27449 Mon Jan 06, 2025 NY Times Crossword Clues Hints

Break down the NYT Crosswords: January 06, 2025

Let's go into the puzzle, starting with the across clues and answers, followed by the down clues and answers.

 Mon Jan 06, 2025 NY Times Crossword Clues

Across Clues with Answers:

• The clue is 1. Supersonic speed number. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: MACH

  Possible Answer : Ernst_Mach, Mach




• The clue is 5. Cookies that are sometimes dunked in milk. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OREOS

  Possible Answer : oreo_cookie, oreo




• The clue is 10. Whole lot. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SCAD

  Possible Answer : scad




• The clue is 14. Cousin of a clarinet. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OBOE

  Possible Answer : hautboy, oboe, hautbois




• The clue is 15. What "duty-free" means. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: NOTAX




• The clue is 16. Westover with the best-selling memoir "Educated". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TARA

  Possible Answer : Tara




• The clue is 17. Theatrical description. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (15 letters)

  The answer: CHARACTERSKETCH




• The clue is 20. Position of greatest stress. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: HOTSEAT




• The clue is 21. "Campbell's Soup Cans" painter. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: WARHOL

  Possible Answer : Andy_Warhol, Warhol




• The clue is 22. "___ longa, vita brevis". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ARS

  Possible Answer : ar, atomic_number_18, argon, Land_of_Opportunity, are, Ar, AR, Arkansas




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

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

  The answer: SLEDS

  Possible Answer : sledge, sleigh, sled




• The clue is 26. Follower of double-you, ex, wye. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ZEE

  Possible Answer : zed, Z, zee, ezed, z, izzard




• The clue is 27. Dog crossbreed known for its teddy bear appearance. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (12 letters)

  The answer: GOLDENDOODLE




• The clue is 31. Recovered from a fall. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: GOTUP




• The clue is 34. Modern anxiety source, in brief. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: FOMO




• The clue is 35. Small cove. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: RIA




• The clue is 36. Applications. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: USES

  Possible Answer : apply, use_of_goods_and_services, U.S., United_States_of_America, employment, the_States, purpose, usage, US, employ, U.S.A., enjoyment, habituate, utilisation, practice, utilization, exercise, manipulation, utilise, habit, function, role, USA, use, usance, economic_consumption, United_States, America, expend, consumption, utilize




• The clue is 37. Sandwiches that often contain tuna. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: MELTS

  Possible Answer : melt_down, thawing, meld, mellow_out, melting, dissolve, dethaw, fade, unthaw, mellow, unfreeze, disappear, melt, evaporate, thaw, run




• The clue is 39. Overnight ___ (breakfast option). Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OATS

  Possible Answer : oat




• The clue is 40. Brewery offering. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ALE

  Possible Answer : ale




• The clue is 41. Crimson Tide univ.. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: BAMA




• The clue is 42. Large cove. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: INLET

  Possible Answer : inlet, recess, intake




• The clue is 43. Track exposures to a disease, as an epidemiologist might. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (12 letters)

  The answer: CONTACTTRACE




• The clue is 47. Hosp. V.I.P.s. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: DRS




• The clue is 48. Note on a failed test, maybe. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SEEME




• The clue is 49. Ball club V.I.P.s. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: GMS

  Possible Answer : gm, gramme, g, gram




• The clue is 52. Valiant. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: HEROIC

  Possible Answer : heroical, heroic, desperate, heroic_meter, larger-than-life, heroic_verse, epic, grand, expansive




• The clue is 55. Amy who voiced Joy in "Inside Out". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: POEHLER




• The clue is 57. Use deductive reasoning ... or a hint to what 17-, 27- and 43-Across all have. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (15 letters)

  The answer: DRAWCONCLUSIONS




• The clue is 60. Proctor's cry at the end of a test. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TIME

  Possible Answer : fourth_dimension, clock, meter, prison_term, time, clock_time, metre, sentence, clip




• The clue is 61. South Korea's second-largest city. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: BUSAN




• The clue is 62. Actor Esparza. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: RAUL




• The clue is 63. Calf's meat. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: VEAL

  Possible Answer : veau, veal




• The clue is 64. Stretch of work. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: STINT

  Possible Answer : stint, skimp, Erolia_minutilla, scant, least_sandpiper, stretch, scrimp




• The clue is 65. Custom gift site. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ETSY

Down Clues and Answers:

• The clue is 1. Chocolaty coffee drink. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: MOCHA

  Possible Answer: mocha_coffee, mocha

• The clue is 2. Despise. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ABHOR

  Possible Answer: execrate, abominate, abhor, loathe

• The clue is 3. Nail polish layers. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: COATS

  Possible Answer: pelage, surface, coat, coating, cake

• The clue is 4. His and ___. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: HERS

• The clue is 5. Available if needed. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ONCALL

• The clue is 6. Went bad. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ROTTED

  Possible Answer: rot, waste, molder, rotted, rotten, decompose, moulder, decayed

• The clue is 7. Saison of the 2024 Paris Olympics. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ETE

• The clue is 8. Rower's blade. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OAR

  Possible Answer: oar

• The clue is 9. Annual festival in Austin, Tex.. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SXSW

• The clue is 10. Sound system. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: STEREO

  Possible Answer: stereo_system, stereoscopic_photograph, stereophonic, stereophonic_system, two-channel, stereoscopic_picture, stereo, stereophony

• The clue is 11. Paris's Notre-Dame, for one. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: CATHEDRAL

  Possible Answer: cathedral, duomo

• The clue is 12. West Coast gas brand. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ARCO

  Possible Answer: arco

• The clue is 13. Roald who wrote "Matilda" and "The BFG". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: DAHL

  Possible Answer: Cajanus_cajan, red_gram, pigeon_pea, dhal, pigeon-pea_plant, catjang_pea, cajan_pea, dahl

• The clue is 18. "The Tortoise and the Hare" author. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: AESOP

  Possible Answer: Aesop

• The clue is 19. Instrument that may be included in a birthday goodie bag. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: KAZOO

  Possible Answer: kazoo

• The clue is 24. Take down, as a bouncy house. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: DEFLATE

  Possible Answer: deflate, puncture

  Possible Opposite Answer : inflate

• The clue is 25. Arrogant sort. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SNOT

  Possible Answer: snot, snob, snoot, prig

• The clue is 27. "Gloomy" fellow. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: GUS

  Possible Answer: GU, Guam

• The clue is 28. Chats with on Insta. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: DMS

  Possible Answer: DM, decimetre, diabetes_mellitus, decimeter, dm

• The clue is 29. Lo-cal. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: LITE

  Possible Answer: light, low-cal, calorie-free, lite

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

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

  The answer: EAST

  Possible Answer: eastward, eastern_United_States, due_east, East, E, Orient, east

  Possible Opposite Answer : west

• The clue is 31. One layer in a seven-layer dip, informally. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: GUAC

• The clue is 32. Norway's capital. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OSLO

  Possible Answer: Oslo, capital_of_Norway, Christiania

• The clue is 33. "Riverdale" or "XO, Kitty". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TEENDRAMA

• The clue is 37. ___ and cheese. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: MAC

  Possible Answer: mackintosh, mac, mack, macintosh

• The clue is 38. Ambulance personnel, in brief. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: EMTS

• The clue is 39. Start of a count. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ONE

  Possible Answer: single, one, unitary, one_and_only, peerless, unmatched, unrivalled, nonpareil, unmatchable, unity, i, unrivaled, ace, ane, matchless, 1, I

• The clue is 41. >7 on the pH scale. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: BASIC

  Possible Answer: basic, canonical, canonic, BASIC, introductory, staple

  Possible Opposite Answer : incidental

• The clue is 42. Colorful summer drinks. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ICEES

  Possible Answer: ice, frost

• The clue is 44. Gardener's tool. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TROWEL

  Possible Answer: trowel

• The clue is 45. Come up with a new schedule. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: REPLAN

• The clue is 46. Quantity. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: AMOUNT

  Possible Answer: sum, measure, amount, amount_of_money, sum_of_money, total, quantity, number, come, add_up

• The clue is 49. Show bad sportsmanship, in a way. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: GLOAT

  Possible Answer: crow, gloat, triumph, gloating, glee

• The clue is 50. Kids might be given these with crayons. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: MENUS

  Possible Answer: fare, computer_menu, carte, carte_du_jour, bill_of_fare, menu, card

• The clue is 51. "r u kidding?!". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SRSLY

• The clue is 52. Flat-screen, say. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: HDTV

  Possible Answer: high-definition_television, HDTV

• The clue is 53. Scary-sounding Great Lake. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ERIE

  Possible Answer: Lake_Erie, Erie

• The clue is 54. Corn waste. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: COBS

  Possible Answer: cobnut, Larus_marinus, great_black-backed_gull, black-backed_gull, filbert, hazelnut, cob

• The clue is 56. Bring on, as workers. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: HIRE

  Possible Answer: hire, employ, rent, take, engage, lease, charter

  Possible Opposite Answer : fire

• The clue is 58. Pecan or pistachio. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: NUT

  Possible Answer: ballock, testis, en, addict, fruitcake, ball, nut_case, bollock, testicle, orchis, junkie, nut, screwball, crackpot, Nut, crank, freak, egg, junky

• The clue is 59. CBS procedural that ran for 15 seasons. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: CSI

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Across Clues and Answers (37)

Clue #1: 1. "Don't love it, don't hate it"

3-letter answer Answer: MEH

Clue #2: 4. "It's just one of ___ days"

5-letter answer Answer: THOSE

Clue #3: 9. Prickly plants

5-letter answer Answer: CACTI

Word Help: Synonyms: cactus

Clue #4: 14. "Without further ___ …"

3-letter answer Answer: ADO

Word Help: Synonyms: ado, stir, bustle

Clue #5: 15. Crossed one's fingers

5-letter answer Answer: HOPED

Word Help: Synonyms: skip, hop, trust
Antonyms: despair

Clue #6: 16. Constellation with a belt

5-letter answer Answer: ORION

Word Help: Synonyms: Orion, Hunter

Clue #7: 17. Grab a chair

3-letter answer Answer: SIT

Word Help: Synonyms: seat, sit_around, pose
Antonyms: stand, arise

Clue #8: 18. "Go fly a kite!"

11-letter answer Answer: EATMYSHORTS

Clue #9: 20. Skewered meat dish

5-letter answer Answer: KEBAB

Word Help: Synonyms: kabob, shish_kebab, kebab

Clue #10: 22. "Nature of a ___" (1991 Queen Latifah album)

5-letter answer Answer: SISTA

Clue #11: 23. One pouncing at a laser pointer, perhaps

3-letter answer Answer: CAT

Word Help: Synonyms: honk, barf, vomit
Antonyms: keep_down

Clue #12: 24. Thick noodle in Japanese soups

4-letter answer Answer: UDON

Clue #13: 26. Grandma, in Guatemala

6-letter answer Answer: ABUELA

Clue #14: 28. "Pipe down!"

12-letter answer Answer: PUTASOCKINIT

Clue #15: 33. Like the name Parker, for a valet

3-letter answer Answer: APT

Word Help: Synonyms: pertinent, given, tending

Clue #16: 34. Thyme piece

5-letter answer Answer: SPRIG

Word Help: Synonyms: twig, sprig, branchlet

Clue #17: 35. They might be sold à la carte at a Mexican restaurant

5-letter answer Answer: TACOS

Word Help: Synonyms: greaser, wetback, taco

Clue #18: 39. [Gone … like magic!]

4-letter answer Answer: POOF

Word Help: Synonyms: fairy, faggot, queen

Clue #19: 41. Some English noblemen

5-letter answer Answer: EARLS

Word Help: Synonyms: earl

Clue #20: 43. Possess

4-letter answer Answer: HAVE

Word Help: Synonyms: hold, rich_person, bear
Antonyms: lack, abstain

Clue #21: 44. Per ___ (yearly)

5-letter answer Answer: ANNUM

Word Help: Synonyms: annum

Clue #22: 46. "Explosive" expletive

5-letter answer Answer: FBOMB

Clue #23: 48. Scratch or stain, e.g.

3-letter answer Answer: MAR

Word Help: Synonyms: Mar, deflower, spoil

Clue #24: 49. "No skin off my nose!"

12-letter answer Answer: SUITYOURSELF

Clue #25: 52. Move upward

6-letter answer Answer: ASCEND

Word Help: Synonyms: climb_up, ascend, uprise
Antonyms: set, descend

Clue #26: 55. Hook, line and sinker, for an angler

4-letter answer Answer: GEAR

Word Help: Synonyms: appurtenance, gear_wheel, geartrain

Clue #27: 56. Neither here ___ there

3-letter answer Answer: NOR

Clue #28: 57. Word before act or action

5-letter answer Answer: CLASS

Word Help: Synonyms: assort, classify, sort

Clue #29: 61. Gunslinger Earp

5-letter answer Answer: WYATT

Word Help: Synonyms: Wyat, Sir_Thomas_Wyat, Wyatt

Clue #30: 64. Where duds are draped to dry … or a literal description of 18-, 28- and 49-Across?

11-letter answer Answer: CLOTHESLINE

Word Help: Synonyms: clothesline

Clue #31: 67. "___ sells seashells by the seashore"

3-letter answer Answer: SHE

Clue #32: 68. Actor Ethan whose surname sounds like a bird

5-letter answer Answer: HAWKE

Clue #33: 69. "The ___ Express" (kid-lit classic)

5-letter answer Answer: POLAR

Word Help: Synonyms: pivotal, arctic, opposite
Antonyms: equatorial

Clue #34: 70. Alternative to a trowel for an archaeologist

3-letter answer Answer: HOE

Word Help: Synonyms: hoe

Clue #35: 71. It's nearly impossible to split their creme equally, per M.I.T.

5-letter answer Answer: OREOS

Word Help: Synonyms: oreo, oreo_cookie

Clue #36: 72. Poker-faced

5-letter answer Answer: STONY

Word Help: Synonyms: bouldered, flint, rocklike

Clue #37: 73. "Dee-lish!"

3-letter answer Answer: YUM

Across Clues and Answers (37)

Clue #1: 1. Part of a Halloween costume

4-letter answer Answer: MASK

Word Help: Synonyms: masquerade_party, masque, masquerade
Antonyms: unmask

Clue #2: 2. "The Sopranos" actress Falco

4-letter answer Answer: EDIE

Clue #3: 3. Emotionally charged, as an issue

9-letter answer Answer: HOTBUTTON

Clue #4: 4. Bruce Springsteen, to fans

7-letter answer Answer: THEBOSS

Clue #5: 5. Rule-making grp. for a residential community

3-letter answer Answer: HOA

Clue #6: 6. Goes (for)

4-letter answer Answer: OPTS

Word Help: Synonyms: opt, prefer, choose

Clue #7: 7. 18-wheeler

4-letter answer Answer: SEMI

Word Help: Synonyms: tractor_trailer, articulated_lorry, trucking_rig

Clue #8: 8. Ice cream brand known as Dreyer's on the West Coast

4-letter answer Answer: EDYS

Clue #9: 9. Live together

7-letter answer Answer: COHABIT

Word Help: Synonyms: live_together, cohabit, shack_up

Clue #10: 10. Preferring platonic relationships, informally

3-letter answer Answer: ARO

Clue #11: 11. Greek sorceress who took the phrase "men are pigs" literally

5-letter answer Answer: CIRCE

Word Help: Synonyms: Circe

Clue #12: 12. Smash to smithereens

5-letter answer Answer: TOTAL

Word Help: Synonyms: tally, summate, total

Clue #13: 13. Social media app with Reels and Stories, familiarly

5-letter answer Answer: INSTA

Clue #14: 19. Superfan, in slang

4-letter answer Answer: STAN

Clue #15: 21. Accessibility law inits.

3-letter answer Answer: ADA

Word Help: Synonyms: adenosine_deaminase, ADA

Clue #16: 25. "Negatory"

4-letter answer Answer: NOPE

Clue #17: 27. Only U.S. state whose capital has a three-word name

4-letter answer Answer: UTAH

Word Help: Synonyms: Mormon_State, Utah, UT

Clue #18: 28. Bear with a hard bed and hot porridge

4-letter answer Answer: PAPA

Word Help: Synonyms: dad, daddy, pappa

Clue #19: 29. "Once ___ a midnight dreary …"

4-letter answer Answer: UPON

Clue #20: 30. Make by hand

5-letter answer Answer: CRAFT

Word Help: Synonyms: workmanship, wiliness, craft

Clue #21: 31. Pink Nintendo character from Planet Popstar

5-letter answer Answer: KIRBY

Clue #22: 32. Home on the "I" page of many ABC books

5-letter answer Answer: IGLOO

Word Help: Synonyms: igloo, iglu

Clue #23: 36. Out of the picture, maybe?

9-letter answer Answer: CAMERASHY

Clue #24: 37. Actual shape of the Crab Nebula, disappointingly

4-letter answer Answer: OVAL

Word Help: Synonyms: ellipse, ovoid, prolate

Clue #25: 38. Feudal underling

4-letter answer Answer: SERF

Word Help: Synonyms: villein, serf, helot

Clue #26: 40. "Short" thing for someone with a temper

4-letter answer Answer: FUSE

Word Help: Synonyms: conflate, safety_fuse, mix
Antonyms: defuse

Clue #27: 42. High-and-mighty

4-letter answer Answer: SMUG

Word Help: Synonyms: smug, self-satisfied

Clue #28: 45. Snacks (on)

7-letter answer Answer: MUNCHES

Word Help: Synonyms: munch, Edvard_Munch, crunch

Clue #29: 47. Beermaking establishment

7-letter answer Answer: BREWERY

Word Help: Synonyms: brewery

Clue #30: 50. Lollygag

4-letter answer Answer: IDLE

Word Help: Synonyms: laze, idle, dead
Antonyms: work, run

Clue #31: 51. "Here's a thought …"

3-letter answer Answer: SAY

Word Help: Synonyms: enjoin, enounce, aver

Clue #32: 52. Dried chili in Mexican cuisine

5-letter answer Answer: ANCHO

Clue #33: 53. Kind of power using rooftop panels

5-letter answer Answer: SOLAR

Word Help: Synonyms: solar

Clue #34: 54. Actor Russell whose surname sounds like a bird

5-letter answer Answer: CROWE

Clue #35: 58. Vile Nile reptiles

4-letter answer Answer: ASPS

Word Help: Synonyms: Naja_haje, Egyptian_cobra, asp

Clue #36: 59. Piggy bank opening

4-letter answer Answer: SLOT

Word Help: Synonyms: slot, expansion_slot, time_slot

Clue #37: 60. Sight along a farm country road

4-letter answer Answer: SILO

Word Help: Synonyms: silo

Clue #38: 62. "O Brother, Where Art ___?" (2000 Coen brothers film)

4-letter answer Answer: THOU

Word Help: Synonyms: K, chiliad, thousand

Clue #39: 63. Abound

4-letter answer Answer: TEEM

Word Help: Synonyms: pour, teem, stream

Clue #40: 65. Ring result, in brief

3-letter answer Answer: TKO

Word Help: Synonyms: technical_knockout, TKO

Clue #41: 66. Grandma, in Glasgow

3-letter answer Answer: NAN

Word Help: Synonyms: Nan, naan, grannie

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Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Moderate

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🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (33 clues)

🧩 1A: "1. Who wrote in an 1852 novel "Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that united states writer of a novel about slavery that advanced the abolitionists' cause (1811-1896)
• Similar words include: Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: STOWE

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🧩 2A: "6. Stick around camp?"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

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Answer: TENTPOLE

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🧩 3A: "14. Synthetic fabric sometimes called "elastane"""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

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Answer: LYCRA

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🧩 4A: "15. Competition conducted in rounds over rounds"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

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Answer: BARTRIVIA

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🧩 5A: "16. Microscope component"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the organ of sight
• Similar words include: ocular, eye, visual
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: OPTIC

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🧩 6A: "17. Establishments with many green rooms"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

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Answer: ECOHOTELS

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🧩 7A: "18. "Aw, that's so nice of you!""

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

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Answer: GEETHANKS

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🧩 8A: "20. Toadlike"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (of skin) covered with warts or projections that resemble warts
• Similar words include: verrucose, wartlike
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: WARTY

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🧩 9A: "21. Stuff"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that fill to satisfaction
• Similar words include: satiate, fill, replete
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: SATE

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🧩 10A: "22. Some fridges"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: LGS

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🧩 11A: "23. Way to the left?"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the countries of (originally) europe and (now including) north america and south america
• Similar words include: western United States, Benjamin West, due west
• Opposite of: east

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Answer: WEST

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🧩 12A: "24. Rum-soaked cake"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a small cake leavened with yeast
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: BABA

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🧩 13A: "26. Frameable frame"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: CEL

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🧩 14A: "27. Anytown, ___"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that north american republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in north america plus alaska in northwest north america and the hawaiian islands in the pacific ocean; achieved independence in 1776
• Similar words include: the States, United States Army, America
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: USA

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🧩 15A: "30. Many an I.R.S. public service announcement"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

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Answer: SCAMALERT

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🧩 16A: "33. Heart"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a small conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere in the milky way near centaurus
• Similar words include: crux of the matter, Crux Australis, Southern Cross
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: CRUX

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🧩 17A: "34. Reassuring words when help is needed"

📏 15 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______________

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Answer: YOUCANCOUNTONME

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🧩 18A: "36. Means of defense for an elephant"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses
• Similar words include: detusk, horn, ivory
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: TUSK

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🧩 19A: "37. "That would make the most sense to me""

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

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Answer: IASSUMESO

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🧩 20A: "38. Some residents: Abbr."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: DRS

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🧩 21A: "39. Blubber"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides)
• Similar words include: fatty, fatten, avoirdupois
• Opposite of: thin, leanness

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Answer: FAT

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🧩 22A: "40. Like Antarctica, notably"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that lacking sufficient water or rainfall
• Similar words include: desiccate, waterless, desiccated
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ARID

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🧩 23A: "41. Disaccustom"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk
• Similar words include: ablactate
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: WEAN

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🧩 24A: "43. Their tracks diffract light into rainbows"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a soft bluish-white ductile malleable toxic bivalent metallic element; occurs in association with zinc ores
• Similar words include: cd, compact disk, standard candle
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: CDS

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🧩 25A: "44. Tricky situation"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a point located with respect to surface features of some region
• Similar words include: recognise, smear, spy
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: SPOT

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🧩 26A: "48. Eurasian ermine"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the ermine in its brown summer coat with black-tipped tail
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: STOAT

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🧩 27A: "50. Surfaces for making cookies"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

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Answer: SHEETPANS

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🧩 28A: "52. Guiding principle, metaphorically"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

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Answer: NORTHSTAR

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🧩 29A: "54. 2023 title role for Timothée Chalamet"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

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Answer: WONKA

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🧩 30A: "55. Events akin to streaks"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

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Answer: UNDIERUNS

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🧩 31A: "56. Opposite of entropy"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed
• Similar words include: regulate, Holy Order, rank
• Opposite of: disorderliness, disorder

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Answer: ORDER

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🧩 32A: "57. "Don't give up""

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

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Answer: BESTRONG

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🧩 33A: "58. Corset supports"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a woman's close-fitting foundation garment
• Similar words include: check, persist, remain
• Opposite of: depart, move

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Answer: STAYS

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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (37 clues)

🧩 1D: "1. Tedious trials"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that work doggedly or persistently
• Similar words include: tramp, footslog, slog
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: SLOGS

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🧩 2D: "2. Ambitious and uncompromising, say"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

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Answer: TYPEA

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🧩 3D: "3. The planets, since 2006"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one
• Similar words include: ogdoad, octonary, octette
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: OCTET

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🧩 4D: "4. Follow to the letter?"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

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Answer: WRITEBACK

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🧩 5D: "5. Grocery pricing term"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (used of count nouns) every one considered individually
• Similar words include: for each one, from each one, to each one
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: EACH

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🧩 6D: "6. Sailing maneuvers"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails
• Similar words include: wear round, hang on, interchange
• Opposite of: disassemble

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Answer: TACKS

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🧩 7D: "7. Freudian drive to survive"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (greek mythology) god of love; son of aphrodite; identified with roman cupid
• Similar words include: physical attraction, concupiscence, sexual desire
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: EROS

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🧩 8D: "8. High degree"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that last or greatest in an indefinitely large series
• Similar words include: n-th
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: NTH

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🧩 9D: "9. Part of a masonry kit"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a small hand tool with a handle and flat metal blade; used for scooping or spreading plaster or similar materials
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TROWEL

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🧩 10D: "10. Breads that may be used as scoops"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that usually small round bread that can open into a pocket for filling
• Similar words include: pocket bread, pita
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: PITAS

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🧩 11D: "11. Nullifies"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the act of upsetting something
• Similar words include: repeal, revolutionise, overrule
• Pattern: _________

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Answer: OVERTURNS

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🧩 12D: "12. Pleasing cadence"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a jaunty rhythm in music
• Similar words include: swing
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LILT

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🧩 13D: "13. "Don't stress yourself""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that posing no difficulty; requiring little effort
• Similar words include: slowly, well-situated, well-off
• Opposite of: uneasy, difficult

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Answer: EASY

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🧩 14D: "15. Hybrid feline whose coat may feature rosettes"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

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Answer: BENGALCAT

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🧩 15D: "19. One of two official languages of Kosovo"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a native or inhabitant of albania
• Pattern: ________

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Answer: ALBANIAN

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🧩 16D: "23. Caregiver known as a "nutrix" in ancient Rome"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else
• Similar words include: amah, wet-nurse, wet nurse
• Pattern: ________

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Answer: WETNURSE

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🧩 17D: "25. Org. with a serpent in its logo"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AMA

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🧩 18D: "26. Warriors for a cause"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a disputant who advocates reform
• Similar words include: meliorist, reformist, crusader
• Pattern: _________

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Answer: CRUSADERS

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🧩 19D: "28. Bouts held in a dohyo"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a japanese form of wrestling; you lose if you are forced out of a small ring or if any part of your body (other than your feet) touches the ground
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: SUMO

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🧩 20D: "29. Medieval warrior's weapon"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle
• Similar words include: ax
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: AXE

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🧩 21D: "30. Turned"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
• Similar words include: turn, acidity, sourness
• Opposite of: sweeten, sweet

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Answer: SOUR

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🧩 22D: "31. #@$% and &?*!, by implication"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CUSSWORDS

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🧩 23D: "32. Sister of Helios"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (greek mythology) the winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology; daughter of hyperion; identified with roman aurora
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EOS

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🧩 24D: "33. Table tennis or beach volleyball"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: COEDSPORT

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🧩 25D: "34. Abbr. on a pay stub"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: YTD

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🧩 26D: "35. Letters said out of embarrassment"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TMI

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🧩 27D: "39. Pops"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
• Similar words include: Padre, founder, begetter
• Opposite of: mother, female parent

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Answer: FATHER

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🧩 28D: "42. Face-plant, so to speak"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EATIT

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🧩 29D: "43. Iris ___, author of "The Chinese in America""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the longest river of asia; flows eastward from tibet into the east china sea near shanghai
• Similar words include: Changjiang, Yangtze, Yangtze River
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: CHANG

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🧩 30D: "45. Animal that's mostly white, helping it hide in its natural habitat"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that large black-and-white herbivorous mammal of bamboo forests of china and tibet; in some classifications considered a member of the bear family or of a separate family ailuropodidae
• Similar words include: red panda, giant panda, coon bear
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: PANDA

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🧩 31D: "46. Pitch-perfect"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ONKEY

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🧩 32D: "47. Alexis, Feodor and Peter, among others"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

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

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TSARS

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🧩 33D: "48. Slight"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an instance of driving away or warding off
• Similar words include: rebuff, cold shoulder, ignore
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SNUB

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🧩 34D: "49. What's hard to read in a text"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the quality of a person's voice
• Similar words include: pure tone, quality, flavor
• Opposite of: atonicity

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TONE

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🧩 35D: "50. Floor"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow
• Similar words include: bedaze, stupefy, daze
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: STUN

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🧩 36D: "51. Rare bills and dice rolls"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
• Similar words include: II, 2, deuce
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TWOS

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🧩 37D: "53. Sign of a sellout"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SRO

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🎯 Start Smart

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📊 Today's Puzzle Stats

33 Across Clues

37 Down Clues

70 Total Clues

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