1D: "1. Words on either side of "___ is ___""
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ABET Remember this word for future puzzles!
2D: "2. Bank (on)"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that have confidence or faith in
- Similar words include: swear, bank, trust
- Opposite of: mistrust
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Answer: RELY Remember this word for future puzzles!
3D: "3. Sting operation"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned
- Similar words include: ambuscade, sand trap, pin down
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TRAP Remember this word for future puzzles!
4D: "4. Trouble with Z's?"
8 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an inability to sleep; chronic sleeplessness
- Opposite of: hypersomnia
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: INSOMNIA Remember this word for future puzzles!
5D: "5. Take a load off"
3 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that be around, often idly or without specific purpose
- Similar words include: sit around, model, seat
- Opposite of: stand, arise
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Answer: SIT Remember this word for future puzzles!
6D: "6. Singer DiFranco who created Righteous Babe Records"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that black tropical american cuckoo
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ANI Remember this word for future puzzles!
7D: "7. Small change"
6 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite
- Similar words include: atomic number 28, Ni, nickel note
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: NICKEL Remember this word for future puzzles!
8D: "8. Tilt"
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical
- Similar words include: inclination, tend, incline
- Opposite of: fat, rich
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Answer: LEAN Remember this word for future puzzles!
9D: "9. Werewolf on TV's "Wednesday""
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a town in north central oklahoma
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ENID Remember this word for future puzzles!
10D: "10. Slip up"
3 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that to make a mistake or be incorrect
- Similar words include: drift, stray, slip
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ERR Remember this word for future puzzles!
11D: "11. Wee mewer"
6 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that young domestic cat
- Similar words include: kitty
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: KITTEN Remember this word for future puzzles!
12D: "12. Prestigious academic journal since 1880"
7 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a particular branch of scientific knowledge
- Similar words include: skill, scientific discipline
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SCIENCE Remember this word for future puzzles!
13D: "13. Résumé problems, at times"
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures
- Similar words include: break, disruption, crack
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GAPS Remember this word for future puzzles!
14D: "14. 365 dÃas"
3 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the plo in 1974; has conducted terrorist attacks in 20 countries
- Similar words include: Fatah Revolutionary Council, Fatah-RC, Arab Revolutionary Brigades
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ANO Remember this word for future puzzles!
15D: "15. More ideal?"
6 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a book written by sir thomas more (1516) describing the perfect society on an imaginary island
- Similar words include: Sion, Zion
- Opposite of: dystopia
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Answer: UTOPIA Remember this word for future puzzles!
16D: "16. Trix or Kix"
6 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet
- Similar words include: cereal grass, grain, food grain
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CEREAL Remember this word for future puzzles!
17D: "17. ___ society"
6 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that pertaining to or concerned with the humanities
- Similar words include: humanistic, humanist
- Opposite of: inhumane
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Answer: HUMANE Remember this word for future puzzles!
18D: "18. Performances at Paris's Palais Garnier"
6 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes
- Similar words include: Opera, opera house, opera
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: OPERAS Remember this word for future puzzles!
19D: "21. Well again"
6 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that heal or recover
- Similar words include: cure, cured, bring around
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: HEALED Remember this word for future puzzles!
20D: "24. Quick hellos"
3 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
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Answer: HIS Remember this word for future puzzles!
21D: "29. Vibes"
5 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling
- Similar words include: humour, climate, humor
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MOODS Remember this word for future puzzles!
22D: "32. Jumpy"
6 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
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Answer: ONEDGE Remember this word for future puzzles!
23D: "33. What many a shelter animal hopes to be"
7 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that free from harm or evil
- Similar words include: reclaimed, deliver, rescue
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: RESCUED Remember this word for future puzzles!
24D: "34. BMW offering since 2000"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a very short skirt
- Similar words include: miniskirt
- Opposite of: midi
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Answer: MINI Remember this word for future puzzles!
25D: "35. Many boy band fans"
6 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
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Answer: TWEENS Remember this word for future puzzles!
26D: "36. 2019 film that one reviewer called "purr-fectly dreadful""
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats; wildcats
- Similar words include: hombre, computed tomography, true cat
- Opposite of: keep down
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Answer: CATS Remember this word for future puzzles!
27D: "37. Villainous chortle"
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
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Answer: HEHE Remember this word for future puzzles!
28D: "38. "Can I go now?""
9 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
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Answer: AREWEDONE Remember this word for future puzzles!
29D: "39. Await settlement, as a payment"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
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Answer: PEND Remember this word for future puzzles!
30D: "40. Partner of Parks, informally"
3 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
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Answer: REC Remember this word for future puzzles!
31D: "41. Goes well with"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a display of bad temper
- Similar words include: equip, paroxysm, tantrum
- Opposite of: disagree
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Answer: FITS Remember this word for future puzzles!
32D: "43. California's Big ___"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a port in southern lebanon on the mediterranean sea; formerly a major phoenician seaport famous for silks
- Similar words include: Tyre
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SUR Remember this word for future puzzles!
33D: "46. Band with the 1995 hit "Wonderwall""
5 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a fertile tract in a desert (where the water table approaches the surface)
- Similar words include: haven
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OASIS Remember this word for future puzzles!
34D: "47. Clorox competitor"
5 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a clear oily brown solution of cresols in soap; used as an antiseptic and disinfectant
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LYSOL Remember this word for future puzzles!
35D: "49. Individualist"
5 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who avoids the company or assistance of others
- Similar words include: lone hand, lone wolf
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LONER Remember this word for future puzzles!
36D: "50. Drink from a tub?"
9 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the light of the moon
- Similar words include: corn liquor, moonlight, bootleg
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: MOONSHINE Remember this word for future puzzles!
37D: "51. Concert broadcast that celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2025, with "the""
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
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Answer: OPRY Remember this word for future puzzles!
38D: "55. The Who's "Love, Reign ___ Me""
3 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
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Answer: OER Remember this word for future puzzles!
39D: "56. Makeup of some face masks"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that water soaked soil; soft wet earth
- Similar words include: mire, clay, muck up
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MUD Remember this word for future puzzles!
40D: "58. Vast amount"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
- Similar words include: ocean
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SEA Remember this word for future puzzles!
41D: "60. Italian city known for its cheese"
5 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
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Answer: PARMA Remember this word for future puzzles!
42D: "61. Vapes"
5 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
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Answer: ECIGS Remember this word for future puzzles!
43D: "62. Georgia airport, for short"
3 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
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Answer: ATL Remember this word for future puzzles!
44D: "63. ___ dish"
5 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
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Answer: PETRI Remember this word for future puzzles!
45D: "65. Annual reason for lost sleep: Abbr."
3 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
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Answer: DST Remember this word for future puzzles!
46D: "66. Fighting"
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
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Answer: ATIT Remember this word for future puzzles!
47D: "68. Pi follower"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the 17th letter of the greek alphabet
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RHO Remember this word for future puzzles!
48D: "69. "Uhh ...," to Brits"
3 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
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Answer: ERM Remember this word for future puzzles!
49D: "70. Come back in"
7 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
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Answer: REENTER Remember this word for future puzzles!
50D: "73. Alternatives to gyro platters"
6 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables
- Similar words include: kabob, shish kebab, kebab
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: KEBABS Remember this word for future puzzles!
51D: "76. Variety of rabbit or goat"
6 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the capital of turkey; located in west-central turkey; it was formerly known as angora and is the home of angora goats
- Similar words include: Angora cat, Angora goat, Angora rabbit
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ANGORA Remember this word for future puzzles!
52D: "78. What a tall collar covers"
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the back side of the neck
- Similar words include: scruff, nucha
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NAPE Remember this word for future puzzles!
53D: "80. Read quickly"
4 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region
- Similar words include: glance over, skim, rake
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SCAN Remember this word for future puzzles!
54D: "81. Gives the green light"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a state in south central united states
- Similar words include: OK, okey, O.K.
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OKS Remember this word for future puzzles!
55D: "83. "I've got this""
4 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
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Answer: ONIT Remember this word for future puzzles!
56D: "84. Barely scrapes (by)"
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
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Answer: EKES Remember this word for future puzzles!
57D: "86. Social blunder"
5 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a socially awkward or tactless act
- Similar words include: gaucherie, slip, solecism
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GAFFE Remember this word for future puzzles!
58D: "88. Amateur radio devotees"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)
- Similar words include: Ham, jambon, overact
- Opposite of: underact
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Answer: HAMS Remember this word for future puzzles!
59D: "89. Greeting in Brazil"
3 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in india for writing paper
- Similar words include: olla
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: OLA Remember this word for future puzzles!
60D: "90. Easily moved"
8 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small light typewriter; usually with a case in which it can be carried
- Opposite of: unportable
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: PORTABLE Remember this word for future puzzles!
61D: "92. Arrive by car"
6 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
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Answer: ROLLUP Remember this word for future puzzles!
62D: "93. Gym staff member"
7 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that one who trains other persons or animals
- Similar words include: flight simulator
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: TRAINER Remember this word for future puzzles!
63D: "96. Set of nine dancing in "The 12 Days of Christmas""
6 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a polite name for any woman
- Similar words include: dame, peeress, noblewoman
- Opposite of: Lord, nobleman
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Answer: LADIES Remember this word for future puzzles!
64D: "97. 2017 figure skating biopic"
6 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
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Answer: ITONYA Remember this word for future puzzles!
65D: "98. Compels"
6 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a powerful effect or influence
- Similar words include: force play, storm, personnel
- Opposite of: pull, push
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Answer: FORCES Remember this word for future puzzles!
66D: "99. Things that typically build up during vacation"
6 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (computer science) a system of world-wide electronic communication in which a computer user can compose a message at one terminal that can be regenerated at the recipient's terminal when the recipient logs in
- Similar words include: netmail, e-mail, electronic mail
- Opposite of: snail mail
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Answer: EMAILS Remember this word for future puzzles!
67D: "100. Easter purchase"
6 letters 💠Category: General Knowledge
Solving Hints:
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Answer: EGGDYE Remember this word for future puzzles!
68D: "101. Social media tribute to a celeb, say"
6 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
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Answer: FANVID Remember this word for future puzzles!
69D: "104. Tech company exec"
3 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a federation of north american industrial unions that merged with the american federation of labor in 1955
- Similar words include: Congress of Industrial Organizations
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CIO Remember this word for future puzzles!
70D: "106. Hollywood workplaces"
4 letters 💠Category: Wordplay
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
- Similar words include: band, position, lay
- Opposite of: rise
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Answer: SETS Remember this word for future puzzles!
71D: "107. Major-leaguers"
4 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an athlete who plays for pay
- Similar words include: pro, professional
- Opposite of: amateur, con
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Answer: PROS Remember this word for future puzzles!
72D: "108. Something hard to face?"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin; characterized by papules or pustules or comedones
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ACNE Remember this word for future puzzles!
73D: "110. Small bug?"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)
- Similar words include: common cold, cold-blooded, low temperature
- Opposite of: hotness, hot
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Answer: COLD Remember this word for future puzzles!
74D: "111. ___ Minor"
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- 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
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ASIA Remember this word for future puzzles!
75D: "112. Stevie Wonder's "___ She Lovely""
4 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
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Answer: ISNT Remember this word for future puzzles!
76D: "114. Vex, with "off""
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the starting place for each hole on a golf course
- Similar words include: teeing ground, tee up, football tee
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TEE Remember this word for future puzzles!
77D: "116. Summer on the Riviera"
3 letters 💠Category: Common Word
Solving Hints:
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Answer: ETE Remember this word for future puzzles!
78D: "117. Onetime parent co. of Virgin Records"
3 letters 💠Category: Abbreviation
Solving Hints:
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Answer: EMI Remember this word for future puzzles!
79D: "118. Led"
3 letters 💠Category: Proper Noun
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
- Similar words include: operate, work, lam
- Opposite of: idle, malfunction
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Answer: RAN Remember this word for future puzzles!
