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NYT Mini Crossword Today - Quick Puzzle Solutions for August 15, 2025

Published: Friday, August 15, 2025

Today's NYT Mini Crossword Overview

Solve today's NYT Mini Crossword with our carefully selected 8 across and 8 down clues. Perfect for a quick brain workout with strategic hints and letter frequency analysis.

Quick Navigation

• Puzzle Statistics
• Across Clues (8)
• Down Clues (8)
• Letter Frequency Analysis
• Quick Solving Tips

Mini Crossword Statistics

Today's Mini Puzzle Metrics

Metric	Value	Details
Total Clues	16	8 Across + 8 Down
Total Letters	68	All answer letters combined
Unique Letters	20	Distinct letters used
Average Word Length	4.2	Letters per answer
Difficulty Level	Medium	Based on word complexity

Across Clues - Mini Selection

8 Selected Across Clues with Hints

#	Clue	Letters	Hints	Answer
1A	26. Didn't follow	3	Starts with 'L' (3 letters) Similar to: chair	Reveal LED
2A	19. Engage in pugilism	3	Starts with 'B' (3 letters) Similar to: loge	Reveal BOX
3A	45. One of four suits in a tarot deck	4	Starts with 'C' (4 letters) Similar to: cupful	Reveal CUPS
4A	38. That feeling "when the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine"	5	Starts with 'A' (5 letters)	Reveal AMORE
5A	35. A real piece of work	3	Starts with 'J' (3 letters) Similar to: farm out	Reveal JOB
6A	52. Figure on the $10,000 bill, the largest U.S. note ever in public circulation	5	Starts with 'C' (5 letters) Similar to: Salmon Portland Chase	Reveal CHASE
7A	20. Rock alternative	5	Starts with 'P' (5 letters) Similar to: report	Reveal PAPER
8A	41. Some sky lights, in brief	4	Starts with 'U' (4 letters) Similar to: UFO	Reveal UFOS

Down Clues - Mini Selection

8 Selected Down Clues with Hints

#	Clue	Letters	Hints	Answer
1D	12. Like old voice mail messages	6	Starts with 'O' (6 letters)	Reveal ONTAPE
2D	2. Younger Simpson sister	6	Starts with 'A' (6 letters)	Reveal ASHLEE
3D	46. Cause for stitches	4	Starts with 'G' (4 letters) Similar to: slash	Reveal GASH
4D	49. P.I.	3	Starts with 'T' (3 letters) Similar to: investigator	Reveal TEC
5D	31. "On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service" memoirist, 2024	5	Starts with 'F' (5 letters)	Reveal FAUCI
6D	48. Hits up, as on TikTok	3	Starts with 'D' (3 letters) Similar to: diabetes mellitus	Reveal DMS
7D	24. Favoritism	4	Starts with 'B' (4 letters) Similar to: predetermine	Reveal BIAS
8D	42. "On the contrary …"	5	Starts with 'B' (5 letters)	Reveal BUTNO

Letter Frequency Analysis

Letter Frequency Bar Graph - Mini Crossword

A	8 (11.76%)
E	8 (11.76%)
S	7 (10.29%)
O	6 (8.82%)
B	4 (5.88%)
C	4 (5.88%)
P	4 (5.88%)
U	4 (5.88%)
H	3 (4.41%)
T	3 (4.41%)

Letter Distribution Table

Top 15 Most Frequent Letters

Rank	Letter	Count	Percentage	Usage Level
1	A	8	11.76%	High
2	E	8	11.76%	High
3	S	7	10.29%	High
4	O	6	8.82%	High
5	B	4	5.88%	High
6	C	4	5.88%	Medium
7	P	4	5.88%	Medium
8	U	4	5.88%	Medium
9	H	3	4.41%	Medium
10	T	3	4.41%	Medium
11	D	2	2.94%	Low
12	F	2	2.94%	Low
13	I	2	2.94%	Low
14	L	2	2.94%	Low
15	M	2	2.94%	Low

Quick Mini Crossword Solving Tips

Strategy Guide for Today's Puzzle

• Start with Short Words: Look for 3-4 letter answers first - they're usually the easiest entry points
• Common Letters First: Based on today's frequency analysis, focus on words with E, T, A, O, I, N
• Cross-Reference: Use intersecting letters from completed answers to solve harder clues
• Fill-in-the-Blanks: These clues (with underscores) are typically the most straightforward
• Word Patterns: Common endings like -ING, -TION, -NESS can help you work backwards
• Theme Recognition: Mini puzzles often have subtle themes - look for connections

Time-Saving Techniques

1. Scan all clues first before starting
2. Fill in definite answers immediately
3. Use pencil marks for uncertain letters
4. Check crossing letters for validation
5. Don't overthink simple clues

Common Mini Crossword Words

Here are frequently appearing words in NYT Mini puzzles:

Category	Common Words
3 Letters	ERA, ORE, ATE, ICE, ACE, EGO, AGE, ART
4 Letters	AREA, IDEA, EASE, ARIA, ANTE, IDLE, ORAL, IRON
5 Letters	ARENA, ERODE, AISLE, EMAIL, ESSAY, IDEAL, OCEAN, ALIEN

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About NYT Mini Crossword: The Mini is a smaller, quicker version of the classic New York Times crossword, typically featuring a 5x5 grid perfect for a coffee break solve.

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August 01, 2024 NYT Crosword Clues Answers

Auguest 01, 2024 Crosswords - CrosswordHints Blog

Welcome to the NYT Puzzle and Answers page! The New York Times Crossword is one of the most popular puzzles worldwide. Here are the clues and answers for today's puzzle.

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

Across Clues and Answers:

• 1. Tools for making belt holes - Show Answer
  

  AWLS

  (4 letters)

  Synonyms: awl



• 5. Cocktail served in a copper mug, familiarly - Show Answer
  

  MULE

  (4 letters)

  Synonyms: mule, scuff



• 9. Like a kite - Show Answer
  

  AVIAN

  (5 letters)

  Synonyms: avian



• 14. Signal to stop, say - Show Answer
  

  HAIL

  (4 letters)

  Synonyms: hail, acclaim, come, herald



• 15. Common ___ - Show Answer
  

  AREA

  (4 letters)

  Synonyms: arena, area, surface_area, country, region, expanse, domain, orbit, field, sphere



• 16. Tiny pest - Show Answer
  

  MIDGE

  (5 letters)

  Synonyms: midge



• 17. *They're found next to cabarets - Show Answer
  

  EXPONENTS

  (9 letters)

  Synonyms: proponent, exponent, index, advocator, power, advocate



• 19. Airpods come in them - Show Answer
  

  PAIRS

  (5 letters)

  Synonyms: yoke, duet, match, twosome, partner_off, pair_off, distich, pair, couplet, couple, geminate, dyad, duo, duad, mate, copulate, twin, brace, twain, span



• 20. Nearsighted sort - Show Answer
  

  MYOPE

  (5 letters)

  Synonyms: myope



• 21. Neighbor of Ursa Major - Show Answer
  

  LEO

  (3 letters)

  Synonyms: Leo_the_Lion, Lion, Leo



• 23. Champagne name - Show Answer
  

  MOET

  (4 letters)



• 24. *Viable investment plans - Show Answer
  

  PONZISCHEMES

  (12 letters)



• 28. Kind of protein for bodybuilders - Show Answer
  

  WHEY

  (4 letters)

  Synonyms: milk_whey, whey



• 31. Split - Show Answer
  

  DIVIDED

  (7 letters)

  Synonyms: split, divided, split_up, separate, fraction, dissever, shared_out, carve_up, dual-lane, disunite, part, shared, divide, divided_up

  Antonyms: united, multiply, unite



• 32. Occupants of 53-Across - Show Answer
  

  ETS

  (3 letters)



• 33. Like pomegranate seeds, but not apple seeds - Show Answer
  

  EATEN

  (5 letters)

  Synonyms: corrode, feed, exhaust, consume, use_up, eat, eat_up, run_through, rust, deplete, wipe_out, eat_on



• 34. Many a flower girl - Show Answer
  

  NIECE

  (5 letters)

  Synonyms: niece

  Antonyms: nephew



• 38. *They might be marked as absent - Show Answer
  

  EMAILS

  (6 letters)

  Synonyms: e-mail, netmail, electronic_mail, email

  Antonyms: snail_mail



• 40. *Baby talk - Show Answer
  

  ORALLY

  (6 letters)

  Synonyms: orally, by_word_of_mouth



• 41. Measure the depth of - Show Answer
  

  PLUMB

  (5 letters)

  Synonyms: plum, plumb, clean, plumb_bob, plummet



• 42. Like corduroy fabric - Show Answer
  

  RIDGY

  (5 letters)



• 45. Show signs of mythomania - Show Answer
  

  LIE

  (3 letters)

  Synonyms: dwell, Trygve_Lie, lie_in, lie_down, prevarication, Trygve_Halvden_Lie, Lie, rest, consist, lie

  Antonyms: arise, stand



• 46. Racetrack leader - Show Answer
  

  POLECAR

  (7 letters)



• 48. Google ___ - Show Answer
  

  MAPS

  (4 letters)

  Synonyms: function, mapping, mathematical_function, map_out, represent, map, single-valued_function



• 49. *Like some nasty habits - Show Answer
  

  BELOWTHEBELT

  (12 letters)



• 53. Subjects of Project Blue Book - Show Answer
  

  UFOS

  (4 letters)

  Synonyms: flying_saucer, unidentified_flying_object, UFO



• 54. Isaac Newton, from the age of 62 onward - Show Answer
  

  SIR

  (3 letters)

  Synonyms: sir, Sir



• 55. Tedium - Show Answer
  

  ENNUI

  (5 letters)

  Synonyms: ennui, boredom, tedium



• 59. Puts up on Zillow, perhaps - Show Answer
  

  LISTS

  (5 letters)

  Synonyms: name, lean, heel, number, inclination, leaning, list, tilt, listing



• 61. Many a gymgoer's goal … or what the starred clues in this puzzle must have for their answers to make sense? - Show Answer
  

  RIPPEDABS

  (9 letters)



• 64. [$@#%!] - Show Answer
  

  BLEEP

  (5 letters)

  Synonyms: bleep, beep



• 65. Lead-in to skeleton or scope - Show Answer
  

  ENDO

  (4 letters)



• 66. Where Columbus thought he had landed in 1498 - Show Answer
  

  EDEN

  (4 letters)

  Synonyms: Shangri-la, Eden, promised_land, nirvana, heaven, Garden_of_Eden, paradise



• 67. Junipero ___, known as the "Apostle of California" - Show Answer
  

  SERRA

  (5 letters)

  Synonyms: Miguel_Jose_Serra, Serra, Junipero_Serra



• 68. Trick-taking card game - Show Answer
  

  SKAT

  (4 letters)



• 69. Feature of a witch costume - Show Answer
  

  WART

  (4 letters)

  Synonyms: wart, verruca

Down Clues and Answers:

• 1. Interjection that might serve as a mild warning - Show Answer
  

  AHEM

  (4 letters)

  Synonyms: ahem, hem



• 2. Like some kitchen paper - Show Answer
  

  WAXY

  (4 letters)

  Synonyms: waxen, pliable, impressionable, bendable, waxlike, pliant, waxy, impressible

  Antonyms: unimpressionable



• 3. Cosmetic procedure, for short - Show Answer
  

  LIPO

  (4 letters)



• 4. Not careful - Show Answer
  

  SLOPPY

  (6 letters)

  Synonyms: boggy, slapdash, slipshod, waterlogged, muddy, marshy, soggy, overemotional, haphazard, sloughy, sloppy, quaggy, loose-fitting, squashy, mucky, miry, swampy, baggy



• 5. Fannie of the finance industry - Show Answer
  

  MAE

  (3 letters)



• 6. Popular subject for still-life drawing - Show Answer
  

  URN

  (3 letters)

  Synonyms: urn



• 7. Spare, perhaps - Show Answer
  

  LETLIVE

  (7 letters)



• 8. Makes a gradual entry - Show Answer
  

  EASESIN

  (7 letters)



• 9. Psych (up) - Show Answer
  

  AMP

  (3 letters)

  Synonyms: ampere, adenosine_monophosphate, A, amp, AMP, adenylic_acid



• 10. Middle ground, from the Latin - Show Answer
  

  VIAMEDIA

  (8 letters)



• 11. Bad apple or sour grapes, e.g. - Show Answer
  

  IDIOM

  (5 letters)

  Synonyms: idiomatic_expression, parlance, phrase, accent, artistic_style, idiom, dialect, set_phrase, phrasal_idiom



• 12. What subjects and their verbs should always does ... er, do? - Show Answer
  

  AGREE

  (5 letters)

  Synonyms: agree, fit_in, tally, check, concord, consort, concur, harmonize, jibe, correspond, fit, accord, hold, harmonise, gibe, match

  Antonyms: disagree



• 13. Things weavers weave - Show Answer
  

  NESTS

  (5 letters)

  Synonyms: cuddle, nestle, nest, draw_close, nuzzle, snuggle



• 18. ___-soul (music genre) - Show Answer
  

  NEO

  (3 letters)

  Synonyms: neo



• 22. Condition associated with hyperawareness, for short - Show Answer
  

  OCD

  (3 letters)



• 25. Documents that ensure secrecy, for short - Show Answer
  

  NDAS

  (4 letters)



• 26. Target of benzoyl peroxide - Show Answer
  

  ZIT

  (3 letters)

  Synonyms: hickey, pimple, zit



• 27. Novelist Miller - Show Answer
  

  HENRY

  (5 letters)

  Synonyms: Patrick_Henry, henry, William_Henry, Joseph_Henry, Henry, H



• 28. Go "Boo-hoo!" - Show Answer
  

  WEEP

  (4 letters)

  Synonyms: weep, cry

  Antonyms: laugh



• 29. Many pages are written using this - Show Answer
  

  HTML

  (4 letters)

  Synonyms: hypertext_markup_language, hypertext_mark-up_language, HTML



• 30. Isaac's firstborn - Show Answer
  

  ESAU

  (4 letters)

  Synonyms: Esau



• 33. Endpoint of a radius - Show Answer
  

  ELBOW

  (5 letters)

  Synonyms: cubital_joint, articulatio_cubiti, human_elbow, cubitus, elbow, elbow_joint



• 35. ___ the Elephant, childrens' TV character - Show Answer
  

  ELLA

  (4 letters)



• 36. Excerpt - Show Answer
  

  CLIP

  (4 letters)

  Synonyms: trot, trim, dress, crop, cartridge_holder, magazine, time, clipping, nip, lop, cut_back, jog, snip_off, snip, prune, nip_off, cut_short, cartridge_clip, curtail, clip

  Antonyms: unclip



• 37. They may be locked or rolled - Show Answer
  

  EYES

  (4 letters)

  Synonyms: heart, eye, oculus, eyeball, eyes, center, middle, optic, centre



• 39. Fraud - Show Answer
  

  IMPOSTER

  (8 letters)

  Synonyms: pretender, role_player, shammer, imposter, fake, pseud, faker, pseudo, fraud, impostor, sham



• 40. Man-eating menace - Show Answer
  

  OGRE

  (4 letters)

  Synonyms: demon, monster, ogre, fiend, devil



• 42. Brings back on - Show Answer
  

  REHIRES

  (7 letters)



• 43. Where you might find yourself on edge? - Show Answer
  

  ICERINK

  (7 letters)



• 44. Approximate recipe measure - Show Answer
  

  DAB

  (3 letters)

  Synonyms: tap, swob, dab, swab, pat, splatter, splash



• 47. Superiors of sgts. - Show Answer
  

  LTS

  (3 letters)



• 48. Stylized name for a caffeinated soft drink - Show Answer
  

  MTNDEW

  (6 letters)



• 49. Flower shop purchases - Show Answer
  

  BULBS

  (5 letters)

  Synonyms: electric-light_bulb, light_bulb, lightbulb, medulla, medulla_oblongata, electric_light, bulb, incandescent_lamp



• 50. Meet a mid-April deadline, say - Show Answer
  

  EFILE

  (5 letters)



• 51. Who pays all legal costs under the so-called "English rule" - Show Answer
  

  LOSER

  (5 letters)

  Synonyms: unsuccessful_person, failure, also-ran, loser, nonstarter

  Antonyms: winner, achiever



• 52. "Twisters" director ___ Isaac Chung - Show Answer
  

  LEE

  (3 letters)

  Synonyms: Shelton_Jackson_Lee, Robert_Edward_Lee, Robert_E._Lee, downwind, Richard_Henry_Lee, Rose_Louise_Hovick, lee, Spike_Lee, leeward, Tsung_Dao_Lee, Lighthorse_Harry_Lee, Henry_Lee, lee_side, Lee_Yuen_Kam, Lee, Gypsy_Rose_Lee, Bruce_Lee

  Antonyms: windward



• 56. Zilch - Show Answer
  

  NADA

  (4 letters)

  Synonyms: aught, nada, zip, naught, goose_egg, zilch, null, cypher, nil, nix, cipher, zero, zippo, nothing



• 57. Company that acquired Postmates in 2020 - Show Answer
  

  UBER

  (4 letters)



• 58. "___ that nice!" - Show Answer
  

  ISNT

  (4 letters)



• 60. Word with dog or day - Show Answer
  

  SPA

  (3 letters)

  Synonyms: watering_hole, watering_place, health_spa, resort_hotel, spa, health_club



• 62. Open show of intimacy, for short - Show Answer
  

  PDA

  (3 letters)

  Synonyms: personal_organizer, personal_organiser, organiser, PDA, personal_digital_assistant, organizer



• 63. Flower shop purchase - Show Answer
  

  POT

  (3 letters)

  Synonyms: peck, muckle, deal, green_goddess, potty, flowerpot, passel, smoke, sess, batch, great_deal, quite_a_little, gage, tummy, mint, flock, heap, good_deal, bay_window, potful, can, tidy_sum, slew, weed, locoweed, pile, plenty, toilet, throne, raft, wad, mess, commode, pot, Mary_Jane, crapper, hatful, lot, stack, spate, mass, sight, sens, grass, dope, kitty, mountain, stool, corporation, potentiometer, skunk, jackpot, potbelly, mickle

November 06, 2000 NYT Clues Answers

NYT Crossword and Answers - November 06, 2000

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. Mideast's Meir: GOLDA
• 6. Quench: SLAKE
• 11. Reverse of ENE: WSW
• 14. French ___ soup: ONION
• 15. Old postcard cost: PENNY
• 16. News agcy.: UPI
• 17. Special person: SMARTCOOKIE
• 19. Forty winks: NAP
• 20. "Help yourself": HERE
• 21. At an angle: ATILT
• 22. Store goods: Abbr.: MDSE
• 23. Humorist Sahl: MORT
• 25. Highly regards: ESTEEMS
• 27. Eye chart eyers, at times: SQUINTERS
• 31. Opposite of vert.: HOR
• 32. Part of a litter: PUP
• 33. Cubs slugger Sammy: SOSA
• 34. Viewed like a tourist: GAWKED
• 37. Cloak-and-dagger org.: CIA
• 38. Special person: HOTSHOT
• 40. Jerusalem's land: Abbr.: ISR
• 41. When there's darkness, in a Koestler title: ATNOON
• 43. Makes lace: TATS
• 44. Code-cracking org.: NSA
• 45. "Le Coq ___": DOR
• 46. Alcove from which to watch the street: BAYWINDOW
• 48. Cane cutter: MACHETE
• 51. Tiny biter: MITE
• 52. Roswell sightings: UFOS
• 53. Killer whales: ORCAS
• 55. V-J Day ended it: WWII
• 59. Comic Conway: TIM
• 60. Special person: CRACKERJACK
• 62. Bard's before: ERE
• 63. Composer Erik: SATIE
• 64. Transplant taker: DONEE
• 65. ___ Bingle (Crosby moniker): DER
• 66. Not your or my: THEIR
• 67. Helps with a heist: ABETS

Down:

• 1. "Gee whillikers!": GOSH
• 2. "This round's ___!": ONME
• 3. Make-up artist?: LIAR
• 4. Start of the musical scale: DOREMI
• 5. Small colonist: ANT
• 6. Unscientific survey: SPOTTEST
• 7. Fifth-century pope who was sainted: LEOI
• 8. Bobbysocks reach them: ANKLES
• 9. Sweaters, e.g.: KNITS
• 10. CBS symbol: EYE
• 11. Special person: WUNDERKIND
• 12. Involuntary jerk: SPASM
• 13. Uses a towel: WIPES
• 18. Saturday morning TV showing: CARTOON
• 22. Cat's plaint: MEOW
• 24. Not at sea: ONSHORE
• 26. "Eureka!": THATSIT
• 27. Pet lovers' org.: SPCA
• 28. Give up: QUIT
• 29. Special person: UPANDCOMER
• 30. Haile Selassie disciple: RASTA
• 34. Finally learned: GOTWISE
• 35. Exxon, once: ESSO
• 36. Gunfight command: DRAW
• 39. Knockout punch: HAYMAKER
• 42. Sounds of envy: OOHS
• 46. Tongue-lash: BERATE
• 47. A bored worker might look for one: NEWJOB
• 48. With the sound off: MUTED
• 49. Like a house ___: AFIRE
• 50. Synagogue scroll: TORAH
• 54. 202, to Tiberius: CCII
• 56. Wind down: WANE
• 57. "Body Count" rapper: ICET
• 58. Alibi ___ (excuse makers): IKES
• 60. Mpls. clock setting: CST
• 61. Nutritional std.: RDA

NYT Crossword Answers & Hints - July 22, 2025 | XWordHint Today Vibez

NYT Crossword Answers & Hints – July 22, 2025 | XWordHint Today Trends & Vibez

Published on Tuesday, July 22, 2025 • Daily puzzle hints • Crossword clues © The New York Times

Master today's NYT crossword with our expert hint system. We provide synonyms, antonyms, and strategic clues to help you solve without spoiling the fun. Perfect for crossword lover who want that satisfying "aha!" moment.

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 (39 clues)

🧩 1A: "1. Someone getting the red-carpet treatment, in brief"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an important or influential (and often overbearing) person
• Similar words include: high-up, panjandrum, high muckamuck
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: VIP

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 2A: "4. Lather on a latte"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid
• Similar words include: fizz, form bubbles, effervesce
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: FOAM

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 3A: "8. Chew (on)"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that bite or chew on with the teeth
• Similar words include: eat at, erode, gnaw at
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GNAW

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 4A: "12. Purple smoothie berry"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ACAI

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🧩 5A: "14. Utah ski resort"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ALTA

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🧩 6A: "15. Direction when things go bad"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the region of the united states lying to the south of the mason-dixon line
• Similar words include: Confederate States, Confederate States of America, due south
• Opposite of: north

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SOUTH

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 7A: "16. Big ask ... or a hint to this puzzle's shaded squares?"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TALLORDER

💡 Remember this word for future puzzles!

🧩 8A: "18. Black tea variety"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a superior grade of black tea; grown in india and sri lanka and java
• Similar words include: orange pekoe
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PEKOE

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🧩 9A: "19. Ultra-vibrant colors"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in the air in small amounts
• Similar words include: neon, atomic number 10, Ne
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NEONS

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🧩 10A: "20. "Come again??," casually"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SCUSEME

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🧩 11A: "22. In competition (for)"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others
• Similar words include: compete, vie, contend
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: VYING

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🧩 12A: "25. Inits. of the first female presidential candidate for a major party"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HRC

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🧩 13A: "26. County at one end of the River Thames"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a county in southeastern england on the north sea and the thames estuary
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ESSEX

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🧩 14A: "29. Deep-sea predator"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
• Similar words include: Orcinus orca, killer, sea wolf
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ORCA

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🧩 15A: "31. Phenomena leading some to believe that we are not alone"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown; especially those considered to have extraterrestrial origins
• Similar words include: flying saucer, UFO, unidentified flying object
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: UFOS

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🧩 16A: "35. Sore, as joints"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that causing a dull and steady pain
• Similar words include: aching
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ACHY

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🧩 17A: "36. Ruin, as the end of a movie"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war)
• Similar words include: bollocks up, flub, bollix
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SPOIL

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🧩 18A: "37. Accessory for Batman or Robin"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a strip of land projecting into a body of water
• Similar words include: ness, mantle
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CAPE

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🧩 19A: "38. Quartet minus one"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
• Similar words include: leash, triad, tercet
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: TRIO

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🧩 20A: "39. "What a ___!" ("Nonsense!")"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
• Similar words include: lampblack, smut, earthenware jar
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: CROCK

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🧩 21A: "40. Was certain of"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
• Similar words include: fuck, experience, have it off
• Opposite of: ignore

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Answer: KNEW

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🧩 22A: "41. Posting at the start of a drive-thru"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a list of dishes available at a restaurant
• Similar words include: carte, fare, computer menu
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MENU

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🧩 23A: "42. Wanders here and there"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
• Similar words include: cast, rove, stray
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ROVES

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🧩 24A: "43. Storybook baddie"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a cruel wicked and inhuman person
• Similar words include: monster, devil, demon
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OGRE

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🧩 25A: "44. Females in flocks"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a member of a people living in southern benin and togo and southeastern ghana
• Similar words include: Ewe, ewe
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EWES

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🧩 26A: "45. Company whose business is picking up?"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: UBER

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🧩 27A: "46. "Such a pity!""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SOSAD

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🧩 28A: "47. Planetary body, to poets"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye
• Similar words include: orbit, revolve, eyeball
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ORB

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🧩 29A: "49. Playground comeback to "You have no idea!""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DOTOO

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🧩 30A: "51. Powerhouse competitors in women's Olympic gymnastics"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TEAMUSA

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🧩 31A: "55. Wreak ___ (cause chaos)"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that violent and needless disturbance
• Similar words include: mayhem
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HAVOC

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🧩 32A: "58. Superb grade"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: APLUS

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🧩 33A: "59. Eagerly obtained ... or a hint to the contents of this puzzle's shaded squares?"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SCOOPEDUP

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🧩 34A: "63. Place for umbrellas"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BEACH

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🧩 35A: "64. Some hoppy drinks at happy hour, in brief"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: IPAS

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🧩 36A: "65. Hollywood icon Hayworth"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RITA

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🧩 37A: "66. Informal hangout at which attendees may jam or gossip"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SESH

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🧩 38A: "67. It's your destiny"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
• Similar words include: destine, lot, luck
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: FATE

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🧩 39A: "68. Fresh on the scene"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
• Similar words include: newfangled, young, newly
• Opposite of: worn, old

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Answer: NEW

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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (37 clues)

🧩 1D: "1. Big winery fixture"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a tax levied on the difference between a commodity's price before taxes and its cost of production
• Similar words include: value-added tax, ad valorem tax, tub
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: VAT

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🧩 2D: "2. Volunteer's confident cry"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ICAN

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🧩 3D: "3. Ashen-faced"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a wooden strip forming part of a fence
• Similar words include: wan, blanch, sick
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PALE

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🧩 4D: "4. Iranian language from which we get "turban""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a person of iranian descent
• Similar words include: Persian
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: FARSI

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🧩 5D: "5. Obsolete"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')
• Similar words include: former, quondam, erstwhile
• Opposite of: new, young

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OLD

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🧩 6D: "6. Took a side?"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
• Similar words include: exhaust, eat on, wipe out
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ATE

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🧩 7D: "7. Planet whose evening temperatures plunge to -200°F"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a small reddish planet that is the 4th from the sun and is periodically visible to the naked eye; minerals rich in iron cover its surface and are responsible for its characteristic color
• Similar words include: March, mar, Red Planet
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MARS

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🧩 8D: "8. Enjoys immensely"

📏 14 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GOESCUCKOOOVER

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🧩 9D: "9. Heat in the microwave"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the warhead of a missile designed to deliver an atom bomb
• Similar words include: micro-cook, atomize, microwave
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NUKE

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🧩 10D: "10. Basic building block"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (physics and chemistry) the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element
• Similar words include: molecule, particle, mote
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ATOM

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🧩 11D: "11. "This roller coaster is awes-o-o-o-ome!""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: WHEE

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🧩 12D: "13. Words that express a deep-felt affection"

📏 14 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ILOVEYOUSOMUCH

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🧩 13D: "15. Part of a cowgirl's boot"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
• Similar words include: branch line, spine, prod
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SPUR

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🧩 14D: "17. Jet-black stone"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a chalcedony with alternating black and white bands; used in making cameos
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ONYX

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🧩 15D: "21. Supplies for making sidewalk art"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a soft whitish calcite
• Similar words include: deoxyephedrine, ice, shabu
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CHALKS

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🧩 16D: "23. "Easy peasy!""

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NOPROB

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🧩 17D: "24. Shook it to the beat"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that make a groove in, or provide with a groove
• Similar words include: well-grooved, furrow, groove
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GROOVED

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🧩 18D: "26. Directions on the cake in "Alice in Wonderland""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EATME

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🧩 19D: "27. Fastener with threads"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that someone who guards prisoners
• Similar words include: chouse, prison guard, fuck
• Opposite of: unscrew

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SCREW

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🧩 20D: "28. What starry skies and star pupils do"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light
• Similar words include: glow, radiate, effulgence
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SHINE

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🧩 21D: "30. Roman orator who said "Silence is one of the great arts of conversation""

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a linear unit of the size of type slightly larger than an em
• Similar words include: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Tully
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CICERO

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🧩 22D: "32. Vampire bat feature"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a bantu language spoken in cameroon
• Similar words include: fang, Fang
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: FANGS

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🧩 23D: "33. Work of Puccini or Bellini"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes
• Similar words include: opera house
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OPERA

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🧩 24D: "34. Stitched (up)"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that fasten by sewing; do needlework
• Similar words include: sewn, tailor, sew
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SEWED

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🧩 25D: "36. Outfits for E.R. staff"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that protective garment worn by surgeons during operations
• Similar words include: gown, bush, chaparral
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SCRUBS

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🧩 26D: "46. Ivory or Dove"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a cleansing agent made from the salts of vegetable or animal fats
• Similar words include: easy lay, goop, scoop
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SOAP

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🧩 27D: "48. Be in a big hurry"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner
• Similar words include: cannonball along, speed, boot
• Opposite of: linger, delay

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RUSH

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🧩 28D: "50. The items over there"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: THOSE

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🧩 29D: "51. Kept ___ on (monitored)"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the bill in a restaurant
• Similar words include: yellow journalism, check, pill
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TABS

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🧩 30D: "52. Weapon for a duel"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EPEE

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🧩 31D: "53. "Ah, such is life!""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism
• Similar words include: regrettably, unfortunately, ala
• Opposite of: luckily, fortunately

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ALAS

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🧩 32D: "54. "Keep dreaming, pal!""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ASIF

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🧩 33D: "56. Father of Thor in both myth and the Marvel Universe"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (norse mythology) ruler of the aesir; supreme god of war and poetry and knowledge and wisdom (for which he gave an eye) and husband of frigg; identified with the teutonic wotan
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ODIN

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🧩 34D: "57. Just adorable"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness
• Similar words include: precious, cunning
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CUTE

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🧩 35D: "60. Tax prep pro"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an accountant who has passed certain examinations and met all other statutory and licensing requirements of a united states state to be certified by that state
• Similar words include: certified public accountant
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CPA

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🧩 36D: "61. Something to feed a steed"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that annual grass of europe and north africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats')
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OAT

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🧩 37D: "62. Pussy foot?"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a clawed foot of an animal especially a quadruped
• Similar words include: manus, mitt, hand
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PAW

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🧠 Expert Solving Strategies

🎯 Start Smart

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❓ Decode the Clues

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Let intersecting letters guide you. One correct answer unlocks several others.

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37 Down Clues

76 Total Clues

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