27445 Wed Jan 01, 2025 NY Times Crossword Clues Hints

Across Clues :

1. Rapscallion, 6. Certain tankful, 9. Kind of game that's a pitcher's dream, 14. Micronesian island that was the setting for a season of "Survivor", 15. Tuna type, 16. Airport near the intersection of I-90 and I-294, 17. Cove, 18. On the ___, 19. Christopher who directed "Oppenheimer", 20. Slangy suffix with "most", 21. "OK ... tell me", 24. N.B.A. 1-pointers: Abbr., 25. Exclamation from Homer, 26. Hero of "The Matrix", 27. "A work of ___ that isn't based on feeling isn't ___ at all": Cézanne, 28. "Look at Me, I'm Sandra ___" ("Grease" song), 29. Dickens's "The Mystery of ___ Drood", 31. Chinese greeting, 33. Tool for a pineapple, 35. 1990s sitcom featuring a bookstore, 38. You can count on them, 39. Rating for junk bonds, 42. Candymaker Wonka, 43. Chauvinist or racist, 44. In the style of, 45. Start of Caesar's boast, 46. Actress Hatcher, 47. Deposit, as an egg, 48. Patrick Stewart and Elton John, for two, 49. Singer on "Give Peace a Chance", 51. "Golden Girls" actress Arthur, 52. Sheds, with "off", 56. Stylish tote for an executive, 60. Worshiping rows, 61. Cousin of a croc, 63. The Emerald Isle, 64. "___ have to do", 65. Like the breeds Shetland and merino, 66. TALK LIKE THIS!, 67. Like a yenta, 68. Props for close-up magicians, 69. Arrogant sort

Down Clues :

1. Worked for the C.I.A., perhaps, 2. Playground retort, 3. Super-trendy, 4. West who said "Men are my life, diamonds are my career", 5. Set down on paper, 6. Cider unit, 7. Starbuck's higher-up?, 8. Ape or monkey, 9. In the dark about something nefarious, 10. "Well, lookee there!", 11. Place to see J.F.K., 12. Hopping mad, 13. Past, present or future, 22. Flowery necklace, 23. Multisport race, in short, 30. In a prim and proper way, 32. Singer with the #1 albums "As I Am" and "Girl on Fire", 33. What you might call a tipsy friend, 34. Last words?, 36. Symbols of wisdom, 37. 12/31, 39. Part of U.C.L.A.: Abbr., 40. Material used to make the object "illustrated" here, in a seasonal song, 41. Coral island, 50. "Yikes!", 51. Puts to sleep, say, 52. Take a turn with the object illustrated by the central black squares in this puzzle (leading to one of the four circled results), 53. Oscar-winning Jared, 54. Symbols of wisdom, 55. Word processing command, 56. Policy nerd, 57. "Très ___", 58. Singer Guthrie, 59. Chocolate money won or lost in this puzzle's game, 62. ___-tac-toe

Break down the NYT Crosswords: January 01, 2025

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

27445 Wed Jan 01, 2025 NY Times Crossword Clues Hints

Across Clues with Answers:

• The clue is 1. Rapscallion. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SCAMP

  Possible Answer : imp, scalawag, rascal, monkey, rapscallion, scamp, scallywag




• The clue is 6. Certain tankful. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: GAS

  Possible Answer : brag, petrol, swash, tout, bluster, shoot_a_line, gas_pedal, gas, gun, gasconade, vaunt, flatulency, boast, gaseous_state, flatulence, gasolene, throttle, natural_gas, accelerator_pedal, gasoline, blow, accelerator




• The clue is 9. Kind of game that's a pitcher's dream. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: NOHIT




• The clue is 14. Micronesian island that was the setting for a season of "Survivor". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: PALAU

  Possible Answer : TT, Republic_of_Palau, Palau_Islands, Palau, Belau, Pelew




• The clue is 15. Tuna type. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: AHI




• The clue is 16. Airport near the intersection of I-90 and I-294. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OHARE




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

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

  The answer: INLET

  Possible Answer : intake, inlet, recess




• The clue is 18. On the ___. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: LAM

  Possible Answer : scarper, escape, flail, break_away, scat, lam, take_to_the_woods, bunk, fly_the_coop, run, hightail_it, head_for_the_hills, run_away, getaway, thrash, thresh, turn_tail




• The clue is 19. Christopher who directed "Oppenheimer". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: NOLAN




• The clue is 20. Slangy suffix with "most". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: EST

  Possible Answer : Eastern_Time, EST, Eastern_Standard_Time




• The clue is 21. "OK ... tell me". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ILLBITE




• The clue is 24. N.B.A. 1-pointers: Abbr.. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: FTS

  Possible Answer : foot, ft




• The clue is 25. Exclamation from Homer. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: DOH

  Possible Answer : do, doh, ut




• The clue is 26. Hero of "The Matrix". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: NEO

  Possible Answer : neo




• The clue is 27. "A work of ___ that isn't based on feeling isn't ___ at all": Cézanne. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ART

  Possible Answer : graphics, art, artistic_production, artistry, nontextual_matter, artwork, artistic_creation, prowess, fine_art




• The clue is 28. "Look at Me, I'm Sandra ___" ("Grease" song). Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: DEE




• The clue is 29. Dickens's "The Mystery of ___ Drood". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: EDWIN

  Possible Answer : Edwin




• The clue is 31. Chinese greeting. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: NIHAO




• The clue is 33. Tool for a pineapple. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: CORER

  Possible Answer : corer




• The clue is 35. 1990s sitcom featuring a bookstore. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ELLEN




• The clue is 38. You can count on them. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ABACI

  Possible Answer : abacus




• The clue is 39. Rating for junk bonds. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: CCC

  Possible Answer : three_hundred, ccc, 300




• The clue is 42. Candymaker Wonka. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: WILLY




• The clue is 43. Chauvinist or racist. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: BIGOT

  Possible Answer : bigot




• The clue is 44. In the style of. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ALA

  Possible Answer : ala




• The clue is 45. Start of Caesar's boast. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ICAME




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

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

  The answer: TERI




• The clue is 47. Deposit, as an egg. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: LAY

  Possible Answer : repose, position, consist, place, lay, put_down, dwell, lie_down, laic, pose, ballad, set, secular, rest, put, lie_in, lie

  Possible Opposite Answer : arise, stand




• The clue is 48. Patrick Stewart and Elton John, for two. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SIRS

  Possible Answer : Sir, sir




• The clue is 49. Singer on "Give Peace a Chance". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ONO

  Possible Answer : Yoko_Ono, Ono




• The clue is 51. "Golden Girls" actress Arthur. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: BEA




• The clue is 52. Sheds, with "off". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SLOUGHS

  Possible Answer : sphacelus, shed, slough, molt, moult, exuviate, gangrene




• The clue is 56. Stylish tote for an executive. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: WORKBAG

  Possible Answer : workbag, workbox, workbasket




• The clue is 60. Worshiping rows. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: PEWS

  Possible Answer : pew, church_bench




• The clue is 61. Cousin of a croc. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: GATOR

  Possible Answer : alligator, gator




• The clue is 63. The Emerald Isle. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: EIRE

  Possible Answer : Ireland, Irish_Republic, Republic_of_Ireland, Eire




• The clue is 64. "___ have to do". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ITLL




• The clue is 65. Like the breeds Shetland and merino. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OVINE

  Possible Answer : ovine




• The clue is 66. TALK LIKE THIS!. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: YELL

  Possible Answer : shout, vociferation, holler, cry, yell, shout_out, scream, squall, outcry, call, hollo




• The clue is 67. Like a yenta. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: NOSY

  Possible Answer : nosy, nosey, prying, snoopy




• The clue is 68. Props for close-up magicians. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: DECKS

  Possible Answer : knock_down, adorn, embellish, bedight, beautify, coldcock, dump, deck, pack_of_cards, deck_of_cards, grace, decorate, floor, bedeck




• The clue is 69. Arrogant sort. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SNOT

  Possible Answer : snot, snob, prig, snoot

Down Clues and Answers:

• The clue is 1. Worked for the C.I.A., perhaps. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SPIED

  Possible Answer: sight, spy, stag, descry, snoop, spot, sleuth, espy

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

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

  The answer: CANSO

• The clue is 3. Super-trendy. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

  The answer: ALLTHERAGE

• The clue is 4. West who said "Men are my life, diamonds are my career". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: MAE

• The clue is 5. Set down on paper. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: PUTINWRITING

• The clue is 6. Cider unit. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: GALLON

  Possible Answer: congius, gal, Imperial_gallon, gallon

• The clue is 7. Starbuck's higher-up?. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: AHAB

  Possible Answer: Ahab

• The clue is 8. Ape or monkey. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SIMIAN

  Possible Answer: simian

• The clue is 9. In the dark about something nefarious. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: NONETHEWISER

• The clue is 10. "Well, lookee there!". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OHO

• The clue is 11. Place to see J.F.K.. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

  The answer: HALFDOLLAR

• The clue is 12. Hopping mad. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: IRATE

  Possible Answer: ireful, irate

• The clue is 13. Past, present or future. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TENSE

  Possible Answer: strain, tense, tense_up

  Possible Opposite Answer : unstrain, lax, relax, relaxed

• The clue is 22. Flowery necklace. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: LEI

  Possible Answer: garland, chaplet, wreath, lei, leu, coronal

• The clue is 23. Multisport race, in short. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TRI

• The clue is 30. In a prim and proper way. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

  The answer: DECOROUSLY

  Possible Answer: decorously

  Possible Opposite Answer : indecorously

• The clue is 32. Singer with the #1 albums "As I Am" and "Girl on Fire". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

  The answer: ALICIAKEYS

• The clue is 33. What you might call a tipsy friend. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: CAB

  Possible Answer: taxicab, cabriolet, cab, taxi, hack

• The clue is 34. Last words?. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OBIT

  Possible Answer: necrology, obituary, obit

• The clue is 36. Symbols of wisdom. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ELMS

  Possible Answer: elm_tree, elm, elmwood

• The clue is 37. 12/31. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: NYE

• The clue is 39. Part of U.C.L.A.: Abbr.. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: CAL

• The clue is 40. Material used to make the object "illustrated" here, in a seasonal song. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: CLAY

  Possible Answer: mud, Lucius_Clay, cadaver, clay, Lucius_DuBignon_Clay, the_Great_Compromiser, corpse, Clay, remains, Henry_Clay, stiff

• The clue is 41. Coral island. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: CAY

  Possible Answer: key, cay, Florida_key

• The clue is 50. "Yikes!". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OHGOD

• The clue is 51. Puts to sleep, say. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: BORES

  Possible Answer: caliber, drill_hole, calibre, bore-hole, tidal_bore, eager, dullard, drill, tire, gauge, bore, eagre, aegir

  Possible Opposite Answer : interest

• The clue is 52. Take a turn with the object illustrated by the central black squares in this puzzle (leading to one of the four circled results). Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SPIN

  Possible Answer: twist, reel, gyrate, tailspin, spin_out, birl, whirl, spin, twirl, twisting, spin_around

• The clue is 53. Oscar-winning Jared. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: LETO

  Possible Answer: Leto, Latona

• The clue is 54. Symbols of wisdom. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OWLS

  Possible Answer: bird_of_night, hooter, owl, bird_of_Minerva

• The clue is 55. Word processing command. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SAVE

  Possible Answer: deliver, economise, salve, redeem, keep_open, save_up, write, salvage, relieve, save, spare, lay_aside, bring_through, make_unnecessary, hold_open, economize, preserve, keep, pull_through, carry_through

• The clue is 56. Policy nerd. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: WONK

  Possible Answer: grind, nerd, swot, dweeb, wonk

• The clue is 57. "Très ___". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: BIEN

• The clue is 58. Singer Guthrie. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ARLO

• The clue is 59. Chocolate money won or lost in this puzzle's game. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: GELT

  Possible Answer: pelf, shekels, lolly, lucre, dough, boodle, moolah, simoleons, clams, sugar, loot, cabbage, scratch, bread, geld, dinero, gelt, wampum, lettuce, cut, kale

• The clue is 62. ___-tac-toe. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TIC

  Possible Answer: tic

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Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Moderate

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🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (40 clues)

🧩 1A: "1. Improvises during a gig"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

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• Think of something that a berber living in northern morocco
• Similar words include: flick, riffle, Riffian
• Pattern: _____

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🧩 2A: "6. Consider"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view
• Similar words include: hold, take for, view as
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: DEEM

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🧩 3A: "10. Workers alongside R.N.s"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

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• Pattern: ___

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Answer: DRS

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🧩 4A: "13. Loved to bits"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

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• Think of something that love intensely
• Similar words include: idolised, worshipped, adore
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: ADORED

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🧩 5A: "15. "You are something ___!""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

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• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ELSE

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🧩 6A: "16. "Yipes!""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

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• Pattern: ___

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Answer: EEK

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🧩 7A: "17. Independence Day banger"

📏 11 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing
• Similar words include: cracker, banger
• Pattern: ___________

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Answer: FIRECRACKER

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🧩 8A: "19. Tuna type in a poke bowl"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

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• Pattern: ___

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Answer: AHI

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🧩 9A: "20. Apt anagram of NOTE"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

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

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Answer: TONE

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🧩 10A: "21. Tissue torn by some athletes, in brief"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: ACL

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🧩 11A: "22. "I couldn't ___ less""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
• Similar words include: concern, give care, handle
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: CARE

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🧩 12A: "24. Handle some personal baggage?"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that fill by packing tightly
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: STOW

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🧩 13A: "25. Rush hour snarl"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

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Answer: TRAFFICJAM

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🧩 14A: "29. Big gulp"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a large and hurried swallow
• Similar words include: draft, draught, slog
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: SWIG

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🧩 15A: "31. Great Lake with the most consumable 26-Down"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a member of an iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of lake erie in northern ohio and northwest pennsylvania and western new york
• Similar words include: Lake Erie
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ERIE

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🧩 16A: "32. Dance in which the guest of honor is often raised in a chair"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

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• Pattern: ____

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Answer: HORA

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🧩 17A: "33. In good physical shape"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

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• Think of something that a display of bad temper
• Similar words include: burst, conniption, agree
• Opposite of: disagree, unfit

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Answer: FIT

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🧩 18A: "35. "Cómo ___ usted?""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

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• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ESTA

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🧩 19A: "37. Channel with a call to order?"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

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• Pattern: ___

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Answer: HSN

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🧩 20A: "38. Lego piece in the shape of a person or animal"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Pattern: _______

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Answer: MINIFIG

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🧩 21A: "42. Warm greeting to a spouse or partner"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

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• Pattern: _______

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Answer: HIHONEY

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🧩 22A: "44. Chowed down"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
• Similar words include: eat, consume, deplete
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: ATE

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🧩 23A: "45. Herbal refreshments"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water
• Similar words include: tea, Camellia sinensis, afternoon tea
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: TEAS

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🧩 24A: "47. Actor Levy of "Schitt's Creek""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DAN

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🧩 25A: "48. Actor Damon of the "Bourne" movies"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss
• Similar words include: matted, matte, flat
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: MATT

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🧩 26A: "50. ___ Way, block in Lower Manhattan where a popular cookie originated"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that chocolate cookie with white cream filling
• Similar words include: oreo cookie
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: OREO

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🧩 27A: "52. Religious faction"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a subdivision of a larger religious group
• Similar words include: religious order, religious sect, faction
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: SECT

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🧩 28A: "55. Recipient of two Golden Globe Best Actress nominations for Netflix's "GLOW""

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

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Answer: ALISONBRIE

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🧩 29A: "58. Dry, like Champagne"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (of champagne) extremely dry
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: BRUT

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🧩 30A: "60. Some hoppy brews, in brief"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: IPAS

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🧩 31A: "61. Thickness of wood or paper"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that one of the strands twisted together to make yarn or rope or thread; often used in combination
• Similar words include: provide, supply, run
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: PLY

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🧩 32A: "62. Yesteryear"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that time long past
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: YORE

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🧩 33A: "63. ___ Paulo, Brazil"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: SAO

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🧩 34A: "64. Cocktail party staple that may contain the ends of 17-, 25-, 38-, 42- and 55-Across"

📏 11 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that tray on which cheeses are served
• Similar words include: cheese tray
• Pattern: ___________

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Answer: CHEESEBOARD

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🧩 35A: "68. Tonsil-examining M.D."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: ENT

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🧩 36A: "69. Astronomically long time"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (gnosticism) a divine power or nature emanating from the supreme being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe
• Similar words include: eon
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: AEON

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🧩 37A: "70. Completed an alley-oop"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
• Similar words include: dip, plunge, douse
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: DUNKED

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🧩 38A: "71. Total jerk"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
• Similar words include: fuck, butt, arse
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: ASS

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🧩 39A: "72. This is not working!"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that something left after other parts have been taken away
• Similar words include: lie, rest period, sleep
• Opposite of: change, be active

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Answer: REST

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🧩 40A: "73. Short-tempered"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that easily irritated or annoyed
• Similar words include: pettish, petulant, fractious
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: TESTY

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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (38 clues)

🧩 1D: "1. Vessels that may be propelled with poles"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a large number or amount
• Similar words include: gobs, dozens, mint
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: RAFTS

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🧩 2D: "2. "Complete ___ Guides" (how-to series)"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a person of subnormal intelligence
• Similar words include: imbecile, cretin, idiot
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: IDIOTS

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🧩 3D: "3. "Unless something changes …""

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

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Answer: FORNOW

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🧩 4D: "4. Typical hotel or library amenity"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: FREEWIFI

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🧩 5D: "5. One of 60 in a min."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the systeme international d'unites
• Similar words include: s, second, Securities and Exchange Commission
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: SEC

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🧩 6D: "6. State with certainty"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that state emphatically and authoritatively
• Similar words include: announce, hold, adjudge
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DECLARE

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🧩 7D: "7. Reindeer relative"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in europe and `moose' in north america
• Similar words include: Alces alces, European elk, Cervus elaphus canadensis
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ELK

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🧩 8D: "8. WNW's opposite"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the compass point midway between east and southeast
• Similar words include: east southeast
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ESE

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🧩 9D: "9. Gracias : Spanish :: ___ : French"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MERCI

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🧩 10D: "10. Salutation in a breakup letter"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DEARJOHN

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🧩 11D: "11. Practice for opening night"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that engage in a rehearsal (of)
• Similar words include: practise, practice
• Pattern: ________

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Answer: REHEARSE

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🧩 12D: "12. Bit of Winter Olympics gear"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used in pairs for gliding over snow
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: SKI

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🧩 13D: "14. "Shucks!""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DRAT

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🧩 14D: "18. 43,560 square feet"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a unit of area (4840 square yards) used in english-speaking countries
• Similar words include: Akko, Akka, Accho
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ACRE

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🧩 15D: "23. German cry of annoyance"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ACH

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🧩 16D: "26. See 31-Across"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
• Similar words include: Pisces the Fishes, angle, Pisces
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: FISH

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🧩 17D: "27. Stinking to high heaven"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that offensively malodorous
• Similar words include: funky, smelly, stinking
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: FETID

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🧩 18D: "28. Quite a few"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `as' or `too' or `so' or `that'; amounting to a large but indefinite number
• Opposite of: few
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MANY

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🧩 19D: "30. Special talent"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that something acquired without compensation
• Similar words include: endowment, giving, give
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GIFT

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🧩 20D: "34. Attach with string"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TIEON

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🧩 21D: "36. Sounds of realization"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AHAS

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🧩 22D: "38. Parental term that is phonetically more difficult to say than "dada""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that informal terms for a mother
• Similar words include: mammy, mamma, mum
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MAMA

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🧩 23D: "39. Citizens of Venice and Verona"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a native or inhabitant of italy
• Similar words include: Italian
• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ITALIANS

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🧩 24D: "40. Nasal irrigation devices"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NETIPOTS

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🧩 25D: "41. Attire"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion
• Similar words include: garment, enclothe, fit out
• Opposite of: undress

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GARB

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🧩 26D: "43. In single file"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ONEBYONE

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🧩 27D: "46. Craftiest animal in the Garden of Eden"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
• Similar words include: ophidian, snake
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SERPENT

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🧩 28D: "49. PreCheck org."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an agency established in 2001 to safeguard united states transportation systems and insure safe air travel
• Similar words include: Transportation Security Administration
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TSA

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🧩 29D: "51. Deep fryer liquids"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water
• Similar words include: inunct, anele, fossil oil
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OILS

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🧩 30D: "53. Chorus from frogs"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog)
• Similar words include: pass away, murmur, pop off
• Opposite of: be born

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CROAKS

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🧩 31D: "54. Small tower on a castle"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a small tower extending above a building
• Similar words include: gun turret, gun enclosure
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TURRET

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🧩 32D: "56. Muppet who lives in a trash can"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an annual award by the academy of motion picture arts and sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance
• Similar words include: Academy Award
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OSCAR

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🧩 33D: "57. Gave a look"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified; often used in combination
• Similar words include: eye, eyeball
• Opposite of: eyeless

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EYED

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🧩 34D: "59. Stereotypical name for a stuffed bear"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that plaything consisting of a child's toy bear (usually plush and stuffed with soft materials)
• Similar words include: shimmy, shift, teddy bear
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TEDDY

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🧩 35D: "63. ___ of Galilee"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
• Similar words include: ocean
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SEA

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🧩 36D: "65. Tee-___ (giggle)"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HEE

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🧩 37D: "66. Dawn goddess"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

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

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EOS

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🧩 38D: "67. Conjunction that might start an objection"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that and nothing more
• Similar words include: only, merely, just
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BUT

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🧠 Expert Solving Strategies

🎯 Start Smart

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❓ Decode the Clues

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🔤 Use Cross-References

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

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38 Down Clues

78 Total Clues

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