“➡_____ fate (do something risky): Tempt

➡A legitimate object to attack: Fairgame

➡Allowed by law, not forbidden: Licit

➡Contradictory statements: Paradoxes

➡Dermatologist’s concern: Rash

➡Do away with, eliminate: Eradicate

➡Family antiques; Inherited things: Heirlooms

➡Gazelle, to a cheetah: Prey

➡Gut-busting, extremely funny: Hilarious

➡Holiday season feeling: Cheer

➡If nothing else: Atleast

➡Make room for: Include

➡Mathematical variable: Parameter

➡Modify, alter: Customize

➡Not tight enough: Loose

➡People Compete With Each Other For…: Announcer’s request: Attention

➡People Compete With Each Other For…: Hierarchy position: Rank

➡People Compete With Each Other For…: Speed competition: Race

➡People Compete With Each Other For…: Tapped asset: Resource

➡People Compete With Each Other For…: Unit of work?: Job

➡People Compete With Each Other For…: Valentine sentiment: Love

➡People Compete With Each Other For…: Won thing: Prize

➡People Compete With Each Other For…: Working upgrade: Promotion

➡People’s worries: Concerns

➡Pokes a hole in: Punctures

➡Pursue retail therapy, say: Spend

➡Receives a degree: Graduates

➡Ring master?: Boxer

➡Second to ____: unbeatable: None

➡Subtitle preceder, often: Colon

➡Surprise winner: Horse

➡TV, radio, newspapers, etc.: Media

➡Underhanded schemer: Sneak

➡Use subcontractors, with “out”: Farm

➡Whale-watching spot: Ocean

➡What to expect when you’re expecting: Birth

➡With the understanding that: Providing

➡Word of agreement: Ditto
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“➡Accepted level: Standard

➡Belief about the truth: Credence

➡Characterizes, portrays: Depicts

➡Charming characteristic: Charisma

➡Collections of historical documents: Archives

➡Come to pass, take place: Happen

➡Extend in time, draw out: Protract

➡Feature of many back-cover quotations: Praise

➡Finish the laundry: Fold

➡Food That Stains Your Teeth: Addictive cupful: Coffee

➡Food That Stains Your Teeth: Burgundy or Bordeaux: Wine

➡Food That Stains Your Teeth: Ketchup is one: Sauce

➡Food That Stains Your Teeth: Oolong, for one: Tea

➡Food That Stains Your Teeth: Spanish rice dish: Paella

➡Food That Stains Your Teeth: Sweet that lacks milk: Chocolate

➡Food That Stains Your Teeth: Vineyard picking: Grape

➡Full steam _____!: Ahead

➡It may be guided or heat-seeking: Missile

➡Lament over a loss: Mourn

➡Like Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo: Decisive

➡Like spelling that teaches pronunciation: Phonetic

➡Practical joke: Prank

➡Relaxing casually: Chilling

➡Scheduled to arrive: Due

➡Show the way; opening: Leadin

➡Solemn agreement; international settlement: Pact

➡Strikes out, calls off: Cancels

➡Treatment that shouldn’t have an effect: Placebo

➡Up to this point: Sofar

➡What a Tesla doesn’t use: Gas

➡Whoa, whoa, whoa!: Slowdown

➡Winter driving hazards: Drifts

➡Word before “gravy” or “grief”: Good

➡Picture of level 740: ALL
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“➡Alternative to bubble wrap: Peanuts

➡It usually lasts for 7 days then you have to pay: Trial

➡Light, sharp contact: Flick

➡Make a hasty escape after an accident: Cutandrun

➡Picture puzzle: Rebus

➡Providing additional support; back-up (worker): Auxiliary

➡Sleeping chamber: Bedroom

➡Something You Do To Pass Time At Work: Chitchat: Talk

➡Something You Do To Pass Time At Work: Digital challenge: Sudoku

➡Something You Do To Pass Time At Work: Enjoy a book: Read

➡Something You Do To Pass Time At Work: Quick message: Text

➡The “M” in STEM, briefly: Math

➡Toy on a string: Kite

➡Yuck!: Gross
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“➡An Animal Boys Use To Frighten Girls: Angler’s danglers: Worms

➡An Animal Boys Use To Frighten Girls: Cold-blooded predator: Lizard

➡An Animal Boys Use To Frighten Girls: Hoppy critter: Frog

➡An Animal Boys Use To Frighten Girls: Squeaky biter: Mouse

➡An Animal Boys Use To Frighten Girls: Venom carrier: Snake

➡An Animal Boys Use To Frighten Girls: Web master: Spider

➡Burlap container: Sack

➡Butlers’ prompts: Doorbells

➡Deficiency, be short of: Lack

➡Emitting dangerous particles: Radioactive

➡How-to handbook: Manual

➡Journal reviewer: Editor

➡Kind of tomato or bomb: Cherry

➡Like an anthem or an oath: Solemn

➡Mean-spirited: Unkind

➡Path around the sun: Orbit

➡Practical relevance or phone program: Application

➡Proof of qualifications: Credentials

➡Respectful gesture: Salute

➡Serious devotee: Fiend

➡Soren …, 19th Century Danish philosopher, author of “EitherOr”: Kierkegaard

➡Stop-making-any-sound button: Mute

➡Tawdry and flashy: Garish

➡Touched in the head: Crazy

➡Waiting for an answer, perhaps: Onhold

➡What ignorance is, they say: Bliss
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“➡A quantity or total: Amount

➡Author of Harry Potter books: Rowling

➡Carpentry: Builder’s tool: Hammer

➡Carpentry: Cutting blade: Saw

➡Carpentry: Finger finisher: Nail

➡Carpentry: Sticking solution: Glue

➡Carpentry: Tree material: Wood

➡Exhibiting or displaying: Showing

➡Express warm approval of: Praise

➡Hit with palm of hand: Slap

➡Instant, occurring without delay: Immediate

➡It’s often under a cup: Saucer

➡Mechanical skill; practical method: Technique

➡Panda’s favorite plant: Bamboo

➡Prickly part of a rose: Thorn

➡What a witch does: Magic
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“➡Backboard attachment: Rim

➡Benchwarmer: Sub

➡Calling on: Visiting

➡Card in a blackjack: Ace

➡College focus: Major

➡Find another purpose for: Recycle

➡Forcible severance: Disruption

➡Hardly sports-challenged: Athletic

➡Having similar opinions: Likeminded

➡Job that may include filing: Manicure

➡Makes slippery: Lubricates

➡Monopoly and others: Boardgames

➡More than a court filing, but less than a status change: Emotion

➡Move like a kangaroo: Hop

➡Neither this ___ that: Nor

➡Not look forward to: Dread

➡One navigating the web?: Spider

➡Political activities: Campaigns

➡Puts dividends to work: Reinvests

➡Reader of this clue: You

➡Shape of a rainbow: Arc

➡Signal to stop: Redlight

➡Staff: Personnel

➡Things With Beginning, Middle And End: Best-seller list entry: Book

➡Things With Beginning, Middle And End: Big assignment: Project

➡Things With Beginning, Middle And End: Child’s request: Story

➡Things With Beginning, Middle And End: Hugo or Edgar: Name

➡Things With Beginning, Middle And End: Karaoke choices: Songs

➡Things With Beginning, Middle And End: Longest sentence: Life

➡Things With Beginning, Middle And End: Recipe unit: Step

➡Things With Beginning, Middle And End: Trailer follower: Movie

➡Understand, obtain: Get

➡Zip it!: Shutup
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“➡____ reaper is a personification of death: Grim

➡______ of steel (what an unflappable person is said to have): Nerves

➡Actor Charlie… spent the last 23 years of his life on the shore of Lake Geneva, where you will see props and sets from his iconic movies: Chaplin

➡Common beer quantity: Pint

➡Dog ancestor: Wolf

➡Four sided shape: Rectangle

➡Four Weddings and a _______: Funeral

➡Gift ____; present covering: Wrap

➡Hi, my ____ is…: Name

➡Home for a baby bird: Nest

➡Lake Geneva has one of the world’s biggest… as it sits in the middle of the lake: Fountains

➡Lake Geneva spreads across two countries, 60% of the lake lie in Switzerland, while 40% lie in…: France

➡Long protruding teeth of a walrus: Tusks

➡Measure the amount: Gauge

➡Most important city in a country: Capital

➡Nearly but not quite: Almost

➡Opposite of “permanent”: Temporary

➡They steal ships on the high seas: Pirates

➡To mix a deck of cards: Shuffle
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“➡Broad-tipped pen: Marker

➡I’d rather not: Pass

➡It may be spoiled: Ending

➡Letter-changing aid: Eraser

➡Pointed tooth: Canine

➡Sand-filled timer: Hourglass

➡Things People Do While Watching TV: Drug-free: Clean

➡Things People Do While Watching TV: Evaluate: Judge

➡Things People Do While Watching TV: Power-saving mode: Sleep

➡Tolerant or lenient: Indulgent

➡Up at night, as owls: Nocturnal

➡Where karaoke originated: Japan
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“➡Arborist’s concern: Tree

➡Attendance indication: Here

➡Basic toy train layout: Oval

➡Be healthy, like a type of meal?: Flourish

➡Button alternative: Snap

➡Catch you later: Bye

➡Counselors: Advisors

➡Democracy in action: Vote

➡Enemy agent’s strategy: Sabotage

➡Extreme anger: Rage

➡Feeling after a workout: Ache

➡Female warrior spirit in Norse lore: Valkyrie

➡Get ready to play: Loosenup

➡Go head to head: Vie

➡Grow more intense: Escalate

➡Has permission to: May

➡Hold back: Restrain

➡Humble dwelling: Hut

➡In the end: Afterall

➡It Might Keep The Doctor Away: A, B, C, D and E, to nutritionists: Vitamins

➡It Might Keep The Doctor Away: Germ-free: Clean

➡It Might Keep The Doctor Away: Hit the gym: Exercise

➡It Might Keep The Doctor Away: In fine fettle: Healthy

➡It Might Keep The Doctor Away: Newton hitter: Apple

➡It Might Keep The Doctor Away: Peach, plum, or pear: Fruit

➡It Might Keep The Doctor Away: What you eat: Diet

➡It’s at the end of the line: Lure

➡Like the Crusades: Medieval

➡Log splitter: Axe

➡Mix with a spoon: Stir

➡Naive: Childish

➡Not many: Afew

➡One is often hard to resist: Urge

➡Pale yellowish-white: Eggshell

➡Ready for picking: Ripe

➡Road crew’s supply: Tar

➡Speak harshly: Snap

➡Squash, for one: Vegetable

➡Steakhouse order: Lean

➡Steve who once headed Apple: Jobs

➡Strong competitor, probably: Seed

➡Went off the deep end, perhaps: Dove

➡Wonderful: Terrific

➡Word after trail or party: Mix

➡Word often followed by a Roman numeral: Act
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“➡2026 Winter Olympics co-host city: Milan

➡Aim, intention: Objective

➡App identifier: Icon

➡Bumped into: Met

➡Deviate from the intended course: Drift

➡Efficient, productive: Effective

➡Give all the details: Elaborate

➡Go around: Spin

➡Groups of hounds: Packs

➡Invention That Made The World Smaller: Airport lander: Plane

➡Invention That Made The World Smaller: Cruise vessel: Ship

➡Invention That Made The World Smaller: Jaguar or Cougar: Car

➡Invention That Made The World Smaller: PC or Mac: Computer

➡Invention That Made The World Smaller: Social media company led by Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook

➡Invention That Made The World Smaller: Surfers’ hangout: Internet

➡Invention That Made The World Smaller: Surfing aid: Wifi

➡Like honed knives: Sharp

➡Looking at likenesses and differences: Comparing

➡Make safe from data thieves: Encrypt

➡Measure of time or airplane wings: Span

➡Non-direct flight word: Via

➡One worthy of imitation: Rolemodel

➡Out of use: Old

➡Personal property: Stuff

➡Prepare to propose, perhaps: Kneel

➡Provider of intel, in spy jargon: Asset

➡Ref’s need: Whistle

➡Requiring lots of reassurance: Needy

➡Shelter by a campfire: Tent

➡Smoking or procrastination, e.g.: Habit

➡Squid’s defense: Ink

➡Unhappy ending: Doom

➡Weightlifter’s sound: Grunt

➡Without question: Byfar
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