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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (37 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (41 clues)
- Down Clues - Detailed Hints
- Expert Solving Strategies
- Today's Puzzle Statistics
Today's Puzzle Difficulty: Medium
Pro Tip: Start with the fill-in-the-blank clues - they're usually the easiest entry points!
Across Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1A | 1. Pie nut | 5 |
| 2A | 6. Boring task | 4 |
| 3A | 10. "I want to be in the loop on this email" | 4 |
| 4A | 14. Love, Italian-style | 5 |
| 5A | 15. Walking stick | 4 |
| 6A | 16. Sounds of inspiration | 4 |
| 7A | 17. Classic flowering locale adjacent to the White House [baseball star] | 10 |
| 8A | 19. Get gooey, maybe | 4 |
| 9A | 20. Backstreets | 6 |
| 10A | 21. Spooky | 5 |
| 11A | 22. ___ one and only | 3 |
| 12A | 25. Itinerary calculation, in brief | 3 |
| 13A | 26. Connections | 3 |
| 14A | 28. Purple yam used to flavor desserts | 3 |
| 15A | 29. Grammy Award that's good for laughs? [1960s rock musician] | 15 |
| 16A | 33. Truffle pigs' assets | 6 |
| 17A | 34. Connection between topics | 5 |
| 18A | 35. "Over here!" | 4 |
| 19A | 36. ___ Vicious | 3 |
| 20A | 37. Increase | 4 |
| 21A | 41. "Do the Right ___" (Spike Lee film) | 5 |
| 22A | 44. Food court pizza chain | 6 |
| 23A | 46. North Carolina educational institution [former "S.N.L." cast member] | 15 |
| 24A | 50. Allhallows ___ | 3 |
| 25A | 51. Cut, as grass | 3 |
| 26A | 52. Beverage that may come in a pint | 3 |
| 27A | 53. Cry between "Ready" and "Go!" | 3 |
| 28A | 54. Parisian thanks | 5 |
| 29A | 56. Waiter or waitress | 6 |
| 30A | 59. "Do ___ others ..." | 4 |
| 31A | 60. Athletic trifectas ... or a phonetic hint to the starts of 17-, 29- and 46-Across | 10 |
| 32A | 64. Wishes undone | 4 |
| 33A | 65. Fireplace fuel | 4 |
| 34A | 66. Jadedness | 5 |
| 35A | 67. Send an eggplant or taco emoji, say | 4 |
| 36A | 68. Ones appointed by corp. boards | 4 |
| 37A | 69. No-nos | 5 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Pie nut"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that wood of a pecan tree
- Similar words include: Carya illinoensis, Carya illinoinsis, pecan tree
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PECAN
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2A: "6. Boring task"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that work doggedly or persistently
- Similar words include: tramp, keep one's shoulder to the wheel, peg away
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SLOG
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3A: "10. "I want to be in the loop on this email""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CCME
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4A: "14. Love, Italian-style"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AMORE
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5A: "15. Walking stick"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a stick that people can lean on to help them walk
- Similar words include: lambaste, flog, lambast
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CANE
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6A: "16. Sounds of inspiration"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AHAS
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7A: "17. Classic flowering locale adjacent to the White House [baseball star]"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: ROSEGARDEN
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8A: "19. Get gooey, maybe"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid
- Similar words include: mellow out, unthaw, thawing
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MELT
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9A: "20. Backstreets"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a narrow street with walls on both sides
- Similar words include: skittle alley, alleyway, bowling alley
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ALLEYS
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10A: "21. Spooky"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that suggestive of the supernatural; mysterious
- Similar words include: eery
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EERIE
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11A: "22. ___ one and only"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: THE
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12A: "25. Itinerary calculation, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional basque party; want to create an independent homeland in spain's western pyrenees
- Similar words include: Euskadi ta Askatasuna, Basque Fatherland and Liberty, Basque Homeland and Freedom
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ETA
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13A: "26. Connections"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an agency in the department of justice that enforces laws and regulations for the admission of foreign-born persons to the united states
- Similar words include: Hoosier State, atomic number 49, indium
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: INS
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14A: "28. Purple yam used to flavor desserts"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: UBE
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15A: "29. Grammy Award that's good for laughs? [1960s rock musician]"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: BESTCOMEDYALBUM
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16A: "33. Truffle pigs' assets"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head; especially the nose
- Similar words include: nozzle, schnozzle, rostrum
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SNOUTS
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17A: "34. Connection between topics"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of changing smoothly from one state or situation to another
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SEGUE
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18A: "35. "Over here!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PSST
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19A: "36. ___ Vicious"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SID
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20A: "37. Increase"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GOUP
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21A: "41. "Do the Right ___" (Spike Lee film)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a special situation
- Similar words include: matter, affair
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: THING
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22A: "44. Food court pizza chain"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SBARRO
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23A: "46. North Carolina educational institution [former "S.N.L." cast member]"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: DAVIDSONCOLLEGE
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24A: "50. Allhallows ___"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (old testament) adam's wife in judeo-christian mythology: the first woman and mother of the human race; god created eve from adam's rib and placed adam and eve in the garden of eden
- Similar words include: eventide, even, evening
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EVE
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25A: "51. Cut, as grass"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a loft in a barn where hay is stored
- Similar words include: haymow, mop, pout
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MOW
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26A: "52. Beverage that may come in a pint"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the united states an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ALE
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27A: "53. Cry between "Ready" and "Go!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
- Similar words include: fix, dress, exercise set
- Opposite of: rise
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Answer: SET
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28A: "54. Parisian thanks"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MERCI
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29A: "56. Waiter or waitress"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant)
- Similar words include: host, waiter
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SERVER
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30A: "59. "Do ___ others ...""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: UNTO
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31A: "60. Athletic trifectas ... or a phonetic hint to the starts of 17-, 29- and 46-Across"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: THREEPEATS
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32A: "64. Wishes undone"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that european strong-scented perennial herb with grey-green bitter-tasting leaves; an irritant similar to poison ivy
- Similar words include: rue, regret, Ruta graveolens
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RUES
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33A: "65. Fireplace fuel"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches
- Similar words include: log, lumber, logarithm
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LOGS
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34A: "66. Jadedness"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the feeling of being bored by something tedious
- Similar words include: boredom, tedium
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ENNUI
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35A: "67. Send an eggplant or taco emoji, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the fourth of the seven canonical hours; about noon
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SEXT
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36A: "68. Ones appointed by corp. boards"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm; reports to a board of directors; may appoint other managers (including a president)
- Similar words include: chief operating officer, CEO, chief executive officer
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CEOS
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37A: "69. No-nos"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DONTS
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Number on a golf card | 3 |
| 2D | 2. Music genre influenced by the Smiths and the Cure | 3 |
| 3D | 3. Modern lead-in to play | 3 |
| 4D | 4. Space | 4 |
| 5D | 5. Fail to take care of | 7 |
| 6D | 6. "Aiiiiieeeee!," e.g. | 6 |
| 7D | 7. Noblewoman | 4 |
| 8D | 8. Like a biased presentation | 8 |
| 9D | 9. Lead-in to X, Y, Z or Alpha | 3 |
| 10D | 10. Arrived | 4 |
| 11D | 11. Winged figure in Raphael's "Sistine Madonna" | 6 |
| 12D | 12. Beach city west of Los Angeles | 6 |
| 13D | 13. Think highly of | 6 |
| 14D | 18. Stevie Nicks and Karen Carpenter, vocally | 5 |
| 15D | 21. Jacob's brother in the Bible | 4 |
| 16D | 22. Baker's meas. | 4 |
| 17D | 23. Mothers of barnyard chicks | 4 |
| 18D | 24. Those, in Spanish | 4 |
| 19D | 27. N.F.L. team at MetLife Stadium, as shown on scoreboards | 3 |
| 20D | 30. ___-frutti | 5 |
| 21D | 31. Endorse digitally | 5 |
| 22D | 32. Corporate department that handles contracts | 5 |
| 23D | 36. Oversize article of winter footwear | 8 |
| 24D | 38. Metals that miners mine | 4 |
| 25D | 39. Egg (on) | 4 |
| 26D | 40. T.S. Eliot or W.H. Auden | 4 |
| 27D | 42. Kind of port in A/V | 4 |
| 28D | 43. Prefix with -metric or -morphic | 3 |
| 29D | 44. Puzzle out | 5 |
| 30D | 45. Censored, as on an audiotape | 7 |
| 31D | 46. Takes exception | 6 |
| 32D | 47. Fifth or Madison, in Manhattan | 6 |
| 33D | 48. Point of a polygon | 6 |
| 34D | 49. Stroke lovingly | 6 |
| 35D | 55. "It'll ___ ya" | 4 |
| 36D | 57. Thus | 4 |
| 37D | 58. Nevada city near Lake Tahoe | 4 |
| 38D | 60. Extra attention, in brief | 3 |
| 39D | 61. Journalist Curry | 3 |
| 40D | 62. Famed Egyptian king, for short | 3 |
| 41D | 63. Bro's sibling | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Number on a golf card"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (golf) the standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course
- Similar words include: equality, equivalence, equation
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PAR
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2D: "2. Music genre influenced by the Smiths and the Cure"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EMO
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3D: "3. Modern lead-in to play"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle
- Similar words include: cos lettuce, cosine, Co
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: COS
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4D: "4. Space"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)
- Similar words include: region, arena, field
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AREA
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5D: "5. Fail to take care of"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that lack of attention and due care
- Similar words include: negligence, omit, miss
- Opposite of: attend to
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Answer: NEGLECT
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6D: "6. "Aiiiiieeeee!," e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that sharp piercing cry
- Similar words include: holler, call, shout out
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SCREAM
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7D: "7. Noblewoman"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a polite name for any woman
- Similar words include: gentlewoman, noblewoman, dame
- Opposite of: Lord, nobleman
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Answer: LADY
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8D: "8. Like a biased presentation"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: ONESIDED
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9D: "9. Lead-in to X, Y, Z or Alpha"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that informal term for information
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: GEN
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10D: "10. Arrived"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
- Similar words include: come, follow, derive
- Opposite of: leave, go
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Answer: CAME
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11D: "11. Winged figure in Raphael's "Sistine Madonna""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sweet innocent baby
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CHERUB
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12D: "12. Beach city west of Los Angeles"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: MALIBU
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13D: "13. Think highly of"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded)
- Similar words include: regard, repute, look on
- Opposite of: disesteem, disrespect
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Answer: ESTEEM
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14D: "18. Stevie Nicks and Karen Carpenter, vocally"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a singer whose voice lies in the alto clef
- Similar words include: alto, contralto, countertenor
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ALTOS
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15D: "21. Jacob's brother in the Bible"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (old testament) the eldest son of isaac who would have inherited the covenant that god made with abraham and that abraham passed on to isaac; he traded his birthright to his twin brother jacob for a mess of pottage
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ESAU
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16D: "22. Baker's meas."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TBSP
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17D: "23. Mothers of barnyard chicks"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that adult female chicken
- Similar words include: hen, biddy
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HENS
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18D: "24. Those, in Spanish"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ESOS
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19D: "27. N.F.L. team at MetLife Stadium, as shown on scoreboards"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NYG
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20D: "30. ___-frutti"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TUTTI
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21D: "31. Endorse digitally"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ESIGN
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22D: "32. Corporate department that handles contracts"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules
- Similar words include: effectual, sound
- Opposite of: illegal
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Answer: LEGAL
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23D: "36. Oversize article of winter footwear"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a device to help you walk on deep snow; a lightweight frame shaped like a racquet is strengthened with cross pieces and contains a network of thongs; one is worn on each foot
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: SNOWSHOE
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24D: "38. Metals that miners mine"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined
- Similar words include: ore
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ORES
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25D: "39. Egg (on)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an instinctive motive
- Similar words include: advocate, barrack, press
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: URGE
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26D: "40. T.S. Eliot or W.H. Auden"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: POET
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27D: "42. Kind of port in A/V"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HDMI
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28D: "43. Prefix with -metric or -morphic"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ISO
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29D: "44. Puzzle out"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
- Similar words include: work, figure out, clear
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SOLVE
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30D: "45. Censored, as on an audiotape"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that emit a single short high-pitched signal
- Similar words include: bleep
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: BLEEPED
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31D: "46. Takes exception"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings
- Similar words include: demurral, demurrer, except
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: DEMURS
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32D: "47. Fifth or Madison, in Manhattan"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a line of approach
- Similar words include: boulevard
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: AVENUE
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33D: "48. Point of a polygon"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the point of intersection of lines or the point opposite the base of a figure
- Similar words include: apex, peak, acme
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: VERTEX
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34D: "49. Stroke lovingly"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a gentle affectionate stroking (or something resembling it)
- Similar words include: fondle
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CARESS
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35D: "55. "It'll ___ ya""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor
- Similar words include: monetary value, toll, be
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: COST
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36D: "57. Thus"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (used as a sentence connector) therefore or consequently
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ERGO
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37D: "58. Nevada city near Lake Tahoe"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a city in western nevada at the foot of the sierra nevada mountains; known for gambling casinos and easy divorce and remarriage
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RENO
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38D: "60. Extra attention, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that considerate and solicitous care
- Similar words include: tender loving care
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TLC
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39D: "61. Journalist Curry"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ANN
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40D: "62. Famed Egyptian king, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that utter `tsk,' `tut,' or `tut-tut,' as in disapproval
- Similar words include: tsk, tut-tut
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TUT
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41D: "63. Bro's sibling"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a female person who has the same parents as another person
- Similar words include: International System, SI system, SI unit
- Opposite of: brother
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Answer: SIS
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Today's Puzzle Stats
37 Across Clues
41 Down Clues
78 Total Clues
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