27443 Mon Dec 30, 2024 NY Times Crossword Clues Hints

Break down the NYT Crosswords: December 30, 2024

Let's go into the puzzle, starting with the across clues and answers, followed by the down clues and answers.

Mon Dec 30, 2024 NY Times

Across Clues with Answers:

• The clue is 1. Brainy. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: SMART

  Possible Answer : impudent, sassy, hurt, impertinent, smarting, overbold, chic, fresh, saucy, smartness, ache, bright, voguish, wise, smart

  Possible Opposite Answer : stupid




• The clue is 6. Wacky. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: ZANY

  Possible Answer : clownish, silly, zany, goof, goofy, whacky, goofball, wacky, twat, cuckoo, clownlike, cockamamy, sappy, goose, buffoonish, bozo, jackass, fathead, cockamamie




• The clue is 10. Desktop computer that might run Sonoma or Sequoia. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: IMAC




• The clue is 14. Choir member. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: TENOR

  Possible Answer : tenor, tenor_voice, strain




• The clue is 15. Writer Wiesel. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: ELIE




• The clue is 16. Forbidden. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: NOGO




• The clue is 17. Waiter's imperative after bringing food. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ENJOY

  Possible Answer : savour, delight, revel, relish, love, bask, enjoy, savor

  Possible Opposite Answer : suffer




• The clue is 18. Flower that reflects yellow when held under one's chin. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (9 letters)

  The answer: BUTTERCUP

  Possible Answer : butter-flower, butterflower, buttercup, crowfoot, kingcup, goldcup




• The clue is 20. It might have a twist or hole. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: PLOT

  Possible Answer : plot_of_land, plot, patch, diagram, plot_of_ground, secret_plan, game, plat




• The clue is 21. What a sleeve covers. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: ARM

  Possible Answer : weapon, branch, weapon_system, build_up, fortify, limb, gird, sleeve, subdivision, arm

  Possible Opposite Answer : disarm




• The clue is 22. "Don't worry about me!". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: IMOKAY




• The clue is 23. Primitive timer. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (9 letters)

  The answer: HOURGLASS

  Possible Answer : hourglass




• The clue is 26. Surface for doing exercises. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: MAT

  Possible Answer : lustrelessness, felt_up, matt-up, entangle, flat, matte_up, Master_of_Arts_in_Teaching, lusterlessness, MAT, mat_up, gym_mat, felt, matt, matting, matte, mat, snarl, flatness, tangle, matted

  Possible Opposite Answer : unsnarl, disentangle




• The clue is 27. Globes. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: ORBS

  Possible Answer : eyeball, globe, orbit, ball, orb, revolve




• The clue is 28. Going out romantically. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: ONADATE




• The clue is 32. #1 pal. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: BESTIE




• The clue is 35. Language suffix. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: ESE

  Possible Answer : ESE, east_southeast




• The clue is 36. Father. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: SIRE

  Possible Answer : father, get, engender, mother, bring_forth, generate, sire, beget, forefather




• The clue is 37. Music genre prefix. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: ALT

  Possible Answer : altitude, EL, ALT, elevation




• The clue is 38. N.F.L. all-star game. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: PROBOWL




• The clue is 41. Texter's reaction to a joke. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: LOL




• The clue is 42. Some beers. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: ALES

  Possible Answer : ale




• The clue is 44. Bathroom fixture. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: TUB

  Possible Answer : vat, tub, bathtub, tubful, bath, bathing_tub




• The clue is 45. Clinks a glass and gives a speech to. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: TOASTS

  Possible Answer : toast, drink, pledge, crispen, goner, crisp, wassail, salute




• The clue is 47. Indian pastries with savory fillings. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: SAMOSAS

  Possible Answer : samosa




• The clue is 49. Obnoxious person, informally. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: TOOL

  Possible Answer : instrument, pecker, peter, prick, putz, creature, joyride, puppet, tool, shaft, cock, dick, tool_around




• The clue is 50. "All you need is love and a ___" (old saying). Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: CAT

  Possible Answer : cast, cat-o'-nine-tails, honk, guy, Arabian_tea, hombre, throw_up, big_cat, retch, African_tea, vomit, regurgitate, Caterpillar, barf, CAT, sick, regorge, upchuck, disgorge, vomit_up, spew, spue, be_sick, computed_axial_tomography, qat, computerized_tomography, cat, bozo, khat, quat, computed_tomography, kat, true_cat, computerized_axial_tomography, puke, purge, chuck, CT

  Possible Opposite Answer : keep_down




• The clue is 51. Place for policy wonks. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (9 letters)

  The answer: THINKTANK




• The clue is 56. Huge to-dos. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: SCENES

  Possible Answer : fit, scenery, panorama, setting, view, vista, prospect, tantrum, conniption, shot, aspect, picture, scene




• The clue is 59. "Sounds good!". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: YES

  Possible Answer : yes

  Possible Opposite Answer : no




• The clue is 60. Norse god of war and death. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: ODIN

  Possible Answer : Odin




• The clue is 61. Make logical sense ... or what the ends of 18-, 23-, 38- and 51-Across do. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (9 letters)

  The answer: HOLDWATER




• The clue is 63. Grammarian's concern. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: USAGE

  Possible Answer : use, employment, usage, custom, exercise, utilization, usance, utilisation




• The clue is 64. Troubles. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: ILLS

  Possible Answer : ill, complaint, ailment




• The clue is 65. Number of planets before Pluto was demoted. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: NINE

  Possible Answer : ix, IX, nine, 9, ball_club, club, ennead, baseball_club, nine-spot, niner, Nina_from_Carolina




• The clue is 66. Food item that might come with lox. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: BAGEL

  Possible Answer : beigel, bagel




• The clue is 67. El ___, Tex.. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: PASO




• The clue is 68. Exhausted, metaphorically. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: DEAD

  Possible Answer : beat, all_in, perfectly, numb, drained, bushed, deadened, idle, utterly, utter, absolutely, short, suddenly, abruptly, dead, stagnant

  Possible Opposite Answer : live, alive, living




• The clue is 69. Put forth, as effort. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: EXERT

  Possible Answer : exert, maintain, exercise, wield

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Down Clues and Answers:

• The clue is 1. Basketball star Curry. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: STEPH

• The clue is 2. ___ Park, location of Edison's first major laboratory. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: MENLO

• The clue is 3. Type of pear. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ANJOU

  Possible Answer: Anjou, anjou

• The clue is 4. Plant affliction that's below ground. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: ROOTROT

• The clue is 5. Attempt. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: TRY

  Possible Answer: attempt, try_out, adjudicate, try_on, try, endeavour, hear, render, assay, test, prove, effort, examine, stress, endeavor, sample, judge, strain, taste, essay, seek

• The clue is 6. Creatures that are actually black with white stripes. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: ZEBRAS

  Possible Answer: zebra

• The clue is 7. What grads become. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ALUMS

  Possible Answer: potash_alum, graduate, grad, ammonia_alum, ammonium_alum, alum, alumnus, potassium_alum, alumna

• The clue is 8. Tiny complaint. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: NIT

  Possible Answer: nit

• The clue is 9. Abominable Snowman. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: YETI

  Possible Answer: abominable_snowman, yeti

• The clue is 10. Advances. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: INROADS

  Possible Answer: inroad

• The clue is 11. Shirley Temple and Virgin Bloody Mary, for two. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (9 letters)

  The answer: MOCKTAILS

• The clue is 12. H₂O, in Mexico. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: AGUA

  Possible Answer: agua_toad, Bufo_marinus, agua

• The clue is 13. "I understand you". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: COPY

  Possible Answer: copy, written_matter, replicate, imitate, simulate, re-create, transcript

• The clue is 19. Character described by Austen as "a heroine whom no one but myself will much like". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: EMMA

• The clue is 21. Canadian province that's home to the Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump World Heritage Site. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: ALBERTA

  Possible Answer: Alberta

• The clue is 24. Grasp tightly. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: GRIP

  Possible Answer: hold, spellbind, grasp, handgrip, bag, fascinate, transfix, traveling_bag, grapple, clutch, clutches, adhesive_friction, travelling_bag, grip, hairgrip, clench, suitcase, traction, bobby_pin, clasp, handle

• The clue is 25. Meh. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: SOSO

• The clue is 29. Units of force. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: NEWTONS

  Possible Answer: newton, N, Newton, Sir_Isaac_Newton, Isaac_Newton

• The clue is 30. Gait faster than a walk but slower than a canter. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: TROT

  Possible Answer: trot, pony, crib, jog, clip, lope, Trotskyist, Trotskyite, Trot

• The clue is 31. Snakelike fish. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: EELS

  Possible Answer: eel

• The clue is 32. Sheep sounds. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: BAAS

  Possible Answer: baas, blat, blate, baa, bleat

• The clue is 33. "Enchanted" girl in a Gail Carson Levine book. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: ELLA

• The clue is 34. Biomedical building blocks. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (9 letters)

  The answer: STEMCELLS

• The clue is 35. Recede, as the tide. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: EBB

  Possible Answer: ebb_down, ebb_out, reflux, ebbing, ebb, ebb_away, ebb_off, wane

  Possible Opposite Answer : tide

• The clue is 39. Remove from office. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: OUST

  Possible Answer: drum_out, oust, throw_out, expel, kick_out, boot_out

• The clue is 40. Cry made while pointing. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: LOOK

  Possible Answer: looking_at, take_care, depend, expect, feeling, spirit, wait, search, front, look, reckon, tone, see, await, flavour, expression, looking, attend, aspect, flavor, facial_expression, seem, face, smell, bet, feel, appear, calculate, count

  Possible Opposite Answer : back

• The clue is 43. No-goodnik. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: SOANDSO

• The clue is 46. Jazz combo instrument. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

  The answer: ALTOSAX

• The clue is 48. Dish served from a crockpot. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: STEW

  Possible Answer: sweat, swither, grizzle, stew, fret, lather, grudge, brood

• The clue is 49. In stacks, like a wedding cake. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

  The answer: TIERED

  Possible Answer: tiered

• The clue is 52. Evil hench-animal in "The Lion King". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: HYENA

  Possible Answer: hyena, hyaena

• The clue is 53. "The early bird gets the worm," for one. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: ADAGE

  Possible Answer: adage, proverb, saw, byword

• The clue is 54. Landlocked African country. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: NIGER

  Possible Answer: Republic_of_Niger, Niger, Niger_River

• The clue is 55. Prepared to propose. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

  The answer: KNELT

  Possible Answer: kneel

• The clue is 56. Wish for a romantic pairing between, in modern parlance. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: SHIP

  Possible Answer: embark, send, ship, transport

  Possible Opposite Answer : disembark

• The clue is 57. Pepsi or Coke. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: COLA

  Possible Answer: Cola, genus_Cola, Colon, dope, Aspinwall, Costa_Rican_colon, colon, El_Salvadoran_colon, cola

• The clue is 58. Contents of a 23-Across. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

  The answer: SAND

  Possible Answer: guts, backbone, Baroness_Dudevant, gumption, Sand, sandpaper, Amandine_Aurore_Lucie_Dupin, moxie, sand, grit, George_Sand

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• The clue is 62. "How to ___ a ___" (common tutorial topic). Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: TIE

  Possible Answer: link_up, draw, bind, standoff, attach, affiliation, wed, tie, marry, sleeper, tie-up, necktie, splice, tie_beam, link, crosstie, bond, linkup, connect, railroad_tie, association, tie-in

  Possible Opposite Answer : untie, disconnect

• The clue is 63. Purple yam common in Filipino cooking. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

  The answer: UBE

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🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (37 clues)

🧩 1A: "1. Beat at chess"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that engage in sexual intercourse
• Similar words include: pair, snarl, felt up
• Opposite of: unmated, disentangle

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🧩 2A: "6. Speech therapists' targets"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

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• Think of something that a speech defect that involves pronouncing `s' like voiceless `th' and `z' like voiced `th'
• Similar words include: lisp, LISP, list-processing language
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: LISPS

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🧩 3A: "11. Adds to the chain, in a way"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

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• Think of something that a metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter
• Similar words include: cubic centimetre, cc, mil
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: CCS

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🧩 4A: "14. † symbols, on manuscripts"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

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• Pattern: _____

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Answer: OBELI

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🧩 5A: "15. Square"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

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• Pattern: _____

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Answer: UNHIP

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🧩 6A: "16. It may be brown or blonde"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

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• Think of something that a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the united states an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: ALE

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🧩 7A: "17. "Nice of you to show up""

📏 11 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

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• Pattern: ___________

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Answer: COMMONSNIPE

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🧩 8A: "19. Something to play by"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

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• Think of something that the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
• Similar words include: pinna, capitulum, auricle
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: EAR

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🧩 9A: "20. Marching syllable"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

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• Pattern: ___

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Answer: HUP

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🧩 10A: "21. Utter nonsense"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

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• Think of something that a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
• Similar words include: rotting, bunkum, decompose
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: ROT

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🧩 11A: "22. Vocal flourish used by Lady Gaga in "Shallow" and "Bad Romance""

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

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• Pattern: _______

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Answer: MELISMA

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🧩 12A: "24. Tries, tries again"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

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• Think of something that to say, state, or perform again
• Similar words include: repeat, restate, retell
• Pattern: ________

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Answer: ITERATES

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🧩 13A: "27. Univision article"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Pattern: ___

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Answer: UNA

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🧩 14A: "28. "Hey, England, happy Fourth of July!""

📏 12 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Pattern: ____________

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Answer: AMERICANCROW

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🧩 15A: "33. Cow or cobra, in yoga"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (hinduism) a posture or manner of sitting (as in the practice of yoga)
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: ASANA

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🧩 16A: "36. Do it!"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted
• Similar words include: job, labor, chore
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: TASK

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🧩 17A: "37. Suffix with Sudan or Bhutan"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Think of something that the compass point midway between east and southeast
• Similar words include: east southeast
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: ESE

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🧩 18A: "38. With 41-Across, a hint to this puzzle's theme"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

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• Think of something that warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings
• Similar words include: birdie, hoot, Bronx cheer
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: BIRD

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🧩 19A: "39. Stereotypical attire for tech bros"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Think of something that a man's sleeveless garment worn underneath a coat
• Similar words include: robe, vest, waistcoat
• Opposite of: divest

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Answer: VESTS

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🧩 20A: "41. See 38-Across"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Think of something that a telephone connection
• Similar words include: foretell, margin call, song
• Opposite of: put option

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Answer: CALL

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🧩 21A: "42. Head into?"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on; an integrated circuit memory chip allows information to be stored or accessed in any order and all storage locations are equally accessible
• Similar words include: read/write memory, force, Aries
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: RAM

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🧩 22A: "43. Speak hoarsely"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

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• Similar words include: wood file, rasping
• Pattern: ____

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🧩 23A: "44. ___ blanc (type of white grape)"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Think of something that any of several purple or white wine grapes used especially for burgundies and champagnes
• Similar words include: Pinot grape
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: PINOT

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🧩 24A: "45. "Say 'goodnight' Alexa." "Goodnight Alexa""

📏 12 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AMAZONPARROT

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🧩 25A: "49. Trash"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that god of the underworld; counterpart of greek pluto
• Similar words include: Orcus
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: DIS

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🧩 26A: "50. Relative of a votive candle"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TEALIGHT

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🧩 27A: "54. Attire for an acrobat"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a tight-fitting garment of stretchy material that covers the body from the shoulders to the thighs (and may have long sleeves or legs reaching down to the ankles); worn by ballet dancers and acrobats for practice or performance
• Similar words include: cat suit, leotard, body suit
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: UNITARD

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🧩 28A: "58. Era in which daylight saving was introduced as a way to conserve energy, in brief"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: WWI

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🧩 29A: "59. Lion in ancient Rome"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in leo
• Similar words include: Leo the Lion, Lion
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: LEO

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🧩 30A: "60. "omg, u r too much""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LOL

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🧩 31A: "61. "Bottom-of-the-barrel barrel prices! Buy today!""

📏 11 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: COOPERSHAWK

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🧩 32A: "64. Love, at Wimbledon"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a quantity of no importance
• Similar words include: zilch, nothing, cypher
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: NIL

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🧩 33A: "65. Softened"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that move gently or carefully
• Similar words include: facilitate, ease, alleviated
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: EASED

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🧩 34A: "66. "___: The Origins of Our Discontents," Isabel Wilkerson best seller"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that social status or position conferred by a system based on class
• Pattern: _____

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Answer: CASTE

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🧩 35A: "67. Like one who might prefer platonic relationships, informally"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ARO

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🧩 36A: "68. Fathers' last words?"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a primeval egyptian personification of air and breath; worshipped especially at thebes
• Similar words include: Amen, Amun, Amon
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AMENS

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🧩 37A: "69. "Challenge accepted!""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

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Answer: ITSON

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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (41 clues)

🧩 1D: "1. Japanese rice cake"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MOCHI

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🧩 2D: "2. Approximately"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that on the move
• Similar words include: well-nigh, almost, nigh
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ABOUT

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🧩 3D: "3. Home for the Sun Devils"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TEMPE

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🧩 4D: "4. ___ City (nickname for New Haven, Conn.)"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any of various trees of the genus ulmus: important timber or shade trees
• Similar words include: elm tree, elmwood
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: ELM

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🧩 5D: "5. Many a Joseph Cornell artwork"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a picture (or series of pictures) representing a continuous scene
• Similar words include: cyclorama, panorama
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DIORAMA

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🧩 6D: "6. Shine"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a quality that outshines the usual
• Similar words include: lustre, sheen, shininess
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LUSTER

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🧩 7D: "7. Tavern"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
• Similar words include: lodge, hostelry, auberge
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: INN

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🧩 8D: "8. A matchbook, for a wobbly table, say"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a thin wedge of material (wood or metal or stone) for driving into crevices
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SHIM

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🧩 9D: "9. "___ down!" ("Shut up!")"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco
• Similar words include: shriek, organ pipe, pipe up
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PIPE

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🧩 10D: "10. Explore a cave"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that explore natural caves
• Similar words include: cave
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SPELUNK

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🧩 11D: "11. Like the Roman Empire around 48 B.C."

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that julius caesar was born that way)
• Similar words include: cesarian section, cesarian, cesarean
• Pattern: _________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CAESAREAN

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🧩 12D: "12. One might be cooked "casino"-style"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness
• Similar words include: one dollar bill, dollar, dollar bill
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CLAM

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🧩 13D: "13. Will be, in Spanish"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an amber, watery fluid, rich in proteins, that separates out when blood coagulates
• Similar words include: serum, blood serum
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SERA

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🧩 14D: "18. Musical building block"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a brief written record
• Similar words include: bank bill, Federal Reserve note, take down
• Opposite of: ignore

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NOTE

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🧩 15D: "23. Company name ender"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a heterogeneous collection of groups united in their opposition to saddam hussein's government of iraq; formed in 1992 it is comprised of sunni and shiite arabs and kurds who hope to build a new government
• Similar words include: Iraqi National Congress
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: INC

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🧩 16D: "25. South African currency"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the basic unit of money in south africa; equal to 100 cents
• Similar words include: Witwatersrand, Reef, Ayn Rand
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RAND

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🧩 17D: "26. Doesn't get hit, say"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SITSPAT

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🧩 18D: "29. Hard animal to herd"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats; wildcats
• Similar words include: vomit, cat-o'-nine-tails, qat
• Opposite of: keep down

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CAT

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🧩 19D: "30. Bad ending?"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
• Similar words include: buns, piece of ass, buttocks
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ASS

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🧩 20D: "31. Site of a Nobel Prize award ceremony every December 10"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the capital and largest city of norway; the country's main port; located at the head of a fjord on norway's southern coast
• Similar words include: capital of Norway, Christiania
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OSLO

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🧩 21D: "32. Lasting lash effect"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions
• Similar words include: wale, lather, weal
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: WELT

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🧩 22D: "33. "East of Eden" girl"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ABRA

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🧩 23D: "34. Setting for "The King and I""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a country of southeastern asia that extends southward along the isthmus of kra to the malay peninsula
• Similar words include: Thailand, Kingdom of Thailand
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SIAM

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🧩 24D: "35. Mammal that can roll up into a ball"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that burrowing chiefly nocturnal mammal with body covered with strong horny plates
• Pattern: _________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ARMADILLO

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🧩 25D: "39. One might help you move"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
• Similar words include: avant-garde, new wave, vanguard
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: VAN

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🧩 26D: "40. Medium capacity?"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses
• Similar words include: extrasensory perception, clairvoyance, second sight
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ESP

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🧩 27D: "41. ___ Field (M.L.B. venue since 2009)"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CITI

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🧩 28D: "43. Skin condition that causes facial flushing"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a skin disease of adults (more often women) in which blood vessels of the face enlarge resulting in a flushed appearance
• Similar words include: acne rosacea
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ROSACEA

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🧩 29D: "44. Major that might require International Relations and U.S. Government classes, informally"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: POLISCI

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🧩 30D: "46. Pimple"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a small inflamed elevation of the skin; a pustule or papule; common symptom in acne
• Similar words include: pimple, hickey
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ZIT

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🧩 31D: "47. Ties another knot, so to speak"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: REWEDS

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🧩 32D: "48. Comical growl"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RAWR

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🧩 33D: "51. Word with cut or shot"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure
• Similar words include: glassful, chicken feed, glass in
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GLASS

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🧩 34D: "52. Observe closely, as orders"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HEWTO

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🧩 35D: "53. Symbol"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an individual instance of a type of symbol
• Similar words include: souvenir, nominal, relic
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TOKEN

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🧩 36D: "54. Forearm bone"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the inner and longer of the two bones of the human forearm
• Similar words include: elbow bone
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ULNA

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🧩 37D: "55. Genre for "Double Indemnity""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NOIR

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🧩 38D: "56. Last word in the first line of "Home on the Range""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
• Similar words include: roll, swan, drift
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ROAM

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🧩 39D: "57. One tablespoon, maybe"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time
• Similar words include: pane, dosage, VD
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DOSE

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🧩 40D: "62. Write"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a writing implement with a point from which ink flows
• Similar words include: penitentiary, write, compose
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PEN

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🧩 41D: "63. Porkpie, e.g."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim
• Similar words include: chapeau, lid
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HAT

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🧠 Expert Solving Strategies

🎯 Start Smart

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❓ Decode the Clues

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41 Down Clues

78 Total Clues

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