1A: "1. Caveat ___ ("Buyer beware")"
6 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who buys
- Similar words include: buyer, purchaser, vendee
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: EMPTOR Remember this word for future puzzles!
2A: "7. Spice that's characteristic of Hungarian cooking"
7 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers
- Similar words include: sweet pepper plant, pimiento, pimento
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: PAPRIKA Remember this word for future puzzles!
3A: "14. Marvel Comics mutant who can freeze his own body"
6 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who cuts and delivers ice
- Similar words include: hatchet man
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ICEMAN Remember this word for future puzzles!
4A: "20. Arizona county or Indigenous people"
6 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of the north american indian people formerly living in the colorado river valley in arizona and nevada and california
- Similar words include: Mojave Desert, Mojave, Mohave Desert
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: MOHAVE Remember this word for future puzzles!
5A: "21. Tries some water, say"
7 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
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Answer: HASASIP Remember this word for future puzzles!
6A: "22. Like a win-win situation"
6 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
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Answer: NOLOSE Remember this word for future puzzles!
7A: "23. ___ law, concept in computing technology"
6 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states composer of works noted for their use of the american vernacular (1893-1969)
- Similar words include: Moore, G. E. Moore, tie up
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: MOORES Remember this word for future puzzles!
8A: "24. Alternative to a nanny"
7 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that childcare during the day while parents work
- Similar words include: day care
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: DAYCARE Remember this word for future puzzles!
9A: "25. Fire starters"
6 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony
- Similar words include: Flint, Flint River, flint
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: FLINTS Remember this word for future puzzles!
10A: "26. Contents of a flagon"
3 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the united states an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ALE Remember this word for future puzzles!
11A: "27. Ole Miss athletes, to fans"
4 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that `johnny' was applied as a nickname for confederate soldiers by the federal soldiers in the american civil war; `greyback' derived from their grey confederate uniforms
- Similar words include: Johnny, greyback, Reb
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: REBS Remember this word for future puzzles!
12A: "29. X"
3 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the circulating life energy that in chinese philosophy is thought to be inherent in all things; in traditional chinese medicine the balance of negative and positive forms in the body is believed to be essential for good health
- Similar words include: khi, qi, ch'i
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CHI Remember this word for future puzzles!
13A: "30. ___ Scott, whom the Supreme Court said was not free to sue for his freedom"
4 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
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Answer: DRED Remember this word for future puzzles!
14A: "32. Org. not getting many happy returns?"
3 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the bureau of the treasury department responsible for tax collections
- Similar words include: Internal Revenue Service
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IRS Remember this word for future puzzles!
15A: "33. Remove surgically, as tissue"
6 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that wear away through erosion or vaporization
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ABLATE Remember this word for future puzzles!
16A: "35. "They tell me …""
5 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
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Answer: IHEAR Remember this word for future puzzles!
17A: "37. Beethoven symphony originally intended to honor Napoleon"
6 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
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Answer: EROICA Remember this word for future puzzles!
18A: "39. Class that might cause some high schoolers to blush"
6 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease
- Similar words include: wellness
- Opposite of: illness
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Answer: HEALTH Remember this word for future puzzles!
19A: "40. Sprawling Indian metropolis"
5 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a city in north central india
- Similar words include: Old Delhi
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DELHI Remember this word for future puzzles!
20A: "41. Like some bridges"
6 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a consonant articulated with the tip of the tongue near the gum ridge
- Similar words include: dental consonant, alveolar, alveolar consonant
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: DENTAL Remember this word for future puzzles!
21A: "42. "Let me check on that""
6 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
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Answer: ILLASK Remember this word for future puzzles!
22A: "44. Expiates, with "for""
6 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make amends for
- Similar words include: abye, aby, atone
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ATONES Remember this word for future puzzles!
23A: "46. Man's name that's 49-Across plus a letter"
4 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
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Answer: EVAN Remember this word for future puzzles!
24A: "49. Woman's name that's the first three letters of 46-Across"
3 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
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Answer: EVA Remember this word for future puzzles!
25A: "50. Rap battle participants"
3 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one million periods per second
- Similar words include: MHz, megacycle per second, megacycle
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MCS Remember this word for future puzzles!
26A: "53. Tampa Bay athlete, in brief"
3 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
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Answer: BUC Remember this word for future puzzles!
27A: "54. Twists off course, as a ship"
4 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions
- Similar words include: framboesia, swerve, yawn
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: YAWS Remember this word for future puzzles!
28A: "58. Witch"
3 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an ugly evil-looking old woman
- Similar words include: beldam, crone, slime eels
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HAG Remember this word for future puzzles!
29A: "59. Exploited"
4 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose
- Similar words include: apply, victimized, use
- Opposite of: misused
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Answer: USED Remember this word for future puzzles!
30A: "60. "Weekend Update" co-host Michael"
3 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
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Answer: CHE Remember this word for future puzzles!
31A: "61. All over again"
4 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that again but in a new or different way
- Similar words include: afresh
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ANEW Remember this word for future puzzles!
32A: "63. ___Guessr, hit online game whose players deduce locations from Google Street View images"
3 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
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Answer: GEO Remember this word for future puzzles!
33A: "64. Where a hurricane forms"
5 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere
- Similar words include: sea
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OCEAN Remember this word for future puzzles!
34A: "66. Wish someone "Happy Birthday," perhaps"
9 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
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Answer: SENDACARD Remember this word for future puzzles!
35A: "69. At dawn, say"
5 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time
- Similar words include: early on, betimes, too soon
- Opposite of: late, middle
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Answer: EARLY Remember this word for future puzzles!
36A: "71. Mammal with long whiskers"
6 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber
- Similar words include: sea horse, seahorse
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: WALRUS Remember this word for future puzzles!
37A: "73. Extra"
5 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that anything that tends to arouse
- Similar words include: fillip, incentive
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BONUS Remember this word for future puzzles!
38A: "74. They stand for art"
6 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an upright tripod for displaying something (usually an artist's canvas)
- Similar words include: easel
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: EASELS Remember this word for future puzzles!
39A: "75. Called"
6 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that name formally or designate with a term
- Similar words include: term
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TERMED Remember this word for future puzzles!
40A: "77. ___ Day, Billie Holiday's portrayer in "The United States vs. Billie Holiday""
5 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
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Answer: ANDRA Remember this word for future puzzles!
41A: "78. Celebrity chef Ina"
6 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
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Answer: GARTEN Remember this word for future puzzles!
42A: "79. Demanding entertainer"
4 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a distinguished female operatic singer; a female operatic star
- Similar words include: prima donna
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DIVA Remember this word for future puzzles!
43A: "80. X"
3 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system
- Similar words include: x, tenner, X
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TEN Remember this word for future puzzles!
44A: "82. He was né Clay"
3 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942)
- Similar words include: Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali, Cassius Marcellus Clay
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ALI Remember this word for future puzzles!
45A: "83. Watchdog's warning"
3 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
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Answer: GRR Remember this word for future puzzles!
46A: "84. Words of understanding"
4 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
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Answer: ISEE Remember this word for future puzzles!
47A: "86. Outback baby"
4 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
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Answer: JOEY Remember this word for future puzzles!
48A: "87. Familiar initialism coined by a U.S. Air Force captain"
3 letters Category: General Knowledge
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, unidentified flying object
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: UFO Remember this word for future puzzles!
49A: "88. Do-over at Wimbledon"
3 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a brutal terrorist group active in kashmir; fights against india with the goal of restoring islamic rule of india
- Similar words include: get, countenance, Lashkar-e-Taiba
- Opposite of: disallow, prevent
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Answer: LET Remember this word for future puzzles!
50A: "89. Kind of sauce at a sushi bar"
3 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in europe and america; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EEL Remember this word for future puzzles!
51A: "90. Sewer in American history"
4 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that scottish explorer who led arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the northwest passage (1777-1856)
- Similar words include: John Ross, Nellie Ross, Betsy Griscom Ross
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ROSS Remember this word for future puzzles!
52A: "91. "Weekend Update" show, for short"
3 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
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Answer: SNL Remember this word for future puzzles!
53A: "92. Zipped"
4 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that move faster
- Similar words include: rush along, pelt along, belt along
- Opposite of: linger, decelerate
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Answer: SPED Remember this word for future puzzles!
54A: "93. Like some alcohol … or places that prohibit alcohol"
3 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages
- Similar words include: prohibitionist, ironical, teetotal
- Opposite of: phlegmy, sweet
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Answer: DRY Remember this word for future puzzles!
55A: "94. Not present and not excused, for short"
4 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one who is away or absent without leave
- Similar words include: truant
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AWOL Remember this word for future puzzles!
56A: "96. Foreign policy grp."
3 letters Category: Wordplay
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: ___
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Answer: NSC Remember this word for future puzzles!
57A: "97. Brezhnev of the Soviet Union"
6 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
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Answer: LEONID Remember this word for future puzzles!
58A: "99. Cherokee and Cheyenne"
6 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a social division of (usually preliterate) people
- Similar words include: kindred, kinship group, kin
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TRIBES Remember this word for future puzzles!
59A: "101. Relationship featuring casual intimacy … or a hint to six pairs of intersecting answers in this puzzle"
19 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________________
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Answer: FRIENDSWITHBENEFITS Remember this word for future puzzles!
60A: "108. Starbucks competitor"
5 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
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Answer: PEETS Remember this word for future puzzles!
61A: "109. Spot for an ornament"
7 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
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Answer: CARHOOD Remember this word for future puzzles!
62A: "110. Giants in California and New York"
5 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a cooperative unit (especially in sports)
- Similar words include: squad, team up, team
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TEAMS Remember this word for future puzzles!
63A: "112. "Beat it!""
7 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
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Answer: AMSCRAY Remember this word for future puzzles!
64A: "115. Actor Wilson of "The Office""
5 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
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Answer: RAINN Remember this word for future puzzles!
65A: "116. Rye, e.g."
7 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a liquor made from fermented mash of grain
- Similar words include: whisky
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: WHISKEY Remember this word for future puzzles!
66A: "118. "Wouldn't miss it for the world!""
7 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
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Answer: IMTHERE Remember this word for future puzzles!
67A: "119. Like slow filers and fast drivers, at times"
5 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that issue a ticket or a fine to as a penalty
- Similar words include: fine, fin, break water
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: FINED Remember this word for future puzzles!
68A: "120. Furniture retailer owned by Williams-Sonoma"
7 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
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Answer: WESTELM Remember this word for future puzzles!
69A: "121. Lives (in)"
7 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make one's home in a particular place or community
- Similar words include: rest, reside, lodge in
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: RESIDES Remember this word for future puzzles!
70A: "122. Iditarod transports"
5 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow
- Similar words include: sleigh, sledge, sled
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SLEDS Remember this word for future puzzles!
71A: "123. Involves"
7 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that land received by fee tail
- Similar words include: imply, fee-tail, implicate
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ENTAILS Remember this word for future puzzles!
