27392 Wed Nov 06, 2024 NYT by Adam Aaronson

Across Clues :

1. Gobi Desert grazer, 4. Green roll, 7. Domain suffix that most people can't register, 10. Tailor's line, 13. Bit of fried finger food, casually, 14. Silvery element, 17. Band initials missing from their hit song "_vi_ W_man", 18. Possible response to a question that begins "Est-ce que …", 19. Northernmost city in North America with over one million people, 20. Inspiration for Toblerone's shape, 21. Channel with Steve Kornacki's election day "Big Board", 23. Gucci played by Al Pacino in 2021's "House of Gucci", 24. Hop on board?, 26. Shot dropped into a glass of beer, in a popular cocktail, 27. Dress shirt fit option, 28. Site for crafts, 29. Band in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, 34. Spacecraft that docked with the Soyuz in 1975, 36. Croak, 39. African country, 41. Sweetened beverage, 42. Container for sour cream, 43. Snack brand from the Spanish word for "fried", 46. Make go "Vroom!", 47. "Go-o-oal!", 50. Object of adoration, 51. Brazilian jazz subgenre, informally, 53. Bird with a distinctive call, 56. Spinning one's wheels?, 59. Puff pieces?, 63. General idea … or a hint to the clue/answer pairings at 14-, 29-, 39-, 41- and 53-Across, 68. Conversely, in a text, 69. Second-smallest of seven, 70. Like many granola bars, 71. Unit of power, 72. Performs brilliantly, 73. Dave Bautista's role in "Guardians of the Galaxy"

Down Clues :

1. Focuses of quantum mechanics, 2. Composer with a namesake horn, 3. Foul-smelling prank items, 4. Required word count for a freelance article, e.g., 5. Like food you should probably smell before eating, 6. Patterned fabric named for a Mideast capital, 7. Lay to rest, 8. Hip-hop's Madvillain or Mobb Deep, 9. "Yeah, don't even think about it", 10. Indicators of remaining energy for video game characters, 11. Actress Tracee ___ Ross of "American Fiction", 12. Sullen, 15. Avoid ___ (Google Maps option), 16. World's most populous country as of 2023, 22. ___ Baxter, "Poor Things" protagonist, 25. Leave undisturbed, 30. A-game, so to speak, 31. Elaborate hairdo, 32. Jewish rite, 33. Target, 34. Italian wine region, 35. Look sullen, 37. Middle-of-the-month time, 38. Big name in athletic sandals, 40. Like Antarctica's climate, 41. Hang out, 44. Swearing-in words, 45. Drag on the road, 48. "My plans aren't set in stone", 49. "99 Luftballons" singer, 51. Liverpudlian or Mancunian, 52. "Oh, phew!", 54. ___ Varda, director with an honorary Palme d'Or and Oscar, 55. Plot units, 56. Major setback, 57. Three-syllable letter, 58. Something a rock climber might make with one hand, 60. In the distance, 61. Multitalented Moreno, 62. River in which Achilles was dipped, 64. "Tell me something I don't know!", 65. ___ Lanka, 66. Sweetie, 67. Midwesterner's embarrassed interjection

Break down the NYT Crosswords: November 06, 2024

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

New York Times, Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Across Clues with Answers:

• The clue is 1. Gobi Desert grazer. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ASS

  Possible Answer : butt, arsenic, nates, fundament, derriere, arse, roll_in_the_hay, rear, fucking, rump, ass, As, nooky, keister, buttocks, screw, bum, posterior, AS, piece_of_tail, tail, fuck, seat, stern, piece_of_ass, buns, tail_end, fanny, rear_end, hindquarters, tooshie, tush, bottom, can, hind_end, behind, screwing, shtup, atomic_number_33, Eastern_Samoa, American_Samoa, nookie, prat, backside, shag




• The clue is 4. Green roll. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SOD

  Possible Answer : sod, bugger, superoxide_dismutase, sodomite, turf, SOD, sodomist, greensward, sward




• The clue is 7. Domain suffix that most people can't register. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: EDU




• The clue is 10. Tailor's line. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: HEM

  Possible Answer : hem, ahem




• The clue is 13. Bit of fried finger food, casually. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TOT

  Possible Answer : tot, tally, add_up, bambino, tot_up, tote_up, add, toddler, sum_up, add_together, sum, summate, yearling, total




• The clue is 14. Silvery element. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: PLATINUM

  Possible Answer : platinum, Pt, atomic_number_78




• The clue is 17. Band initials missing from their hit song "_vi_ W_man". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ELO




• The clue is 18. Possible response to a question that begins "Est-ce que …". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OUI




• The clue is 19. Northernmost city in North America with over one million people. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: EDMONTON

  Possible Answer : Edmonton




• The clue is 20. Inspiration for Toblerone's shape. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ALP

  Possible Answer : alp




• The clue is 21. Channel with Steve Kornacki's election day "Big Board". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: MSNBC




• The clue is 23. Gucci played by Al Pacino in 2021's "House of Gucci". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ALDO




• The clue is 24. Hop on board?. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OLLIE




• The clue is 26. Shot dropped into a glass of beer, in a popular cocktail. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SAKE

  Possible Answer : interest, sake, saki, rice_beer




• The clue is 27. Dress shirt fit option. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SLIM

  Possible Answer : slight, lose_weight, svelte, melt_off, slim_down, slim, reduce, slender, slenderize, thin

  Possible Opposite Answer : gain




• The clue is 28. Site for crafts. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ETSY




• The clue is 29. Band in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: BLACKSABBATH




• The clue is 34. Spacecraft that docked with the Soyuz in 1975. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: APOLLO

  Possible Answer : Apollo, Phoebus, Phoebus_Apollo




• The clue is 36. Croak. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: RIBBIT




• The clue is 39. African country. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SOMALIA

  Possible Answer : Somalia




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

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

  The answer: LIMEADE

  Possible Answer : limeade




• The clue is 42. Container for sour cream. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TUB

  Possible Answer : bathtub, bathing_tub, vat, tubful, tub, bath




• The clue is 43. Snack brand from the Spanish word for "fried". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: FRITOS




• The clue is 46. Make go "Vroom!". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: REV

  Possible Answer : rev_up, rev, rpm, revolutions_per_minute




• The clue is 47. "Go-o-oal!". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ITSIN




• The clue is 50. Object of adoration. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: IDOL

  Possible Answer : beau_ideal, perfection, graven_image, paragon, god, matinee_idol, idol




• The clue is 51. Brazilian jazz subgenre, informally. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: BOSSA




• The clue is 53. Bird with a distinctive call. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

  The answer: MEADOWLARK

  Possible Answer : lark, meadowlark




• The clue is 56. Spinning one's wheels?. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: BIKING

  Possible Answer : bike, wheel, bicycle, pedal, cycle




• The clue is 59. Puff pieces?. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: CIGARS

  Possible Answer : cigar




• The clue is 63. General idea … or a hint to the clue/answer pairings at 14-, 29-, 39-, 41- and 53-Across. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (16 letters)

  The answer: LONGANDSHORTOFIT




• The clue is 68. Conversely, in a text. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OTOH




• The clue is 69. Second-smallest of seven. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: EUROPE

  Possible Answer : EC, EEC, Europe, European_Economic_Community, EU, Common_Market, European_Union, European_Community




• The clue is 70. Like many granola bars. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OATY




• The clue is 71. Unit of power. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: WATT

  Possible Answer : watt, Watt, James_Watt, W




• The clue is 72. Performs brilliantly. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SHINES

  Possible Answer : gleam, glow, radiancy, shin, glitter, strike, skin, polish, reflect, shinny, refulgency, beam, refulgence, smoothen, scramble, glint, struggle, radiance, smooth, fall, radiate, sputter, glisten, clamber, shine, effulgence




• The clue is 73. Dave Bautista's role in "Guardians of the Galaxy". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: DRAX

Down Clues and Answers:

• The clue is 1. Focuses of quantum mechanics. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ATOMS

  Possible Answer: particle, speck, molecule, corpuscle, atom, mote

• The clue is 2. Composer with a namesake horn. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SOUSA

  Possible Answer: March_King, John_Philip_Sousa, Sousa

• The clue is 3. Foul-smelling prank items. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

  The answer: STINKBOMBS

• The clue is 4. Required word count for a freelance article, e.g.. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SPEC

  Possible Answer: spec, specification

• The clue is 5. Like food you should probably smell before eating. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OLD

  Possible Answer: sometime, honest-to-god, onetime, former, one-time, quondam, honest-to-goodness, Old, erstwhile, previous, sure-enough, old, older

  Possible Opposite Answer : new, young

• The clue is 6. Patterned fabric named for a Mideast capital. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: DAMASK

  Possible Answer: damask

• The clue is 7. Lay to rest. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ENTOMB

  Possible Answer: inhume, inter, lay_to_rest, bury, entomb

• The clue is 8. Hip-hop's Madvillain or Mobb Deep. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: DUO

  Possible Answer: twosome, duo, couple, yoke, couplet, brace, duet, twain, span, distich, duette, pair, dyad, duad

• The clue is 9. "Yeah, don't even think about it". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: UMNO

• The clue is 10. Indicators of remaining energy for video game characters. Can you find the Answer?

  Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

  The answer: HEALTHBARS

• The clue is 11. Actress Tracee ___ Ross of "American Fiction". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ELLIS

  Possible Answer: Elli

• The clue is 12. Sullen. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: MOPEY

• The clue is 15. Avoid ___ (Google Maps option). Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TOLLS

  Possible Answer: toll, price, cost, bell

• The clue is 16. World's most populous country as of 2023. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: INDIA

  Possible Answer: Republic_of_India, India, Bharat

• The clue is 22. ___ Baxter, "Poor Things" protagonist. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: BELLA

• The clue is 25. Leave undisturbed. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: LETBE

• The clue is 30. A-game, so to speak. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ALL

  Possible Answer: wholly, totally, completely, whole, entirely, altogether, all

  Possible Opposite Answer : partly, some

• The clue is 31. Elaborate hairdo. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: COIF

  Possible Answer: coiffe, hairdo, coiffure, set, coif, hair_style, dress, arrange, do, hairstyle

• The clue is 32. Jewish rite. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: BRIS

  Possible Answer: Bris, Brith, Berit, Berith, Briss

• The clue is 33. Target. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: AIM

  Possible Answer: point, intent, aim, bearing, train, propose, place, drive, design, get, objective, direct, object, take_aim, target, take, purport, intention, aspire, purpose, calculate, shoot_for, draw_a_bead_on, heading

• The clue is 34. Italian wine region. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ASTI

• The clue is 35. Look sullen. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: POUT

  Possible Answer: pout, hornpout, mow, brood, sulk, Ameiurus_Melas, wry_face, eelpout, moue, horned_pout, mop

• The clue is 37. Middle-of-the-month time. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: IDES

  Possible Answer: ides

• The clue is 38. Big name in athletic sandals. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TEVA

• The clue is 40. Like Antarctica's climate. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ARID

  Possible Answer: desiccated, waterless, arid, desiccate

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

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

  The answer: LOLL

  Possible Answer: loll, arse_about, waste_one's_time, droop, bum, bum_around, loaf, bum_about, lounge_around, fuck_off, arse_around, lounge_about, frig_around, loll_around

• The clue is 44. Swearing-in words. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: IDO

  Possible Answer: Ido

• The clue is 45. Drag on the road. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: TOW

  Possible Answer: towage, tow

• The clue is 48. "My plans aren't set in stone". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: IMIGHT

• The clue is 49. "99 Luftballons" singer. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: NENA

• The clue is 51. Liverpudlian or Mancunian. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: BRIT

  Possible Answer: britt, Briton, brit, Britisher, Brit

• The clue is 52. "Oh, phew!". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OKGOOD

• The clue is 54. ___ Varda, director with an honorary Palme d'Or and Oscar. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: AGNES

• The clue is 55. Plot units. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: ACRES

  Possible Answer: landed_estate, land, acre, demesne, estate, Acre, Akko, Accho, Akka, acres

• The clue is 56. Major setback. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: BLOW

  Possible Answer: bump, botch, vaunt, tout, fuck_up, screw_up, bumble, muff, bollocks_up, gas, shock, waste, shove_off, blast, puff, bollix, foul_up, gasconade, bobble, botch_up, reversal, bluster, mess_up, shoot_a_line, fellate, be_adrift, bodge, setback, burn_out, nose_candy, gust, coke, suck, black_eye, snow, swash, flub, blow, squander, C, bollocks, go_down_on, shove_along, bungle, spoil, louse_up, boast, reverse, fumble, fluff, brag, muck_up, ball_up, blow_out, bollix_up, drift, float, mishandle

  Possible Opposite Answer : conserve

• The clue is 57. Three-syllable letter. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: IOTA

  Possible Answer: smidge, smidgin, smidgeon, tittle, smidgen, shred, whit, scintilla, iota

• The clue is 58. Something a rock climber might make with one hand. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: KNOT

  Possible Answer: knot, ravel, greyback, tangle, nautical_mile, mi, mile, grayback, air_mile, burl, Calidris_canutus, naut_mi, international_nautical_mile, slub, gnarl

  Possible Opposite Answer : unravel, unknot

• The clue is 60. In the distance. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: AFAR

  Possible Answer: afar

• The clue is 61. Multitalented Moreno. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: RITA

• The clue is 62. River in which Achilles was dipped. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: STYX

  Possible Answer: River_Styx, Styx

• The clue is 64. "Tell me something I don't know!". Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: DUH

• The clue is 65. ___ Lanka. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: SRI

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

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

  The answer: HON

• The clue is 67. Midwesterner's embarrassed interjection. Can you find the Answer?

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

  The answer: OPE

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🔍 Across Clues - Strategic Hints (39 clues)

🧩 1A: "1. Hogwarts headmaster ___ Dumbledore"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

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• Pattern: _____

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📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

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• Think of something that a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)
• Similar words include: orbit, region, arena
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🧩 3A: "10. Followed move-for-move"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

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• Think of something that imitate uncritically and in every aspect
• Similar words include: caricature, ape
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: APED

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🧩 4A: "14. Japanese automaker named for a river"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Pattern: _____

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Answer: ISUZU

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🧩 5A: "15. Ground transportation option"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

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• Think of something that a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
• Similar words include: hack, taxicab, cab
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: TAXI

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🧩 6A: "16. Ripped"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Think of something that commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column
• Similar words include: displume, snap, tear
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: TORE

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🧩 7A: "17. A, B and C, but not X, Y and Z"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

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• Pattern: __________

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Answer: MUSICNOTES

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🧩 8A: "19. Where Bengali and Burmese are spoken"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

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• Think of something that the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to europe on the west to form eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations
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Answer: ASIA

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🧩 9A: "20. Barely scrapes the surface"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

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Answer: SKIMS

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🧩 10A: "21. Bore up"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

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Answer: LASTED

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🧩 11A: "23. Persistently bother, with "at""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

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• Think of something that someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault
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🧩 12A: "26. Actress Wong of the Netflix series "Beef""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

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• Pattern: ___

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Answer: ALI

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🧩 13A: "27. James of jazz"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ETTA

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🧩 14A: "28. Ham-handed"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

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• Think of something that not elegant or graceful in expression
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Answer: INEPT

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🧩 15A: "30. Onetime CBS forensic drama"

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📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the fatty flesh of eel; an elongate fish found in fresh water in europe and america; large eels are usually smoked or pickled
• Similar words include: eel
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: EELS

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🧩 17A: "35. Sicilian landmark"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an inactive volcano in sicily; last erupted in 1961; the highest volcano in europe (10,500 feet)
• Similar words include: bunsen burner, bunsen, Mount Etna
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ETNA

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🧩 18A: "36. Seyfried of "Mean Girls""

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

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Answer: AMANDA

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🧩 19A: "38. Tragic ending?"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: CEE

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🧩 20A: "40. He and I, but not she and you"

📏 15 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _______________

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Answer: CHEMICALSYMBOLS

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🧩 21A: "43. Suffix with rocket"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

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Answer: EER

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🧩 22A: "44. Highlands cryptid, affectionately"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a large aquatic animal supposed to resemble a serpent or plesiosaur of loch ness in scotland
• Similar words include: Loch Ness monster
• Pattern: ______

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Answer: NESSIE

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🧩 23A: "45. Praiseful verses"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a lyric poem with complex stanza forms
• Similar words include: ode
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: ODES

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🧩 24A: "46. Fast-swimming shark"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that powerful mackerel shark of the atlantic and pacific
• Similar words include: mako shark
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: MAKO

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🧩 25A: "48. Disappointing"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; ; - christina rossetti
• Similar words include: deplorable, distressing, sorry
• Opposite of: glad

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Answer: SAD

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🧩 26A: "49. Villainous animal in "The Lion King""

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that doglike nocturnal mammal of africa and southern asia that feeds chiefly on carrion
• Similar words include: hyaena
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HYENA

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🧩 27A: "50. Add color to"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
• Similar words include: tone, tincture, tinct
• Pattern: ____

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Answer: TINT

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🧩 28A: "52. She's a woolly one"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a member of a people living in southern benin and togo and southeastern ghana
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: EWE

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🧩 29A: "54. "What ___ you?""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the chance to speak
• Similar words include: pronounce, articulate, sound out
• Pattern: ___

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Answer: SAY

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🧩 30A: "55. "Beats me!""

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

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Answer: NOIDEA

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🧩 31A: "57. Toss from the game"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that put out or expel from a place
• Similar words include: squirt, exhaust, turn out
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EJECT

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🧩 32A: "59. "That's my cue!""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: IMON

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🧩 33A: "60. A+ and B-, but not F"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BLOODTYPES

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🧩 34A: "65. Forgetful actor's request"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a formation of people or things one beside another
• Similar words include: furrow, subscriber line, demarcation
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LINE

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🧩 35A: "66. Part of a chain"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the means of connection between things linked in series
• Similar words include: colligate, connect, contact
• Opposite of: disconnect, disconnectedness

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Answer: LINK

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🧩 36A: "67. ___ coffee (whiskey drink)"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that people of ireland or of irish extraction
• Similar words include: Irish people, Irish whisky, Irish Gaelic
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: IRISH

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🧩 37A: "68. Crafty website"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ETSY

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🧩 38A: "69. "We will make amends ere long; / ___ the Puck a liar call": Shak."

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ELSE

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🧩 39A: "70. Day's harvest, for a fisher"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident
• Similar words include: snatch, grab, apprehension
• Opposite of: unhitch

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: CATCH

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🔍 Down Clues - Strategic Hints (39 clues)

🧩 1D: "1. Objective"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions
• Similar words include: intention, purpose, train
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AIM

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🧩 2D: "2. Sch. on the banks of the Mississippi"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LSU

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🧩 3D: "3. Ground transportation option"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport
• Similar words include: passenger vehicle, bus topology, motorcoach
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BUS

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🧩 4D: "4. Commando weapons"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in israel
• Similar words include: Uzi
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: UZIS

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🧩 5D: "5. Perform dreadfully, so to speak"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SUCKAT

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🧩 6D: "6. Figure that roughly equals protons plus neutrons"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ATOMICMASS

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🧩 7D: "7. "Aw, phooey!""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse
• Similar words include: denounce, so-and-so, snitch
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: RATS

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🧩 8D: "8. PC file extension"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EXE

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🧩 9D: "9. Congressional divide, literally as well as metaphorically"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods)
• Similar words include: gangway
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: AISLE

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🧩 10D: "10. Just the slightest bit"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ATASTE

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🧩 11D: "11. MA and MS, but not BA and BS"

📏 11 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: POSTALCODES

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🧩 12D: "12. Canal with a "low bridge" ("Everybody down!")"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a member of an iroquoian people formerly living on the south shore of lake erie in northern ohio and northwest pennsylvania and western new york
• Similar words include: Lake Erie
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ERIE

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🧩 13D: "13. Out of juice"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that people who are no longer living
• Similar words include: utterly, suddenly, stagnant
• Opposite of: living, live

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DEAD

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🧩 14D: "18. Zilch"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a quantity of no importance
• Similar words include: naught, cipher, null
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NIL

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🧩 15D: "22. Starting squad"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ATEAM

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🧩 16D: "23. Many a godchild"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a daughter of your brother or sister
• Opposite of: nephew
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NIECE

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🧩 17D: "24. Something to stand for"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a song of devotion or loyalty (as to a nation or school)
• Similar words include: hymn
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ANTHEM

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🧩 18D: "25. X, Y and Z, but not A, B and C"

📏 11 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age
• Similar words include: generation, genesis, contemporaries
• Pattern: ___________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: GENERATIONS

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🧩 19D: "29. "The Office" role"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PAM

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🧩 20D: "31. Taco topper"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that spicy sauce of tomatoes and onions and chili peppers to accompany mexican foods
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SALSA

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🧩 21D: "32. Something only some of us will get"

📏 10 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: __________

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: INSIDEJOKE

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🧩 22D: "34. Pop star Gomez"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SELENA

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🧩 23D: "36. Top gun"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
• Similar words include: hotshot, superstar, star
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ACE

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🧩 24D: "37. Word aptly hidden in "turned yellow""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair
• Similar words include: dyestuff
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: DYE

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🧩 25D: "39. Writing assignment"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that an analytic or interpretive literary composition
• Similar words include: prove, attempt, assay
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ESSAY

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🧩 26D: "41. Hole-___ (singular feat)"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: INONE

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🧩 27D: "42. "Whew!""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a youthful male person
• Similar words include: male child, son
• Opposite of: girl, female child

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: BOY

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🧩 28D: "47. Organ with a distinctive shape"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes (especially urea) from the blood and excrete them and water in urine
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: KIDNEY

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🧩 29D: "49. Overwhelmingly busy"

📏 6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that marked by intense agitation or emotion
• Similar words include: feverish
• Pattern: ______

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: HECTIC

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🧩 30D: "51. Postpone for now"

📏 5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a set of data arranged in rows and columns
• Similar words include: set back, postpone, tabular array
• Pattern: _____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TABLE

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🧩 31D: "53. Exchanged rings with"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the fourth day of the week; the third working day
• Similar words include: marry, splice, wedded
• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: WED

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🧩 32D: "55. River through Khartoum"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the world's longest river (4150 miles); flows northward through eastern africa into the mediterranean; the nile river valley in egypt was the site of the world's first great civilization
• Similar words include: Nile River
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: NILE

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🧩 33D: "56. Leave out"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that prevent from being included or considered or accepted
• Similar words include: leave out, overleap, except
• Opposite of: attend to, include

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: OMIT

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🧩 34D: "57. A seeming eternity"

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that the longest division of geological time
• Similar words include: eon, aeon
• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: EONS

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🧩 35D: "58. Banks of "America's Next Top Model""

📏 4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ____

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: TYRA

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🧩 36D: "61. ___ Nas X"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: LIL

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🧩 37D: "62. Place to retire?"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Think of something that a sizeable hole (usually in the ground)
• Similar words include: quarry, Hell, play off
• Opposite of: Heaven

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: PIT

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🧩 38D: "63. Corner keyboard key"

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: ESC

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🧩 39D: "64. "Keep it down!""

📏 3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge

🎯 Solving Hints:

• Pattern: ___

🔓 Click to reveal answer (spoiler alert!)

Answer: SHH

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🧠 Expert Solving Strategies

🎯 Start Smart

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❓ Decode the Clues

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78 Total Clues

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