1D: "1. "This. Means. War!""
6 letters π Category: Wordplay
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Answer: ITISON Remember this word for future puzzles!
2D: "2. Our soap is deadly!"
17 letters π Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________________
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Answer: DONTTOUCHTHATDIAL Remember this word for future puzzles!
3D: "3. Serpentine shape in architecture"
4 letters π Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a molding that (in section) has the shape of an s with the convex part above and the concave part below
- Similar words include: cyma reversa
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OGEE Remember this word for future puzzles!
4D: "4. Certain cosmetic surgery, familiarly"
4 letters π Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: LIPO Remember this word for future puzzles!
5D: "5. High class?"
7 letters π Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any meeting for an exchange of ideas
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SEMINAR Remember this word for future puzzles!
6D: "6. Big letters in bowling"
3 letters π Category: Common Word
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Answer: AMF Remember this word for future puzzles!
7D: "7. "Beavis and Butt-Head" spinoff"
5 letters π Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
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Answer: DARIA Remember this word for future puzzles!
8D: "8. Common soccer score"
6 letters π Category: Common Word
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Answer: ONENIL Remember this word for future puzzles!
9D: "9. Two-year periods"
7 letters π Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: BIENNIA Remember this word for future puzzles!
10D: "10. Common soccer cheer"
3 letters π Category: Common Word
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Answer: OLE Remember this word for future puzzles!
11D: "11. With 44-Down, home of the U.S.'s most-visited municipal zoo"
3 letters π Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: SAN Remember this word for future puzzles!
12D: "12. ___ rock (music genre)"
5 letters π Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a particular environment or walk of life
- Similar words include: stadium, bowl, sports stadium
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ARENA Remember this word for future puzzles!
13D: "13. Nickname for Britain's King Edward VII"
6 letters π Category: Common Word
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Answer: BERTIE Remember this word for future puzzles!
14D: "14. Encroach (on)"
7 letters π Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that impinge or infringe upon
- Similar words include: encroach, infringe, entrench
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: IMPINGE Remember this word for future puzzles!
15D: "15. Horror movie staple"
4 letters π Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that vice president of the united states under bill clinton (born in 1948)
- Similar words include: Albert Gore Jr., bloodshed, panel
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GORE Remember this word for future puzzles!
16D: "16. Grande's perfume line"
3 letters π Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
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Answer: ARI Remember this word for future puzzles!
17D: "17. Major research lab for astronauts, for short"
3 letters π Category: Wordplay
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Answer: ISS Remember this word for future puzzles!
18D: "18. Actress Jamie ___ Curtis"
3 letters π Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in america (born in 1957)
- Similar words include: Robert Edward Lee, Tsung Dao Lee, Bruce Lee
- Opposite of: windward
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Answer: LEE Remember this word for future puzzles!
19D: "19. Highfalutin sorts"
5 letters π Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
- Similar words include: snob, snot, snoot
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SNOBS Remember this word for future puzzles!
20D: "24. Yank"
3 letters π Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sudden abrupt pull
- Similar words include: jerk, tower, lug
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TUG Remember this word for future puzzles!
21D: "26. Creature with a signature whistle it can use to identify itself"
7 letters π Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around hawaii)
- Similar words include: mahimahi, dolphinfish
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: DOLPHIN Remember this word for future puzzles!
22D: "31. Accordion fold"
5 letters π Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various types of fold formed by doubling fabric back upon itself and then pressing or stitching into shape
- Similar words include: ruffle, plicate, plait
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PLEAT Remember this word for future puzzles!
23D: "32. Iridescent shell material"
5 letters π Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the iridescent internal layer of a mollusk shell
- Similar words include: mother-of-pearl
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NACRE Remember this word for future puzzles!
24D: "33. Dirt pie ingredients"
5 letters π Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that chocolate cookie with white cream filling
- Similar words include: oreo, oreo cookie
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OREOS Remember this word for future puzzles!
25D: "34. Our magazine hates everything and everyone!"
17 letters π Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________________
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Answer: USAGAINSTTHEWORLD Remember this word for future puzzles!
26D: "35. Squelched"
5 letters π Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
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Answer: SATON Remember this word for future puzzles!
27D: "36. Michael ___, Steve Carell's role on "The Office""
5 letters π Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that award-winning united states film actor (1928-1999)
- Similar words include: Dred Scott, Robert Falcon Scott, Walter Scott
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SCOTT Remember this word for future puzzles!
28D: "38. Sch. endearingly called "Wazzu""
3 letters π Category: Wordplay
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Answer: WSU Remember this word for future puzzles!
29D: "39. Animated TV series set in the 31st century"
8 letters π Category: Wordplay
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Answer: FUTURAMA Remember this word for future puzzles!
30D: "42. LSAT alternative, for some law schools"
3 letters π Category: Common Word
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Answer: GRE Remember this word for future puzzles!
31D: "44. See 11-Down"
5 letters π Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
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Answer: DIEGO Remember this word for future puzzles!
32D: "46. Lab label"
5 letters π Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: IDTAG Remember this word for future puzzles!
33D: "47. Afternoon socials"
4 letters π Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water
- Similar words include: afternoon tea, teatime, tea
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TEAS Remember this word for future puzzles!
34D: "49. It'll take you for a ride"
4 letters π Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: UBER Remember this word for future puzzles!
35D: "50. Mama's mama"
4 letters π Category: Wordplay
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Answer: NANA Remember this word for future puzzles!
36D: "52. Natl. economic yardsticks"
4 letters π Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the measure of an economy adopted by the united states in 1991; the total market values of goods and services produced by workers and capital within a nation's borders during a given period (usually 1 year)
- Similar words include: gross domestic product, GDP
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GDPS Remember this word for future puzzles!
37D: "54. Discounted"
6 letters π Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
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Answer: ONSALE Remember this word for future puzzles!
38D: "58. Zero chance"
6 letters π Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
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Answer: NOHOPE Remember this word for future puzzles!
39D: "59. Something well-taken?"
5 letters π Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent
- Similar words include: piss, urine, water supply
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: WATER Remember this word for future puzzles!
40D: "60. Chartreuse or brandy, e.g."
8 letters π Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
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Answer: DIGESTIF Remember this word for future puzzles!
41D: "63. Mess up"
3 letters π Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that to make a mistake or be incorrect
- Similar words include: mistake, slip, drift
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ERR Remember this word for future puzzles!
42D: "66. Part of a sch. year"
3 letters π Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
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Answer: SEM Remember this word for future puzzles!
43D: "68. Orange cone, say"
5 letters π Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a tower for guiding pilots or marking the turning point in a race
- Similar words include: power pylon
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PYLON Remember this word for future puzzles!
44D: "69. "No cause for alarm!"?"
4 letters π Category: Wordplay
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Answer: IMUP Remember this word for future puzzles!
45D: "70. Land rover"
5 letters π Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NOMAD Remember this word for future puzzles!
46D: "72. Home of Qatar Airways"
4 letters π Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the capital and chief port of qatar
- Similar words include: El Beda, capital of Qatar, Bida
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DOHA Remember this word for future puzzles!
47D: "73. A long time, in Spain"
4 letters π Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the plo in 1974; has conducted terrorist attacks in 20 countries
- Similar words include: Arab Revolutionary Brigades, ANO, Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ANOS Remember this word for future puzzles!
48D: "75. Tach stats"
4 letters π Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that rate of revolution of a motor
- Similar words include: rev, rpm, revolutions per minute
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RPMS Remember this word for future puzzles!
49D: "77. Sax player Clarence"
7 letters π Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
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Answer: CLEMONS Remember this word for future puzzles!
50D: "78. "The Greek" in a 1964 film"
5 letters π Category: Wordplay
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Answer: ZORBA Remember this word for future puzzles!
51D: "79. Optimal"
5 letters π Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the idea of something that is perfect; something that one hopes to attain
- Similar words include: saint, idealistic, apotheosis
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: IDEAL Remember this word for future puzzles!
52D: "81. Emergency option for a fighter pilot"
5 letters π Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that put out or expel from a place
- Similar words include: force out, chuck out, discharge
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EJECT Remember this word for future puzzles!
53D: "82. High, wispy clouds"
5 letters π Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that usually coiled
- Similar words include: cirrus, cirrhus, cirrus cloud
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CIRRI Remember this word for future puzzles!
54D: "83. Alice of TV's "Queen of the South""
5 letters π Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an ancient city in northern portugal
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BRAGA Remember this word for future puzzles!
55D: "86. Manage moguls, say"
3 letters π Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used in pairs for gliding over snow
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SKI Remember this word for future puzzles!
56D: "90. "___ expected""
3 letters π Category: Wordplay
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Answer: ASI Remember this word for future puzzles!
57D: "92. Like many legal phrases"
7 letters π Category: Common Word
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Answer: INLATIN Remember this word for future puzzles!
58D: "94. Fried Japanese fare"
7 letters π Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that vegetables and seafood dipped in batter and deep-fried
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: TEMPURA Remember this word for future puzzles!
59D: "96. Impersonates"
7 letters π Category: Wordplay
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Answer: POSESAS Remember this word for future puzzles!
60D: "98. 1997 Demi Moore military drama"
6 letters π Category: Wordplay
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Answer: GIJANE Remember this word for future puzzles!
61D: "100. Hampers"
6 letters π Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that try to prevent; show opposition to
- Similar words include: deter, dissuade, discourage
- Opposite of: persuade
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Answer: DETERS Remember this word for future puzzles!
62D: "102. Fixed rate"
6 letters π Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
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Answer: SETFEE Remember this word for future puzzles!
63D: "103. Statistics tool used to find significant differences"
5 letters π Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
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Answer: TTEST Remember this word for future puzzles!
64D: "106. Not real"
5 letters π Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make a copy of with the intent to deceive
- Similar words include: fake, bull, manipulate
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: FAKED Remember this word for future puzzles!
65D: "107. ___ out an existence"
3 letters π Category: Common Word
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Answer: EKE Remember this word for future puzzles!
66D: "108. They might be loaded or stolen"
5 letters π Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that installation from which a military force initiates operations
- Similar words include: foundation, Base, groundwork
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BASES Remember this word for future puzzles!
67D: "110. Headliner"
4 letters π Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior
- Similar words include: wiz, asterisk, mavin
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: STAR Remember this word for future puzzles!
68D: "113. Neutral tone"
4 letters π Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a very light brown
- Similar words include: beige
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ECRU Remember this word for future puzzles!
69D: "114. April or May, e.g."
4 letters π Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a language unit by which a person or thing is known
- Similar words include: distinguish, advert, call
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NAME Remember this word for future puzzles!
70D: "115. Q3 starter: Abbr."
3 letters π Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: JUL Remember this word for future puzzles!
71D: "116. Luau instrument, in brief"
3 letters π Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small guitar having four strings
- Similar words include: ukulele
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: UKE Remember this word for future puzzles!
72D: "117. Mme., across the Pyrenees"
3 letters π Category: Wordplay
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Answer: SRA Remember this word for future puzzles!
73D: "118. "The Bachelor" network"
3 letters π Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)
- Similar words include: ABC's, first rudiment, rudiment
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ABC Remember this word for future puzzles!
74D: "119. Actress Gadot"
3 letters π Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters
- Similar words include: gallon
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: GAL Remember this word for future puzzles!
75D: "120. Foxy"
3 letters π Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that marked by skill in deception
- Similar words include: guileful, tricksy, crafty
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SLY Remember this word for future puzzles!