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Puzzle 1

12 clues
  1. Conflict during which Troilus and Cressida is set

    Answer for clue 1
    trojan war9 letters
  2. Religious allusion to an aperture for spying

    Answer for clue 2
    judas hole9 letters
  3. Long flag historically used by knights or on ships

    Answer for clue 3
    banderole9 letters
  4. City that's the "Pearl of the Adriatic"

    Answer for clue 4
    dubrovnik9 letters
  5. Supporting structures at the ends of bridges

    Answer for clue 5
    abutments9 letters
  6. The number of syllables in a haiku

    Answer for clue 6
    seventeen9 letters
  7. __ Bike Polo, modern version of mallet sport

    Answer for clue 7
    hardcourt9 letters
  8. John Lennon and Yoko Ono wed here

    Answer for clue 8
    gibraltar9 letters
  9. The area of the inner ear, including the cochlea

    Answer for clue 9
    labyrinth9 letters
  10. Italian chicory, reddish cabbage

    Answer for clue 10
    radicchio9 letters
  11. Bass tuba that originated in German military bands

    Answer for clue 11
    bombardon9 letters
  12. A word sharing another word's pronunciation

    Answer for clue 12
    homophone9 letters

Puzzle 2

11 clues
  1. King __; Beethoven's tribute to Hungary's founder

    Answer for clue 1
    stephen7 letters
  2. Upper Egypt temple dedicated to Horus the Elder

    Answer for clue 2
    kom ombo7 letters
  3. Substance that stimulates antibody production

    Answer for clue 3
    antigen7 letters
  4. A personification of poetic justice or comeuppance

    Answer for clue 4
    nemesis7 letters
  5. French word for a free-standing crockery shelf

    Answer for clue 5
    etagere7 letters
  6. Won her 5th straight Wimbledon title in 1923

    Answer for clue 6
    lenglen7 letters
  7. Hinged mollusc that burrows into rock or wood

    Answer for clue 7
    piddock7 letters
  8. Liv __, Norwegian actress, muse of Ingmar Bergman

    Answer for clue 8
    ullmann7 letters
  9. New Zealand city on North Island; and its lake

    Answer for clue 9
    rotorua7 letters
  10. Rare synonym for litotes or understatement

    Answer for clue 10
    meiosis7 letters
  11. Chef who invented Caesar salad: Caesar __

    Answer for clue 11
    cardini7 letters

Puzzle 3

13 clues
  1. Japanese __; sushi fish also called hamachi

    Answer for clue 1
    amberjack9 letters
  2. Worship building on Prague's Old Town Square

    Answer for clue 2
    tyn church9 letters
  3. Evil overlord in Monsters vs Aliens

    Answer for clue 3
    gallaxhar9 letters
  4. Wailing or howling in grief

    Answer for clue 4
    ululating9 letters
  5. 2007 benefit concerts for environmental awareness

    Answer for clue 5
    live earth9 letters
  6. A flashback, a scene set earlier than the present

    Answer for clue 6
    analepsis9 letters
  7. Protuberances on a giraffe's head

    Answer for clue 7
    ossicones9 letters
  8. __ quantity of sleep, proper name for oversleeping

    Answer for clue 8
    excessive9 letters
  9. The shape atoms were originally thought to be

    Answer for clue 9
    spherical9 letters
  10. Steamship that rescued passengers of the Titanic

    Answer for clue 10
    carpathia9 letters
  11. Sounds made by closing lips, like p, b, m, w

    Answer for clue 11
    bilabials9 letters
  12. A writer's pen name or nom de plume

    Answer for clue 12
    pseudonym9 letters
  13. Religion founded by Joseph Smith, Jr.

    Answer for clue 13
    mormonism9 letters

Puzzle 4

10 clues
  1. 1964 Cold War thriller; backup that limits harm

    Answer for clue 1
    fail safe8 letters
  2. British Prime Minister (1874-80)

    Answer for clue 2
    disraeli8 letters
  3. Backsword with a curved blade

    Answer for clue 3
    scimitar8 letters
  4. French department named after a spring

    Answer for clue 4
    vaucluse8 letters
  5. A work that imitates an earlier work or style

    Answer for clue 5
    pastiche8 letters
  6. Successor to Nintendo 64

    Answer for clue 6
    gamecube8 letters
  7. Maurizio, artist of a banana duct-taped to a wall

    Answer for clue 7
    cattelan8 letters
  8. Variant to curling, former Olympic event

    Answer for clue 8
    ice stock8 letters
  9. Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, for example

    Answer for clue 9
    beatniks8 letters
  10. An outdated or old-fashioned word or phrase

    Answer for clue 10
    archaism8 letters

Puzzle 5

11 clues
  1. Cradle or play with a small child on your knee

    Answer for clue 1
    dandle6 letters
  2. Country in which the mysterious Taos Hum was heard

    Answer for clue 2
    mexico6 letters
  3. The first eight lines of a sonnet

    Answer for clue 3
    octave6 letters
  4. Instrument learnt by child prodigy Sarah Chang

    Answer for clue 4
    violin6 letters
  5. Yangtze tributary with many hydroelectric dams

    Answer for clue 5
    yalong6 letters
  6. Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson were "In" it

    Answer for clue 6
    bruges6 letters
  7. __ Goose, Howard Hughes's giant flying boat

    Answer for clue 7
    spruce6 letters
  8. A word providing extra description to an action

    Answer for clue 8
    adverb6 letters
  9. Vitamin B6, also known as folic acid

    Answer for clue 9
    folate6 letters
  10. In Judaism a wise man, a great Torah scholar

    Answer for clue 10
    hakham6 letters
  11. The study of bird eggs

    Answer for clue 11
    oology6 letters

Puzzle 6

10 clues
  1. Louis XV's mistress had this pink hue made for her

    Answer for clue 1
    pompadour9 letters
  2. An imperfect matching of soundalike words

    Answer for clue 2
    half rhyme9 letters
  3. __ arches, related to breathing; gills in fish

    Answer for clue 3
    branchial9 letters
  4. Tights for actors that are the same shade as skin

    Answer for clue 4
    fleshings9 letters
  5. Green forest with a tall tower in southwest Berlin

    Answer for clue 5
    grunewald9 letters
  6. Statesman in ancient Athens nicknamed "the Just"

    Answer for clue 6
    aristides9 letters
  7. Lead arsenate mineral means "bent" in Greek

    Answer for clue 7
    campylite9 letters
  8. Camera lens for searching out faraway things

    Answer for clue 8
    telephoto9 letters
  9. Study of the nature, mission of Christian church

    Answer for clue 9
    ecumenics9 letters
  10. A poem consisting of a single verse or line

    Answer for clue 10
    monostich9 letters

Puzzle 7

15 clues
  1. Traditionally, the glass in which sherry is served

    Answer for clue 1
    copita6 letters
  2. Tufted wader also called the northern lapwing

    Answer for clue 2
    peewit6 letters
  3. A trio of verses or lines of poetry

    Answer for clue 3
    tercet6 letters
  4. These are made of a quark and an antiquark

    Answer for clue 4
    mesons6 letters
  5. World's fourth-highest peak, on China-Nepal border

    Answer for clue 5
    lhotse6 letters
  6. Country once crossed by the York Factory Express

    Answer for clue 6
    canada6 letters
  7. Actress Helene, married to Bertolt Brecht

    Answer for clue 7
    weigel6 letters
  8. Thick overcoat named after a town in Belgium

    Answer for clue 8
    duffel6 letters
  9. Of a personality that is optimistic and cheerful

    Answer for clue 9
    blithe6 letters
  10. A deuteragonist is the __ most important character

    Answer for clue 10
    second6 letters
  11. Iranian stadium, home to Foolad side

    Answer for clue 11
    ghadir6 letters
  12. Whistling tea maker

    Answer for clue 12
    kettle6 letters
  13. Marshall Mathers

    Answer for clue 13
    eminem6 letters
  14. Type of parachute deployed to slow a moving object

    Answer for clue 14
    drogue6 letters
  15. Weight unit used for measuring Egyptian cotton

    Answer for clue 15
    kantar6 letters

Puzzle 8

17 clues
  1. Skateboarding video game by Crea-ture Studios

    Answer for clue 1
    session7 letters
  2. Decisive battle of the Chinese Civil War in 1940s

    Answer for clue 2
    huaihai7 letters
  3. __ Sorter, machine to separate unattractive foods

    Answer for clue 3
    blemish7 letters
  4. Indian grass root used in men's perfumery

    Answer for clue 4
    vetiver7 letters
  5. Say what? Study of the ear

    Answer for clue 5
    otology7 letters
  6. Seeds on the outside of strawberries

    Answer for clue 6
    achenes7 letters
  7. Beach where a strange body appeared in 2008

    Answer for clue 7
    montauk7 letters
  8. Gandhi __, birthday of Indian leader on October 2

    Answer for clue 8
    jayanti7 letters
  9. A seemingly contradictory statement or text

    Answer for clue 9
    paradox7 letters
  10. Italian technique of joining blown glass pieces

    Answer for clue 10
    incalmo7 letters
  11. Avoids or abstains from

    Answer for clue 11
    abjures7 letters
  12. Steve McQueen is a San Francisco cop in thriller

    Answer for clue 12
    bullitt7 letters
  13. He discovered electromagnetic induction

    Answer for clue 13
    faraday7 letters
  14. Rhetorical repetition interspersed by other words

    Answer for clue 14
    diacope7 letters
  15. Vinegared rice

    Answer for clue 15
    sumeshi7 letters
  16. Customer service software aka conversation agent

    Answer for clue 16
    chatbot7 letters
  17. NFL football team from Green Bay

    Answer for clue 17
    packers7 letters

Puzzle 9

12 clues
  1. Character abducted by aliens in The Colbys

    Answer for clue 1
    fallon6 letters
  2. Official currency in Prague, Brno and Ostrava

    Answer for clue 2
    koruna6 letters
  3. Designation for mountains over 3000ft in Scotland

    Answer for clue 3
    munros6 letters
  4. A word used to modify two others in different ways

    Answer for clue 4
    zeugma6 letters
  5. Seat on an elephant or camel

    Answer for clue 5
    howdah6 letters
  6. German rye sheet cake

    Answer for clue 6
    ploatz6 letters
  7. The name of Yuri Gagarin's spacecraft, __ I

    Answer for clue 7
    vostok6 letters
  8. Melena, mother of Elphaba in Wicked musical

    Answer for clue 8
    thropp6 letters
  9. Of a person's complexion, yellow or pale

    Answer for clue 9
    sallow6 letters
  10. Immortal werewolf of Shetland folklore tales

    Answer for clue 10
    wulver6 letters
  11. A flawed character's excessive self-pride

    Answer for clue 11
    hubris6 letters
  12. Sophie Tucker was "the last of the red hot __"

    Answer for clue 12
    mommas6 letters

Puzzle 10

10 clues
  1. A Dickensian play on an established saying

    Answer for clue 1
    wellerism9 letters
  2. Beckett play about a lady stuck in a mound of soil

    Answer for clue 2
    happy days9 letters
  3. Steampunk cello band led by Melora Creager

    Answer for clue 3
    rasputina9 letters
  4. Middle East salad of bulghur wheat, parsley, mint

    Answer for clue 4
    tabbouleh9 letters
  5. Ice __, paddling competition at Québec's Carnival

    Answer for clue 5
    canoe race9 letters
  6. On maps, it appears as a curved, vertical line

    Answer for clue 6
    longitude9 letters
  7. Omission of conjunctions for rhetorical effect

    Answer for clue 7
    asyndeton9 letters
  8. Drowsiness; the medical name for yawning

    Answer for clue 8
    oscitancy9 letters
  9. The true winner of the Oscar for Best Picture 2017

    Answer for clue 9
    moonlight9 letters
  10. Stolen, taken without consent

    Answer for clue 10
    purloined9 letters

Puzzle 11

13 clues
  1. The repeated chorus-like section of a poem or song

    Answer for clue 1
    refrain7 letters
  2. Upside down trees native to Africa, Australia

    Answer for clue 2
    baobabs7 letters
  3. Restricted land or water passages

    Answer for clue 3
    narrows7 letters
  4. English band led by Robert Smith

    Answer for clue 4
    the cure7 letters
  5. Three __, Maya crop trio of squash, beans, maize

    Answer for clue 5
    sisters7 letters
  6. Indian religious places of retreat

    Answer for clue 6
    ashrams7 letters
  7. A small parcel of energy; a school of physics

    Answer for clue 7
    quantum7 letters
  8. The rising and falling beat of a poem or reading

    Answer for clue 8
    cadence7 letters
  9. Dull and uninspired

    Answer for clue 9
    prosaic7 letters
  10. Le Havre. Sunset at __, by Eugène Boudin

    Answer for clue 10
    low tide7 letters
  11. Flying sport using air currents, no motors

    Answer for clue 11
    gliding7 letters
  12. Country where Rubik's Cube was invented

    Answer for clue 12
    hungary7 letters
  13. Add liquid to food residue in a pan to make sauce

    Answer for clue 13
    deglaze7 letters

Puzzle 12

10 clues
  1. Age of dancer in a wax sculpture by Edgar Degas

    Answer for clue 1
    fourteen8 letters
  2. Inverted structure in paired phrases

    Answer for clue 2
    chiasmus8 letters
  3. Vegetable faces Italian painter __ Arcimboldo

    Answer for clue 3
    giuseppe8 letters
  4. Sour pickled plum used in some sushi recipes

    Answer for clue 4
    umeboshi8 letters
  5. Department head; first derived from Latin minus

    Answer for clue 5
    minister8 letters
  6. South American country that was once Dutch Guiana

    Answer for clue 6
    suriname8 letters
  7. An invented world of horror or oppression

    Answer for clue 7
    dystopia8 letters
  8. Music festival created by rockers Slipknot in 2012

    Answer for clue 8
    knotfest8 letters
  9. An organelle that breaks down biological polymers

    Answer for clue 9
    lysosome8 letters
  10. Actor husband of Emma Thompson

    Answer for clue 10
    greg wise8 letters

Puzzle 13

13 clues
  1. Cheap ruby shade, used in Medieval texts

    Answer for clue 1
    red lead7 letters
  2. Strait that separates Taiwan from the mainland

    Answer for clue 2
    formosa7 letters
  3. Trio of two unstressed and one stressed syllables

    Answer for clue 3
    anapest7 letters
  4. Archbishop of Canterbury's London home: __ Palace

    Answer for clue 4
    lambeth7 letters
  5. A war trumpet; a shrill-sounding fanfare

    Answer for clue 5
    clarion7 letters
  6. Division of a cell in the body to make two

    Answer for clue 6
    mitosis7 letters
  7. Sweet, savory Moroccan warqa pastry

    Answer for clue 7
    briouat7 letters
  8. The first few identifying words of a written text

    Answer for clue 8
    incipit7 letters
  9. TV show with James Badge Dale, Jessica Collins

    Answer for clue 9
    rubicon7 letters
  10. Both a dog breed and type of military jet aircraft

    Answer for clue 10
    harrier7 letters
  11. Popular political club during French Revolution

    Answer for clue 11
    jacobin7 letters
  12. Roy __, played Veruca Salt's dad in 1971 film

    Answer for clue 12
    kinnear7 letters
  13. Of a building that lacks columns

    Answer for clue 13
    astylar7 letters

Puzzle 14

10 clues
  1. Emotional release through language or art

    Answer for clue 1
    catharsis9 letters
  2. Crying, plaintive instruction in vocal music

    Answer for clue 2
    piangendo9 letters
  3. Free from blame or responsibility

    Answer for clue 3
    exculpate9 letters
  4. Meaningful constituent parts of words

    Answer for clue 4
    morphemes9 letters
  5. Country where the Patagonian desert is located

    Answer for clue 5
    argentina9 letters
  6. A dark, broken dot on a TV screen

    Answer for clue 6
    dead pixel9 letters
  7. Artistic work in metal

    Answer for clue 7
    toreutics9 letters
  8. The Harry Potter charm used to erase memories

    Answer for clue 8
    obliviate9 letters
  9. A speech given by a character talking alone

    Answer for clue 9
    soliloquy9 letters
  10. Emerald cousin, peach-pink beryl

    Answer for clue 10
    morganite9 letters

Puzzle 15

11 clues
  1. Hillside vineyards giving red and white wines

    Answer for clue 1
    solopaca8 letters
  2. Gulf of __, Central American inlet

    Answer for clue 2
    honduras8 letters
  3. Snappy comic poem with the rhyme structure AABBA

    Answer for clue 3
    limerick8 letters
  4. Showy, frivolous; trifling thing of no consequence

    Answer for clue 4
    frippery8 letters
  5. Name of an early plastic invented around the 1900s

    Answer for clue 5
    bakelite8 letters
  6. Stage name of early rap star Melvin Glover

    Answer for clue 6
    melle mel8 letters
  7. Elena Cornaro __, first woman to receive a PhD

    Answer for clue 7
    piscopia8 letters
  8. Thought represented graphically

    Answer for clue 8
    ideogram8 letters
  9. Radio cast of Secombe, Milligan, Sellers, Bentine

    Answer for clue 9
    the goons8 letters
  10. Levels of this stress hormone rise during sleep

    Answer for clue 10
    cortisol8 letters
  11. A protagonist lacking traditional heroic qualities

    Answer for clue 11
    antihero8 letters

Puzzle 16

16 clues
  1. Providence College athletes

    Answer for clue 1
    friars6 letters
  2. African nation that once had a giant R on its flag

    Answer for clue 2
    rwanda6 letters
  3. Tell someone to quieten; or keep trousers secure

    Answer for clue 3
    belt up6 letters
  4. Mother __, main antagonist of the film Tangled

    Answer for clue 4
    gothel6 letters
  5. A page cut from one-quarter of a printer's sheet

    Answer for clue 5
    quarto6 letters
  6. Mardi Gras beads tossed from New Orleans floats

    Answer for clue 6
    throws6 letters
  7. The smallest bone in the human body

    Answer for clue 7
    stapes6 letters
  8. Paris deserted her for Helen of Troy

    Answer for clue 8
    oenone6 letters
  9. Edward Knoblock play, later a musical

    Answer for clue 9
    kismet6 letters
  10. Melon liqueur, bright green used in cocktails

    Answer for clue 10
    midori6 letters
  11. A rhetorical expression of doubt

    Answer for clue 11
    aporia6 letters
  12. Indian building style of Hawa Mahal

    Answer for clue 12
    rajput6 letters
  13. Czech religious reformer of the early 15th century

    Answer for clue 13
    jan hus6 letters
  14. Purple hue worn by Roman emperors

    Answer for clue 14
    tyrian6 letters
  15. A unit of distance equal to 3.26 light years

    Answer for clue 15
    parsec6 letters
  16. Breed of domestic cat, the sacred cat of Burma

    Answer for clue 16
    birman6 letters

Puzzle 17

10 clues
  1. Comic, non-serious verse with no strict structure

    Answer for clue 1
    doggerel8 letters
  2. Complete meal offered at a set price, in French

    Answer for clue 2
    prix fixe8 letters
  3. Charmander is a __ Pokemon

    Answer for clue 3
    fire type8 letters
  4. US singer and pianist of Cornflake Girl

    Answer for clue 4
    tori amos8 letters
  5. Sometimes called "the king of mangoes" in India

    Answer for clue 5
    alphonso8 letters
  6. Rhetorical correction of a previous statement

    Answer for clue 6
    metanoia8 letters
  7. Capital of Tuvalu

    Answer for clue 7
    funafuti8 letters
  8. Former soccer player Robert Baggio: the Divine __

    Answer for clue 8
    ponytail8 letters
  9. Former name of July 1 holiday "Canada Day": __ Day

    Answer for clue 9
    dominion8 letters
  10. Placing stage performers in specific positions

    Answer for clue 10
    blocking8 letters

Puzzle 18

10 clues
  1. William __; zoologist in Indian subcontinent

    Answer for clue 1
    blanford8 letters
  2. A factual or textual error; anagram of lice moss

    Answer for clue 2
    solecism8 letters
  3. Woodlice that roll up into balls when disturbed

    Answer for clue 3
    pillbugs8 letters
  4. Fractional equivalents of 0.08333...

    Answer for clue 4
    twelfths8 letters
  5. Supernatural being said to cause disrupted sleep

    Answer for clue 5
    night hag8 letters
  6. The worship of animals by a tribe or culture

    Answer for clue 6
    zoolatry8 letters
  7. Marshlands at end of Spain's Guadalquivir River

    Answer for clue 7
    marismas8 letters
  8. Long, light French dressing-gown for women

    Answer for clue 8
    peignoir8 letters
  9. It's posed by an interrogative word or statement

    Answer for clue 9
    question8 letters
  10. 80s photo format of a flattened circular platter

    Answer for clue 10
    disc film8 letters

Puzzle 19

11 clues
  1. Omission of the final sound of a word

    Answer for clue 1
    apocope7 letters
  2. Bohemian mathematician and logic scholar Bernard

    Answer for clue 2
    bolzano7 letters
  3. New name of Finisterre in BBC's Shipping Forecast

    Answer for clue 3
    fitzroy7 letters
  4. The action of entering; admittance, access

    Answer for clue 4
    ingress7 letters
  5. Of or relating to sea lions

    Answer for clue 5
    otarine7 letters
  6. A pairing of one long and one short syllable

    Answer for clue 6
    trochee7 letters
  7. Rainbow bridge connecting Asgard to earth

    Answer for clue 7
    bifrost7 letters
  8. Adeliza of __, wed England's King Henry I in 1121

    Answer for clue 8
    louvain7 letters
  9. Long-necked, three-stringed Japanese lute

    Answer for clue 9
    samisen7 letters
  10. Hearty soup served in Ecuador during Easter season

    Answer for clue 10
    fanesca7 letters
  11. "Lord of the senses" Indian title, surname

    Answer for clue 11
    goswami7 letters

Puzzle 20

13 clues
  1. Sam Wilson was once this superhero

    Answer for clue 1
    falcon6 letters
  2. Comic imitation of another writer's style

    Answer for clue 2
    parody6 letters
  3. Longest river of Punjab region in India

    Answer for clue 3
    sutlej6 letters
  4. Attack of the __ Tomatoes, 1991 NES game

    Answer for clue 4
    killer6 letters
  5. Endangered pygmy chimpanzee

    Answer for clue 5
    bonobo6 letters
  6. A rotational force

    Answer for clue 6
    torque6 letters
  7. Antigens are seen as dangerous by this system

    Answer for clue 7
    immune6 letters
  8. Minor musical mode running D to D in C major

    Answer for clue 8
    dorian6 letters
  9. A song or poem greeting the dawn

    Answer for clue 9
    aubade6 letters
  10. Animators' repeated series of identical frames

    Answer for clue 10
    cycles6 letters
  11. Canvas suntop on a frame for a cruiser boat

    Answer for clue 11
    bimini6 letters
  12. It was linked to the Nile by the Wadi Hammamat

    Answer for clue 12
    red sea6 letters
  13. Transparent liqueur tasting of cumin and caraway

    Answer for clue 13
    kummel6 letters

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