CrosswordDictionary2024Apr Flashcards
(149 cards)
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First-and-second bet (6)
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EXACTA
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Martini & ___ (beverage brand) (5)
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ROSSI
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Mythical bird (3)
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ROC
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Mozart’s “Cosi Fan ___” (5)
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TUTTE
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Senator Joni of Iowa (5)
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ERNST
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Some U.K. Lords (3)
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MPS
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City in San Bernardino County (9)
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LOMALINDA
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Smith who wrote “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” (5)
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BETTY
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Phillip II of ___, father of Alexander the Great (7)
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MACEDON
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Actress Rowlands (4)
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GENA
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Cape Colony settlers (5)
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BOERS
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Pro wrestler ___ Luger (3)
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LEX
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Food products wholesaler (5)
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SYSCO
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Mother of Balder (5)
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FRIGG
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Anthropomorphic blue vacuum cleaner of “Teletubbies” (6)
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NOONOO
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“Kossuth” composer Bartok (4)
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BELA
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Papal emissary (6)
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NUNCIO
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Grammy winning “Java” trumpeter Al (4)
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HIRT
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“Passing” actress Ruth (5)
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NEGGA
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New Guinea port (3)
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LAE
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1920 play by Karel Capek (3)
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RUR
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“Othello” character who laments “Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation!” (6)
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CASSIO
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Dances for which girls do the asking, informally (6)
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SADIES
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Bound for the big stage? (4)
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JETE
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Gardner of “Saturday Night Live” (5)
HEIDI
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Swedish city where Scandinavia’s first university was founded (1425) (4)
LUND
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TV journalist ___ Tur (4)
KATY
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Dystopian sci-fi film of 1997 (7)
GATTACA
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Sister of Sol, in myth (4)
LUNA
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1999 comedy in which Alanis Morissette plays god (5)
DOGMA
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AMC car known as “The Flying Fishbowl" (5)
PACER
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Goldin of “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” (3)
NAN
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Long-horned grasshopper (7)
KATYDID
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Daisy known as the “Rosa Parks of the North” (5)
MYERS
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Food with a national holiday in El Salvador (7)
PUPUSAS
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Reflective effect in some gemstones (7)
CATSEYE
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French press? (7)
LEMONDE
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“___ volat proprils” (Oregon’s motto) (4)
ALIS
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Toby ___, “Twelfth Night” character who says “Thou’rt a scholar; let us therefore eat and drink” (5)
BELCH
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Mythical figure who sacrificed an eye in order to drink from the well of knowledge (4)
ODIN
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Creatures inspired by George Lucas’s dog (8)
WOOKIEES
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Conductor Seiji (5)
OZAWA
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Pulitzer-winning playwright Suzan-___ Parks (4)
LORI
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Singer Rawls with the hit “You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine” (3)
LOU
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German tech and manufacturing conglomerate (7)
SIEMENS
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Champion boxer Errol ___ Jr. (6)
SPENCE
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Shakespearean misanthrope (5)
TIMON
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Small Southwestern birds of prey (7)
ELFOWLS
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Role for Michelle Williams in “The Fabelmans” (5)
MITZI
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Mythical Buddhist text (6)
TANTRA
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Speculative fiction subgenre that envisions a sustainable energy future (9)
SOLARPUNK
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Sophisticated (6)
URBANE
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1916 battle site, with “the” (5)
SOMME
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“Here’s looking at you, kid”? (3)
MAA
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“Need You Tonight” band, 1987 (4)
INXS
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Lena of “Chocolat” (4)
OLIN
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Cariou who played Sweeney Todd (3)
LEN
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Botches badly (8)
LOUSESUP
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Hydroxyacetone, familiarly (6)
ACETOL
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Engraver of “Beer Street” and “Gin Lane” (7)
GOGARTH
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Flow: prefix (4)
RHEO
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Small moon, in British English (5)
LUNET
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Hold of alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork (6)
USENET
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Da Mayor portrayed Davis in “Do the Right Thing” (5)
OSSIE
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Actor Don of “Trading Places” (6)
AMECHE
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___ de mer (3)
MAL
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Gloppy fare (5)
SWILL
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Ibsen’s “___ Gabler” (5)
HEDDA
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Profound shift: 2 wds (9)
SEACHANGE
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9 to 5 actor Coleman (6)
DABNEY
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Japanese conceptual artist Yayoi (6)
KUSAMA
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Bon Jovi guitarist Sambora (6)
RICHIE
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Reframing of past events to fix a plot hole (6)
RETCON
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Bestselling Neil Gaiman graphic novel whose title character is also known as Dream or Morpheus, among other names: 2 wds (7)
SANDMAN
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Parsonages (6)
MANSES
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Cowers in fear (6)
QUAILS
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Magnetized neutron star that emits very regular periodic bursts of radiation (6)
PULSAR
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Surname of the family in Long Day’s Journey into Night (6)
TYRONE
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Titular Marvel villain voiced by James Spader (6)
ULTRON
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Cartoonish known for a character with a 33-Across (6)
SCHULZ
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Knicks legend “___ the Pearl” Monroe (4)
EARL
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Camaro named for a race acronym (4)
IROC
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TV monitors, in brief (3)
FCC
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Smith of “Doctor Who” (4)
MATT
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“A Black Lady Sketch Show” creator Robin (5)
THEDE
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One of Lear’s daughters (5)
REGAN
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Artwork carved on bones (9)
SCRIMSHAW
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Post-coup group (5)
JUNTA
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Pan’s domain, in Greek myth (7)
ARCADIA
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Designer Saab (4)
ELIE
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Bottomless pit (5)
ABYSM
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Currency of Laos (3)
KIP
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“Doesn’t matter to me” (6)
NOLOSS
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Jazz singer Carmen (5)
MCRAE
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Detroit ___, nickname for Malcolm X (3)
RED
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Spider-Man adversary played by Jamie Foxx (7)
ELECTRO
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Journalist Tarbell (3)
IDA
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Entrepreneur ___ C.J. Walker (5)
MADAM
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Small surgical knife (6)
LANCET
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Bunch of hair (4)
HANK
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___ the Lucky, nickname of a noted explorer (4)
LEIF
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Singer Ocasek (3)
RIC
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Sports analyst Kimes (4)
MINA
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Some chess tactics (4)
PINS
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“___ vous” (polite French phrase) (5)
APRES
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Pistol used by James Bond (10)
WALTHERPPK
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Excited outburst (5)
SQUEE
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Unfair, to Brits (10)
NOTCRICKET
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Trackgoer’s aids (10)
DOPESHEETS
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NASA rocket name since 1957 (5)
ATLAS
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Hybrid shape with straight edges and rounded corners (8)
SQUIRCLE
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___-Cover (Paris basilica) (5)
SACRE
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Cartoondom’s “Princess of Power” (5)
SHERA
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Bumpkin (5)
YOKEL
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Locale for one leg of the Triple Crown of Motorsport (6)
LEMANS
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___ Smith, drummer for Alice Cooper (4)
NEAL
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New wave’s Adam ___ (3)
ANT
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Robert Matthew Van ___, real name of rap’s Vanilla Ice (6)
WINKLE
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Sweetened cornmeal in Mexican cuisine (6)
PINOLE
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Hats worn by Napoleon (8)
BICORNES
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Marsalis family patriarch (5)
ELLIS
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Mark who played Luke Skywalker (6)
HAMILL
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Suspicious, informally (5)
HINKY
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Doing mess hall duties, for short (4)
ONKP
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One of a trio of famous Catherines (4)
PARR
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Some Olds of old (6)
CIERAS
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Eldest of the Three Musketeers (5)
ATHOS
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Comic pianist known as “The Clown Prince of Denmark” (5)
BORGE
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Org. that funds PBS (3)
NEA
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Former queen of Jordan (4)
NOOR
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Pollutants banned in the ‘70s, inbrief (4)
PCBS
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Romanian currency (3)
LEU
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Susan of “L.A. Law” (3)
DEY
134
Talk idly (6)
NATTER
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Tracy, to his Hollywood friends (6)
SPENCE
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Hardwood stick used for percussion (5)
CLAVE
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“Mountains and Sea” painter Frankenthaler (5)
HELEN
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Hindu thunder deity (5)
INDRA
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“Jeanus” rapper Jean ___ (4)
GRAE
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Developer of the oral polio vaccine (5)
SABIN
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Indigenous people of Eastern Canada (4)
INNU
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Wishful longing, in Portuguese culture (7)
SAUDADE
143
Cozens (6)
TRICKS
144
Bambi author Felix (6)
SALTEN
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Historical Muslim leader (6)
CALIPH
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Notre Dame coaching great Knute (6)
ROCKNE
147
Queen of detective fiction (6)
ELLERY
148
Heavy silk fabric (6)
SAMITE
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Trees or shrubs in the cashew family (6)
SUMACS
