27405 Wed Nov 20, 2024 NYT Robert S. Gard

Across Clues :

1. Sources of unwanted feedback, perhaps, 5. Capital city with the Holmenkollen Ski Museum, home to the world's largest collection of skis, 9. Cause of lens flare, 14. In a moment, 15. Shoot forth, 16. School tool, 17. Coloring implement since 1903, 19. China's Zhou ___, 20. Atop, poetically, 21. Flying mammals, 22. Make like South Sudan in 2011, 23. Deep-fried Japanese fare, 25. Comic strip with a collection titled "Shoes: Chocolate for the Feet", 26. Blade runner?, 27. "You should open this on a personal device" heads-up, 29. Quaint contraction, 32. Sine ___ non, 35. Film representations, 37. Kind of computer port, 40. Books with legends, 42. Jones (for), 43. Parent working behind the scenes?, 45. Bit of cream, 47. Totally bonkers, 48. Make a big to-do (over), 50. Big name in sunglasses, 54. Domesticated, 56. Move to the beat?, 59. Montmartre sweetheart, 61. Christmas tree decoration, 62. What a coxswain notably doesn't do, 63. Worked on a trireme, e.g., 64. Downsizer? ... or a hint to six squares in this puzzle, 66. Lewis Carroll, for Charles Dodgson, 67. Bentley or Benz, e.g., 68. Asian soup, 69. "... he that is unjust in the ___ is unjust also in much": Luke 16:10, 70. Cyclops, for one, 71. Annual presidential speech, in brief

Down Clues :

1. Dapper sartorial choices, 2. Reef predator with extendable pharyngeal jaws, 3. Self-pitying lament, 4. Show on which Julia Louis-Dreyfus got her big break, in brief, 5. Hammerstein of Rodgers and Hammerstein, 6. Artificial bronze, 7. Fiery sorts, it's said, 8. B.Y.O.B. part, 9. Say hello to, 10. Makeshift shield during a food fight, 11. What a rear exit may lead to, 12. Pore over, 13. Pennsylvania home of minor-league baseball's SeaWolves, 18. ___ Dhabi, 22. Got steamed, 24. A.S.A.P., 25. Corporate $$$ overseers, 28. Abuses the listserv, say, 30. "For a quart of ___ is a dish for a king": Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale", 31. W-9 info, 33. Land on the Gulf of Oman, for short, 34. Bank withdrawal charge, 36. Air marshal's org., 37. Sch. that's home to the Warner Bros. Archives, 38. Potential rescue pet, 39. Culture group, 41. Like a lime green suit, 44. They're open to interpretation, 46. Hee-haws, 49. Athens's rival in the Peloponnesian War, 51. Spanish Harlem, e.g., 52. Wedding reception cry, 53. Goal of self-improvement, perhaps, 55. In our ___ (among us), 57. The "U" of 71-Across, 58. ___ Deighton, British spy novelist, 59. Declining industry of Appalachia, 60. Strong and healthy, 61. Shark bait, 64. Jazz instrument, 65. Berlin Marathon units: Abbr.

Break down the NYT Crosswords: November 20, 2024

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

New York Times, Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Across Clues with Answers:

• The clue is 1. Sources of unwanted feedback, perhaps. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: AMPS

  Possible Answer : adenosine_monophosphate, amp, adenylic_acid, AMP, A, ampere




• The clue is 5. Capital city with the Holmenkollen Ski Museum, home to the world's largest collection of skis. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OSLO

  Possible Answer : capital_of_Norway, Oslo, Christiania




• The clue is 9. Cause of lens flare. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: GLARE

  Possible Answer : brilliance, public_eye, glare, blaze, spotlight, limelight, glower




• The clue is 14. In a moment. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SOON

  Possible Answer : before_long, soon, shortly, presently




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

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

  The answer: SPEW

  Possible Answer : vomit, sick, chuck, spue, throw_up, ptyalise, purge, spew, disgorge, puke, spew_out, be_sick, cat, barf, regurgitate, upchuck, regorge, cast, vomit_up, honk, retch, ptyalize, spit, eruct

  Possible Opposite Answer : keep_down




• The clue is 16. School tool. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: RULER

  Possible Answer : swayer, rule, ruler




• The clue is 17. Coloring implement since 1903. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (13 letters)

  The answer: CRAYOLACRAYON




• The clue is 19. China's Zhou ___. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ENLAI




• The clue is 20. Atop, poetically. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OER




• The clue is 21. Flying mammals. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: BATS

  Possible Answer : dotty, bats, cream, nuts, kookie, kooky, loopy, lick, clobber, batty, bonkers, loco, thrash, drub, balmy, flutter, squash_racket, whacky, wacky, barmy, cracked, loony, squash_racquet, at-bat, chiropteran, fruity, haywire, nutty, buggy, bat, cricket_bat, round_the_bend, crackers, daft, around_the_bend




• The clue is 22. Make like South Sudan in 2011. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SECEDE

  Possible Answer : secede, break_away, splinter




• The clue is 23. Deep-fried Japanese fare. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TEMPURA

  Possible Answer : tempura




• The clue is 25. Comic strip with a collection titled "Shoes: Chocolate for the Feet". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: CATHY




• The clue is 26. Blade runner?. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SLED

  Possible Answer : sledge, sled, sleigh




• The clue is 27. "You should open this on a personal device" heads-up. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: NSFW




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

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

  The answer: TWAS




• The clue is 32. Sine ___ non. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: QUA




• The clue is 35. Film representations. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: PORTRAYALS

  Possible Answer : depicting, portrait, delineation, enactment, characterization, depiction, portrayal, portraiture, personation, portraying




• The clue is 37. Kind of computer port. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: USB




• The clue is 40. Books with legends. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ATLASES

  Possible Answer : Atlas, map_collection, book_of_maps, atlas_vertebra, atlas, telamon




• The clue is 42. Jones (for). Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: YEN

  Possible Answer : yearn, ache, hankering, languish, yen, pine




• The clue is 43. Parent working behind the scenes?. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: STAGEMOM




• The clue is 45. Bit of cream. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: DAB

  Possible Answer : swob, dab, tap, pat, splash, swab, splatter




• The clue is 47. Totally bonkers. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: CRAYCRAY




• The clue is 48. Make a big to-do (over). Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: FUSS

  Possible Answer : tiff, ado, spat, trouble, fuss, bustle, dither, bother, niggle, overprotect, fret, squabble, hustle, mother, bickering, stir, pettifoggery, hassle, flurry, flap, pother, tizzy, bicker




• The clue is 50. Big name in sunglasses. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: RAYBAN




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

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

  The answer: TAMED

  Possible Answer : subdue, reclaim, domesticate, naturalize, tame, moderate, chasten, tone_down, naturalise, tamed, domesticize, domesticise, cultivate

  Possible Opposite Answer : wild




• The clue is 56. Move to the beat?. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: PULSATE

  Possible Answer : pulsate, throb, pulse, quiver, beat




• The clue is 59. Montmartre sweetheart. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: CHERIE




• The clue is 61. Christmas tree decoration. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: CANE

  Possible Answer : flog, lambaste, cane, lambast




• The clue is 62. What a coxswain notably doesn't do. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ROW

  Possible Answer : rowing, words, quarrel, dustup, wrangle, row, run-in, course




• The clue is 63. Worked on a trireme, e.g.. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OARED




• The clue is 64. Downsizer? ... or a hint to six squares in this puzzle. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SHRINKRAY




• The clue is 66. Lewis Carroll, for Charles Dodgson. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ALIAS

  Possible Answer : also_known_as, false_name, a.k.a., alias, assumed_name




• The clue is 67. Bentley or Benz, e.g.. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: AUTO

  Possible Answer : car, automobile, machine, motorcar, auto




• The clue is 68. Asian soup. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: MISO

  Possible Answer : miso




• The clue is 69. "... he that is unjust in the ___ is unjust also in much": Luke 16:10. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: LEAST

  Possible Answer : to_the_lowest_degree, least

  Possible Opposite Answer : most




• The clue is 70. Cyclops, for one. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: XMAN




• The clue is 71. Annual presidential speech, in brief. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SOTU

Down Clues and Answers:

• The clue is 1. Dapper sartorial choices. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ASCOTS

  Possible Answer: ascot

• The clue is 2. Reef predator with extendable pharyngeal jaws. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: MORAYEEL

• The clue is 3. Self-pitying lament. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: POORME

• The clue is 4. Show on which Julia Louis-Dreyfus got her big break, in brief. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SNL

• The clue is 5. Hammerstein of Rodgers and Hammerstein. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OSCAR

  Possible Answer: Oscar, Academy_Award

• The clue is 6. Artificial bronze. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SPRAYTAN

• The clue is 7. Fiery sorts, it's said. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: LEOS

  Possible Answer: Leo, Leo_the_Lion, Lion

• The clue is 8. B.Y.O.B. part. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OWN

  Possible Answer: have, own, possess, ain

• The clue is 9. Say hello to. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: GREET

  Possible Answer: recognize, recognise, greet

• The clue is 10. Makeshift shield during a food fight. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: LUNCHTRAY

• The clue is 11. What a rear exit may lead to. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ALLEYWAY

  Possible Answer: back_street, alleyway, alley

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

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

  The answer: READ

  Possible Answer: translate, scan, study, take, show, learn, record, read, understand, register, say, interpret

• The clue is 13. Pennsylvania home of minor-league baseball's SeaWolves. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ERIE

  Possible Answer: Lake_Erie, Erie

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

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

  The answer: ABU

• The clue is 22. Got steamed. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SAWRED

• The clue is 24. A.S.A.P.. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: PDQ

• The clue is 25. Corporate $$$ overseers. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: CFOS

  Possible Answer: CFO, chief_financial_officer

• The clue is 28. Abuses the listserv, say. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SPAMS

  Possible Answer: Spam, spam, junk_e-mail

• The clue is 30. "For a quart of ___ is a dish for a king": Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ALE

  Possible Answer: ale

• The clue is 31. W-9 info. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SSN

• The clue is 33. Land on the Gulf of Oman, for short. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: UAE

• The clue is 34. Bank withdrawal charge. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ATMFEE

• The clue is 36. Air marshal's org.. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TSA

  Possible Answer: TSA, Transportation_Security_Administration

• The clue is 37. Sch. that's home to the Warner Bros. Archives. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: USC

• The clue is 38. Potential rescue pet. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: STRAY

  Possible Answer: swan, divagate, wander, roll, stray, range, rove, roam, vagabond, drift, err, isolated, tramp, ramble, cast, digress

• The clue is 39. Culture group. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: BACTERIA

  Possible Answer: bacteria, bacterium

• The clue is 41. Like a lime green suit. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: LOUD

  Possible Answer: flashy, tawdry, loudly, garish, meretricious, brassy, loud, forte, cheap, tacky, tatty, aloud, gaudy, gimcrack, trashy, flash

  Possible Opposite Answer : soft, piano, softly

• The clue is 44. They're open to interpretation. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: GRAYAREAS

• The clue is 46. Hee-haws. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: BRAYS

  Possible Answer: mash, bray, hee-haw, grind, crunch, comminute

• The clue is 49. Athens's rival in the Peloponnesian War. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SPARTA

  Possible Answer: Sparta

• The clue is 51. Spanish Harlem, e.g.. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: BARRIO

  Possible Answer: barrio

• The clue is 52. Wedding reception cry. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ATOAST

• The clue is 53. Goal of self-improvement, perhaps. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: NEWYOU

• The clue is 55. In our ___ (among us). Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: MIDST

  Possible Answer: thick, midst

• The clue is 57. The "U" of 71-Across. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: UNION

  Possible Answer: wedlock, coupling, trades_union, labor_union, union, conglutination, spousal_relationship, North, uniting, Union, jointure, unification, sum, marriage, matrimony, mating, trade_union, join, brotherhood, conjugation, pairing, sexual_union, Federal

  Possible Opposite Answer : nonunion, separation, disunion

• The clue is 58. ___ Deighton, British spy novelist. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: LEN

• The clue is 59. Declining industry of Appalachia. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: COAL

  Possible Answer: char, coal, ember

• The clue is 60. Strong and healthy. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: HALE

  Possible Answer: drag, Edward_Everett_Hale, Nathan_Hale, George_Ellery_Hale, coerce, squeeze, pressure, force, Hale, whole, hale, haul, cart

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

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

  The answer: CHUM

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

• The clue is 64. Jazz instrument. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SAX

  Possible Answer: sax, Adolphe_Sax, Sax, saxophone

• The clue is 65. Berlin Marathon units: Abbr.. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: KMS

  Possible Answer: kilometer, klick, km, kilometre

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🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (90 clues)

🧩 1A: "1. Cry from a guard tower"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Think of something that the state of inactivity following an interruption
• Similar words include: stop, freeze, stanch
• Opposite of: start

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📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

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🧩 3A: "11. Assign a number, maybe"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

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• Think of something that a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit
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📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

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🧩 5A: "20. Great Plains tribe"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

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🧩 6A: "21. "I'll be right with you""

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Pattern: ______

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Answer: INASEC

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

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

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• Pattern: ____

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Answer: OLAV

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

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

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• Pattern: ______

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Answer: ERDOCS

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🧩 9A: "25. Not marbled, say"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Think of something that the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
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Answer: LEAN

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🧩 10A: "26. Electronic music genre"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

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• Think of something that a style of fast heavy electronic dance music usually without vocals
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: TECHNO

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🧩 11A: "27. Pai gow game piece"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

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• Think of something that a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces
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🧩 12A: "28. Relieve"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

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• Think of something that give moral or emotional strength to
• Similar words include: solace, console, comfort
• Opposite of: irritate

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Answer: SOOTHE

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🧩 13A: "29. They have seniority"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

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• Think of something that a person who is older than you are
• Similar words include: senior, elder, elderberry bush
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: ELDERS

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🧩 14A: "31. Bit of red in a salad"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

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• Think of something that biennial eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop
• Similar words include: common beet, beetroot, Beta vulgaris
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: BEET

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

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

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• Think of something that kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting
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🧩 16A: "33. Bottom"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

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🧩 17A: "34. Under, on a score"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

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• Pattern: _____

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🧩 18A: "35. ___ of all"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Think of something that something that is of no importance
• Similar words include: to the lowest degree
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🧩 19A: "36. They might be padded"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

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• Similar words include: restart, take up, sum up
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Answer: RESUMES

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

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses
• Similar words include: extrasensory perception, second sight, E.S.P.
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: ESP

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🧩 21A: "39. Here, in Paris"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: ICI

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🧩 22A: "40. Alternative fuel source"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that partially carbonized vegetable matter saturated with water; can be used as a fuel when dried
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: PEAT

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🧩 23A: "42. ___ Noël"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: PERE

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🧩 24A: "43. Yoga sounds"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OMS

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🧩 25A: "44. '60s war zone"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NAM

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🧩 26A: "45. "Wicked" protagonist"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ELPHABA

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🧩 27A: "49. 180"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: UEY

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🧩 28A: "52. Acknowledge silently"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NODAT

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🧩 29A: "54. Leave be"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LETLIE

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🧩 30A: "56. Big hunk"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a man who serves as a sailor
• Similar words include: hole, mariner, cakehole
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: GOB

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🧩 31A: "57. Many idol worshipers"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TWEENS

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🧩 32A: "59. Cartoonist Silverstein"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: SHEL

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

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HADLUNCH

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🧩 34A: "64. Phrase cooed en español"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TEAMO

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🧩 35A: "65. Dry, as Spanish wine"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: SECO

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

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: STBEDE

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

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a style of design that was popular in the 1920s and 1930s; marked by stylized forms and geometric designs adapted to mass production
• Similar words include: art deco
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DECO

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🧩 38A: "70. Going wrong"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that to make a mistake or be incorrect
• Similar words include: stray, error-prone, slip
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ERRING

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

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ERHU

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🧩 40A: "73. Gave a hoot"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that feel concern or interest
• Similar words include: give care, care, wish
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CARED

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

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NOSIR

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🧩 42A: "75. Website feed inits."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RSS

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

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: IMISSED

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🧩 44A: "78. Flattering lines"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ODE

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

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ECON

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

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ETON

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🧩 47A: "82. Dot in la mer"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ILE

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🧩 48A: "83. It lets you move north"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: UPARROW

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

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CTA

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

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
• Similar words include: saw, byword, proverb
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ADAGE

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🧩 51A: "91. Mulligans"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that do over, as of (part of) a house
• Similar words include: remake, redo, refashion
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: REDOS

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🧩 52A: "93. Big name in streaming"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ROKU

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🧩 53A: "94. Gossip about"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DISHON

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🧩 54A: "96. Champion's memento"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a characteristic sound
• Similar words include: doughnut, border, hoop
• Opposite of: open chain

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RING

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🧩 55A: "97. Hold a grudge against"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that feel bitter or indignant about
• Similar words include: begrudge
• Opposite of: wish

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RESENT

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🧩 56A: "98. North Carolina university"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ELON

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🧩 57A: "99. "See if that's OK""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GOASK

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🧩 58A: "100. Chore-o-graph?"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TODOLIST

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🧩 59A: "102. Significant start"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an appreciable consequence (especially a lessening)
• Similar words include: nick, indent, incision
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DENT

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🧩 60A: "103. Good person"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a decent responsible person with admirable characteristics
• Similar words include: mensh
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MENSCH

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🧩 61A: "104. Collectors' org."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the bureau of the treasury department responsible for tax collections
• Similar words include: Internal Revenue Service
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: IRS

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🧩 62A: "105. Traded for cash"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: INPAWN

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🧩 63A: "108. Letter-shaped opening"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TSLOT

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🧩 64A: "110. Postgrad degs."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that informal terms for a mother
• Similar words include: mamma, Artium Magister, mammy
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MAS

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

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ESOBESO

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🧩 66A: "113. Absorb, as a cost"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that take in solid food
• Similar words include: feed, wipe out, exhaust
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EAT

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🧩 67A: "115. "___ bin ein Berliner""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ICH

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🧩 68A: "117. Goddess of the rainbow"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
• Similar words include: iris diaphragm, sword lily, fleur-de-lis
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: IRIS

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🧩 69A: "119. State bird of Minnesota"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a worthless lazy fellow
• Similar words include: diver, addle-head, addlehead
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LOON

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🧩 70A: "120. ___ degree"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that last or greatest in an indefinitely large series
• Similar words include: n-th
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NTH

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🧩 71A: "121. Give bad marks"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the month following february and preceding april
• Similar words include: mutilate, vitiate, March
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MAR

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

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LATETAG

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🧩 73A: "126. Unstable noble gas"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

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

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RADON

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🧩 74A: "129. French composer Erik"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that french composer noted for his experimentalism and rejection of romanticism (1866-1925)
• Similar words include: Erik Alfred Leslie Satie, Erik Satie
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SATIE

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🧩 75A: "131. Eeyore-esque"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that depressingly dark
• Similar words include: downcast, dingy, drear
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GLOOMY

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🧩 76A: "133. Black dialect, in brief"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a nonstandard form of american english characteristically spoken by african americans in the united states
• Similar words include: Black English, Black English Vernacular, Black Vernacular
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AAVE

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🧩 77A: "134. Seemingly forever"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that how long something has existed
• Similar words include: senesce, get on, historic period
• Opposite of: rejuvenate

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AGES

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🧩 78A: "135. Roar"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)
• Similar words include: bellowing, hollering, roaring
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BELLOW

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🧩 79A: "136. Soft palate appendages"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a small pendant fleshy lobe at the back of the soft palate
• Similar words include: uvula
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: UVULAE

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🧩 80A: "137. Some M.L.B. highlights"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a run that is the result of the batter's performance
• Similar words include: run batted in, rbi
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RBIS

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🧩 81A: "138. Litigious threat"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ILLSUE

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

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TINA

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🧩 83A: "141. Group in charge"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit
• Similar words include: government, authorities, regimen
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: REGIME

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🧩 84A: "142. Puffer or blazer"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an outer garment that has sleeves and covers the body from shoulder down; worn outdoors
• Similar words include: cake, surface, pelage
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: COAT

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🧩 85A: "143. Still looming, say"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TOCOME

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

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it
• Similar words include: egg-shaped, ellipse, elliptical
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OVAL

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🧩 87A: "145. Wet bar?"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide
• Similar words include: shallow, school
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SHOAL

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🧩 88A: "146. Smooth with a whetstone"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors
• Similar words include: perfect
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HONE

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🧩 89A: "147. Like some bobsleighs"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TWOMAN

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🧩 90A: "148. Hawk"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the activity of persuading someone to buy
• Similar words include: betray, trade, deal
• Opposite of: buy

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SELL

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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (74 clues)

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

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HOLESIN

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

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ATELOCAL

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

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LOADTIME

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🧩 4D: "4. Guiding principle"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof
• Similar words include: dogma
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TENET

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🧩 5D: "5. Morse ". . .""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the shorter of the two telegraphic signals used in morse code
• Similar words include: dot, dit
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DITS

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🧩 6D: "6. Opposite of WSW"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

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

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ENE

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

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that king of scotland (died in 1057)
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MACBETH

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🧩 8D: "8. Actor ___ Jackson Jr."

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OSHEA

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🧩 9D: "9. State birds of Hawaii"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NENES

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

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that award-winning united states film actor (1928-1999)
• Similar words include: Winfield Scott, Dred Scott, Robert Falcon Scott
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SCOTT

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🧩 11D: "11. Chopper spinner"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the rotating armature of a motor or generator
• Similar words include: rotor coil
• Opposite of: stator

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ROTOR

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🧩 12D: "12. Still in the game"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that possessing life
• Similar words include: awake, alert, live
• Opposite of: dead, unanimated

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ALIVE

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

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
• Similar words include: story, tarradiddle, taradiddle
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: TALES

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🧩 14D: "14. Tie"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

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Answer: EVENUP

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

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

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Answer: WESTEROS

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🧩 16D: "16. Got going"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
• Similar words include: provoke, emotional, fire
• Opposite of: de-energise, de-energize

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Answer: AROUSED

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🧩 17D: "17. Wedding exchange"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an artificial language that is a revision and simplification of esperanto
• Similar words include: Ido
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: IDOS

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🧩 18D: "18. See 68-Down"

📏 14 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______________

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Answer: TOTHEOTHERSIDE

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🧩 19D: "19. Deep split"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that division of a group into opposing factions
• Similar words include: split
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: SCHISM

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

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

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

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Answer: SEEPS

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🧩 21D: "30. Strung rungs"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

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Answer: ROPELADDER

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

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that lap at the front of a coat; continuation of the coat collar
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: LAPEL

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🧩 23D: "37. Certain religious pacifist"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a member of an anabaptist movement in holland noted for its simplicity of life
• Pattern: _________

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Answer: MENNONITE

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

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that leave or strike out
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: ELIDE

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

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

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Answer: AGNES

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🧩 26D: "47. Italian lawn game"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that italian bowling played on a long narrow dirt court
• Similar words include: bocce, boccie
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: BOCCI

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🧩 27D: "48. Just hate"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that find repugnant
• Similar words include: execrate, abominate, loathe
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: ABHOR

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🧩 28D: "49. Downright"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise
• Similar words include: verbalise, staring, everlasting
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: UTTER

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🧩 29D: "50. Still-life vessels"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring
• Similar words include: ewer, pitcher
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: EWERS

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🧩 30D: "51. Quite a while"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a late time of life
• Similar words include: twelvemonth, class, year
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: YEARS

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🧩 31D: "53. Jacks and jennies"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
• Similar words include: piece of tail, backside, fundament
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ASSES

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🧩 32D: "55. The old you?"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: THEE

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

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: EMI

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🧩 34D: "60. Tier"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

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

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Answer: ECHELON

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

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

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

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Answer: LOUDEST

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🧩 36D: "63. Slurpable noodle"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: UDON

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🧩 37D: "66. Looked high and low in"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that examine minutely
• Similar words include: flush, eroded, abrade
• Pattern: _______

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Answer: SCOURED

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🧩 38D: "67. Polliwog"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a larval frog or toad
• Similar words include: polliwog, pollywog
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TADPOLE

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

📏 14 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BREAKONTHROUGH

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🧩 40D: "71. Biotech crop, in brief"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GMO

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

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NOWIGETIT

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🧩 42D: "77. As an answer"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: INRESPONSE

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🧩 43D: "80. Atlantic food fish"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves)
• Similar words include: tease, cash on delivery, put on
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: COD

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

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EGGO

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🧩 45D: "84. Fruit-shaped candies"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that disparaging terms for small people
• Similar words include: runt, peewee, shrimp
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RUNTS

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🧩 46D: "85. Wide rift"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a deep opening in the earth's surface
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: CHASM

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

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TOSCA

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🧩 48D: "87. Ancient symbols of life"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ANKHS

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

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ARTIE

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🧩 50D: "89. Some luxury bags"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that french couturier whose first collection in 1947 created a style that became known as the new look (1905-1957)
• Similar words include: Dior, Christian Dior
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DIORS

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🧩 51D: "90. "Consequently ...""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ANDSO

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

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ESTA

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🧩 53D: "95. One of 12 for Jacob"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a male human offspring
• Similar words include: boy, Word, Logos
• Opposite of: daughter, girl

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SON

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🧩 54D: "97. Classic detergent brand"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RINSO

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🧩 55D: "101. Use for sleeping, say"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LIEON

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🧩 56D: "103. Stealthy aquatic hunter"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MORAYEEL

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🧩 57D: "106. Started broadcasting"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: WENTLIVE

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🧩 58D: "107. Countrywide"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a person who owes allegiance to that nation
• Similar words include: internal, home, subject
• Opposite of: international, local

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NATIONAL

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

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LILMAMA

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🧩 60D: "112. Stop being buds?"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts
• Similar words include: flush, flower, blossom out
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BLOSSOM

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🧩 61D: "114. See 1-Down"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: THEWALL

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

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: IMGUR

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🧩 63D: "116. Jersey boys?"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that young of domestic cattle
• Similar words include: have young, sura, calf
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CALVES

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🧩 64D: "118. Google action"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
• Similar words include: lookup, seek, look for
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SEARCH

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🧩 65D: "123. Just not done"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a prejudice (especially in polynesia and other south pacific islands) that prohibits the use or mention of something because of its sacred nature
• Similar words include: verboten, proscribed, tabu
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TABOO

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🧩 66D: "124. Birdlike"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that pertaining to or characteristic of birds
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AVIAN

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🧩 67D: "125. Beau ___"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GESTE

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🧩 68D: "126. Bonnie with 13 Grammys"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RAITT

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🧩 69D: "127. Beaming"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that softly bright or radiant
• Similar words include: luminous, lucent, lambent
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AGLOW

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🧩 70D: "128. AC___ (G.M. subsidiary)"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DELCO

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🧩 71D: "130. Some saxes"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a singer whose voice lies in the alto clef
• Similar words include: countertenor, contralto, alto
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ALTOS

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🧩 72D: "132. Grab bag"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OLIO

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🧩 73D: "135. "We've all ___ there""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
• Similar words include: be, comprise, embody
• Opposite of: differ

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BEEN

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

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a benevolent aspect of devi; `splendor'
• Similar words include: genus Uma
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: UMA

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🧠 Expert Solving Strategies

🎯 Start Smart

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❓ Decode the Clues

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74 Down Clues

164 Total Clues

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