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- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (32 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (30 clues)
- Down Clues - Detailed Hints
- Expert Solving Strategies
- Today's Puzzle Statistics
Today's Puzzle Difficulty: Tricky
Pro Tip: Start with the fill-in-the-blank clues - they're usually the easiest entry points!
Across Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1A | 1. Possible turnoff on a first date | 9 |
| 2A | 10. Spicy shellfish dish | 11 |
| 3A | 12. Yellow 5 and Red 40, for two | 13 |
| 4A | 14. City SE of Chicago | 4 |
| 5A | 15. "Cool beans!" | 5 |
| 6A | 16. Grub | 4 |
| 7A | 18. "Knowing" without really knowing, for short | 3 |
| 8A | 19. Shade of the gay pride triangle | 7 |
| 9A | 21. Cry in many a horror film | 3 |
| 10A | 22. Actress Birch of "Hocus Pocus" | 5 |
| 11A | 24. Robert Byrd was one for 51 years: Abbr. | 3 |
| 12A | 25. Abstain from | 5 |
| 13A | 27. Philippic | 6 |
| 14A | 29. Connect to the internet via mobile hotspot, as a device | 6 |
| 15A | 30. Subs | 7 |
| 16A | 32. Home heating component | 7 |
| 17A | 33. Dub | 7 |
| 18A | 34. Board of creatives? | 7 |
| 19A | 35. Countenance | 4 |
| 20A | 36. Ready to dive in, say | 5 |
| 21A | 38. Streamlet | 4 |
| 22A | 39. Ticker tape?: Abbr. | 3 |
| 23A | 40. First, second or third | 7 |
| 24A | 42. "___ won't!" | 3 |
| 25A | 43. Shift shape | 5 |
| 26A | 45. They travel through tubes | 3 |
| 27A | 46. "Dang it!" | 5 |
| 28A | 48. Gluttonous request ... or what this puzzle has vis-à-vis the possible answer lengths? | 15 |
| 29A | 51. Obtain | 6 |
| 30A | 52. Morning prayer | 6 |
| 31A | 53. Doorbell sounds | 5 |
| 32A | 54. Weapon that killed Medusa, in myth | 5 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Possible turnoff on a first date"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: BADBREATH
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2A: "10. Spicy shellfish dish"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: CURRIEDCRAB
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3A: "12. Yellow 5 and Red 40, for two"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: FOODADDITIVES
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4A: "14. City SE of Chicago"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a city in northwest indiana on lake michigan; steel production
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GARY
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5A: "15. "Cool beans!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NEATO
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6A: "16. Grub"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that informal terms for a meal
- Similar words include: wipe out, feed, eat on
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EATS
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7A: "18. "Knowing" without really knowing, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses
- Similar words include: clairvoyance, second sight, E.S.P.
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ESP
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8A: "19. Shade of the gay pride triangle"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: HOTPINK
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9A: "21. Cry in many a horror film"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely
- Similar words include: extend, running play, prevail
- Opposite of: idle, malfunction
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Answer: RUN
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10A: "22. Actress Birch of "Hocus Pocus""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: THORA
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11A: "24. Robert Byrd was one for 51 years: Abbr."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a fractional monetary unit of japan and indonesia and cambodia; equal to one hundredth of a yen or rupiah or riel
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SEN
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12A: "25. Abstain from"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NOTDO
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13A: "27. Philippic"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a speech of violent denunciation
- Similar words include: philippic, broadside
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TIRADE
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14A: "29. Connect to the internet via mobile hotspot, as a device"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
- Similar words include: lead, leash
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TETHER
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15A: "30. Subs"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the united states
- Similar words include: torpedo, poor boy, submarine
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: HOAGIES
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16A: "32. Home heating component"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: OILTANK
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17A: "33. Dub"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that give the right to
- Similar words include: ennoble, title, gentle
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ENTITLE
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18A: "34. Board of creatives?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the range of colour characteristic of a particular artist or painting or school of art
- Similar words include: pallet, pallette
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: PALETTE
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19A: "35. Countenance"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that dignified manner or conduct
- Similar words include: comportment, bearing, presence
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MIEN
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20A: "36. Ready to dive in, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a high wave (often dangerous) caused by tidal flow (as by colliding tidal currents or in a narrow estuary)
- Similar words include: aegir, bore, eagre
- Opposite of: uneager
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Answer: EAGER
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21A: "38. Streamlet"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small stream
- Similar words include: rivulet, run, runnel
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RILL
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22A: "39. Ticker tape?: Abbr."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a graphical recording of the cardiac cycle produced by an electrocardiograph
- Similar words include: electrocardiogram, cardiogram, EKG
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ECG
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23A: "40. First, second or third"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the number designating place in an ordered sequence
- Similar words include: ordinal number, no.
- Opposite of: cardinal
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Answer: ORDINAL
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24A: "42. "___ won't!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NOI
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25A: "43. Shift shape"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cause to change shape in a computer animation
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MORPH
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26A: "45. They travel through tubes"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the female reproductive cell; the female gamete
- Similar words include: ovum, egg cell
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OVA
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27A: "46. "Dang it!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AWMAN
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28A: "48. Gluttonous request ... or what this puzzle has vis-à-vis the possible answer lengths?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: ONEOFEVERYTHING
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29A: "51. Obtain"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that get by special effort
- Similar words include: guarantee, unattackable, safe
- Opposite of: insecure, unfasten
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Answer: SECURE
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30A: "52. Morning prayer"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the first canonical hour; at daybreak
- Similar words include: morning prayer
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: MATINS
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31A: "53. Doorbell sounds"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the basic unit of money in vietnam
- Similar words include: dong, dingdong, ding
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DONGS
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32A: "54. Weapon that killed Medusa, in myth"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
- Similar words include: steel, blade, brand
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SWORD
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Harbor bobber | 4 |
| 2D | 2. Wiz end? | 3 |
| 3D | 3. Alternative to a snake | 5 |
| 4D | 4. Fancy hotel amenities | 6 |
| 5D | 5. Orangutan, by another name | 6 |
| 6D | 6. Include later, as video footage | 6 |
| 7D | 7. Heed | 5 |
| 8D | 8. Part of TNT | 3 |
| 9D | 9. Order at a restaurant | 4 |
| 10D | 10. Creator of some bubbles | 14 |
| 11D | 11. "Remember ..." | 14 |
| 12D | 12. Audrey Hepburn and Princess Diana, for two | 12 |
| 13D | 13. Some of them may be forgiven | 12 |
| 14D | 14. Be looped in | 10 |
| 15D | 17. School viewing? | 10 |
| 16D | 19. Lost all patience | 5 |
| 17D | 20. Mourning peal | 5 |
| 18D | 23. ___ Cajun (Creole sauce with a rhyming name) | 5 |
| 19D | 26. Cousin of a wolverine | 5 |
| 20D | 28. Pot user? | 5 |
| 21D | 29. Article of regalia worn by both Elizabeth II and Pope Paul VI | 5 |
| 22D | 31. Birds also known as "little auks" | 8 |
| 23D | 32. Sign of good reception? | 8 |
| 24D | 37. Present | 4 |
| 25D | 40. "Well, whoop-de-doo!" | 5 |
| 26D | 41. Rapper with the 2022 hit "Big Energy" | 5 |
| 27D | 44. Not mucho | 4 |
| 28D | 47. Sound from fans | 4 |
| 29D | 49. A little work | 3 |
| 30D | 50. Pitch, roll and ___ (rotations along the three-dimensional axes) | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Harbor bobber"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that bright-colored; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards
- Similar words include: buoy up
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BUOY
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2D: "2. Wiz end?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ARD
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3D: "3. Alternative to a snake"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DRANO
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4D: "4. Fancy hotel amenities"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a basin for washing genitals and anal area
- Similar words include: bidet
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BIDETS
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5D: "5. Orangutan, by another name"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: REDAPE
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6D: "6. Include later, as video footage"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: EDITIN
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7D: "7. Heed"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ACTON
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8D: "8. Part of TNT"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TRI
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9D: "9. Order at a restaurant"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who possesses great material wealth
- Similar words include: own, cause, take
- Opposite of: refuse, lack
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Answer: HAVE
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10D: "10. Creator of some bubbles"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______________
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Answer: CORPORATEGREED
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11D: "11. "Remember ...""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______________
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Answer: BEARTHATINMIND
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12D: "12. Audrey Hepburn and Princess Diana, for two"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: FASHIONICONS
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13D: "13. Some of them may be forgiven"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____________
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Answer: STUDENTLOANS
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14D: "14. Be looped in"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: GETTHEMEMO
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15D: "17. School viewing?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that skin diving with a snorkel
- Similar words include: snorkel diving, snorkel
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: SNORKELING
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16D: "19. Lost all patience"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HADIT
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17D: "20. Mourning peal"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something
- Similar words include: ring
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: KNELL
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18D: "23. ___ Cajun (Creole sauce with a rhyming name)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RAGIN
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19D: "26. Cousin of a wolverine"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the fur of an otter
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OTTER
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20D: "28. Pot user?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EELER
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21D: "29. Article of regalia worn by both Elizabeth II and Pope Paul VI"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a jeweled headdress worn by women on formal occasions
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TIARA
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22D: "31. Birds also known as "little auks""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: SEADOVES
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23D: "32. Sign of good reception?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: OPENARMS
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24D: "37. Present"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length
- Similar words include: springiness, spring, collapse
- Opposite of: starve, take
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Answer: GIVE
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25D: "40. "Well, whoop-de-doo!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OHFUN
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26D: "41. Rapper with the 2022 hit "Big Energy""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LATTO
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27D: "44. Not mucho"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: POCO
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28D: "47. Sound from fans"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that sound of something in rapid motion
- Similar words include: birr, whiz, purr
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: WHIR
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29D: "49. A little work"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a cgs unit of work or energy; the work done by a force of one dyne acting over a distance of one centimeter
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ERG
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30D: "50. Pitch, roll and ___ (rotations along the three-dimensional axes)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an erratic deflection from an intended course
- Similar words include: gape, swerve, yawn
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: YAW
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Expert Solving Strategies
Start Smart
Begin with fill-in-the-blank clues and short 3-4 letter words. These are your foundation.
Decode the Clues
Question marks indicate wordplay or puns. "Maybe" suggests multiple interpretations.
Use Cross-References
Let intersecting letters guide you. One correct answer unlocks several others.
Build Vocabulary
Common crossword words repeat. Learning them speeds up future solving.
Today's Puzzle Stats
32 Across Clues
30 Down Clues
62 Total Clues
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