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Date: Saturday, April 18, 2020
Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 66 (33 Across, 33 Down)
Average Word Length: 5.7 letters
NYT Saturday Crossword Across Clues - April 18, 2020 Solutions
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. Who said "Fashion changes, but style endures" | 6 |
| 2A | 7. Little pointer | 6 |
| 3A | 13. Distressing character in the Bible? | 7 |
| 4A | 15. Member of the Scooby-Doo gang | 6 |
| 5A | 16. Warn of disaster | 8 |
| 6A | 18. Source of college credit, informally | 6 |
| 7A | 19. Contribute to the mix | 5 |
| 8A | 20. Criminal patterns, in brief | 3 |
| 9A | 22. Searches (through) | 5 |
| 10A | 23. Word after Christmas or fur | 4 |
| 11A | 24. Flat fees | 5 |
| 12A | 26. Joint venture | 4 |
| 13A | 27. Stumble | 3 |
| 14A | 28. Tank tops? | 7 |
| 15A | 30. Old parent company of NBC | 3 |
| 16A | 31. Reward for a bad N.B.A. team | 11 |
| 17A | 33. Monet's "Train in the Snow" or "The Magpie" | 11 |
| 18A | 34. Hack job? | 11 |
| 19A | 35. Bashful friend | 3 |
| 20A | 36. Isotopes of element #88 | 7 |
| 21A | 37. ___ lane | 3 |
| 22A | 40. "The Sound of Music" character who's "17 going on 18" | 4 |
| 23A | 42. Hangs in the balance | 5 |
| 24A | 43. Swimmer Torres who medaled in five Olympic Games | 4 |
| 25A | 44. Strange | 5 |
| 26A | 46. Chang-___ Lee, 2011 Pulitzer finalist for "The Surrendered" | 3 |
| 27A | 47. Sets right | 5 |
| 28A | 48. "Sure, we can chat now" | 6 |
| 29A | 50. Coconut-covered snack cakes | 8 |
| 30A | 52. Pouty cry | 6 |
| 31A | 53. Women's soccer powerhouse | 7 |
| 32A | 54. Seems crooked | 6 |
| 33A | 55. Cloth dealer, in Britain | 6 |
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. Who said "Fashion changes, but style endures""
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: CHANEL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "7. Little pointer"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 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: PROTIP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Across: "13. Distressing character in the Bible?"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that (old testament) the philistine mistress of samson who betrayed him by cutting off his hair and so deprived him of his strength
- Words that mean the same thing: siren, temptress, femme fatale
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DELILAH
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Across: "15. Member of the Scooby-Doo gang"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that any of several ornamental shrubs with shiny mostly evergreen leaves and clusters of small bell-shaped flowers
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DAPHNE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Across: "16. Warn of disaster"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about history.
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: CRYHAVOC
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Across: "18. Source of college credit, informally"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that (usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward
- Words that mean the same thing: liable, given, tending
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: APTEST
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Across: "19. Contribute to the mix"
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: ADDIN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Across: "20. Criminal patterns, in brief"
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 an indefinitely short time
- Words that mean the same thing: molybdenum, moment, minute
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MOS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Across: "22. Searches (through)"
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 move as if through a sieve
- Words that mean the same thing: sift, sieve, strain
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SIFTS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Across: "23. Word after Christmas or fur"
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 fastener consisting of a resinous composition that is plastic when warm; used for sealing documents and parcels and letters
- Words that mean the same thing: seal of approval, Navy SEAL, sealing wax
- The opposite would be: unseal
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SEAL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "24. Flat fees"
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 payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service
- Words that mean the same thing: take, split, rip
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RENTS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "26. Joint venture"
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 a farm building for housing poultry
- Words that mean the same thing: henhouse, cage, chicken coop
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: COOP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "27. Stumble"
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 to make a mistake or be incorrect
- Words that mean the same thing: slip, drift, mistake
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ERR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "28. Tank tops?"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 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: GASCAPS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "30. Old parent company of NBC"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium 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: RCA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "31. Reward for a bad N.B.A. team"
Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about history.
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: LOTTERYPICK
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "33. Monet's "Train in the Snow" or "The Magpie""
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: WINTERSCENE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Across: "34. Hack job?"
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: CYBERATTACK
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "35. Bashful friend"
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 licensed medical practitioner
- Words that mean the same thing: medico, Commerce, physician
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DOC
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "36. Isotopes of element #88"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about science/technology.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores
- Words that mean the same thing: radium, atomic number 88, Ra
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RADIUMS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "37. ___ lane"
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: HOV
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "40. "The Sound of Music" character who's "17 going on 18""
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about music.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that norse chieftain who became the first duke of normandy (860-931)
- Words that mean the same thing: Hrolf, Rollo
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ROLF
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "42. Hangs in the balance"
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: PENDS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "43. Swimmer Torres who medaled in five Olympic Games"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about sports.
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: DARA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "44. Strange"
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 person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
- Words that mean the same thing: noncitizen, estrange, alienate
- The opposite would be: acquaintance, citizen
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ALIEN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "46. Chang-___ Lee, 2011 Pulitzer finalist for "The Surrendered""
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium 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: RAE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "47. Sets right"
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 proper alignment; the property possessed by something that is in correct or proper alignment
- Words that mean the same thing: true, true up
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TRUES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "48. "Sure, we can chat now""
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: IMFREE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "50. Coconut-covered snack cakes"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 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: SNOBALLS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "52. Pouty cry"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 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: NOFAIR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "53. Women's soccer powerhouse"
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: TEAMUSA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 32 Across: "54. Seems crooked"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form
- Words that mean the same thing: smack, olfactory perception, odor
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SMELLS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 33 Across: "55. Cloth dealer, in Britain"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a dealer in fabrics and sewing materials (and sometimes in clothing and drygoods)
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DRAPER
Great job if you got it right!
April 18, 2020 Saturday NYT - All Down Answers
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. Obsolescent music holder | 6 |
| 2D | 2. Border collie, by nature | 6 |
| 3D | 3. Runner-up to Affirmed in every 1978 Triple Crown race | 6 |
| 4D | 4. Nero's zero | 5 |
| 5D | 5. Fizz | 4 |
| 6D | 6. Shrunken head? | 3 |
| 7D | 7. Certain hand-held ... or hand-holding | 3 |
| 8D | 8. Knocks | 4 |
| 9D | 9. Part of FiOS | 5 |
| 10D | 10. "A mixture of what appears to be ESP and early Christian faith," per a 1977 New York Times film review | 8 |
| 11D | 11. Shelved, for now? | 7 |
| 12D | 12. Upscale provider of grooming services | 6 |
| 13D | 14. 1800s migrant | 11 |
| 14D | 17. Relatives of accordions | 11 |
| 15D | 21. Best in class | 11 |
| 16D | 24. Dump | 7 |
| 17D | 25. Espionage gadgets | 7 |
| 18D | 28. One who's finished | 5 |
| 19D | 29. Technical data | 5 |
| 20D | 31. Ad ___ | 3 |
| 21D | 32. Press coverage | 3 |
| 22D | 33. John ___, English philosopher and theologian who made an early translation of the Bible | 8 |
| 23D | 34. Stereotypically lenient parent | 7 |
| 24D | 35. Spots for snakes | 6 |
| 25D | 37. Call to account | 6 |
| 26D | 38. Ominous phrase | 6 |
| 27D | 39. One of the Seven Sisters | 6 |
| 28D | 41. Unbroken | 5 |
| 29D | 43. Reality show staple | 5 |
| 30D | 45. Masculine name that sometimes follows Mac- | 4 |
| 31D | 47. Tower on a mountain | 4 |
| 32D | 49. Workplaces for L.P.N.s | 3 |
| 33D | 51. Its "concise" version has almost 1,700 pages: Abbr. | 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: "1. Obsolescent music holder"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about music.
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: CDCASE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. Border collie, by nature"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that german philosopher who advocated intuition over reason (1744-1803)
- Words that mean the same thing: drover, herdsman, Johann Gottfried von Herder
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HERDER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. Runner-up to Affirmed in every 1978 Triple Crown race"
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: ALYDAR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. Nero's zero"
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 (latin) nil; nothing (as used by a sheriff after an unsuccessful effort to serve a writ)
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NIHIL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. Fizz"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 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: ardor, zeal, style
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ELAN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Down: "6. Shrunken head?"
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 a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
- Words that mean the same thing: bathroom, john, privy
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LAV
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Down: "7. Certain hand-held ... or hand-holding"
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 a lightweight consumer electronic device that looks like a hand-held computer but instead performs specific tasks; can serve as a diary or a personal database or a telephone or an alarm clock etc.
- Words that mean the same thing: personal organiser, personal digital assistant, organizer
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PDA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Down: "8. Knocks"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a reproach for some lapse or misdeed
- Words that mean the same thing: whang, tap, rap music
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RAPS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Down: "9. Part of FiOS"
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 organ of sight
- Words that mean the same thing: eye, opthalmic, ocular
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OPTIC
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Down: "10. "A mixture of what appears to be ESP and early Christian faith," per a 1977 New York Times film review"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a expert clue about movies/film.
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: THEFORCE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. Shelved, for now?"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 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: INSTOCK
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. Upscale provider of grooming services"
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: PETSPA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Down: "14. 1800s migrant"
Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that someone who settles lawfully on government land with the intent to acquire title to it
- Words that mean the same thing: squatter, nester
- The word looks like this: ___________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HOMESTEADER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Down: "17. Relatives of accordions"
Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that coiled barbed wire used as an obstacle
- Words that mean the same thing: concertina
- The word looks like this: ___________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CONCERTINAS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Down: "21. Best in class"
Quick Info: This answer has 11 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: STARSTUDENT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Down: "24. Dump"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a difficult entangling situation
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RATTRAP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Down: "25. Espionage gadgets"
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: SPYCAMS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Down: "28. One who's finished"
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 person in desperate straits; someone doomed
- Words that mean the same thing: toast
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GONER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Down: "29. Technical data"
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 optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision
- Words that mean the same thing: glasses, eyeglasses, spec
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SPECS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Down: "31. Ad ___"
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: LIB
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Down: "32. Press coverage"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about history.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a liquid used for printing or writing or drawing
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: INK
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Down: "33. John ___, English philosopher and theologian who made an early translation of the Bible"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that english theologian whose objections to roman catholic doctrine anticipated the protestant reformation (1328-1384)
- Words that mean the same thing: John Wycliffe, Wickliffe, Wyclif
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: WYCLIFFE
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Clue 23 Down: "34. Stereotypically lenient parent"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 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: COOLMOM
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Clue 24 Down: "35. Spots for snakes"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it
- Words that mean the same thing: drainage, debilitate, waste pipe
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: DRAINS
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Clue 25 Down: "37. Call to account"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 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: HAULUP
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Clue 26 Down: "38. Ominous phrase"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 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: ORELSE
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Clue 27 Down: "39. One of the Seven Sisters"
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: VASSAR
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Clue 28 Down: "41. Unbroken"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that wild and menacing
- Words that mean the same thing: savage, ferine
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: FERAL
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Clue 29 Down: "43. Reality show staple"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage
- Words that mean the same thing: dramatic event, dramatic play, play
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: DRAMA
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Clue 30 Down: "45. Masculine name that sometimes follows Mac-"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: NEIL
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Clue 31 Down: "47. Tower on a mountain"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about geography.
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- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: TBAR
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Clue 32 Down: "49. Workplaces for L.P.N.s"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs with yttrium
- Words that mean the same thing: erbium, atomic number 68, emergency room
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: ERS
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Clue 33 Down: "51. Its "concise" version has almost 1,700 pages: Abbr."
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.
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- This could be something that an unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles
- Words that mean the same thing: Oxford English Dictionary, O.E.D.
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: OED
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 46 | 69.7% |
| Short Answer | 10 | 15.2% |
| History | 3 | 4.5% |
| Music | 2 | 3.0% |
| Science/Technology | 1 | 1.5% |
| Sports | 1 | 1.5% |
| Movies/Film | 1 | 1.5% |
| Geography | 1 | 1.5% |
| Abbreviation | 1 | 1.5% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 33 |
| Down Clues | 33 |
| Total Clues | 66 |
| Average Answer Length | 5.7 letters |
| Shortest Answer | 3 letters |
| Longest Answer | 11 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 Saturday, 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 25, 2025 at 06:31 PM
