1A: "1. Second attempt"
4 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that do over, as of (part of) a house
- Similar words include: refashion, make over, remake
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: REDO
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2A: "5. Hunk of marble, e.g."
4 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that block consisting of a thick piece of something
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SLAB
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3A: "9. Very proficient"
5 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
- Similar words include: wizard, superstar, practiced
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ADEPT
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4A: "14. What many plants do in the heat"
4 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any plant disease characterized by drooping and shriveling; usually caused by parasites attacking the roots
- Similar words include: wilting, droop, wilt disease
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: WILT
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5A: "18. Neighbor of Turkmenistan"
4 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a theocratic islamic republic in the middle east in western asia; iran was the core of the ancient empire that was known as persia until 1935; rich in oil
- Similar words include: Islamic Republic of Iran, Persia
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IRAN
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6A: "19. Word with happy or half"
4 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day
- Similar words include: hr, 60 minutes, time of day
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HOUR
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7A: "20. Unusual trinket"
5 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting
- Similar words include: rarity, curiosity, peculiarity
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CURIO
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8A: "21. ___ furniture"
5 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence
- Similar words include: terrace
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PATIO
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9A: "22. Stoical British guys?"
15 letters Category: Common Word
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Answer: CONTROLLEDCHAPS
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10A: "25. Creative spark, in slang"
5 letters Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: INSPO
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11A: "26. Avoid"
6 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of
- Similar words include: shun
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ESCHEW
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12A: "27. Sleepover challenge"
4 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy
- Similar words include: defy, daring, make bold
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DARE
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13A: "28. It's made with grains"
7 letters Category: Common Word
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Answer: SANDART
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14A: "30. They twist beneath the surface"
4 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in europe and america; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
- Similar words include: eel
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EELS
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15A: "31. Poles support this"
4 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs)
- Similar words include: encamp, camp out, camp
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TENT
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16A: "33. Prefix with watt"
4 letters Category: Common Word
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Answer: GIGA
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17A: "34. "___ Miz""
3 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a chronic inflammatory collagen disease affecting connective tissue (skin or joints)
- Similar words include: lupus erythematosus, LE
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LES
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18A: "35. Assortment"
5 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an orderly arrangement
- Similar words include: range, set out, lay out
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ARRAY
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19A: "37. "The skin cream you're using must be Neutrogena or CeraVe!"?"
14 letters Category: Common Word
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Answer: THATSSONOTOLAY
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20A: "40. Hollywood's Johnny"
4 letters Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: DEPP
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21A: "41. Stuck in the mud"
5 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cause to get stuck as if in a mire
- Similar words include: muck, bog down, get stuck
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MIRED
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22A: "43. Fitting"
3 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward
- Similar words include: disposed, pertinent, given
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: APT
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23A: "44. Baseball legend who dated J.Lo"
4 letters Category: Common Word
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Answer: AROD
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24A: "45. Lying on"
4 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that on, to, or at the top
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ATOP
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25A: "46. Tai ___"
3 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the circulating life energy that in chinese philosophy is thought to be inherent in all things; in traditional chinese medicine the balance of negative and positive forms in the body is believed to be essential for good health
- Similar words include: qi, ch'i, ki
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CHI
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26A: "47. Filthy, in slang"
5 letters Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: GRODY
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27A: "49. Like 2026, but not 2025"
4 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)
- Similar words include: flush, evening, regular
- Opposite of: odd, uneven
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Answer: EVEN
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28A: "51. Pined for an ex-boyfriend?"
11 letters Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: MISSEDABEAU
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29A: "55. Awl, for one"
4 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an implement used in the practice of a vocation
- Similar words include: creature, instrument, joyride
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TOOL
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30A: "57. Richard of "Pretty Woman""
4 letters Category: Wordplay
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Answer: GERE
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31A: "58. Grasp"
3 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located
- Similar words include: take care, visualise, meet
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SEE
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32A: "59. Muscle below a delt"
3 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a broad flat muscle on either side of the back
- Similar words include: latissimus dorsi
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LAT
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33A: "60. [Pow!]"
4 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Similar words include: whop, wallop, whack
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: WHAM
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34A: "62. Save the Children, e.g., in brief"
3 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an organization that is not part of the local or state or federal government
- Similar words include: nongovernmental organization
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NGO
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35A: "63. Roughly"
4 letters Category: Wordplay
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Answer: ORSO
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36A: "64. Exasperated television producer's plea?"
15 letters Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: GIVEMEONESEASON
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37A: "68. '20s architecture style"
4 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a style of design that was popular in the 1920s and 1930s; marked by stylized forms and geometric designs adapted to mass production
- Similar words include: art deco
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DECO
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38A: "71. Bridal line"
3 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an artificial language that is a revision and simplification of esperanto
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IDO
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39A: "72. They can be candied"
4 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that edible tuber of any of several yams
- Similar words include: yam plant, yam
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: YAMS
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40A: "73. HVAC measure"
3 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure; equivalent to 251.997 calories
- Similar words include: British thermal unit, B.Th.U.
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: BTU
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41A: "74. Molecule with the nucleotides G, U, A and C"
3 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (biochemistry) a long linear polymer of nucleotides found in the nucleus but mainly in the cytoplasm of a cell where it is associated with microsomes; it transmits genetic information from dna to the cytoplasm and controls certain chemical processes in the cell
- Similar words include: ribonucleic acid
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RNA
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42A: "77. The Arabian Sea's Gulf of ___"
4 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a strategically located monarchy on the southern and eastern coasts of the arabian peninsula; the economy is dominated by oil
- Similar words include: Muscat and Oman, Sultanate of Oman
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OMAN
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43A: "78. Pickle type"
4 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that aromatic old world herb having aromatic threadlike foliage and seeds used as seasoning
- Similar words include: Anethum graveolens, dill weed
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DILL
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44A: "80. Reach out to people born between July 23 and August 22?"
11 letters Category: Wordplay
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Answer: CONTACTLEOS
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45A: "83. When repeated, "Oh, please""
4 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract
- Similar words include: do, ejaculate, fall
- Opposite of: leave, go
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Answer: COME
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46A: "84. Phrase on a Spanish candy heart"
5 letters Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: TEAMO
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47A: "86. ___ carte"
3 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ALA
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48A: "87. Sister of Osiris"
4 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that egyptian goddess of fertility; daughter of geb; sister and wife of osiris
- Similar words include: ISI, Inter-Services Intelligence, Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ISIS
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49A: "88. Actress Ryan of the "Star Trek" franchise"
4 letters Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: JERI
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50A: "90. "Me?!""
3 letters Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: MOI
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51A: "91. Like milk that isn't worth crying over"
5 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container
- Similar words include: slop, shed, disgorge
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SPILT
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52A: "93. Warning after a slice"
4 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that front part of a vessel or aircraft
- Similar words include: stem, prow, bow
- Opposite of: aft
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Answer: FORE
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53A: "94. Good name for a salon specializing in mani-pedis?"
14 letters Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: FIRSTCLASSNAIL
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54A: "98. Floppy hat"
5 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a cap with no brim or bill; made of soft cloth
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BERET
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55A: "99. Aromatherapist's workplace"
3 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a health resort near a spring or at the seaside
- Similar words include: watering hole, watering place, health spa
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SPA
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56A: "100. Common forecast in Portland"
4 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere
- Similar words include: rain down, rainwater, pelting
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RAIN
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57A: "101. Struggling to decide"
4 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that separate or cause to separate abruptly
- Similar words include: snap, deplumate, tear
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TORN
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58A: "102. Musical group?"
4 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the actors in a play
- Similar words include: chuck, roam, rove
- Opposite of: keep down
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Answer: CAST
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59A: "103. Princess Leia or Hester Prynne"
7 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the main good female character in a work of fiction
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: HEROINE
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60A: "105. Visitor center handouts"
4 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it)
- Similar words include: map, represent, single-valued function
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MAPS
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61A: "107. City west of Montreal"
6 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of the algonquian people of southern ontario
- Similar words include: capital of Canada, Outaouais, Ottawa river
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: OTTAWA
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62A: "110. Worship"
5 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that love intensely
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ADORE
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63A: "111. Loading the dishes and unloading the dishes, e.g.?"
15 letters Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: DISSONANTCHORES
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64A: "116. Agitated"
5 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- Similar words include: miffed, steamed, pissed off
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RILED
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65A: "117. Selfish person"
5 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one who accepts an offer
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TAKER
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66A: "118. Coin, commonly"
4 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that something with a round shape resembling a flat circular plate
- Similar words include: phonograph record, phonograph recording, saucer
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DISK
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67A: "119. Stink"
4 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant
- Similar words include: stench, smell, fetor
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: REEK
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68A: "120. Pen ___ (corresponding pair)"
4 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities
- Similar words include: chum up, sidekick, chum
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PALS
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69A: "121. Like the strawberry champagne in Bruno Mars's "That's What I Like""
5 letters Category: Wordplay
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Answer: ONICE
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70A: "122. Neuter's partner"
4 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that remove the ovaries of
- Similar words include: alter, castrate, neuter
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SPAY
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71A: "123. Tibetan oxen"
4 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that large long-haired wild ox of tibet often domesticated
- Similar words include: yack, Bos grunniens, gab
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: YAKS
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