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Date: Monday, September 30, 2019
Difficulty Level: Medium Tuesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 78 (37 Across, 41 Down)
Average Word Length: 4.8 letters
September 30, 2019 Across Hints: NYT Monday Crossword Answers
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. Den | 4 |
| 2A | 5. Some HP products | 3 |
| 3A | 8. Wardrobe supplies for Batman | 5 |
| 4A | 13. ___ vera | 4 |
| 5A | 14. "Like I told you!" | 3 |
| 6A | 15. Player at Baltimore's Camden Yards | 6 |
| 7A | 16. Bash some tobacco holders? | 8 |
| 8A | 18. Name on a 24-Across container | 6 |
| 9A | 19. Bash some small trucks? | 12 |
| 10A | 21. Something a prospector stakes | 5 |
| 11A | 24. NaCl | 4 |
| 12A | 25. "O.K., got it" | 4 |
| 13A | 26. $ | 6 |
| 14A | 28. Functions | 4 |
| 15A | 30. Went on horseback | 4 |
| 16A | 31. Small town | 4 |
| 17A | 34. Winner's two-finger gesture | 5 |
| 18A | 38. Ace's value, at times | 3 |
| 19A | 39. Bash a laundry room brand? | 7 |
| 20A | 41. Down Under hopper | 3 |
| 21A | 42. Rachel Maddow's channel | 5 |
| 22A | 44. Bills with Alexander Hamilton | 4 |
| 23A | 45. Actionable misdeed | 4 |
| 24A | 46. Diamond Head's island | 4 |
| 25A | 48. Some hearty steaks | 6 |
| 26A | 50. Strikebreaking worker | 4 |
| 27A | 53. Slices of time | 4 |
| 28A | 56. Calf-roping rope | 5 |
| 29A | 57. Bash an Alex Haley classic? | 12 |
| 30A | 60. Peter of "Lawrence of Arabia" | 6 |
| 31A | 61. Bash a bug repellent brand? | 8 |
| 32A | 65. Prepared for planting | 6 |
| 33A | 66. Tibetan beast of burden | 3 |
| 34A | 67. Lake ___ (what separates Ohio and Ontario) | 4 |
| 35A | 68. Monica in the International Tennis Hall of Fame | 5 |
| 36A | 69. Sophs. in two years | 3 |
| 37A | 70. Disavow | 4 |
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. Den"
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 habitation of wild animals
- Words that mean the same thing: den
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LAIR
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Clue 2 Across: "5. Some HP products"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time
- Words that mean the same thing: personal computer, PC, microcomputer
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PCS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Across: "8. Wardrobe supplies for Batman"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about history.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a strip of land projecting into a body of water
- Words that mean the same thing: mantle, crest, cape
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CAPES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Across: "13. ___ vera"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about history.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that succulent plants having rosettes of leaves usually with fiber like hemp and spikes of showy flowers; found chiefly in africa
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ALOE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Across: "14. "Like I told you!""
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium 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: AHA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Across: "15. Player at Baltimore's Camden Yards"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about sports.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that mostly tropical songbird; the male is usually bright orange and black
- Words that mean the same thing: American oriole, Old World oriole, New World oriole
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ORIOLE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Across: "16. Bash some tobacco holders?"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a primitive wind instrument consisting of several parallel pipes bound together
- Words that mean the same thing: syrinx, panpipe, pandean pipe
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PANPIPES
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Clue 8 Across: "18. Name on a 24-Across container"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that united states jazz musician who moved from ragtime to new orleans jazz (1885-1941)
- Words that mean the same thing: Jelly Roll Morton, Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe Morton
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MORTON
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Across: "19. Bash some small trucks?"
Quick Info: This answer has 12 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: TRASHPICKUPS
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Clue 10 Across: "21. Something a prospector stakes"
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 assertion of a right (as to money or property)
- Words that mean the same thing: take, call, exact
- The opposite would be: forfeit, disclaim
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CLAIM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "24. NaCl"
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 compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal)
- Words that mean the same thing: salinity, saltiness, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SALT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "25. "O.K., got it""
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: ISEE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "26. $"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 cents
- Words that mean the same thing: dollar mark, dollar sign, one dollar bill
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DOLLAR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "28. Functions"
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 act of using
- Words that mean the same thing: America, the States, apply
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: USES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "30. Went on horseback"
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 sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions
- Words that mean the same thing: cod, depend on, tantalize
- The opposite would be: walk
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RODE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "31. Small town"
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 colloquial american term for a town
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BURG
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "34. Winner's two-finger gesture"
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: VSIGN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Across: "38. Ace's value, at times"
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 the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
- Words that mean the same thing: ace, one and only, matchless
- 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 19 Across: "39. Bash a laundry room brand?"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current
- Words that mean the same thing: rip current, rip, tide rip
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RIPTIDE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "41. Down Under hopper"
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: ROO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "42. Rachel Maddow's channel"
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: MSNBC
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "44. Bills with Alexander Hamilton"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system
- Words that mean the same thing: tenner, 10, decade
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TENS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "45. Actionable misdeed"
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 (law) any wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought
- Words that mean the same thing: civil wrong
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TORT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "46. Diamond Head's island"
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 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 25 Across: "48. Some hearty steaks"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 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: TBONES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "50. Strikebreaking worker"
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 someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
- Words that mean the same thing: blackleg, fink, rat
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SCAB
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "53. Slices of time"
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 period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
- Words that mean the same thing: ERA, earned run average, epoch
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ERAS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "56. Calf-roping rope"
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 belgian composer (1532-1594)
- Words that mean the same thing: rope, reata, riata
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LASSO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "57. Bash an Alex Haley classic?"
Quick Info: This answer has 12 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: PUTDOWNROOTS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "60. Peter of "Lawrence of Arabia""
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: OTOOLE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "61. Bash a bug repellent brand?"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the launching of a missile or spacecraft to a specified destination
- Words that mean the same thing: shot
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BLASTOFF
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 32 Across: "65. Prepared for planting"
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 work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation
- Words that mean the same thing: till
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TILLED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 33 Across: "66. Tibetan beast of burden"
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 large long-haired wild ox of tibet often domesticated
- Words that mean the same thing: yack, gab, yakety-yak
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: YAK
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 34 Across: "67. Lake ___ (what separates Ohio and Ontario)"
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 a member of an iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of lake erie in northern ohio and northwest pennsylvania and western new york
- Words that mean the same thing: Lake Erie
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ERIE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 35 Across: "68. Monica in the International Tennis Hall of Fame"
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 united states tennis player (born in yugoslavia in 1973)
- Words that mean the same thing: Monica Seles
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SELES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 36 Across: "69. Sophs. in two years"
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 soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group; turns yellow in air; occurs in celestite and strontianite
- Words that mean the same thing: steradian, strontium, Sr
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SRS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 37 Across: "70. Disavow"
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 declare untrue; contradict
- Words that mean the same thing: refuse, traverse, abnegate
- The opposite would be: admit, allow
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DENY
Great job if you got it right!
Down Clues Decoded - Monday NYT Crossword September 30, 2019
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. You need to sit down for this | 3 |
| 2D | 2. Brownie ___ mode | 3 |
| 3D | 3. Particle that's positive or negative | 3 |
| 4D | 4. Chameleon or iguana | 7 |
| 5D | 5. Biggest of the Three Bears | 4 |
| 6D | 6. Game on an 8x8 board | 5 |
| 7D | 7. Malia Obama's sister | 5 |
| 8D | 8. Gator's cousin | 4 |
| 9D | 9. Action accompanied by a "Mwah!" | 7 |
| 10D | 10. White House V.I.P. | 5 |
| 11D | 11. Marry on the cheap, say | 5 |
| 12D | 12. Have a feeling | 5 |
| 13D | 15. Skips over | 5 |
| 14D | 17. Woman whose name is an anagram of MIRA | 4 |
| 15D | 20. Connect to an electrical outlet | 6 |
| 16D | 21. Data holder put into a drive | 5 |
| 17D | 22. Water birds with haunting cries | 5 |
| 18D | 23. John who arrived on the Mayflower | 5 |
| 19D | 27. Slugging stat | 3 |
| 20D | 29. Adam's madam | 3 |
| 21D | 32. Improvement, as in the economy | 6 |
| 22D | 33. GPS suggestion: Abbr. | 3 |
| 23D | 35. Clubs at a country club | 5 |
| 24D | 36. Vice-presidential family of the 1990s | 5 |
| 25D | 37. "That's just wrong!" | 5 |
| 26D | 39. Classic TV brand | 3 |
| 27D | 40. Cause of a Mar. clock change | 3 |
| 28D | 43. Bill Clinton's 1996 opponent | 7 |
| 29D | 45. Like some bagels and newlyweds | 7 |
| 30D | 47. Chopped | 5 |
| 31D | 49. Nonkosher sandwiches, for short | 4 |
| 32D | 50. Features of peacock tails | 5 |
| 33D | 51. Adorable sort | 5 |
| 34D | 52. Island with a lagoon | 5 |
| 35D | 54. Fast-food chain with a cowboy hat logo | 5 |
| 36D | 55. Type of clean energy | 5 |
| 37D | 58. Bullring cheers | 4 |
| 38D | 59. Acorn-producing trees | 4 |
| 39D | 62. Mined find | 3 |
| 40D | 63. Telltale evidence of a shark | 3 |
| 41D | 64. "Sisters" co-star Tina | 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. You need to sit down for this"
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 the upper side of the thighs of a seated person
- Words that mean the same thing: circle, swosh, lap covering
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LAP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. Brownie ___ mode"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ALA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. Particle that's positive or negative"
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 particle that is electrically charged (positive or negative); an atom or molecule or group that has lost or gained one or more electrons
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ION
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. Chameleon or iguana"
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 any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms
- Words that mean the same thing: reptilian
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: REPTILE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. Biggest of the Three Bears"
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 informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
- Words that mean the same thing: pappa, dada, dad
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PAPA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Down: "6. Game on an 8x8 board"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about sports.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that weedy annual native to europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
- Words that mean the same thing: cheat, Bromus secalinus, chess game
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CHESS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Down: "7. Malia Obama's sister"
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: SASHA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Down: "8. Gator's cousin"
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: CROC
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Clue 9 Down: "9. Action accompanied by a "Mwah!""
Quick Info: This answer has 7 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: AIRKISS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Down: "10. White House V.I.P."
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: POTUS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. Marry on the cheap, say"
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 run away secretly with one's beloved
- Words that mean the same thing: run off
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ELOPE
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Clue 12 Down: "12. Have a feeling"
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 general conscious awareness
- Words that mean the same thing: sensory faculty, signified, sensation
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SENSE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Down: "15. Skips over"
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 prevent from being included or considered or accepted
- Words that mean the same thing: miss, except, leave out
- The opposite would be: attend to, include
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OMITS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Down: "17. Woman whose name is an anagram of MIRA"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 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: IRMA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Down: "20. Connect to an electrical outlet"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: PLUGIN
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Clue 16 Down: "21. Data holder put into a drive"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: CDROM
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Clue 17 Down: "22. Water birds with haunting cries"
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 worthless lazy fellow
- Words that mean the same thing: addle-head, birdbrain, diver
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: LOONS
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Clue 18 Down: "23. John who arrived on the Mayflower"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: ALDEN
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Clue 19 Down: "27. Slugging stat"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that a run that is the result of the batter's performance
- Words that mean the same thing: run batted in
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: RBI
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Clue 20 Down: "29. Adam's madam"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- This could be 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
- Words that mean the same thing: evening, eventide, even
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: EVE
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Clue 21 Down: "32. Improvement, as in the economy"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that an upward movement or trend as in business activity
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: UPTURN
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Clue 22 Down: "33. GPS suggestion: Abbr."
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about abbreviation.
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- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: RTE
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Clue 23 Down: "35. Clubs at a country club"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about geography.
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- This could be something that metal shackles; for hands or legs
- Words that mean the same thing: Fe, iron, chains
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: IRONS
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Clue 24 Down: "36. Vice-presidential family of the 1990s"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that vice president of the united states under bill clinton (born in 1948)
- Words that mean the same thing: bloodshed, gore, Gore
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: GORES
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Clue 25 Down: "37. "That's just wrong!""
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: NOTSO
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Clue 26 Down: "39. Classic TV brand"
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: RCA
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Clue 27 Down: "40. Cause of a Mar. clock change"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
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- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: DST
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Clue 28 Down: "43. Bill Clinton's 1996 opponent"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: BOBDOLE
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Clue 29 Down: "45. Like some bagels and newlyweds"
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 make brown and crisp by heating
- Words that mean the same thing: toast, crisp, pledge
- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: TOASTED
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Clue 30 Down: "47. Chopped"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that make or shape as with an axe
- Words that mean the same thing: hew, hew out
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: HEWED
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Clue 31 Down: "49. Nonkosher sandwiches, for short"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that sandwich filled with slices of bacon and tomato with lettuce
- Words that mean the same thing: bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich, BLT
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: BLTS
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Clue 32 Down: "50. Features of peacock tails"
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 spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens
- Words that mean the same thing: spotlight, billet, topographic point
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: SPOTS
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Clue 33 Down: "51. Adorable sort"
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: CUTIE
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Clue 34 Down: "52. Island with a lagoon"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that an island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: ATOLL
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Clue 35 Down: "54. Fast-food chain with a cowboy hat logo"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about food & drink.
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- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: ARBYS
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Clue 36 Down: "55. Type of clean energy"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that relating to or derived from the sun or utilizing the energies of the sun
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: SOLAR
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Clue 37 Down: "58. Bullring cheers"
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: OLES
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Clue 38 Down: "59. Acorn-producing trees"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the hard durable wood of any oak; used especially for furniture and flooring
- Words that mean the same thing: oak tree, oak
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: OAKS
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Clue 39 Down: "62. Mined find"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: ORE
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Clue 40 Down: "63. Telltale evidence of a shark"
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 the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one
- Words that mean the same thing: Little Phoebe, quintuplet, quint
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: FIN
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Clue 41 Down: "64. "Sisters" co-star Tina"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that slightly insane
- Words that mean the same thing: elfin, touched
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FEY
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 54 | 69.2% |
| Short Answer | 15 | 19.2% |
| History | 2 | 2.6% |
| Sports | 2 | 2.6% |
| Abbreviation | 2 | 2.6% |
| Geography | 1 | 1.3% |
| Food & Drink | 1 | 1.3% |
| Celebrity/Entertainment | 1 | 1.3% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 37 |
| Down Clues | 41 |
| Total Clues | 78 |
| Average Answer Length | 4.8 letters |
| Shortest Answer | 3 letters |
| Longest Answer | 12 letters |
Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!
- Start with short words first - they're usually easier!
- Look for clues with blanks to fill in - these are like fill-in-the-blank questions at school
- When letters cross, they must be the same in both words - this helps you check if you're right!
- Today is Monday, and these puzzles are usually medium level
- Most clues today are about general knowledge
- The average word today has about 4 letters
- Remember: It's okay to take breaks and come back later with fresh eyes!
- Ask someone for help if you need it - crosswords are more fun with friends!
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Last Updated: September 29, 2025 at 11:18 PM
