1D: "1. Corkscrews and such"
5 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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- Think of something that a dish that contains pasta as its main ingredient
- Similar words include: alimentary paste
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PASTA Remember this word for future puzzles!
2D: "2. In the #1 position"
5 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: ONTOP Remember this word for future puzzles!
3D: "3. Inner tube?"
5 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: STENT Remember this word for future puzzles!
4D: "4. Billboard chart listings"
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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- Think of something that (baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball)
- Similar words include: smash, impinge on, tally
- Opposite of: miss
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Answer: HITS Remember this word for future puzzles!
5D: "5. Hypotheticals"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: IFS Remember this word for future puzzles!
6D: "6. Suggestion, casually"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: REC Remember this word for future puzzles!
7D: "7. Cheering loudly"
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: AROAR Remember this word for future puzzles!
8D: "8. Like a "wet" signature"
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: INPEN Remember this word for future puzzles!
9D: "9. Be furious"
6 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: SEERED Remember this word for future puzzles!
10D: "10. Visitors from afar, in brief"
3 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: ETS Remember this word for future puzzles!
11D: "11. Hazard for the unwary"
7 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty
- Similar words include: pit, booby trap
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: PITFALL Remember this word for future puzzles!
12D: "12. Hot mess"
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an acronym often used by soldiers in world war ii: situation normal all fucked up
- Similar words include: fucked-up
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SNAFU Remember this word for future puzzles!
13D: "13. When Ophelia dies in "Hamlet""
5 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: ACTIV Remember this word for future puzzles!
14D: "14. 2015 Kendrick Lamar anthem that won two Grammys"
7 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that nonstandard usage
- Similar words include: fine, O.K., OK
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ALRIGHT Remember this word for future puzzles!
15D: "15. Ace the test"
6 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: GETANA Remember this word for future puzzles!
16D: "16. Cheer for"
6 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: ROOTON Remember this word for future puzzles!
17D: "17. Mean"
6 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that have in mind as a purpose
- Similar words include: designate, signify, specify
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: INTEND Remember this word for future puzzles!
18D: "19. Spanish girl"
5 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: CHICA Remember this word for future puzzles!
19D: "24. Skin-care brand with the slogan "Face Anything""
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: OLAY Remember this word for future puzzles!
20D: "26. ___ Lilly and Company"
3 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: ELI Remember this word for future puzzles!
21D: "29. Tapped, as a cigarette"
5 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that convert into ashes
- Similar words include: ash
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ASHED Remember this word for future puzzles!
22D: "32. Jazz style"
5 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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- Think of something that an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940)
- Similar words include: bop
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BEBOP Remember this word for future puzzles!
23D: "33. "___, Oh ___" (Thomas Moore poem)"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an early name of ireland that is now used in poetry
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ERIN Remember this word for future puzzles!
24D: "34. Magicians' flourishes"
5 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: TADAS Remember this word for future puzzles!
25D: "35. What a fixer-upper might become, pessimistically"
8 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: MONEYPIT Remember this word for future puzzles!
26D: "38. South American tuber"
3 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that south american wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers
- Similar words include: oka, Oxalis tuberosa, Oxalis crenata
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OCA Remember this word for future puzzles!
27D: "39. Relieved (of)"
3 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that relieve from
- Similar words include: disembarrass, free
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RID Remember this word for future puzzles!
28D: "40. Supplementary data and suggestions for further reading, maybe"
8 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: ENDNOTES Remember this word for future puzzles!
29D: "42. Rival of the Dodgers and Rockies, informally"
6 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: DBACKS Remember this word for future puzzles!
30D: "43. Great Lakes natives"
5 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of an iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of lake erie in northern ohio and northwest pennsylvania and western new york
- Similar words include: Erie, Lake Erie
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ERIES Remember this word for future puzzles!
31D: "45. Precursor to a clarifying remark"
5 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: IMEAN Remember this word for future puzzles!
32D: "46. Fancy shopping mall"
8 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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- Think of something that a genus of pyralidae
- Similar words include: genus Galleria
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: GALLERIA Remember this word for future puzzles!
33D: "47. Playboy's founder, in brief"
3 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: HEF Remember this word for future puzzles!
34D: "49. Fruit drinks"
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice
- Similar words include: fruit drink, ade
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ADES Remember this word for future puzzles!
35D: "50. Complained under one's breath"
8 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice
- Similar words include: mumble, maunder, mutter
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: MUTTERED Remember this word for future puzzles!
36D: "51. Ones making margin calls, for short?"
3 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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: erectile dysfunction, male erecticle dysfunction, explosive detection system
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EDS Remember this word for future puzzles!
37D: "53. Purchases that come with metal plates"
8 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: TAPSHOES Remember this word for future puzzles!
38D: "54. Craving"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an instinctive motive
- Similar words include: urge on, press, barrack
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: URGE Remember this word for future puzzles!
39D: "55. Bags with black and green varieties"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water
- Similar words include: Camellia sinensis, afternoon tea, teatime
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TEAS Remember this word for future puzzles!
40D: "58. Lend, as money"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a point located with respect to surface features of some region
- Similar words include: bit, descry, blob
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SPOT Remember this word for future puzzles!
41D: "59. Celebration for seniors"
8 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: CLASSDAY Remember this word for future puzzles!
42D: "61. "Highway to Hell" band"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: ACDC Remember this word for future puzzles!
43D: "62. "Aha, got it!""
6 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: OHISEE Remember this word for future puzzles!
44D: "64. Key near Fn"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: CTRL Remember this word for future puzzles!
45D: "65. Response to a routine delivery?"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: HAHA Remember this word for future puzzles!
46D: "66. 1986 rock autobiography"
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: ITINA Remember this word for future puzzles!
47D: "67. Be on the hunt"
5 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of prowling (walking about in a stealthy manner)
- Similar words include: lurch
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PROWL Remember this word for future puzzles!
48D: "68. Baker v. ___ (landmark voting rights case)"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: CARR Remember this word for future puzzles!
49D: "71. Fratty type"
3 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: BRO Remember this word for future puzzles!
50D: "74. Kimono sash"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (west indies) followers of a religious system involving witchcraft and sorcery
- Similar words include: obeah
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OBI Remember this word for future puzzles!
51D: "75. Novelist Ferrante"
5 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: ELENA Remember this word for future puzzles!
52D: "76. From the top"
5 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Similar words include: once again, once more, over again
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AGAIN Remember this word for future puzzles!
53D: "77. Sea urchin, on a sushi menu"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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Answer: UNI Remember this word for future puzzles!
54D: "78. Govt. agency whose busiest days usually precede major holidays"
3 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an agency established in 2001 to safeguard united states transportation systems and insure safe air travel
- Similar words include: Transportation Security Administration
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TSA Remember this word for future puzzles!
55D: "81. Some gymnastics moves"
5 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return
- Similar words include: leaf, pass, somerset
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: FLIPS Remember this word for future puzzles!
56D: "82. Go up"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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- Think of something that a growth in strength or number or importance
- Similar words include: wage hike, ascent, wage increase
- Opposite of: set, sit down
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Answer: RISE Remember this word for future puzzles!
57D: "83. "R" in a car"
7 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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- Think of something that a relation of direct opposition
- Similar words include: change by reversal, reversal, invert
- Opposite of: obverse, forward
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Answer: REVERSE Remember this word for future puzzles!
58D: "84. Puzzled"
7 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cause to be confused emotionally
- Similar words include: deep in thought, baffled, discombobulate
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: BEMUSED Remember this word for future puzzles!
59D: "87. Cool places to live?"
6 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an eskimo hut; usually built of blocks (of sod or snow) in the shape of a dome
- Similar words include: iglu, igloo
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: IGLOOS Remember this word for future puzzles!
60D: "88. Singer Rodrigo"
6 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: OLIVIA Remember this word for future puzzles!
61D: "89. Awards partially bestowed by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences"
6 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that swedish chemist remembered for his invention of dynamite and for the bequest that created the nobel prizes (1833-1896)
- Similar words include: Alfred Bernhard Nobel, Nobel, Alfred Nobel
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: NOBELS Remember this word for future puzzles!
62D: "91. List of mistakes"
6 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind
- Similar words include: misprint, typo, literal error
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ERRATA Remember this word for future puzzles!
63D: "93. Pibb ___ (soft drink)"
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: XTRA Remember this word for future puzzles!
64D: "94. Ruling Romanovs, e.g."
5 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a male monarch or emperor (especially of russia prior to 1917)
- Similar words include: tzar, tsar, czar
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TSARS Remember this word for future puzzles!
65D: "96. Bend in a pipe"
3 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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- Think of something that an extension at the end and at right angles to the main building
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ELL Remember this word for future puzzles!
66D: "97. Santa ___"
5 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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Answer: CLAUS Remember this word for future puzzles!
67D: "98. "Clumsy me!""
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: OOPSY Remember this word for future puzzles!
68D: "99. University of Memphis athlete"
5 letters 💠Category: Common Word
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- Think of something that a fierce or audacious person
- Similar words include: Panthera tigris
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TIGER Remember this word for future puzzles!
69D: "100. Sends off"
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service
- Similar words include: postal service, mail, mail service
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MAILS Remember this word for future puzzles!
70D: "101. Spectacle"
5 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
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- Think of something that the place where some action occurs
- Similar words include: tantrum, panorama, fit
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SCENE Remember this word for future puzzles!
71D: "102. Hit 1996 movie billed as a "homespun murder story""
5 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
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- Think of something that largest city in north dakota; located in eastern north dakota on the red river
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: FARGO Remember this word for future puzzles!
72D: "103. "Love & Death" actress Elizabeth"
5 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: OLSEN Remember this word for future puzzles!
73D: "107. Pelt"
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch
- Similar words include: pelt, hide, cutis
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SKIN Remember this word for future puzzles!
74D: "109. Janitorial implement"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors
- Similar words include: pout, mow, swab
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MOP Remember this word for future puzzles!
75D: "110. The Guardians, on sports tickers"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: CLE Remember this word for future puzzles!
76D: "111. Hip"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a british teenager or young adult in the 1960s; noted for their clothes consciousness and opposition to the rockers
- Similar words include: modernistic, modern
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MOD Remember this word for future puzzles!