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Date: Saturday, November 14, 2020
Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 70 (31 Across, 39 Down)
Average Word Length: 5.6 letters
November 14, 2020 Across Hints: NYT Saturday Crossword Answers
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. Discusses | 8 |
| 2A | 9. Proceed down the runway, perhaps | 6 |
| 3A | 15. Polish, say | 8 |
| 4A | 16. Sharp | 6 |
| 5A | 17. Working as a go-between | 8 |
| 6A | 18. Literally, "art-doer" | 6 |
| 7A | 19. Achilles, for example | 6 |
| 8A | 21. Pines | 5 |
| 9A | 22. "All ___ are civil ___, because all men are brothers" (quote attributed to François Fénelon) | 4 |
| 10A | 25. For whom the ravens Huginn and Muninn collect intel, in legend | 4 |
| 11A | 27. Lane hugger? | 4 |
| 12A | 28. California roll ingredient | 7 |
| 13A | 31. Religious observance | 7 |
| 14A | 33. Assembly line feature | 8 |
| 15A | 35. "___ the Wizard" (show tune) | 3 |
| 16A | 36. "My Violent Evil Monster Just Scared Us Nuts" and others | 15 |
| 17A | 41. Swan song | 3 |
| 18A | 42. Me time, say | 8 |
| 19A | 43. Countless | 7 |
| 20A | 47. Attachment to a car's dashboard | 7 |
| 21A | 48. Stick: Sp. | 4 |
| 22A | 49. Late actress Diana of "Game of Thrones" | 4 |
| 23A | 51. Parliament votes | 4 |
| 24A | 52. High dudgeon | 5 |
| 25A | 54. See for a bit | 6 |
| 26A | 57. "Kimigayo," in Japan | 6 |
| 27A | 59. Comic actor who played Sir Robin and Harry the Haggler | 8 |
| 28A | 63. 62-Down part | 6 |
| 29A | 64. Fresh bread? | 8 |
| 30A | 65. Formal | 6 |
| 31A | 66. Turn off | 8 |
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. Discusses"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ________
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The answer is: GOESINTO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "9. Proceed down the runway, perhaps"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a square dance figure; partners circle each other taking sideways steps
- Words that mean the same thing: tittup, sidle, strut
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SASHAY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Across: "15. Polish, say"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a native or inhabitant of europe
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EUROPEAN
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Clue 4 Across: "16. Sharp"
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 marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
- Words that mean the same thing: sharp, shrewd
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ASTUTE
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Clue 5 Across: "17. Working as a go-between"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that act between parties with a view to reconciling differences
- Words that mean the same thing: mediate, intermediate, arbitrate
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LIAISING
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Clue 6 Across: "18. Literally, "art-doer""
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about history.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing
- Words that mean the same thing: geisha girl
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GEISHA
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Clue 7 Across: "19. Achilles, for example"
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 a cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle with its bony attachment
- Words that mean the same thing: sinew
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TENDON
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Clue 8 Across: "21. Pines"
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 dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain
- Words that mean the same thing: aching, pine, yen
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ACHES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Across: "22. "All ___ are civil ___, because all men are brothers" (quote attributed to François Fénelon)"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the waging of armed conflict against an enemy
- Words that mean the same thing: war, warfare, state of war
- The opposite would be: make peace, peace
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: WARS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Across: "25. For whom the ravens Huginn and Muninn collect intel, in legend"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that (norse mythology) ruler of the aesir; supreme god of war and poetry and knowledge and wisdom (for which he gave an eye) and husband of frigg; identified with the teutonic wotan
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ODIN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "27. Lane hugger?"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a county in southeastern england on the english channel; formerly an anglo-saxon kingdom, it was the first to be colonized by the romans
- Words that mean the same thing: Rockwell Kent
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: KENT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "28. California roll ingredient"
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 pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed
- Words that mean the same thing: avocado pear, aguacate, Persea Americana
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AVOCADO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "31. Religious observance"
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: HOLYDAY
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Clue 14 Across: "33. Assembly line feature"
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: ROBOTARM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "35. "___ the Wizard" (show tune)"
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 very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; the most difficult gas to liquefy; occurs in economically extractable amounts in certain natural gases (as those found in texas and kansas)
- Words that mean the same thing: he, helium, He
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "36. "My Violent Evil Monster Just Scared Us Nuts" and others"
Quick Info: This answer has 15 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: MNEMONICDEVICES
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Clue 17 Across: "41. Swan song"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about music.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that either extremity of something that has length
- Words that mean the same thing: stop, cease, close
- The opposite would be: beginning, begin
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: END
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Clue 18 Across: "42. Me time, say"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a state of social isolation
- Words that mean the same thing: purdah
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SOLITUDE
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Clue 19 Across: "43. Countless"
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 innumerable but many
- Words that mean the same thing: umteen
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: UMPTEEN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "47. Attachment to a car's dashboard"
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: GPSUNIT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "48. Stick: Sp."
Quick Info: This answer has 4 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: PALO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "49. Late actress Diana of "Game of Thrones""
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about celebrity/entertainment.
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: RIGG
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "51. Parliament votes"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 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: AYES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "52. High dudgeon"
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 intense anger (usually on an epic scale)
- Words that mean the same thing: anger, ira, ire
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: WRATH
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "54. See for a bit"
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: PEEKAT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "57. "Kimigayo," in Japan"
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 a song of devotion or loyalty (as to a nation or school)
- Words that mean the same thing: hymn
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ANTHEM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "59. Comic actor who played Sir Robin and Harry the Haggler"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a expert clue about celebrity/entertainment.
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: ERICIDLE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "63. 62-Down part"
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 innermost light-sensitive membrane covering the back wall of the eyeball; it is continuous with the optic nerve
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RETINA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "64. Fresh bread?"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 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: NEWMONEY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "65. Formal"
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 in fancy clothing
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DRESSY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "66. Turn off"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness
- Words that mean the same thing: estrange, disaffect, alien
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ALIENATE
Great job if you got it right!
November 14, 2020 Saturday NYT - All Down Answers
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. It might be hair-raising | 3 |
| 2D | 2. Parlement vote | 3 |
| 3D | 3. Historian's specialty, perhaps | 3 |
| 4D | 4. "I see you've left me no choice" | 15 |
| 5D | 5. ___ dixit | 4 |
| 6D | 6. Bundestag vote | 4 |
| 7D | 7. Adjective on an Indian menu | 8 |
| 8D | 8. "I swear!" | 5 |
| 9D | 9. Concern about an old sofa | 3 |
| 10D | 10. Unmoored, in a way | 4 |
| 11D | 11. Predicament | 15 |
| 12D | 12. Quieted down | 6 |
| 13D | 13. Mythical figure associated with snakes | 6 |
| 14D | 14. Like some bread and beer | 6 |
| 15D | 20. Research org. in Bethesda | 3 |
| 16D | 22. Getting close, perhaps | 4 |
| 17D | 23. Bath water? | 4 |
| 18D | 24. Cover-up in court | 4 |
| 19D | 26. Totally useless | 6 |
| 20D | 29. Do makeup? | 5 |
| 21D | 30. Something to sneeze at? | 6 |
| 22D | 32. Brand with a classic "501 Blues" ad campaign | 5 |
| 23D | 34. Roast V.I.P.s | 3 |
| 24D | 37. Crude verse | 8 |
| 25D | 38. Big Apple sch. system | 4 |
| 26D | 39. 1960s "It Girl" Sedgwick | 4 |
| 27D | 40. Preceders of spikes, in volleyball | 4 |
| 28D | 43. Rising | 6 |
| 29D | 44. Eliot hero | 6 |
| 30D | 45. Tributary of the Missouri | 6 |
| 31D | 46. Chill | 3 |
| 32D | 50. Davis of Hollywood | 5 |
| 33D | 53. ___ teeth (rarity) | 4 |
| 34D | 55. New Zealand demonym | 4 |
| 35D | 56. Very top | 4 |
| 36D | 58. When the National Day of Prayer is celebrated | 3 |
| 37D | 60. Forensic science subject | 3 |
| 38D | 61. Diminutive suffix | 3 |
| 39D | 62. Body part with a 63-Across | 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. It might be hair-raising"
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 colloid in a more solid form than a sol
- Words that mean the same thing: colloidal gel, gelatin, mousse
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GEL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. Parlement vote"
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: OUI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. Historian's specialty, perhaps"
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 period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
- Words that mean the same thing: epoch, earned run average, geological era
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ERA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. "I see you've left me no choice""
Quick Info: This answer has 15 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: SOITSCOMETOTHIS
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Clue 5 Down: "5. ___ dixit"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 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: IPSE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Down: "6. Bundestag vote"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 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: NEIN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Down: "7. Adjective on an Indian menu"
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: TANDOORI
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Clue 8 Down: "8. "I swear!""
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: ONGOD
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Down: "9. Concern about an old sofa"
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 shape that sags
- Words that mean the same thing: swag, flag, sag down
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SAG
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Clue 10 Down: "10. Unmoored, in a way"
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 in the direction of the sea
- Words that mean the same thing: seaward, seawards
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ASEA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. Predicament"
Quick Info: This answer has 15 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: STICKYSITUATION
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. Quieted down"
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 become quiet or still; fall silent
- Words that mean the same thing: silence, quiesce, shut up
- The opposite would be: louden
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HUSHED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Down: "13. Mythical figure associated with snakes"
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 (greek mythology) goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare; guardian of athens; identified with roman minerva
- Words that mean the same thing: Pallas Athena, Athene, Pallas Athene
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ATHENA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Down: "14. Like some bread and beer"
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 of or resembling or containing yeast
- Words that mean the same thing: barmy, zesty, yeastlike
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: YEASTY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Down: "20. Research org. in Bethesda"
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 agency in the department of health and human services whose mission is to employ science in the pursuit of knowledge to improve human health; is the principal biomedical research agency of the federal government
- Words that mean the same thing: National Institutes of Health
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NIH
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Down: "22. Getting close, perhaps"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that get warm or warmer
- Words that mean the same thing: tender, warmly, fond
- The opposite would be: cool
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: WARM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Down: "23. Bath water?"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a river in southwestern england rising in gloucestershire and flowing through bristol to empty into the estuary of the severn
- Words that mean the same thing: Upper Avon River, Upper Avon, River Avon
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AVON
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Down: "24. Cover-up in court"
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 any loose flowing garment
- Words that mean the same thing: cloak, gown, drape
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ROBE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Down: "26. Totally useless"
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: NOHELP
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Clue 20 Down: "29. Do makeup?"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that make amends for
- Words that mean the same thing: expiate, aby, repent
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ATONE
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Clue 21 Down: "30. Something to sneeze at?"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that small scales from animal skins or hair or bird feathers that can cause allergic reactions in some people
- Words that mean the same thing: hackles
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DANDER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Down: "32. Brand with a classic "501 Blues" ad campaign"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a popular brand of jeans
- Words that mean the same thing: Matthew, St. Matthew the Apostle, Levi
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LEVIS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Down: "34. Roast V.I.P.s"
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 one million periods per second
- Words that mean the same thing: MHz, Mc, megahertz
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: MCS
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Clue 24 Down: "37. Crude verse"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a comic verse of irregular measure
- Words that mean the same thing: doggerel verse, jingle
- The word looks like this: ________
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The answer is: DOGGEREL
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Clue 25 Down: "38. Big Apple sch. system"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 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: CUNY
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Clue 26 Down: "39. 1960s "It Girl" Sedgwick"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 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: EDIE
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Clue 27 Down: "40. Preceders of spikes, in volleyball"
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 group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
- Words that mean the same thing: determine, arrange, lay out
- The opposite would be: rise
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The answer is: SETS
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Clue 28 Down: "43. Rising"
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 directed up
- Words that mean the same thing: upwardly, up, upwards
- The opposite would be: downwards, downwardly
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The answer is: UPWARD
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Clue 29 Down: "44. Eliot hero"
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: MARNER
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Clue 30 Down: "45. Tributary of the Missouri"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a river in nebraska that flows eastward to become a tributary of the missouri river
- Words that mean the same thing: Platte River
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: PLATTE
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Clue 31 Down: "46. Chill"
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 small drink of liquor
- Words that mean the same thing: pinch, Jap, relish
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: NIP
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Clue 32 Down: "50. Davis of Hollywood"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about movies/film.
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- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: GEENA
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Clue 33 Down: "53. ___ teeth (rarity)"
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 adult female chicken
- Words that mean the same thing: hen, biddy
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: HENS
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Clue 34 Down: "55. New Zealand demonym"
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 climbing vine native to china; cultivated in new zealand for its fuzzy edible fruit with green meat
- Words that mean the same thing: kiwi fruit, Actinidia chinensis, Chinese gooseberry
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: KIWI
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Clue 35 Down: "56. Very top"
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 the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- Words that mean the same thing: pinnacle, peak, height
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: ACME
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Clue 36 Down: "58. When the National Day of Prayer is celebrated"
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 the month following april and preceding june
- Words that mean the same thing: Crataegus laevigata, whitethorn, Crataegus oxycantha
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: MAY
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Clue 37 Down: "60. Forensic science subject"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about science/technology.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that (biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transmission of genetic information
- Words that mean the same thing: deoxyribonucleic acid, desoxyribonucleic acid
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: DNA
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Clue 38 Down: "61. Diminutive suffix"
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 brutal terrorist group active in kashmir; fights against india with the goal of restoring islamic rule of india
- Words that mean the same thing: get, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, Lashkar-e-Taiba
- The opposite would be: disallow, forbid
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The answer is: LET
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Clue 39 Down: "62. Body part with a 63-Across"
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 the organ of sight
- Words that mean the same thing: heart, oculus, optic
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: EYE
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 53 | 75.7% |
| Short Answer | 11 | 15.7% |
| Celebrity/Entertainment | 2 | 2.9% |
| History | 1 | 1.4% |
| Music | 1 | 1.4% |
| Movies/Film | 1 | 1.4% |
| Science/Technology | 1 | 1.4% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 31 |
| Down Clues | 39 |
| Total Clues | 70 |
| Average Answer Length | 5.6 letters |
| Shortest Answer | 3 letters |
| Longest Answer | 15 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 21, 2025 at 08:41 AM
