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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (68 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (70 clues)
- Down Clues - Detailed Hints
- Expert Solving Strategies
- Today's Puzzle Statistics
Today's Puzzle Difficulty: Moderate
Pro Tip: Start with the fill-in-the-blank clues - they're usually the easiest entry points!
Across Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1A | 1. Marvel superhero who can manipulate weather patterns | 5 |
| 2A | 6. Something fun to take out for a spin | 3 |
| 3A | 9. Shaquille O'Neal's alma mater, for short | 3 |
| 4A | 12. Parts of a hand | 5 |
| 5A | 17. Irritate | 5 |
| 6A | 18. Recaps | 7 |
| 7A | 20. Paul whose house is one of the 16 historic sites of Boston's Freedom Trail | 6 |
| 8A | 21. False alarm announcement? | 13 |
| 9A | 23. Jedi-in-training | 7 |
| 10A | 24. Sensible | 7 |
| 11A | 25. TV host Brzezinski | 4 |
| 12A | 26. #1 choice, in slang | 4 |
| 13A | 27. "No ___, ands or buts!" | 3 |
| 14A | 28. Pollution-fighting org. | 3 |
| 15A | 29. "Game of Thrones" actor Gillen | 5 |
| 16A | 31. River that borders the Black Forest | 5 |
| 17A | 33. "Render ___ Caesar ..." | 4 |
| 18A | 34. Major coin producer | 10 |
| 19A | 37. Viking I or II | 10 |
| 20A | 39. Astronaut Ochoa, the first Hispanic woman in space | 5 |
| 21A | 40. Nickname for Mark's unsevered best friend in "Severance" | 5 |
| 22A | 41. They turn red litmus paper blue | 5 |
| 23A | 42. First chimpanzee to orbit Earth | 4 |
| 24A | 43. Football blocker? | 7 |
| 25A | 46. Hair-raising stuff | 3 |
| 26A | 47. Remodel and resell some real estate | 10 |
| 27A | 49. Marching band tempo setters | 9 |
| 28A | 54. Who said "It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am" | 3 |
| 29A | 55. Season to enjoy une glace | 3 |
| 30A | 56. Ruler before 1917 | 4 |
| 31A | 58. "Black-ish" airer | 3 |
| 32A | 59. It's a numbers game | 4 |
| 33A | 60. Clothing for SWAT teams | 5 |
| 34A | 62. "The Simpsons" character who becomes obsessed with crossword puzzles | 4 |
| 35A | 64. Puff piece? | 4 |
| 36A | 66. Like the number of Oscars vis-à-vis the number of Emmys | 5 |
| 37A | 67. Plant watcher, for short | 4 |
| 38A | 68. Camera type, in brief | 3 |
| 39A | 69. Site of some Santa sightings | 4 |
| 40A | 71. Longtime record label of Elvis Presley | 3 |
| 41A | 73. 911 responder | 3 |
| 42A | 74. "Hilarious!" | 9 |
| 43A | 77. "I mean, kind of ..." | 10 |
| 44A | 80. "Don't give up!" | 3 |
| 45A | 81. ¬ or ~, in logic | 7 |
| 46A | 83. Beat poet ___ Cassady | 4 |
| 47A | 84. Like some milk, idiomatically | 5 |
| 48A | 87. ___ on the past | 5 |
| 49A | 88. Indication of bad service | 5 |
| 50A | 90. "Much obliged" | 10 |
| 51A | 92. Crossed the International Date Line from east to west, or west to east (depending on how you look at it) | 10 |
| 52A | 97. Bundled up | 4 |
| 53A | 98. Articles are written in this | 5 |
| 54A | 99. Brand name for naproxen | 5 |
| 55A | 100. ___ Miss | 3 |
| 56A | 101. Doll that comes in multiple body types, skin tones, eye colors and hair colors | 3 |
| 57A | 102. Drink known also as "honey wine" | 4 |
| 58A | 103. Frosty | 4 |
| 59A | 105. Subject of Newton's first law | 7 |
| 60A | 108. Enjoying a soak | 7 |
| 61A | 110. 1980 horror film starring William Hurt ... or what the shaded squares contain? | 13 |
| 62A | 112. Fundamental rules of math | 6 |
| 63A | 113. Loopy writing | 7 |
| 64A | 114. Star pitcher? | 5 |
| 65A | 115. "Fiddler on the Roof" matchmaker | 5 |
| 66A | 116. Letters for an unscheduled event | 3 |
| 67A | 117. Prefix with natal | 3 |
| 68A | 118. Like a bubble bath | 5 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Marvel superhero who can manipulate weather patterns"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning
- Similar words include: ramp, force, surprise
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: STORM
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2A: "6. Something fun to take out for a spin"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the upper part of anything
- Similar words include: cover, pass, tiptop
- Opposite of: bottom
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Answer: TOP
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3A: "9. Shaquille O'Neal's alma mater, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LSU
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4A: "12. Parts of a hand"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a game played with playing cards
- Similar words include: plug-in, tease, bill
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CARDS
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5A: "17. Irritate"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that soreness and warmth caused by friction
- Similar words include: gravel, fray, rile
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CHAFE
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6A: "18. Recaps"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: WRAPUPS
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7A: "20. Paul whose house is one of the 16 historic sites of Boston's Freedom Trail"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that american silversmith remembered for his midnight ride (celebrated in a poem by longfellow) to warn the colonists in lexington and concord that british troops were coming (1735-1818)
- Similar words include: hero-worship, worship, venerate
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: REVERE
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8A: "21. False alarm announcement?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: OOHIMSOSCARED
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9A: "23. Jedi-in-training"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: PADAWAN
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10A: "24. Sensible"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment
- Opposite of: imprudent
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: PRUDENT
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11A: "25. TV host Brzezinski"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MIKA
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12A: "26. #1 choice, in slang"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: FAVE
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13A: "27. "No ___, ands or buts!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IFS
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14A: "28. Pollution-fighting org."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an independent federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment
- Similar words include: Environmental Protection Agency
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EPA
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15A: "29. "Game of Thrones" actor Gillen"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AIDAN
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16A: "31. River that borders the Black Forest"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states parapsychologist (1895-1980)
- Similar words include: Rhein, Joseph Banks Rhine, Rhine River
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RHINE
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17A: "33. "Render ___ Caesar ...""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: UNTO
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18A: "34. Major coin producer"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: DENVERMINT
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19A: "37. Viking I or II"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: MARSLANDER
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20A: "39. Astronaut Ochoa, the first Hispanic woman in space"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ELLEN
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21A: "40. Nickname for Mark's unsevered best friend in "Severance""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PETEY
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22A: "41. They turn red litmus paper blue"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that installation from which a military force initiates operations
- Similar words include: basis, base, stem
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BASES
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23A: "42. First chimpanzee to orbit Earth"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ENOS
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24A: "43. Football blocker?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: GOALNET
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25A: "46. Hair-raising stuff"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a colloid in a more solid form than a sol
- Similar words include: gelatin, mousse, colloidal gel
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: GEL
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26A: "47. Remodel and resell some real estate"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: FLIPAHOUSE
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27A: "49. Marching band tempo setters"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: DRUMLINES
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28A: "54. Who said "It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942)
- Similar words include: Muhammad Ali, Cassius Clay, Cassius Marcellus Clay
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ALI
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29A: "55. Season to enjoy une glace"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ETE
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30A: "56. Ruler before 1917"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a male monarch or emperor (especially of russia prior to 1917)
- Similar words include: czar, tzar
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TSAR
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31A: "58. "Black-ish" airer"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)
- Similar words include: first rudiment, ABC's, alphabet
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ABC
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32A: "59. It's a numbers game"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards
- Similar words include: beano, lotto, bingo
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: KENO
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33A: "60. Clothing for SWAT teams"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a man's sleeveless garment worn underneath a coat
- Similar words include: enthrone, waistcoat, invest
- Opposite of: divest
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Answer: VESTS
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34A: "62. "The Simpsons" character who becomes obsessed with crossword puzzles"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LISA
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35A: "64. Puff piece?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: VAPE
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36A: "66. Like the number of Oscars vis-à-vis the number of Emmys"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (comparative of `few' used with count nouns) quantifier meaning a smaller number of
- Similar words include: few
- Opposite of: more, many
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Answer: FEWER
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37A: "67. Plant watcher, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a government agency in the department of labor to maintain a safe and healthy work environment
- Similar words include: Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OSHA
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38A: "68. Camera type, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SLR
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39A: "69. Site of some Santa sightings"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk
- Similar words include: shopping center, center, promenade
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MALL
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40A: "71. Longtime record label of Elvis Presley"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RCA
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41A: "73. 911 responder"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EMT
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42A: "74. "Hilarious!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: WHATAHOOT
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43A: "77. "I mean, kind of ...""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: NOTEXACTLY
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44A: "80. "Don't give up!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something
- Similar words include: essay, seek, sample
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TRY
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45A: "81. ¬ or ~, in logic"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: NEGATOR
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46A: "83. Beat poet ___ Cassady"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NEAL
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47A: "84. Like some milk, idiomatically"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cause or allow (a liquid substance) to run or flow from a container
- Similar words include: slop, talk, splatter
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SPILT
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48A: "87. ___ on the past"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that think moodily or anxiously about something
- Similar words include: brood, inhabit, lie
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DWELL
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49A: "88. Indication of bad service"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NOTIP
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50A: "90. "Much obliged""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: IOWEYOUONE
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51A: "92. Crossed the International Date Line from east to west, or west to east (depending on how you look at it)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: GAINEDADAY
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52A: "97. Bundled up"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that provide with clothes or put clothes on
- Similar words include: garment, invest, habilitate
- Opposite of: unclothed, undress
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Answer: CLAD
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53A: "98. Articles are written in this"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that ordinary writing as distinguished from verse
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PROSE
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54A: "99. Brand name for naproxen"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trademarks aleve and anaprox and aflaxen) that fights pain and inflammation
- Similar words include: Aflaxen, naproxen sodium, Anaprox
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ALEVE
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55A: "100. ___ Miss"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OLE
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56A: "101. Doll that comes in multiple body types, skin tones, eye colors and hair colors"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that range of what one can know or understand
- Similar words include: cognizance, sight
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: KEN
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57A: "102. Drink known also as "honey wine""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states anthropologist noted for her claims about adolescence and sexual behavior in polynesian cultures (1901-1978)
- Similar words include: Margaret Mead, George Herbert Mead
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MEAD
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58A: "103. Frosty"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)
- Similar words include: stale, frigidness, frigid
- Opposite of: hot, hotness
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Answer: COLD
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59A: "105. Subject of Newton's first law"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a disposition to remain inactive or inert
- Similar words include: inactivity, inactiveness
- Opposite of: activeness
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Answer: INERTIA
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60A: "108. Enjoying a soak"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that immersing the body in water or sunshine
- Similar words include: bathe, washup, bath
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: BATHING
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61A: "110. 1980 horror film starring William Hurt ... or what the shaded squares contain?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: ALTEREDSTATES
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62A: "112. Fundamental rules of math"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits
- Similar words include: axiom, maxim
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: AXIOMS
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63A: "113. Loopy writing"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper
- Similar words include: cursive script, longhand, running hand
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: CURSIVE
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64A: "114. Star pitcher?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an active and efficient cause; capable of producing a certain effect
- Similar words include: factor, broker, agentive role
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AGENT
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65A: "115. "Fiddler on the Roof" matchmaker"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: YENTE
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66A: "116. Letters for an unscheduled event"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TBA
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67A: "117. Prefix with natal"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (used as a combining form) recent or new
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NEO
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68A: "118. Like a bubble bath"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that resembling lather or covered with lather
- Similar words include: lathery
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SUDSY
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Surveyed, with "out" | 6 |
| 2D | 2. Early track star Jim | 6 |
| 3D | 3. Resident of Honolulu, e.g. | 6 |
| 4D | 4. Touchless payment tech | 4 |
| 5D | 5. Internet ___ | 4 |
| 6D | 6. Cheat on, in a way | 7 |
| 7D | 7. Surgery sites, in brief | 3 |
| 8D | 8. Video game character with an endless appetite | 6 |
| 9D | 9. Be in a chat room but not chat | 4 |
| 10D | 10. Soldiers with long arms | 8 |
| 11D | 11. Alternative to the euro, in brief | 3 |
| 12D | 12. Relinquish | 4 |
| 13D | 13. Director DuVernay | 3 |
| 14D | 14. Turns back the clock, maybe? | 7 |
| 15D | 15. Opposite of volunteer | 7 |
| 16D | 16. Parts of many robots in robot-sumo | 7 |
| 17D | 19. Area inside the free-throw line, in basketball slang | 5 |
| 18D | 20. "Gaspard de la Nuit" composer | 5 |
| 19D | 22. Addresses angrily | 8 |
| 20D | 23. Variety of violet | 5 |
| 21D | 26. Urban safety hazard | 8 |
| 22D | 30. Australia's largest carnivorous mammal | 5 |
| 23D | 32. Word used 10 times in Roger Ebert's review of "North" (1994) | 5 |
| 24D | 33. Dissimilar | 7 |
| 25D | 35. Part of a legendary boast | 4 |
| 26D | 36. Skips all the ceremony? | 6 |
| 27D | 38. The brother in "Am I my brother's keeper?" | 4 |
| 28D | 40. What might be made while clasping one's hands | 4 |
| 29D | 42. Engineer Gray who, arguably, invented the telephone — and battled Alexander Graham Bell over it in court for years | 6 |
| 30D | 44. Ballpark figure | 4 |
| 31D | 45. Kind of tea | 5 |
| 32D | 46. Sierra automaker | 3 |
| 33D | 47. Shylock's security | 5 |
| 34D | 48. Adele song with the lyric "I must have called a thousand times" | 5 |
| 35D | 50. Non-premium option in a rideshare app | 5 |
| 36D | 51. Gaming mogul Gabe | 6 |
| 37D | 52. Ernst Stavro Blofeld, to James Bond | 5 |
| 38D | 53. Put into piles, perhaps | 4 |
| 39D | 54. Swear | 4 |
| 40D | 57. Parking space for an Airstream, say, in brief | 5 |
| 41D | 61. Did some school reporting? | 7 |
| 42D | 63. Exceptionally hard timber | 8 |
| 43D | 65. Amy Winehouse, e.g. | 4 |
| 44D | 66. Thumbprint alternative on iPhones | 6 |
| 45D | 68. Reluctant to ask out one's crush, maybe | 3 |
| 46D | 70. Particularly particular | 4 |
| 47D | 72. Cafeterias | 8 |
| 48D | 75. Like many indie films | 4 |
| 49D | 76. Many characters in the 2007 comedy "Superbad" | 5 |
| 50D | 78. He had a Billboard Hot 100 hit with "Rubber Duckie" | 5 |
| 51D | 79. Tortilla de patatas, por ejemplo | 4 |
| 52D | 82. Where high schoolers work on their numbers? | 8 |
| 53D | 84. Starship's medical facility | 7 |
| 54D | 85. Ren faire prop akin to a halberd | 7 |
| 55D | 86. "Sign me up!" | 7 |
| 56D | 87. Hair-care item associated with Black culture | 5 |
| 57D | 89. Like YouTube offerings | 7 |
| 58D | 91. Commences | 5 |
| 59D | 92. Rough drafts? | 5 |
| 60D | 93. Interview guest whom Ali G calls "my man Buzz Lightyear here" | 6 |
| 61D | 94. Like lowercase i's and j's | 6 |
| 62D | 95. Sci-fi sequel of 1986 | 6 |
| 63D | 96. Like soft rolls | 6 |
| 64D | 102. Wordless entertainment | 4 |
| 65D | 104. Other, to Octavio | 4 |
| 66D | 106. Brief announcements from a pilot | 4 |
| 67D | 107. ___ alla bolognese (slow-cooked sauce) | 4 |
| 68D | 109. Like hell! | 3 |
| 69D | 110. Play a part, or part of a play | 3 |
| 70D | 111. Part of N.Y.E. | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Surveyed, with "out""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SCOPED
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2D: "2. Early track star Jim"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that outstanding united states athlete (1888-1953)
- Similar words include: Jim Thorpe, James Francis Thorpe
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: THORPE
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3D: "3. Resident of Honolulu, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: OAHUAN
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4D: "4. Touchless payment tech"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RFID
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5D: "5. Internet ___"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one person to another by non-genetic means (as by imitation)
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MEME
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6D: "6. Cheat on, in a way"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: TWOTIME
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7D: "7. Surgery sites, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a state in northwestern united states on the pacific
- Similar words include: Beaver State, surgery, operating room
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ORS
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8D: "8. Video game character with an endless appetite"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PACMAN
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9D: "9. Be in a chat room but not chat"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that lie in wait, lie in ambush, behave in a sneaky and secretive manner
- Similar words include: linger, footle, loaf
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LURK
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10D: "10. Soldiers with long arms"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: SPEARMEN
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11D: "11. Alternative to the euro, in brief"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: USD
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12D: "12. Relinquish"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
- Similar words include: grant, yield, give up
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CEDE
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13D: "13. Director DuVernay"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AVA
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14D: "14. Turns back the clock, maybe?"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: REWINDS
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15D: "15. Opposite of volunteer"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who is drafted into military service
- Similar words include: conscript, inductee
- Opposite of: volunteer
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Answer: DRAFTEE
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16D: "16. Parts of many robots in robot-sumo"
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- Think of something that any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner
- Similar words include: detector, sensing element, sensor
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SENSORS
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17D: "19. Area inside the free-throw line, in basketball slang"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating
- Similar words include: blusher, pigment, rouge
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PAINT
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18D: "20. "Gaspard de la Nuit" composer"
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- Think of something that french composer and exponent of impressionism (1875-1937)
- Similar words include: ladder, unravel, Maurice Ravel
- Opposite of: unravel, unknot
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Answer: RAVEL
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19D: "22. Addresses angrily"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: SNARLSAT
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20D: "23. Variety of violet"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that large-flowered garden plant derived chiefly from the wild pansy of europe and having velvety petals of various colors
- Similar words include: milksop, sissy, queen
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PANSY
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21D: "26. Urban safety hazard"
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- Think of something that a building that would be hard to escape from if it were to catch fire
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: FIRETRAP
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22D: "30. Australia's largest carnivorous mammal"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that wolflike yellowish-brown wild dog of australia
- Similar words include: warragal, warrigal, Canis dingo
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DINGO
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23D: "32. Word used 10 times in Roger Ebert's review of "North" (1994)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards
- Similar words include: hat, detested, detest
- Opposite of: love
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Answer: HATED
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24D: "33. Dissimilar"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that not alike or similar
- Similar words include: dissimilar
- Opposite of: alike
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Answer: UNALIKE
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25D: "35. Part of a legendary boast"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: VENI
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26D: "36. Skips all the ceremony?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that run away secretly with one's beloved
- Similar words include: elope, run off
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ELOPES
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27D: "38. The brother in "Am I my brother's keeper?""
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- Think of something that norwegian mathematician (1802-1829)
- Similar words include: Niels Henrik Abel, Niels Abel
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ABEL
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28D: "40. What might be made while clasping one's hands"
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- Think of something that a humble request for help from someone in authority
- Similar words include: supplication
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PLEA
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29D: "42. Engineer Gray who, arguably, invented the telephone — and battled Alexander Graham Bell over it in court for years"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ELISHA
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30D: "44. Ballpark figure"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball
- Similar words include: out, come out, come out of the closet
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OUTS
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31D: "45. Kind of tea"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that state in northeastern india
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ASSAM
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32D: "46. Sierra automaker"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: GMC
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33D: "47. Shylock's security"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the soft tissue of the body of a vertebrate: mainly muscle tissue and fat
- Similar words include: build, bod, form
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: FLESH
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34D: "48. Adele song with the lyric "I must have called a thousand times""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an expression of greeting
- Similar words include: how-do-you-do, hi, hullo
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HELLO
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35D: "50. Non-premium option in a rideshare app"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: UBERX
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36D: "51. Gaming mogul Gabe"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: NEWELL
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37D: "52. Ernst Stavro Blofeld, to James Bond"
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- Think of something that an opposing military force
- Similar words include: opposition, foe, foeman
- Opposite of: friend
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Answer: ENEMY
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38D: "53. Put into piles, perhaps"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
- Similar words include: separate, screen, assort
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SORT
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39D: "54. Swear"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
- Similar words include: assert, avouch, swear
- Opposite of: disavow
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Answer: AVOW
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40D: "57. Parking space for an Airstream, say, in brief"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RVLOT
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41D: "61. Did some school reporting?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
- Similar words include: gibber, clack, blab
- Opposite of: keep quiet
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Answer: TATTLED
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42D: "63. Exceptionally hard timber"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that handsome east indian evergreen tree often planted as an ornamental for its fragrant white flowers that yield a perfume; source of very heavy hardwood used for railroad ties
- Similar words include: Eastern hop hornbeam, Mesua ferrea, iron-tree
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: IRONWOOD
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43D: "65. Amy Winehouse, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a singer whose voice lies in the alto clef
- Similar words include: countertenor, contralto
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ALTO
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44D: "66. Thumbprint alternative on iPhones"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: FACEID
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45D: "68. Reluctant to ask out one's crush, maybe"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a quick throw
- Similar words include: unsure, diffident, timid
- Opposite of: confident
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Answer: SHY
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46D: "70. Particularly particular"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that of or related to the anus
- Similar words include: anal retentive
- Opposite of: oral
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Answer: ANAL
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47D: "72. Cafeterias"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a flask for carrying water; used by soldiers or travelers
- Similar words include: canteen, mobile canteen
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: CANTEENS
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48D: "75. Like many indie films"
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- Think of something that showily imitative of art or artists
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ARTY
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49D: "76. Many characters in the 2007 comedy "Superbad""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the time of life between the ages of 12 and 20
- Similar words include: stripling, teen, teenager
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TEENS
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50D: "78. He had a Billboard Hot 100 hit with "Rubber Duckie""
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ERNIE
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51D: "79. Tortilla de patatas, por ejemplo"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and pipturus albidus
- Similar words include: tappa bark, tappa, tapa bark
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TAPA
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52D: "82. Where high schoolers work on their numbers?"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: GLEECLUB
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53D: "84. Starship's medical facility"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (nautical) a room for the treatment of the sick or injured (as on a ship)
- Similar words include: sick berth
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SICKBAY
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54D: "85. Ren faire prop akin to a halberd"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an ax used to slaughter cattle; has a hammer opposite the blade
- Similar words include: poleax
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: POLEAXE
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55D: "86. "Sign me up!""
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: IWANTIN
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56D: "87. Hair-care item associated with Black culture"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DURAG
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57D: "89. Like YouTube offerings"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ONVIDEO
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58D: "91. Commences"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water
- Similar words include: spread, outdoors, afford
- Opposite of: close, fold
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Answer: OPENS
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59D: "92. Rough drafts?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a strong wind moving 45-90 knots; force 7 to 10 on beaufort scale
- Similar words include: gale
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GALES
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60D: "93. Interview guest whom Ali G calls "my man Buzz Lightyear here""
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ALDRIN
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61D: "94. Like lowercase i's and j's"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that scatter or intersperse like dots or studs
- Similar words include: flecked, dot, disperse
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: DOTTED
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62D: "95. Sci-fi sequel of 1986"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who comes from a foreign country; someone who does not owe allegiance to your country
- Similar words include: extraterrestrial, foreigner, extraterrestrial being
- Opposite of: citizen, acquaintance
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Answer: ALIENS
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63D: "96. Like soft rolls"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that of or resembling or containing yeast
- Similar words include: yeastlike, zesty, barmy
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: YEASTY
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64D: "102. Wordless entertainment"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression
- Similar words include: mimer, pantomimer, pantomimist
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MIME
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65D: "104. Other, to Octavio"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OTRA
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66D: "106. Brief announcements from a pilot"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional basque party; want to create an independent homeland in spain's western pyrenees
- Similar words include: eta, Basque Homeland and Freedom, ETA
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ETAS
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67D: "107. ___ alla bolognese (slow-cooked sauce)"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RAGU
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68D: "109. Like hell!"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning
- Similar words include: blistering, raging, red-hot
- Opposite of: cold
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Answer: HOT
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69D: "110. Play a part, or part of a play"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body
- Similar words include: playact, behave, do
- Opposite of: refrain
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Answer: ACT
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70D: "111. Part of N.Y.E."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (old testament) adam's wife in judeo-christian mythology: the first woman and mother of the human race; god created eve from adam's rib and placed adam and eve in the garden of eden
- Similar words include: evening, even, eventide
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EVE
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68 Across Clues
70 Down Clues
138 Total Clues
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