27440 Fri Dec 27, 2024 NY Times Crossword Clues Hints

Break down the NYT Crosswords: December 27, 2024

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

Fri Dec 27, 2024 NY Times Crossword Clues Hints

Across Clues with Answers:

• The clue is 1. Grandma Moses, for one. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

  The answer: FOLKARTIST




• The clue is 11. Turtles and turtle doves come from them. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: EGGS

  Possible Answer : testis, nut, egg, eggs, ball, orchis, testicle, ballock, bollock




• The clue is 15. Accessory named for a British school. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

  The answer: ETONCOLLAR




• The clue is 16. Actress Kunis. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: MILA




• The clue is 17. "Stay tuned". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

  The answer: MORETOCOME




• The clue is 18. Like cricket fields. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OVAL

  Possible Answer : oviform, prolate, ellipse, ovate, elliptical, oval, oval-shaped, ovoid, elliptic, egg-shaped




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

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

  The answer: HEELS

  Possible Answer : bounder, blackguard, cad, list, hound, heel, reheel, dog




• The clue is 20. Article of Western wear. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: VEST

  Possible Answer : waistcoat, vest, undershirt, enthrone, robe, invest, singlet

  Possible Opposite Answer : divest




• The clue is 22. Many a first responder, for short. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: EMT




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

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

  The answer: LITHE

  Possible Answer : svelte, lithe, lissome, slender, lissom, sylphlike, lithesome, supple




• The clue is 25. Sweet's counterpart. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SAVORY

  Possible Answer : savory, piquant, mouth-watering, spicy, savoury, zesty, Micromeria_juliana

  Possible Opposite Answer : unsavory




• The clue is 27. Lab container. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: FLASK

  Possible Answer : flask, flaskful




• The clue is 30. Ones who might invade your space, for short?. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ETS




• The clue is 32. Emperor from 54 to 68. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: NERO

  Possible Answer : Lucius_Domitius_Ahenobarbus, Nero_Claudius_Caesar_Drusus_Germanicus, Nero




• The clue is 33. Word after legal or first. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: AID

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




• The clue is 34. Drawer with knobs?. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ETCHASKETCH




• The clue is 38. Letters of relief. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TGIF




• The clue is 40. In the least. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ATALL




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

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

  The answer: RAKE

  Possible Answer : skim, rake, roue, scan, graze, pitch, profligate, blood, run_down, slant, glance_over, rip, crease, rakehell




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

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

  The answer: SHORTNOTICE




• The clue is 45. Resident of the Mojo Dojo Casa House. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: KEN

  Possible Answer : cognizance, ken, sight




• The clue is 46. Peter or Paul, e.g.. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TSAR

  Possible Answer : tzar, czar, tsar




• The clue is 47. Certain baseball positions: Abbr.. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: RFS

  Possible Answer : atomic_number_104, unnilquadium, rutherfordium, Rf, reticular_formation, releasing_hormone, Unq, releasing_factor, RF, element_104




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

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

  The answer: AVERS

  Possible Answer : affirm, swan, swear, verify, assert, allege, aver, avow, say




• The clue is 50. Reception problem. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: STATIC

  Possible Answer : atmospherics, still, unchanging, motionless, inactive, electrostatic, stable, static, atmospheric_static




• The clue is 52. Destination for the van that Kevin fails to board in "Home Alone". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OHARE




• The clue is 54. V.P. candidate name in '16 and '24. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TIM




• The clue is 55. Engine sound. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: PURR

  Possible Answer : whir, birr, whiz, whirr, make_vibrant_sounds, whizz, purr




• The clue is 57. Get clean. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: BATHE

  Possible Answer : bathe, bath




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

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

  The answer: AMID




• The clue is 62. Place for a king and queen. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

  The answer: ROYALCOURT




• The clue is 65. Uber- alternative. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: MEGA




• The clue is 66. Famous British rock group. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

  The answer: STONEHENGE

  Possible Answer : Stonehenge




• The clue is 67. Place for a king and queen. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: PROM

  Possible Answer : prom, promenade




• The clue is 68. Zeus, in Greek mythology. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

  The answer: THUNDERGOD

Down Clues and Answers:

• The clue is 1. Like "France" in French: Abbr.. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: FEM

• The clue is 2. Texter's hedge. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OTOH

• The clue is 3. The stuff of legends. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: LORE

  Possible Answer: lore, traditional_knowledge

• The clue is 4. Demonstrates reverence, in a way. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: KNEELS

  Possible Answer: kneeling, kneel

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

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

  The answer: ACTLIKE

• The clue is 6. Place to rest after a flight. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ROOST

  Possible Answer: perch, rest, roost

• The clue is 7. Spa offering, in brief. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TLC

  Possible Answer: tender_loving_care, TLC

• The clue is 8. Trendy compliment with shady undertones. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ILOVETHATFORYOU

• The clue is 9. "I totally relate". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SAME

  Possible Answer: like, Same, Sami, Saame, Lapplander, same, Saami, Lapp

  Possible Opposite Answer : other, different, unlike

• The clue is 10. Lock. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TRESS

  Possible Answer: tress, braid, twist, plait

• The clue is 11. Musical prefix with -core. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: EMO

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

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

  The answer: GIVEORTAKE

• The clue is 13. David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust, for one. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

  The answer: GLAMROCKER

• The clue is 14. Like movie popcorn. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SALTY

  Possible Answer: salty, piquant

  Possible Opposite Answer : fresh

• The clue is 21. Hot weather wear. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TANK

  Possible Answer: cooler, armored_combat_vehicle, storage_tank, tank_car, armoured_combat_vehicle, army_tank, tank, tankful

• The clue is 24. Be a pest to. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: HECTOR

  Possible Answer: browbeat, boss_around, hector, ballyrag, bully, push_around, Hector, bullyrag, strong-arm

• The clue is 26. Take quite a turn. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: VEER

  Possible Answer: slue, cut, sheer, trend, veer, swerve, curve, slew

  Possible Opposite Answer : back

• The clue is 27. Antoine Caliste Domino Jr., familiarly. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: FATS

  Possible Answer: fatten, fatten_out, plump_out, flesh_out, fatness, fill_out, fat, blubber, fatty_tissue, adipose_tissue, avoirdupois, fatten_up, plump

  Possible Opposite Answer : leanness

• The clue is 28. Antiburglary device. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

  The answer: LIGHTTIMER

• The clue is 29. "See ya!". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

  The answer: ADIOSAMIGO

• The clue is 31. Language family of the Pacific Northwest. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SALISH

  Possible Answer: Salishan, Salish

• The clue is 35. Like palomino horses. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TAN

  Possible Answer: burn, bronze, suntan, tangent, tan, topaz, sunburn

• The clue is 36. Utah airport inits.. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SLC

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

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

  The answer: HENS

  Possible Answer: biddy, hen

• The clue is 39. People rush to get into it. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: FRAT

  Possible Answer: fraternity, frat

• The clue is 43. Set off. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TRIP

  Possible Answer: jaunt, trip_up, actuate, turn_on, trigger, get_off, activate, slip, trigger_off, trip-up, touch_off, head_trip, trip_out, trip, stumble, tripper, spark, set_off, misstep, travel, spark_off

• The clue is 44. Swimmer's complaint. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: EARACHE

  Possible Answer: otalgia, earache

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

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

  The answer: VETOER

• The clue is 50. Distinctive mark. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: STAMP

  Possible Answer: tender, stomp, emboss, seal, postage_stamp, mould, mold, stamp, postage, pigeonhole, stump, stereotype, cast, revenue_stamp, pestle, impression, boss, legal_tender

• The clue is 51. Put a hex on à la Shakespeare. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: CURST

  Possible Answer: swear, unchurch, imprecate, maledict, blaspheme, cursed, curst, anathemise, curse, cuss, damn, anathemize, excommunicate, beshrew, bedamn

  Possible Opposite Answer : bless, blessed, communicate

• The clue is 53. Possessing a full range of physical and mental faculties. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ABLED

• The clue is 56. Veronica who wrote the "Divergent" series. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ROTH

  Possible Answer: Roth, Philip_Roth, Philip_Milton_Roth

• The clue is 58. Chilled. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: HUNG

  Possible Answer: give_ear, advert, pay_heed, flow, hang_up, attend, fall, string_up, hang, cling

• The clue is 59. As a result. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ERGO

  Possible Answer: ergo

• The clue is 61. Prevent from running. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: DAM

  Possible Answer: dam, decametre, dekametre, dekameter, dyke, dkm, decameter, dike, dam_up

• The clue is 63. Author Patchett. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ANN

• The clue is 64. "Ideas change everything" org.. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TED

  Possible Answer: Teddy_boy, Ted

NYT Mini Crossword Answers Today November 23, 2025 - All 20 Clues Solved & Expert Hints

Quick NYT Mini Crossword November 23, 2025 - Mobile-Friendly Solutions & Speed Tips

Quick Summary: Today's NYT Mini Crossword has 20 clues total. We have all the answers plus helpful hints to make solving easier!

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• Puzzle Information
• Grid Layout
• Across Clues (10 total)
• Down Clues (10 total)
• How to Solve Faster
• Common Questions

About Today's Puzzle

NYT Mini Crossword Grid - Sunday, November 23, 2025

Puzzle Statistics

Detail	Information
Date	November 23, 2025
Grid Size	5 x 5 squares
Total Clues	20 clues
Across Clues	10 clues
Down Clues	10 clues
Average Solve Time	Under 1 minute

Today's NYT Mini Crossword Grid Layout

This puzzle uses a 5 by 5 grid. That means 5 boxes across and 5 boxes down.

5x5 Crossword Grid Pattern

	Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Row 1
Row 2
Row 3
Row 4
Row 5

How to Solve This Puzzle Fast

1. Read all the clues first - your brain will start working on them
2. Fill in the short words first (3 letters or less)
3. Use the crossing letters to help with harder words
4. If a clue has a question mark (?), it's probably a joke or play on words
5. Common short words: THE, AND, ARE, FOR, NOT

Quick Facts About This Puzzle

• Total squares in grid: 25 (5 times 5)
• Average time to solve: Less than 1 minute
• Best time to play: During a coffee break
• Difficulty level: Made for everyone to enjoy

Across Clues - 10 Total

These clues go from left to right in the puzzle.

Across Clues List

Number	Clue
1 Across	52. Big name in kitchenware
2 Across	7. Contained
3 Across	37. Programming pioneer Lovelace
4 Across	25. Look for
5 Across	77. Little reminders
6 Across	109. Contents of a murky cauldron? (twice!)
7 Across	117. Corner of a diamond
8 Across	107. Tight fit
9 Across	11. Tries to get a rise out of
10 Across	75. Kiss ___

Hints and Answers for Across Clues

Need help? Here are hints and answers for each clue above. Also check out these helpful guides:

• August 10 2021 NYT Clues Solutions
• February 22 2023 NYT Clues Solutions
• February 01 2020 NYT Clues Solutions

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1 Across: "52. Big name in kitchenware"

Helpful hints:

• This word has 3 letters
• It starts with 'O' and ends with 'O'
• This is a short form or acronym

Answer:

Click to reveal

OXO

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2 Across: "7. Contained"

Helpful hints:

• This word has 4 letters
• It starts with 'H' and ends with 'D'
• Word pattern: H__D

Answer:

Click to reveal

HELD

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3 Across: "37. Programming pioneer Lovelace"

Helpful hints:

• This word has 3 letters
• It starts with 'A' and ends with 'A'
• This is a short form or acronym

Answer:

Click to reveal

ADA

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4 Across: "25. Look for"

Helpful hints:

• This word has 4 letters
• It starts with 'S' and ends with 'K'
• Word pattern: S__K

Answer:

Click to reveal

SEEK

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5 Across: "77. Little reminders"

Helpful hints:

• This word has 5 letters
• It starts with 'N' and ends with 'S'
• Word pattern: N___S

Answer:

Click to reveal

NOTES

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6 Across: "109. Contents of a murky cauldron? (twice!)"

Helpful hints:

• This word has 13 letters
• It starts with 'U' and ends with 'N'
• Word pattern: U___________N

Answer:

Click to reveal

UNCLEARPOTION

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7 Across: "117. Corner of a diamond"

Helpful hints:

• This word has 4 letters
• It starts with 'B' and ends with 'E'
• Word pattern: B__E

Answer:

Click to reveal

BASE

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8 Across: "107. Tight fit"

Helpful hints:

• This word has 7 letters
• It starts with 'S' and ends with 'E'
• Word pattern: S_____E

Answer:

Click to reveal

SQUEEZE

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9 Across: "11. Tries to get a rise out of"

Helpful hints:

• This word has 5 letters
• It starts with 'B' and ends with 'S'
• Word pattern: B___S

Answer:

Click to reveal

BAITS

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10 Across: "75. Kiss ___"

Helpful hints:

• This word has 3 letters
• It starts with 'C' and ends with 'M'
• This is a short form or acronym

Answer:

Click to reveal

CAM

Down Clues - 10 Total

These clues go from top to bottom in the puzzle.

Down Clues List

Number	Clue
1 Down	45. Standing on the street
2 Down	4. Leisurely evening walk
3 Down	21. Do the Wright thing?
4 Down	82. A dirty look
5 Down	15. Made it big
6 Down	75. Like some suits
7 Down	2. Love ___
8 Down	13. Cousin of Gomez Addams
9 Down	64. Scruffs
10 Down	91. Lithe

Hints and Answers for Down Clues

Need help? Here are hints and answers for each clue above. You might also like:

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• September 23 2020 NYT Clues Solutions

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1 Down: "45. Standing on the street"

Helpful hints:

• This word has 4 letters
• It starts with 'C' and ends with 'D'
• Word pattern: C__D

Answer:

Click to reveal

CRED

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2 Down: "4. Leisurely evening walk"

Helpful hints:

• This word has 5 letters
• It starts with 'P' and ends with 'O'
• Word pattern: P___O

Answer:

Click to reveal

PASEO

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3 Down: "21. Do the Wright thing?"

Helpful hints:

• This word has 6 letters
• It starts with 'A' and ends with 'E'
• Word pattern: A____E

Answer:

Click to reveal

AVIATE

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4 Down: "82. A dirty look"

Helpful hints:

• This word has 6 letters
• It starts with 'T' and ends with 'E'
• Word pattern: T____E

Answer:

Click to reveal

THEEYE

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5 Down: "15. Made it big"

Helpful hints:

• This word has 9 letters
• It starts with 'S' and ends with 'D'
• Word pattern: S_______D

Answer:

Click to reveal

SUCCEEDED

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6 Down: "75. Like some suits"

Helpful hints:

• This word has 5 letters
• It starts with 'C' and ends with 'L'
• Word pattern: C___L

Answer:

Click to reveal

CIVIL

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7 Down: "2. Love ___"

Helpful hints:

• This word has 8 letters
• It starts with 'L' and ends with 'E'
• Word pattern: L______E

Answer:

Click to reveal

LANGUAGE

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8 Down: "13. Cousin of Gomez Addams"

Helpful hints:

• This word has 3 letters
• It starts with 'I' and ends with 'T'
• This is a short form or acronym

Answer:

Click to reveal

ITT

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9 Down: "64. Scruffs"

Helpful hints:

• This word has 5 letters
• It starts with 'N' and ends with 'S'
• Word pattern: N___S

Answer:

Click to reveal

NAPES

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10 Down: "91. Lithe"

Helpful hints:

• This word has 6 letters
• It starts with 'S' and ends with 'E'
• Word pattern: S____E

Answer:

Click to reveal

SVELTE

How to Solve the NYT Mini Crossword Faster

Here are the best tips from expert solvers:

Step-by-Step Strategy

1. Quick Scan: Read all clues once. Your brain starts working on them right away.
2. Easy First: Fill in the shortest words (2-3 letters). These are usually simple words like "IT" or "ON".
3. Use Crossings: When letters cross, they help you figure out harder words.
4. Watch for Wordplay: Clues with question marks (?) are jokes or puns.
5. Common Words: Remember these appear often: ERA, ORE, ATE, ICE.

Letter Tips That Really Help

• The letter E is the most common in English
• Words ending in S are often plurals
• If you see "___" in a clue, the answer fits those blanks exactly
• Abbreviations in clues mean the answer is also abbreviated

Time Goals to Aim For

Your Time	Skill Level	What It Means
Under 30 seconds	Expert	You know the puzzle patterns very well!
30-60 seconds	Advanced	Great job! You solve quickly.
1-2 minutes	Good	You're doing well. Keep practicing!
Over 2 minutes	Learning	You'll get faster with practice.

Puzzle Numbers and Facts

Today's Puzzle by the Numbers

Total Clues:	20 clues to solve
Grid Size:	5 boxes across, 5 boxes down
Total Squares:	25 squares to fill
Average Time:	Most people solve in 1 minute 10 seconds
Difficulty:	Easy

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Common Questions About NYT Mini Crossword

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Good Mini solvers know common short words, can spot wordplay quickly, and use crossing letters well. Practice helps a lot!

Are the puzzles harder on certain days?

Unlike the big NYT crossword, the Mini stays about the same difficulty every day. Sometimes Saturday might be a tiny bit harder.

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

Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Moderate

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

🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (57 clues)

🧩 1A: "1. Maintains, as a superstition"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CLINGSTO

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🧩 2A: "9. Subject of the 2017 musical film "The Greatest Showman""

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that united states showman who popularized the circus (1810-1891)
• Similar words include: P. T. Barnum, Phineas Taylor Barnum
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BARNUM

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🧩 3A: "15. "Same with me""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ASAMI

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🧩 4A: "20. Not funny"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that lacking humor; - truman capote
• Similar words include: humourless, unhumorous
• Opposite of: humorous

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HUMORLESS

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🧩 5A: "22. Ralph Ellison novel about a nameless protagonist's journey in racist America"

📏 12 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: INVISIBLEMAN

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🧩 6A: "24. Forgiving middle-aged dads for their dad jokes, say?"

📏 22 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______________________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EXONERATINGGENERATIONX

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🧩 7A: "26. Picket line?"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a barrier that serves to enclose an area
• Similar words include: surround, contend, argue
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: FENCE

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🧩 8A: "27. Bud in Cooperstown"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SELIG

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🧩 9A: "28. Dorm room staple food"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RAMEN

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🧩 10A: "29. Cross-country conveyances"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used in pairs for gliding over snow
• Similar words include: ski
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SKIS

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🧩 11A: "30. Darth Vader's childhood nickname"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that black tropical american cuckoo
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ANI

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🧩 12A: "32. Inflexible"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that incapable of or resistant to bending
• Similar words include: inflexible, fixed, set
• Opposite of: nonrigid

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RIGID

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🧩 13A: "34. Have away with words?"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting
• Similar words include: delete, edit out, blue-pencil
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EDIT

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🧩 14A: "36. Muppet of Mexican descent"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that erect plant with small clusters of pink trumpet-shaped flowers of southwestern united states
• Similar words include: Centaurium calycosum
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ROSITA

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🧩 15A: "39. Knows just when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em, maybe"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
• Similar words include: shaft, chisel, screw
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CHEATS

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🧩 16A: "42. Gives lip"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an impudent or insolent rejoinder
• Similar words include: sassing, back talk, mouth
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SASSES

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🧩 17A: "47. Attire for Larry Page and Sergey Brin when visiting Google incognito?"

📏 22 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______________________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TECHNOCRATSTRENCHCOATS

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🧩 18A: "51. Columbus sch."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OSU

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🧩 19A: "52. Carnage"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that vice president of the united states under bill clinton (born in 1948)
• Similar words include: bloodshed, Al Gore, panel
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GORE

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🧩 20A: "53. Down Easter"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a native or resident of maine
• Similar words include: Down Easter
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MAINER

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🧩 21A: "54. One with a set of pipes"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function
• Similar words include: electronic organ, electric organ, pipe organ
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ORGAN

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🧩 22A: "55. Come out of one's shell"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles
• Similar words include: shed, moult, slough
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MOLT

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🧩 23A: "57. Sherlock's sister on TV"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ENOLA

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🧩 24A: "60. ___ bag"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that valuable goods
• Similar words include: flag, loot, careen
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SWAG

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🧩 25A: "62. Much-maligned 2019 movie about which one review said "It's 'Battlefield Earth' with whiskers""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats; wildcats
• Similar words include: cat, quat, purge
• Opposite of: keep down

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CATS

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🧩 26A: "63. One of classical music's Three B's"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that german composer who developed the romantic style of both lyrical and classical music (1833-1897)
• Similar words include: Johannes Brahms
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BRAHMS

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🧩 27A: "66. Landscaper's supply"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a protective covering of rotting vegetable matter spread to reduce evaporation and soil erosion
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MULCH

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🧩 28A: "69. Tundra or taiga"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BIOME

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🧩 29A: "71. "You think that hunk of junk'll pass inspection? Please!"?"

📏 22 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______________________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: STREETLEGALLETSGETREAL

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🧩 30A: "78. Trademarked refrigerant"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any one or more chlorofluorocarbons (or related compounds) that are used as an aerosol propellant, organic solvent, or refrigerant
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: FREON

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🧩 31A: "79. Uncle Sam's land, informally"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: USOFA

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🧩 32A: "80. Lithe"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience
• Similar words include: sylphlike, lithe, lithesome
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SVELTE

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🧩 33A: "81. +/-"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ORSO

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🧩 34A: "84. Drink mixed in mixed drinks"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a sodium salt of carbonic acid; used in making soap powders and glass and paper
• Similar words include: washing soda, pop, sal soda
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SODA

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🧩 35A: "86. Handy"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that being of use or service
• Similar words include: useful
• Opposite of: useless

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: UTILE

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🧩 36A: "89. Avatar of Vishnu"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that avatar of vishnu whose name is synonymous with god; any of three incarnations: ramachandra or parashurama or balarama
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RAMA

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🧩 37A: "90. Back in, in a way"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a fashion reminiscent of the past
• Similar words include: retroactive, ex post facto
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RETRO

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🧩 38A: "92. Try to hit in laser tag"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: FIREAT

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🧩 39A: "95. Older sister of Rachel, in Genesis"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LEAH

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🧩 40A: "98. Basic BASIC statements"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: IFS

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🧩 41A: "99. Real chess playa?"

📏 22 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______________________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CHECKMATINGCHICKMAGNET

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🧩 42A: "104. Contemporary of Gauss and Faraday"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a former unit of electric current (slightly smaller than the si ampere)
• Similar words include: international ampere, A, amp
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AMPERE

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🧩 43A: "105. James who played Scotty on "Star Trek""

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DOOHAN

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🧩 44A: "106. "No ___, Bob""

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SIRREE

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🧩 45A: "107. Part of une pièce de théâtre"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ACTE

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🧩 46A: "110. Plunderers of Rome"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a person of french descent
• Similar words include: frog, Gallia, Gaul
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GAULS

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🧩 47A: "112. Hindu honorific"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SRI

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🧩 48A: "113. Clock toggle"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AMPM

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🧩 49A: "117. Hollowed out, as an apple"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that remove the core or center from
• Similar words include: core
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CORED

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🧩 50A: "120. Hogwarts's "Half-Blood Prince""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SNAPE

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🧩 51A: "122. Burnt pigment"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an earth pigment
• Similar words include: chocolate, burnt umber, coffee
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: UMBER

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🧩 52A: "126. Greeting from a famous Italian character to a famous Italian American actress?"

📏 22 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______________________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MARISATOMEIITSAMEMARIO

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🧩 53A: "130. DC power player in the late 1800s?"

📏 12 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: THOMASEDISON

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🧩 54A: "131. Good thing to play in a trick-taking game"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TRUMPCARD

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🧩 55A: "132. Magical symbol"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SIGIL

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🧩 56A: "133. Dispensing, with "out""

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: METING

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🧩 57A: "134. Art lovers"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that one who professes great sensitivity to the beauty of art and nature
• Similar words include: esthete, aesthete
• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ESTHETES

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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (84 clues)

🧩 1D: "1. One always cooking up new ideas?"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a professional cook
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CHEF

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🧩 2D: "2. Ritzy"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that elegant and sumptuous
• Similar words include: de luxe, deluxe
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LUXE

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🧩 3D: "3. "That's my cue""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: IMON

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🧩 4D: "4. ___ compensation (stock options, for instance)"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NONCASH

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🧩 5D: "5. Revegetation, e.g."

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the phenomenon of vitality and freshness being restored
• Similar words include: green, rejuvenation
• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GREENING

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🧩 6D: "6. Canon option, in brief"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SLR

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🧩 7D: "7. They may be Thai or chai"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water
• Similar words include: tea, tea leaf, afternoon tea
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TEAS

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🧩 8D: "8. Cuisinart competitor"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OSTER

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🧩 9D: "9. Noted rapper with an oxymoronic name"

📏 12 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BIGGIESMALLS

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🧩 10D: "10. Director Lee"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a civilian reserve component of the united states air force that provides prompt mobilization during war and assistance during national emergencies
• Similar words include: Air National Guard
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ANG

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🧩 11D: "11. Traveler in no need of hotels, for short"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RVER

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🧩 12D: "12. Columbian caravel"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the babylonian goddess of the watery deep and daughter of ea
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NINA

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🧩 13D: "13. "I'm your guy""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: USEME

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🧩 14D: "14. Bogged down"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that cause to get stuck as if in a mire
• Similar words include: involved, muck, mire
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MIRED

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🧩 15D: "15. ___-right (political category)"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

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

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ALT

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🧩 16D: "16. Twice tres"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SEIS

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🧩 17D: "17. Out of control"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that frenzied as if possessed by a demon
• Similar words include: amuck, berserk, demoniacal
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AMOK

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🧩 18D: "18. Nail salon request, familiarly"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MANI

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🧩 19D: "19. 1980s band among Australia's all-time best-selling groups"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: INXS

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🧩 20D: "21. Quartz compound"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (sio2); various forms occur widely in the earth's crust as quartz or cristobalite or tridymite or lechatelierite
• Similar words include: silicon dioxide, silicon oxide
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SILICA

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🧩 21D: "23. Cast out"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that expel from a community or group
• Similar words include: bar, blackball, relegate
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BANISH

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🧩 22D: "25. When doubled, "Sleep well""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside
• Similar words include: Nox, nighttime, dark
• Opposite of: day

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NIGHT

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🧩 23D: "31. Langston Hughes poem that begins "___, sing America""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ITOO

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🧩 24D: "33. Word with mine or dump"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn
• Similar words include: information, data point, datum
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DATA

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🧩 25D: "35. ___ the Town (punny fast-food restaurant name)"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of mexican descent
• Similar words include: wetback, greaser
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TACO

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🧩 26D: "36. Vacation package offerer, perhaps"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a hotel located in a resort area
• Similar words include: recourse, fall back, stamping ground
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RESORT

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🧩 27D: "37. Visionary?"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that combination of lenses at the viewing end of optical instruments
• Similar words include: optical, visual, optic
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OCULAR

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🧩 28D: "38. Lot unit"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a unit of area (4840 square yards) used in english-speaking countries
• Similar words include: Akko, Akka, Accho
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ACRE

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🧩 29D: "40. Prefix with angular"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TRI

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🧩 30D: "41. D.C. 100: Abbr."

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that street names for marijuana
• Similar words include: sess, dope, green goddess
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SENS

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🧩 31D: "43. Mickey Mouse's boss in "Fantasia""

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that one who practices magic or sorcery
• Similar words include: magician, wizard, necromancer
• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SORCERER

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🧩 32D: "44. Whale of a tale"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family; originally (12th to 14th centuries) a story of the families that settled iceland and their descendants but now any prose narrative that resembles such an account
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SAGA

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🧩 33D: "45. Géorgie, par exemple"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ETAT

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🧩 34D: "46. Identity thief's acquisitions, in brief"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SSNS

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🧩 35D: "47. The pyramids, essentially"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)
• Similar words include: tomb, grave
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TOMBS

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🧩 36D: "48. Stimpy's TV pal"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: REN

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🧩 37D: "49. Rookies"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NEWBS

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🧩 38D: "50. Bond's man?"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CRAIG

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🧩 39D: "56. Skill taught to Luke Skywalker"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: THEFORCE

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🧩 40D: "58. Texter's gasp"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OMG

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🧩 41D: "59. Feast with kalua pig"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an elaborate hawaiian feast or party (especially one accompanied by traditional foods and entertainment)
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LUAU

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🧩 42D: "61. Skedaddles"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
• Similar words include: choke, become, give way
• Opposite of: stay in place, come

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GOES

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🧩 43D: "64. ___ de Glace (glacier in the French Alps)"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units
• Similar words include: k, m, 1000
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MER

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🧩 44D: "65. Fr. holy women"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: STES

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🧩 45D: "67. Desperate pursuit of fame, in modern lingo"

📏 12 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CLOUTCHASING

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🧩 46D: "68. Weight"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the property of being large in mass
• Similar words include: heftiness, heave up, heave
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HEFT

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🧩 47D: "70. Channel that popularized video jockeys"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MTV

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🧩 48D: "72. Shower scrubber"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus luffa; used as a washing sponge or strainer
• Similar words include: loofah, loufah sponge, luffa
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LOOFA

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🧩 49D: "73. Split"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ENDIT

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🧩 50D: "74. Mai ___"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a native or inhabitant of thailand
• Similar words include: Siamese, Thai
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TAI

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🧩 51D: "75. TV friend of Jerry, George and Kramer"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ELAINE

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🧩 52D: "76. Money for your money"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ATMFEE

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🧩 53D: "77. Slightest"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that something that is of no importance
• Similar words include: to the lowest degree
• Opposite of: most

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LEAST

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🧩 54D: "81. Black-and-white hunter"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
• Similar words include: grampus, killer, sea wolf
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ORCA

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🧩 55D: "82. Longtime NPR host Diane"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: REHM

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🧩 56D: "83. Part of a flight"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
• Similar words include: ill-use, footmark, gradation
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: STEP

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🧩 57D: "85. Bone-dry"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that lacking sufficient water or rainfall
• Similar words include: waterless, desiccate, desiccated
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ARID

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🧩 58D: "87. Business entity inits."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LLC

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🧩 59D: "88. Shrill cries"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EEKS

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🧩 60D: "91. Slimy veggie"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant
• Similar words include: Abelmoschus esculentus, gumbo, lady's-finger
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OKRA

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🧩 61D: "93. Brian who co-founded the Long Now Foundation"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ENO

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🧩 62D: "94. In awe"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that highly excited
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AGOG

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🧩 63D: "96. Chums, in Chamonix"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AMIS

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🧩 64D: "97. "Bah, humbug!""

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HARRUMPH

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🧩 65D: "100. Nashville and New Orleans, for musicians"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that joint capital (with riyadh) of saudi arabia; located in western saudi arabia; as the birthplace of muhammad it is the holiest city of islam
• Similar words include: Mecca, mecca
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MECCAS

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🧩 66D: "101. Stomping ground"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a frequently visited place
• Similar words include: obsess, stamping ground, ghost
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HAUNT

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🧩 67D: "102. Bringing up the rear"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: INLAST

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🧩 68D: "103. [Yuck!]"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a contorted facial expression
• Similar words include: make a face, pull a face, face
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GRIMACE

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🧩 69D: "108. Sacred object"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a clan or tribe identified by their kinship to a common totemic object
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TOTEM

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🧩 70D: "109. Lose ground?"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that become ground down or deteriorate
• Similar words include: gnaw, eat at, gnaw at
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ERODE

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🧩 71D: "111. Slash on a scoresheet"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an extra component of a machine or other apparatus
• Similar words include: superfluous, unembellished, part with
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SPARE

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🧩 72D: "113. Qtys."

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AMTS

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🧩 73D: "114. When repeated, a tropical fish"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MAHI

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🧩 74D: "115. ___ rock (genre for Pink Floyd and Dream Theater, familiarly)"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PROG

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🧩 75D: "116. Apt name for a narcissist?"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MIMI

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🧩 76D: "118. Release"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that expel (gases or odors)
• Similar words include: breathe, pass off, utter
• Opposite of: absorb

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EMIT

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🧩 77D: "119. He loved Lucy"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DESI

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🧩 78D: "121. Nesting pair in the Outback"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism
• Similar words include: Emu novaehollandiae, electromagnetic unit, Dromaius novaehollandiae
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EMUS

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🧩 79D: "123. Army ___"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a very troublesome child
• Similar words include: terror, holy terror, bratwurst
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BRAT

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🧩 80D: "124. The Emerald Isle"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of ireland; achieved independence from the united kingdom in 1921
• Similar words include: Irish Republic, Republic of Ireland, Ireland
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EIRE

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🧩 81D: "125. Photosensitive cells"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

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

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RODS

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🧩 82D: "127. Seasoning for una margarita"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SAL

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🧩 83D: "128. Bit of plasma"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a particle that is electrically charged (positive or negative); an atom or molecule or group that has lost or gained one or more electrons
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ION

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🧩 84D: "129. One whose uniform bears the Star of Life, for short"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EMT

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84 Down Clues

141 Total Clues

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