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How to Enter Answers
Click a cell once to enter an answer, and click that same cell again to switch between horizontal and vertical orientations
Click the clues to move the cursor directly to the cell for that answer
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Shift
key to enter multiple characters for rebus answers
Basic Keyboard Shortcuts
Shortcut
Description
Letter / Number
Fill in current cell and advance cursor to next unfilled cell in the same word, if any
.
(period)
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Either move cursor along current orientation or change orientation without moving cursor
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Flip orientation between down/across
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Clear current cell
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Check
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quare,
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ord, or
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uzzle
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Reveal
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quare,
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ord, or
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uzzle
Advanced Keyboard Shortcuts
[
and
]
OR
Shift
with arrow keys
Move cursor perpendicular to current orientation without changing orientation
Tab
and
Shift+Tab
Move cursor to first unfilled square of next or previous unfilled clue
Home
OR
End
Move cursor to the beginning or end of a clue
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ACROSS
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Distant and detached
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Turns on the waterworks
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Trade this for that
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"___ Pig" (British cartoon)
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"No doubt"
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Setting for Dante's "Inferno"
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First Nations carving
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Cause of cold feet or white knuckles
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Brainstorming result
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Personal affairs, preferably kept private
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Pain in the you-know-what
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Made by a seamstress
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"___ no big deal"
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NYSE launch
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Sound from a chihuahua
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Communicates with ASL
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Bonus
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Moth species named after a moon goddess
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"One Mississippi" star Notaro
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Storytelling technique that may consist of a fantasy or vision
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Until now
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"Spring forward, fall back" amount
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Put away for a rainy day
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Ben & Jerry's units
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It's "just a number"
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Baby ferret
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Free ___ bird
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Breakfast chain with a blue roof
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Does very well
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Analog planner
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Pianist Ellington
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Toy often lost by Charlie Brown
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Pink drink order
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Idyllic garden
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Happily ___ after
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November birthstone
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Extinct bird
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Medieval worker
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Onesie fasteners
DOWN
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Like the name Matt, for a gymnast
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Name of 14 popes
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Overcome indecision
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Angled columns?
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What "ohana" means in Hawaiian
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Use a sieve
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What a good dog does
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Memphis street with a rich music history
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Juice box inserts
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Lower leg part
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Dessert eaten after nuptials
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App notifications
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"Stereophonic" and "Fat Ham," for two
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Queen's domain
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Form a bloc
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Not square
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Parroted
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"Shouldn't have brought that up"
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Word on a door
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Juniper berry spirits
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Quick on the uptake
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Opposite of paleo-
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Bluish-green color
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Top story
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Pushed for
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Bad to the bone
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UFO crew, presumably
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Prefix meaning "false"
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Some protein drinks
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Demands, like payment
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Put two and two together
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Tidbit in mortadella
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"Sledgehammer" musician Gabriel
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Serenade sweetly
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Lotterylike gambling game
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Soft ball brand?
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"Me day" destination
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Treasure hunt diagram
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Parts of lbs.
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