0909 NYT Crossword: September 09, 2024 | Puzzle Breakdown

NYT Crossword September 09, 2024 Puzzle Breakdown: Your Complete Guide

Here are the puzzles for New York Times Crossword of September 09, 2024 which brings another set of fun and enticing clues and questions. Below are the explanations for the across and down clues which will assist you in completing today’s puzzle.

 NYT Crossword: September 09, 2024

Across Clues with Answers:

• The clue is 1. Sarcastic "Yeah, right!". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: IBET




• The clue is 5. King with a golden touch. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: MIDAS

  Possible Answer : Midas




• The clue is 10. "___ Worry, Be Happy". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: DONT




• The clue is 14. Emperor Claudius's successor. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: NERO

  Possible Answer : Nero, Lucius_Domitius_Ahenobarbus, Nero_Claudius_Caesar_Drusus_Germanicus




• The clue is 15. Words to live by. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: CREDO

  Possible Answer : creed, credo




• The clue is 16. Facts and figures. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: INFO

  Possible Answer : info, information




• The clue is 17. Smack with a hand. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: SLAP

  Possible Answer : smack, smacking, slap, bolt, bang, slapdash




• The clue is 18. Beach project that rarely survives high tide. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

  The answer: SANDCASTLE




• The clue is 20. Actress Fisher of "Eighth Grade". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ELSIE




• The clue is 22. Lock up, as a playoff spot. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: CLINCH

  Possible Answer : hug, clinch, squeeze, clench, clamp




• The clue is 23. Numbskull. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (11 letters)

  The answer: CHUCKLEHEAD




• The clue is 26. Moody rock subgenre. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: EMO




• The clue is 29. The Maple Leafs, on scoreboards. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: TOR

  Possible Answer : tor




• The clue is 30. Understood. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: GOT

  Possible Answer : mother, perplex, contract, catch, pose, induce, take, generate, dumbfound, let, go, arrest, commence, acquire, bewilder, incur, stimulate, start, stupefy, father, nonplus, convey, fuck_off, obtain, buzz_off, become, develop, make, get_down, produce, suffer, receive, grow, bugger_off, set_about, mystify, pay_off, gravel, engender, sire, vex, experience, get, bring, fetch, capture, find, drive, beat, set_out, sustain, arrive, pay_back, aim, scram, fix, get_under_one's_skin, stick, puzzle, draw, amaze, bring_forth, start_out, flummox, have, come, cause, begin, beget, baffle

  Possible Opposite Answer : end, take_away, leave




• The clue is 31. Lumberjack. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: LOGGER

  Possible Answer : lumberman, lumberjack, feller, logger, faller




• The clue is 33. Blueprint detail, in brief. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: SPEC

  Possible Answer : spec, specification




• The clue is 35. Sgts. and cpls.. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: NCOS




• The clue is 38. Midday times. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: NOONS

  Possible Answer : high_noon, twelve_noon, noonday, noontide, noon, midday




• The clue is 39. State of total happiness. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (9 letters)

  The answer: HOGHEAVEN




• The clue is 42. From which Britain "Brexited," for short. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: THEEU




• The clue is 45. Opera solo. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: ARIA

  Possible Answer : aria




• The clue is 46. "College GameDay" airer. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: ESPN




• The clue is 50. Fireplace floor. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: HEARTH

  Possible Answer : fireside, hearth, open_fireplace, fireplace




• The clue is 52. Govt. code crackers. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: NSA

  Possible Answer : NSA, National_Security_Agency




• The clue is 54. Rocker Reed. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: LOU




• The clue is 55. Even so. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: YET

  Possible Answer : however, til_now, even_so, hitherto, yet, notwithstanding, until_now, as_yet, even, withal, so_far, up_to_now, thus_far, all_the_same, in_time, nonetheless, nevertheless, still, heretofore




• The clue is 56. Sandwich specialty of Maine. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (11 letters)

  The answer: LOBSTERROLL




• The clue is 60. Bordeaux red wine. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: CLARET

  Possible Answer : claret, red_Bordeaux




• The clue is 62. Sauna covering. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: TOWEL

  Possible Answer : towel




• The clue is 63. Make a subtle insult, or a hint to four highlighted groups of letters in this puzzle. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

  The answer: THROWSHADE




• The clue is 67. Bic products. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: PENS

  Possible Answer : playpen, indite, pen, compose, write, penitentiary




• The clue is 68. Word that can precede vegetable or beer. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: ROOT

  Possible Answer : ascendant, root, theme, steady_down, settle_down, tooth_root, rootage, rootle, rout, ancestor, root_word, settle, ascendent, etymon, base, take_root, origin, radical, stem, beginning, antecedent, source, solution

  Possible Opposite Answer : descendant




• The clue is 69. Roof overhangs. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: EAVES

  Possible Answer : eaves




• The clue is 70. Dirección from Monterrey to Miami. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: ESTE




• The clue is 71. Coniferous trees with red berrylike fruit. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: YEWS

  Possible Answer : yew




• The clue is 72. Bride's wedding purchase. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: DRESS

  Possible Answer : do, dress, trim, line_up, habilitate, dress_up, curry, fit_out, decorate, coif, enclothe, raiment, clothes, garment, plume, clip, garb, preen, arrange, lop, snip, get_dressed, frock, apparel, attire, cut_back, wearing_apparel, dress_out, groom, coiffe, garnish, full-dress, crop, prune, clothe, tog, primp, coiffure, set

  Possible Opposite Answer : undress




• The clue is 73. "Now!," in a hospital. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: STAT

Down Clues and Answers:

• The clue is 1. Fleas and flies. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: INSECTS

  Possible Answer: insect, worm, louse, dirt_ball

• The clue is 2. Hotel worker with baggage. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: BELLHOP

  Possible Answer: bellhop, bellboy, bellman

• The clue is 3. Crossword solver's correction mark. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: ERASURE

  Possible Answer: erasure, expunging, expunction

• The clue is 4. Subject matter. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: TOPIC

  Possible Answer: matter, theme, issue, subject, topic

• The clue is 5. Award show hosts, for short. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: MCS

  Possible Answer: megacycle_per_second, megahertz, megacycle, Mc, MHz

• The clue is 6. 401(k) alternative. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: IRA

  Possible Answer: Irish_Republican_Army, Provos, individual_retirement_account, Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army, Provisional_IRA, ire, IRA, anger, ira, wrath

• The clue is 7. Dame Judi. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: DENCH

• The clue is 8. Confuse. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ADDLE

  Possible Answer: puddle, muddle, addle

• The clue is 9. Outgoing. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: SOCIAL

  Possible Answer: sociable, social, societal, mixer

  Possible Opposite Answer : unsocial

• The clue is 10. Spinal segment. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: DISC

  Possible Answer: phonograph_record, disc, disk, magnetic_disc, saucer, platter, magnetic_disk, record, phonograph_recording

• The clue is 11. Currently traveling. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: ONTHEGO

• The clue is 12. Super Bowl org.. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: NFL

• The clue is 13. Front part of a shoe. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: TOE

  Possible Answer: toe, toenail

• The clue is 19. Hoops phrase uttered after a basket plus a foul. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: ANDONE

• The clue is 21. Hosp. heart readout. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: EKG

  Possible Answer: ECG, electrocardiogram, EKG, cardiogram

• The clue is 24. Like the odds of an unlikely event. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: LONG

  Possible Answer: foresighted, farseeing, longsighted, long, hanker, yearn, retentive, foresightful, prospicient, farsighted, tenacious, recollective

  Possible Opposite Answer : unretentive, short

• The clue is 25. ___ Sketch (classic toy). Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ETCHA

• The clue is 27. Gents. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: MEN

  Possible Answer: world, humans, military_man, human_being, gentleman, man, piece, human_race, adult_male, human_beings, Isle_of_Man, gentleman's_gentleman, men, hands, humanity, serviceman, valet_de_chambre, human, Man, workforce, manpower, mankind, humankind, work_force, military_personnel, homo, valet

  Possible Opposite Answer : civilian, woman

• The clue is 28. Surgery sites, for short. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: ORS

  Possible Answer: surgery, OR, Beaver_State, Oregon, operating_theatre, operating_room, operating_theater

• The clue is 32. Departed. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: GONE

  Possible Answer: plump, perish, last, gone, go, choke, break_down, sound, lead, locomote, blend_in, fit, live, cash_in_one's_chips, decease, start, bypast, buy_the_farm, kaput, run_short, conk_out, proceed, run, bygone, operate, become, function, pass_away, croak, move, break, give_way, extend, drop_dead, fail, deceased, hold_up, snuff_it, done_for, work, hold_out, get, depart, run_low, pop_off, foregone, rifle, survive, travel, pass, exit, kick_the_bucket, conk, give_out, at_peace, endure, go_away, die, get_going, go_bad, departed, at_rest, asleep, blend, expire, belong, give-up_the_ghost, live_on

  Possible Opposite Answer : stop, come, malfunction, be_born, stay_in_place

• The clue is 34. "Moonstruck" Oscar winner. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: CHER

• The clue is 36. Opposite of 'neath. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: OER

• The clue is 37. Canonized person. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: SAINT

  Possible Answer: canonize, nonsuch, ideal, paragon, apotheosis, holy_person, nonesuch, nonpareil, angel, enshrine, canonise, holy_man, saint

• The clue is 40. Make illegal. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: OUTLAW

  Possible Answer: lawless, illicit, criminal, unlawful, malefactor, illegalize, illegitimate, criminalise, illegalise, crook, outlawed, outlaw, felon, criminalize

  Possible Opposite Answer : decriminalize, legalize, decriminalise

• The clue is 41. Floral arrangement holder. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: VASE

  Possible Answer: vase

• The clue is 42. Your of yore. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: THY

• The clue is 43. Start of a donkey's bray. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: HEE

• The clue is 44. Humbly admit a mistake. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: EATCROW

• The clue is 47. Like the rightmost lane on a highway. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: SLOWEST

  Possible Answer: dense, boring, dumb, dull, deadening, wearisome, slowest, sluggish, tedious, irksome, dim, tiresome, obtuse, slow, ho-hum

  Possible Opposite Answer : fast

• The clue is 48. Italian cornmeal dish. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: POLENTA

  Possible Answer: polenta

• The clue is 49. { }, in math. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: NULLSET

• The clue is 51. Goofed (around). Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: HORSED

  Possible Answer: horse

• The clue is 53. One might be liberal in college. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: ART

  Possible Answer: prowess, artwork, art, fine_art, graphics, artistic_creation, artistic_production, nontextual_matter, artistry

• The clue is 57. Joy of daytime television. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: BEHAR

• The clue is 58. Fend (off). Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: STAVE

  Possible Answer: staff, stave_in, round, rung, stave, lag

• The clue is 59. Boxing ring boundaries. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ROPES

  Possible Answer: Mexican_valium, rophy, circle, lasso, forget_me_drug, roach, leash, roofy, R-2, rope

• The clue is 61. A whole bunch. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: LOTS

  Possible Answer: piles, flock, shell_out, mountain, scads, lots, loads, luck, parcel_out, wads, dozens, deal_out, lashings, rafts, great_deal, fate, a_lot, very_much, raft, mint, slew, mete_out, mess, caboodle, dish_out, pot, peck, oodles, pile, slews, stacks, deal, fortune, heaps, allot, wad, bunch, distribute, good_deal, mickle, dispense, destiny, band, hatful, stack, scores, Lot, plenty, mass, administer, tons, spate, dole_out, quite_a_little, tidy_sum, circle, portion, draw, passel, batch, muckle, circumstances, a_good_deal, gobs, lot, a_great_deal, much, sight, set, heap

• The clue is 63. Attempt. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: TRY

  Possible Answer: assay, try, try_out, endeavour, render, sample, essay, effort, stress, seek, examine, prove, strain, taste, hear, endeavor, test, judge, adjudicate, try_on, attempt

• The clue is 64. Soil-breaking tool. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: HOE

  Possible Answer: hoe

• The clue is 65. ___ Moines, Iowa. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: DES

  Possible Answer: stilbesterol, Diamond_State, diethylstilbestrol, stilbestrol, Delaware, DES, First_State, diethylstilbesterol, stilboestrol, DE, diethylstilboestrol

• The clue is 66. Pluralizing letter. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: ESS

  Possible Answer: einsteinium, Es, atomic_number_99, E

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Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Challenging

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🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (31 clues)

🧩 1A: "1. K-pop supergroup"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: BTS

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🧩 2A: "4. What an angry customer may leave"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

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• Pattern: _____

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Answer: NOTIP

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🧩 3A: "9. Vast Mongolian desert"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Think of something that a desert in central china
• Similar words include: Gobi Desert
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: GOBI

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🧩 4A: "13. Google.com, e.g."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

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• Think of something that the address of a web page on the world wide web
• Similar words include: universal resource locator, uniform resource locator
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: URL

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🧩 5A: "14. Sound heard before "Bless you!""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

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• Pattern: _____

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Answer: ACHOO

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🧩 6A: "15. One producing cakes and cookies"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

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• Think of something that someone who bakes commercially
• Similar words include: bread maker
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: BAKER

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🧩 7A: "16. Successful throws to the end zone"

📏 15 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

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• Pattern: _______________

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Answer: TOUCHDOWNPASSES

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🧩 8A: "19. Heinie"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Think of something that the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
• Similar words include: hindquarters, rear, nates
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: TUSH

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🧩 9A: "20. Côte d'___ (French Riviera)"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

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• Pattern: ____

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Answer: AZUR

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🧩 10A: "21. Regular 6 p.m. broadcast of daily events"

📏 14 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

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• Pattern: ______________

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Answer: THEEVENINGNEWS

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🧩 11A: "29. Regretted"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about
• Similar words include: repent, rue, regret
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: RUED

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🧩 12A: "30. ___-weenie"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

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• Pattern: ______

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Answer: TEENIE

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🧩 13A: "31. Big TV network in the U.K."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

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• Pattern: ___

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Answer: BBC

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🧩 14A: "34. Take the ___ (acquire control)"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that one of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse
• Similar words include: rule, rein in, harness
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: REINS

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🧩 15A: "37. Threadbare"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that be dressed in
• Similar words include: bear, haggard, jade
• Opposite of: refresh, new

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Answer: WORN

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🧩 16A: "38. Vans from hotels to terminals and back"

📏 15 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Pattern: _______________

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Answer: AIRPORTSHUTTLES

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🧩 17A: "42. Sports org. at the center of a 2021 antitrust ruling"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

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• Pattern: ____

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Answer: NCAA

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🧩 18A: "43. Ones crossing picket lines"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

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• Think of something that someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
• Similar words include: fink, blackleg, strikebreaker
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: SCABS

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🧩 19A: "44. Ending with lemon or orange"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

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• Think of something that a sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice
• Similar words include: fruit drink
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: ADE

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🧩 20A: "45. Rejected, as an application"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that declare untrue; contradict
• Similar words include: deny, abnegate, refuse
• Opposite of: allow, admit

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Answer: DENIED

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🧩 21A: "48. Enjoy a book or magazine"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Think of something that something that is read
• Similar words include: say, take, translate
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: READ

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🧩 22A: "50. Their are fore of them hear in this sentance"

📏 14 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______________

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Answer: SPELLINGERRORS

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🧩 23A: "55. "Gotcha""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ISEE

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🧩 24A: "56. Series of push-ups or curls at a gym"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that informal abbreviation of `representative'
• Similar words include: repp, rep
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: REPS

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🧩 25A: "58. Slogan for the Pokémon franchise ... also appropriate for 16-, 21-, 38- and 50-Across?"

📏 15 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______________

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Answer: GOTTACATCHEMALL

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🧩 26A: "65. Actress Amy or President John Quincy"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that american revolutionary leader and patriot; an organizer of the boston tea party and signer of the declaration of independence (1722-1803)
• Similar words include: John Quincy Adams, X, Samuel Adams
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: ADAMS

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🧩 27A: "66. Like the boonies"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that living in or characteristic of farming or country life
• Opposite of: urban
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: RURAL

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🧩 28A: "67. Abbreviation for an Army absence"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: MIA

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🧩 29A: "68. Mercedes-___"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: BENZ

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🧩 30A: "69. Pluckiness"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that material for starting a fire
• Similar words include: heart, punk, touchwood
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: SPUNK

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🧩 31A: "70. Place for a pig"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid
• Similar words include: eye infection, stye, hordeolum
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: STY

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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (45 clues)

🧩 1D: "1. Remainder of a cigarette"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that thick end of the handle
• Similar words include: butt against, adjoin, butt end
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: BUTT

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🧩 2D: "2. Word after rainbow or steelhead"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: TROUT

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🧩 3D: "3. Watery snow"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that partially melted snow
• Similar words include: splosh, splash, slosh around
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SLUSH

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🧩 4D: "4. "Gonna pass""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NAH

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🧩 5D: "5. Anxiety-related condition, for short"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OCD

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🧩 6D: "6. Even if, informally"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a branch of the tai languages
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: THO

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🧩 7D: "7. Des Moines denizen"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a native or resident of iowa
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: IOWAN

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🧩 8D: "8. ___ scheme (financial fraud)"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

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Answer: PONZI

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🧩 9D: "9. Purchase at a pump"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by: relatively low density and viscosity; relatively great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature; the ability to diffuse readily; and the spontaneous tendency to become distributed uniformly throughout any container
• Similar words include: gasolene, gasconade, brag
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: GAS

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🧩 10D: "10. Gives the go-ahead"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a state in south central united states
• Similar words include: Sooner State, okey, Oklahoma
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: OKS

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🧩 11D: "11. "Busy" buzzer"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: BEE

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🧩 12D: "12. Org. that orders audits"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the bureau of the treasury department responsible for tax collections
• Similar words include: Internal Revenue Service
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: IRS

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🧩 13D: "15. Flat-bottomed boat"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals)
• Similar words include: push forward, hoy, lighter
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BARGE

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🧩 14D: "17. One-named singer of "If I Could Turn Back Time""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CHER

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🧩 15D: "18. Common fourth-and-long decision"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that formerly the basic unit of money in ireland; equal to 100 pence
• Similar words include: stake, game, gage
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PUNT

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🧩 16D: "22. Currency in Lyon but not London"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the basic monetary unit of most members of the european union (introduced in 1999); in 2002 twelve european nations (germany, france, belgium, luxembourg, the netherlands, italy, spain, portugal, ireland, greece, austria, finland) adopted the euro as their basic unit of money and abandoned their traditional currencies
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: EURO

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🧩 17D: "23. Swerve"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that turn sharply; change direction abruptly
• Similar words include: slew, sheer, trend
• Opposite of: back

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Answer: VEER

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🧩 18D: "24. Does some copy desk work"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting
• Similar words include: redact, cut, delete
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EDITS

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🧩 19D: "25. Semiaquatic salamander"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of north america and europe and northern asia
• Similar words include: triton
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NEWT

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🧩 20D: "26. ___ Holmes (Sherlock's sister, on Netflix)"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ENOLA

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🧩 21D: "27. Overcaffeinated, colloquially"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that provide with electrical circuits
• Similar words include: pumped-up, pumped up, electrify
• Opposite of: unwire, wireless

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: WIRED

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🧩 22D: "28. Have a feeling"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a general conscious awareness
• Similar words include: sensory faculty, smell out, sentience
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: SENSE

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🧩 23D: "31. Lineup at Woodstock or Coachella"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an unofficial association of people or groups
• Similar words include: lot, stripe, dance band
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BANDS

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🧩 24D: "32. Muscle used in pull-ups, informally"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BICEP

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🧩 25D: "33. Basic bird made in origami"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that united states writer (1871-1900)
• Similar words include: Harold Hart Crane, stretch out, Stephen Crane
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CRANE

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🧩 26D: "35. Situation Room grp."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security; supervises the central intelligence agency
• Similar words include: National Security Council
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NSC

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🧩 27D: "36. What two toddlers should learn to do"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
• Similar words include: partake in, part, partake
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SHARE

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🧩 28D: "39. Aid in making a sandcastle"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top
• Similar words include: bucket, pailful
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PAIL

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🧩 29D: "40. Lyft rival"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: UBER

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🧩 30D: "41. Bygone Russian ruler"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a male monarch or emperor (especially of russia prior to 1917)
• Similar words include: tzar, czar
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TSAR

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🧩 31D: "46. Man's name that is an anagram of AISLE"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that english essayist (1775-1834)
• Similar words include: Charles Lamb, Elia, Lamb
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ELIAS

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🧩 32D: "47. Kind of golf that uses baskets instead of holes"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
• Similar words include: phonograph recording, saucer, platter
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DISC

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🧩 33D: "49. Housing on a college quad"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a college or university building containing living quarters for students
• Similar words include: hall, dormitory, residence hall
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DORM

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🧩 34D: "51. Gets closer"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that move towards
• Similar words include: come near, come on, approach
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NEARS

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🧩 35D: "52. Elaborate outfit"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a set of clothing (with accessories)
• Similar words include: rig, outfit, turnout
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GETUP

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🧩 36D: "53. Quantities of paper"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a large quantity of written matter
• Similar words include: ream
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: REAMS

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🧩 37D: "54. Treat with bananas and ice cream"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back)
• Similar words include: divide, separate, disconnected
• Opposite of: unite

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SPLIT

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🧩 38D: "57. Kill it, in a good way"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that kill intentionally and with premeditation
• Similar words include: dispatch, bump off, polish off
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SLAY

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🧩 39D: "58. Gossip, gossip, gossip"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that light informal conversation for social occasions
• Similar words include: chit-chat, yak, small talk
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GAB

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🧩 40D: "59. Positive poem"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ODE

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🧩 41D: "60. Something to pick up at a beach?"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun
• Similar words include: topaz, bronze, sunburn
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TAN

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🧩 42D: "61. Celebrity gossip website"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TMZ

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🧩 43D: "62. Word on a French wine label"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CRU

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🧩 44D: "63. ___ Solo of "Star Wars""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that imperial dynasty that ruled china (most of the time from 206 bc to ad 220) and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy; remembered as one of the great eras of chinese civilization
• Similar words include: Han dynasty
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HAN

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🧩 45D: "64. Animal with a fraternal order named after it"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in europe and `moose' in north america
• Similar words include: European elk, Cervus elaphus, wapiti
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ELK

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🧠 Expert Solving Strategies

🎯 Start Smart

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45 Down Clues

76 Total Clues

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