# Crossword Clue Game

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818>\
**Category:** Thread Games\
**Created:** [October 25, 2020, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818 "2020-10-25T07:00:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 47

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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/921 "2021-05-20T14:07:44Z")

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1. Bunnymen lead
2. TRICARE supplement
3. Amazon voice assistant

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**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/922 "2021-05-20T14:27:21Z")

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Mimic sounds like author Umberto

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/923 "2021-05-20T16:39:47Z")

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1. Yodeling phenomenon
2. He loved Narcissus - cissus - sus
3. 1960 communications satellite
4. Phonetic fifth

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/924 "2021-05-20T17:01:43Z")

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1. Repeat
2. Bat’s locator
3. Return at the speed of sound?

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**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/925 "2021-05-20T17:40:59Z")

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1. With Park, a Los Angeles neighborhood
2. Sonar return
3. Closer Dennis as an Oriole?

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2021, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/926 "2021-05-24T15:38:43Z")

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**Gyrate** has the winner!

1. The original, legendary ‘hollaback girl’

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**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2021, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/927 "2021-05-24T23:04:06Z")

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Hooray again!

Next up:

**TIME**

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2021, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/928 "2021-05-25T00:13:17Z")

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1. Space’s partner
2. What you do after the crime
3. Could be full or part
4. Warp in a castle

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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2021, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/929 "2021-05-25T00:57:01Z")

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1. Morris Day’s backup
2. Warner partner until 2018
3. What has come today for the Chambers Brothers

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**Author:** ![FastDan1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fastdan1/32/427_2.png) [@FastDan1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FastDan1)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2021, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/930 "2021-05-25T02:25:04Z")

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1. Jim Croce saves it in a bottle
2. Part of GMT
3. Gilliam’s Bandits
4. Multiplies once?

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2021, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/931 "2021-05-25T03:13:09Z")

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1. Newsmagazine
2. Worth watching?
3. Musical signature
4. Mean one, in Greenwich?

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**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2021, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/932 "2021-05-25T06:43:24Z")

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1. Life partner?
2. Per the Pretenders, the avenger
3. With tide, it waits for no man
4. \_\_\_\_ flies like an arrow
5. It heals all wounds

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**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2021, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/933 "2021-05-25T08:55:50Z")

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And the winner is…

> [@SunUp](#):
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> Life partner?

One of those clues that is baffling if you don’t know the answer and obvious if you do. Nice.

Over to you, **SunUp**.

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**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2021, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/934 "2021-05-25T21:45:06Z")

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Thanks! Third time’s the charm.

OK, let’s go with CELL.

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**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2021, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/935 "2021-05-25T22:04:09Z")

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This is fun…

1. Battery, or where it sends you
2. Room for one or nun?
3. Caller from America

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**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2021, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/936 "2021-05-25T23:52:36Z")

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1. Inmate’s home
2. Single ameba?
3. Part of a honeycomb

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**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2021, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/937 "2021-05-26T12:28:02Z")

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1. Chloroplast’s structure
2. This can be padded

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**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2021, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/938 "2021-05-26T17:10:22Z")

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1. G3, for example
2. Prisoner’s digs
3. Brain component

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2021, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/939 "2021-05-26T20:34:03Z")

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1. It multiplies by dividing
2. Could be a B or a T
3. 21st century phone
4. An egg is only one

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**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2021, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crossword-clue-game/923818/940 "2021-05-27T01:03:51Z")

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I think everyone had at least one finalist, but I’m gonna go with

> It multiplies by dividing

So over to you, @panache45 !

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