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Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Medium
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🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (33 clues)
🧩 1A: "1. Like the culture depicted in Safiya Sinclair's best-selling memoir "How to Say Babylon""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that follower of rastafarianism
- Similar words include: Rastafarian
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RASTA
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🧩 2A: "6. English translation of the Dutch "klompen""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that footwear usually with wooden soles
- Similar words include: choke, sabot, patten
- Opposite of: unclog
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Answer: CLOGS
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🧩 3A: "11. Robotic error message"
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- Pattern: ______________
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Answer: DOESNOTCOMPUTE
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🧩 4A: "15. Sooner rather than later"
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- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: INTHENEARFUTURE
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🧩 5A: "17. Preps for a photo shoot, say"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that how something is done or how it happens
- Similar words include: panache, mode, expressive style
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: STYLES
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🧩 6A: "18. Rest areas"
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- Think of something that a health resort near a spring or at the seaside
- Similar words include: watering place, resort hotel, health club
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SPAS
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🧩 7A: "19. Engage in pugilism"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid
- Similar words include: loge, corner, package
- Opposite of: unbox
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Answer: BOX
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🧩 8A: "20. Rock alternative"
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- Think of something that a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses
- Similar words include: wallpaper, newspaper, composition
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PAPER
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🧩 9A: "21. X, as in Mexico"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BESO
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🧩 10A: "22. In"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that elegance by virtue of being fashionable
- Similar words include: voguish, chicness, smartness
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CHIC
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🧩 11A: "23. Touching event?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EPEE
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🧩 12A: "24. Forecast"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that indicate by signs
- Similar words include: forecast, auspicate, prognosticate
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BODE
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🧩 13A: "25. Some like it hot"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SAUCE
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🧩 14A: "26. Didn't follow"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that diode such that light emitted at a p-n junction is proportional to the bias current; color depends on the material used
- Similar words include: guide, lead, precede
- Opposite of: follow
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Answer: LED
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🧩 15A: "27. Itsy-bitsy"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a very short skirt
- Similar words include: miniskirt
- Opposite of: midi
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Answer: MINI
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🧩 16A: "28. Like one part of the SAT"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that communicated in the form of words
- Opposite of: numerical
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: VERBAL
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🧩 17A: "29. Typical yearbook photos"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a photograph of a person's head
- Similar words include: headshot
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: HEADSHOTS
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🧩 18A: "31. Sisal and others"
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- Think of something that a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn
- Similar words include: roughage, fibre, character
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: FIBERS
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🧩 19A: "34. It can add up"
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- Think of something that a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement
- Similar words include: maths, mathematics
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MATH
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🧩 20A: "35. A real piece of work"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
- Similar words include: business, caper, chore
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: JOB
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🧩 21A: "38. That feeling "when the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine""
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AMORE
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🧩 22A: "39. Word before piece and after peace"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an instance or single occasion for some event
- Similar words include: meter, clock, fourth dimension
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TIME
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🧩 23A: "40. Glazier's replacement"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that sheet glass cut in shapes for windows or doors
- Similar words include: window glass, dose, panelling
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PANE
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🧩 24A: "41. Some sky lights, in brief"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an (apparently) flying object whose nature is unknown; especially those considered to have extraterrestrial origins
- Similar words include: flying saucer, UFO, unidentified flying object
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: UFOS
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🧩 25A: "42. Person with fire power"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who exercises control over workers
- Similar words include: honcho, emboss, political boss
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BOSS
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🧩 26A: "43. Miso soup base"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DASHI
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🧩 27A: "44. Director's cry"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a share of the profits
- Similar words include: slash, trim back, thin
- Opposite of: unmown, untrimmed
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Answer: CUT
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🧩 28A: "45. One of four suits in a tarot deck"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small open container usually used for drinking; usually has a handle
- Similar words include: cup, transfuse, cupful
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CUPS
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🧩 29A: "46. Source of schadenfreude?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person of german nationality
- Similar words include: High German, German language
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: GERMAN
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🧩 30A: "47. "Let me handle this""
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- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: ILLDOTHETALKING
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🧩 31A: "50. Small businesses that generally don't require permits"
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- Pattern: ______________
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Answer: LEMONADESTANDS
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🧩 32A: "51. Sensitive subject?"
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- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GSPOT
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🧩 33A: "52. Figure on the $10,000 bill, the largest U.S. note ever in public circulation"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture
- Similar words include: give chase, trail, Salmon Portland Chase
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CHASE
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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (37 clues)
🧩 1D: "1. Corrected autocorrect, say"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: RETYPED
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🧩 2D: "2. Younger Simpson sister"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ASHLEE
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🧩 3D: "3. Mean mien"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls
- Similar words include: leer
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SNEER
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🧩 4D: "4. Freight weights"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a large number or amount
- Similar words include: gobs, gross ton, net ton
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TONS
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🧩 5D: "5. Had one's cake, say"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
- Similar words include: feed, deplete, eat up
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ATE
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🧩 6D: "6. Body of Agatha Christie's work?"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the dead body of a human being
- Similar words include: cadaver, clay, remains
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CORPSE
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🧩 7D: "7. "u r freaking hilarious!""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LMFAO
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🧩 8D: "8. Work with a number"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a musical work that has been created
- Similar words include: piece, musical composition, composition
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OPUS
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🧩 9D: "9. Eviscerate"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus
- Similar words include: intestine, bowel, catgut
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: GUT
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🧩 10D: "10. Ticket exchange site since 2000"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: STUBHUB
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🧩 11D: "11. Banish"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings
- Similar words include: turn back, run off, chase away
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: DISPEL
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🧩 12D: "12. Like old voice mail messages"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ONTAPE
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🧩 13D: "13. Order in the court?"
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- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: CASEDISMISSED
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🧩 14D: "14. Symphony that marked the beginning of Beethoven's "middle period""
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: EROICA
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🧩 15D: "16. Office program"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that distinguish oneself
- Similar words include: stand out, surpass
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EXCEL
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🧩 16D: "21. My word!"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an electrical force linking atoms
- Similar words include: Julian Bond, bail, tie
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BOND
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🧩 17D: "22. Saturn and Mercury"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine
- Similar words include: railway car, gondola, railcar
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CARS
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🧩 18D: "24. Favoritism"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation
- Similar words include: prejudice, predetermine, diagonal
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BIAS
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🧩 19D: "25. First name in late-night"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (old testament) third son of adam and eve; given by god in place of the murdered abel
- Similar words include: Set
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SETH
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🧩 20D: "27. Just"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small pond of standing water
- Similar words include: bare, simple
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MERE
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🧩 21D: "28. Primary action"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative
- Similar words include: voting, voter turnout, right to vote
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: VOTE
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🧩 22D: "29. Partner of his"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HERS
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🧩 23D: "30. They can be cured"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)
- Similar words include: ham, overplay, Ham
- Opposite of: underact
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Answer: HAMS
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🧩 24D: "31. "On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service" memoirist, 2024"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: FAUCI
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🧩 25D: "32. "Nothing more for me, thank you""
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: IMFULL
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🧩 26D: "33. Illegal musical recording, e.g."
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash
- Similar words include: black, contraband, smuggled
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: BOOTLEG
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🧩 27D: "35. Fragrant flower whose name means "gift from God""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of several shrubs and vines of the genus jasminum chiefly native to asia
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: JASMINE
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🧩 28D: "36. In stock"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ONHAND
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🧩 29D: "37. They're alive"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the state or fact of existing
- Similar words include: organism, existence, beingness
- Opposite of: nonexistence, nonbeing
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Answer: BEINGS
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🧩 30D: "39. Bit of attire that might accompany a cane"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TOPHAT
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🧩 31D: "40. Some products sold by Patagonia"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a british term)
- Similar words include: windbreaker, windcheater, parka
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PARKAS
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🧩 32D: "42. "On the contrary …""
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BUTNO
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🧩 33D: "43. Area around a mouth"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a low triangular area of alluvial deposits where a river divides before entering a larger body of water
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DELTA
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🧩 34D: "45. Place to brood"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a farm building for housing poultry
- Similar words include: cage, hencoop, chicken coop
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: COOP
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🧩 35D: "46. Cause for stitches"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a wound made by cutting
- Similar words include: slash, cut, slice
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GASH
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🧩 36D: "48. Hits up, as on TikTok"
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that diabetes caused by a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin and characterized by polyuria
- Similar words include: decimeter, DM, diabetes mellitus
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DMS
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🧩 37D: "49. P.I."
🎯 Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a police officer who investigates crimes
- Similar words include: detective, police detective, investigator
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TEC
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📊 Today's Puzzle Stats
33 Across Clues
37 Down Clues
70 Total Clues
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