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Date: Wednesday, January 06, 2021
Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 70 (39 Across, 31 Down)
Average Word Length: 5.7 letters
Master Today's Across: NYT Wednesday Puzzle January 06, 2021
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. Rubberneck | 12 |
| 2A | 5. Stiffly formal | 13 |
| 3A | 9. Old Glory | 15 |
| 4A | 14. No ___ traffic | 4 |
| 5A | 15. Author Jaffe | 4 |
| 6A | 16. Holy scroll | 5 |
| 7A | 17. Sold at Sotheby's, say | 9 |
| 8A | 19. Scoundrel | 5 |
| 9A | 20. Multivitamin fig. | 3 |
| 10A | 21. Part of the Notre-Dame Cathedral destroyed by a 2019 fire | 5 |
| 11A | 22. Remark from one who's obviously not going to call | 5 |
| 12A | 23. Ancient Jewish ascetic | 6 |
| 13A | 25. East Coast city on a western coast | 5 |
| 14A | 27. City near Leeds with historic walls | 4 |
| 15A | 29. Second-level | 7 |
| 16A | 33. Kind of sauce in Chinese cuisine | 12 |
| 17A | 36. Vivid colors | 5 |
| 18A | 38. The last one was named Louis | 3 |
| 19A | 39. Breakfast grains | 4 |
| 20A | 40. Portuguese greeting | 3 |
| 21A | 41. Fully from, as a place | 11 |
| 22A | 42. 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup champs | 3 |
| 23A | 43. Footwear fashion faux pas | 15 |
| 24A | 45. Risk losing one's license, say | 13 |
| 25A | 46. 1950s-'60s entertainment group | 7 |
| 26A | 48. Button on a deli scale | 4 |
| 27A | 50. Country with 28 states | 5 |
| 28A | 52. Actor Poitier | 6 |
| 29A | 56. Proven to be reliable | 12 |
| 30A | 59. "Impractical Jokers" channel | 5 |
| 31A | 61. Reproductive cells | 3 |
| 32A | 62. Cowboy's lasso | 5 |
| 33A | 63. Sneaker insert | 9 |
| 34A | 65. Store hours word | 5 |
| 35A | 66. Anxiety about being excluded from the fun, for short | 4 |
| 36A | 67. "Feel the ___" (bygone political slogan) | 4 |
| 37A | 68. Paradises | 5 |
| 38A | 69. The Jackson 5 had some big ones, informally | 4 |
| 39A | 70. "Slow Churned" ice cream brand | 4 |
Let's Solve the Across Clues Together!
Here are helpful hints to solve each clue. Remember, crossword puzzles are like word games - have fun with them!
Clue 1 Across: "1. Rubberneck"
Quick Info: This answer has 12 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: STOPANDSTARE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "5. Stiffly formal"
Quick Info: This answer has 13 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PRIMANDPROPER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Across: "9. Old Glory"
Quick Info: This answer has 15 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: STARSANDSTRIPES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Across: "14. No ___ traffic"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: THRU
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Across: "15. Author Jaffe"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RONA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Across: "16. Holy scroll"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the whole body of the jewish sacred writings and tradition including the oral tradition
- Words that mean the same thing: Pentateuch, Laws
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TORAH
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Across: "17. Sold at Sotheby's, say"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that sell at an auction
- Words that mean the same thing: auction, auctioneer, auction off
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AUCTIONED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Across: "19. Scoundrel"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
- Words that mean the same thing: rapscallion, rascal, scallywag
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ROGUE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Across: "20. Multivitamin fig."
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RDA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Across: "21. Part of the Notre-Dame Cathedral destroyed by a 2019 fire"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top
- Words that mean the same thing: steeple
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SPIRE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "22. Remark from one who's obviously not going to call"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IFOLD
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "23. Ancient Jewish ascetic"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about history.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a member of an ascetic jewish sect around the time of jesus
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ESSENE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "25. East Coast city on a western coast"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about geography.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a resort city in western florida; located on tampa bay on the gulf of mexico
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TAMPA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "27. City near Leeds with historic walls"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about geography.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the english royal house (a branch of the plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose
- Words that mean the same thing: House of York
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: YORK
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "29. Second-level"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TIERTWO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "33. Kind of sauce in Chinese cuisine"
Quick Info: This answer has 12 letters. It's a expert clue about food & drink.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SWEETANDSOUR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "36. Vivid colors"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in the air in small amounts
- Words that mean the same thing: atomic number 10, neon, Ne
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NEONS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Across: "38. The last one was named Louis"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that (corporate finance) the amount, expressed as a percentage, that is earned on a company's total capital calculated by dividing the total capital into earnings before interest, taxes, or dividends are paid
- Words that mean the same thing: return on investment, return on invested capital
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ROI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "39. Breakfast grains"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that annual grass of europe and north africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats')
- Words that mean the same thing: oat
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OATS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "40. Portuguese greeting"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in india for writing paper
- Words that mean the same thing: olla
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OLA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "41. Fully from, as a place"
Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BORNANDBRED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "42. 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup champs"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that north american republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in north america plus alaska in northwest north america and the hawaiian islands in the pacific ocean; achieved independence in 1776
- Words that mean the same thing: U.S.A., the States, Army
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: USA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "43. Footwear fashion faux pas"
Quick Info: This answer has 15 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SOCKSANDSANDALS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "45. Risk losing one's license, say"
Quick Info: This answer has 13 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DRINKANDDRIVE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "46. 1950s-'60s entertainment group"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RATPACK
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "48. Button on a deli scale"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an adjustment made for the weight of the packaging in order to determine the net weight of the goods
- Words that mean the same thing: bearded darnel, darnel, cheat
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TARE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "50. Country with 28 states"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about geography.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a republic in the asian subcontinent in southern asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the united kingdom in 1947
- Words that mean the same thing: Bharat, Republic of India
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: INDIA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "52. Actor Poitier"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that english poet (1554-1586)
- Words that mean the same thing: Sir Philip Sidney
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SIDNEY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "56. Proven to be reliable"
Quick Info: This answer has 12 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TRIEDANDTRUE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "59. "Impractical Jokers" channel"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TRUTV
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "61. Reproductive cells"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the female reproductive cell; the female gamete
- Words that mean the same thing: egg cell, ovum
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OVA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 32 Across: "62. Cowboy's lasso"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a long noosed rope used to catch animals
- Words that mean the same thing: reata, lariat, lasso
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RIATA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 33 Across: "63. Sneaker insert"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ODOREATER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 34 Across: "65. Store hours word"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: UNTIL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 35 Across: "66. Anxiety about being excluded from the fun, for short"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about abbreviation.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FOMO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 36 Across: "67. "Feel the ___" (bygone political slogan)"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the capital of switzerland; located in western switzerland
- Words that mean the same thing: Berne, capital of Switzerland
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BERN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 37 Across: "68. Paradises"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
- Words that mean the same thing: promised land, heaven, Garden of Eden
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EDENS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 38 Across: "69. The Jackson 5 had some big ones, informally"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FROS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 39 Across: "70. "Slow Churned" ice cream brand"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EDYS
Great job if you got it right!
January 06, 2021 Wednesday NYT - All Down Answers
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 2. Lands heavily | 5 |
| 2D | 3. Predators of penguins | 5 |
| 3D | 4. ___ to shame | 3 |
| 4D | 6. Rice-A-___ | 4 |
| 5D | 7. Not reacting | 5 |
| 6D | 8. Raised one's spirits? | 10 |
| 7D | 10. Past the point of being a joke, say | 6 |
| 8D | 11. Best Picture winner directed by Ben Affleck | 4 |
| 9D | 12. Fidel's brother and successor in Cuba | 4 |
| 10D | 13. Take off | 4 |
| 11D | 18. "Huh-uh!" | 5 |
| 12D | 24. Emoji that can mean "Get a load of this!" | 4 |
| 13D | 26. 60 secs. | 3 |
| 14D | 28. "Quit fooling around!" | 10 |
| 15D | 30. Counselor Deanna on the U.S.S. Enterprise | 4 |
| 16D | 31. Frayed so? | 4 |
| 17D | 32. Pen sound | 4 |
| 18D | 34. Third and fourth word in many limericks | 4 |
| 19D | 35. French political division | 4 |
| 20D | 37. Game with antlers | 3 |
| 21D | 44. Condition that can lead to repetitive behavior, for short | 3 |
| 22D | 47. Container at a bakery | 6 |
| 23D | 49. Houston team | 6 |
| 24D | 51. Enthusiasm | 5 |
| 25D | 53. "Gotcha" | 5 |
| 26D | 54. Each | 5 |
| 27D | 55. Exaggerated stories | 5 |
| 28D | 57. Orange discard | 4 |
| 29D | 58. "No food for me, thanks" | 4 |
| 30D | 60. Italian man | 4 |
| 31D | 64. Former Japanese P.M. Shinzo ___ | 3 |
Now Let's Solve the Down Clues!
Down clues go from top to bottom. Use the letters from your across answers to help!
Clue 1 Down: "2. Lands heavily"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects)
- Words that mean the same thing: scrunch, thump, clunk
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: THUDS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "3. Predators of penguins"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
- Words that mean the same thing: Orcinus orca, orca, grampus
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ORCAS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "4. ___ to shame"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date
- Words that mean the same thing: set, position, pose
- The opposite would be: call option, divest
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PUT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "6. Rice-A-___"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RONI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "7. Not reacting"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that unable to move or resist motion
- Words that mean the same thing: soggy, neutral, torpid
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: INERT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Down: "8. Raised one's spirits?"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: __________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MADEATOAST
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Down: "10. Past the point of being a joke, say"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TOOFAR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Down: "11. Best Picture winner directed by Ben Affleck"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that formerly a large constellation in the southern hemisphere between canis major and the southern cross; now divided into carina and pyxis and puppis and vela
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ARGO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Down: "12. Fidel's brother and successor in Cuba"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RAUL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Down: "13. Take off"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an outbuilding with a single story; used for shelter or storage
- Words that mean the same thing: shake off, throw, drop
- The opposite would be: persistent
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SHED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "18. "Huh-uh!""
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ISNOT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "24. Emoji that can mean "Get a load of this!""
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that opinion or judgment
- Words that mean the same thing: centre, middle, heart
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EYES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Down: "26. 60 secs."
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
- Words that mean the same thing: Hokkianese, Fukkianese, Fukien
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MIN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Down: "28. "Quit fooling around!""
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: __________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: KNOCKITOFF
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Down: "30. Counselor Deanna on the U.S.S. Enterprise"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TROI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Down: "31. Frayed so?"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that be dressed in
- Words that mean the same thing: jade, don, wear thin
- The opposite would be: new, refresh
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The answer is: WORN
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Clue 17 Down: "32. Pen sound"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs
- Words that mean the same thing: grunt, squeal
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: OINK
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Clue 18 Down: "34. Third and fourth word in many limericks"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: WASA
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Clue 19 Down: "35. French political division"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: ETAT
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Clue 20 Down: "37. Game with antlers"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about sports.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in europe and `moose' in north america
- Words that mean the same thing: American elk, Alces alces, Cervus elaphus canadensis
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: ELK
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Clue 21 Down: "44. Condition that can lead to repetitive behavior, for short"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.
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- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: OCD
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Clue 22 Down: "47. Container at a bakery"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: PIETIN
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Clue 23 Down: "49. Houston team"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about sports.
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- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: ASTROS
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Clue 24 Down: "51. Enthusiasm"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause)
- Words that mean the same thing: fervor, fire, ardour
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: ARDOR
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Clue 25 Down: "53. "Gotcha""
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that make mention of
- Words that mean the same thing: illustrious, celebrated, famous
- The opposite would be: ignore
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The answer is: NOTED
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Clue 26 Down: "54. Each"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that (used of count nouns) each and all of the members of a group considered singly and without exception
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: EVERY
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Clue 27 Down: "55. Exaggerated stories"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about history.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events
- Words that mean the same thing: yarn, thread, narration
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: YARNS
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Clue 28 Down: "57. Orange discard"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that the natural outer covering of food (usually removed before eating)
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: RIND
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Clue 29 Down: "58. "No food for me, thanks""
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about food & drink.
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- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: IATE
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Clue 30 Down: "60. Italian man"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: UOMO
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Clue 31 Down: "64. Former Japanese P.M. Shinzo ___"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
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- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: ABE
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 49 | 70.0% |
| Short Answer | 8 | 11.4% |
| Geography | 3 | 4.3% |
| Celebrity/Entertainment | 2 | 2.9% |
| History | 2 | 2.9% |
| Food & Drink | 2 | 2.9% |
| Abbreviation | 2 | 2.9% |
| Sports | 2 | 2.9% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 39 |
| Down Clues | 31 |
| Total Clues | 70 |
| Average Answer Length | 5.7 letters |
| Shortest Answer | 3 letters |
| Longest Answer | 15 letters |
Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!
- Start with short words first - they're usually easier!
- Look for clues with blanks to fill in - these are like fill-in-the-blank questions at school
- When letters cross, they must be the same in both words - this helps you check if you're right!
- Today is Wednesday, and these puzzles are usually moderate level
- Most clues today are about general knowledge
- The average word today has about 5 letters
- Remember: It's okay to take breaks and come back later with fresh eyes!
- Ask someone for help if you need it - crosswords are more fun with friends!
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Last Updated: September 20, 2025 at 07:17 AM
