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Friday, August 30, 2024

LA2430 Friday, August 29, 2024 LA Times Predictions Steps by Crossword hints blogs

Across Clues

Clue Answer
Unflattering press for a celeb BAD PR
Fries, e.g. SIDE
Owned HAD
On a cruise AT SEA
Ridicule TAUNT
2019 March Madness champs UVA
“Call Me Maybe” or “Operator (That’s Not the Way It Feels)”? TELEPHONE NUMBER
BTS genre K-POP
Done deal SURE BET
Tony winner Hagen UTA
NFL three-pointers, for short FGS
“Popular” or “Fashion!”? IN TUNE
“Sound of da Police” or “The Artist in the Ambulance”? SIREN SONG
Figure, briefly BOD
Lebanese capital BEIRUT
Art stand EASEL
“Midnight Train to Georgia” or “Chattanooga Choo Choo”? RAILROAD TRACK
Griswold of the “National Lampoon’s Vacation” films CLARK
Adidas addition INSOLE
Undecided initials TBA
“Sittin’ in the Sun (Countin’ My Money)” or “Can’t Buy Me Love”? BUDGET CUT
“I’m Too Sexy” or “Summer in the City”? HOT AIR
Antioxidant juice brand POM
Some mantras OMS
Puzzles ENIGMAS
“Success!” TA-DA!
“Take Me Out to the Ballgame” or “Talkin’ Baseball”? LINEDRIVE SINGLE
Actress Ryan MEG
Watch rim BEZEL
Wood finish STAIN
Equal ARE
Actor’s compilation REEL
Explored a national park, perhaps HIKED



Friday, August 29, 2024 LA Times Predictions Steps by Crossword hints blogs
 Friday, August 29, 2024 LA Times

Down Clues

Clue Answer
Item used at home BAT
Used (up) ATE
Fiber alternative DSL
Cheat at cards, say PEEK
Reneé of the “Mean Girls” musical RAPP
Like bumper-to-bumper traffic STOP/GO
“Amsterdam” novelist McEwan IAN
Union __ DUES
The blahs ENNUI
Commotion HUBBUB
Maker of Healthy Start Newborn skin products AVEENO
Moved unpredictably DARTED
Spoil TURN
Long Island university that has hosted several presidential debates HOFSTRA
Ran into MET
Common port type USB
Cake part TIER
Opera solo ARIA
Arrive quietly SNEAK UP
Actor Stoltz ERIC
Void’s partner NULL
Roam (about) GAD
Bad marks STIGMAS
Sea eagle ERNE
Not followed LAST
Crystal ball, e.g. ORB
Pixar film set on the Day of the Dead COCO
Longtime “Project Runway” host Heidi KLUM
GRE org. ETS
Title role for Geena Davis THELMA
Tougher to fillet, perhaps BONIER
Not much, colorwise A TINGE
“Spill!” DO TELL!
Period AGE
Clue Answer
Film trivia site IMDB
More red RARER
Coffee specification SIZE
“Spill!” DISH!
Averse to ANTI
Neckline shape VEE
Nickelodeon slime GAK
Fabrication LIE
Sew up END

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Sunday, August 24, 2025

January 23, 1990 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

Published on Tuesday, January 23, 1990 • Daily puzzle hints • Crossword clues © The New York Times

Master the NYT crossword from January 23, 1990 with our expert hint system. We provide synonyms, antonyms, and strategic clues to help you solve without spoiling the fun.

Puzzle Difficulty: Tricky

Pro Tip: Start with the fill-in-the-blank clues - they're usually the easiest entry points!

Across Clues - Strategic Hints (36 clues)

1A: "1. Shopper's mecca"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk
  • Similar words include: shopping mall, shopping centre, plaza
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: MALL

2A: "5. Wise ___ owl"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ASAN

3A: "9. Young bull"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that young of domestic cattle
  • Similar words include: calfskin, sura
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: CALF

4A: "13. Red as ___"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ABEET

5A: "15. Tony ___, memorable golfer"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LEMA

6A: "16. Sheltered at sea"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that on or toward the lee
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ALEE

7A: "17. His sentence is lengthy"

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a prisoner serving a term of life imprisonment
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LIFER

8A: "18. Broadway hit of yore, with "The""

9 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: FRONTPAGE

9A: "20. Tropical fish"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that brightly colored tropical freshwater fishes
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TETRA

10A: "21. Puts in a container"

7 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that enclose in, or as if in, a case
  • Similar words include: encase, incase, case
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ENCASES

11A: "22. Residue"

3 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the residue that remains when something is burned
  • Similar words include: ash tree
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ASH

12A: "23. Shows fear"

7 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that draw back, as with fear or pain
  • Similar words include: quail, funk, flinch
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: CRINGES

13A: "26. "___ for Danny Fisher": Robbins"

6 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ASTONE

14A: "28. Andrea del ___"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SARTO

15A: "33. ___ avail"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TONO

16A: "35. Loni's husband"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that english psychologist whose studies of twins were later said to have used fabricated data (1883-1971)
  • Similar words include: Cyril Burt, Cyril Lodowic Burt
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: BURT

17A: "37. Eastern biggies"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in africa or arabia)
  • Similar words include: emeer, ameer, emir
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: EMIRS

18A: "38. Lasts"

7 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that put up with something or somebody unpleasant
  • Similar words include: last, live on, brook
  • Opposite of: enjoy
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ENDURES

19A: "40. Asseverates"

7 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that report or maintain
  • Similar words include: say, allege, aver
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ALLEGES

20A: "42. Ebbets Field star"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: REESE

21A: "43. Brown, as raw silk"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a very light brown
  • Similar words include: beige
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ECRU

22A: "45. Stadium in Queens"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SHEA

23A: "46. Having form without reality"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an auxiliary verb (such as `can' or `will') that is used to express modality
  • Similar words include: modal auxiliary, average, modal verb
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: MODAL

24A: "47. Aboveboard"

6 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent
  • Similar words include: true, dependable, fair
  • Opposite of: dishonest
Click to reveal answer
Answer: HONEST

25A: "49. Land holdings"

7 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities
  • Similar words include: estate, land, acres
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ESTATES

26A: "52. Kind of mask or pipe"

3 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by: relatively low density and viscosity; relatively great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature; the ability to diffuse readily; and the spontaneous tendency to become distributed uniformly throughout any container
  • Similar words include: bluster, petrol, tout
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: GAS

27A: "55. Oriental"

7 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that lying toward or situated in the east
  • Similar words include: easterly
  • Opposite of: western
Click to reveal answer
Answer: EASTERN

28A: "58. Pat or tap"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the event of something coming in contact with the body
  • Similar words include: pinch, speck, relate
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TOUCH

29A: "60. Behind the scenes"

9 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a stage area out of sight of the audience
  • Similar words include: offstage, wing
  • Pattern: _________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: BACKSTAGE

30A: "62. Gladden"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that fill with high spirits; fill with optimism
  • Similar words include: pick up, uplift, intoxicate
  • Opposite of: depress
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ELATE

31A: "63. Lake in Ireland"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail; of europe and greenland
  • Similar words include: white-tailed sea eagle, Haliatus albicilla, gray sea eagle
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ERNE

32A: "64. Joined"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord
  • Similar words include: even, link up, bond
  • Opposite of: untied, disconnect
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TIED

33A: "65. Fathered"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that make children
  • Similar words include: engender, sire, father
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SIRED

34A: "66. Kind of club"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that great merriment
  • Similar words include: gloat, gloating, mirth
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: GLEE

35A: "67. Rival of Henry Ford"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')
  • Similar words include: old
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: OLDS

36A: "68. Tout's concern"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the likelihood of a thing occurring rather than not occurring
  • Similar words include: betting odds
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ODDS

Down Clues - Strategic Hints (38 clues)

1D: "1. Knights of ___"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a republic on the island of malta in the mediterranean; achieved independence from the united kingdom in 1964
  • Similar words include: Republic of Malta
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: MALTA

2D: "2. "___ Irish Rose""

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that make amends for
  • Similar words include: expiate, atone, genus Abies
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ABIES

3D: "3. Sinistral"

10 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: __________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LEFTHANDED

4D: "4. Ogle's cousin"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls
  • Similar words include: sneer
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LEER

5D: "5. Landon"

3 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ALF

6D: "6. More tranquil"

7 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that not agitated; without losing self-possession
  • Similar words include: unagitated, calm, tranquil
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SERENER

7D: "7. Surrounded by"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AMONG

8D: "8. John ___ Garner, former V.P."

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that offensive term for an openly homosexual man
  • Similar words include: fairy, pansy, pouf
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: NANCE

9D: "9. Tams"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a tight-fitting headdress
  • Similar words include: jacket crown, crest, jacket
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: CAPS

10D: "10. Amor's wings"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism
  • Similar words include: ala
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ALAE

11D: "11. Diamond that was rough"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that staying power
  • Similar words include: leg, wooden leg, ramification
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LEGS

12D: "12. Charge"

3 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services
  • Similar words include: tip, bung
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: FEE

13D: "14. Region"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an extended area of land
  • Similar words include: parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TRACT

14D: "19. Pendent ornament"

6 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that adornment consisting of a bunch of cords fastened at one end
  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TASSEL

15D: "24. Garb for an investiture"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that any loose flowing garment
  • Similar words include: gown, drape, vest
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ROBE

16D: "25. Occupied"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: INUSE

17D: "27. March king"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a united states bandmaster and composer of military marches (1854-1932)
  • Similar words include: March King, John Philip Sousa
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SOUSA

18D: "29. "Better a ___ of pottage ... ""

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AMESS

19D: "30. College lineman"

10 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: __________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: RIGHTGUARD

20D: "31. Sweet bay, e.g."

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
  • Similar words include: tree diagram, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, shoetree
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TREE

21D: "32. Greek mountain"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a mouth or mouthlike opening
  • Similar words include: oculus sinister, bone, os
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: OSSA

22D: "33. Six years in the Senate"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a word or expression used for some particular thing
  • Similar words include: full term, terminal figure, condition
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TERM

23D: "34. ___ -cat (sandlot game)"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ONEO

24D: "36. Fortuneteller's card"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that any of a set of (usually 72) cards that include 22 cards representing virtues and vices and death and fortune etc.; used by fortunetellers
  • Similar words include: tarot card
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TAROT

25D: "39. Finds new tenants"

6 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: RELETS

26D: "41. Crescent-shaped figure"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LUNE

27D: "44. Altered"

7 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
  • Similar words include: alter, convert, commute
  • Opposite of: unchanged, stay
Click to reveal answer
Answer: CHANGED

28D: "48. Kefauver"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ESTES

29D: "50. Fracas"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SETTO

30D: "51. Oregon or Santa Fe"

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a track or mark left by something that has passed
  • Similar words include: hang back, get behind, drop behind
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TRAIL

31D: "53. Performed"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
  • Similar words include: pretend, act as, move
  • Opposite of: refrain
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ACTED

32D: "54. Gets rid of"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an outbuilding with a single story; used for shelter or storage
  • Similar words include: shed, shake off, throw away
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SHEDS

33D: "55. A peer"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a british peer ranking below a marquess and above a viscount
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: EARL

34D: "56. Teen woe"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin; characterized by papules or pustules or comedones
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ACNE

35D: "57. ___-Ball (amusement-park game)"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SKEE

36D: "59. Mélange"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: OLIO

37D: "60. What mendicants do"

3 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that call upon in supplication; entreat
  • Similar words include: solicit, pray, implore
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: BEG

38D: "61. McMahon and Sullivan"

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a rapid automatic system to detect plastic explosives in passengers' luggage using x-ray technology and computers; designed for use in airports
  • Similar words include: male erecticle dysfunction, erectile dysfunction, ED
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: EDS

Puzzle Stats

36 Across
38 Down
74 Total

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January 22, 1990 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

Published on Monday, January 22, 1990 • Daily puzzle hints • Crossword clues © The New York Times

Master the NYT crossword from January 22, 1990 with our expert hint system. We provide synonyms, antonyms, and strategic clues to help you solve without spoiling the fun.

Puzzle Difficulty: Medium

Pro Tip: Start with the fill-in-the-blank clues - they're usually the easiest entry points!

Across Clues - Strategic Hints (40 clues)

1A: "1. TV series featured herein"

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LALAW

2A: "6. Entertainer Falana"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LOLA

3A: "10. Zany"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that informal or slang terms for mentally irregular
  • Similar words include: batty, whacky, loony
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: DAFT

4A: "14. Attica's marketplace"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that 100 agorot equal 1 shekel in israel
  • Similar words include: public square
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AGORA

5A: "15. Newspaper notice, for short"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography
  • Similar words include: necrology, obituary
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: OBIT

6A: "16. Understanding reply"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ISEE

7A: "17. College officials"

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an administrator in charge of a division of a university or college
  • Similar words include: dean, James Byron Dean, James Dean
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: DEANS

8A: "18. Jummy Smits plays Victor ___"

9 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SIFUENTES

9A: "20. Signifies"

7 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that be a sign or indication of
  • Similar words include: announce, denote, refer
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: DENOTES

10A: "22. Groups of nine"

7 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one
  • Similar words include: ennead, nine, IX
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ENNEADS

11A: "23. Deighton or Dykstra"

3 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LEN

12A: "24. Deputy"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an active and efficient cause; capable of producing a certain effect
  • Similar words include: federal agent, broker, agentive role
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AGENT

13A: "25. Retain"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the act of grasping
  • Similar words include: time lag, handgrip, support
  • Opposite of: disagree, let go of
Click to reveal answer
Answer: HOLD

14A: "28. Ballet skirt"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that south african prelate and leader of the antiapartheid struggle (born in 1931)
  • Similar words include: ballet skirt, Desmond Tutu
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TUTU

15A: "30. Aquatic mammal"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the fur of an otter
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: OTTER

16A: "34. Altar on high"

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a constellation in the southern hemisphere near telescopium and norma
  • Similar words include: genus Ara
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ARA

17A: "35. Five: Comb. form"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: PENTA

18A: "36. Grayish tan"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a very light brown
  • Similar words include: ecru
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: BEIGE

19A: "37. "Kidnapped" author's initials"

3 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: RLS

20A: "38. Jackie's second spouse"

3 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ARI

21A: "39. Electrical unit"

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: REL

22A: "41. Land measure"

3 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters
  • Similar words include: be, make up, follow
  • Opposite of: differ
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ARE

23A: "42. Former big-game guns"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ROERS

24A: "44. Soup server"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle; frequently used to transfer liquids from one container to another
  • Similar words include: laden, lade
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LADLE

25A: "46. Gun a motor"

3 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that rate of revolution of a motor
  • Similar words include: rev up, revolutions per minute, rpm
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: REV

26A: "47. Belgian W.W. I battle site"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that battle in world war i (1917); an allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of flanders; germans introduced mustard gas which interfered with the allied artillery
  • Similar words include: second battle of Ypres, third battle of Ypres, battle of Ypres
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: YPRES

27A: "48. U.S. holly"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ASSI

28A: "49. Social engagement"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the specified day of the month
  • Similar words include: escort, engagement, appointment
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: DATE

29A: "50. Tilts sideways"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics)
  • Similar words include: lean, list, name
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LISTS

30A: "52. Susan ___ plays Grace Van Owen"

3 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: DEY

31A: "54. High-school subject"

7 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a particular branch of scientific knowledge
  • Similar words include: skill, scientific discipline
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SCIENCE

32A: "57. Annual quartet"

7 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field
  • Similar words include: time of year, flavour, mollify
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SEASONS

33A: "61. Collection of animals"

9 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a collection of live animals for study or display
  • Similar words include: zoo, zoological garden
  • Pattern: _________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: MENAGERIE

34A: "63. Wooden shoe"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a shoe carved from a single block of wood
  • Similar words include: patten, wooden shoe, geta
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SABOT

35A: "64. Sea eagles"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail; of europe and greenland
  • Similar words include: Haliatus albicilla, erne, grey sea eagle
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ERNS

36A: "65. Thurmond of N.B.A. fame"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: NATE

37A: "66. Irregular"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed
  • Similar words include: toothed, notched, jagged
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: EROSE

38A: "67. First word of the Bay State motto"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ENSE

39A: "68. ___ Rachins plays Douglas Brackman"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ALAN

40A: "69. Precipitous"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a steep place (as on a hill)
  • Similar words include: exorbitant, engulf, extortionate
  • Opposite of: gradual
Click to reveal answer
Answer: STEEP

Down Clues - Strategic Hints (38 clues)

1D: "1. Alan or Cheryl"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LADD

2D: "2. Askew"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that united states novelist (1909-1955)
  • Similar words include: James Agee
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AGEE

3D: "3. Bank transaction"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the temporary provision of money (usually at interest)
  • Similar words include: lend, loanword
  • Opposite of: borrow
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LOAN

4D: "4. Corbin Bernsen plays ___ Becker"

6 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that english poet and literary critic (1822-1888)
  • Similar words include: Benedict Arnold, Matthew Arnold
  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ARNOLD

5D: "5. Squander"

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
  • Similar words include: waste product, wasteland, languish
  • Opposite of: conserve
Click to reveal answer
Answer: WASTE

6D: "6. Deprivation"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that something that is lost
  • Similar words include: exit, red ink, release
  • Opposite of: gain
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LOSS

7D: "7. Kimono sash"

3 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that (west indies) followers of a religious system involving witchcraft and sorcery
  • Similar words include: obeah
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: OBI

8D: "8. Pool attendants"

10 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an attendant employed at a beach or pool to protect swimmers from accidents
  • Similar words include: lifeguard, lifesaver
  • Pattern: __________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LIFEGUARDS

9D: "9. " ... I am incapable of ___": Lamb"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ATUNE

10D: "10. Small room off a kitchen"

7 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a small area off of a kitchen that is used for dining
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: DINETTE

11D: "11. Nick Charles's dog"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ASTA

12D: "12. Nourish"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that food for domestic livestock
  • Similar words include: flow, prey, fertilise
  • Opposite of: starve
Click to reveal answer
Answer: FEED

13D: "13. Hardy heroine"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TESS

14D: "19. Dignify"

7 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that confer dignity or honor upon
  • Similar words include: gentle, entitle, dignify
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ENNOBLE

15D: "21. Enroll"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that to come or go into
  • Similar words include: recruit, figure, insert
  • Opposite of: exit, drop out
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ENTER

16D: "24. Lawyer: Abbr."

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ATT

17D: "25. ___ Hamlin plays Michael Kuzak"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that annoy continually or chronically
  • Similar words include: chivy, provoke, beset
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: HARRY

18D: "26. Lowest deck"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the fourth or lowest deck
  • Similar words include: orlop deck, fourth deck
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ORLOP

19D: "27. Intense beam"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation; an optical device that produces an intense monochromatic beam of coherent light
  • Similar words include: optical maser
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LASER

20D: "29. One-sided"

10 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that involving only one part or side
  • Similar words include: one-sided
  • Opposite of: multilateral
Click to reveal answer
Answer: UNILATERAL

21D: "31. Coronet"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a jeweled headdress worn by women on formal occasions
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TIARA

22D: "32. Wading bird"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: EGRET

23D: "33. Superman portrayer"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that female ruff
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: REEVE

24D: "35. Making the grade"

7 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that (american football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate
  • Similar words include: release, expiration, super
  • Opposite of: running, fail
Click to reveal answer
Answer: PASSING

25D: "40. Slur over"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that leave or strike out
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ELIDE

26D: "43. Free"

7 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film)
  • Similar words include: issue, loose, sacking
  • Opposite of: confine, block
Click to reveal answer
Answer: RELEASE

27D: "45. Fool"

3 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
  • Similar words include: buttocks, seat, tooshie
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ASS

28D: "49. Richard ___ plays Leland McKenzie"

6 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: DYSART

29D: "51. Part of an opera"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SCENA

30D: "53. Mitigates"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort
  • Similar words include: comfort, alleviate, relieve
  • Opposite of: difficulty
Click to reveal answer
Answer: EASES

31D: "54. Pintail duck"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SMEE

32D: "55. Decide: Rom. law"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: CERN

33D: "56. Guest houses"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
  • Similar words include: hostelry, hostel, inn
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: INNS

34D: "57. Observed"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
  • Similar words include: figure, visualize, understand
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SEEN

35D: "58. Hautboy"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece
  • Similar words include: hautbois, hautboy
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: OBOE

36D: "59. Proboscis"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals
  • Similar words include: intrude, poke, scent
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: NOSE

37D: "60. Pace"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
  • Similar words include: stair, maltreat, whole tone
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: STEP

38D: "62. Give ___ go (try)"

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ITA

Puzzle Stats

40 Across
38 Down
78 Total

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