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- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (29 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (37 clues)
- Down Clues - Detailed Hints
- Expert Solving Strategies
- Today's Puzzle Statistics
Today's Puzzle Difficulty: Moderate
Pro Tip: Start with the fill-in-the-blank clues - they're usually the easiest entry points!
Across Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1A | 1. Used as a rendezvous point | 5 |
| 2A | 6. Put to rest | 6 |
| 3A | 12. Hangouts for golden agers | 13 |
| 4A | 14. Feeling that a new haircut or a new set of clothes might bring | 14 |
| 5A | 15. Child support? | 15 |
| 6A | 16. "The Addams Family" member voiced by Snoop Dogg in 2019 | 3 |
| 7A | 17. ___ Ivanovic, former #1-ranked female tennis player | 3 |
| 8A | 18. Copa Mundial chant | 3 |
| 9A | 19. Afghans, e.g. | 6 |
| 10A | 21. Empty vehicle weight | 4 |
| 11A | 23. Horn-heavy genre | 3 |
| 12A | 26. Practice | 4 |
| 13A | 27. Very flimsy, as an argument | 9 |
| 14A | 29. What a stein might hold | 4 |
| 15A | 30. How change comes in the Baltics | 5 |
| 16A | 31. Bevy | 4 |
| 17A | 32. "Enough already!" | 9 |
| 18A | 34. Knocks the top off of | 4 |
| 19A | 35. Not remain loose | 3 |
| 20A | 36. 1960s protest singer Phil | 4 |
| 21A | 37. It may wind up at the top of one's head | 6 |
| 22A | 39. "Again?!!" | 3 |
| 23A | 40. Home for the winter, say | 3 |
| 24A | 41. Approx. 25% of it consists of national forests | 3 |
| 25A | 42. Penultimate film in a series of 23 | 15 |
| 26A | 48. Scene for a skeleton crew? | 14 |
| 27A | 49. Where one might hope to find good deals on the internet? | 13 |
| 28A | 50. Chucked, informally | 6 |
| 29A | 51. Roll over, in a way | 5 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Used as a rendezvous point"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: METAT
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2A: "6. Put to rest"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings
- Similar words include: drive away, drive out, scatter
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: DISPEL
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3A: "12. Hangouts for golden agers"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: SENIORCENTERS
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4A: "14. Feeling that a new haircut or a new set of clothes might bring"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______________
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Answer: GENDEREUPHORIA
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5A: "15. Child support?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: SECURITYBLANKET
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6A: "16. "The Addams Family" member voiced by Snoop Dogg in 2019"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ITT
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7A: "17. ___ Ivanovic, former #1-ranked female tennis player"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that mother of the ancient irish gods; sometimes identified with danu
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ANA
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8A: "18. Copa Mundial chant"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OLE
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9A: "19. Afghans, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a native or inhabitant of asia
- Similar words include: Asian, Asiatic
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ASIANS
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10A: "21. Empty vehicle weight"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an adjustment made for the weight of the packaging in order to determine the net weight of the goods
- Similar words include: bearded darnel, darnel, Lolium temulentum
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TARE
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11A: "23. Horn-heavy genre"
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- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SKA
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12A: "26. Practice"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an established custom
- Similar words include: habit
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: WONT
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13A: "27. Very flimsy, as an argument"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: PAPERTHIN
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14A: "29. What a stein might hold"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a british imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 4 gills or 568.26 cubic centimeters
- Similar words include: dry pint
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PINT
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15A: "30. How change comes in the Baltics"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the basic monetary unit of most members of the european union (introduced in 1999); in 2002 twelve european nations (germany, france, belgium, luxembourg, the netherlands, italy, spain, portugal, ireland, greece, austria, finland) adopted the euro as their basic unit of money and abandoned their traditional currencies
- Similar words include: euro
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EUROS
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16A: "31. Bevy"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who invites guests to a social event (such as a party in his or her own home) and who is responsible for them while they are there
- Similar words include: innkeeper, server, emcee
- Opposite of: parasite
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Answer: HOST
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17A: "32. "Enough already!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: ISAIDSTOP
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18A: "34. Knocks the top off of"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a loft in a barn where hay is stored
- Similar words include: pout, cut down, hayloft
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MOWS
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19A: "35. Not remain loose"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a colloid in a more solid form than a sol
- Similar words include: colloidal gel, gelatin, mousse
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: GEL
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20A: "36. 1960s protest singer Phil"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states newspaper publisher (1858-1935)
- Similar words include: Adolph Simon Ochs
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OCHS
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21A: "37. It may wind up at the top of one's head"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a traditional muslim headdress consisting of a long scarf wrapped around the head
- Similar words include: pillbox, toque
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TURBAN
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22A: "39. "Again?!!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: UGH
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23A: "40. Home for the winter, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the habitation of wild animals
- Similar words include: hideaway, hideout, lair
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DEN
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24A: "41. Approx. 25% of it consists of national forests"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mineral that contains metal that is valuable enough to be mined
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ORE
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25A: "42. Penultimate film in a series of 23"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: AVENGERSENDGAME
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26A: "48. Scene for a skeleton crew?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______________
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Answer: HALLOWEENPARTY
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27A: "49. Where one might hope to find good deals on the internet?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: ONLINECASINOS
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28A: "50. Chucked, informally"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: YEETED
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29A: "51. Roll over, in a way"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new
- Similar words include: reincarnate, regenerate
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RENEW
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Course catalog? | 4 |
| 2D | 2. Means of closing up a vent | 7 |
| 3D | 3. Some joint promotions | 6 |
| 4D | 4. Conduit from a ventricle | 5 |
| 5D | 5. Four minus one | 4 |
| 6D | 6. Really, really regrets | 8 |
| 7D | 7. Remedy for some intake problems | 7 |
| 8D | 8. Skip it! | 5 |
| 9D | 9. Suddenly pay attention, with "up" | 4 |
| 10D | 10. Native American people known as the "Nation du Chat" | 4 |
| 11D | 11. Exam on which 44-Down got a near-perfect score | 4 |
| 12D | 12. Furniture that's designed to break down? | 9 |
| 13D | 13. One breaking a 108-year drought in 2016 | 3 |
| 14D | 14. Catches on | 8 |
| 15D | 15. Australian singer with the 2014 #1 album "1000 Forms of Fear" | 3 |
| 16D | 20. Prefix with piracy | 4 |
| 17D | 21. Staple vegetables in Hawaiian cooking | 5 |
| 18D | 22. Each | 4 |
| 19D | 23. Puts on a big display | 9 |
| 20D | 24. Fan group that often wears black-and-white face paint | 8 |
| 21D | 25. "The Dove and the ___" (Aesop fable) | 3 |
| 22D | 27. Charlie with the 2016 hit "We Don't Talk Anymore" | 4 |
| 23D | 28. God who rides in a chariot pulled by two giant magical goats | 4 |
| 24D | 29. It'll never fly! | 3 |
| 25D | 30. Forwent | 8 |
| 26D | 33. Dad-blasted | 7 |
| 27D | 34. Pedestrian | 7 |
| 28D | 37. Split component, at times | 6 |
| 29D | 38. Called on one's birthday? | 3 |
| 30D | 39. Dark | 5 |
| 31D | 40. Like tungsten | 5 |
| 32D | 42. Main greeting | 4 |
| 33D | 43. Pointer that changes with the weather | 4 |
| 34D | 44. Filmdom's Woods who took the 11-Down | 4 |
| 35D | 45. ___ league | 3 |
| 36D | 46. Scorch | 4 |
| 37D | 47. Swell | 4 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Course catalog?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a list of dishes available at a restaurant
- Similar words include: card, computer menu, carte du jour
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MENU
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2D: "2. Means of closing up a vent"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ENDRANT
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3D: "3. Some joint promotions"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TIEINS
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4D: "4. Conduit from a ventricle"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the large trunk artery that carries blood from the left ventricle of the heart to branch arteries
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AORTA
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5D: "5. Four minus one"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
- Similar words include: trio, threesome, ternion
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TREY
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6D: "6. Really, really regrets"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that express strong disapproval of
- Similar words include: lament, bewail, bemoan
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: DEPLORES
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7D: "7. Remedy for some intake problems"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a dispenser that produces a chemical vapor to be inhaled in order to relieve nasal congestion
- Similar words include: inhalator
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: INHALER
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8D: "8. Skip it!"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
- Similar words include: Oliver Stone, gemstone, I. F. Stone
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: STONE
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9D: "9. Suddenly pay attention, with "up""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an incidental benefit awarded for certain types of employment (especially if it is regarded as a right)
- Similar words include: percolate, pick up, fringe benefit
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PERK
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10D: "10. Native American people known as the "Nation du Chat""
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: Lake Erie
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ERIE
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11D: "11. Exam on which 44-Down got a near-perfect score"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LSAT
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12D: "12. Furniture that's designed to break down?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a piece of furniture made up of sections that can be arranged individually or together
- Similar words include: sectioned
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: SECTIONAL
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13D: "13. One breaking a 108-year drought in 2016"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an awkward and inexperienced youth
- Similar words include: greenhorn, lad, rookie
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CUB
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14D: "14. Catches on"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: GETSWISE
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15D: "15. Australian singer with the 2014 #1 album "1000 Forms of Fear""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SIA
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16D: "20. Prefix with piracy"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who is opposed (to an action or policy or practice etc.)
- Opposite of: pro
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ANTI
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17D: "21. Staple vegetables in Hawaiian cooking"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that edible starchy tuberous root of taro plants
- Similar words include: dasheen, eddo, edda
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TAROS
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18D: "22. Each"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: APOP
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19D: "23. Puts on a big display"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a river steamboat on which theatrical performances could be given (especially on the mississippi river)
- Similar words include: showboat
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: SHOWBOATS
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20D: "24. Fan group that often wears black-and-white face paint"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: KISSARMY
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21D: "25. "The Dove and the ___" (Aesop fable)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers
- Similar words include: emmet, pismire
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ANT
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22D: "27. Charlie with the 2016 hit "We Don't Talk Anymore""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PUTH
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23D: "28. God who rides in a chariot pulled by two giant magical goats"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (norse mythology) god of thunder and rain and farming; pictured as wielding a hammer emblematic of the thunderbolt; identified with teutonic donar
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: THOR
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24D: "29. It'll never fly!"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that domestic swine
- Similar words include: copper, slovenly person, Sus scrofa
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PIG
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25D: "30. Forwent"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of
- Similar words include: shun, eschew
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: ESCHEWED
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26D: "33. Dad-blasted"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: DOGGONE
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27D: "34. Pedestrian"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that found in the ordinary course of events; ; ; - anita diamant
- Similar words include: everyday, unremarkable, workaday
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: MUNDANE
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28D: "37. Split component, at times"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one of the bottle-shaped pins used in bowling
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TENPIN
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29D: "38. Called on one's birthday?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (meaning literally `born') used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NEE
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30D: "39. Dark"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that not set afire or burning
- Similar words include: unilluminated, unlighted, lightless
- Opposite of: lighted
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Answer: UNLIT
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31D: "40. Like tungsten"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter
- Similar words include: obtuse, dim, dull
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DENSE
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32D: "42. Main greeting"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AHOY
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33D: "43. Pointer that changes with the weather"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that mechanical device attached to an elevated structure; rotates freely to show the direction of the wind
- Similar words include: weathervane, weather vane, wind vane
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: VANE
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34D: "44. Filmdom's Woods who took the 11-Down"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ELLE
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35D: "45. ___ league"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: REC
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36D: "46. Scorch"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make very hot and dry
- Similar words include: singe, dried-up, shriveled
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SEAR
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37D: "47. Swell"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become
- Similar words include: uprise, produce, originate
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GROW
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Expert Solving Strategies
Start Smart
Begin with fill-in-the-blank clues and short 3-4 letter words. These are your foundation.
Decode the Clues
Question marks indicate wordplay or puns. "Maybe" suggests multiple interpretations.
Use Cross-References
Let intersecting letters guide you. One correct answer unlocks several others.
Build Vocabulary
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Today's Puzzle Stats
29 Across Clues
37 Down Clues
66 Total Clues
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