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Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Difficulty Level: Medium Tuesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 76 (37 Across, 39 Down)
Average Word Length: 5.0 letters
July 28, 2020 Tuesday NYT - Complete Across Solutions
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. Triumph of diplomacy | 4 |
| 2A | 5. Not do much of anything | 4 |
| 3A | 9. Norse trickster | 4 |
| 4A | 13. Lunge toward | 5 |
| 5A | 15. 1992 Brendan Fraser film about a thawed Cro-Magnon | 9 |
| 6A | 17. "The Tortoise and the Hare," e.g. | 5 |
| 7A | 18. Shorelines | 9 |
| 8A | 19. Framework for vines | 7 |
| 9A | 21. Twosome on TMZ | 4 |
| 10A | 22. Muscleman of "The A-Team" | 3 |
| 11A | 23. "___ and improved!" | 3 |
| 12A | 25. It's *the* place to be | 6 |
| 13A | 29. "___ of the tongue leads to that of the heart": Jefferson | 9 |
| 14A | 32. ___ Grande | 3 |
| 15A | 33. Auto pound, for one | 6 |
| 16A | 35. Totally dominate, in slang | 3 |
| 17A | 36. "Let me see ..." | 4 |
| 18A | 37. The girl in the Disney song "Kiss the Girl" | 5 |
| 19A | 38. So-called "twin killings" in baseball, for short | 3 |
| 20A | 39. Celebrate wildly | 5 |
| 21A | 40. Some whiskeys | 4 |
| 22A | 41. One who brushes off a plate, informally | 3 |
| 23A | 42. Clears one's mind, with "up" | 6 |
| 24A | 43. Wok, for one | 3 |
| 25A | 44. Bubble gum in 1906, e.g. | 9 |
| 26A | 46. Behind financially | 6 |
| 27A | 48. ___ Speed Wagon (old truck) | 3 |
| 28A | 49. Military installations: Abbr. | 3 |
| 29A | 51. Fish with long jaws | 4 |
| 30A | 53. Certain female baby on a farm | 7 |
| 31A | 56. Response to "Objection!," maybe | 9 |
| 32A | 60. Writing that can get you in trouble | 5 |
| 33A | 61. Woolworth's, once | 9 |
| 34A | 62. Gal's guy | 5 |
| 35A | 63. Object of dirty looks? | 4 |
| 36A | 64. Circle in the game hangman | 4 |
| 37A | 65. Actor Rogen | 4 |
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. Triumph of diplomacy"
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 a written agreement between two states or sovereigns
- Words that mean the same thing: accord, treaty
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PACT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "5. Not do much of anything"
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 a shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating
- Words that mean the same thing: lounge around, fuck off, hang around
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LOAF
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Across: "9. Norse trickster"
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 (norse mythology) trickster; god of discord and mischief; contrived death of balder and was overcome by thor
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LOKI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Across: "13. Lunge toward"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium 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: FLYAT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Across: "15. 1992 Brendan Fraser film about a thawed Cro-Magnon"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert 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: ENCINOMAN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Across: "17. "The Tortoise and the Hare," e.g."
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a deliberately false or improbable account
- Words that mean the same thing: fiction, parable, allegory
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FABLE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Across: "18. Shorelines"
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 the shore of a sea or ocean
- Words that mean the same thing: sea-coast, seashore, seacoast
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SEACOASTS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Across: "19. Framework for vines"
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 latticework used to support climbing plants
- Words that mean the same thing: treillage
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TRELLIS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Across: "21. Twosome on TMZ"
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 a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list
- Words that mean the same thing: detail, token, particular
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ITEM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Across: "22. Muscleman of "The A-Team""
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium 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: MRT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "23. "___ and improved!""
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 not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
- Words that mean the same thing: fresh, freshly, raw
- The opposite would be: worn, old
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NEW
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "25. It's *the* place to be"
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: INSPOT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "29. "___ of the tongue leads to that of the heart": Jefferson"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a false statement
- Words that mean the same thing: falsity, falsification, untruth
- The opposite would be: truth
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FALSEHOOD
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "32. ___ Grande"
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 former capital and 2nd largest city of brazil; chief brazilian port; famous as a tourist attraction
- Words that mean the same thing: Rio de Janeiro
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RIO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "33. Auto pound, for one"
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: CARLOT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "35. Totally dominate, in slang"
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 have ownership or possession of
- Words that mean the same thing: possess, ain, have
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OWN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "36. "Let me see ...""
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 a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine
- Words that mean the same thing: advantageously, fountainhead, easily
- The opposite would be: ill, badly
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: WELL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Across: "37. The girl in the Disney song "Kiss the Girl""
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about music.
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: ARIEL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "38. So-called "twin killings" in baseball, for short"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a person forced to flee from home or country
- Words that mean the same thing: stateless person, displaced person, DP
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DPS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "39. Celebrate wildly"
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 unrestrained merrymaking
- Words that mean the same thing: enjoy, delight, jollify
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: REVEL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "40. Some whiskeys"
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 the seed of the cereal grass
- Words that mean the same thing: Secale cereale, rye whisky, rye whiskey
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: RYES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "41. One who brushes off a plate, informally"
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 an official at a baseball game
- Words that mean the same thing: umpire
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: UMP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "42. Clears one's mind, with "up""
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that cause to become sober
- Words that mean the same thing: sober up, sober
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SOBERS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "43. Wok, for one"
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 cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel
- Words that mean the same thing: pan out, pan off, genus Pan
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: PAN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "44. Bubble gum in 1906, e.g."
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 the creation of something in the mind
- Words that mean the same thing: excogitation, conception, design
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: INVENTION
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "46. Behind financially"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 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: INDEBT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "48. ___ Speed Wagon (old truck)"
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: REO
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "49. Military installations: Abbr."
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a easy clue about abbreviation.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard
- Words that mean the same thing: ft, foot
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FTS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "51. Fish with long jaws"
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 primitive predaceous north american fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth
- Words that mean the same thing: needlefish, billfish, garpike
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GARS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "53. Certain female baby on a farm"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 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: EWELAMB
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "56. Response to "Objection!," maybe"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that rule against
- Words that mean the same thing: overrule, override, reverse
- The word looks like this: _________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: OVERRULED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 32 Across: "60. Writing that can get you in trouble"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a false and malicious publication printed for the purpose of defaming a living person
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LIBEL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 33 Across: "61. Woolworth's, once"
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: DIMESTORE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 34 Across: "62. Gal's guy"
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 boy or man
- Words that mean the same thing: lad, bloke, gent
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FELLA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 35 Across: "63. Object of dirty looks?"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
- Words that mean the same thing: obscenity, porno, porn
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SMUT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 36 Across: "64. Circle in the game hangman"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about sports.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
- Words that mean the same thing: school principal, head up, channelize
- The opposite would be: rear, tail
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HEAD
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 37 Across: "65. Actor Rogen"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that (old testament) third son of adam and eve; given by god in place of the murdered abel
- Words that mean the same thing: Set
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SETH
Great job if you got it right!
July 28, 2020 Tuesday NYT - All Down Answers
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. [Fizzle] | 4 |
| 2D | 2. Raise the ___ | 5 |
| 3D | 3. Chat room pal | 11 |
| 4D | 4. Accounts of Paul Bunyan, say | 9 |
| 5D | 5. Tenant | 6 |
| 6D | 6. Ariana Grande's "___ Last Time" | 3 |
| 7D | 7. Berry in a purple smoothie | 4 |
| 8D | 8. Section of a bookstore | 7 |
| 9D | 9. Rich soils | 5 |
| 10D | 10. Meditation syllables | 3 |
| 11D | 11. Kit ___ bar | 3 |
| 12D | 12. Outs' opposites | 3 |
| 13D | 14. No. on a business card | 3 |
| 14D | 16. On and on and on | 5 |
| 15D | 20. Part of M.I.T.: Abbr. | 4 |
| 16D | 24. Burger King offering | 7 |
| 17D | 26. Like something that really shouldn't have happened | 11 |
| 18D | 27. Edmonton N.H.L.'er | 5 |
| 19D | 28. Things most interstates don't have | 5 |
| 20D | 30. "OMG, I'm dying!" | 3 |
| 21D | 31. Reactions to slugs | 3 |
| 22D | 33. Wrist bones | 5 |
| 23D | 34. Early Indo-European | 5 |
| 24D | 36. It's spun by mendacious people ... or a hint to the shaded answers | 9 |
| 25D | 38. Org. staffed by sloths in "Zootopia" | 3 |
| 26D | 39. Key piece in French chess | 3 |
| 27D | 41. Fabrication | 7 |
| 28D | 42. Put away for safekeeping | 4 |
| 29D | 44. Some building beams | 5 |
| 30D | 45. "Thanks, I ___ that" | 6 |
| 31D | 47. Source of beautiful plumes | 5 |
| 32D | 50. Refine, as metal | 5 |
| 33D | 52. Liqueur flavor | 4 |
| 34D | 54. One with pointy shoes and ears | 3 |
| 35D | 55. Meh-feeling | 4 |
| 36D | 56. Some drug cases, for short | 3 |
| 37D | 57. Liveliness | 3 |
| 38D | 58. Fast runner Down Under | 3 |
| 39D | 59. Elizabethan ___ | 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. [Fizzle]"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy 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: PFFT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. Raise the ___"
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 fear resulting from the awareness of danger
- Words that mean the same thing: alert, alarum, dismay
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ALARM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. Chat room pal"
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: CYBERFRIEND
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. Accounts of Paul Bunyan, say"
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: TALLTALES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. Tenant"
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 a tenant who holds a lease
- Words that mean the same thing: leaseholder
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LESSEE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Down: "6. Ariana Grande's "___ Last Time""
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 smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
- Words that mean the same thing: i, one and only, unmatched
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ONE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Down: "7. Berry in a purple smoothie"
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: ACAI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Down: "8. Section of a bookstore"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about literature.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
- Words that mean the same thing: fabrication, fable
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FICTION
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Down: "9. Rich soils"
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 rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials
- Words that mean the same thing: loam
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LOAMS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Down: "10. Meditation syllables"
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: OMS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. Kit ___ bar"
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 leaves of the shrub catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant
- Words that mean the same thing: quat, African tea, Arabian tea
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: KAT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. Outs' opposites"
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 agency in the department of justice that enforces laws and regulations for the admission of foreign-born persons to the united states
- Words that mean the same thing: inch, atomic number 49, Hoosier State
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: INS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Down: "14. No. on a business card"
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: TEL
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Down: "16. On and on and on"
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: NOEND
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Down: "20. Part of M.I.T.: Abbr."
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that in or of the present month
- Words that mean the same thing: instant
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: INST
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Down: "24. Burger King offering"
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 a gross untruth; a blatant lie
- Words that mean the same thing: walloper, whacker
- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: WHOPPER
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Clue 17 Down: "26. Like something that really shouldn't have happened"
Quick Info: This answer has 11 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that capable of being prevented; - a.l.guerard
- The opposite would be: unpreventable
- The word looks like this: ___________
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The answer is: PREVENTABLE
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Clue 18 Down: "27. Edmonton N.H.L.'er"
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 worker who oils engines or machinery
- Words that mean the same thing: tanker, oil well, oil tanker
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: OILER
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Clue 19 Down: "28. Things most interstates don't have"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about geography.
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- This could be something that a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance)
- Words that mean the same thing: price, bell, cost
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: TOLLS
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Clue 20 Down: "30. "OMG, I'm dying!""
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: LOL
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Clue 21 Down: "31. Reactions to slugs"
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: OWS
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Clue 22 Down: "33. Wrist bones"
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 joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones
- Words that mean the same thing: carpus, wrist joint, radiocarpal joint
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: CARPI
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Clue 23 Down: "34. Early Indo-European"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that (according to nazi doctrine) a caucasian person of nordic descent (and not a jew)
- Words that mean the same thing: Indo-Aryan, Indo-European
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: ARYAN
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Clue 24 Down: "36. It's spun by mendacious people ... or a hint to the shaded answers"
Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: _________
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The answer is: WEBOFLIES
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Clue 25 Down: "38. Org. staffed by sloths in "Zootopia""
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: DMV
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Clue 26 Down: "39. Key piece in French chess"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that (corporate finance) the amount, expressed as a percentage, that is earned on a company's total capital calculated by dividing the total capital into earnings before interest, taxes, or dividends are paid
- Words that mean the same thing: return on invested capital, return on investment
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: ROI
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Clue 27 Down: "41. Fabrication"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that a false statement
- Words that mean the same thing: falsity, falsehood
- The opposite would be: truth
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The answer is: UNTRUTH
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Clue 28 Down: "42. Put away for safekeeping"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that fill by packing tightly
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: STOW
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Clue 29 Down: "44. Some building beams"
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: IBARS
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Clue 30 Down: "45. "Thanks, I ___ that""
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that require as useful, just, or proper
- Words that mean the same thing: postulate, ask, need
- The opposite would be: obviate
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The answer is: NEEDED
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Clue 31 Down: "47. Source of beautiful plumes"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that any of various usually white herons having long plumes during breeding season
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: EGRET
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Clue 32 Down: "50. Refine, as metal"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water
- Words that mean the same thing: smell, reek, smell out
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: SMELT
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Clue 33 Down: "52. Liqueur flavor"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that wild plum of northeastern united states having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh
- Words that mean the same thing: Allegheny plum, Prunus spinosa, Alleghany plum
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: SLOE
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Clue 34 Down: "54. One with pointy shoes and ears"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous
- Words that mean the same thing: imp, gremlin, brownie
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: ELF
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Clue 35 Down: "55. Meh-feeling"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that pompous or pretentious talk or writing
- Words that mean the same thing: claptrap, fustian, rant
- The word looks like this: ____
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The answer is: BLAH
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Clue 36 Down: "56. Some drug cases, for short"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.
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- This could be something that a doctor's degree in optometry
- Words that mean the same thing: OD, oculus dexter, Doctor of Optometry
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: ODS
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Clue 37 Down: "57. Liveliness"
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 healthy capacity for vigorous activity
- Words that mean the same thing: vigour, vitality, muscularity
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: VIM
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Clue 38 Down: "58. Fast runner Down Under"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that any of various systems of units for measuring electricity and magnetism
- Words that mean the same thing: electromagnetic unit, Emu novaehollandiae, Dromaius novaehollandiae
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: EMU
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Clue 39 Down: "59. Elizabethan ___"
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 period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
- Words that mean the same thing: earned run average, epoch, geological era
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: ERA
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 45 | 59.2% |
| Short Answer | 19 | 25.0% |
| Abbreviation | 4 | 5.3% |
| Sports | 2 | 2.6% |
| History | 1 | 1.3% |
| Movies/Film | 1 | 1.3% |
| Music | 1 | 1.3% |
| Celebrity/Entertainment | 1 | 1.3% |
| Literature | 1 | 1.3% |
| Geography | 1 | 1.3% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 37 |
| Down Clues | 39 |
| Total Clues | 76 |
| Average Answer Length | 5.0 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 Tuesday, and these puzzles are usually medium level
- Most clues today are about general knowledge
- The average word today has about 4 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 23, 2025 at 03:21 PM
