1A: "1. Where Gloria Estefan was born"
6 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the capital and largest city of cuba; located in western cuba; one of the oldest cities in the americas
- Similar words include: capital of Cuba, Cuban capital
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: HAVANA Remember this word for future puzzles!
2A: "7. Hairstyle that can be casual or formal"
4 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
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Answer: UPDO Remember this word for future puzzles!
3A: "11. Relative of a sultan"
4 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in africa or arabia)
- Similar words include: emeer, amir, ameer
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EMIR Remember this word for future puzzles!
4A: "15. Strikebreaking sort"
4 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
- Similar words include: blackleg, strikebreaker, rat
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SCAB Remember this word for future puzzles!
5A: "19. One who gives a good talking-to?"
6 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who delivers a speech or oration
- Similar words include: public speaker, speechmaker, speechifier
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ORATOR Remember this word for future puzzles!
6A: "20. Spring's opposite, tidally"
4 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon
- Similar words include: neap tide
- Opposite of: springtide
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Answer: NEAP Remember this word for future puzzles!
7A: "21. Constant nuisance"
4 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that something causing misery or death
- Similar words include: scourge, nemesis, curse
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BANE Remember this word for future puzzles!
8A: "22. Mansión, por ejemplo"
4 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
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Answer: CASA Remember this word for future puzzles!
9A: "23. As the British pound rises in value, the dollar ___"
11 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
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Answer: BILLWITHERS Remember this word for future puzzles!
10A: "25. Sure things"
9 letters Category: Common Word
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Answer: SLAMDUNKS Remember this word for future puzzles!
11A: "27. Area with pews"
4 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the central area of a church
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NAVE Remember this word for future puzzles!
12A: "28. Part of many a morning routine"
5 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of removing hair with a razor
- Similar words include: trim, plane, knock off
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SHAVE Remember this word for future puzzles!
13A: "29. Equipment"
4 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion
- Similar words include: appurtenance, geared wheel, geartrain
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GEAR Remember this word for future puzzles!
14A: "30. Orchestra section toward the middle of the pit"
5 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece
- Similar words include: oboe, hautboy, hautbois
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OBOES Remember this word for future puzzles!
15A: "31. With 76-Down, individually"
5 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
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Answer: ONEAT Remember this word for future puzzles!
16A: "33. Fury"
3 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance
- Similar words include: choler, ira, anger
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IRE Remember this word for future puzzles!
17A: "34. After spending the afternoon at Epcot, we had dinner at a ___ bistro"
11 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
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Answer: TONYORLANDO Remember this word for future puzzles!
18A: "36. Ancestor of the tuba or sousaphone"
8 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
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Answer: BASSHORN Remember this word for future puzzles!
19A: "38. Low-quality paper?"
3 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small piece of cloth or paper
- Similar words include: razz, call down, cod
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RAG Remember this word for future puzzles!
20A: "39. Like a naughty Beetle Bailey, in brief"
4 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one who is away or absent without leave
- Similar words include: truant
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AWOL Remember this word for future puzzles!
21A: "40. Overdone"
5 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
- Similar words include: shopworn, tired, threadbare
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TRITE Remember this word for future puzzles!
22A: "41. The "E" of Q.E.D."
4 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
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Answer: ERAT Remember this word for future puzzles!
23A: "43. Depleted"
6 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
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Answer: USEDUP Remember this word for future puzzles!
24A: "48. Facetious suffix with most"
3 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that standard time in the 5th time zone west of greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian; used in the eastern united states
- Similar words include: Eastern Standard Time, Eastern Time
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EST Remember this word for future puzzles!
25A: "51. Did Joyce write courtesy of a ___?"
12 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
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Answer: ULYSSESGRANT Remember this word for future puzzles!
26A: "55. Blunt negative"
4 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
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Answer: NOPE Remember this word for future puzzles!
27A: "56. Philosopher who purportedly said "The best fighter is never angry""
6 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
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Answer: LAOTSE Remember this word for future puzzles!
28A: "58. Have a bawl"
3 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a dyspneic condition
- Similar words include: cocksucker, sobbing, shit
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SOB Remember this word for future puzzles!
29A: "59. Son of Hanna-Barbera's Doggie Daddy"
5 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
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Answer: AUGIE Remember this word for future puzzles!
30A: "60. Reason to relocate a picnic blanket, maybe"
4 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers
- Similar words include: emmet, ant, pismire
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ANTS Remember this word for future puzzles!
31A: "61. Borneo neighbor"
7 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mountainous island in western indonesia
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SUMATRA Remember this word for future puzzles!
32A: "63. Female moose or elephant"
3 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that female of domestic cattle:
- Similar words include: moo-cow, overawe
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: COW Remember this word for future puzzles!
33A: "65. Fish-eating raptors"
4 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail; of europe and greenland
- Similar words include: Haliatus albicilla, white-tailed sea eagle, European sea eagle
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ERNS Remember this word for future puzzles!
34A: "66. Dab with a towel"
4 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a blemish made by dirt
- Similar words include: smear, daub, slur
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BLOT Remember this word for future puzzles!
35A: "67. Subdivisions of some counties: Abbr."
4 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
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Answer: TWPS Remember this word for future puzzles!
36A: "68. An increase in ham prices forced the deli to ___ sandwiches higher"
9 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
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Answer: MARKCUBAN Remember this word for future puzzles!
37A: "71. Begged"
4 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that appeal or request earnestly
- Similar words include: plead
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PLED Remember this word for future puzzles!
38A: "72. Scorch the surface"
4 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make very hot and dry
- Similar words include: dried-up, scorch, singe
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SEAR Remember this word for future puzzles!
39A: "73. Andean stimulant"
4 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a south american shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the andes; a source of cocaine
- Similar words include: coca plant, Erythroxylon coca, Imogene Coca
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: COCA Remember this word for future puzzles!
40A: "74. Source of the films "The Blues Brothers" and "Coneheads," in brief"
3 letters Category: Common Word
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Answer: SNL Remember this word for future puzzles!
41A: "75. Gerald Ford or William Howard Taft, once"
7 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
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Answer: YALEMAN Remember this word for future puzzles!
42A: "78. Peter, Paul and Mary, e.g."
4 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
- Similar words include: three, terzetto, ternion
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TRIO Remember this word for future puzzles!
43A: "79. Words before sea or lunch"
5 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
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Answer: OUTTO Remember this word for future puzzles!
44A: "81. Summer mo."
3 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the month following july and preceding september
- Similar words include: August
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AUG Remember this word for future puzzles!
45A: "83. Decks for reading"
6 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of a set of (usually 72) cards that include 22 cards representing virtues and vices and death and fortune etc.; used by fortunetellers
- Similar words include: tarot, tarot card
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TAROTS Remember this word for future puzzles!
46A: "84. Biblical preposition"
4 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
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Answer: UNTO Remember this word for future puzzles!
47A: "85. To Washington ___, Germany, seemed far from Tarrytown, N.Y."
12 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
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Answer: IRVINGBERLIN Remember this word for future puzzles!
48A: "88. Big word in advertising"
3 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered
- Similar words include: fresh, young, novel
- Opposite of: worn, old
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Answer: NEW Remember this word for future puzzles!
49A: "89. Toady"
6 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
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Answer: YESMAN Remember this word for future puzzles!
50A: "91. Buzz, so to speak"
4 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a telephone connection
- Similar words include: phone, telephone, bid
- Opposite of: put option
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Answer: CALL Remember this word for future puzzles!
51A: "92. Charles or Ray who lent their name to a kind of chair"
5 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states designer noted for an innovative series of chairs (1907-1978)
- Similar words include: Charles Eames
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EAMES Remember this word for future puzzles!
52A: "94. Unpleasant look"
4 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls
- Similar words include: sneer
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LEER Remember this word for future puzzles!
53A: "97. Social gathering of a sort"
3 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: BEE Remember this word for future puzzles!
54A: "98. Certain canines"
8 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars
- Similar words include: dogtooth, cuspid, canine
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: EYETEETH Remember this word for future puzzles!
55A: "102. Some Californians consider Santa ___ on Earth"
11 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
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Answer: BARBARAEDEN Remember this word for future puzzles!
56A: "107. ___-cone"
3 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
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Answer: SNO Remember this word for future puzzles!
57A: "108. Stockpile"
5 letters Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services
- Similar words include: hive away, computer storage, storehouse
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: STORE Remember this word for future puzzles!
58A: "109. Anesthetic first used on a patient in 1842"
5 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies
- Similar words include: ethoxyethane, quintessence, divinyl ether
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ETHER Remember this word for future puzzles!
59A: "110. "Fine as is, actually""
4 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that printing: cancel, as of a correction or deletion
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: STET Remember this word for future puzzles!
60A: "111. Canada's first national park, founded in 1885"
5 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a popular vacation spot in the canadian rockies
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BANFF Remember this word for future puzzles!
61A: "113. "___ Three Lives" (early TV drama)"
4 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
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Answer: ILED Remember this word for future puzzles!
62A: "114. The shark-warning notes of "Jaws," for example"
9 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a melodic phrase that accompanies the reappearance of a person or situation (as in wagner's operas)
- Similar words include: leitmotiv
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: LEITMOTIF Remember this word for future puzzles!
63A: "116. The supermodel was holding a copy of ___ herself on the beach"
11 letters Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: ELLEFANNING Remember this word for future puzzles!
64A: "118. Tackle box item"
4 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a formation of people or things one beside another
- Similar words include: job, tune, logical argument
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LINE Remember this word for future puzzles!
65A: "119. Home makeover, in brief"
4 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a city in western nevada at the foot of the sierra nevada mountains; known for gambling casinos and easy divorce and remarriage
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RENO Remember this word for future puzzles!
66A: "120. Election Day is one: Abbr."
4 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the third day of the week; the second working day
- Similar words include: Tuesday
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TUES Remember this word for future puzzles!
67A: "121. Work on the score of"
6 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that put into notation, as of music or choreography
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: NOTATE Remember this word for future puzzles!
68A: "122. Carbon compound"
4 letters Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an organic compound that contains a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which in turn is doubly bonded to another carbon atom
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ENOL Remember this word for future puzzles!
69A: "123. Beat one's chest"
4 letters Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an instance of boastful talk
- Similar words include: shoot a line, line-shooting, boss
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BRAG Remember this word for future puzzles!
70A: "124. Set of pull-ups?"
4 letters Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that weapons considered collectively
- Similar words include: sleeve, subdivision, build up
- Opposite of: disarm
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Answer: ARMS Remember this word for future puzzles!
71A: "125. Very high"
6 letters Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that kill by throwing stones at
- Similar words include: stone, hopped-up, lapidate
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: STONED Remember this word for future puzzles!
