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- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (35 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (33 clues)
- Down Clues - Detailed Hints
- Expert Solving Strategies
- Today's Puzzle Statistics
Today's Puzzle Difficulty: Challenging
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Across Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1A | 1. Bar fight? | 9 |
| 2A | 10. Brand of tights with an apostrophe in its name | 5 |
| 3A | 15. Expansive marine exhibits | 9 |
| 4A | 16. Really fancy | 5 |
| 5A | 17. 1991 blockbuster with the tagline "One breath of oxygen and it explodes in a deadly rage" | 9 |
| 6A | 18. Fax predecessor | 5 |
| 7A | 19. Grand Tour, e.g. | 8 |
| 8A | 20. Buyer | 6 |
| 9A | 21. Like ideal arrivals | 6 |
| 10A | 23. "___ pics!" | 4 |
| 11A | 24. Conceptual framework | 6 |
| 12A | 28. Follower of X or G | 3 |
| 13A | 29. Peacock's home | 3 |
| 14A | 30. Word that becomes its opposite when its first letter is removed | 5 |
| 15A | 31. "Gotcha," to a beatnik | 4 |
| 16A | 33. Piece of cartoon memorabilia | 3 |
| 17A | 34. Steamed | 5 |
| 18A | 35. Golden goal periods, for short | 3 |
| 19A | 36. "Miracle on 34th Street" actress Maureen | 5 |
| 20A | 38. Certain Ivy Leaguer | 3 |
| 21A | 39. Painter ___ Thomas, first Black woman to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum | 4 |
| 22A | 41. Passes (out) | 5 |
| 23A | 42. Bracketed disclaimer | 3 |
| 24A | 43. Lover of sugar | 3 |
| 25A | 44. Results of swiping | 6 |
| 26A | 45. Lend, informally | 4 |
| 27A | 47. Second-smallest U.S. state capital by population (about 14,000 people) | 6 |
| 28A | 49. Animals with prehensile proboscises | 6 |
| 29A | 51. "The One" | 8 |
| 30A | 56. First name in cosmetics | 5 |
| 31A | 57. Pioneering P.D.A. | 9 |
| 32A | 58. Ship back? | 5 |
| 33A | 59. Soft drink originally made with egg whites | 9 |
| 34A | 60. Short | 5 |
| 35A | 61. Rock instrument? | 9 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Bar fight?"
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- Pattern: _________
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Answer: RAPBATTLE
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2A: "10. Brand of tights with an apostrophe in its name"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LEGGS
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3A: "15. Expansive marine exhibits"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: OCEANARIA
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4A: "16. Really fancy"
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- Think of something that love intensely
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ADORE
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5A: "17. 1991 blockbuster with the tagline "One breath of oxygen and it explodes in a deadly rage""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: BACKDRAFT
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6A: "18. Fax predecessor"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter
- Similar words include: telex machine, teleprinter, teletypewriter
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TELEX
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7A: "19. Grand Tour, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: BIKERACE
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8A: "20. Buyer"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who buys
- Similar words include: emptor, buyer, purchaser
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: VENDEE
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9A: "21. Like ideal arrivals"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ONTIME
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10A: "23. "___ pics!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cause to go somewhere
- Similar words include: place, post, institutionalize
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SEND
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11A: "24. Conceptual framework"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world
- Similar words include: scheme, outline
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SCHEMA
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12A: "28. Follower of X or G"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the force of workers available
- Similar words include: hands, man, manpower
- Opposite of: woman, civilian
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Answer: MEN
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13A: "29. Peacock's home"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NBC
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14A: "30. Word that becomes its opposite when its first letter is removed"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a location other than here; that place
- Similar words include: thither, in that respect, at that place
- Opposite of: here
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Answer: THERE
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15A: "31. "Gotcha," to a beatnik"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IDIG
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16A: "33. Piece of cartoon memorabilia"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CEL
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17A: "34. Steamed"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- Similar words include: chafe, bother, miffed
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RILED
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18A: "35. Golden goal periods, for short"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OTS
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19A: "36. "Miracle on 34th Street" actress Maureen"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OHARA
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20A: "38. Certain Ivy Leaguer"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ELI
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21A: "39. Painter ___ Thomas, first Black woman to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ALMA
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22A: "41. Passes (out)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a share of money or food or clothing that has been charitably given
- Similar words include: dole, pogy, pogey
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DOLES
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23A: "42. Bracketed disclaimer"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that urge to attack someone
- Similar words include: set
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SIC
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24A: "43. Lover of sugar"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers
- Similar words include: emmet, pismire
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ANT
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25A: "44. Results of swiping"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of taking something from someone unlawfully
- Similar words include: thieving, stealing, larceny
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: THEFTS
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26A: "45. Lend, informally"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a point located with respect to surface features of some region
- Similar words include: recognise, bit, maculation
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SPOT
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27A: "47. Second-smallest U.S. state capital by population (about 14,000 people)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that capital of the state of south dakota; located in central south dakota on the missouri river
- Similar words include: capital of South Dakota
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PIERRE
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28A: "49. Animals with prehensile proboscises"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that large inoffensive chiefly nocturnal ungulate of tropical america and southeast asia having a heavy body and fleshy snout
- Similar words include: tapir
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TAPIRS
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29A: "51. "The One""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: SOULMATE
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30A: "56. First name in cosmetics"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ESTEE
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31A: "57. Pioneering P.D.A."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: PALMPILOT
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32A: "58. Ship back?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the rear part of a ship
- Similar words include: unforgiving, tail end, austere
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: STERN
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33A: "59. Soft drink originally made with egg whites"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: CREAMSODA
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34A: "60. Short"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that brief and to the point; effectively cut short
- Similar words include: curt, crisp, laconic
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TERSE
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35A: "61. Rock instrument?"
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- Pattern: _________
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Answer: STONETOOL
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. One of the Starks on "Game of Thrones" | 4 |
| 2D | 2. Berry spelled with a cedilla | 4 |
| 3D | 3. Small smack | 4 |
| 4D | 4. Brown, in a way | 4 |
| 5D | 5. Milky Way's nearest major galaxy | 9 |
| 6D | 6. #MeToo movement activist Burke | 6 |
| 7D | 7. Expanse | 5 |
| 8D | 8. Observation by Oscar Wilde about the relationship between reality and creativity | 15 |
| 9D | 9. "Mangia!" | 3 |
| 10D | 10. Not 21-Across | 4 |
| 11D | 11. Elysia | 5 |
| 12D | 12. False idol in the Old Testament | 10 |
| 13D | 13. Army specialist with a headwear-inspired nickname | 10 |
| 14D | 14. Where students learn about congress | 10 |
| 15D | 20. "___ Sancte Spiritus" (medieval Latin hymn) | 4 |
| 16D | 22. Things often refilled, informally | 4 |
| 17D | 24. Cardiac exam on a treadmill | 10 |
| 18D | 25. Gochujang, e.g. | 10 |
| 19D | 26. Blade runner? | 10 |
| 20D | 27. Before, in olden times | 3 |
| 21D | 32. "Lord, have mercy!" | 9 |
| 22D | 35. One attracted to all gender identities, for short | 4 |
| 23D | 37. Tilling aid | 3 |
| 24D | 40. The Indianapolis 500 has 200 of them | 4 |
| 25D | 44. President who married one of his kindergarten classmates | 6 |
| 26D | 46. Membership categories | 5 |
| 27D | 48. Loggers' competition | 5 |
| 28D | 50. Former French president ___ Coty | 4 |
| 29D | 52. Weather phenomenon often appearing in the evening | 4 |
| 30D | 53. Dum ___ (potato-based curry dish) | 4 |
| 31D | 54. List header | 4 |
| 32D | 55. List ender | 4 |
| 33D | 57. Some notebooks, in brief | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. One of the Starks on "Game of Thrones""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ROBB
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2D: "2. Berry spelled with a cedilla"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ACAI
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3D: "3. Small smack"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
- Similar words include: mickle, slew, muckle
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PECK
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4D: "4. Brown, in a way"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven
- Similar words include: broil
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BAKE
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5D: "5. Milky Way's nearest major galaxy"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that broad-leaved evergreen asiatic shrub with glossy leaves and drooping clusters of white flowers
- Similar words include: lily-of-the-valley tree, Pieris japonica, Japanese andromeda
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: ANDROMEDA
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6D: "6. #MeToo movement activist Burke"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TARANA
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7D: "7. Expanse"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an extended area of land
- Similar words include: piece of ground, nerve tract, pamphlet
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TRACT
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8D: "8. Observation by Oscar Wilde about the relationship between reality and creativity"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: LIFEIMITATESART
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9D: "9. "Mangia!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that take in solid food
- Similar words include: consume, deplete, wipe out
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EAT
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10D: "10. Not 21-Across"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time
- Similar words include: recent, former, belated
- Opposite of: early
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Answer: LATE
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11D: "11. Elysia"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
- Similar words include: Eden, nirvana, heaven
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EDENS
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12D: "12. False idol in the Old Testament"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: GOLDENCALF
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13D: "13. Army specialist with a headwear-inspired nickname"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: GREENBERET
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14D: "14. Where students learn about congress"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: SEXEDCLASS
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15D: "20. "___ Sancte Spiritus" (medieval Latin hymn)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: VENI
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16D: "22. Things often refilled, informally"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a master's degree in education
- Similar words include: Master of Education, MEd
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MEDS
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17D: "24. Cardiac exam on a treadmill"
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- Pattern: __________
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Answer: STRESSTEST
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18D: "25. Gochujang, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: CHILIPASTE
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19D: "26. Blade runner?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades
- Similar words include: eggbeater, chopper, whirlybird
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: HELICOPTER
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20D: "27. Before, in olden times"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ERE
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21D: "32. "Lord, have mercy!""
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- Pattern: _________
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Answer: GODHELPME
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22D: "35. One attracted to all gender identities, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OMNI
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23D: "37. Tilling aid"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HOE
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24D: "40. The Indianapolis 500 has 200 of them"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the upper side of the thighs of a seated person
- Similar words include: lap covering, wash, circuit
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LAPS
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25D: "44. President who married one of his kindergarten classmates"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that elected vice president in roosevelt's 4th term; became 33rd president of the united states on roosevelt's death in 1945 and was elected president in 1948; authorized the use of atomic bombs against japan (1884-1972)
- Similar words include: Harry S Truman, President Truman, Harry Truman
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TRUMAN
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26D: "46. Membership categories"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a relative position or degree of value in a graded group
- Similar words include: tier, tier up, level
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TIERS
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27D: "48. Loggers' competition"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ROLEO
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28D: "50. Former French president ___ Coty"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RENE
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29D: "52. Weather phenomenon often appearing in the evening"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a thin fog with condensation near the ground
- Similar words include: mist over, cloud, befog
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MIST
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30D: "53. Dum ___ (potato-based curry dish)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ALOO
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31D: "54. List header"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TODO
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32D: "55. List ender"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ETAL
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33D: "57. Some notebooks, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time
- Similar words include: microcomputer, PC, personal computer
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PCS
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Expert Solving Strategies
Start Smart
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Decode the Clues
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Build Vocabulary
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Today's Puzzle Stats
35 Across Clues
33 Down Clues
68 Total Clues
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