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CrosswordDictionary2025Feb Flashcards

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Overly refined (6)

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EFFETE

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Uneasy (7)

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RESTIVE

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Doing dishes in a mess hall, say (4)

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ONKP

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4
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Inscribed stone pillars (6)

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STELES

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Brute (4)

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LOUT

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___ gow (Chinese gambling game with dominoes) (3)

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PAI

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Protective hairstyle, familiarly (4)

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LOCS

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Bandleader Shaw (5)

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ARTIE

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Jeans popular in the 1980s (7)

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GITANOS

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Used a lever on (6)

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PRISED

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Auto component that recharges the battery (10)

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ALTERNATOR

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Sci-fi author Heinlein (6)

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ROBERT

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Old Dodges (5)

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OMNIS

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Popular name of the frigate USS Constitution (12)

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OLDIRONSIDES

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15
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Arabic honorific (5)

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SHEIK

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16
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Oscar winner Tatum (5)

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ONEAL

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Harmonica player in “Once Upon a Time in the West” (7)

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BRONSON

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Joshua Tree’s desert (6)

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MOHAVE

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“A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” and “Bathers at Asnières,” for two (7)

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SEURATS

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20
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Certain dreidel letter (5)

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GIMEL

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21
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So-called good cholesterol (3)

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HDL

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Love goddess who lent her name to a 1980s box office bomb (6)

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ISHTAR

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Bygone owner of Virgin Records (3)

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EMI

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Head (4)

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PATE

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One of the Haim sisters (4)
ESTE
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___ motel (rhyming assignation spot) (6)
NOTELL
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Commodore ___ Hazard Perry, the “Hero of Lake Erie” (6)
OLIVER
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Newspaper that covers Congress (7)
THEHILL
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___ Mitchell, creator of “Hadestown” (5)
ANAIS
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NASA probe named for a Roman goddess (4)
JUNO
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Greek goddess of spring (10)
PERSEPHONE
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___ housing (series of look-alike residences (5)
TRACT
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___ Valley (region nicknamed the “garden of France”) (5)
LOIRE
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Bester who novel The Demolished Man won the first Hugo Aware (6)
BERTIE
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Italian brandy (6)
GRAPPA
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"12 Angry Men" director (5)
LUMET
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Feudal Russian nobles (6)
BOYARS
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Cotton capsule (4)
BOLL
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Warp counterpart (4)
WEFT
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Former Attorney General William whose 2022 memoir was a “self-serving screed,” per a Guardian headline (4)
BARR
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Tomb or monument for someone buried elsewhere (8)
CENOTAPH
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Divine being in Hinduism or Buddhism (4)
DEVA
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Illuminating observation (6)
APERCU
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Face covering with an opening around the eyes (5)
NIQAB
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“The Emperor of Ice-Cream” poet Stevens (7)
WALLACE
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Tree that grows in brackish water (8)
MANGROVE
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Thorny plant (5)
BRIAR
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Footnote abbr. (3)
CIT
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Trailblazing gossip reporter Barrett (4)
RONA
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Social media hashtag for nourishing one's inner neatnik (8)
CLEANTOK
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___ Wooster, narrator of Jeeves and Wooster stories (6)
ALFRED
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Demi Singleton’s role in King Richard (6)
SERENA
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Pulitzer-winning novelist Alison (5)
LURIE
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Part of TNT (7)
TOLUENE
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Beethoven’s Third (6)
EROICA
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Flat-topped straw hat (6)
BOATER
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Personal finance software first released in 1984 (7)
QUICKEN
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Hard-to-extinguish conflagration with an acrid smell (8)
TIREFIRE
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Scots’ tots (6)
BAIRNS
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South of France? (3)
SUD
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Anti-dandruff shampoo (4)
TGEL
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Christopher who played Doc Brown in “Back to the Future” (5)
LLOYD
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Sparks of "Queer as Folk" (3)
HAL
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Cosmonaut Aleksei who performed the first space walk (6)
LEONOV
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Title family in a 2013-23 ABC sitcom (9)
GOLDBERGS
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U.N. agcy. that was awarded the 1969 Nobel Peace Prize (3)
ILO
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Satirist Michael (5)
PALIN
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Polish name (3)
OPI
69
Smith of TV’s “Fashion Queens” (4)
BEVY
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Sensational, on Broadway (5)
BOFFO
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Place name in 1960s TV (6)
PEYTON
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Dr. ___ (Inspector Gadget villain) (4)
CLAW
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Island with ferries from Long Beach (8)
CATALINA
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Branched cluster of flowers (7)
PANICLE
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“Forest of Fontainbleau” painter, 1834 (5)
COROT
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Best Actor Oscar winner for 1974's "Harry and Tonto" (9)
ARTCARNEY
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Ka ___ (southernmost point in the U.S.) (3)
LAE
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Baseball-card brand (5)
TOPPS
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Palestinian activist Tamimi (4)
AHED
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Vaudeville singer Smith (5)
MAMIE
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Cantankerous oldsters (7)
CODGERS
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King of image forbidden by one of the Ten Commandments (6)
GRAVEN
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Yoruba creator god (6)
OLORUN
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___ Locke, “Dean of the Harlem Renaissance” (5)
ALAIN
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AIDS Memorial Quilt designer Jones (5)
CLEVE
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Martial art that uses bamboo swords (5)
KENDO
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Achaean strongman of myth (4)
AJAX
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Sony co-founder Morita (4)
AKIO
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Wisest of the centaurs, in Greek myth (6)
CHIRON
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Actor Ke Huy ___ of "Everything Everywhere All at Once" (4)
QUAN
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Gloomy guy (3)
GUS
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Foreign exchange fee (4)
AGIO
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Quartz is a form of it (6)
SILICA
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Basil who designed England's Coventry Cathedral (6)
SPENCE
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Dollars : U.S. :: ___ : Nigeria (6)
NAIRAS
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TV show whose episode titles are formatted like file names (7)
MRROBOT
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Mononymous singer with the 2023 album “Raven” (6)
KELELA
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"Wednesday" werewolf (4)
ENID
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Informer, informally (7)
STOOLIE
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___ Ramsey (“The Black Stallion” hero) (4)
ALEC
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___ Act (measure against mobsters) (4)
RICO
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Last royal dynasty of Iran (7)
PAHLAVI
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Home of the Temple of Poseidon (6)
ATTICA
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Fat used in pemmican (6)
TALLOW
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William ___, longtime editor of The New Yorker (5)
SHAWN
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Rapper who’s half of Run the Jewels (3)
ELP
107
Property recipient, legally (7)
ALIENEE
108
Auto pioneer Randoms (4)
OLDS
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City that was a rival of ancient Sparta (5)
ARGOS
110
Six-winged angelic being (6)
SERAPH
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Early book format (6)
QUARTO
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Cabdrivers, in slang (7)
HACKIES
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Jazz great Charlie (6)
PARKER
114
___-relief (3)
BAS
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Kaitlin of "Hacks" (5)
OLSON
116
Peter of the Wailers (4)
TOSH
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Greek personification of darkness (6)
EREBUS
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These, in French (3)
CES
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Actress Sorvino (4)
MIRA
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Damsel in distress in Donkey Kong (7)
PAULINE
121
Obsequious sorts (7)
TOADIES
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Closest French city to England (6)
CALAIS
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1997 movie title whose four unique letters represent the nucleobases of DNA (7)
GATTACA
124
Exchange, as words (5)
BANDY
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Stampede Wrestling co-founder Hart (3)
STU
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"___ of Avonlea," literary sequel of 1909 (4)
ANNE
127
Pianist Myra (4)
HESS
128
Main script of written Japanese (8)
HIRAGANA
129
___ Crawley, "Downton Abbey" countess (4)
CORA
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She played Judy in Judy (5)
RENEE
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Conductor Georg (5)
SOLTI
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Sitar accompaniment (5)
TABLA
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Constantly present and in the way (9)
UNDERFOOT
134
Traditional Japanese dramatic form (3)
NOH
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The Man Who Shot Liberty ___ (classic Western) (7)
VALENCE
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Great Plains aquifer that supplies over a quarter of U.S. irrigation water (8)
OGALLALA
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Alabama congresswoman Sewell (5)
TERRI
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Cartoon character inspired by W.C. Fields (7)
MRMAGOO
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Chinese dog breed, familiarly (4)
PEKE
140
Ancient Mexican civilization (5)
OLMEC
141
Balderdash (5)
HOOEY
142
Tropical member of the cuckoo family (3)
ANI
143
Bland mush (3)
PAP
144
“I like the cut of your ___!” (3)
JIB
145
“Wonder Woman” antagonist (4)
ARES
146
“___ Homo” (Nietzsche work) (4)
ECCE
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Name of a nearly five-thousand-year-old California bristlecone pine (10)
METHUSELAH
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Perspicacious (10)
FARSIGHTED
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Drug kingpin played by Al Pacino in a 1983 film (11)
TONYMONTANA
150
Nine daughters of Greek myth (8)
THEMUSES
151
Dojo level (3)
DAN
152
Venetian magistrates of old (5)
DOGES
153
Actress and fashion icon Sevigny (5)
CHLOE
154
Indigenous people's name for Mount Rainier (6)
TAHOMA
155
Film producer Ponti (5)
CARLO
156
“Ignorance = Fear / Silence = Death” artist Haring (5)
KEITH
157
Filmmaker Aster (3)
ARI
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