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Date: Thursday, October 31, 2019
Difficulty Level: Medium Tuesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 76 (37 Across, 39 Down)
Average Word Length: 4.7 letters
October 31, 2019 Across Hints: NYT Thursday Crossword Answers
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. Sofa feature | 3 |
| 2A | 4. Vent | 6 |
| 3A | 10. Nasty campaign accusations | 3 |
| 4A | 13. Mauna ___ | 3 |
| 5A | 14. Lincoln ___, creator of the comic strip "Big Nate" | 6 |
| 6A | 15. Small-scale | 4 |
| 7A | 16. Abbr. that's almost always preceded by a comma | 3 |
| 8A | 17. They get kicked around a lot | 11 |
| 9A | 19. Ceremonial goblets | 8 |
| 10A | 21. Against expectations, say | 6 |
| 11A | 22. Another go | 4 |
| 12A | 23. Basic cable channel | 3 |
| 13A | 24. Travelers from afar, for short | 3 |
| 14A | 25. Rural shindigs | 12 |
| 15A | 30. Co. milestone | 3 |
| 16A | 31. Brouhaha | 4 |
| 17A | 32. Train to a plane | 4 |
| 18A | 36. Remove abruptly | 4 |
| 19A | 38. English county that's the setting for Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None" | 5 |
| 20A | 39. Money in Istanbul | 4 |
| 21A | 40. Not to mention | 4 |
| 22A | 41. One-named supermodel of the 1970s-'80s | 4 |
| 23A | 42. German article | 3 |
| 24A | 43. "You flabbergast me" | 12 |
| 25A | 48. Fill (up) | 3 |
| 26A | 51. Prefix with tourism | 3 |
| 27A | 52. Digs up some dirt | 4 |
| 28A | 53. Profile persona | 6 |
| 29A | 55. Mélanges | 8 |
| 30A | 59. Kind of experiment ... or a hint to 10 Down answers in this puzzle | 11 |
| 31A | 61. Trouble | 3 |
| 32A | 62. Takes responsibility for | 4 |
| 33A | 63. You're out of it if you're in it | 6 |
| 34A | 64. Wiliness | 3 |
| 35A | 65. ID checker | 3 |
| 36A | 66. Something with a movable feast | 6 |
| 37A | 67. "Absolutely!" | 3 |
Let's Solve the Across Clues Together!
Here are helpful hints to solve each clue. Remember, crossword puzzles are like word games - have fun with them!
Clue 1 Across: "1. Sofa feature"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a human limb; technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb
- Words that mean the same thing: weapon, branch, gird
- The opposite would be: disarm
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ARM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "4. Vent"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that leave or unload
- Words that mean the same thing: drop, unlade, put down
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: UNLOAD
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Across: "10. Nasty campaign accusations"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that water soaked soil; soft wet earth
- Words that mean the same thing: mire, clay, muck
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MUD
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Across: "13. Mauna ___"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LOA
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Clue 5 Across: "14. Lincoln ___, creator of the comic strip "Big Nate""
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that united states mathematician and astronomer remembered for his studies of uranus and saturn and neptune (1809-1880)
- Words that mean the same thing: Benjamin Peirce, Charles Peirce, Charles Sanders Peirce
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PEIRCE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Across: "15. Small-scale"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a very short skirt
- Words that mean the same thing: miniskirt
- The opposite would be: midi
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MINI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Across: "16. Abbr. that's almost always preceded by a comma"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ETC
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Across: "17. They get kicked around a lot"
Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SOCCERBALLS
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Clue 9 Across: "19. Ceremonial goblets"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a bowl-shaped drinking vessel; especially the eucharistic cup
- Words that mean the same thing: goblet, chalice
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CHALICES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Across: "21. Against expectations, say"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that humorously sarcastic or mocking
- Words that mean the same thing: wry, ironical, dry
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IRONIC
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "22. Another go"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that do over, as of (part of) a house
- Words that mean the same thing: refashion, reconstruct, make over
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: REDO
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Clue 12 Across: "23. Basic cable channel"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that north american republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in north america plus alaska in northwest north america and the hawaiian islands in the pacific ocean; achieved independence in 1776
- Words that mean the same thing: U.S., US Army, United States of America
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: USA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "24. Travelers from afar, for short"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ETS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "25. Rural shindigs"
Quick Info: This answer has 12 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HOOTENANNIES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "30. Co. milestone"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a corporation's first offer to sell stock to the public
- Words that mean the same thing: initial public offering, initial offering
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IPO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "31. Brouhaha"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TODO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "32. Train to a plane"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers
- Words that mean the same thing: trolley car, cable tramway, trolley
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TRAM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Across: "36. Remove abruptly"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an american who lives in the north (especially during the american civil war)
- Words that mean the same thing: jerk, Northerner, Yankee
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: YANK
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "38. English county that's the setting for Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None""
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a county in southwestern england
- Words that mean the same thing: Devonshire
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DEVON
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "39. Money in Istanbul"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the basic unit of money on malta; equal to 100 cents
- Words that mean the same thing: Maltese lira, Turkish lira, Italian lira
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LIRA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "40. Not to mention"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that in addition
- Words that mean the same thing: too, besides, likewise
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ALSO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "41. One-named supermodel of the 1970s-'80s"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IMAN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "42. German article"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that denoting a quantity consisting of 500 items or units
- Words that mean the same thing: five hundred, d, 500
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "43. "You flabbergast me""
Quick Info: This answer has 12 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IMSPEECHLESS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "48. Fill (up)"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be 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
- Words that mean the same thing: accelerator, gasconade, gas pedal
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GAS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "51. Prefix with tourism"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ECO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "52. Digs up some dirt"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a tool with a flat blade attached at right angles to a long handle
- Words that mean the same thing: hoe
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HOES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "53. Profile persona"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a new personification of a familiar idea
- Words that mean the same thing: incarnation, embodiment
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AVATAR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "55. Mélanges"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams
- Words that mean the same thing: dental amalgam, amalgam
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AMALGAMS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "59. Kind of experiment ... or a hint to 10 Down answers in this puzzle"
Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DOUBLEBLIND
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "61. Trouble"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that misery resulting from affliction
- Words that mean the same thing: woefulness, suffering
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: WOE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 32 Across: "62. Takes responsibility for"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that have ownership or possession of
- Words that mean the same thing: possess, own, have
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OWNS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 33 Across: "63. You're out of it if you're in it"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation
- Words that mean the same thing: enchantment, enchant, fascinate
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TRANCE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 34 Across: "64. Wiliness"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the products of human creativity; works of art collectively
- Words that mean the same thing: artwork, artistic production, fine art
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ART
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 35 Across: "65. ID checker"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an agency established in 2001 to safeguard united states transportation systems and insure safe air travel
- Words that mean the same thing: Transportation Security Administration
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TSA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 36 Across: "66. Something with a movable feast"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a christian celebration of the resurrection of christ; celebrated on the sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox
- Words that mean the same thing: easterly, east wind
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EASTER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 37 Across: "67. "Absolutely!""
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an affirmative
- The opposite would be: no
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: YES
Great job if you got it right!
Solve the Down: NYT Thursday Puzzle October 31, 2019
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. A Baldwin brother | 4 |
| 2D | 2. Kind of I.R.A. | 4 |
| 3D | 3. Colorful French cookies | 8 |
| 4D | 4. Good potential | 6 |
| 5D | 5. Former liberal, maybe | 6 |
| 6D | 6. Whopper | 3 |
| 7D | 7. Surgery sites, for short | 3 |
| 8D | 8. Star pitcher | 3 |
| 9D | 9. Mockery | 8 |
| 10D | 10. Get the lead out? | 4 |
| 11D | 11. Foot, fathom or furlong | 4 |
| 12D | 12. Playing pieces in Othello | 5 |
| 13D | 15. Who said "Where there is oppression, there is resistance" | 3 |
| 14D | 18. Scottish hillside | 4 |
| 15D | 20. Court cry | 3 |
| 16D | 23. Japanese noodle dish | 4 |
| 17D | 25. "Hey there!" | 4 |
| 18D | 26. Bud | 3 |
| 19D | 27. Returning to the original speed, on scores | 6 |
| 20D | 28. Fertilization targets | 3 |
| 21D | 29. The Blues of the N.H.L., on scoreboards | 3 |
| 22D | 33. Goes off into the sunset, say | 9 |
| 23D | 34. Is for two? | 3 |
| 24D | 35. Damage | 3 |
| 25D | 37. Swimmer in an ornamental pond | 3 |
| 26D | 38. Separate | 8 |
| 27D | 44. What corn can be ground into | 4 |
| 28D | 45. Orange Monopoly card | 6 |
| 29D | 46. One kneeling with the ball in a field goal attempt | 6 |
| 30D | 47. Relay part | 3 |
| 31D | 48. Gal in "Wonder Woman" | 5 |
| 32D | 49. Swears | 5 |
| 33D | 50. Hot spot | 5 |
| 34D | 54. TV channel with the slogan "We're comedy" | 3 |
| 35D | 55. [Sigh] | 4 |
| 36D | 56. Huge fortune | 4 |
| 37D | 57. What a glutton always wants | 4 |
| 38D | 58. Makeup of a match | 4 |
| 39D | 60. Provider of support | 3 |
Now Let's Solve the Down Clues!
Down clues go from top to bottom. Use the letters from your across answers to help!
Clue 1 Down: "1. A Baldwin brother"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ALEC
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. Kind of I.R.A."
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that united states writer whose novels portray middle-class jewish life (born in 1933)
- Words that mean the same thing: Philip Milton Roth, Philip Roth
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ROTH
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. Colorful French cookies"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MACARONS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. Good potential"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the highest or uppermost side of anything
- Words that mean the same thing: upper side, top, top side
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: UPSIDE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. Former liberal, maybe"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about history.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a conservative who subscribes to neoconservatism
- Words that mean the same thing: neoconservative
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NEOCON
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Down: "6. Whopper"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
- Words that mean the same thing: lie down, prevarication, dwell
- The opposite would be: arise, stand
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LIE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Down: "7. Surgery sites, for short"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a state in northwestern united states on the pacific
- Words that mean the same thing: Oregon, operating theater, operating theatre
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ORS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Down: "8. Star pitcher"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
- Words that mean the same thing: wizard, single, top-notch
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ACE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Down: "9. Mockery"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that contemptuous laughter
- Words that mean the same thing: ridicule
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DERISION
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Down: "10. Get the lead out?"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MINE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. Foot, fathom or furlong"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange
- Words that mean the same thing: social unit, unit of measurement, building block
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: UNIT
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Clue 12 Down: "12. Playing pieces in Othello"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be 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
- Words that mean the same thing: record, phonograph recording, phonograph record
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DISCS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Down: "15. Who said "Where there is oppression, there is resistance""
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of many body compounds (e.g., epinephrine and norepinephrine and serotonin)
- Words that mean the same thing: Mao Zedong, Mao Tsetung, monoamine oxidase
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MAO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Down: "18. Scottish hillside"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a slope or hillside
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BRAE
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Clue 15 Down: "20. Court cry"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that a brutal terrorist group active in kashmir; fights against india with the goal of restoring islamic rule of india
- Words that mean the same thing: Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, lease, permit
- The opposite would be: disallow, prevent
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The answer is: LET
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Clue 16 Down: "23. Japanese noodle dish"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about food & drink.
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- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: UDON
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Clue 17 Down: "25. "Hey there!""
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: HIYA
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Clue 18 Down: "26. Bud"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities
- Words that mean the same thing: chum, brother, pal up
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: PAL
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Clue 19 Down: "27. Returning to the original speed, on scores"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: ATEMPO
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Clue 20 Down: "28. Fertilization targets"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that the female reproductive cell; the female gamete
- Words that mean the same thing: egg cell, ovum
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: OVA
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Clue 21 Down: "29. The Blues of the N.H.L., on scoreboards"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
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- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: STL
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Clue 22 Down: "33. Goes off into the sunset, say"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: _________
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The answer is: RIDESAWAY
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Clue 23 Down: "34. Is for two?"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters
- Words that mean the same thing: ar, equal, personify
- The opposite would be: differ
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The answer is: ARE
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Clue 24 Down: "35. Damage"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that the month following february and preceding april
- Words that mean the same thing: blemish, spoil, March
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: MAR
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Clue 25 Down: "37. Swimmer in an ornamental pond"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
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- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: KOI
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Clue 26 Down: "38. Separate"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that constituting a separate entity or part
- Words that mean the same thing: distinct
- The word looks like this: ________
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The answer is: DISCRETE
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Clue 27 Down: "44. What corn can be ground into"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that the food served and eaten at one time
- Words that mean the same thing: repast
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: MEAL
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Clue 28 Down: "45. Orange Monopoly card"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances
- Words that mean the same thing: fortune, gamble, opportunity
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: CHANCE
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Clue 29 Down: "46. One kneeling with the ball in a field goal attempt"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a holding device
- Words that mean the same thing: bearer
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: HOLDER
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Clue 30 Down: "47. Relay part"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle
- Words that mean the same thing: branch, wooden leg, ramification
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: LEG
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Clue 31 Down: "48. Gal in "Wonder Woman""
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: GADOT
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Clue 32 Down: "49. Swears"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
- Words that mean the same thing: avow, assert, swan
- The opposite would be: disavow
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The answer is: AVOWS
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Clue 33 Down: "50. Hot spot"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a finnish steam bath; steam is produced by pouring water over heated rocks
- Words that mean the same thing: sweat room
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: SAUNA
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Clue 34 Down: "54. TV channel with the slogan "We're comedy""
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that a metallic element of the rare earth group; used in lasers; occurs in apatite and monazite and xenotime and ytterbite
- Words that mean the same thing: terbium, atomic number 65, tuberculosis
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: TBS
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Clue 35 Down: "55. [Sigh]"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism
- Words that mean the same thing: unfortunately, regrettably, unluckily
- The opposite would be: luckily, fortunately
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The answer is: ALAS
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Clue 36 Down: "56. Huge fortune"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
- Words that mean the same thing: great deal, passel, peck
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: MINT
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Clue 37 Down: "57. What a glutton always wants"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that english statesman who opposed henry viii's divorce from catherine of aragon and was imprisoned and beheaded; recalled for his concept of utopia, the ideal state
- Words that mean the same thing: Thomas More, Sir Thomas More, more than
- The opposite would be: less, fewer
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The answer is: MORE
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Clue 38 Down: "58. Makeup of a match"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
- Words that mean the same thing: go under, solidification, sic
- The opposite would be: rise
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The answer is: SETS
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Clue 39 Down: "60. Provider of support"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts
- Words that mean the same thing: bandeau, brassiere
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: BRA
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 46 | 60.5% |
| Short Answer | 24 | 31.6% |
| Abbreviation | 3 | 3.9% |
| History | 1 | 1.3% |
| Celebrity/Entertainment | 1 | 1.3% |
| Food & Drink | 1 | 1.3% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 37 |
| Down Clues | 39 |
| Total Clues | 76 |
| Average Answer Length | 4.7 letters |
| Shortest Answer | 3 letters |
| Longest Answer | 12 letters |
Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!
- Start with short words first - they're usually easier!
- Look for clues with blanks to fill in - these are like fill-in-the-blank questions at school
- When letters cross, they must be the same in both words - this helps you check if you're right!
- Today is Thursday, and these puzzles are usually medium level
- Most clues today are about general knowledge
- The average word today has about 4 letters
- Remember: It's okay to take breaks and come back later with fresh eyes!
- Ask someone for help if you need it - crosswords are more fun with friends!
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Last Updated: September 29, 2025 at 07:40 AM
