Thu Oct 03, 2024 NY Times Crossword Clues Hints

Across Clues :

1. Strikes, perhaps, 6. Animal cry that sounds like a Greek letter, 9. Girls, ___ (nonprofit since 1864), 12. Find on the radio, 14. Move, in real estate lingo, 15. Woman on un árbol genealógico, 16. Value, 17. More slippery, 18. TV channel showing lots of pitches, 19. Disclaimer on a sale poster, 23. Contradict, 24. Save money on one's commute home, perhaps, 26. Actor who played a character with the same first name on "Two and a Half Men", 29. You can see right through it, 30. Up to ___, 31. Like nearly everybody on a Reply All thread, 32. Genre influenced by Jamaica's independence, 34. Puts on a Christmas list, say, 36. Some young studs, 40. Lisbon's land: Abbr., 41. First name in student loans, 42. Louvre Pyramid architect, 43. ___ facto, 46. Skeptics, 49. Half of a sprinter's pair, 51. One of the four classical elements, along with ignis, aqua and terra, 52. 53-Across feature, as seen three times in this puzzle, 53. Test required for all C.I.A. applicants … or a hint to this puzzle's theme, 57. Major British tabloid, with "The", 58. When sudden death can occur, for short, 60. "Understood", 61. Caribbean clock setting: Abbr., 62. New Mexico county or its seat, 63. Early bird's bedtime, maybe, 64. Baseball players who only bat, for short, 65. Snide chuckle, 66. Boardroom support

Thu Oct 03, 2024 NY Times Crossword Clues Hints

Down Clues :

1. Cocido or callaloo, 2. Luxuriant, 3. Like some dog collars, 4. Tool used in making applesauce and mashed potatoes, 5. Metal marble, 6. Human-shaped board game piece, 7. Singer/songwriter Goulding, 8. Truly awful, with "the", 9. City that's absolutely "gorges", 10. Leaf maker, 11. "There's no way!", 13. Mantra chants, 14. Went door to door for, 20. Performer at 2024's Super Bowl halftime show, 22. Wash against, as waves on the shore, 25. It fits under a tongue, 26. Busy Apr. professional, 27. Contracts, 28. Derides, 31. Budget planner, for short, 33. Half sister of Kim, Khloé and Kourtney, 35. TV character who said "Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them", 36. City name in Genesis, 37. Runs, 38. "___ outta here!", 39. Female friend, casually, 41. Elitists, 43. "What a shame!", 44. Major media campaign, say, 45. N.F.L. franchise that went its first 20 seasons without a single winning record, 47. "Darn it!", 48. Home to "star-cross'd lovers", 50. Urban artist?, 51. Longhorn's college rival, 54. Philosophical darkness, 55. Decorate, as a baker might, 56. Web code, 59. When doubled, dance move accompanying the Whip

Break down the NYT Crosswords: October 03, 2024

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

Across Clues with Answers:

• The clue is 1. Strikes, perhaps. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SLAPS

  Possible Answer : slap, smacking, smack




• The clue is 6. Animal cry that sounds like a Greek letter. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: MEW

  Possible Answer : meow, miaul, sea_mew, miaou, miaow, mew_gull, mew, Larus_canus




• The clue is 9. Girls, ___ (nonprofit since 1864). Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: INC

  Possible Answer : INC, Iraqi_National_Congress




• The clue is 12. Find on the radio. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TUNETO




• The clue is 14. Move, in real estate lingo. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: RELO




• The clue is 15. Woman on un árbol genealógico. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TIA

  Possible Answer : transient_ischemic_attack, TIA




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

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

  The answer: ESTEEM

  Possible Answer : take_to_be, prize, esteem, admiration, regard, prise, regard_as, repute, look_upon, look_on, value, think_of, respect

  Possible Opposite Answer : disrespect, disesteem




• The clue is 17. More slippery. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: EELIER




• The clue is 18. TV channel showing lots of pitches. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: HSN




• The clue is 19. Disclaimer on a sale poster. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (17 letters)

  The answer: WHILESUPPLIESLAST




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

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

  The answer: BELIE

  Possible Answer : contradict, misrepresent, negate, belie




• The clue is 24. Save money on one's commute home, perhaps. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SPLITACAB




• The clue is 26. Actor who played a character with the same first name on "Two and a Half Men". Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (12 letters)

  The answer: CHARLIESHEEN




• The clue is 29. You can see right through it. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: PANE

  Possible Answer : window_glass, acid, loony_toons, window_pane, Zen, pane_of_glass, back_breaker, Lucy_in_the_sky_with_diamonds, superman, dot, dose, paneling, Elvis, panelling, battery-acid, pane




• The clue is 30. Up to ___. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: PAR

  Possible Answer : equality, par, equivalence, equation




• The clue is 31. Like nearly everybody on a Reply All thread. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: CCED




• The clue is 32. Genre influenced by Jamaica's independence. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SKA




• The clue is 34. Puts on a Christmas list, say. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ASKSFOR




• The clue is 36. Some young studs. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: BOYTOYS




• The clue is 40. Lisbon's land: Abbr.. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: POR




• The clue is 41. First name in student loans. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SALLIE




• The clue is 42. Louvre Pyramid architect. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: PEI

  Possible Answer : I._M._Pei, Ieoh_Ming_Pei, Pei




• The clue is 43. ___ facto. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: IPSO




• The clue is 46. Skeptics. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (12 letters)

  The answer: NONBELIEVERS

  Possible Answer : disbeliever, unbeliever, nonbeliever




• The clue is 49. Half of a sprinter's pair. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TRACKSHOE




• The clue is 51. One of the four classical elements, along with ignis, aqua and terra. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: AER




• The clue is 52. 53-Across feature, as seen three times in this puzzle. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SPIKE

  Possible Answer : ear, spindle, transfix, spike_heel, empale, spike, fortify, impale, lace, capitulum, stiletto_heel, spike_out




• The clue is 53. Test required for all C.I.A. applicants … or a hint to this puzzle's theme. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: POLYGRAPH

  Possible Answer : polygraph




• The clue is 57. Major British tabloid, with "The". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SUN

  Possible Answer : Sun, Lord's_Day, insolate, sunbathe, solarise, Sunday, sunlight, sun, Dominicus, solarize, sunshine




• The clue is 58. When sudden death can occur, for short. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: INOT




• The clue is 60. "Understood". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: IGOTIT




• The clue is 61. Caribbean clock setting: Abbr.. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: AST




• The clue is 62. New Mexico county or its seat. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TAOS

  Possible Answer : Taoist, Taos, Tao




• The clue is 63. Early bird's bedtime, maybe. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: NINEPM




• The clue is 64. Baseball players who only bat, for short. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: DHS




• The clue is 65. Snide chuckle. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: HEH




• The clue is 66. Boardroom support. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: EASEL

  Possible Answer : easel

Down Clues and Answers:

• The clue is 1. Cocido or callaloo. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: STEW

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

• The clue is 2. Luxuriant. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: LUSH

  Possible Answer: soaker, lavish, succulent, alcoholic, lush, profuse, plushy, lucullan, exuberant, boozer, luxuriant, dipsomaniac, plush, alky, riotous, souse

• The clue is 3. Like some dog collars. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (8 letters)

  The answer: ANTIBARK

• The clue is 4. Tool used in making applesauce and mashed potatoes. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: PEELER

  Possible Answer: stripper, striptease, exotic_dancer, striptease_artist, stripteaser, ecdysiast, peeler

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

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

  The answer: STEELIE

• The clue is 6. Human-shaped board game piece. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: MEEPLE

• The clue is 7. Singer/songwriter Goulding. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ELLIE

• The clue is 8. Truly awful, with "the". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: WORST

  Possible Answer: worst, sorry, spoiled, forged, spoilt, uncollectible, rack_up, mop_up, unsound, regretful, unfit, high-risk, risky, whip, big, speculative, bad, defective, pip, tough

  Possible Opposite Answer : unregretful, good, best

• The clue is 9. City that's absolutely "gorges". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ITHACA

  Possible Answer: Ithaki, Ithaca

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

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

  The answer: NISSAN

  Possible Answer: Nisan, Nissan

• The clue is 11. "There's no way!". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: CANTBE

• The clue is 13. Mantra chants. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OMS

• The clue is 14. Went door to door for. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: REPPED

• The clue is 20. Performer at 2024's Super Bowl halftime show. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: USHER

  Possible Answer: Usher, Ussher, doorkeeper, James_Ussher, James_Usher, show, usher, guide

• The clue is 22. Wash against, as waves on the shore. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: LAPAT

• The clue is 25. It fits under a tongue. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: INSOLE

  Possible Answer: innersole, insole

• The clue is 26. Busy Apr. professional. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: CPA

  Possible Answer: certified_public_accountant, CPA

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

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

  The answer: HAS

  Possible Answer: stimulate, induce, hold, HA, let, get, make, hour_angle, have, throw, own, birth, give_birth, sustain, cause, bear, deliver, give, ingest, take, take_in, accept, receive, possess, experience, consume, have_got, feature, suffer

  Possible Opposite Answer : refuse, abstain, lack

• The clue is 28. Derides. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SCORNS

  Possible Answer: despise, spurn, freeze_off, reject, turn_down, despite, disdain, pooh-pooh, scorn, contemn, contempt

• The clue is 31. Budget planner, for short. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: CFO

  Possible Answer: CFO, chief_financial_officer

• The clue is 33. Half sister of Kim, Khloé and Kourtney. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: KYLIE

  Possible Answer: kiley, kylie

• The clue is 35. TV character who said "Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SPOCK

  Possible Answer: Spock, Benjamin_Spock

• The clue is 36. City name in Genesis. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: BABEL

  Possible Answer: Babel, Tower_of_Babel, babel

• The clue is 37. Runs. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (8 letters)

  The answer: OPERATES

  Possible Answer: go, maneuver, mesh, lock, operate_on, manoeuver, work, operate, engage, manoeuvre, function, control, run

  Possible Opposite Answer : disengage, malfunction

• The clue is 38. "___ outta here!". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: YER

• The clue is 39. Female friend, casually. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SIS

  Possible Answer: Si, si, te, Systeme_International, sister, International_System, silicon, sis, International_System_of_Units, atomic_number_14, SI_unit, Systeme_International_d'Unites, SI_system, SI, ti

  Possible Opposite Answer : brother

• The clue is 41. Elitists. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SNOOTS

  Possible Answer: nozzle, schnoz, honker, snout, beak, snoot, hooter, snot, schnozzle, snob, prig

• The clue is 43. "What a shame!". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ITSSAD

• The clue is 44. Major media campaign, say. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: PRPUSH

• The clue is 45. N.F.L. franchise that went its first 20 seasons without a single winning record. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SAINTS

  Possible Answer: nonsuch, enshrine, angel, holy_person, canonize, canonise, nonpareil, paragon, apotheosis, holy_man, saint, ideal, nonesuch

• The clue is 47. "Darn it!". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OHPOOH

• The clue is 48. Home to "star-cross'd lovers". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: VERONA

  Possible Answer: Verona

• The clue is 50. Urban artist?. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: KEITH

• The clue is 51. Longhorn's college rival. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: AGGIE

• The clue is 54. Philosophical darkness. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: YIN

  Possible Answer: yin

  Possible Opposite Answer : yang

• The clue is 55. Decorate, as a baker might. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: PIPE

  Possible Answer: pipe, tube, pipework, tobacco_pipe, shriek, organ_pipe, piping, pipage, pipe_up, shrill

• The clue is 56. Web code. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: HTML

  Possible Answer: HTML, hypertext_mark-up_language, hypertext_markup_language

• The clue is 59. When doubled, dance move accompanying the Whip. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: NAE

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Published on Monday, August 11, 2025 • Daily puzzle hints • Crossword clues © The New York Times

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Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Moderate

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🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (40 clues)

🧩 1A: "1. Improvises during a gig"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

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• Think of something that a berber living in northern morocco
• Similar words include: flick, riffle, Riffian
• Pattern: _____

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🧩 2A: "6. Consider"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view
• Similar words include: hold, take for, view as
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: DEEM

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🧩 3A: "10. Workers alongside R.N.s"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

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• Pattern: ___

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Answer: DRS

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🧩 4A: "13. Loved to bits"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

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• Think of something that love intensely
• Similar words include: idolised, worshipped, adore
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: ADORED

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🧩 5A: "15. "You are something ___!""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

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• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ELSE

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🧩 6A: "16. "Yipes!""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

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• Pattern: ___

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Answer: EEK

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🧩 7A: "17. Independence Day banger"

📏 11 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

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• Think of something that firework consisting of a small explosive charge and fuse in a heavy paper casing
• Similar words include: cracker, banger
• Pattern: ___________

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Answer: FIRECRACKER

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🧩 8A: "19. Tuna type in a poke bowl"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

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• Pattern: ___

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Answer: AHI

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🧩 9A: "20. Apt anagram of NOTE"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the quality of a person's voice
• Similar words include: tone up, tincture, tint
• Opposite of: atonicity

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Answer: TONE

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🧩 10A: "21. Tissue torn by some athletes, in brief"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: ACL

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🧩 11A: "22. "I couldn't ___ less""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
• Similar words include: concern, give care, handle
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: CARE

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🧩 12A: "24. Handle some personal baggage?"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that fill by packing tightly
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: STOW

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🧩 13A: "25. Rush hour snarl"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

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Answer: TRAFFICJAM

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🧩 14A: "29. Big gulp"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a large and hurried swallow
• Similar words include: draft, draught, slog
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: SWIG

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🧩 15A: "31. Great Lake with the most consumable 26-Down"

📏 4 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: Lake Erie
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ERIE

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🧩 16A: "32. Dance in which the guest of honor is often raised in a chair"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

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• Pattern: ____

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Answer: HORA

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🧩 17A: "33. In good physical shape"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

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• Think of something that a display of bad temper
• Similar words include: burst, conniption, agree
• Opposite of: disagree, unfit

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Answer: FIT

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🧩 18A: "35. "Cómo ___ usted?""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

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• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ESTA

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🧩 19A: "37. Channel with a call to order?"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

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• Pattern: ___

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Answer: HSN

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🧩 20A: "38. Lego piece in the shape of a person or animal"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Pattern: _______

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Answer: MINIFIG

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🧩 21A: "42. Warm greeting to a spouse or partner"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

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• Pattern: _______

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Answer: HIHONEY

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🧩 22A: "44. Chowed down"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

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• Think of something that goddess of criminal rashness and its punishment
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• Pattern: ___

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🧩 23A: "45. Herbal refreshments"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Think of something that a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water
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🧩 24A: "47. Actor Levy of "Schitt's Creek""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

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🧩 25A: "48. Actor Damon of the "Bourne" movies"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss
• Similar words include: matted, matte, flat
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: MATT

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🧩 26A: "50. ___ Way, block in Lower Manhattan where a popular cookie originated"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that chocolate cookie with white cream filling
• Similar words include: oreo cookie
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: OREO

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🧩 27A: "52. Religious faction"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a subdivision of a larger religious group
• Similar words include: religious order, religious sect, faction
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: SECT

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🧩 28A: "55. Recipient of two Golden Globe Best Actress nominations for Netflix's "GLOW""

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ALISONBRIE

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🧩 29A: "58. Dry, like Champagne"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (of champagne) extremely dry
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BRUT

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🧩 30A: "60. Some hoppy brews, in brief"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: IPAS

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🧩 31A: "61. Thickness of wood or paper"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that one of the strands twisted together to make yarn or rope or thread; often used in combination
• Similar words include: provide, supply, run
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: PLY

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🧩 32A: "62. Yesteryear"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that time long past
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: YORE

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🧩 33A: "63. ___ Paulo, Brazil"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SAO

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🧩 34A: "64. Cocktail party staple that may contain the ends of 17-, 25-, 38-, 42- and 55-Across"

📏 11 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that tray on which cheeses are served
• Similar words include: cheese tray
• Pattern: ___________

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Answer: CHEESEBOARD

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🧩 35A: "68. Tonsil-examining M.D."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ENT

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🧩 36A: "69. Astronomically long time"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (gnosticism) a divine power or nature emanating from the supreme being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe
• Similar words include: eon
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AEON

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🧩 37A: "70. Completed an alley-oop"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
• Similar words include: dip, plunge, douse
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: DUNKED

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🧩 38A: "71. Total jerk"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
• Similar words include: fuck, butt, arse
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ASS

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🧩 39A: "72. This is not working!"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that something left after other parts have been taken away
• Similar words include: lie, rest period, sleep
• Opposite of: change, be active

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Answer: REST

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🧩 40A: "73. Short-tempered"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that easily irritated or annoyed
• Similar words include: pettish, petulant, fractious
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TESTY

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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (38 clues)

🧩 1D: "1. Vessels that may be propelled with poles"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a large number or amount
• Similar words include: gobs, dozens, mint
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RAFTS

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🧩 2D: "2. "Complete ___ Guides" (how-to series)"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a person of subnormal intelligence
• Similar words include: imbecile, cretin, idiot
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: IDIOTS

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🧩 3D: "3. "Unless something changes …""

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: FORNOW

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🧩 4D: "4. Typical hotel or library amenity"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: FREEWIFI

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🧩 5D: "5. One of 60 in a min."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the systeme international d'unites
• Similar words include: s, second, Securities and Exchange Commission
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: SEC

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🧩 6D: "6. State with certainty"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that state emphatically and authoritatively
• Similar words include: announce, hold, adjudge
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DECLARE

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🧩 7D: "7. Reindeer relative"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in europe and `moose' in north america
• Similar words include: Alces alces, European elk, Cervus elaphus canadensis
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ELK

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🧩 8D: "8. WNW's opposite"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

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

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ESE

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🧩 9D: "9. Gracias : Spanish :: ___ : French"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MERCI

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🧩 10D: "10. Salutation in a breakup letter"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DEARJOHN

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🧩 11D: "11. Practice for opening night"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that engage in a rehearsal (of)
• Similar words include: practise, practice
• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: REHEARSE

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🧩 12D: "12. Bit of Winter Olympics gear"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used in pairs for gliding over snow
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SKI

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🧩 13D: "14. "Shucks!""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DRAT

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🧩 14D: "18. 43,560 square feet"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a unit of area (4840 square yards) used in english-speaking countries
• Similar words include: Akko, Akka, Accho
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ACRE

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🧩 15D: "23. German cry of annoyance"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ACH

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🧩 16D: "26. See 31-Across"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills
• Similar words include: Pisces the Fishes, angle, Pisces
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: FISH

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🧩 17D: "27. Stinking to high heaven"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that offensively malodorous
• Similar words include: funky, smelly, stinking
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: FETID

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🧩 18D: "28. Quite a few"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `as' or `too' or `so' or `that'; amounting to a large but indefinite number
• Opposite of: few
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MANY

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🧩 19D: "30. Special talent"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that something acquired without compensation
• Similar words include: endowment, giving, give
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GIFT

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🧩 20D: "34. Attach with string"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TIEON

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🧩 21D: "36. Sounds of realization"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AHAS

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🧩 22D: "38. Parental term that is phonetically more difficult to say than "dada""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that informal terms for a mother
• Similar words include: mammy, mamma, mum
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: MAMA

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🧩 23D: "39. Citizens of Venice and Verona"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a native or inhabitant of italy
• Similar words include: Italian
• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ITALIANS

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🧩 24D: "40. Nasal irrigation devices"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NETIPOTS

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🧩 25D: "41. Attire"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion
• Similar words include: garment, enclothe, fit out
• Opposite of: undress

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GARB

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🧩 26D: "43. In single file"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ONEBYONE

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🧩 27D: "46. Craftiest animal in the Garden of Eden"

📏 7 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous
• Similar words include: ophidian, snake
• Pattern: _______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SERPENT

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🧩 28D: "49. PreCheck org."

📏 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: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TSA

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🧩 29D: "51. Deep fryer liquids"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water
• Similar words include: inunct, anele, fossil oil
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OILS

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🧩 30D: "53. Chorus from frogs"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog)
• Similar words include: pass away, murmur, pop off
• Opposite of: be born

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CROAKS

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🧩 31D: "54. Small tower on a castle"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a small tower extending above a building
• Similar words include: gun turret, gun enclosure
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TURRET

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🧩 32D: "56. Muppet who lives in a trash can"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an annual award by the academy of motion picture arts and sciences for achievements in motion picture production and performance
• Similar words include: Academy Award
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OSCAR

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🧩 33D: "57. Gave a look"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified; often used in combination
• Similar words include: eye, eyeball
• Opposite of: eyeless

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EYED

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🧩 34D: "59. Stereotypical name for a stuffed bear"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that plaything consisting of a child's toy bear (usually plush and stuffed with soft materials)
• Similar words include: shimmy, shift, teddy bear
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TEDDY

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🧩 35D: "63. ___ of Galilee"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
• Similar words include: ocean
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SEA

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🧩 36D: "65. Tee-___ (giggle)"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HEE

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🧩 37D: "66. Dawn goddess"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (greek mythology) the winged goddess of the dawn in ancient mythology; daughter of hyperion; identified with roman aurora
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EOS

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🧩 38D: "67. Conjunction that might start an objection"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that and nothing more
• Similar words include: only, merely, just
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BUT

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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

Common crossword words repeat. Learning them speeds up future solving.

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38 Down Clues

78 Total Clues

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