw, stern, behind, bum, rump, AS, fucking, keister, prat, atomic_number_33, bottom, nates, rear_end, fuck, piece_of_ass, tail, posterior, butt, fundament, backside, ass, shtup, As, arse, American_Samoa, hindquarters, screwing, buttocks, nookie, tail_end, Eastern_Samoa, piece_of_tail, hind_end, roll_in_the_hay, can




• The clue is 47. Skate park jump. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OLLIE




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

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

  The answer: LCD

  Possible Answer : LCD, liquid_crystal_display




• The clue is 49. Insect with a single ear found on its chest. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: MANTIS

  Possible Answer : mantid, mantis




• The clue is 52. Watch over. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TEND

  Possible Answer : incline, be_given, lean, tend, run




• The clue is 53. Hungarian violinist Leopold. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: AUER




• The clue is 55. Base boss, informally. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SARGE




• The clue is 56. "Every cloud ___ silver lining". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: HASA




• The clue is 57. Animated clownfish. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: NEMO




• The clue is 58. Name derived from the Greek for "peace". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: IRENE




• The clue is 59. Whence the gingerbread man. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OVEN

  Possible Answer : oven




• The clue is 60. Funny Arnaz. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: DESI




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

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

  The answer: AYES




• The clue is 62. Pairs of jolly bells?. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ELS

  Possible Answer : ALT, el, overhead_railway, altitude, elevation, elevated_railroad, EL, elevated_railway, elevated

Down Clues and Answers:

• The clue is 1. Navajo neighbors. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: APACHE

  Possible Answer: Apache, apache

• The clue is 2. What might be strung from the item hidden in this puzzle. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: LIGHTS

  Possible Answer: fire_up, lighting, luminousness, get_off, lighter, alight, get_down, light, illume, visible_radiation, lightness, spark, visible_light, illumine, ignite, perch, Inner_Light, fall, luminance, light_source, sparkle, luminosity, igniter, brightness, brightness_level, dismount, light_up, illuminate, Christ_Within, illumination, Light_Within, unhorse, twinkle, Light, ignitor

  Possible Opposite Answer : extinguish, dark

• The clue is 3. Walks with confidence. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: STRUTS

  Possible Answer: prance, sashay, strut, cock, ruffle, swagger, tittup

• The clue is 4. Prepare, as a watermelon. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: CUTOPEN

• The clue is 5. Holiday carol … or a literal hint to what can be drawn by connecting nine letters when this puzzle is finished. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (14 letters)

  The answer: OCHRISTMASTREE

• The clue is 6. Just manage, as a win. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: EKEOUT

• The clue is 7. Mend, as a stocking. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: DARN

  Possible Answer: tinker's_damn, patch, red_cent, darn, tinker's_dam, hoot, shucks, mend, shit, damn

• The clue is 8. Cleric's title: Abbr.. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: REV

  Possible Answer: rpm, revolutions_per_minute, rev_up, rev

• The clue is 9. "Have you started without me?". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: AMILATE

• The clue is 10. Region near the North Pole. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SIBERIA

  Possible Answer: Siberia

• The clue is 11. What might be set under the item hidden in this puzzle. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: PRESENT

  Possible Answer: represent, stage, portray, present_tense, present, exhibit, deliver, pose, nowadays, gift, salute, face, award, acquaint, submit, demo, give, lay_out, demonstrate, confront, show, introduce

  Possible Opposite Answer : future, absent

• The clue is 13. Florida city or bay. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TAMPA

  Possible Answer: Tampa

• The clue is 14. School yr. part. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SEM

• The clue is 21. Arizona's ___ National Park. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SAGUARO

  Possible Answer: Carnegiea_gigantea, saguaro, sahuaro

• The clue is 24. Red nose during wintertime, maybe?. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SYMPTOM

  Possible Answer: symptom

• The clue is 27. Like fresh paint. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: WET

  Possible Answer: fuddled, smashed, sozzled, lactating, pie-eyed, blind_drunk, loaded, stiff, crocked, wet, besotted, soaked, moisture, pixilated, tight, blotto, squiffy, sloshed, plastered, pissed, cockeyed, slopped, soused

  Possible Opposite Answer : dry

• The clue is 29. Go-___. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TOS

• The clue is 32. Singer Rita. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ORA

  Possible Answer: oculus_sinister, bone, osmium, os, Os, atomic_number_76, OS, operating_system

• The clue is 33. What might be draped from the item hidden in this puzzle. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: GARLAND

  Possible Answer: Judy_Garland, garland, coronal, chaplet, lei, Garland, miscellany, florilegium, wreath

• The clue is 34. One seeking refuge from a dangerous situation. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: EVACUEE

  Possible Answer: evacuee

• The clue is 35. Some two-seaters. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TANDEMS

  Possible Answer: tandem_bicycle, tandem, bicycle-built-for-two

• The clue is 36. Euro competitor, for short. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: USD

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

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

  The answer: ATSIGNS

• The clue is 40. Tweety Bird, e.g.. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: CANARY

  Possible Answer: snitch, canary_yellow, stool_pigeon, canary_bird, sneaker, stoolpigeon, fink, sneak, snitcher, stoolie, canary-yellow, canary

• The clue is 41. Even if, casually. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ALTHO

• The clue is 42. Rend. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: CLEAVE

  Possible Answer: rive, cohere, stick, adhere, split, cling, cleave

• The clue is 43. What might be hung from the item hidden in this puzzle. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TINSEL

  Possible Answer: tinsel

• The clue is 44. Civics, for example. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SEDANS

  Possible Answer: sedan, saloon, sedan_chair

• The clue is 50. Where most of the world's rice and tea is grown. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ASIA

  Possible Answer: Asia

• The clue is 51. Word repeated in the lyric "Do you ___ what I ___?". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SEE

  Possible Answer: get_wind, find, view, picture, envision, interpret, come_across, visualize, visit, learn, determine, understand, figure, go_through, run_across, visualise, catch, watch, ensure, get_a_line, reckon, construe, fancy, examine, check, see_to_it, find_out, pick_up, take_in, escort, image, realise, consider, see, hear, ascertain, experience, run_into, encounter, control, go_steady, project, assure, attend, regard, take_care, look, witness, get_word, insure, go_out, date, meet, discover, realize

• The clue is 54. King of France. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ROI

  Possible Answer: return_on_invested_capital, ROI, return_on_investment

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Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Tricky

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🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (59 clues)

🧩 1A: "1. Sign off on"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

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Answer: AGREETO

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🧩 2A: "8. Feel the pain"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that undergo or be subjected to
• Similar words include: stand, stomach, sustain
• Opposite of: be well, enjoy

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Answer: SUFFER

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🧩 3A: "14. One of music's Three B's"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that german baroque organist and contrapuntist; composed mostly keyboard music; one of the greatest creators of western music (1685-1750)
• Similar words include: Johann Sebastian Bach, bachelor
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: BACH

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🧩 4A: "18. They're paving the way"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

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• Pattern: ________

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Answer: ROADGANG

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🧩 5A: "20. Island with ferries to Ibiza"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

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• Pattern: _______

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Answer: MINORCA

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🧩 6A: "21. Tangent line?"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that in addition
• Similar words include: likewise, as well, too
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ALSO

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🧩 7A: "22. One of the better morning beverages?"

📏 16 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________________

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Answer: NOTYOURAVERAGEOJ

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🧩 8A: "24. Zoom background option"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a hazy or indistinct representation
• Similar words include: smutch, dim, obscure
• Opposite of: focus

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Answer: BLUR

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🧩 9A: "25. Hrs. for Augusta in August"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Pattern: ___

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Answer: EDT

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🧩 10A: "26. "___ Q" (1968 hit)"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Pattern: _____

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Answer: SUZIE

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🧩 11A: "27. Styling substance"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

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• Think of something that a colloid in a more solid form than a sol
• Similar words include: gelatin, mousse, colloidal gel
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: GEL

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🧩 12A: "28. "C'mon, the car door's open!""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Pattern: _____

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Answer: GETIN

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🧩 13A: "29. Avoid ___ (GPS option)"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance)
• Similar words include: bell, price, toll
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: TOLLS

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🧩 14A: "32. Slice of the economy"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle
• Similar words include: sphere
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: SECTOR

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🧩 15A: "35. First non-English-language film to win Best Picture"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host
• Similar words include: leech, sponge, sponger
• Opposite of: host

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Answer: PARASITE

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🧩 16A: "37. Just one inning left after this?"

📏 17 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

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• Pattern: _________________

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Answer: THEEIGHTHUNDERWAY

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🧩 17A: "40. Annual gala locale, with "the""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that come together
• Similar words include: suffer, satisfy, come across
• Opposite of: diverge

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Answer: MET

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🧩 18A: "41. Meat sauce in Italian cooking"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

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• Pattern: ____

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Answer: RAGU

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🧩 19A: "42. Go-getter sorts"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

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• Pattern: ______

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Answer: TYPEAS

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🧩 20A: "43. Trifling"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a small pond of standing water
• Similar words include: simple, bare
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: MERE

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🧩 21A: "45. View from the Quai d'Orsay"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a french river that flows through the heart of paris and then northward into the english channel
• Similar words include: Seine River
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: SEINE

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🧩 22A: "47. Character with a Jamaican accent in Disney's "The Little Mermaid""

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

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Answer: SEBASTIAN

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🧩 23A: "51. How a mountain road may rise or fall"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that in a steep manner
• Pattern: _______

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Answer: STEEPLY

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🧩 24A: "54. Threads, e.g."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: APP

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🧩 25A: "57. Query of worry"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

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• Pattern: ________

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Answer: AREYOUOK

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🧩 26A: "59. Units on a multimeter"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere
• Similar words include: Ohm, Georg Simon Ohm, ohm
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: OHMS

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🧩 27A: "60. Seasoning preference when eating Maryland blue crab?"

📏 11 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___________

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Answer: EXTRAOLDBAY

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🧩 28A: "64. Berry plant related to a hawthorn"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that wild plum of northeastern united states having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh
• Similar words include: Alleghany plum, Prunus alleghaniensis, blackthorn
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: SLOE

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🧩 29A: "65. The lion in summer?"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in leo
• Similar words include: Lion, Leo the Lion
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: LEO

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🧩 30A: "66. "So here's my question ...""

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

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Answer: IASKYOU

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🧩 31A: "67. Humorous ending with hater"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice
• Similar words include: fruit drink
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: ADE

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🧩 32A: "68. Sephora competitor"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ULTA

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🧩 33A: "70. Two-pound tomahawk steak, for instance?"

📏 11 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: JUMBOENTREE

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🧩 34A: "74. Underwater respirator"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a british imperial capacity unit (liquid or dry) equal to 5 fluid ounces or 142.066 cubic centimeters
• Similar words include: lamella, branchia
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GILL

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🧩 35A: "75. Home on the internet, perhaps"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MAINPAGE

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🧩 36A: "77. Prescriptions, for short"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RXS

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🧩 37A: "78. Arouses"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that arouse or elicit a feeling
• Similar words include: energise, energize, excite
• Opposite of: calm, stifle

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EXCITES

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🧩 38A: "80. Slimy scheme for profit"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MONEYGRAB

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🧩 39A: "83. Listing that might include an explanation of benefits"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an assertion of a right (as to money or property)
• Similar words include: take, title, arrogate
• Opposite of: forfeit, disclaim

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CLAIM

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🧩 40A: "84. Anchors provide this"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that information about recent and important events
• Similar words include: newsworthiness, news program, word
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NEWS

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🧩 41A: "85. Casual shoe"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that person who does no work
• Similar words include: do-nothing, idler, bum
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LOAFER

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🧩 42A: "89. New Jersey?"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that young of domestic cattle
• Similar words include: sura, calfskin
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CALF

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🧩 43A: "91. A.C.C. school"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: UVA

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🧩 44A: "93. "Do I *really* wanna start an online bidding war? Hmm ..."?"

📏 17 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TOEBAYORNOTTOEBAY

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🧩 45A: "99. Czech brew"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a pale lager with strong flavor of hops; first brewed in the bohemian town of pilsen
• Similar words include: Pilsner
• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PILSENER

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🧩 46A: "101. Move (over)"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SCOOCH

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🧩 47A: "102. Michael of R.E.M."

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that supporting stalk or stem-like structure especially of a pistil or fern frond or supporting a mushroom cap
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: STIPE

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🧩 48A: "103. The government, at times"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a bureaucrat who levies taxes
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TAXER

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🧩 49A: "104. What Pomeranians do"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that informal terms for the mouth
• Similar words include: gob, maw, cakehole
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: YAP

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🧩 50A: "106. The (middle) sound of "silence""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables
• Similar words include: shwa
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SCHWA

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🧩 51A: "108. "___ but a scratch""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite
• Similar words include: si, Ti, titanium
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TIS

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🧩 52A: "109. Creature in Magic: The Gathering"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

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

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OGRE

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🧩 53A: "110. Give an extra perk to a cigarette smoker?"

📏 16 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TOSSINTHEASHTRAY

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🧩 54A: "115. Finish filming"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that cloak that is folded or wrapped around a person
• Similar words include: twine, enwrap, enfold
• Opposite of: unwind, unwrap

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: WRAP

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🧩 55A: "116. ___ Attucks, Revolutionary War casualty who posthumously became an abolitionist symbol"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CRISPUS

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🧩 56A: "117. Cherish"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that accumulated wealth in the form of money or jewels etc.
• Similar words include: hold dear, value, appreciate
• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TREASURE

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🧩 57A: "118. No side"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Similar words include: nay
• Opposite of: yea
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NAYS

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🧩 58A: "119. Become gooey over, as cheese atop a hot burger"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MELTON

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🧩 59A: "120. They're usually found to the left of Q's"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TABKEYS

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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (73 clues)

🧩 1D: "1. Actor Will of "BoJack Horseman""

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ARNETT

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🧩 2D: "2. British cry of approval"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GOODOH

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🧩 3D: "3. Scary snake"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that pit viper with horny segments at the end of the tail that rattle when shaken
• Similar words include: rattlesnake, freight train
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RATTLER

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🧩 4D: "4. Joseph who co-invented rocky road ice cream"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EDY

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🧩 5D: "5. Obstruction to teamwork, maybe"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others
• Similar words include: self-importance, self, egotism
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EGO

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🧩 6D: "6. Greek crosses"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the 19th letter of the greek alphabet
• Similar words include: tau
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TAUS

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🧩 7D: "7. Sudden surge"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)
• Similar words include: onset, attack, onslaught
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ONRUSH

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🧩 8D: "8. Round Table title"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that term of address for a man
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SIR

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🧩 9D: "9. "___ cerveza, por favor""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: UNA

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🧩 10D: "10. Phileas in "Around the World in Eighty Days""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: FOGG

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🧩 11D: "11. The power of social media from a marketing standpoint, informally"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: FREEPR

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🧩 12D: "12. Bit of green legislation"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ECOLAW

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🧩 13D: "13. Hindi for "reign""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that british dominion over india (1757-1947)
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RAJ

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🧩 14D: "14. Sweethearts"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk
• Similar words include: sister, babe, infant
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BABES

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🧩 15D: "15. One of the best coffee beverages ever?"

📏 13 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ALLTIMEAULAIT

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🧩 16D: "16. Top execs, collectively"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CSUITE

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🧩 17D: "17. Charlotte N.B.A. player"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that large stinging paper wasp
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HORNET

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🧩 18D: "19. Montreal newspaper continuously published since 1778, with "The""

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a newspaper or official journal
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GAZETTE

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🧩 19D: "20. Get-together"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MEETUP

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🧩 20D: "23. French city from which a soup gets its name"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a town in central france (south of paris) noted for hot mineral springs; was capital of the unoccupied part of france during world war ii
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: VICHY

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🧩 21D: "28. Merriment, in one spelling"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GAYETY

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🧩 22D: "30. Doesn't own, say"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that property that is leased or rented out or let
• Similar words include: take, hire, rent
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LEASES

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🧩 23D: "31. Largest college fraternity in the U.S., familiarly"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SIGEP

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🧩 24D: "33. No U.S. area code starts with this"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
• Similar words include: unmatched, I, unrivaled
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ONE

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🧩 25D: "34. Nutrition figs."

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RDAS

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🧩 26D: "36. Minnesota county whose seat is St. Paul"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RAMSEY

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🧩 27D: "38. Artfulness"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
• Similar words include: craft, trickery, chicanery
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GUILE

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🧩 28D: "39. Suffix with journal"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the compass point midway between east and southeast
• Similar words include: east southeast
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ESE

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🧩 29D: "44. Some natural borders en México"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the former capital and 2nd largest city of brazil; chief brazilian port; famous as a tourist attraction
• Similar words include: Rio de Janeiro, Rio
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RIOS

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🧩 30D: "46. Greek goddess of the night"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (greek mythology) greek goddess of the night; daughter of chaos; counterpart of roman nox
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NYX

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🧩 31D: "48. Emperor who founded the Mughal Empire"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BABUR

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🧩 32D: "49. Palindromic constellation"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a constellation in the southern hemisphere near telescopium and norma
• Similar words include: genus Ara
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ARA

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🧩 33D: "50. Noggin"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a ribbonlike strip of pasta
• Similar words include: noggin, bonce, dome
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NOODLE

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🧩 34D: "51. Latin for "only""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SOLUM

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🧩 35D: "52. What fugitives are on"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: THELAM

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🧩 36D: "53. What might confirm the worst for an athlete's injury?"

📏 13 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EMOTIONALXRAY

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🧩 37D: "54. Many a Bahraini"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a member of a semitic people originally from the arabian peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks arabic and who inhabits much of the middle east and northern africa
• Similar words include: Arabian
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ARAB

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🧩 38D: "55. Old El ___ (Tex-Mex brand)"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PASO

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🧩 39D: "56. Game with an annual World Series since 1970"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that fire iron consisting of a metal rod with a handle; used to stir a fire
• Similar words include: stove poker, salamander, fire hook
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: POKER

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🧩 40D: "58. Collapses, with "over""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a projection or ridge that suggests a keel
• Similar words include: swag, lurch, reel
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: KEELS

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🧩 41D: "61. Smartphone clock function"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a timepiece that measures a time interval and signals its end
• Similar words include: timekeeper
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TIMER

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🧩 42D: "62. A bobcat is one, technically"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a text browser
• Similar words include: catamount
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LYNX

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🧩 43D: "63. ..."

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a very small circular shape
• Similar words include: Elvis, dot, battery-acid
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DOTS

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🧩 44D: "69. Actress Bancroft"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that queen of england and scotland and ireland; daughter if james ii and the last of the stuart monarchs; in 1707 she was the last english ruler to exercise the royal veto over parliament (1665-1714)
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ANNE

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🧩 45D: "70. Many-time N.B.A. All-Star Tatum"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: JAYSON

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🧩 46D: "71. Boot out of Australia?"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: UGG

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🧩 47D: "72. Creature with flat, transparent larvae called "leptocephali""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

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

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EEL

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🧩 48D: "73. ___ change"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that claim as due or just
• Similar words include: take, accurate, demand
• Opposite of: inexact

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EXACT

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🧩 49D: "74. Vodka-and-lime cocktail"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a cocktail made of gin or vodka and lime juice
• Similar words include: wimble, auger, screw auger
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GIMLET

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🧩 50D: "76. Metal material used for dishware before porcelain became popular"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any of various alloys of tin with small amounts of other metals (especially lead)
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PEWTER

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🧩 51D: "79. Ta-tas"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

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

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CIAOS

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🧩 52D: "81. In the style of"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ALA

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🧩 53D: "82. School bathroom sign"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a youthful male person
• Similar words include: boy, male child, son
• Opposite of: girl, female child

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BOYS

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🧩 54D: "83. Spin a yarn, perhaps?"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that needlework done by interlocking looped stitches with a hooked needle
• Similar words include: crocheting, hook
• Pattern: _______

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Answer: CROCHET

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🧩 55D: "86. Progressive inits. in the U.S. Congress"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: AOC

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🧩 56D: "87. Puts icing on"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that ice crystals forming a white deposit (especially on objects outside)
• Similar words include: Robert Lee Frost, rime, freeze
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: FROSTS

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🧩 57D: "88. Methuselah's father"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

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Answer: ENOCH

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🧩 58D: "90. Paramount+ docuseries with real-life crime stories"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

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Answer: FBITRUE

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🧩 59D: "91. Like Manhattan in the 80s and 90s?"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a residential part of town away from the central commercial district
• Opposite of: downtown
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: UPTOWN

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🧩 60D: "92. Cialis alternative"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that virility drug (trade name viagra) used to treat erectile dysfunction in men
• Similar words include: sildenafil citrate, sildenafil
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: VIAGRA

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🧩 61D: "94. Long-eared pal of Pooh"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

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Answer: EEYORE

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🧩 62D: "95. Country whose name Americans spell with a "z""

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the largest latin american country and the largest portuguese speaking country in the world; located in the central and northeastern part of south america; world's leading coffee exporter
• Similar words include: Brazil, Federative Republic of Brazil
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: BRASIL

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🧩 63D: "96. Stymie"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat in a rowboat
• Similar words include: frustrate, queer, spoil
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: THWART

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🧩 64D: "97. Abode that's abuzz"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a shed containing a number of beehives
• Similar words include: bee house
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: APIARY

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🧩 65D: "98. "Ah, that's right!""

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

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Answer: YESYES

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🧩 66D: "100. Trickles"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that pass gradually or leak through or as if through small openings
• Similar words include: seep, ooze
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: SEEPS

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🧩 67D: "105. Vowelless attention-getter"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: PSST

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🧩 68D: "107. Traveling in waves, say"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that in the direction of the sea
• Similar words include: seawards, seaward
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ASEA

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🧩 69D: "110. Vintage film channel"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: TCM

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🧩 70D: "111. Milestone for a start-up, for short"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public
• Similar words include: initial public offering, initial offering
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: IPO

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🧩 71D: "112. Sister figure"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a woman religious
• Similar words include: conical buoy, nun buoy
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: NUN

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🧩 72D: "113. Pre-___ (exercise program in advance of surgery)"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: HAB

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🧩 73D: "114. Vowelless rebuke"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that utter `tsk,' `tut,' or `tut-tut,' as in disapproval
• Similar words include: tut-tut, tut
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: TSK

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