27443 Mon Dec 30, 2024 NY Times Crossword Clues Hints

Break down the NYT Crosswords: December 30, 2024

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

Mon Dec 30, 2024 NY Times

Across Clues with Answers:

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

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

  The answer: SMART

  Possible Answer : impudent, sassy, hurt, impertinent, smarting, overbold, chic, fresh, saucy, smartness, ache, bright, voguish, wise, smart

  Possible Opposite Answer : stupid




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

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

  The answer: ZANY

  Possible Answer : clownish, silly, zany, goof, goofy, whacky, goofball, wacky, twat, cuckoo, clownlike, cockamamy, sappy, goose, buffoonish, bozo, jackass, fathead, cockamamie




• The clue is 10. Desktop computer that might run Sonoma or Sequoia. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: IMAC




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

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

  The answer: TENOR

  Possible Answer : tenor, tenor_voice, strain




• The clue is 15. Writer Wiesel. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ELIE




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

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

  The answer: NOGO




• The clue is 17. Waiter's imperative after bringing food. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ENJOY

  Possible Answer : savour, delight, revel, relish, love, bask, enjoy, savor

  Possible Opposite Answer : suffer




• The clue is 18. Flower that reflects yellow when held under one's chin. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: BUTTERCUP

  Possible Answer : butter-flower, butterflower, buttercup, crowfoot, kingcup, goldcup




• The clue is 20. It might have a twist or hole. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: PLOT

  Possible Answer : plot_of_land, plot, patch, diagram, plot_of_ground, secret_plan, game, plat




• The clue is 21. What a sleeve covers. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ARM

  Possible Answer : weapon, branch, weapon_system, build_up, fortify, limb, gird, sleeve, subdivision, arm

  Possible Opposite Answer : disarm




• The clue is 22. "Don't worry about me!". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: IMOKAY




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

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

  The answer: HOURGLASS

  Possible Answer : hourglass




• The clue is 26. Surface for doing exercises. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: MAT

  Possible Answer : lustrelessness, felt_up, matt-up, entangle, flat, matte_up, Master_of_Arts_in_Teaching, lusterlessness, MAT, mat_up, gym_mat, felt, matt, matting, matte, mat, snarl, flatness, tangle, matted

  Possible Opposite Answer : unsnarl, disentangle




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

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

  The answer: ORBS

  Possible Answer : eyeball, globe, orbit, ball, orb, revolve




• The clue is 28. Going out romantically. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ONADATE




• The clue is 32. #1 pal. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: BESTIE




• The clue is 35. Language suffix. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ESE

  Possible Answer : ESE, east_southeast




• The clue is 36. Father. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SIRE

  Possible Answer : father, get, engender, mother, bring_forth, generate, sire, beget, forefather




• The clue is 37. Music genre prefix. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ALT

  Possible Answer : altitude, EL, ALT, elevation




• The clue is 38. N.F.L. all-star game. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: PROBOWL




• The clue is 41. Texter's reaction to a joke. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: LOL




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

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

  The answer: ALES

  Possible Answer : ale




• The clue is 44. Bathroom fixture. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TUB

  Possible Answer : vat, tub, bathtub, tubful, bath, bathing_tub




• The clue is 45. Clinks a glass and gives a speech to. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TOASTS

  Possible Answer : toast, drink, pledge, crispen, goner, crisp, wassail, salute




• The clue is 47. Indian pastries with savory fillings. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SAMOSAS

  Possible Answer : samosa




• The clue is 49. Obnoxious person, informally. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TOOL

  Possible Answer : instrument, pecker, peter, prick, putz, creature, joyride, puppet, tool, shaft, cock, dick, tool_around




• The clue is 50. "All you need is love and a ___" (old saying). Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: CAT

  Possible Answer : cast, cat-o'-nine-tails, honk, guy, Arabian_tea, hombre, throw_up, big_cat, retch, African_tea, vomit, regurgitate, Caterpillar, barf, CAT, sick, regorge, upchuck, disgorge, vomit_up, spew, spue, be_sick, computed_axial_tomography, qat, computerized_tomography, cat, bozo, khat, quat, computed_tomography, kat, true_cat, computerized_axial_tomography, puke, purge, chuck, CT

  Possible Opposite Answer : keep_down




• The clue is 51. Place for policy wonks. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: THINKTANK




• The clue is 56. Huge to-dos. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SCENES

  Possible Answer : fit, scenery, panorama, setting, view, vista, prospect, tantrum, conniption, shot, aspect, picture, scene




• The clue is 59. "Sounds good!". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: YES

  Possible Answer : yes

  Possible Opposite Answer : no




• The clue is 60. Norse god of war and death. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ODIN

  Possible Answer : Odin




• The clue is 61. Make logical sense ... or what the ends of 18-, 23-, 38- and 51-Across do. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: HOLDWATER




• The clue is 63. Grammarian's concern. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: USAGE

  Possible Answer : use, employment, usage, custom, exercise, utilization, usance, utilisation




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

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

  The answer: ILLS

  Possible Answer : ill, complaint, ailment




• The clue is 65. Number of planets before Pluto was demoted. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: NINE

  Possible Answer : ix, IX, nine, 9, ball_club, club, ennead, baseball_club, nine-spot, niner, Nina_from_Carolina




• The clue is 66. Food item that might come with lox. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: BAGEL

  Possible Answer : beigel, bagel




• The clue is 67. El ___, Tex.. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: PASO




• The clue is 68. Exhausted, metaphorically. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: DEAD

  Possible Answer : beat, all_in, perfectly, numb, drained, bushed, deadened, idle, utterly, utter, absolutely, short, suddenly, abruptly, dead, stagnant

  Possible Opposite Answer : live, alive, living




• The clue is 69. Put forth, as effort. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: EXERT

  Possible Answer : exert, maintain, exercise, wield

SMART

Down Clues and Answers:

• The clue is 1. Basketball star Curry. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: STEPH

• The clue is 2. ___ Park, location of Edison's first major laboratory. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: MENLO

• The clue is 3. Type of pear. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ANJOU

  Possible Answer: Anjou, anjou

• The clue is 4. Plant affliction that's below ground. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ROOTROT

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

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

  The answer: TRY

  Possible Answer: attempt, try_out, adjudicate, try_on, try, endeavour, hear, render, assay, test, prove, effort, examine, stress, endeavor, sample, judge, strain, taste, essay, seek

• The clue is 6. Creatures that are actually black with white stripes. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ZEBRAS

  Possible Answer: zebra

• The clue is 7. What grads become. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ALUMS

  Possible Answer: potash_alum, graduate, grad, ammonia_alum, ammonium_alum, alum, alumnus, potassium_alum, alumna

• The clue is 8. Tiny complaint. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: NIT

  Possible Answer: nit

• The clue is 9. Abominable Snowman. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: YETI

  Possible Answer: abominable_snowman, yeti

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

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

  The answer: INROADS

  Possible Answer: inroad

• The clue is 11. Shirley Temple and Virgin Bloody Mary, for two. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: MOCKTAILS

• The clue is 12. H₂O, in Mexico. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: AGUA

  Possible Answer: agua_toad, Bufo_marinus, agua

• The clue is 13. "I understand you". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: COPY

  Possible Answer: copy, written_matter, replicate, imitate, simulate, re-create, transcript

• The clue is 19. Character described by Austen as "a heroine whom no one but myself will much like". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: EMMA

• The clue is 21. Canadian province that's home to the Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump World Heritage Site. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ALBERTA

  Possible Answer: Alberta

• The clue is 24. Grasp tightly. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: GRIP

  Possible Answer: hold, spellbind, grasp, handgrip, bag, fascinate, transfix, traveling_bag, grapple, clutch, clutches, adhesive_friction, travelling_bag, grip, hairgrip, clench, suitcase, traction, bobby_pin, clasp, handle

• The clue is 25. Meh. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SOSO

• The clue is 29. Units of force. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: NEWTONS

  Possible Answer: newton, N, Newton, Sir_Isaac_Newton, Isaac_Newton

• The clue is 30. Gait faster than a walk but slower than a canter. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TROT

  Possible Answer: trot, pony, crib, jog, clip, lope, Trotskyist, Trotskyite, Trot

• The clue is 31. Snakelike fish. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: EELS

  Possible Answer: eel

• The clue is 32. Sheep sounds. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: BAAS

  Possible Answer: baas, blat, blate, baa, bleat

• The clue is 33. "Enchanted" girl in a Gail Carson Levine book. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ELLA

• The clue is 34. Biomedical building blocks. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: STEMCELLS

• The clue is 35. Recede, as the tide. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: EBB

  Possible Answer: ebb_down, ebb_out, reflux, ebbing, ebb, ebb_away, ebb_off, wane

  Possible Opposite Answer : tide

• The clue is 39. Remove from office. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OUST

  Possible Answer: drum_out, oust, throw_out, expel, kick_out, boot_out

• The clue is 40. Cry made while pointing. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: LOOK

  Possible Answer: looking_at, take_care, depend, expect, feeling, spirit, wait, search, front, look, reckon, tone, see, await, flavour, expression, looking, attend, aspect, flavor, facial_expression, seem, face, smell, bet, feel, appear, calculate, count

  Possible Opposite Answer : back

• The clue is 43. No-goodnik. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SOANDSO

• The clue is 46. Jazz combo instrument. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ALTOSAX

• The clue is 48. Dish served from a crockpot. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: STEW

  Possible Answer: sweat, swither, grizzle, stew, fret, lather, grudge, brood

• The clue is 49. In stacks, like a wedding cake. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TIERED

  Possible Answer: tiered

• The clue is 52. Evil hench-animal in "The Lion King". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: HYENA

  Possible Answer: hyena, hyaena

• The clue is 53. "The early bird gets the worm," for one. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ADAGE

  Possible Answer: adage, proverb, saw, byword

• The clue is 54. Landlocked African country. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: NIGER

  Possible Answer: Republic_of_Niger, Niger, Niger_River

• The clue is 55. Prepared to propose. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: KNELT

  Possible Answer: kneel

• The clue is 56. Wish for a romantic pairing between, in modern parlance. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SHIP

  Possible Answer: embark, send, ship, transport

  Possible Opposite Answer : disembark

• The clue is 57. Pepsi or Coke. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: COLA

  Possible Answer: Cola, genus_Cola, Colon, dope, Aspinwall, Costa_Rican_colon, colon, El_Salvadoran_colon, cola

• The clue is 58. Contents of a 23-Across. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SAND

  Possible Answer: guts, backbone, Baroness_Dudevant, gumption, Sand, sandpaper, Amandine_Aurore_Lucie_Dupin, moxie, sand, grit, George_Sand

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• The clue is 62. "How to ___ a ___" (common tutorial topic). Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TIE

  Possible Answer: link_up, draw, bind, standoff, attach, affiliation, wed, tie, marry, sleeper, tie-up, necktie, splice, tie_beam, link, crosstie, bond, linkup, connect, railroad_tie, association, tie-in

  Possible Opposite Answer : untie, disconnect

• The clue is 63. Purple yam common in Filipino cooking. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: UBE

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Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Challenging

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

🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (37 clues)

🧩 1A: "1. Neighbor of Vt. and N.H."

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
• Similar words include: mess, deal, peck
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: MASS

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🧩 2A: "5. Canceled, as a mission"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

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• Pattern: ____

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Answer: NOGO

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🧩 3A: "9. Debt to equity, for example"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient)
• Similar words include: proportion
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: RATIO

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🧩 4A: "14. Longer of the two lower arm bones"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm
• Similar words include: elbow bone
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ULNA

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🧩 5A: "15. Word with monetary or military"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

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• Think of something that any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange
• Similar words include: unit of measurement, whole, social unit
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: UNIT

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🧩 6A: "16. Option on a popular car service"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

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• Pattern: _____

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Answer: UBERX

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🧩 7A: "17. Porn"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
• Similar words include: soot, carbon black, lampblack
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: SMUT

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🧩 8A: "18. "Designing Women" co-star of 1980s-'90s TV"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

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Answer: DELTABURKE

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🧩 9A: "20. Japanese theatrical genre"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

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Answer: KABUKI

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🧩 10A: "22. The new oil, it's said"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

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

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Answer: DATA

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🧩 11A: "23. Yahoo alternative"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

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• Pattern: ___

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Answer: MSN

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🧩 12A: "24. Snorkeling site"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

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• Think of something that a submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the water
• Similar words include: Witwatersrand, Rand
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: REEF

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🧩 13A: "26. Nonspecific cash quantities"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a large number or amount
• Similar words include: mess, deal, ram
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: WADS

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🧩 14A: "28. Player of the middle son on TV's "The Partridge Family""

📏 13 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____________

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Answer: DANNYBONADUCE

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🧩 15A: "33. Egg cells"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the female reproductive cell; the female gamete
• Similar words include: ovum, egg cell
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: OVA

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🧩 16A: "34. Dress in Delhi"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a dress worn primarily by hindu women; consists of several yards of light material that is draped around the body
• Similar words include: saree
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: SARI

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🧩 17A: "35. Readies, as a fishing line"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that anything that serves as an enticement
• Similar words include: come-on, tease, tantalize
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: BAITS

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🧩 18A: "38. Blowout game, in sports headlines"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an easy victory
• Similar words include: lark about, play, gambol
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ROMP

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🧩 19A: "40. Auto-___, setting for many subscription services"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new
• Similar words include: reincarnate, regenerate
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: RENEW

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🧩 20A: "43. American city in the Sonoran Desert"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that flat tableland with steep edges
• Similar words include: table
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: MESA

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🧩 21A: "44. Work on with the hands, as dough or tired muscles"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that make uniform
• Similar words include: work, massage, rub down
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: KNEAD

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🧩 22A: "46. First corner square after Go on a Monopoly board"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
• Similar words include: pokey, incarcerate, put behind bars
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: JAIL

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🧩 23A: "48. Author Fleming"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: IAN

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🧩 24A: "49. "E.T." actress"

📏 13 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Pattern: _____________

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Answer: DREWBARRYMORE

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🧩 25A: "53. One of the life sciences: Abbr."

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ECOL

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🧩 26A: "54. Dry, as the Sonoran Desert"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture
• Similar words include: withered, shrivelled, shriveled
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: SERE

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🧩 27A: "55. Dr. whose "lab" is a studio"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: DRE

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🧩 28A: "58. Bad way to run"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

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

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Answer: AMOK

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🧩 29A: "60. First basic cable show to win an Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an insane person
• Similar words include: maniac, lunatic, madman
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: MADMEN

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🧩 30A: "64. Singer who starred in "Labyrinth" (1986) and "The Man Who Fell to Earth" (1976)"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

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Answer: DAVIDBOWIE

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🧩 31A: "67. Shakespearean conspirator"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the villain in william shakespeare's tragedy who tricked othello into murdering his wife
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: IAGO

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🧩 32A: "68. Nimble"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that moving quickly and lightly
• Similar words include: quick, nimble, spry
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: AGILE

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🧩 33A: "69. Rips in a review"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel
• Similar words include: trash, tear apart, Pan
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: PANS

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🧩 34A: "70. "Later!""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

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

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Answer: CIAO

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🧩 35A: "71. Carolers' celebrations"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that period extending from dec. 24 to jan. 6
• Similar words include: Christmastide, Noel, Christmas
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: YULES

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🧩 36A: "72. Sound of either weariness or relief"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an utterance made by exhaling audibly
• Similar words include: suspiration, suspire
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: SIGH

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🧩 37A: "73. One place to find 18-, 28-, 49- and 64-Across ... or, parsed differently, how these people might introduce themselves"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: IMDB

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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (41 clues)

🧩 1D: "1. Cologne scent"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an odorous glandular secretion from the male musk deer; used as a perfume fixative
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: MUSK

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🧩 2D: "2. Heroine of Tennessee Williams's "Summer and Smoke""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ALMA

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🧩 3D: "3. Give the cold shoulder"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an instance of driving away or warding off
• Similar words include: cold shoulder, rebuff, ignore
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: SNUB

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🧩 4D: "4. What NASA's Cassini probe orbited for 13 years"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a giant planet that is surrounded by three planar concentric rings of ice particles; the 6th planet from the sun
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: SATURN

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🧩 5D: "5. Gentlemen's club, colloquially"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

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Answer: NUDIEBAR

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🧩 6D: "6. Point value of 68% of Scrabble tiles"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
• Similar words include: ane, 1, one and only
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: ONE

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🧩 7D: "7. Coat with a thin auric layer"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a formal association of people with similar interests
• Similar words include: order, club, begild
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: GILD

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🧩 8D: "8. Capital city on the banks of the Rideau River"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a member of the algonquian people of southern ontario
• Similar words include: capital of Canada, Canadian capital, Ottawa river
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OTTAWA

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🧩 9D: "9. Nonsense syllables one might say in a tub"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

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Answer: RUBADUB

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🧩 10D: "10. ___ Dhabi"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: ABU

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🧩 11D: "11. Contract clause"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a word or expression used for some particular thing
• Similar words include: terminal figure, terminus, full term
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: TERM

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🧩 12D: "12. Ticks off"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that irritate or vex
• Similar words include: gall, irk
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: IRKS

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🧩 13D: "13. Yoked team"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; ; ; - bible
• Similar words include: wild ox, cattle, Bos taurus
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: OXEN

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🧩 14D: "19. Slightly"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ATAD

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🧩 15D: "21. Ivories, on a piano"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated
• Similar words include: identify, keystone, describe
• Opposite of: atonality

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Answer: KEYS

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🧩 16D: "25. Cry from a klutzy golfer"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that front part of a vessel or aircraft
• Similar words include: prow, forward, stem
• Opposite of: aft

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Answer: FORE

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🧩 17D: "27. Grift"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a fraudulent business scheme
• Similar words include: swindle, nobble, gip
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: SCAM

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🧩 18D: "28. Socially awkward sort"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a dull stupid fatuous person
• Similar words include: jerk
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: DORK

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🧩 19D: "29. Stratford-on-___"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a river in southwestern england rising in gloucestershire and flowing through bristol to empty into the estuary of the severn
• Similar words include: Upper Avon, River Avon, Upper Avon River
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: AVON

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🧩 20D: "30. Christened"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that assign a specified (usually proper) proper name to
• Similar words include: name, list, refer
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NAMED

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🧩 21D: "31. Stealthy assassin with a sword"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a member of the ninja who were trained in martial arts and hired for espionage or sabotage or assassinations; a person skilled in ninjutsu
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: NINJA

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🧩 22D: "32. Farmyard refrain in a children's song"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EIEIO

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🧩 23D: "36. Ruler opposed by the Bolsheviks"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a male monarch or emperor (especially of russia prior to 1917)
• Similar words include: czar, tzar
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TSAR

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🧩 24D: "37. Levelheaded"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that mentally healthy; free from mental disorder
• Similar words include: reasonable
• Opposite of: insane

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Answer: SANE

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🧩 25D: "39. Remove the skin from"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that decrease gradually or bit by bit
• Similar words include: peel, pare down, skin
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PARE

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🧩 26D: "41. Notable features of elves and basset hounds"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
• Similar words include: spike, auricle, ear
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EARS

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🧩 27D: "42. Latticed metal used in construction and fencing"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: WIREMESH

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🧩 28D: "45. Divisions in some history books"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a period of 10 years
• Similar words include: decennary, tenner, decade
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DECADES

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🧩 29D: "47. Constellation resembling a musical instrument"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a small constellation in the northern hemisphere near cygnus and draco; contains the star vega
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LYRA

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🧩 30D: "50. Development center?"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females; contains the developing fetus
• Similar words include: uterus
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: WOMB

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🧩 31D: "51. Arcing baseball hits"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BLOOPS

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🧩 32D: "52. House of ___ (old Italian banking family)"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that aristocratic italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled florence in the 15th century
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: MEDICI

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🧩 33D: "55. June 6 remembrance"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DDAY

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🧩 34D: "56. Competitor of Rao's"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RAGU

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🧩 35D: "57. Diabolical"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that morally objectionable behavior
• Similar words include: vicious, iniquity, malefic
• Opposite of: good, goodness

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Answer: EVIL

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🧩 36D: "59. Title river in an Oscar-winning movie"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the basic unit of money in china
• Similar words include: yuan
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: KWAI

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🧩 37D: "61. Severely injure"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MAIM

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🧩 38D: "62. Antiquated "OMG!""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EGAD

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🧩 39D: "63. Modern greenhorn"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NOOB

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🧩 40D: "65. ___ de la Cité"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ILE

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🧩 41D: "66. Verb suffix"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ING

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🧠 Expert Solving Strategies

🎯 Start Smart

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41 Down Clues

78 Total Clues

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