1D: "1. Massachusetts' state tree"
3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various trees of the genus ulmus: important timber or shade trees
- Similar words include: elm tree, elmwood
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ELM
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2D: "2. Pair"
4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that two items of the same kind
- Similar words include: couple, pair, twain
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DUAD
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3D: "3. Memo starter"
4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: INRE
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4D: "4. Consumed, say"
7 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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Answer: TAKENIN
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5D: "5. Planted"
4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth
- Similar words include: inseminate, seeded, sow in
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SOWN
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6D: "6. Trumpeter Jones"
4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: THAD
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7D: "7. Bit in a horse's mouth?"
3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that annual grass of europe and north africa; grains used as food and fodder (referred to primarily in the plural: `oats')
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OAT
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8D: "8. Group spotted on an Alaskan cruise, perhaps"
7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: ORCAPOD
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9D: "9. "Hanukkah in Santa Monica" songwriter Tom"
6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: LEHRER
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10D: "10. Jabbers"
4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that large long-haired wild ox of tibet often domesticated
- Similar words include: yakety-yak, cackle, yak
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: YAKS
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11D: "11. Lake from which the Niagara River flows"
4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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: ____
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Answer: ERIE
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12D: "12. Trip strip"
3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a powerful hallucinogenic drug manufactured from lysergic acid
- Similar words include: lysergic acid diethylamide
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LSD
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13D: "13. Tale as old as time"
6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
- Similar words include: caption, fable
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: LEGEND
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14D: "14. Anyone's game"
9 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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Answer: CLOSERACE
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15D: "15. Independent thinker"
8 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action
- Similar words include: irregular, rebel, unorthodox
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: MAVERICK
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16D: "16. Justice Kagan in '83, e.g."
4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: ONEL
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17D: "17. Scottish loch"
4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a strip of land projecting into a body of water
- Similar words include: cape
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NESS
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18D: "19. Transplant, as a plant"
5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that put in a new, usually larger, pot
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: REPOT
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19D: "24. Large measure of computer data"
7 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a unit of information equal to 1000 gigabits or 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) bits
- Similar words include: Tbit, Tb
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: TERABIT
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20D: "26. Earth"
4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the land on which real estate is located
- Similar words include: commonwealth, shoot down, realm
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LAND
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21D: "29. Four 2-Downs"
5 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of seven and one
- Similar words include: 8, ogdoad, VIII
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OCTAD
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22D: "32. Yacht's pronoun"
3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: SHE
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23D: "33. Freeze frames?"
8 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a tray for making cubes of ice in a refrigerator
- Similar words include: icetray
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: ICETRAYS
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24D: "34. Calls for"
7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an urgent or peremptory request
- Similar words include: requirement, demand, need
- Opposite of: obviate, supply
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Answer: DEMANDS
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25D: "35. "It's truly important to me""
7 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: IDOCARE
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26D: "36. Settle the score"
7 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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Answer: GETEVEN
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27D: "37. Standing eau?"
3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects; used in e.g. varnishes and sealing wax
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LAC
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28D: "38. Blade runner?"
6 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who skates
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SKATER
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29D: "39. Dirty film"
4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that worthless people
- Similar words include: trash
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SCUM
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30D: "41. Compete"
3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others
- Similar words include: contend, compete
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: VIE
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31D: "42. Summer setting in Somerset, in brief"
3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: EDT
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32D: "46. Fed. intelligence group"
3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the united states cryptologic organization that coordinates and directs highly specialized activities to protect united states information systems and to produce foreign intelligence information
- Similar words include: National Security Agency
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NSA
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33D: "49. "Come home soon""
7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: MISSYOU
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34D: "51. "___ Dreams of Sushi" (acclaimed 2011 documentary)"
4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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Answer: JIRO
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35D: "52. Sharp-cornered"
7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that measured by an angle or by the rate of change of an angle
- Similar words include: angulate
- Opposite of: rounded
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Answer: ANGULAR
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36D: "54. From abroad?"
3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a potent estrogen used in medicine and in feed for livestock and poultry
- Similar words include: stilboestrol, stilbesterol, diethylstilboestrol
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DES
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37D: "56. Insect with more than 14,000 known species"
3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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: pismire, emmet
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ANT
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38D: "57. PubMed org."
3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an agency in the department of health and human services whose mission is to employ science in the pursuit of knowledge to improve human health; is the principal biomedical research agency of the federal government
- Similar words include: National Institutes of Health
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NIH
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39D: "58. "I'm outta here!""
5 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: SEEYA
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40D: "61. Super food?"
8 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: GOODEATS
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41D: "63. Patisserie treat"
7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: MACARON
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42D: "64. Stain from a pen"
7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: INKMARK
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43D: "65. Name tags?"
7 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: ATSIGNS
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44D: "67. Jamie with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame"
4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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Answer: FARR
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45D: "68. End of Q2"
3 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: JUN
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46D: "69. World Cup cheer"
3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: OLE
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47D: "70. "Watch your back!""
6 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to
- Similar words include: mind
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BEWARE
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48D: "71. Intelligent humor"
3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
- Similar words include: wittiness, card, brainpower
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: WIT
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49D: "76. Like rush-hour traffic"
9 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: STOPANDGO
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50D: "77. Post-op area, in brief"
3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a hospital unit staffed and equipped to provide intensive care
- Similar words include: intensive care unit
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ICU
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51D: "78. Pops"
4 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk
- Similar words include: pa, papa, pop
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: DADS
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52D: "80. Diplomatic"
7 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that having or showing a sense of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others
- Similar words include: kid-glove
- Opposite of: tactless
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Answer: TACTFUL
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53D: "81. Not do much of anything, say"
3 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
- Similar words include: veggie, vegetable
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: VEG
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54D: "82. Night before"
3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (old testament) adam's wife in judeo-christian mythology: the first woman and mother of the human race; god created eve from adam's rib and placed adam and eve in the garden of eden
- Similar words include: evening, even, eventide
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EVE
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55D: "83. Like a comedian who bombs"
8 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: NOTFUNNY
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56D: "84. Stack at a falafel shop"
5 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that usually small round bread that can open into a pocket for filling
- Similar words include: pita, pocket bread
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PITAS
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57D: "86. Tree whose wood is used for telephone poles"
3 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that nonresinous wood of a fir tree
- Similar words include: fir tree, true fir
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: FIR
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58D: "90. One clicking with an audience?"
7 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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Answer: TAPSHOE
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59D: "91. Meditation syllables"
3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
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Answer: OMS
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60D: "92. Interrupts rudely"
7 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: BUTTSIN
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61D: "94. Grid line"
4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a straight line through a body or figure that satisfies certain conditions
- Similar words include: bloc, axis vertebra, axis of rotation
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AXIS
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62D: "95. Leave on a trip"
6 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that structure where a wall or building narrows abruptly
- Similar words include: offset, set-back
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SETOFF
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63D: "97. Michigan politician Slotkin"
6 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
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Answer: ELISSA
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64D: "98. Charged"
5 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: RANAT
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65D: "102. Out of its correct position"
4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that turned or twisted toward one side; - g.k.chesterton
- Similar words include: amiss, wrong, haywire
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AWRY
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66D: "103. Florentine farewell"
4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an acknowledgment that can be used to say hello or goodbye (aloha is hawaiian and ciao is italian)
- Similar words include: aloha
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CIAO
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67D: "104. Pod in Creole cooking"
4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that long green edible beaked pods of the okra plant
- Similar words include: Abelmoschus esculentus, gumbo, okra plant
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OKRA
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68D: "105. Helper: Abbr."
4 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: ASST
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69D: "106. Marvel-ous Lee"
4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
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Answer: STAN
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70D: "107. Taj Mahal city"
4 letters 💭 Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a city in northern india; former capital of the mogul empire; site of the taj mahal
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AGRA
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71D: "108. ___ noche (tonight: Sp.)"
4 letters 💭 Category: Common Word
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Answer: ESTA
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72D: "109. Marsh grass"
4 letters 💭 Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that tall woody perennial grasses with hollow slender stems especially of the genera arundo and phragmites
- Similar words include: beating-reed instrument, vibrating reed, John Reed
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: REED
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73D: "111. Stick used for breaking"
3 letters 💭 Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech
- Similar words include: cue stick, pool cue, clew
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CUE
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74D: "113. O'er and o'er"
3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that many times at short intervals
- Similar words include: oftentimes, ofttimes, often
- Opposite of: infrequently, rarely
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Answer: OFT
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75D: "114. Madrid Mme."
3 letters 💭 Category: General Knowledge
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Answer: SRA
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