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Quick Navigation - Table of Contents
- Today's Puzzle Difficulty
- Across Clues Table (37 clues)
- Across Clues - Detailed Hints
- Down Clues Table (41 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. Fanatical groups | 5 |
| 2A | 6. Dish often topped with lime and cilantro | 3 |
| 3A | 9. Sci-fi warrior | 4 |
| 4A | 13. One of 22 works by Mozart, but just one work by Beethoven | 5 |
| 5A | 14. Team behind the cameras | 4 |
| 6A | 15. Actor Epps of "House" | 4 |
| 7A | 16. Question after "Well, well, well ..." | 14 |
| 8A | 18. Jerk | 4 |
| 9A | 19. "Family Guy" character with a nasal voice | 4 |
| 10A | 20. Exec who manages a company's day-to-day affairs | 3 |
| 11A | 21. Word with market or list | 5 |
| 12A | 22. "Too late to do anything about it now" | 17 |
| 13A | 26. One who has a lot to show? | 7 |
| 14A | 28. Bungee jumping requirement | 4 |
| 15A | 29. First name in beauty products | 5 |
| 16A | 30. Egg carton? | 3 |
| 17A | 31. Holders of hammers and anvils | 4 |
| 18A | 35. One cause of deterioration | 3 |
| 19A | 36. Marine creatures that can grow to the size of double-decker buses | 11 |
| 20A | 40. Genre for DMX or DMC | 3 |
| 21A | 41. Coffee maker inserts | 4 |
| 22A | 43. Actor Somerhalder of "Lost" | 3 |
| 23A | 44. Gas company with a triangular logo | 5 |
| 24A | 46. One side in a "Holy War" rivalry in college football | 4 |
| 25A | 48. Player on the bench? | 7 |
| 26A | 50. Sarcastic response to an unwanted offer | 17 |
| 27A | 54. Oodles | 5 |
| 28A | 55. Member of a Tolkien army | 3 |
| 29A | 56. Object in Pixar's logo | 4 |
| 30A | 59. Demolish | 4 |
| 31A | 60. Facial wrinkles ... or what's present in 16-, 22-, 36- and 50-Across? | 10 |
| 32A | 63. School with a larger-than-life bronze statue of Henry VI | 4 |
| 33A | 64. Fun-size | 4 |
| 34A | 65. Irritating "cloud" | 5 |
| 35A | 66. Beech or birch | 4 |
| 36A | 67. Ernie who has won the British Open twice | 3 |
| 37A | 68. Shoelace protector | 5 |
Across Clues - Strategic Hints
1A: "1. Fanatical groups"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that followers of an exclusive system of religious beliefs and practices
- Similar words include: furor, religious cult, rage
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CULTS
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2A: "6. Dish often topped with lime and cilantro"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PHO
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3A: "9. Sci-fi warrior"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: JEDI
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4A: "13. One of 22 works by Mozart, but just one work by Beethoven"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes
- Similar words include: opera house
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OPERA
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5A: "14. Team behind the cameras"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the men and women who man a vehicle (ship, aircraft, etc.)
- Similar words include: gang, crowd, work party
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CREW
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6A: "15. Actor Epps of "House""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OMAR
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7A: "16. Question after "Well, well, well ...""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______________
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Answer: WHATHAVEWEHERE
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8A: "18. Jerk"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an american who lives in the north (especially during the american civil war)
- Similar words include: jerk, Yankee, Northerner
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: YANK
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9A: "19. "Family Guy" character with a nasal voice"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LOIS
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10A: "20. Exec who manages a company's day-to-day affairs"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the sound made by a pigeon
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: COO
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11A: "21. Word with market or list"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)
- Similar words include: Mary Leontyne Price, Leontyne Price, terms
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PRICE
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12A: "22. "Too late to do anything about it now""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________________
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Answer: THATSHIPHASSAILED
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13A: "26. One who has a lot to show?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a real estate agent who is a member of the national association of realtors
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: REALTOR
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14A: "28. Bungee jumping requirement"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a line made of twisted fibers or threads
- Similar words include: electric cord, corduroy
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CORD
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15A: "29. First name in beauty products"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ESTEE
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16A: "30. Egg carton?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an enclosed space
- Similar words include: pouch, sack, pocket
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SAC
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17A: "31. Holders of hammers and anvils"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the sense organ for hearing and equilibrium
- Similar words include: ear, auricle, pinna
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EARS
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18A: "35. One cause of deterioration"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of using
- Similar words include: employment, exercise, purpose
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: USE
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19A: "36. Marine creatures that can grow to the size of double-decker buses"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: WHALESHARKS
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20A: "40. Genre for DMX or DMC"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a reproach for some lapse or misdeed
- Similar words include: tap, rap music, pat
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RAP
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21A: "41. Coffee maker inserts"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves)
- Similar words include: cod, seedcase, pod
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PODS
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22A: "43. Actor Somerhalder of "Lost""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IAN
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23A: "44. Gas company with a triangular logo"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CITGO
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24A: "46. One side in a "Holy War" rivalry in college football"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of the shoshonean people of utah and colorado and new mexico
- Similar words include: Ute
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: UTES
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25A: "48. Player on the bench?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who plays the piano
- Similar words include: piano player
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: PIANIST
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26A: "50. Sarcastic response to an unwanted offer"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________________
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Answer: THANKSBUTNOTHANKS
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27A: "54. Oodles"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a large number or amount
- Similar words include: scores, lashings, peck
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HEAPS
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28A: "55. Member of a Tolkien army"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ORC
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29A: "56. Object in Pixar's logo"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an artificial source of visible illumination
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LAMP
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30A: "59. Demolish"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that tear down so as to make flat with the ground
- Similar words include: dismantle, rase, tear down
- Opposite of: raise
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Answer: RAZE
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31A: "60. Facial wrinkles ... or what's present in 16-, 22-, 36- and 50-Across?"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: LAUGHLINES
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32A: "63. School with a larger-than-life bronze statue of Henry VI"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ETON
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33A: "64. Fun-size"
Solving Hints:
- Similar words include: bantam, midget, petite
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TINY
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34A: "65. Irritating "cloud""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies
- Similar words include: gnat
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GNATS
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35A: "66. Beech or birch"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees
- Similar words include: Sir Henry Wood, woodwind, Grant Wood
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: WOOD
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36A: "67. Ernie who has won the British Open twice"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
- Similar words include: el, elevated railroad, overhead railway
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ELS
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37A: "68. Shoelace protector"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that metal or plastic sheath over the end of a shoelace or ribbon
- Similar words include: aiglet, aiguilette
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AGLET
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Down Clues - Complete List
| No. | Clue | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| 1D | 1. Part of a Batman costume | 4 |
| 2D | 2. Until | 4 |
| 3D | 3. Had an uplifting experience? | 9 |
| 4D | 4. Bridge framework | 7 |
| 5D | 5. Shop item with teeth | 3 |
| 6D | 6. Before surgery, in brief | 5 |
| 7D | 7. "Let ___ Go" (2012 Passenger hit) | 3 |
| 8D | 8. Be shy | 3 |
| 9D | 9. Some kicks on Route 66, maybe | 7 |
| 10D | 10. Bit of info on a résumé | 5 |
| 11D | 11. Ball | 5 |
| 12D | 12. Teed off | 5 |
| 13D | 14. Group in a loft | 5 |
| 14D | 17. Sound in a cave | 4 |
| 15D | 21. Course standard | 3 |
| 16D | 23. Gumbo, e.g. | 4 |
| 17D | 24. Disney villain based on Shakespeare's King Claudius | 4 |
| 18D | 25. Punch in the face, say | 4 |
| 19D | 26. Extend a tour of duty | 4 |
| 20D | 27. The first letter in this gas brand's logo resembles a backward 3 | 4 |
| 21D | 30. It's often identified by its last four digits, in brief | 3 |
| 22D | 32. Made in a nonmechanized way, as food products | 9 |
| 23D | 33. Cloths for custodians | 4 |
| 24D | 34. TV ad | 4 |
| 25D | 37. Stead | 4 |
| 26D | 38. Like Alabama vis-Ã -vis Mississippi | 4 |
| 27D | 39. Create a PDF of, maybe | 4 |
| 28D | 42. Hang | 7 |
| 29D | 45. Slightest idea | 7 |
| 30D | 47. Airer of the game show "Wipeout" | 3 |
| 31D | 48. Bess's beau on Broadway | 5 |
| 32D | 49. Eczema symptom | 4 |
| 33D | 50. Pitched | 5 |
| 34D | 51. "Cool beans!" | 5 |
| 35D | 52. Instrument once known as a "toy trumpet" | 5 |
| 36D | 53. Followers of articles | 5 |
| 37D | 57. Parcel (out) | 4 |
| 38D | 58. Whisper that might accompany a tap | 4 |
| 39D | 60. Broadband letters | 3 |
| 40D | 61. Need a day off, say | 3 |
| 41D | 62. Big Apple airport code | 3 |
Down Clues - Strategic Hints
1D: "1. Part of a Batman costume"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine
- Similar words include: cowling, bonnet, hood
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: COWL
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2D: "2. Until"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: UPTO
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3D: "3. Had an uplifting experience?"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity
- Similar words include: levitate, hover
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: LEVITATED
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4D: "4. Bridge framework"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a supporting tower used to support a bridge
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: TRESTLE
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5D: "5. Shop item with teeth"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
- Similar words include: construe, assure, run into
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SAW
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6D: "6. Before surgery, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PREOP
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7D: "7. "Let ___ Go" (2012 Passenger hit)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HER
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8D: "8. Be shy"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that be obliged to pay or repay
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OWE
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9D: "9. Some kicks on Route 66, maybe"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a ride in a car taken solely for pleasure
- Similar words include: tool around, tool
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: JOYRIDE
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10D: "10. Bit of info on a résumé"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that can be regenerated at the recipient's terminal when the recipient logs in
- Similar words include: netmail, e-mail, electronic mail
- Opposite of: snail mail
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Answer: EMAIL
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11D: "11. Ball"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an artistic form of nonverbal communication
- Similar words include: trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe, dancing
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DANCE
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12D: "12. Teed off"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that irritate or vex
- Similar words include: irk, gall
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: IRKED
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13D: "14. Group in a loft"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a chorus that sings as part of a religious ceremony
- Similar words include: consort, chorus
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CHOIR
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14D: "17. Sound in a cave"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves
- Similar words include: repeat, reverberation, reverberate
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ECHO
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15D: "21. Course standard"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (golf) the standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course
- Similar words include: equality, equivalence, equation
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PAR
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16D: "23. Gumbo, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that agitation resulting from active worry
- Similar words include: lather, sweat, swither
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: STEW
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17D: "24. Disney villain based on Shakespeare's King Claudius"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue
- Similar words include: pock, mark, cicatrix
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SCAR
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18D: "25. Punch in the face, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that hosiery consisting of a cloth covering for the foot; worn inside the shoe; reaches to between the ankle and the knee
- Similar words include: whop, bonk, drogue
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SOCK
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19D: "26. Extend a tour of duty"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: REUP
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20D: "27. The first letter in this gas brand's logo resembles a backward 3"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ESSO
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21D: "30. It's often identified by its last four digits, in brief"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SSN
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22D: "32. Made in a nonmechanized way, as food products"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: ARTISANAL
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23D: "33. Cloths for custodians"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small piece of cloth or paper
- Similar words include: cod, lecture, call down
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RAGS
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24D: "34. TV ad"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a point located with respect to surface features of some region
- Similar words include: smirch, position, spy
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SPOT
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25D: "37. Stead"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
- Similar words include: place, stead, position
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LIEU
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26D: "38. Like Alabama vis-Ã -vis Mississippi"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees
- Similar words include: due east, E, eastern United States
- Opposite of: west
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Answer: EAST
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27D: "39. Create a PDF of, maybe"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region
- Similar words include: run down, rake, skim
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SCAN
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28D: "42. Hang"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that hang freely
- Similar words include: debar, set aside, freeze
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SUSPEND
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29D: "45. Slightest idea"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a slight suggestion or vague understanding
- Similar words include: intimation, glimmering, glimmer
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: INKLING
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30D: "47. Airer of the game show "Wipeout""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a metallic element of the rare earth group; used in lasers; occurs in apatite and monazite and xenotime and ytterbite
- Similar words include: terabit, TiB, tuberculosis
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TBS
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31D: "48. Bess's beau on Broadway"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that lean flesh of fish found in warm waters of southern atlantic coast of the united states
- Similar words include: scup
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PORGY
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32D: "49. Eczema symptom"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite; characterized by persistent itching and skin irritation
- Similar words include: scabies, urge, itching
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ITCH
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33D: "50. Pitched"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that propel through the air
- Similar words include: throw off, befuddle, confound
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: THREW
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34D: "51. "Cool beans!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NEATO
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35D: "52. Instrument once known as a "toy trumpet""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a toy wind instrument that has a membrane that makes a sound when you hum into the mouthpiece
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: KAZOO
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36D: "53. Followers of articles"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a content word that can be used to refer to a person, place, thing, quality, or action
- Similar words include: noun
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NOUNS
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37D: "57. Parcel (out)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a line that indicates a boundary
- Similar words include: delimitation, boundary line, borderline
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: METE
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38D: "58. Whisper that might accompany a tap"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PSST
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39D: "60. Broadband letters"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LTE
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40D: "61. Need a day off, say"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that aromatic bulb used as seasoning
- Similar words include: trouble, garlic, pain
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AIL
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41D: "62. Big Apple airport code"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LGA
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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.
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Let intersecting letters guide you. One correct answer unlocks several others.
Build Vocabulary
Common crossword words repeat. Learning them speeds up future solving.
Today's Puzzle Stats
37 Across Clues
41 Down Clues
78 Total Clues
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