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Friday, July 19, 2024

January 13, 2008 NYT Clues Answers

NYT Crossword and Answers - January 13, 2008

Welcome to NYT Puzzle and answers. The New York Times Crossword is a most popular puzzles. Here are the clues and answers for today puzzle:

Across:

  • 1. "Come on ... be good, kids": NOWNOW
  • 7. Kind of jacket: FLAK
  • 11. Actor Gulager: CLU
  • 14. Occurs to, with "on": DAWNS
  • 19. Emulate Earhart: AVIATE
  • 20. Bean town?: LIMA
  • 21. Alley ___: OOP
  • 22. Traditional whale hunter: ALEUT
  • 23. Like some titmice: TUFTED
  • 24. Went too far: OVERSHOT
  • 26. Pretty cool: NIFTY
  • 27. Mark who won the Masters and British Open in 1998: OMEARA
  • 28. The old frontier you and I don't remember?: WESTWEFORGET
  • 30. Is covered in dew, perhaps: GLISTENS
  • 32. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, e.g.: IRANI
  • 33. Longtime Bob Hope broadcaster: NBC
  • 35. ___ d'amore: OBOE
  • 37. Like some traffic: THRU
  • 38. Donkey Kong, for one: APE
  • 39. Place to gamble in N.Y.C.: OTB
  • 41. Job ad abbr.: EOE
  • 43. Center of success?: CEE
  • 44. Rap's Dr. ___: DRE
  • 45. Climate that's copy-protected by law?: PATENTWEATHER
  • 49. Ralph Nader and Ross Perot: ALSORANS
  • 52. Brought on: LEDTO
  • 53. Sound from a fan: WHIRR
  • 54. ___ Tunes: LOONEY
  • 55. U.K. record label: EMI
  • 57. Richness: OPULENCE
  • 60. Like some grasses: AWNED
  • 61. Porridge ingredients: PEASE
  • 63. Scratches (out): EKES
  • 64. Took too many pills, briefly: ODED
  • 65. Merlin on an Imax screen?: GIANTWIZARD
  • 67. Fall mos.: OCTS
  • 71. Currency whose symbol is "$": PESO
  • 72. Like Java man: ERECT
  • 73. Lose one's marbles: GOMAD
  • 78. What to follow in the forest: FOOTPATH
  • 80. Stat for Warren Spahn: Abbr.: ERA
  • 81. Pull out formally: SECEDE
  • 82. F.B.I. director appointed by Clinton: FREEH
  • 83. Jimmy of DC Comics: OLSEN
  • 87. Bond poster: BAILSMAN
  • 89. Eyelid moistener at a museum?: ARTWINKWETTER
  • 93. Some colas, familiarly: RCS
  • 94. Small wts.: OZS
  • 95. "Well, ___-di-dah!": LAH
  • 96. Asian school of thought: ZEN
  • 97. U.S.O. show attendees: GIS
  • 98. Cuddly sci-fi critter: EWOK
  • 100. Algonquian tongue: CREE
  • 101. Court call: LET
  • 103. Twangy: NASAL
  • 105. Mover left or right: ARROWKEY
  • 107. Rouse a beloved English queen?: WAKEVICTORIA
  • 110. Nocturnal insect: EARWIG
  • 113. Buggy drivers: AMISH
  • 115. In the world: EXISTENT
  • 116. National airline of Afghanistan: ARIANA
  • 117. Coca-Cola trademark: FANTA
  • 118. Singer Des'___: REE
  • 119. 10-year host of "Entertainment Tonight": TESH
  • 120. Boasts of: VAUNTS
  • 121. Seventh-grader, often: TWEEN
  • 122. Many, many mos.: YRS
  • 123. Pamplona shouts: OLES
  • 124. Tangle up (in): ENMESH

Down:

  • 1. Group with a secy. gen.: NATO
  • 2. Certain gamete: OVUM
  • 3. Better half takes the stage?: WIFEGOESON
  • 4. Christmas on Capri: NATALE
  • 5. "S.N.L." alum Cheri: OTERI
  • 6. Married in error?: WEDASTRAY
  • 7. Scent maker: FLOWER
  • 8. Add pep to: LIVENUP
  • 9. "What ___!" ("This place needs cleaning!"): AMESS
  • 10. Go-___: KART
  • 11. Able to be followed: COHERENT
  • 12. Bath scrubber: LOOFA
  • 13. So far: UPTONOW
  • 14. "Goll-lee!": DANG
  • 15. Many a "Star Trek" character: ALIEN
  • 16. Tush made of shuttle thread?: WEFTBEHIND
  • 17. Bit of trail mix: NUT
  • 18. Pork place?: STY
  • 25. Grabbed surreptitiously: SWIPED
  • 29. Graduation or confirmation: RITE
  • 31. Following: THEN
  • 34. Not just ask: COERCE
  • 35. Florida county seat: OCALA
  • 36. Not on deck: BELOW
  • 38. Had something: ATE
  • 40. Go "waaaah!": BAWL
  • 42. Got things wrong: ERRED
  • 44. Harriet Beecher Stowe novel: DRED
  • 46. Elite: ALIST
  • 47. Didn't walk or go by subway, say: TOOKACAB
  • 48. ___ Epstein, Red Sox G.M. starting in 2002: THEO
  • 50. Mr. Right, with "the": ONE
  • 51. Enjoy the theater: SEEASHOW
  • 56. Word before and after "a": MANO
  • 58. Prell competitor: PERT
  • 59. Currency exchange abbr.: USD
  • 61. Painter Mondrian: PIET
  • 62. Milk source: EWE
  • 63. Former Israeli president Weizman: EZER
  • 65. 3.5, e.g.: Abbr.: GPA
  • 66. Actress Papas: IRENE
  • 67. Viscera: OFFAL
  • 68. Rodeo locale: CORRAL
  • 69. Stick one's foot in Chardonnay?: TOETHEWINE
  • 70. Good winter entree: STEW
  • 73. Some toothpastes: GELS
  • 74. Where to get a mil. commission: OCS
  • 75. Development of amnesia?: MEMORYWANE
  • 76. In ___ (stunned): ADAZE
  • 77. None too bright: DENSE
  • 79. Illustrator for Charles Dickens: PHIZ
  • 81. Fabric that needs serious mending?: SICKWEAVE
  • 84. Bequests: LEGACIES
  • 85. Circus props: STILTS
  • 86. Supposed makers of crop circles: ETS
  • 88. Suffix with buck: AROO
  • 90. Bird whose name sounds like its soft call: NENE
  • 91. Tricks: KNAVERY
  • 92. Get more soap suds out of: RERINSE
  • 99. Angers: WRATHS
  • 100. Metal that may ignite if scratched: CERIUM
  • 102. Try: TASTE
  • 104. Dr. J was one: SIXER
  • 105. Spinning dizzily: AREEL
  • 106. Part of DKNY: KARAN
  • 108. Tribal chief: KHAN
  • 109. "The Simpsons" bus driver: OTTO
  • 111. They're not good for QB's: INTS
  • 112. Nasty wound: GASH
  • 113. Back: AFT
  • 114. Big mouth: MAW

Tuesday, September 3, 2024

LA0903 Tuesday Sep 03, 2024 LA Times Crossword Clues Hints

LA Times Crossword Clues - September 3, 2024

Across

Clues Answers
Many a home in the Italian countryside VILLA
Automotive historian Jay LENO
Friends PALS
Flawless IDEAL
Smell ODOR
Bryce Canyon state UTAH
Undertaking DOING
“O patria mia” opera AIDA
Old Roman garb TOGA
Winter weather caused by cold air moving over warm water LAKE-EFFECT SNOW
“Downton __”: PBS historical drama ABBEY
Ancient strings LUTES
Seize NAB
“Totally sweet!” RAD!
Philippine money PESO
Like many parking garage ramps ONE-WAY
Hopping African primate BUSH BABY
“__-Hero”: Taylor Swift hit ANTI
Cup on a hook MUG
Director Kazan ELIA
Malady that causes the sniffles HEAD COLD
Highway divider MEDIAN
A long, long time EONS
“Scrunch out the crunch” hair product GEL
“You should know better” TSK
Begin START
Principle TENET
Mundane musings, or what the last words of 20-, 32-, and 39-Across have in common? SHOWER THOUGHTS
Caitlin Clark’s college team IOWA
Like Big Bend National Park ARID
No-frills font ARIAL
Summer top TANK
Preserve with salt CURE
Guts NERVE
Otherwise ELSE
Canvas shoe with a Monster High collaboration KEDS
Coarse fabric TWEED
Tuesday Sep 03, 2024 LA Times Crossword Clues Hints
Tuesday Sep 03, 2024 LA Times Crossword Clues Hints


Down

Clues Answers
TikTok post, briefly VID
Object of adoration IDOL
Heroine from Alderaan LEIA
“Sri __ Matha”: South Asian national anthem LANKA
Subject with an “x” factor? ALGEBRA
Lounged around LOAFED
Enlighten EDIFY
Lymph __ NODE
Ancient prophets ORACLES
Finalizes for printing, as a newspaper PUTS TO BED
Back up an apology, say ATONE
Burial place of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti LAGOS
“Killing Eve” actress Fiona SHAW
Modern trading post EBAY
Bottom TUSH
“Barbie” co-writer Baumbach NOAH
Green Gables girl ANNE
__ carotene BETA
Short-muzzled dog PUG
Not at all sleepy WIDE AWAKE
__ vase BUD
Dismounted ALIT
Lack of objectivity BIAS
Tug sharply YANK
Chicago Fire org. MLS
Apple part CORE
Likely to succeed ON TRACK
Cafe reading MENU
Like an ingeniously simple mathematical proof ELEGANT
Stardew Valley mine finds GEODES
Underwater bank SHOAL
Mini cities TOWNS
Last stop before home? THIRD
Purposefully lost THREW
Location SITE
“You aren’t wrong” TRUE
Tucker out TIRE
Rescue SAVE
Captained LED

Friday, May 9, 2025

NY Times Crossword Answers May 08, 2025 | Expert Breakdown & Tips

NY Times Crossword Complete Solution: May 08, 2025

Our expert breakdown helps you solve the May 08 NYT crossword while expanding your vocabulary. Learn answer strategies and discover word connections.

NY Times Crossword Complete Solution: May 08, 2025
NY Times Crossword Complete Solution: May 08, 2025


Across Clues and Answers (43)

Clue #1: 1. 2022 Jordan Peele horror/sci-fi film

4-letter answer Answer: NOPE

Clue #2: 5. San ___ Bay (estuary near San Francisco)

5-letter answer Answer: PABLO

Clue #3: 10. Noted silver-tongued Olympic gold medalist

3-letter answer Answer: ALI
Word Help: Synonyms: Cassius_Marcellus_Clay, Ali, Cassius_Clay

Clue #4: 13. Coin toss call

5-letter answer Answer: TAILS
Word Help: Synonyms: rear_end, rump, tush
Antonyms: head

Clue #5: 14. Supply

5-letter answer Answer: EQUIP
Word Help: Synonyms: fit_out, equip, fit

Clue #6: 15. Generals and such

5-letter answer Answer: BRASS
Word Help: Synonyms: boldness, plaque, organisation

Clue #7: 16. Quickly put (together)

4-letter answer Answer: SLAP
Word Help: Synonyms: slap, smack, slapdash

Clue #8: 17. Tres + tres + tres

5-letter answer Answer: NUEVE

Clue #9: 18. Single ___ (tourney type)

4-letter answer Answer: ELIM

Clue #10: 19. Clarifying words

4-letter answer Answer: ASIN
Word Help: Synonyms: Asvina, Asin

Clue #11: 20. Kierkegaard, for one

4-letter answer Answer: DANE
Word Help: Synonyms: Dane

Clue #12: 21. Cattle steerers

5-letter answer Answer: PRODS
Word Help: Synonyms: nudge, spur, egg_on

Clue #13: 22. Worn-down part

3-letter answer Answer: NUB
Word Help: Synonyms: substance, essence, marrow

Clue #14: 24. Fail to understand

6-letter answer Answer: NOTSEE

Clue #15: 26. Section of a curriculum

4-letter answer Answer: UNIT
Word Help: Synonyms: unit_of_measurement, unit, whole

Clue #16: 28. Broadway star Hagen

3-letter answer Answer: UTA
Word Help: Synonyms: genus_Uta, Uta

Clue #17: 30. Musical pitch interval

8-letter answer Answer: HALFTONE
Word Help: Synonyms: halftone_engraving, photoengraving, halftone

Clue #18: 34. Mayo to mayo, say

3-letter answer Answer: ANO
Word Help: Synonyms: Black_September, Fatah_Revolutionary_Council, Abu_Nidal_Organization

Clue #19: 35. Writer honored by Oz Park in Chicago

4-letter answer Answer: BAUM
Word Help: Synonyms: Baum, Frank_Baum, Lyman_Frank_Brown

Clue #20: 37. "My Neighbor ___," 1988 Hayao Miyazaki film

6-letter answer Answer: TOTORO

Clue #21: 38. One not getting enough sleep in Apr., perhaps

3-letter answer Answer: CPA
Word Help: Synonyms: certified_public_accountant, CPA

Clue #22: 39. "Mind your own business!" ... or a hint to the four sides of this puzzle

7-letter answer Answer: BUTTOUT

Clue #23: 41. Prefix with meter

3-letter answer Answer: ODO
Word Help: Synonyms: Otho, Odo, Odo_of_Lagery

Clue #24: 42. As a ___

6-letter answer Answer: RESULT
Word Help: Synonyms: issue, resolution, upshot

Clue #25: 44. Prefix with phobia

4-letter answer Answer: ACRO

Clue #26: 45. "I'm Just ___" (2023 Oscar-nominated song)

3-letter answer Answer: KEN
Word Help: Synonyms: sight, ken, cognizance

Clue #27: 46. Halting speakers?

8-letter answer Answer: SENTRIES
Word Help: Synonyms: sentinel, lookout_man, spotter

Clue #28: 48. "Inside Politics" airer

3-letter answer Answer: CNN

Clue #29: 49. Field

4-letter answer Answer: AREA
Word Help: Synonyms: surface_area, sphere, arena

Clue #30: 50. Like many flowers and prizes

6-letter answer Answer: ANNUAL
Word Help: Synonyms: yearly, yearbook, one-year
Antonyms: biennial

Clue #31: 52. Down in the dumps

3-letter answer Answer: SAD
Word Help: Synonyms: sorry, deplorable, distressing
Antonyms: glad

Clue #32: 54. Tasty pastry spread

5-letter answer Answer: ICING
Word Help: Synonyms: ice, icing_the_puck, icing

Clue #33: 57. Main ingredient in the Japanese liqueur umeshu

4-letter answer Answer: PLUM
Word Help: Synonyms: plumb, clean, plum

Clue #34: 59. Hats, informally

4-letter answer Answer: LIDS
Word Help: Synonyms: eyelid, hat, chapeau

Clue #35: 62. Nice chunk of dough

4-letter answer Answer: THOU
Word Help: Synonyms: one_thousand, thousand, grand

Clue #36: 63. Garden tool

5-letter answer Answer: SPADE
Word Help: Synonyms: jigaboo, coon, nigger

Clue #37: 64. Kind of arch that resembles the shape of a Hershey's Kiss

4-letter answer Answer: OGEE
Word Help: Synonyms: ogee, cyma_reversa

Clue #38: 65. Qualifying races

5-letter answer Answer: HEATS
Word Help: Synonyms: heating_system, passion, stir_up
Antonyms: anestrus, coldness

Clue #39: 66. This might come in a saucer

5-letter answer Answer: ALIEN
Word Help: Synonyms: unknown, alien, alienate
Antonyms: acquaintance, citizen

Clue #40: 67. Side to take into consideration

5-letter answer Answer: FACET
Word Help: Synonyms: facet, aspect

Clue #41: 68. Actress Goth of 2022's "X"

3-letter answer Answer: MIA

Clue #42: 69. Supervises

5-letter answer Answer: TENDS
Word Help: Synonyms: run, tend, incline

Clue #43: 70. Mustang feature, once

4-letter answer Answer: TTOP

Across Clues and Answers (43)

Clue #1: 1. Org. with probes

4-letter answer Answer: NASA
Word Help: Synonyms: NASA, National_Aeronautics_and_Space_Administration

Clue #2: 2. Muddies, as water

5-letter answer Answer: ROILS
Word Help: Synonyms: churn, moil, rile

Clue #3: 3. Ascetic breakfast selection

10-letter answer Answer: PLAINTOAST

Clue #4: 4. Channel for watching college games

5-letter answer Answer: ESPNU

Clue #5: 5. Turn topsy-turvy

5-letter answer Answer: UPEND
Word Help: Synonyms: upend

Clue #6: 6. One doing some deep-sea exploration

8-letter answer Answer: AQUANAUT
Word Help: Synonyms: oceanaut, aquanaut, skin-diver

Clue #7: 7. "Muy ___!"

5-letter answer Answer: BUENO

Clue #8: 8. Resides a long time ago?

6-letter answer Answer: LIVETH

Clue #9: 9. Be down in the dumps

4-letter answer Answer: MOPE
Word Help: Synonyms: mope, moon_around, moon_about

Clue #10: 10. Singer Guthrie

4-letter answer Answer: ARLO

Clue #11: 11. Crisscross pattern

5-letter answer Answer: PLAID
Word Help: Synonyms: tartan, plaid

Clue #12: 12. Credos

4-letter answer Answer: ISMS
Word Help: Synonyms: doctrine, philosophical_system, ism

Clue #13: 15. Lacking, with "of"

6-letter answer Answer: BEREFT
Word Help: Synonyms: grieving, lovelorn, mourning

Clue #14: 21. Bike and Bike+, e.g.

8-letter answer Answer: PELOTONS

Clue #15: 23. Like a witch's cauldron

8-letter answer Answer: BUBBLING
Word Help: Synonyms: belch, frothy, foaming

Clue #16: 25. God honored by gladiatorial fights

6-letter answer Answer: SATURN
Word Help: Synonyms: Saturn

Clue #17: 26. Mother-of-pearl

5-letter answer Answer: NACRE
Word Help: Synonyms: nacre, mother-of-pearl

Clue #18: 27. How to sign a check

5-letter answer Answer: INPEN

Clue #19: 29. Draw tight

6-letter answer Answer: TAUTEN
Word Help: Synonyms: firm, tauten

Clue #20: 31. Criticized

10-letter answer Answer: TOOKADIGAT

Clue #21: 32. Primate, for humans

5-letter answer Answer: ORDER
Word Help: Synonyms: regulate, parliamentary_law, Holy_Order
Antonyms: disorderliness, disorder

Clue #22: 33. Who "can get in the way of what I'm feelin'," in an Alicia Keys hit

5-letter answer Answer: NOONE

Clue #23: 36. Letters on an N.Y.C. fare card

3-letter answer Answer: MTA

Clue #24: 40. Obstructed, as an opening

8-letter answer Answer: OCCLUDED
Word Help: Synonyms: sorbed, obstruct, jam
Antonyms: free

Clue #25: 43. God who begat the Titans

6-letter answer Answer: URANUS
Word Help: Synonyms: Ouranos, Uranus

Clue #26: 47. Lissome

6-letter answer Answer: SUPPLE
Word Help: Synonyms: svelte, supple, lissom

Clue #27: 51. Author ___-René Lesage

5-letter answer Answer: ALAIN

Clue #28: 53. Overhead

5-letter answer Answer: ALOFT
Word Help: Synonyms: aloft

Clue #29: 54. Thing on a docket

4-letter answer Answer: ITEM
Word Help: Synonyms: detail, point, token

Clue #30: 55. Something a waiter may pull out

5-letter answer Answer: CHAIR
Word Help: Synonyms: chairperson, chair, moderate

Clue #31: 56. I, to Socrates

4-letter answer Answer: IOTA
Word Help: Synonyms: scintilla, whit, smidge

Clue #32: 58. Sharp set?

4-letter answer Answer: MENS
Word Help: Synonyms: hands, workforce, manpower

Clue #33: 60. Interior design

5-letter answer Answer: DECOR
Word Help: Synonyms: interior_decoration, decor

Clue #34: 61. Permeate

4-letter answer Answer: SEEP
Word Help: Synonyms: seep, ooze

Clue #35: 63. Fill fully

4-letter answer Answer: SATE
Word Help: Synonyms: sate, fill, replete

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  • Watch for question marks indicating wordplay
  • Check vowel patterns in partially solved words

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Monday, July 21, 2025

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Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Challenging

💡 Pro Tip: Start with the fill-in-the-blank clues - they're usually the easiest entry points!

🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (31 clues)

🧩 1A: "1. K-pop supergroup"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: BTS

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

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
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Answer: NOTIP

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🧩 3A: "9. Vast Mongolian desert"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a desert in central china
  • Similar words include: Gobi Desert
  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: GOBI

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🧩 4A: "13. Google.com, e.g."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the address of a web page on the world wide web
  • Similar words include: universal resource locator, uniform resource locator
  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: URL

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

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
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Answer: ACHOO

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

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

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

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

📏 15 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _______________
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Answer: TOUCHDOWNPASSES

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🧩 8A: "19. Heinie"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
  • Similar words include: hindquarters, rear, nates
  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: TUSH

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

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

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  • Pattern: ____
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Answer: AZUR

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

📏 14 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ______________
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Answer: THEEVENINGNEWS

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🧩 11A: "29. Regretted"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

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

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🧩 12A: "30. ___-weenie"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

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  • Pattern: ______
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Answer: TEENIE

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

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
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Answer: BBC

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

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

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

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🧩 15A: "37. Threadbare"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

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

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

📏 15 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _______________
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Answer: AIRPORTSHUTTLES

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

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
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Answer: NCAA

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

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
  • Similar words include: fink, blackleg, strikebreaker
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: SCABS

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

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice
  • Similar words include: fruit drink
  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ADE

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

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

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

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🧩 21A: "48. Enjoy a book or magazine"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that something that is read
  • Similar words include: say, take, translate
  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: READ

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

📏 14 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ______________
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: SPELLINGERRORS

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🧩 23A: "55. "Gotcha""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ISEE

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

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that informal abbreviation of `representative'
  • Similar words include: repp, rep
  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: REPS

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

📏 15 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _______________
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: GOTTACATCHEMALL

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

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that american revolutionary leader and patriot; an organizer of the boston tea party and signer of the declaration of independence (1722-1803)
  • Similar words include: John Quincy Adams, X, Samuel Adams
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ADAMS

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🧩 27A: "66. Like the boonies"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that living in or characteristic of farming or country life
  • Opposite of: urban
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: RURAL

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

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: MIA

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🧩 29A: "68. Mercedes-___"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: BENZ

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🧩 30A: "69. Pluckiness"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that material for starting a fire
  • Similar words include: heart, punk, touchwood
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: SPUNK

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🧩 31A: "70. Place for a pig"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid
  • Similar words include: eye infection, stye, hordeolum
  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: STY

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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (45 clues)

🧩 1D: "1. Remainder of a cigarette"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that thick end of the handle
  • Similar words include: butt against, adjoin, butt end
  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: BUTT

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

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: TROUT

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🧩 3D: "3. Watery snow"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that partially melted snow
  • Similar words include: splosh, splash, slosh around
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: SLUSH

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🧩 4D: "4. "Gonna pass""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: NAH

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

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: OCD

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🧩 6D: "6. Even if, informally"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a branch of the tai languages
  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: THO

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🧩 7D: "7. Des Moines denizen"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a native or resident of iowa
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: IOWAN

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

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: PONZI

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🧩 9D: "9. Purchase at a pump"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

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

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🧩 10D: "10. Gives the go-ahead"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a state in south central united states
  • Similar words include: Sooner State, okey, Oklahoma
  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: OKS

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🧩 11D: "11. "Busy" buzzer"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species
  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: BEE

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🧩 12D: "12. Org. that orders audits"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the bureau of the treasury department responsible for tax collections
  • Similar words include: Internal Revenue Service
  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: IRS

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🧩 13D: "15. Flat-bottomed boat"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a flatbottom boat for carrying heavy loads (especially on canals)
  • Similar words include: push forward, hoy, lighter
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: BARGE

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

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: CHER

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

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that formerly the basic unit of money in ireland; equal to 100 pence
  • Similar words include: stake, game, gage
  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: PUNT

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

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

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

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🧩 17D: "23. Swerve"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that turn sharply; change direction abruptly
  • Similar words include: slew, sheer, trend
  • Opposite of: back
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: VEER

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🧩 18D: "24. Does some copy desk work"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting
  • Similar words include: redact, cut, delete
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: EDITS

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🧩 19D: "25. Semiaquatic salamander"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of north america and europe and northern asia
  • Similar words include: triton
  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: NEWT

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

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ENOLA

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🧩 21D: "27. Overcaffeinated, colloquially"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that provide with electrical circuits
  • Similar words include: pumped-up, pumped up, electrify
  • Opposite of: unwire, wireless
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: WIRED

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🧩 22D: "28. Have a feeling"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a general conscious awareness
  • Similar words include: sensory faculty, smell out, sentience
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: SENSE

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

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an unofficial association of people or groups
  • Similar words include: lot, stripe, dance band
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: BANDS

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

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: BICEP

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

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that united states writer (1871-1900)
  • Similar words include: Harold Hart Crane, stretch out, Stephen Crane
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: CRANE

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🧩 26D: "35. Situation Room grp."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a committee in the executive branch of government that advises the president on foreign and military and national security; supervises the central intelligence agency
  • Similar words include: National Security Council
  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: NSC

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

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
  • Similar words include: partake in, part, partake
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: SHARE

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

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top
  • Similar words include: bucket, pailful
  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: PAIL

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🧩 29D: "40. Lyft rival"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: UBER

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🧩 30D: "41. Bygone Russian ruler"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a male monarch or emperor (especially of russia prior to 1917)
  • Similar words include: tzar, czar
  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: TSAR

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

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that english essayist (1775-1834)
  • Similar words include: Charles Lamb, Elia, Lamb
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ELIAS

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

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove
  • Similar words include: phonograph recording, saucer, platter
  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: DISC

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

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a college or university building containing living quarters for students
  • Similar words include: hall, dormitory, residence hall
  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: DORM

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🧩 34D: "51. Gets closer"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that move towards
  • Similar words include: come near, come on, approach
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: NEARS

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🧩 35D: "52. Elaborate outfit"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a set of clothing (with accessories)
  • Similar words include: rig, outfit, turnout
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: GETUP

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🧩 36D: "53. Quantities of paper"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a large quantity of written matter
  • Similar words include: ream
  • Pattern: _____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: REAMS

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

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that extending the legs at right angles to the trunk (one in front and the other in back)
  • Similar words include: divide, separate, disconnected
  • Opposite of: unite
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: SPLIT

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🧩 38D: "57. Kill it, in a good way"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that kill intentionally and with premeditation
  • Similar words include: dispatch, bump off, polish off
  • Pattern: ____
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: SLAY

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🧩 39D: "58. Gossip, gossip, gossip"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that light informal conversation for social occasions
  • Similar words include: chit-chat, yak, small talk
  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: GAB

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🧩 40D: "59. Positive poem"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ODE

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

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun
  • Similar words include: topaz, bronze, sunburn
  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: TAN

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🧩 42D: "61. Celebrity gossip website"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: TMZ

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

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: CRU

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🧩 44D: "63. ___ Solo of "Star Wars""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

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

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

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in europe and `moose' in north america
  • Similar words include: European elk, Cervus elaphus, wapiti
  • Pattern: ___
🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)
Answer: ELK

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