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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis
Date: Monday, February 12, 2024
Difficulty Level: Medium Tuesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 78 (39 Across, 39 Down)
Average Word Length: 4.8 letters
February 12, 2024 Across Hints: NYT Monday Crossword Answers
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. Front's opposite | 4 |
| 2A | 5. Some male deer | 5 |
| 3A | 10. What gives Scotch an earthy flavor | 4 |
| 4A | 14. Long, cylindrical instrument | 4 |
| 5A | 15. Kind of bond in chemistry | 5 |
| 6A | 16. "That hurts!" | 4 |
| 7A | 17. [Get my innuendo?] | 10 |
| 8A | 19. Beech or birch | 4 |
| 9A | 20. When a plane is due, for short | 3 |
| 10A | 21. Show hosts, in brief | 3 |
| 11A | 22. "Doesn't matter who" | 7 |
| 12A | 24. Actress Jessica | 4 |
| 13A | 25. Close by | 4 |
| 14A | 26. Something a digital crossword solver doesn't need | 5 |
| 15A | 29. Winter hours in N.Y.C. | 3 |
| 16A | 31. Exploding stars | 5 |
| 17A | 35. "Relax, soldier" | 6 |
| 18A | 37. [Get my innuendo?] | 8 |
| 19A | 39. Moderate gait for a horse | 4 |
| 20A | 40. "Later, dudes" | 5 |
| 21A | 42. Response to the Little Red Hen | 4 |
| 22A | 43. [Get my innuendo?] | 8 |
| 23A | 45. Worked | 6 |
| 24A | 47. Younger Obama daughter | 5 |
| 25A | 48. "That's all ___ wrote" | 3 |
| 26A | 50. Takes in what someone wrote | 5 |
| 27A | 51. Engrave | 4 |
| 28A | 53. Dozes (off) | 4 |
| 29A | 55. "That's what people tell me, anyway" | 7 |
| 30A | 58. Midori ___, first woman to land a triple axel in competition | 3 |
| 31A | 59. Chop (off) | 3 |
| 32A | 62. Bridal veil fabric | 4 |
| 33A | 63. [Get my innuendo?] | 10 |
| 34A | 66. Furniture store known for its cafeterias' meatballs | 4 |
| 35A | 67. Message on a candy heart | 5 |
| 36A | 68. Classic pie crust ingredient | 4 |
| 37A | 69. "Hey you!" | 4 |
| 38A | 70. Painter Degas | 5 |
| 39A | 71. Membership fees | 4 |
Let's Solve the Across Clues Together!
Here are helpful hints to solve each clue. Remember, crossword puzzles are like word games - have fun with them!
Clue 1 Across: "1. Front's opposite"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine
- Words that mean the same thing: game, rear, second
- The opposite would be: advance, forward
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BACK
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "5. Some male deer"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a male deer, especially an adult male red deer
- Words that mean the same thing: tell on, snitch, snoop
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: STAGS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Across: "10. What gives Scotch an earthy flavor"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that partially carbonized vegetable matter saturated with water; can be used as a fuel when dried
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PEAT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Across: "14. Long, cylindrical instrument"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece
- Words that mean the same thing: hautboy, hautbois
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OBOE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Across: "15. Kind of bond in chemistry"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the dialect of ancient greek spoken and written in attica and athens and ionia
- Words that mean the same thing: Classical Greek, Attic, Ionic dialect
- The opposite would be: nonionic
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IONIC
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Clue 6 Across: "16. "That hurts!""
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OUCH
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Across: "17. [Get my innuendo?]"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: __________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NUDGENUDGE
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Clue 8 Across: "19. Beech or birch"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
- Words that mean the same thing: shoetree, corner, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TREE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Across: "20. When a plane is due, for short"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional basque party; want to create an independent homeland in spain's western pyrenees
- Words that mean the same thing: Euskadi ta Askatasuna, Basque Homeland and Freedom, Basque Fatherland and Liberty
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ETA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Across: "21. Show hosts, in brief"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that one million periods per second
- Words that mean the same thing: megahertz, megacycle, MHz
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MCS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "22. "Doesn't matter who""
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ANYBODY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "24. Actress Jessica"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BIEL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "25. Close by"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that move towards
- Words that mean the same thing: virtually, approach, come on
- The opposite would be: far
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NEAR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "26. Something a digital crossword solver doesn't need"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses
- Words that mean the same thing: newspaper, newspaper publisher, wallpaper
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PAPER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "29. Winter hours in N.Y.C."
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that standard time in the 5th time zone west of greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian; used in the eastern united states
- Words that mean the same thing: Eastern Time, Eastern Standard Time
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EST
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "31. Exploding stars"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a star that ejects some of its material in the form of a cloud and become more luminous in the process
- Words that mean the same thing: nova
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NOVAS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "35. "Relax, soldier""
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ATEASE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Across: "37. [Get my innuendo?]"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: WINKWINK
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "39. Moderate gait for a horse"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about history.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a slow pace of running
- Words that mean the same thing: lope, crib, Trotskyite
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TROT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "40. "Later, dudes""
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the state prevailing during the absence of war
- Words that mean the same thing: peace of mind, public security, peace treaty
- The opposite would be: war
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PEACE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "42. Response to the Little Red Hen"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NOTI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "43. [Get my innuendo?]"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HINTHINT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "45. Worked"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- Words that mean the same thing: labour, dig, labor
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TOILED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "47. Younger Obama daughter"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SASHA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "48. "That's all ___ wrote""
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SHE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "50. Takes in what someone wrote"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that something that is read
- Words that mean the same thing: study, read, understand
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: READS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "51. Engrave"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that make an etching of
- Words that mean the same thing: engrave
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ETCH
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "53. Dozes (off)"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a sign of assent or salutation or command
- Words that mean the same thing: nod
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NODS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "55. "That's what people tell me, anyway""
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SOIHEAR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "58. Midori ___, first woman to land a triple axel in competition"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ITO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "59. Chop (off)"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that cut off from a whole
- Words that mean the same thing: prune, sever, clip
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LOP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 32 Across: "62. Bridal veil fabric"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment)
- Words that mean the same thing: fortify, entwine, spike
- The opposite would be: untwine
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LACE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 33 Across: "63. [Get my innuendo?]"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: __________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: COUGHCOUGH
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 34 Across: "66. Furniture store known for its cafeterias' meatballs"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IKEA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 35 Across: "67. Message on a candy heart"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HUGME
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 36 Across: "68. Classic pie crust ingredient"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog
- Words that mean the same thing: embroider, dramatize, aggrandize
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LARD
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 37 Across: "69. "Hey you!""
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PSST
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 38 Across: "70. Painter Degas"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the younger brother of edwy who became king of northumbria when it renounced edwy; on edwy's death he succeeded to the throne of england (944-975)
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EDGAR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 39 Across: "71. Membership fees"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that that which is deserved or owed
- Words that mean the same thing: due
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DUES
Great job if you got it right!
Solve the Down: NYT Monday Puzzle February 12, 2024
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. Chicken leftover | 4 |
| 2D | 2. Be adjacent to | 4 |
| 3D | 3. Musician's conclusion | 4 |
| 4D | 4. Beer barrel | 3 |
| 5D | 5. "___ U Been Gone" (Kelly Clarkson hit) | 5 |
| 6D | 6. Mess up, as hair | 6 |
| 7D | 7. As well as | 3 |
| 8D | 8. Beyond big | 8 |
| 9D | 9. Big public argument | 5 |
| 10D | 10. Baked things that might get people baked | 11 |
| 11D | 11. Currency that replaced the mark and peseta | 4 |
| 12D | 12. Got an A+ on | 4 |
| 13D | 13. ___/them pronouns | 4 |
| 14D | 18. Mideast leaders | 5 |
| 15D | 23. Tug hard | 4 |
| 16D | 24. Keep cool in a pool, perhaps | 11 |
| 17D | 26. Trails | 5 |
| 18D | 27. Open-air lobbies | 5 |
| 19D | 28. Menial workers, dismissively | 5 |
| 20D | 30. Strip of mowed grass | 5 |
| 21D | 32. EGOT-winning actress Davis | 5 |
| 22D | 33. Contributed to a kitty | 5 |
| 23D | 34. Loses traction on the road | 5 |
| 24D | 36. Commercial lead-in to Pen | 3 |
| 25D | 38. Take-home amount | 3 |
| 26D | 41. Cover completely | 8 |
| 27D | 44. "Anger leads to ___. ___ leads to suffering": Yoda | 4 |
| 28D | 46. Surgeon, for short | 5 |
| 29D | 49. Riddle | 6 |
| 30D | 52. Something you might clear to improve memory | 5 |
| 31D | 54. Catchall category | 5 |
| 32D | 55. Undergarment for a dress | 4 |
| 33D | 56. Acorn producers | 4 |
| 34D | 57. Frosts, as a cake | 4 |
| 35D | 59. Hawaiian banquet | 4 |
| 36D | 60. Fairy tale baddie | 4 |
| 37D | 61. Professors' degs. | 4 |
| 38D | 64. Big name in fleecy boots | 3 |
| 39D | 65. What a good joke never gets | 3 |
Now Let's Solve the Down Clues!
Down clues go from top to bottom. Use the letters from your across answers to help!
Clue 1 Down: "1. Chicken leftover"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
- Words that mean the same thing: debone, off-white, mug up
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BONE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. Be adjacent to"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- Words that mean the same thing: butt on, adjoin, butt
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ABUT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. Musician's conclusion"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about music.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the closing section of a musical composition
- Words that mean the same thing: finale
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CODA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. Beer barrel"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the quantity contained in a keg
- Words that mean the same thing: kegful
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: KEG
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. "___ U Been Gone" (Kelly Clarkson hit)"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SINCE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Down: "6. Mess up, as hair"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that disarrange or rumple; dishevel
- Words that mean the same thing: dishevel, tangle
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TOUSLE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Down: "7. As well as"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AND
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Down: "8. Beyond big"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth
- Words that mean the same thing: mammoth
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GIGANTIC
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Down: "9. Big public argument"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the place where some action occurs
- Words that mean the same thing: vista, aspect, fit
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SCENE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Down: "10. Baked things that might get people baked"
Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: POTBROWNIES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. Currency that replaced the mark and peseta"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the basic monetary unit of most members of the european union (introduced in 1999); in 2002 twelve european nations (germany, france, belgium, luxembourg, the netherlands, italy, spain, portugal, ireland, greece, austria, finland) adopted the euro as their basic unit of money and abandoned their traditional currencies
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EURO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. Got an A+ on"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that succeed at easily
- Words that mean the same thing: breeze through, sail through, pass with flying colors
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ACED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Down: "13. ___/them pronouns"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: THEY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Down: "18. Mideast leaders"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in africa or arabia)
- Words that mean the same thing: ameer, amir, emir
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: EMIRS
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Clue 15 Down: "23. Tug hard"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that an american who lives in the north (especially during the american civil war)
- Words that mean the same thing: Northerner, Yankee, jerk
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: YANK
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Clue 16 Down: "24. Keep cool in a pool, perhaps"
Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ___________
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The answer is: BEATTHEHEAT
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Clue 17 Down: "26. Trails"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a course of conduct
- Words that mean the same thing: itinerary, track, way
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: PATHS
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Clue 18 Down: "27. Open-air lobbies"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that any chamber that is connected to other chambers or passageways (especially one of the two upper chambers of the heart)
- Words that mean the same thing: atrium
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: ATRIA
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Clue 19 Down: "28. Menial workers, dismissively"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a laborer who is obliged to do menial work
- Words that mean the same thing: navvy, peon, galley slave
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: PEONS
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Clue 20 Down: "30. Strip of mowed grass"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that the space created by the swing of a scythe or the cut of a mowing machine
- Words that mean the same thing: belt
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: SWATH
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Clue 21 Down: "32. EGOT-winning actress Davis"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.
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- This could be something that any of the numerous plants of the genus viola
- Words that mean the same thing: genus Viola
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: VIOLA
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Clue 22 Down: "33. Contributed to a kitty"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that place one's stake
- Words that mean the same thing: ante
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: ANTED
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Clue 23 Down: "34. Loses traction on the road"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that one of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects
- Words that mean the same thing: shoe, slue, brake shoe
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: SKIDS
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Clue 24 Down: "36. Commercial lead-in to Pen"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a self-report personality inventory based on hans eysenck's factor analysis of personality which assumes three basic factors (the two most important being extraversion to introversion and neuroticism)
- Words that mean the same thing: Eysenck Personality Inventory
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: EPI
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Clue 25 Down: "38. Take-home amount"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the tcp/ip network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange
- Words that mean the same thing: internet, final, web
- The opposite would be: gross
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The answer is: NET
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Clue 26 Down: "41. Cover completely"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that cover as if with a shroud
- Words that mean the same thing: hide, cover, shroud
- The word looks like this: ________
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The answer is: ENSHROUD
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Clue 27 Down: "44. "Anger leads to ___. ___ leads to suffering": Yoda"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action
- Words that mean the same thing: hatred, detest
- The opposite would be: love
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The answer is: HATE
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Clue 28 Down: "46. Surgeon, for short"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.
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- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: ORDOC
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Clue 29 Down: "49. Riddle"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
- Words that mean the same thing: closed book, brain-teaser, conundrum
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: ENIGMA
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Clue 30 Down: "52. Something you might clear to improve memory"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons)
- Words that mean the same thing: hoard, memory cache, squirrel away
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: CACHE
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Clue 31 Down: "54. Catchall category"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied; - the white queen
- Words that mean the same thing: early, former
- The opposite would be: same
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The answer is: OTHER
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Clue 32 Down: "55. Undergarment for a dress"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a socially awkward or tactless act
- Words that mean the same thing: splay, mistake, miscue
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: SLIP
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Clue 33 Down: "56. Acorn producers"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring
- Words that mean the same thing: oak tree, oak
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: OAKS
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Clue 34 Down: "57. Frosts, as a cake"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that water frozen in the solid state
- Words that mean the same thing: glass, crank, internal-combustion engine
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: ICES
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Clue 35 Down: "59. Hawaiian banquet"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that an elaborate hawaiian feast or party (especially one accompanied by traditional foods and entertainment)
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: LUAU
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Clue 36 Down: "60. Fairy tale baddie"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a cruel wicked and inhuman person
- Words that mean the same thing: devil, demon, fiend
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: OGRE
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Clue 37 Down: "61. Professors' degs."
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a doctorate usually based on at least 3 years graduate study and a dissertation; the highest degree awarded graduate study
- Words that mean the same thing: Ph.D., PhD
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: PHDS
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Clue 38 Down: "64. Big name in fleecy boots"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
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- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: UGG
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Clue 39 Down: "65. What a good joke never gets"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')
- Words that mean the same thing: one-time, erstwhile, honest-to-god
- The opposite would be: young, new
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The answer is: OLD
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 60 | 76.9% |
| Short Answer | 11 | 14.1% |
| Celebrity/Entertainment | 3 | 3.8% |
| Abbreviation | 2 | 2.6% |
| History | 1 | 1.3% |
| Music | 1 | 1.3% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 39 |
| Down Clues | 39 |
| Total Clues | 78 |
| Average Answer Length | 4.8 letters |
| Shortest Answer | 3 letters |
| Longest Answer | 11 letters |
Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!
- Start with short words first - they're usually easier!
- Look for clues with blanks to fill in - these are like fill-in-the-blank questions at school
- When letters cross, they must be the same in both words - this helps you check if you're right!
- Today is Monday, and these puzzles are usually medium level
- Most clues today are about general knowledge
- The average word today has about 4 letters
- Remember: It's okay to take breaks and come back later with fresh eyes!
- Ask someone for help if you need it - crosswords are more fun with friends!
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