NY Times Crossword Answers July 14, 2024 | Expert Breakdown & Tips

NY Times Crossword Complete Solution: July 14, 2024

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Across Clues and Answers (59)

Clue #1: 1. J.Lo or J-Law

7-letter answer Answer: ALISTER

Clue #2: 8. Brief

6-letter answer Answer: INFORM

Word Help: Synonyms: inform

Clue #3: 14. Target of a seasonal shot

3-letter answer Answer: FLU

Word Help: Synonyms: influenza, grippe, flu

Clue #4: 17. Harmful algal blooms

8-letter answer Answer: REDTIDES

Clue #5: 19. Liqueur sharing its name with an island

7-letter answer Answer: CURACAO

Word Help: Synonyms: curacao, curacoa, Curacao

Clue #6: 21. Actor Somerhalder

3-letter answer Answer: IAN

Clue #7: 22. Rock group clashes over album art?

17-letter answer Answer: CDCASEDIVIDESACDC

Clue #8: 25. Common allergen

3-letter answer Answer: NUT

Word Help: Synonyms: testicle, ballock, screwball

Clue #9: 26. Possessive in the Lord's Prayer

3-letter answer Answer: THY

Clue #10: 27. Picked up on

7-letter answer Answer: NOTICED

Word Help: Synonyms: noticed, discover, comment
Antonyms: unnoticed, ignore

Clue #11: 28. Cartoonist Chast

3-letter answer Answer: ROZ

Clue #12: 29. Like one preferring platonic relationships, informally

3-letter answer Answer: ARO

Clue #13: 30. "Veni, vidi, ___"

4-letter answer Answer: VICI

Clue #14: 32. Kind of sauce at a sushi bar

3-letter answer Answer: EEL

Word Help: Synonyms: eel

Clue #15: 33. "So cute!"

8-letter answer Answer: ADORABLE

Word Help: Synonyms: endearing, lovely, adorable

Clue #16: 36. Humble postgame summary from an Indiana basketball player?

19-letter answer Answer: PACERSSELFLESSRECAP

Clue #17: 42. Celebration whose name literally means "taro leaf"

4-letter answer Answer: LUAU

Word Help: Synonyms: luau

Clue #18: 43. Salve targets

5-letter answer Answer: SORES

Word Help: Synonyms: sore

Clue #19: 44. You might go for a spin in one

4-letter answer Answer: TUTU

Word Help: Synonyms: Tutu, Desmond_Tutu, ballet_skirt

Clue #20: 45. Doohickey

4-letter answer Answer: ITEM

Word Help: Synonyms: item, detail, token

Clue #21: 48. "Secret Celebrity Renovation" airer

3-letter answer Answer: CBS

Clue #22: 50. Word with high or secret

7-letter answer Answer: SOCIETY

Word Help: Synonyms: social_club, companionship, company

Clue #23: 54. Top score in a dunk contest

3-letter answer Answer: TEN

Word Help: Synonyms: ten-spot, tenner, ten

Clue #24: 55. Director Burton

3-letter answer Answer: TIM

Clue #25: 56. Doohickey

6-letter answer Answer: THINGY

Clue #26: 59. Its sound is mimicked with coconut shells in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"

5-letter answer Answer: STEED

Word Help: Synonyms: steed

Clue #27: 61. Buffalo hockey player

5-letter answer Answer: SABRE

Word Help: Synonyms: sabre, saber, cavalry_sword

Clue #28: 63. Slangy request to a German to play it cool?

15-letter answer Answer: KLAUSACTCASUALK

Clue #29: 70. Big brand in the frozen aisle

6-letter answer Answer: OREIDA

Clue #30: 72. Greta of "Grand Hotel"

5-letter answer Answer: GARBO

Word Help: Synonyms: Greta_Garbo, Greta_Louisa_Gustafsson, Garbo

Clue #31: 73. Brisket cooker

6-letter answer Answer: SMOKER

Word Help: Synonyms: tobacco_user, smoking_carriage, smoker
Antonyms: nonsmoker

Clue #32: 74. What happened when the bust went sideways?

15-letter answer Answer: NARCINAPANICRAN

Clue #33: 79. Comment that breaks the fourth wall

5-letter answer Answer: ASIDE

Word Help: Synonyms: divagation, digression, parenthesis

Clue #34: 80. "You're ___ luck, my friend"

5-letter answer Answer: OUTTA

Clue #35: 81. Place with swinging doors, stereotypically

6-letter answer Answer: SALOON

Word Help: Synonyms: pothouse, saloon, bar

Clue #36: 83. "The Great Gatsby" antagonist

3-letter answer Answer: TOM

Word Help: Synonyms: tom, tomcat, Uncle_Tom

Clue #37: 84. "That's gotta hurt!"

3-letter answer Answer: OOF

Clue #38: 87. Fashionable N.Y.C. fund-raiser

7-letter answer Answer: METGALA

Clue #39: 91. Origami, e.g.

3-letter answer Answer: ART

Word Help: Synonyms: prowess, graphics, artistic_production

Clue #40: 92. Early invader of Britain

4-letter answer Answer: DANE

Word Help: Synonyms: Dane

Clue #41: 93. Event inspiring many TikTok proposals

4-letter answer Answer: PROM

Word Help: Synonyms: prom, promenade

Clue #42: 95. Creator of the 1980 video game Adventure

5-letter answer Answer: ATARI

Clue #43: 97. Calf-length dress

4-letter answer Answer: MIDI

Word Help: Synonyms: Midi, midi, MIDI
Antonyms: maxi

Clue #44: 99. Headline regarding a children's author controversy?

19-letter answer Answer: SEUSSIGNITINGISSUES

Clue #45: 106. Player in a baseball stadium

8-letter answer Answer: ORGANIST

Word Help: Synonyms: organist

Clue #46: 107. Sucker

3-letter answer Answer: SAP

Word Help: Synonyms: saphead, muggins, fool

Clue #47: 108. Post-workout feeling

4-letter answer Answer: ACHE

Word Help: Synonyms: yen, pine, languish

Clue #48: 110. Femur-to-tibia connector, for short

3-letter answer Answer: ACL

Clue #49: 111. Barbecue coating

3-letter answer Answer: RUB

Word Help: Synonyms: snag, wipe, hang-up

Clue #50: 112. Rile up

7-letter answer Answer: AGITATE

Word Help: Synonyms: stir_up, push, campaign
Antonyms: calm

Clue #51: 116. Progressive competitor

3-letter answer Answer: AIG

Clue #52: 117. Java

3-letter answer Answer: JOE

Clue #53: 118. Voice-activated order for cabbage or soda bread?

17-letter answer Answer: IRISHSIDEDISHSIRI

Clue #54: 123. Actress Ortiz

3-letter answer Answer: ANA

Word Help: Synonyms: Ana, ana

Clue #55: 124. Hard to pin down

7-letter answer Answer: ELUSIVE

Word Help: Synonyms: subtle, problematic, elusive

Clue #56: 125. Mammal seen in Monterey Bay

8-letter answer Answer: SEAOTTER

Clue #57: 126. Traveling caller, perhaps

3-letter answer Answer: REF

Word Help: Synonyms: referee, ref

Clue #58: 127. Pair in a telescope

6-letter answer Answer: LENSES

Word Help: Synonyms: electron_lens, crystalline_lens, lens

Clue #59: 128. Subjects of many evening photographs

7-letter answer Answer: SUNSETS

Word Help: Synonyms: sunset, sundown
Antonyms: sunrise

Across Clues and Answers (59)

Clue #1: 1. Character's development path

3-letter answer Answer: ARC

Word Help: Synonyms: arc, curve, spark

Clue #2: 2. Certain flat-screen, for short

5-letter answer Answer: LEDTV

Clue #3: 3. Aid in recovering a lost pet

6-letter answer Answer: IDCHIP

Clue #4: 4. "Don't freak out!"

8-letter answer Answer: STAYCALM

Clue #5: 5. "Bear with him, Brutus; ___ his fashion": Cassius

3-letter answer Answer: TIS

Word Help: Synonyms: titanium, te, Ti

Clue #6: 6. Idyllic spot for two

4-letter answer Answer: EDEN

Word Help: Synonyms: nirvana, heaven, Garden_of_Eden

Clue #7: 7. Try again from the top

4-letter answer Answer: REDO

Word Help: Synonyms: make_over, refashion, remodel

Clue #8: 8. They might hang around the house during the holidays

7-letter answer Answer: ICICLES

Word Help: Synonyms: icicle

Clue #9: 9. In the buff

4-letter answer Answer: NUDE

Word Help: Synonyms: nude_statue, nude_sculpture, nude_person

Clue #10: 10. Activist Hampton of the Black Panthers

4-letter answer Answer: FRED

Clue #11: 11. Intl. alliance that includes Canada and Costa Rica

3-letter answer Answer: OAS

Word Help: Synonyms: Organization_of_American_States, OAS

Clue #12: 12. Pioneer in color TV

3-letter answer Answer: RCA

Clue #13: 13. Keyboard shortcuts

6-letter answer Answer: MACROS

Word Help: Synonyms: macro, macro_instruction

Clue #14: 14. Version shown at the movie theater

8-letter answer Answer: FINALCUT

Clue #15: 15. Nobel honoree

8-letter answer Answer: LAUREATE

Word Help: Synonyms: laureate

Clue #16: 16. Biblical preposition

4-letter answer Answer: UNTO

Clue #17: 18. Google search results

5-letter answer Answer: SITES

Word Help: Synonyms: posture, sit, internet_site
Antonyms: stand, arise

Clue #18: 20. Nose wrinklers

5-letter answer Answer: ODORS

Word Help: Synonyms: olfactory_perception, smell, olfactory_sensation

Clue #19: 23. Contests

4-letter answer Answer: VIES

Word Help: Synonyms: compete, vie, contend

Clue #20: 24. Foe of the Bolsheviks

4-letter answer Answer: CZAR

Word Help: Synonyms: tzar, tsar, czar

Clue #21: 31. R.N.'s assignment, maybe

3-letter answer Answer: ICU

Word Help: Synonyms: ICU, intensive_care_unit

Clue #22: 33. Knighted Guinness

4-letter answer Answer: ALEC

Clue #23: 34. Stop it

6-letter answer Answer: DESIST

Word Help: Synonyms: refrain, abstain, desist
Antonyms: consume

Clue #24: 35. Use DraftKings or FanDuel

3-letter answer Answer: BET

Word Help: Synonyms: stake, count, look

Clue #25: 37. A person

4-letter answer Answer: EACH

Word Help: Synonyms: each, to_each_one, for_each_one

Clue #26: 38. Inventor who wrote "Cubed: The Puzzle of Us All"

5-letter answer Answer: RUBIK

Clue #27: 39. ___ Blancos, nickname for soccer's Real Madrid

3-letter answer Answer: LOS

Clue #28: 40. To's counterpart

3-letter answer Answer: FRO

Clue #29: 41. Many a dad joke

3-letter answer Answer: PUN

Word Help: Synonyms: paronomasia, pun, punning

Clue #30: 45. "OK, the gloves are off!"

5-letter answer Answer: ITSON

Clue #31: 46. Diadem lookalike

5-letter answer Answer: TIARA

Word Help: Synonyms: tiara

Clue #32: 47. After burner?

5-letter answer Answer: EMBER

Word Help: Synonyms: coal, ember

Clue #33: 49. Show that spawned "MacGruber," for short

3-letter answer Answer: SNL

Clue #34: 51. Abbr. after a series

3-letter answer Answer: ETC

Clue #35: 52. Drinks accompanying finger sandwiches

4-letter answer Answer: TEAS

Word Help: Synonyms: teatime, tea, afternoon_tea

Clue #36: 53. Overly agreeable sort

6-letter answer Answer: YESMAN

Clue #37: 56. Monotony

6-letter answer Answer: TEDIUM

Word Help: Synonyms: tedium, ennui, tediousness

Clue #38: 57. Mad (about)

4-letter answer Answer: GAGA

Word Help: Synonyms: gaga, senile, dotty

Clue #39: 58. Chinese dollar

4-letter answer Answer: YUAN

Word Help: Synonyms: kwai, yuan, Yuan_dynasty

Clue #40: 60. Pairs

4-letter answer Answer: DUOS

Word Help: Synonyms: twain, pair, yoke

Clue #41: 62. Having mucho dinero

4-letter answer Answer: RICO

Word Help: Synonyms: RICO, anti-racketeering_law, Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act

Clue #42: 64. Indian honorific

3-letter answer Answer: SRI

Clue #43: 65. Basics

4-letter answer Answer: ABCS

Word Help: Synonyms: ABCs, alphabet, ABC

Clue #44: 66. ___ Felton, title detective of "The Puzzle Lady Mysteries"

4-letter answer Answer: CORA

Word Help: Synonyms: Despoina, Persephone, Cora

Clue #45: 67. Japanese dog breed

5-letter answer Answer: AKITA

Clue #46: 68. Unfairly enticed

5-letter answer Answer: LEDON

Clue #47: 69. Krispy ___

5-letter answer Answer: KREME

Clue #48: 71. Money paid for a hand

4-letter answer Answer: ANTE

Word Help: Synonyms: ante

Clue #49: 75. A.B.A. member: Abbr.

3-letter answer Answer: ATT

Clue #50: 76. Early polytheists

6-letter answer Answer: PAGANS

Word Help: Synonyms: infidel, heathen, pleasure_seeker

Clue #51: 77. In the style of

3-letter answer Answer: ALA

Word Help: Synonyms: ala

Clue #52: 78. Conventions

5-letter answer Answer: NORMS

Word Help: Synonyms: average, norm

Clue #53: 82. First name in soul

4-letter answer Answer: OTIS

Word Help: Synonyms: Otis, genus_Otis, Elisha_Graves_Otis

Clue #54: 84. Covert ___

3-letter answer Answer: OPS

Word Help: Synonyms: Ops

Clue #55: 85. Nabisco treat with ice cream and cookies

8-letter answer Answer: OREOCONE

Clue #56: 86. Unlike a shamrock

8-letter answer Answer: FOURLEAF

Clue #57: 88. Fighting

4-letter answer Answer: ATIT

Clue #58: 89. Muscle worked by a pull-down machine, for short

3-letter answer Answer: LAT

Word Help: Synonyms: lat, latissimus_dorsi

Clue #59: 90. Shapiro of NPR

3-letter answer Answer: ARI

Clue #60: 92. Forms from a mold

8-letter answer Answer: DIECASTS

Clue #61: 94. Flavor enhancer, for short

3-letter answer Answer: MSG

Word Help: Synonyms: monosodium_glutamate, MSG

Clue #62: 96. Guts

7-letter answer Answer: INSIDES

Word Help: Synonyms: interior, inside
Antonyms: outside

Clue #63: 98. Singer ___ Lipa

3-letter answer Answer: DUA

Clue #64: 100. Garment worn with a choli

4-letter answer Answer: SARI

Word Help: Synonyms: sari, saree

Clue #65: 101. Harden (to)

5-letter answer Answer: INURE

Word Help: Synonyms: harden, inure, indurate

Clue #66: 102. Groundbreaking vet legislation of 1944

6-letter answer Answer: GIBILL

Clue #67: 103. Airport area

4-letter answer Answer: GATE

Word Help: Synonyms: gate, logic_gate

Clue #68: 104. Devices that often get swiped

5-letter answer Answer: IPADS

Clue #69: 105. Certain Muslim

6-letter answer Answer: SHIITE

Word Help: Synonyms: Shia_Muslim, Shi'ite, Shiite_Muslim

Clue #70: 109. "Great" or "snowy" bird

5-letter answer Answer: EGRET

Word Help: Synonyms: egret

Clue #71: 110. Just barely open

4-letter answer Answer: AJAR

Word Help: Synonyms: ajar

Clue #72: 112. "The way things are going ..."

4-letter answer Answer: ASIS

Clue #73: 113. Cry "Uncle!"

4-letter answer Answer: GIVE

Word Help: Synonyms: make, fall_in, leave
Antonyms: take, starve

Clue #74: 114. Skinny pieces of clothing

4-letter answer Answer: TIES

Word Help: Synonyms: necktie, affiliation, attach
Antonyms: disconnect, untie

Clue #75: 115. Son of Isaac and Rebecca

4-letter answer Answer: ESAU

Word Help: Synonyms: Esau

Clue #76: 119. Bird with four W.N.B.A. titles

3-letter answer Answer: SUE

Word Help: Synonyms: action, process, Eugene_Sue

Clue #77: 120. QVC alternative

3-letter answer Answer: HSN

Clue #78: 121. Snookums

3-letter answer Answer: HON

Clue #79: 122. Org. with a return policy?

3-letter answer Answer: IRS

Word Help: Synonyms: Internal_Revenue_Service, IRS

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• Watch for question marks indicating wordplay
• Check vowel patterns in partially solved words

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Today is Puzzle Difficulty: Challenging

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🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (28 clues)

🧩 1A: "1. What R-rated photos may do"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements
• Similar words include: vellicate, tickle
• Pattern: _________

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Answer: TITILLATE

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🧩 2A: "10. Stream"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)
• Similar words include: run, current, menstruate
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: FLOW

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🧩 3A: "14. Tearing up or breaking down"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

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• Think of something that determined or actuated by emotion rather than reason
• Similar words include: aroused, excited, worked up
• Opposite of: unemotional, cerebral

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Answer: EMOTIONAL

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🧩 4A: "15. Madame's family member"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Pattern: _____

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Answer: FRERE

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🧩 5A: "16. Graduate-level degree"

📏 15 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

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Answer: MASTEROFSCIENCE

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🧩 6A: "18. The leaders of Thailand and Malaysia, e.g., for short"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Think of something that a syndrome that occurs in many women from 2 to 14 days before the onset of menstruation
• Similar words include: necropsy, promethium, phase modulation
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: PMS

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🧩 7A: "19. Subject of click fraud"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

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• Pattern: __________

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Answer: INTERNETAD

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🧩 8A: "20. What has an eye on the TV"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Pattern: ___

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Answer: CBS

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🧩 9A: "22. Business ___"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

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• Think of something that either extremity of something that has length
• Similar words include: death, ending, last
• Opposite of: beginning, begin

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Answer: END

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🧩 10A: "23. "Get outta here!""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that drive away by crying `shoo!'
• Similar words include: shoo away, shoo off
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: SHOO

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🧩 11A: "25. Lead-in to "boy" or "girl""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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Answer: ATTA

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🧩 12A: "28. Gold, in Spanish"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

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Answer: ORO

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🧩 13A: "31. Extemporaneous"

📏 15 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

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Answer: SPUROFTHEMOMENT

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🧩 14A: "35. Canine breed named after an English river valley"

📏 15 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

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Answer: AIREDALETERRIER

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🧩 15A: "36. Vince Carter quote-turned-meme regarding his return for a 22nd N.B.A. season"

📏 15 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

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Answer: IGOTONEMOREINME

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🧩 16A: "37. Warning to a troublemaker"

📏 15 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

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• Pattern: _______________

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Answer: DONTGETANYIDEAS

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🧩 17A: "38. Case study org.?"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

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• Think of something that an agency established in 2001 to safeguard united states transportation systems and insure safe air travel
• Similar words include: Transportation Security Administration
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Answer: TSA

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🧩 18A: "39. Fist bumps"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

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Answer: DAPS

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🧩 19A: "40. Surname shared by a Hollywood father and daughter"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

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Answer: DERN

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🧩 20A: "41. ___ Jayawardenepura Kotte (capital city in South Asia)"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

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• Pattern: ___

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Answer: SRI

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🧩 21A: "43. Shell liquid"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by: relatively low density and viscosity; relatively great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature; the ability to diffuse readily; and the spontaneous tendency to become distributed uniformly throughout any container
• Similar words include: swash, accelerator pedal, flatulency
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: GAS

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🧩 22A: "44. Entertainment between innings at a baseball game"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

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• Pattern: __________

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Answer: MASCOTRACE

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🧩 23A: "50. "Moving to ___" (email phrase)"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

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• Pattern: ___

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Answer: BCC

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🧩 24A: "53. Stygian blue or reddish-green"

📏 15 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

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Answer: IMPOSSIBLECOLOR

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🧩 25A: "56. Pantheon part"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

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• Think of something that any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force
• Similar words include: immortal, god, divinity
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Answer: DEITY

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🧩 26A: "57. Trans activist who founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

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• Pattern: _________

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Answer: DEANSPADE

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🧩 27A: "58. "Who ___?""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

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• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ISNT

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🧩 28A: "59. Biblical tax collector"

📏 9 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

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• Pattern: _________

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Answer: STMATTHEW

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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (41 clues)

🧩 1D: "1. Sub"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a worker (especially in an office) hired on a temporary basis
• Similar words include: temporary, temporary worker
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: TEMP

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🧩 2D: "2. Masjid leader"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that (islam) the man who leads prayers in a mosque; for shiites an imam is a recognized authority on islamic theology and law and a spiritual guide
• Similar words include: imaum
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: IMAM

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🧩 3D: "3. Trash"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the act of flipping a coin
• Similar words include: slash, convulse, throw away
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: TOSS

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🧩 4D: "4. Addams Family member"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: ITT

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🧩 5D: "5. Apt letters for the blanks in _ _ B _ L"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
• Similar words include: Trygve Halvden Lie, prevarication, dwell
• Opposite of: stand, arise

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Answer: LIE

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🧩 6D: "6. Large-eyed primate"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

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Answer: LORIS

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🧩 7D: "7. Before long"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that at another time
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ANON

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🧩 8D: "8. President whose middle name was Howard"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that united states sculptor (1860-1936)
• Similar words include: President Taft, William Howard Taft, Lorado Taft
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: TAFT

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🧩 9D: "9. "Who ___?""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ELSE

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🧩 10D: "10. Actions that, despite being legal, resulted in hundreds of arrests in 1961"

📏 12 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____________

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Answer: FREEDOMRIDES

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🧩 11D: "11. Observance that ends on Holy Thursday"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a period of 40 weekdays from ash wednesday to holy saturday
• Similar words include: loan, bestow, lend
• Opposite of: borrow

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Answer: LENT

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🧩 12D: "12. Sea creature with a saddle patch"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas
• Similar words include: killer, grampus, Orcinus orca
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ORCA

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🧩 13D: "13. Ingredient in some brownies"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any plant that crowds out cultivated plants
• Similar words include: sess, skunk, Mary Jane
• Opposite of: cultivated plant

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Answer: WEED

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🧩 14D: "15. Suomi speaker"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a native or inhabitant of finland
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: FINN

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🧩 15D: "17. Dispenser of cones"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a workplace where dairy products (butter and cheese etc.) are produced or sold
• Pattern: ________

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Answer: CREAMERY

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🧩 16D: "20. Leader before the King?"

📏 12 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____________

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Answer: CORETTASCOTT

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🧩 17D: "21. Barbecued Mongolian dish whose name sounds like a disapproving canine"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

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Answer: BOODOG

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🧩 18D: "23. Tap"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a plug for a bunghole in a cask
• Similar words include: tap, faucet
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: SPIGOT

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🧩 19D: "24. People for whom a Great Lake is named"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the 2nd largest of the great lakes
• Similar words include: Lake Huron, Huron
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: HURONS

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🧩 20D: "25. Sportsperson, in Italian"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

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Answer: ATLETA

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🧩 21D: "26. What something scattershot is all over"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

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Answer: THEMAP

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🧩 22D: "27. Range of the Rockies"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a member of the large western branch of sioux people which was made up of several groups that lived on the plains
• Similar words include: Teton, Lakota, Teton Sioux
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: TETONS

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🧩 23D: "29. Surname shared by a Hollywood father and son"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

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Answer: REINER

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🧩 24D: "30. Lead-in to band or army"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

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Answer: ONEMAN

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🧩 25D: "31. Went"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that express in words
• Similar words include: enounce, order, aforesaid
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: SAID

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🧩 26D: "32. Unauthorized cuts of existing movies"

📏 8 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ________

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Answer: FANEDITS

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🧩 27D: "33. Crispy Crinkles brand"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

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Answer: OREIDA

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🧩 28D: "34. "___ chic!""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: TRES

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🧩 29D: "42. Optimistic"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that reflecting optimism
• Similar words include: flushed, rosy-cheeked, blushful
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ROSY

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🧩 30D: "43. Davis who played Thelma in "Thelma & Louise""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

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Answer: GEENA

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🧩 31D: "44. Intermediate size"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the southern part of france
• Similar words include: musical instrument digital interface
• Opposite of: maxi

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Answer: MIDI

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🧩 32D: "45. Iowa State's city"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

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Answer: AMES

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🧩 33D: "46. Cast in a different light"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a swift whirling motion (usually of a missile)
• Similar words include: twirl, gyrate, spin around
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: SPIN

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🧩 34D: "47. Disencumbers"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that relieve from
• Similar words include: free, rid, disembarrass
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: RIDS

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🧩 35D: "48. Assist, as a lifter?"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ABET

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🧩 36D: "49. Chowder ingredient"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness
• Similar words include: one dollar bill, dollar, dollar bill
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: CLAM

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🧩 37D: "50. Unexciting"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that pompous or pretentious talk or writing
• Similar words include: bombast, rant, claptrap
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: BLAH

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🧩 38D: "51. Do some tech work"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a set of rules or principles or laws (especially written ones)
• Similar words include: cypher, write in code, encipher
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: CODE

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🧩 39D: "52. Group working on a pilot … or a group that includes a pilot"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the men and women who man a vehicle (ship, aircraft, etc.)
• Similar words include: bunch, work party, crowd
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: CREW

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🧩 40D: "54. Winter setting in K.C."

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that standard time in the 6th time zone west of greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian; used in the central united states
• Similar words include: Central Time, Central Standard Time
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: CST

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🧩 41D: "55. Choose"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that select as an alternative over another
• Similar words include: choose, prefer
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: OPT

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