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Date: Friday, October 18, 2019
Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 70 (29 Across, 41 Down)
Average Word Length: 5.5 letters
Master Today's Across: NYT Friday Puzzle October 18, 2019
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. Set off, say | 9 |
| 2A | 10. Giant in health and beauty products | 5 |
| 3A | 15. Rom-com, typically | 9 |
| 4A | 16. Fabric for a wedding dress | 5 |
| 5A | 17. Electioneer's reminder | 15 |
| 6A | 19. Avian mimic | 4 |
| 7A | 20. Baileys, for one | 10 |
| 8A | 21. Like fish that can be difficult to eat | 4 |
| 9A | 23. Goal of a vacation, informally | 5 |
| 10A | 24. Word in many a promotional poster | 6 |
| 11A | 27. Diminish | 5 |
| 12A | 29. ___ bourgeoisie (gentry) | 5 |
| 13A | 30. Make fashionable | 9 |
| 14A | 34. Yellowfin tuna | 3 |
| 15A | 35. Shepherd | 5 |
| 16A | 36. Pocketful or mouthful, say | 3 |
| 17A | 37. Symbol depicting a snake swallowing its tail | 9 |
| 18A | 40. Senescence | 5 |
| 19A | 42. Argue against | 5 |
| 20A | 43. Current type of currency | 6 |
| 21A | 44. Bike | 5 |
| 22A | 46. Fruity liqueur base | 4 |
| 23A | 47. Epithet for the uninformed | 10 |
| 24A | 50. It's a shore thing | 4 |
| 25A | 54. One committing a fare-ly minor offense? | 15 |
| 26A | 56. Group unlikely to get much playing time | 5 |
| 27A | 57. It commemorates 1867's Constitution Act | 9 |
| 28A | 58. Rules maven Edmond | 5 |
| 29A | 59. Receiving benefits | 9 |
Let's Solve the Across Clues Together!
Here are helpful hints to solve each clue. Remember, crossword puzzles are like word games - have fun with them!
Clue 1 Across: "1. Set off, say"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: INITALICS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "10. Giant in health and beauty products"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AMWAY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Across: "15. Rom-com, typically"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DATEMOVIE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Across: "16. Fabric for a wedding dress"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a light semitransparent fabric
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: VOILE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Across: "17. Electioneer's reminder"
Quick Info: This answer has 15 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EVERYVOTECOUNTS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Across: "19. Avian mimic"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that tropical asian starlings
- Words that mean the same thing: minah, mynah, myna bird
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MYNA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Across: "20. Baileys, for one"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: __________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IRISHCREAM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Across: "21. Like fish that can be difficult to eat"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
- Words that mean the same thing: boney, osteal, cadaverous
- The opposite would be: boneless
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BONY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Across: "23. Goal of a vacation, informally"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RANDR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Across: "24. Word in many a promotional poster"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the act of drawing spatially closer to something
- Words that mean the same thing: number, advent, come
- The opposite would be: go, leave
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: COMING
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "27. Diminish"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that become ground down or deteriorate
- Words that mean the same thing: eat away, wear away, fret
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ERODE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "29. ___ bourgeoisie (gentry)"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HAUTE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "30. Make fashionable"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that interpret romantically
- Words that mean the same thing: glamourise, romanticize, romanticise
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GLAMORIZE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "34. Yellowfin tuna"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AHI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "35. Shepherd"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that someone employed to conduct others
- Words that mean the same thing: pass, guide on, template
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GUIDE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "36. Pocketful or mouthful, say"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a small mass of soft material
- Words that mean the same thing: chock up, spate, mass
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: WAD
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "37. Symbol depicting a snake swallowing its tail"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OUROBOROS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Across: "40. Senescence"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time
- Words that mean the same thing: age, ageing, senescence
- The opposite would be: rejuvenate
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AGING
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "42. Argue against"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof
- Words that mean the same thing: controvert, refute
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: REBUT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "43. Current type of currency"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EMONEY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "44. Bike"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a sustained bass note
- Words that mean the same thing: foot pedal, foot lever, cycle
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PEDAL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "46. Fruity liqueur base"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that wild plum of northeastern united states having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh
- Words that mean the same thing: blackthorn, Alleghany plum, Prunus alleghaniensis
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SLOE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "47. Epithet for the uninformed"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: __________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ILLITERATI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "50. It's a shore thing"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that waves breaking on the shore
- Words that mean the same thing: surfboard, breaker, browse
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SURF
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "54. One committing a fare-ly minor offense?"
Quick Info: This answer has 15 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _______________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TURNSTILEJUMPER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "56. Group unlikely to get much playing time"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CTEAM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "57. It commemorates 1867's Constitution Act"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CANADADAY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "58. Rules maven Edmond"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an english astrophysicist and advocate of the steady state theory of cosmology; described processes of nucleosynthesis inside stars (1915-2001)
- Words that mean the same thing: Edmond Hoyle, Fred Hoyle, Sir Fred Hoyle
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HOYLE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "59. Receiving benefits"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ONTHEDOLE
Great job if you got it right!
October 18, 2019 Friday NYT - All Down Answers
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. The same, in legal citations | 4 |
| 2D | 2. Shade of blue | 4 |
| 3D | 3. Main lower artery, informally | 4 |
| 4D | 4. Huge storage unit | 7 |
| 5D | 5. Minnesota senator Klobuchar | 3 |
| 6D | 6. 2016 film about a 1967 Supreme Court case | 6 |
| 7D | 7. Bygone artist's medium | 5 |
| 8D | 8. New York's ___ Field | 4 |
| 9D | 9. Episcopates | 4 |
| 10D | 10. Dark yellow-green | 7 |
| 11D | 11. A hired one is called a moirologist | 7 |
| 12D | 12. Plied with alcohol, in a way | 5 |
| 13D | 13. Hitching post? | 5 |
| 14D | 14. Deferential affirmative | 4 |
| 15D | 18. Auto accent | 6 |
| 16D | 22. United | 3 |
| 17D | 24. Transportation secretary Elaine | 4 |
| 18D | 25. Home of the all-vowel town Aiea | 4 |
| 19D | 26. John who wrote "Our National Parks" | 4 |
| 20D | 27. ___ Rosewater, recurring character in Kurt Vonnegut novels | 5 |
| 21D | 28. Dosimeter units | 4 |
| 22D | 30. Maven | 4 |
| 23D | 31. "Checkmate!" | 4 |
| 24D | 32. Novelist Grey | 4 |
| 25D | 33. Pushing the bounds of propriety | 4 |
| 26D | 35. Drinking vessel with a stem | 6 |
| 27D | 38. It's part of a series | 7 |
| 28D | 39. "No idea" | 7 |
| 29D | 40. Te ___ | 3 |
| 30D | 41. Flips out | 7 |
| 31D | 43. Biblical miracle worker | 6 |
| 32D | 44. Underworld ruler | 5 |
| 33D | 45. "Viva ___!" | 5 |
| 34D | 46. Need for some bypass surgery | 5 |
| 35D | 47. What pruritus means, to laypeople | 4 |
| 36D | 48. Part of P.R. | 4 |
| 37D | 49. ___ Thicke, onetime late-night host | 4 |
| 38D | 51. Hairstyle that needs pins | 4 |
| 39D | 52. 100 centavos, in Brazil | 4 |
| 40D | 53. David ___, comedian famous for impersonating Richard Nixon | 4 |
| 41D | 55. Ulan-___, Siberian capital | 3 |
Now Let's Solve the Down Clues!
Down clues go from top to bottom. Use the letters from your across answers to help!
Clue 1 Down: "1. The same, in legal citations"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IDEM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. Shade of blue"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfare
- Words that mean the same thing: United States Navy, naval forces, navy blue
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NAVY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. Main lower artery, informally"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ITEN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. Huge storage unit"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a unit of information equal to 1000 gigabits or 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) bits
- Words that mean the same thing: Tbit, Tb
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TERABIT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. Minnesota senator Klobuchar"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AMY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Down: "6. 2016 film about a 1967 Supreme Court case"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about movies/film.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that have a great affection or liking for
- Words that mean the same thing: enjoy, know, hump
- The opposite would be: hate, unloving
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LOVING
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Down: "7. Bygone artist's medium"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses
- Words that mean the same thing: off-white, bone, pearl
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IVORY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Down: "8. New York's ___ Field"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CITI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Down: "9. Episcopates"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located
- Words that mean the same thing: run into, image, understand
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SEES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Down: "10. Dark yellow-green"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed
- Words that mean the same thing: aguacate, avocado pear, avocado tree
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AVOCADO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. A hired one is called a moirologist"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died)
- Words that mean the same thing: sorrower, lamenter, griever
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MOURNER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. Plied with alcohol, in a way"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that treat to wine
- Words that mean the same thing: win, deliver the goods, gain
- The opposite would be: fall back, fail
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: WINED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Down: "13. Hitching post?"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the table in christian churches where communion is given
- Words that mean the same thing: communion table, Lord's table
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ALTAR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Down: "14. Deferential affirmative"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: YESM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Down: "18. Auto accent"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that another word for chromium when it is used in dyes or pigments
- Words that mean the same thing: chromium-plate
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CHROME
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Down: "22. United"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
- Words that mean the same thing: single, unmatchable, I
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ONE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Down: "24. Transportation secretary Elaine"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about sports.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CHAO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Down: "25. Home of the all-vowel town Aiea"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an island of central hawaii (between molokai and kauai); the chief island of the state
- Words that mean the same thing: Oahu Island
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OAHU
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Down: "26. John who wrote "Our National Parks""
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that united states naturalist (born in england) who advocated the creation of national parks (1838-1914)
- Words that mean the same thing: John Muir
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MUIR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Down: "27. ___ Rosewater, recurring character in Kurt Vonnegut novels"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about literature.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that british poet (born in the united states) who won the nobel prize for literature; his plays are outstanding examples of modern verse drama (1888-1965)
- Words that mean the same thing: T. S. Eliot, Mary Ann Evans, George Eliot
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ELIOT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Down: "28. Dosimeter units"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material
- Words that mean the same thing: radian, rad
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RADS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Down: "30. Maven"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a hindu or buddhist religious leader and spiritual teacher
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GURU
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Down: "31. "Checkmate!""
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IWIN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Down: "32. Novelist Grey"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about literature.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ZANE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Down: "33. Pushing the bounds of propriety"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that being in a tense state
- Words that mean the same thing: highly strung, jumpy, uptight
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EDGY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Down: "35. Drinking vessel with a stem"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about food & drink.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a drinking glass with a base and stem
- Words that mean the same thing: chalice
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GOBLET
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Clue 27 Down: "38. It's part of a series"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that the number designating place in an ordered sequence
- Words that mean the same thing: ordinal number, no.
- The opposite would be: cardinal
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The answer is: ORDINAL
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Clue 28 Down: "39. "No idea""
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: BEATSME
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Clue 29 Down: "40. Te ___"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: AMO
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Clue 30 Down: "41. Flips out"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: GOESMAD
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Clue 31 Down: "43. Biblical miracle worker"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a hebrew prophet in the old testament who opposed the worship of idols; he was persecuted for rebuking ahab and jezebel (king and queen of israel); he was taken up to heaven in a chariot of fire (circa 9th century bc)
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: ELIJAH
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Clue 32 Down: "44. Underworld ruler"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a cartoon character created by walt disney
- Words that mean the same thing: Hades, Aides, Aidoneus
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: PLUTO
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Clue 33 Down: "45. "Viva ___!""
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: ELREY
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Clue 34 Down: "46. Need for some bypass surgery"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: STENT
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Clue 35 Down: "47. What pruritus means, to laypeople"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite; characterized by persistent itching and skin irritation
- Words that mean the same thing: urge, scratch, spoil
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: ITCH
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Clue 36 Down: "48. Part of P.R."
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that law intended to eradicate organized crime by establishing strong sanctions and forfeiture provisions
- Words that mean the same thing: Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, RICO Act, anti-racketeering law
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: RICO
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Clue 37 Down: "49. ___ Thicke, onetime late-night host"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: ALAN
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Clue 38 Down: "51. Hairstyle that needs pins"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: UPDO
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Clue 39 Down: "52. 100 centavos, in Brazil"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that any rational or irrational number
- Words that mean the same thing: existent, very, genuine
- The opposite would be: nominal, insubstantial
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The answer is: REAL
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Clue 40 Down: "53. David ___, comedian famous for impersonating Richard Nixon"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that canadian literary critic interested in the use of myth and symbolism (1912-1991)
- Words that mean the same thing: Northrop Frye, Herman Northrop Frye
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: FRYE
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Clue 41 Down: "55. Ulan-___, Siberian capital"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about geography.
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- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: UDE
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 59 | 84.3% |
| Short Answer | 5 | 7.1% |
| Literature | 2 | 2.9% |
| Movies/Film | 1 | 1.4% |
| Sports | 1 | 1.4% |
| Food & Drink | 1 | 1.4% |
| Geography | 1 | 1.4% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 29 |
| Down Clues | 41 |
| Total Clues | 70 |
| Average Answer Length | 5.5 letters |
| Shortest Answer | 3 letters |
| Longest Answer | 15 letters |
Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!
- Start with short words first - they're usually easier!
- Look for clues with blanks to fill in - these are like fill-in-the-blank questions at school
- When letters cross, they must be the same in both words - this helps you check if you're right!
- Today is Friday, and these puzzles are usually moderate level
- Most clues today are about general knowledge
- The average word today has about 5 letters
- Remember: It's okay to take breaks and come back later with fresh eyes!
- Ask someone for help if you need it - crosswords are more fun with friends!
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Last Updated: September 29, 2025 at 02:43 PM
