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Date: Friday, October 09, 2020
Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 70 (35 Across, 35 Down)
Average Word Length: 5.5 letters
October 09, 2020 Across Hints: NYT Friday Crossword Answers
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. Student who might take a crash course? | 9 |
| 2A | 10. Chills | 5 |
| 3A | 15. Direct kind of fight | 9 |
| 4A | 16. Apply | 5 |
| 5A | 17. Leftovers from a Greek salad | 9 |
| 6A | 18. Burton who hosted "Reading Rainbow" | 5 |
| 7A | 19. Dating app blurb | 3 |
| 8A | 20. True | 5 |
| 9A | 22. "Yesterday, I ___ a clock. It was very time-consuming" (groaner joke) | 3 |
| 10A | 23. Bad marks for a high schooler | 4 |
| 11A | 25. 1/768 of a gal. | 3 |
| 12A | 26. "Haven't the foggiest" | 6 |
| 13A | 28. Silently acknowledges | 6 |
| 14A | 30. ___ Flakes (old Post cereal) | 3 |
| 15A | 32. Hide | 4 |
| 16A | 33. Winter airplane need | 6 |
| 17A | 34. Darts | 5 |
| 18A | 36. Homes all over the planet? | 13 |
| 19A | 40. Look for people to scam online | 5 |
| 20A | 41. ___ di Mare (Italian fashion label) | 6 |
| 21A | 43. Up (or down) for something | 4 |
| 22A | 46. Obituary word | 3 |
| 23A | 47. More warm, in a way | 6 |
| 24A | 48. Slangy response to a knock at the door | 6 |
| 25A | 50. Round-bottomed vessel | 3 |
| 26A | 52. Batik artist, e.g. | 4 |
| 27A | 53. Shirt protector | 3 |
| 28A | 54. Beckett title character | 5 |
| 29A | 56. Bruiser | 3 |
| 30A | 57. Hwy. through St. Paul, Minn. | 5 |
| 31A | 59. Gymnastics rings feat with arms fully extended | 9 |
| 32A | 63. Locale of the Île de la Cité | 5 |
| 33A | 64. "Take some time to think" | 9 |
| 34A | 65. Minds | 5 |
| 35A | 66. They provide a clearer picture | 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. Student who might take a crash course?"
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: ECONMAJOR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "10. Chills"
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 special way of doing something
- Words that mean the same thing: knack, attend, hang up
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HANGS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Across: "15. Direct kind of fight"
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: MANOAMANO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Across: "16. Apply"
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 have and exercise
- Words that mean the same thing: maintain, exercise, wield
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EXERT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Across: "17. Leftovers from a Greek salad"
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: OLIVEPITS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Across: "18. Burton who hosted "Reading Rainbow""
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: LEVAR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Across: "19. Dating app blurb"
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: BIO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Across: "20. True"
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 steadfast in allegiance or duty
- Words that mean the same thing: patriotic, truehearted, fast
- The opposite would be: disloyal, unpatriotic
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LOYAL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Across: "22. "Yesterday, I ___ a clock. It was very time-consuming" (groaner joke)"
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 goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
- Words that mean the same thing: corrode, rust, eat up
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ATE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Across: "23. Bad marks for a high schooler"
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 inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin; characterized by papules or pustules or comedones
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ACNE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "25. 1/768 of a gal."
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: TSP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "26. "Haven't the foggiest""
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: NOIDEA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "28. Silently acknowledges"
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: NODSTO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "30. ___ Flakes (old Post cereal)"
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 annual grass of europe and north africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats')
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OAT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "32. Hide"
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 covering to disguise or conceal the face
- Words that mean the same thing: masque, block out, cloak
- The opposite would be: unmask
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MASK
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "33. Winter airplane need"
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 heater that removes ice or frost (as from a windshield or a refrigerator or the wings of an airplane)
- Words that mean the same thing: defroster
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DEICER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "34. Darts"
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 sudden quick movement
- Words that mean the same thing: flit, dart, flutter
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FLITS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Across: "36. Homes all over the planet?"
Quick Info: This answer has 13 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: SPACESTATIONS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "40. Look for people to scam online"
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: PHISH
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "41. ___ di Mare (Italian fashion label)"
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: ARMATA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "43. Up (or down) for something"
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 contest with rules to determine a winner
- Words that mean the same thing: biz, spirited, stake
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GAME
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "46. Obituary word"
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 (meaning literally `born') used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NEE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "47. More warm, in a way"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about history.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances
- Words that mean the same thing: skinny, dear, approximate
- The opposite would be: far
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NEARER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "48. Slangy response to a knock at the door"
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: WHODAT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "50. Round-bottomed vessel"
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 pan with a convex bottom; used for frying in chinese cooking
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: WOK
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "52. Batik artist, e.g."
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 whose job is to dye cloth
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DYER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "53. Shirt protector"
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 top part of an apron; covering the chest
- Words that mean the same thing: tipple
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BIB
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "54. Beckett title character"
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: GODOT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "56. Bruiser"
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 any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all
- Words that mean the same thing: aper, caricature, emulator
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: APE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "57. Hwy. through St. Paul, Minn."
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: USTEN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "59. Gymnastics rings feat with arms fully extended"
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: IRONCROSS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 32 Across: "63. Locale of the Île de la Cité"
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 a french river that flows through the heart of paris and then northward into the english channel
- Words that mean the same thing: Seine River
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SEINE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 33 Across: "64. "Take some time to think""
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: SLEEPONIT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 34 Across: "65. Minds"
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 paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people)
- Words that mean the same thing: paying attention, mind, listen
- The opposite would be: inattentiveness
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HEEDS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 35 Across: "66. They provide a clearer picture"
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: HDSCREENS
Great job if you got it right!
Down Clues Decoded - Friday NYT Crossword October 09, 2020
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. Taking Back Sunday or Dashboard Confessional | 7 |
| 2D | 2. Printed cotton fabrics | 8 |
| 3D | 3. Party bowlful with a sour cream base | 8 |
| 4D | 4. Mo. for Guy Fawkes Day | 3 |
| 5D | 5. Astronaut Jemison | 3 |
| 6D | 6. Boomer at a concert | 3 |
| 7D | 7. Puts away | 5 |
| 8D | 8. Elated | 15 |
| 9D | 9. Promising | 4 |
| 10D | 10. Pick-up line? | 5 |
| 11D | 11. ___ throwing (faddish sport) | 3 |
| 12D | 12. Where Colin Kaepernick played college football | 6 |
| 13D | 13. Hazards for high heels | 6 |
| 14D | 14. Zoom | 6 |
| 15D | 21. Kind of missile | 8 |
| 16D | 24. Got out | 7 |
| 17D | 25. Verbally attacked | 8 |
| 18D | 27. >:-( | 7 |
| 19D | 29. Stock market sector, for short | 4 |
| 20D | 31. Mimicking | 3 |
| 21D | 35. Part of many a tree swing | 4 |
| 22D | 37. Chicago-to-Indianapolis dir. | 3 |
| 23D | 38. Zero | 8 |
| 24D | 39. Infuses with | 8 |
| 25D | 42. Parts of a record | 7 |
| 26D | 43. Prez with the same initials as an N.Y.C. landmark | 6 |
| 27D | 44. "It all makes sense now" | 6 |
| 28D | 45. Connection to the underworld | 6 |
| 29D | 49. ___ Scott College, one of the Seven Sisters of the South | 5 |
| 30D | 51. Tribe that traditionally spoke Chiwere | 5 |
| 31D | 55. Trade gossip | 4 |
| 32D | 58. Period, with "the" | 3 |
| 33D | 60. Japanese electronics giant | 3 |
| 34D | 61. Y.M.C.A. course | 3 |
| 35D | 62. Norma McCorvey's alias in a famous court case | 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. Taking Back Sunday or Dashboard Confessional"
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: EMOBAND
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. Printed cotton fabrics"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that coarse cloth with a bright print
- Words that mean the same thing: calico
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CALICOES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. Party bowlful with a sour cream base"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 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: ONIONDIP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. Mo. for Guy Fawkes Day"
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 month following october and preceding december
- Words that mean the same thing: November
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NOV
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. Astronaut Jemison"
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: MAE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Down: "6. Boomer at a concert"
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 basic unit of electric current adopted under the systeme international d'unites
- Words that mean the same thing: ampere, adenosine monophosphate, adenylic acid
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AMP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Down: "7. Puts away"
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 correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
- Words that mean the same thing: gaol, slammer, immure
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: JAILS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Down: "8. Elated"
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: ONTOPOFTHEWORLD
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Down: "9. Promising"
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 reflecting optimism
- Words that mean the same thing: flushed, fortunate, blushful
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ROSY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Down: "10. Pick-up line?"
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 an expression of greeting
- Words that mean the same thing: hi, howdy, how-do-you-do
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HELLO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. ___ throwing (faddish sport)"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about sports.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an edge tool with a heavy bladed head mounted across a handle
- Words that mean the same thing: ax
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AXE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. Where Colin Kaepernick played college football"
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 a state in the southwestern united states
- Words that mean the same thing: Silver State, Sagebrush State, NV
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NEVADA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Down: "13. Hazards for high heels"
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 a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
- Words that mean the same thing: grate, fret, scrape
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GRATES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Down: "14. Zoom"
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 an unbroken series of events
- Words that mean the same thing: run, blotch, bar
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: STREAK
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Down: "21. Kind of missile"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that designed for defense against armored vehicles
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ANTITANK
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Down: "24. Got out"
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 run away from confinement
- Words that mean the same thing: loose, run, miss
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ESCAPED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Down: "25. Verbally attacked"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 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: TOREINTO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Down: "27. >:-("
Quick Info: This answer has 7 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: IMSOMAD
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Down: "29. Stock market sector, 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 a school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences
- Words that mean the same thing: technical school
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TECH
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Down: "31. Mimicking"
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 21 Down: "35. Part of many a tree swing"
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 hoop that covers a wheel
- Words that mean the same thing: run down, sap, tyre
- The opposite would be: refresh, interest
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TIRE
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Clue 22 Down: "37. Chicago-to-Indianapolis dir."
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that the compass point midway between south and southeast
- Words that mean the same thing: sou'-sou'-east, south southeast
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: SSE
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Clue 23 Down: "38. Zero"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 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: NARYAONE
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Clue 24 Down: "39. Infuses with"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 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: STEEPSIN
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Clue 25 Down: "42. Parts of a record"
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 act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- Words that mean the same thing: catch, taking into custody, hold back
- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: ARRESTS
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Clue 26 Down: "43. Prez with the same initials as an N.Y.C. landmark"
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: GWBUSH
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Clue 27 Down: "44. "It all makes sense now""
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: AHISEE
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Clue 28 Down: "45. Connection to the underworld"
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: MOBTIE
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Clue 29 Down: "49. ___ Scott College, one of the Seven Sisters of the South"
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: AGNES
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Clue 30 Down: "51. Tribe that traditionally spoke Chiwere"
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 member of the siouan people inhabiting the valleys of the platte and missouri rivers in nebraska
- Words that mean the same thing: Oto, Otoe
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: OTOES
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Clue 31 Down: "55. Trade gossip"
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 piece of dishware normally used as a container for holding or serving food
- Words that mean the same thing: smasher, dish up, ravisher
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: DISH
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Clue 32 Down: "58. Period, with "the""
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that either extremity of something that has length
- Words that mean the same thing: ending, closing, cease
- The opposite would be: beginning, begin
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The answer is: END
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Clue 33 Down: "60. Japanese electronics giant"
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 an acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants; necrosis of intestinal tissue may follow
- Words that mean the same thing: necrotizing enterocolitis
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: NEC
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Clue 34 Down: "61. Y.M.C.A. course"
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 an emergency procedure consisting of external cardiac massage and artificial respiration; the first treatment for a person who has collapsed and has no pulse and has stopped breathing; attempts to restore circulation of the blood and prevent death or brain damage due to lack of oxygen
- Words that mean the same thing: kiss of life, cardiac resuscitation, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: CPR
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Clue 35 Down: "62. Norma McCorvey's alias in a famous court case"
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 fish eggs or egg-filled ovary; having a grainy texture
- Words that mean the same thing: hard roe
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: ROE
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 50 | 71.4% |
| Short Answer | 17 | 24.3% |
| History | 1 | 1.4% |
| Sports | 1 | 1.4% |
| Abbreviation | 1 | 1.4% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 35 |
| Down Clues | 35 |
| 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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