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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (37 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (38 clues)
- Down Clues - Detailed Hints
- Expert Solving Strategies
- Today's Puzzle Statistics
Today's Puzzle Difficulty: Medium
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. Ventricle suppliers | 5 |
| 2A | 6. Accepted unquestioningly | 5 |
| 3A | 11. Rx for a root canal | 7 |
| 4A | 14. ___ Moshfegh, "My Year of Rest and Relaxation" novelist | 7 |
| 5A | 16. Performer known for her runs | 7 |
| 6A | 17. Sommeliers' assets | 7 |
| 7A | 18. Like some gins and cleaning products | 5 |
| 8A | 19. Wipe clean | 5 |
| 9A | 20. Fast fliers | 7 |
| 10A | 22. Insect nicknamed for its small size | 7 |
| 11A | 25. "Midsommar" director Aster | 3 |
| 12A | 26. "Nova" network | 3 |
| 13A | 28. Sport that takes place in an octagon, in brief | 3 |
| 14A | 29. Ilk | 4 |
| 15A | 31. Risks it | 5 |
| 16A | 33. Leaning | 4 |
| 17A | 34. Upper hand | 4 |
| 18A | 35. "I, Robot" author Asimov | 5 |
| 19A | 36. Big deals | 4 |
| 20A | 37. Facilities, informally | 3 |
| 21A | 39. Booking, for short | 3 |
| 22A | 41. Torah writers | 7 |
| 23A | 45. Unit for ultra-high-speed internet | 7 |
| 24A | 49. This isn't working! | 7 |
| 25A | 50. Fault line? | 7 |
| 26A | 51. Home security co. | 3 |
| 27A | 52. Wail | 3 |
| 28A | 54. Word seen between here and there | 3 |
| 29A | 55. Joel's smuggling partner on "The Last of Us" | 4 |
| 30A | 57. Bouquet | 5 |
| 31A | 59. Tzatziki scooper | 4 |
| 32A | 60. Big payroll service co. | 4 |
| 33A | 61. Number of Super Bowl rings for Tom Brady | 5 |
| 34A | 62. Abbr. seen before a person's name | 4 |
| 35A | 63. With 65-Across, with extreme precision ... or a hint to reading 15 of this puzzle's answers | 4 |
| 36A | 64. Serious | 5 |
| 37A | 65. See 63-Across | 4 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Ventricle suppliers"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any chamber that is connected to other chambers or passageways (especially one of the two upper chambers of the heart)
- Similar words include: atrium
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ATRIA
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2A: "6. Accepted unquestioningly"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ATEUP
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3A: "11. Rx for a root canal"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: PAINMED
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4A: "14. ___ Moshfegh, "My Year of Rest and Relaxation" novelist"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: OTTESSA
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5A: "16. Performer known for her runs"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: POPDIVA
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6A: "17. Sommeliers' assets"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities
- Similar words include: palate, roof of the mouth
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: PALATES
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7A: "18. Like some gins and cleaning products"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PINEY
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8A: "19. Wipe clean"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that remove from memory or existence
- Similar words include: score out, wipe off, efface
- Opposite of: record
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Answer: ERASE
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9A: "20. Fast fliers"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that diurnal birds of prey having long pointed powerful wings adapted for swift flight
- Similar words include: falcon
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: FALCONS
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10A: "22. Insect nicknamed for its small size"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: NOSEEUM
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11A: "25. "Midsommar" director Aster"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ARI
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12A: "26. "Nova" network"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a solution containing a phosphate buffer
- Similar words include: Pbit, Pb, PiB
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PBS
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13A: "28. Sport that takes place in an octagon, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MMA
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14A: "29. Ilk"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality
- Similar words include: form, variety, tolerant
- Opposite of: unkind
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Answer: KIND
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15A: "31. Risks it"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy
- Similar words include: daring, defy, presume
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DARES
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16A: "33. Leaning"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way
- Similar words include: crumpled, dead set, turn away
- Opposite of: straighten, unbend
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Answer: BENT
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17A: "34. Upper hand"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the boundary of a surface
- Similar words include: butt on, sharpness, adjoin
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EDGE
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18A: "35. "I, Robot" author Asimov"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (old testament) the second patriarch; son of abraham and sarah who was offered by abraham as a sacrifice to god; father of jacob and esau
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ISAAC
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19A: "36. Big deals"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a rapid active commotion
- Similar words include: ado, bustle, fuss
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ADOS
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20A: "37. Facilities, informally"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
- Similar words include: bathroom, toilet, lavatory
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LAV
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21A: "39. Booking, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a widely distributed system consisting of all the cells able to ingest bacteria or colloidal particles etc, except for certain white blood cells
- Similar words include: re, Ra, reticuloendothelial system
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RES
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22A: "41. Torah writers"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that french playwright (1791-1861)
- Similar words include: scrivener, copyist, scratch awl
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SCRIBES
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23A: "45. Unit for ultra-high-speed internet"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a unit of information equal to 1000 megabits or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bits
- Similar words include: Gb, Gbit
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: GIGABIT
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24A: "49. This isn't working!"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that time available for ease and relaxation
- Similar words include: leisure time
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: LEISURE
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25A: "50. Fault line?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an expression of regret at having caused trouble for someone
- Similar words include: apologia, excuse
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: APOLOGY
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26A: "51. Home security co."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an ester of adenosine that is converted to atp for energy storage
- Similar words include: automatic data processing, adenosine diphosphate
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ADP
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27A: "52. Wail"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition
- Similar words include: holler, cry out, outcry
- Opposite of: laugh
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Answer: CRY
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28A: "54. Word seen between here and there"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NOR
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29A: "55. Joel's smuggling partner on "The Last of Us""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TESS
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30A: "57. Bouquet"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any property detected by the olfactory system
- Similar words include: scent, odour, olfactory property
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AROMA
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31A: "59. Tzatziki scooper"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that usually small round bread that can open into a pocket for filling
- Similar words include: pocket bread
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PITA
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32A: "60. Big payroll service co."
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 Fatherland and Liberty, Euskadi ta Askatasuna
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ETAS
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33A: "61. Number of Super Bowl rings for Tom Brady"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of six and one
- Similar words include: vii, septenary, VII
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SEVEN
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34A: "62. Abbr. seen before a person's name"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ATTN
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35A: "63. With 65-Across, with extreme precision ... or a hint to reading 15 of this puzzle's answers"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that soft fine feathers
- Similar words include: gloomy, refine, John L. H. Down
- Opposite of: upwardly, upwards
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Answer: DOWN
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36A: "64. Serious"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the rear part of a ship
- Similar words include: Isaac Stern, severe, hind end
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: STERN
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37A: "65. See 63-Across"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TOAT
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. X, for one | 3 |
| 2D | 2. Fields medalist Terence | 3 |
| 3D | 3. Like a lake on a breezy day | 8 |
| 4D | 4. Charge | 6 |
| 5D | 5. Question from someone seeking reassurance | 6 |
| 6D | 6. "Finally!" | 6 |
| 7D | 7. Service with cups and saucers | 6 |
| 8D | 8. Dear | 8 |
| 9D | 9. Exercise | 3 |
| 10D | 10. Negation word in French | 3 |
| 11D | 12. Occasion | 5 |
| 12D | 13. Previous times | 8 |
| 13D | 14. Welcome sight in musical chairs | 8 |
| 14D | 15. Source of a deal with The Devil? | 5 |
| 15D | 20. Sham | 4 |
| 16D | 21. Like most of Nevada | 4 |
| 17D | 23. "Yeah, nice try" | 4 |
| 18D | 24. Gymnasts' rolls? | 4 |
| 19D | 27. Kid who might get grounded | 4 |
| 20D | 30. Take off the market | 6 |
| 21D | 31. Reroute | 6 |
| 22D | 32. Something a reality show lacks | 6 |
| 23D | 33. Igneous rock that composes most of Venus's surface | 6 |
| 24D | 38. Be against, in a way | 4 |
| 25D | 40. Achievement for Whoopi Goldberg and Rita Moreno, in brief | 4 |
| 26D | 41. Planned | 6 |
| 27D | 42. Officially give | 6 |
| 28D | 43. Tool with coarse teeth | 6 |
| 29D | 44. "It's a ___!" | 6 |
| 30D | 45. Portmanteau for a queer Fortnite player, say | 6 |
| 31D | 46. Fish whose name is Spanish for "pretty" | 6 |
| 32D | 47. "There's no stopping me!" | 6 |
| 33D | 48. Ruler with an iron fist | 6 |
| 34D | 53. Meander | 4 |
| 35D | 56. Fig. with two hyphens | 3 |
| 36D | 57. Modern intensifying suffix | 3 |
| 37D | 58. Journalist Curry | 3 |
| 38D | 59. Glib | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. X, for one"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: APP
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2D: "2. Fields medalist Terence"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an adherent of any branch of taoism
- Similar words include: Taoist
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TAO
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3D: "3. Like a lake on a breezy day"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small wave on the surface of a liquid
- Similar words include: ripple, cockle, ruffle
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: RIPPLING
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4D: "4. Charge"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that accuse formally of a crime
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: INDICT
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5D: "5. Question from someone seeking reassurance"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: AMINOT
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6D: "6. "Finally!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ATLAST
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7D: "7. Service with cups and saucers"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TEASET
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8D: "8. Dear"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that regard highly; think much of
- Similar words include: esteem, respect, value
- Opposite of: disesteem, disrespect
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Answer: ESTEEMED
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9D: "9. Exercise"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of using
- Similar words include: use of goods and services, employ, habituate
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: USE
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10D: "10. Negation word in French"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (ballet) a step in dancing (especially in classical ballet)
- Similar words include: dada, pappa, P.A.
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PAS
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11D: "12. Occasion"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that something that happens at a given place and time
- Similar words include: consequence, result, case
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EVENT
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12D: "13. Previous times"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: DAYSPAST
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13D: "14. Welcome sight in musical chairs"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: OPENSEAT
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14D: "15. Source of a deal with The Devil?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of a set of (usually 72) cards that include 22 cards representing virtues and vices and death and fortune etc.; used by fortunetellers
- Similar words include: tarot card
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TAROT
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15D: "20. Sham"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be
- Similar words include: impostor, imposter, manipulate
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: FAKE
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16D: "21. Like most of Nevada"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that lacking sufficient water or rainfall
- Similar words include: desiccate, waterless, desiccated
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ARID
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17D: "23. "Yeah, nice try""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: UMNO
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18D: "24. Gymnasts' rolls?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a thick flat pad used as a floor covering
- Similar words include: matting, matte, tangle
- Opposite of: disentangle, unsnarl
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Answer: MATS
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19D: "27. Kid who might get grounded"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a very troublesome child
- Similar words include: holy terror, little terror, bratwurst
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BRAT
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20D: "30. Take off the market"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that remove (a security) from listing at a stock exchange
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: DELIST
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21D: "31. Reroute"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that turn aside; turn away from
- Similar words include: disport, hive off, deviate
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: DIVERT
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22D: "32. Something a reality show lacks"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance
- Similar words include: book, hand, playscript
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SCRIPT
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23D: "33. Igneous rock that composes most of Venus's surface"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the commonest type of solidified lava; a dense dark grey fine-grained igneous rock that is composed chiefly of plagioclase feldspar and pyroxene
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BASALT
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24D: "38. Be against, in a way"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- Similar words include: butt on, edge, adjoin
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ABUT
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25D: "40. Achievement for Whoopi Goldberg and Rita Moreno, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EGOT
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26D: "41. Planned"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that designate or schedule
- Similar words include: slate, slat
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SLATED
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27D: "42. Officially give"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CEDETO
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28D: "43. Tool with coarse teeth"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a handsaw for cutting with the grain of the wood
- Similar words include: splitsaw
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: RIPSAW
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29D: "44. "It's a ___!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that something that should remain hidden from others (especially information that is not to be passed on)
- Similar words include: private, surreptitious, hole-and-corner
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SECRET
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30D: "45. Portmanteau for a queer Fortnite player, say"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: GAYMER
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31D: "46. Fish whose name is Spanish for "pretty""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that flesh of mostly pacific food fishes of the genus sarda of the family scombridae; related to but smaller than tuna
- Similar words include: Katsuwonus pelamis, oceanic bonito
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BONITO
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32D: "47. "There's no stopping me!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: IGOTTA
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33D: "48. Ruler with an iron fist"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a cruel and oppressive dictator
- Similar words include: autocrat, despot
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TYRANT
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34D: "53. Meander"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
- Similar words include: roam, reeve, wander
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ROVE
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35D: "56. Fig. with two hyphens"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SSN
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36D: "57. Modern intensifying suffix"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- Similar words include: hind end, arse, nates
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ASS
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37D: "58. Journalist Curry"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ANN
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38D: "59. Glib"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the sound made by a gentle blow
- Similar words include: rap, slick, dab
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PAT
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Expert Solving Strategies
Start Smart
Begin with fill-in-the-blank clues and short 3-4 letter words. These are your foundation.
Decode the Clues
Question marks indicate wordplay or puns. "Maybe" suggests multiple interpretations.
Use Cross-References
Let intersecting letters guide you. One correct answer unlocks several others.
Build Vocabulary
Common crossword words repeat. Learning them speeds up future solving.
Today's Puzzle Stats
37 Across Clues
38 Down Clues
75 Total Clues
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