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Date: Saturday, February 27, 2021
Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle
Total Clues: 70 (36 Across, 34 Down)
Average Word Length: 5.6 letters
February 27, 2021 Across Hints: NYT Saturday Crossword Answers
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1A | 1. Hoopster's mantra | 10 |
| 2A | 11. Two-time FIFA Women's World Player of the Year (2001, 2002) | 4 |
| 3A | 15. "My point is ..." | 10 |
| 4A | 16. Like castaways, before being cast away | 4 |
| 5A | 17. Set for the afternoon? | 10 |
| 6A | 18. Clinches | 4 |
| 7A | 19. A couple of dollars? | 3 |
| 8A | 20. Material whose name is a Scandinavian country in French | 5 |
| 9A | 21. Moves like a butterfly | 5 |
| 10A | 22. Countenance | 4 |
| 11A | 24. Stingray feature, once | 4 |
| 12A | 25. Pioneer in 35mm cameras | 5 |
| 13A | 26. School softball? | 5 |
| 14A | 28. Singer Braxton, sister of Toni | 5 |
| 15A | 30. Its birthstone is peridot: Abbr. | 3 |
| 16A | 31. "Let's get ___!" (party cry) | 3 |
| 17A | 33. Individually | 8 |
| 18A | 35. In the cloud, say | 6 |
| 19A | 38. Title character in a "Sgt. Pepper" song | 6 |
| 20A | 39. Night light | 8 |
| 21A | 41. Wiz Khalifa's "We ___ Boyz" | 3 |
| 22A | 42. Ron who played Tarzan on old TV | 3 |
| 23A | 43. Moving | 5 |
| 24A | 45. Some didy changers | 5 |
| 25A | 49. Fare from some bars | 5 |
| 26A | 51. Smart ___ | 4 |
| 27A | 53. "Au revoir!" | 4 |
| 28A | 54. Letter to the editor, often | 5 |
| 29A | 55. Atomic clock timekeeper | 5 |
| 30A | 57. Prefix with binary | 3 |
| 31A | 58. Kind of bowl ordered at a juice bar | 4 |
| 32A | 59. Opposite of cheap eats | 10 |
| 33A | 61. Actress/YouTube star ___ Condor | 4 |
| 34A | 62. Whole | 10 |
| 35A | 63. "East of Eden" twin | 4 |
| 36A | 64. #1 on a list, maybe | 10 |
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. Hoopster's mantra"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 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: BALLISLIFE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Across: "11. Two-time FIFA Women's World Player of the Year (2001, 2002)"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about sports.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: HAMM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Across: "15. "My point is ...""
Quick Info: This answer has 10 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: IMEANTOSAY
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Clue 4 Across: "16. Like castaways, before being cast away"
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 in the direction of the sea
- Words that mean the same thing: seawards, seaward
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ASEA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Across: "17. Set for the afternoon?"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: __________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TEASERVICE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Across: "18. Clinches"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that water frozen in the solid state
- Words that mean the same thing: trash, ice, Methedrine
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ICES
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Clue 7 Across: "19. A couple of dollars?"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a hard clue about short answer.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)
- Words that mean the same thing: altitude, elevated, elevation
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ELS
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Clue 8 Across: "20. Material whose name is a Scandinavian country in French"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about geography.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that leather with a napped surface
- Words that mean the same thing: suede leather, suede cloth
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: SUEDE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Across: "21. Moves like a butterfly"
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 sudden quick movement
- Words that mean the same thing: flutter, fleet, flit
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FLITS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Across: "22. Countenance"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that dignified manner or conduct
- Words that mean the same thing: presence, comportment, bearing
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MIEN
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Across: "24. Stingray feature, once"
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: TTOP
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Across: "25. Pioneer in 35mm cameras"
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: LEICA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Across: "26. School softball?"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 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: EASYA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Across: "28. Singer Braxton, sister of Toni"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TRACI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Across: "30. Its birthstone is peridot: Abbr."
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 the month following july and preceding september
- Words that mean the same thing: August
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AUG
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Across: "31. "Let's get ___!" (party cry)"
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 humanistic study of a body of literature
- Words that mean the same thing: get off, illuminate, lighted
- The opposite would be: unlighted, extinguish
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LIT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Across: "33. Individually"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 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: ALACARTE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Across: "35. In the cloud, say"
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 keep or lay aside for future use
- Words that mean the same thing: lay in, stash away, hive away
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: STORED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Across: "38. Title character in a "Sgt. Pepper" song"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 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: MRKITE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Across: "39. Night light"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a ray of moonlight
- Words that mean the same thing: moon ray, moon-ray
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MOONBEAM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Across: "41. Wiz Khalifa's "We ___ Boyz""
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: DEM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 22 Across: "42. Ron who played Tarzan on old TV"
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: ELY
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 23 Across: "43. Moving"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that on the move
- Words that mean the same thing: about, up
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ASTIR
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 24 Across: "45. Some didy changers"
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 an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
- Words that mean the same thing: dad, daddy, dada
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: DADAS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 25 Across: "49. Fare from some bars"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that the thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and pipturus albidus
- Words that mean the same thing: tapa, tapa bark, tappa bark
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TAPAS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 26 Across: "51. Smart ___"
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: ALEC
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 27 Across: "53. "Au revoir!""
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: TATA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 28 Across: "54. Letter to the editor, often"
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 informal terms for objecting
- Words that mean the same thing: bellyache, beef, holler
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: GRIPE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 29 Across: "55. Atomic clock timekeeper"
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 an acronym for microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation; an amplifier that works on the same principle as a laser and emits coherent microwave radiation
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MASER
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 30 Across: "57. Prefix with binary"
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 negation of a word or group of words
- Words that mean the same thing: not
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NON
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 31 Across: "58. Kind of bowl ordered at a juice bar"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 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: ACAI
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 32 Across: "59. Opposite of cheap eats"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 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: FINEDINING
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 33 Across: "61. Actress/YouTube star ___ Condor"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LANA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 34 Across: "62. Whole"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 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: INONEPIECE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 35 Across: "63. "East of Eden" twin"
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: ARON
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 36 Across: "64. #1 on a list, maybe"
Quick Info: This answer has 10 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a book that has had a large and rapid sale
- Words that mean the same thing: best seller
- The word looks like this: __________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: BESTSELLER
Great job if you got it right!
Down Clues Decoded - Saturday NYT Crossword February 27, 2021
| No. | Clue | Letters |
| 1D | 1. "Buzz off!" | 6 |
| 2D | 2. Renato's wife in Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera" | 6 |
| 3D | 3. Some deals from dealerships | 6 |
| 4D | 4. "___ Mañanitas" (Mexican birthday song) | 3 |
| 5D | 5. Woman's name that's also a plural suffix | 4 |
| 6D | 6. Work it, on the runway | 5 |
| 7D | 7. Four-time Grammy winner Lyle | 6 |
| 8D | 8. George Sand title heroine | 7 |
| 9D | 9. [I'm such an idiot!] | 8 |
| 10D | 10. Inspect | 3 |
| 11D | 11. Selassie of Ethiopia | 5 |
| 12D | 12. What this is an example of: \_(^.^)_/ | 8 |
| 13D | 13. Trope seen in rom-coms | 8 |
| 14D | 14. Rub the right way? | 7 |
| 15D | 21. Switched (on) | 7 |
| 16D | 23. Alternative to polyester | 5 |
| 17D | 27. Home for a drone | 7 |
| 18D | 29. Jokester | 4 |
| 19D | 32. Props of sorts | 4 |
| 20D | 34. Target | 5 |
| 21D | 35. Vehicle equipped with photovoltaic cells | 8 |
| 22D | 36. Schroeder plays one, in the comics | 8 |
| 23D | 37. Dig for insights, digitally | 8 |
| 24D | 39. Annual N.Y.C. event hosted by Vogue | 7 |
| 25D | 40. Some Pepperidge Farm cookies | 7 |
| 26D | 44. Begrudge | 6 |
| 27D | 46. "Get Out" star Kaluuya | 6 |
| 28D | 47. Like, now | 6 |
| 29D | 48. Birth control pioneer Margaret | 6 |
| 30D | 50. Like some drones | 5 |
| 31D | 52. Forfeits | 5 |
| 32D | 56. What comes before old age? | 4 |
| 33D | 59. "Of course it looks good on you!," maybe | 3 |
| 34D | 60. Zip | 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. "Buzz off!""
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: BITEME
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 2 Down: "2. Renato's wife in Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera""
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about history.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that congenital absence of an arm or leg
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: AMELIA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 3 Down: "3. Some deals from dealerships"
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 property that is leased or rented out or let
- Words that mean the same thing: charter, term of a contract, letting
- The word looks like this: ______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LEASES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 4 Down: "4. "___ Mañanitas" (Mexican birthday song)"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a medium clue about music.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that a white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily; occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as a rare earth
- Words that mean the same thing: lah, Pelican State, Louisiana
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: LAS
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 5 Down: "5. Woman's name that's also a plural suffix"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 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: INES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 6 Down: "6. Work it, on the runway"
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 proud stiff pompous gait
- Words that mean the same thing: cock, swagger, prance
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: STRUT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 7 Down: "7. Four-time Grammy winner Lyle"
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: LOVETT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 8 Down: "8. George Sand title heroine"
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: ISIDORA
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 9 Down: "9. [I'm such an idiot!]"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FACEPALM
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 10 Down: "10. Inspect"
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 organ of sight
- Words that mean the same thing: centre, eyeball, middle
- The word looks like this: ___
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: EYE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 11 Down: "11. Selassie of Ethiopia"
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: HAILE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 12 Down: "12. What this is an example of: \_(^.^)_/"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: ASCIIART
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 13 Down: "13. Trope seen in rom-coms"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ________
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MEETCUTE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 14 Down: "14. Rub the right way?"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that kneading and rubbing parts of the body to increase circulation and promote relaxation
- Words that mean the same thing: rub down, knead
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: MASSAGE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 15 Down: "21. Switched (on)"
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 flash intermittently
- Words that mean the same thing: flicker, flick, click
- The word looks like this: _______
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: FLICKED
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 16 Down: "23. Alternative to polyester"
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 thermoplastic polyamide; a family of strong resilient synthetic fibers
- The word looks like this: _____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: NYLON
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 17 Down: "27. Home for a drone"
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: AIRBASE
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 18 Down: "29. Jokester"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- This could be something that one of a set of small pieces of stiff paper marked in various ways and used for playing games or for telling fortunes
- Words that mean the same thing: tease, add-in, circuit board
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: CARD
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 19 Down: "32. Props of sorts"
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 starting place for each hole on a golf course
- Words that mean the same thing: tee, teeing ground, football tee
- The word looks like this: ____
- Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
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The answer is: TEES
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 20 Down: "34. Target"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 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: AIMAT
Great job if you got it right!
Clue 21 Down: "35. Vehicle equipped with photovoltaic cells"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
Here's how to solve it:
- The word looks like this: ________
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The answer is: SOLARCAR
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Clue 22 Down: "36. Schroeder plays one, in the comics"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 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: TOYPIANO
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Clue 23 Down: "37. Dig for insights, digitally"
Quick Info: This answer has 8 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- The word looks like this: ________
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The answer is: DATAMINE
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Clue 24 Down: "39. Annual N.Y.C. event hosted by Vogue"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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The answer is: METGALA
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Clue 25 Down: "40. Some Pepperidge Farm cookies"
Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that the capital of lombardy in northern italy; has been an international center of trade and industry since the middle ages
- Words that mean the same thing: Milan, Milano
- The word looks like this: _______
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The answer is: MILANOS
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Clue 26 Down: "44. Begrudge"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that feel bitter or indignant about
- Words that mean the same thing: begrudge
- The opposite would be: wish
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The answer is: RESENT
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Clue 27 Down: "46. "Get Out" star Kaluuya"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about celebrity/entertainment.
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- This could be something that (old testament) a youth who was taken into the court of nebuchadnezzar and given divine protection when thrown into a den of lions (6th century bc)
- Words that mean the same thing: Book of Daniel, Book of the Prophet Daniel
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: DANIEL
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Clue 28 Down: "47. Like, now"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 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: ATONCE
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Clue 29 Down: "48. Birth control pioneer Margaret"
Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that english biochemist who determined the sequence of amino acids in insulin and who invented a technique to determine the genetic sequence of an organism (born in 1918)
- Words that mean the same thing: Margaret Higgins Sanger, Margaret Sanger, Frederick Sanger
- The word looks like this: ______
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The answer is: SANGER
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Clue 30 Down: "50. Like some drones"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that relating to or having the characteristics of bees
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: APIAN
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Clue 31 Down: "52. Forfeits"
Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another
- Words that mean the same thing: cede, grant, concede
- The word looks like this: _____
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The answer is: CEDES
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Clue 32 Down: "56. What comes before old age?"
Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.
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- This could be something that fully developed or matured and ready to be eaten or used
- Words that mean the same thing: good, mature, right
- The opposite would be: green
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The answer is: RIPE
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Clue 33 Down: "59. "Of course it looks good on you!," maybe"
Quick Info: This answer has 3 letters. It's a hard clue about short answer.
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- This could be something that a trivial lie
- Words that mean the same thing: taradiddle, tarradiddle, story
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: FIB
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Clue 34 Down: "60. Zip"
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 quantity of no importance
- Words that mean the same thing: zero, null, cipher
- The word looks like this: ___
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The answer is: NIL
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Category Breakdown
| Category | Number of Clues | Percentage |
| General Knowledge | 52 | 74.3% |
| Short Answer | 8 | 11.4% |
| Celebrity/Entertainment | 3 | 4.3% |
| History | 2 | 2.9% |
| Music | 2 | 2.9% |
| Sports | 1 | 1.4% |
| Geography | 1 | 1.4% |
| Abbreviation | 1 | 1.4% |
Complete Puzzle Statistics
| Metric | Value |
| Across Clues | 36 |
| Down Clues | 34 |
| Total Clues | 70 |
| Average Answer Length | 5.6 letters |
| Shortest Answer | 3 letters |
| Longest Answer | 10 letters |
Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!
- Start with short words first - they're usually easier!
- Look for clues with blanks to fill in - these are like fill-in-the-blank questions at school
- When letters cross, they must be the same in both words - this helps you check if you're right!
- Today is Saturday, and these puzzles are usually moderate level
- Most clues today are about general knowledge
- The average word today has about 5 letters
- Remember: It's okay to take breaks and come back later with fresh eyes!
- Ask someone for help if you need it - crosswords are more fun with friends!
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Last Updated: September 19, 2025 at 05:40 AM
