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Date: Saturday, January 25, 2020
Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 70 (34 Across, 36 Down)
Average Word Length: 5.6 letters
January 25, 2020 Across Hints: NYT Saturday Crossword Answers
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. Self-conscious person's exclamation | 11 |
| 2A | 12. Self-conscious person's question | 3 |
| 3A | 15. Once in a while, poetically | 11 |
| 4A | 16. Get the heck out of Dodge | 3 |
| 5A | 17. What mathematicians call a lemniscate | 11 |
| 6A | 18. Letters in film and the hotel business | 3 |
| 7A | 19. Burning feeling | 5 |
| 8A | 20. At birth | 3 |
| 9A | 21. Whole head of hair | 4 |
| 10A | 22. Back-combs | 6 |
| 11A | 24. Opposite of fortuitous | 8 |
| 12A | 26. Guzzles, say | 5 |
| 13A | 28. Musical family name from Cremona | 5 |
| 14A | 29. Dross | 4 |
| 15A | 33. Problem with live-streaming | 3 |
| 16A | 34. Olden land north of Anglia | 6 |
| 17A | 35. Chitchat | 7 |
| 18A | 37. Most baggy | 7 |
| 19A | 38. Owners of the dogs Bo and Sunny | 6 |
| 20A | 39. Home of the 2000 Summer Olympics: Abbr. | 3 |
| 21A | 40. Pistolet, par exemple | 4 |
| 22A | 41. Sign of spring | 5 |
| 23A | 42. Company Steve Jobs once owned | 5 |
| 24A | 44. Bit of off-season N.C.A.A. news | 8 |
| 25A | 46. Take a bite out of? | 6 |
| 26A | 51. Popular video game of 2000, with "The" | 4 |
| 27A | 52. Easy interview question | 3 |
| 28A | 53. Reason for a medal | 5 |
| 29A | 54. And ... that's a wrap! | 3 |
| 30A | 55. Fancy term for a long prison sentence | 11 |
| 31A | 58. Get the heck out of Dodge | 3 |
| 32A | 59. One-third of a literary trio | 11 |
| 33A | 60. Fathead | 3 |
| 34A | 61. Hub of Memphis night life | 11 |
Let's Solve the Across Clues Together!
Here are helpful hints to solve each clue. Remember, crossword puzzles are like word games - have fun with them!
Clue 1 Across: "1. Self-conscious person's exclamation"
Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DONTJUDGEME
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "12. Self-conscious person's question"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AMI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Across: "15. Once in a while, poetically"
Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EVERANDANON
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Clue 4 Across: "16. Get the heck out of Dodge"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a rapid escape (as by criminals)
- Words that mean the same thing: scarper, turn tail, head for the hills
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LAM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Across: "17. What mathematicians call a lemniscate"
Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about science/technology.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FIGUREEIGHT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Across: "18. Letters in film and the hotel business"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about movies/film.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MGM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Across: "19. Burning feeling"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
- Words that mean the same thing: wrath, choler, angriness
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ANGER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Across: "20. At birth"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that (meaning literally `born') used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NEE
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Clue 9 Across: "21. Whole head of hair"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that long coarse hair growing from the crest of the animal's neck
- Words that mean the same thing: head of hair
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MANE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Across: "22. Back-combs"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)
- Words that mean the same thing: annoyer, loosen, cod
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TEASES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "24. Opposite of fortuitous"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ILLTIMED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "26. Guzzles, say"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that soft fine feathers
- Words that mean the same thing: cut down, down feather, kill
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DOWNS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "28. Musical family name from Cremona"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about music.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that italian violin maker in cremona; taught the craft to guarneri and stradivari (1596-1684)
- Words that mean the same thing: Nicolo Amati, Nicola Amati
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AMATI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "29. Dross"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals
- Words that mean the same thing: dross, scoria
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SLAG
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "33. Problem with live-streaming"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the act of slowing down or falling behind
- Words that mean the same thing: imprison, jail, put away
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LAG
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "34. Olden land north of Anglia"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SCOTIA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "35. Chitchat"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that flattery intended to persuade
- Words that mean the same thing: blabber, piffle, clack
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PALAVER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Across: "37. Most baggy"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that not compact or dense in structure or arrangement
- Words that mean the same thing: easy, light, promiscuous
- The opposite would be: affixed, compact
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LOOSEST
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "38. Owners of the dogs Bo and Sunny"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OBAMAS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "39. Home of the 2000 Summer Olympics: Abbr."
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about sports.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia
- Words that mean the same thing: atomic number 79, Au, Astronomical Unit
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AUS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "40. Pistolet, par exemple"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ARME
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "41. Sign of spring"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that small old world songbird with a reddish breast
- Words that mean the same thing: American robin, robin redbreast, Old World robin
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ROBIN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "42. Company Steve Jobs once owned"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PIXAR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "44. Bit of off-season N.C.A.A. news"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the act of moving something from one location to another
- Words that mean the same thing: transferee, transplant, reassign
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TRANSFER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "46. Take a bite out of?"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that remove the fangs from
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DEFANG
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "51. Popular video game of 2000, with "The""
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about sports.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SIMS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "52. Easy interview question"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that an easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LOB
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "53. Reason for a medal"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle)
- Words that mean the same thing: heroism, valiance, valour
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: VALOR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "54. And ... that's a wrap!"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur
- Words that mean the same thing: feather boa
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BOA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "55. Fancy term for a long prison sentence"
Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DURANCEVILE
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Clue 31 Across: "58. Get the heck out of Dodge"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely
- Words that mean the same thing: prevail, take to the woods, hightail it
- The opposite would be: idle, malfunction
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RUN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 32 Across: "59. One-third of a literary trio"
Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about history.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EMILYBRONTE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 33 Across: "60. Fathead"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- Words that mean the same thing: rear end, screw, AS
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ASS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 34 Across: "61. Hub of Memphis night life"
Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BEALESTREET
Great job if you got it right!
Down Clues Decoded - Saturday NYT Crossword January 25, 2020
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. Get the grease out of | 5 |
| 2D | 2. Of a flock | 5 |
| 3D | 3. Actress Ruth of "Loving" | 5 |
| 4D | 4. Levels | 5 |
| 5D | 5. Shaken up | 6 |
| 6D | 6. Ravel's "Pavane Pour ___ Infante Défunte" | 3 |
| 7D | 7. Presidential monogram hidden in this clue | 3 |
| 8D | 8. Closing the gap | 7 |
| 9D | 9. Author of "The Condition of the Working Class in England," 1845 | 6 |
| 10D | 10. Bris official | 5 |
| 11D | 11. Otolaryngologist, familiarly | 3 |
| 12D | 12. Where did you go? | 9 |
| 13D | 13. Attractive quality | 9 |
| 14D | 14. Instant | 9 |
| 15D | 21. Bubbly cocktail | 6 |
| 16D | 23. Arch supports | 5 |
| 17D | 25. ___ Tuesday (modern restaurant promotion) | 4 |
| 18D | 27. "What happens when language fails," per Margaret Atwood | 3 |
| 19D | 29. Garment made with spandex | 9 |
| 20D | 30. Taxing | 9 |
| 21D | 31. Rosa Parks and Booker T. Washington, for two | 9 |
| 22D | 32. Urchins | 6 |
| 23D | 34. "Terrible, just terrible" | 5 |
| 24D | 36. Fleet at a distribution center | 4 |
| 25D | 37. First word in Yale's motto | 3 |
| 26D | 39. Complete miss | 7 |
| 27D | 42. Middle America, symbolically | 6 |
| 28D | 43. Go back (to) | 6 |
| 29D | 45. Water park feature | 5 |
| 30D | 47. Preferential treatment | 5 |
| 31D | 48. Something worn with flare? | 5 |
| 32D | 49. Nick of 2019's "Angel Has Fallen" | 5 |
| 33D | 50. Nod at, say | 5 |
| 34D | 55. Nebraska senator Fischer | 3 |
| 35D | 56. Dec. 31 | 3 |
| 36D | 57. "I Love Lucy" network | 3 |
Now Let's Solve the Down Clues!
Down clues go from top to bottom. Use the letters from your across answers to help!
Clue 1 Down: "1. Get the grease out of"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that remove the fat from
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DEFAT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. Of a flock"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that of or pertaining to or of the nature of or characteristic of a sheep or sheep
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OVINE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. Actress Ruth of "Loving""
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NEGGA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. Levels"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that proper alignment; the property possessed by something that is in correct or proper alignment
- Words that mean the same thing: true up, true
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TRUES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. Shaken up"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that be incompatible; be or come into conflict
- Words that mean the same thing: bump around, collide, jolt
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: JARRED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Down: "6. Ravel's "Pavane Pour ___ Infante Défunte""
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: UNE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Down: "7. Presidential monogram hidden in this clue"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DDE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Down: "8. Closing the gap"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that win something through one's efforts
- Words that mean the same thing: advance, make headway, take in
- The opposite would be: reduce, lose
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GAINING
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Down: "9. Author of "The Condition of the Working Class in England," 1845"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that socialist who wrote the communist manifesto with karl marx in 1848 (1820-1895)
- Words that mean the same thing: Friedrich Engels
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ENGELS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Down: "10. Bris official"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MOHEL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. Otolaryngologist, familiarly"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ENT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. Where did you go?"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ALMAMATER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Down: "13. Attractive quality"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that attraction for iron; associated with electric currents as well as magnets; characterized by fields of force
- Words that mean the same thing: magnetics, magnetic force, magnetic attraction
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MAGNETISM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Down: "14. Instant"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that of the present time and place
- Words that mean the same thing: contiguous, quick, prompt
- The opposite would be: mediate
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: IMMEDIATE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Down: "21. Bubbly cocktail"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that evergreen australasian tree having white or silvery bark and young leaves and yellow flowers
- Words that mean the same thing: buck's fizz, silver wattle, Acacia dealbata
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MIMOSA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Down: "23. Arch supports"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid
- Words that mean the same thing: soh, fillet of sole, colloidal solution
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SOLES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Down: "25. ___ Tuesday (modern restaurant promotion)"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of mexican descent
- Words that mean the same thing: wetback, greaser
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TACO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Down: "27. "What happens when language fails," per Margaret Atwood"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the waging of armed conflict against an enemy
- Words that mean the same thing: warfare, state of war
- The opposite would be: make peace, peace
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: WAR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Down: "29. Garment made with spandex"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SPORTSBRA
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Clue 20 Down: "30. Taxing"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
- Words that mean the same thing: punishing, backbreaking, heavy
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LABORIOUS
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Clue 21 Down: "31. Rosa Parks and Booker T. Washington, for two"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert clue about literature.
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- This could be something that a native or resident of alabama
- Words that mean the same thing: Alabaman, Alabamian
- The word looks like this: _________
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The answer is: ALABAMANS
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Clue 22 Down: "32. Urchins"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that (sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets
- Words that mean the same thing: street arab, throwaway, gamin
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: GAMINS
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Clue 23 Down: "34. "Terrible, just terrible""
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: SOSAD
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Clue 24 Down: "36. Fleet at a distribution center"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts)
- Words that mean the same thing: new wave, van, caravan
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: VANS
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Clue 25 Down: "37. First word in Yale's motto"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that a unit of illumination equal to 1 lumen per square meter; 0.0929 foot candle
- Words that mean the same thing: lx
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: LUX
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Clue 26 Down: "39. Complete miss"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: AIRBALL
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Clue 27 Down: "42. Middle America, symbolically"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a city in central illinois on the illinois river
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: PEORIA
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Clue 28 Down: "43. Go back (to)"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that go back to a previous state
- Words that mean the same thing: retrovert, return, regress
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: REVERT
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Clue 29 Down: "45. Water park feature"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a narrow gorge with a stream running through it
- Words that mean the same thing: gulch
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: FLUME
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Clue 30 Down: "47. Preferential treatment"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that an act of gracious kindness
- Words that mean the same thing: party favour, party favor, favour
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: FAVOR
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Clue 31 Down: "48. Something worn with flare?"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight
- Words that mean the same thing: adjust, line up, align
- The opposite would be: skew
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The answer is: ALINE
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Clue 32 Down: "49. Nick of 2019's "Angel Has Fallen""
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: NOLTE
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Clue 33 Down: "50. Nod at, say"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that express greetings upon meeting someone
- Words that mean the same thing: recognize, recognise
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: GREET
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Clue 34 Down: "55. Nebraska senator Fischer"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that a young woman making her debut into society
- Words that mean the same thing: debutante
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: DEB
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Clue 35 Down: "56. Dec. 31"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about short answer.
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- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: NYE
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Clue 36 Down: "57. "I Love Lucy" network"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
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- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: CBS
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 45 | 64.3% |
| Short Answer | 16 | 22.9% |
| Sports | 2 | 2.9% |
| Celebrity/Entertainment | 2 | 2.9% |
| Science/Technology | 1 | 1.4% |
| Movies/Film | 1 | 1.4% |
| Music | 1 | 1.4% |
| History | 1 | 1.4% |
| Literature | 1 | 1.4% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 34 |
| Down Clues | 36 |
| Total Clues | 70 |
| Average Answer Length | 5.6 letters |
| Shortest Answer | 3 letters |
| Longest Answer | 11 letters |
Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!
- Start with short words first - they're usually easier!
- Look for clues with blanks to fill in - these are like fill-in-the-blank questions at school
- When letters cross, they must be the same in both words - this helps you check if you're right!
- Today is Saturday, and these puzzles are usually moderate level
- Most clues today are about general knowledge
- The average word today has about 5 letters
- Remember: It's okay to take breaks and come back later with fresh eyes!
- Ask someone for help if you need it - crosswords are more fun with friends!
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Last Updated: September 27, 2025 at 12:37 PM
