Crossword Clue Game

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I learned something new. This refers to a double two in craps, a roll of 4 the “hard way.”

Your roll, Spoons!

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Thanks, Knowed_Out!

Okay, let’s go with …

SCALE

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  1. 1 Libra?
  2. Way over a wall
  3. Reptilian feature
  4. Way to weigh
  5. 1/87th of a train?
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  1. SAG minimum wage
  2. Butcher’s thumb locale
  3. Seven notes
  4. Inch to mile, e.g.
  5. Dentinal plate
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  1. Musicians practice frequently.
  2. What fish, snakes, and butchers have in common.
  3. Every one of a crocodile’s is golden, to Carroll.
  4. H0, N, or S, for example.
  5. “______ a wall” climb it.
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  1. Fish flesh feature?
  2. Dentist tartar scrape
  3. Bathroom bête noire?
  4. Hierarchal pay grade
  5. Item carried by deities Dike, Tyr or Iustitia?
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I’m going to have to give this one to Dr. Paprika, for making me laugh with the following:

You’re up, Doctor!

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The next word is SCIENCE.

Should give quite a bit of leeway. It’s tough to come up with words which aren’t too open or closed.

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  1. Weird movie
  2. _____ & Nature from Trivial Pursuit
  3. Part of STEM
  4. Physics or chemistry
  5. It’s fiction
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  1. Political or economic
  2. Dolby’s blinder
  3. Middle school class
  4. Any “-ology”
  5. Ontario centre?
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  1. Cause of blindness in 1982 hit
  2. Dismal, economically
  3. Art’s counterpart
  4. Alchemy used to be considered this
  5. Discipline
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Although I like “dismal, economically”, I’m going to go with “Dolby’s blinder”. In retrospect, wish I’d picked “history”, which might have been more interesting.

Okay, Spoons. All systems go!

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Thanks, Dr. Paprika. And, you know, that’s not a bad selection, so let’s see what comes of it:

HISTORY

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  1. Don’t know much about this subject?
  2. Clio’s class?
  3. e.g. Livy’s study of Rome
  4. Yellow Trivial Pursuit
  5. Channel; chronicle for codgers?
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  1. Rudolph’s destination
  2. Sometimes referred to as the “Hitler channel”
  3. Happy is the country that doesn’t have this
  4. Repeats when not learned from
  5. Chronicle of events
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  1. Sexist past?
  2. It can be ancient
  3. It’s one for the books
  4. Incognito mode won’t track this
  5. Linda Lovelace went down in it (OK, this would not make it into the NYT)
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  1. Stephen Jay Gould was a Natural.
  2. When possessive, often paired with “Mystery.”
  3. Many go down in it, but none go up.
  4. False etymology finds it masculine.
  5. College major for a fast food future.
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  1. Sam Cooke didn’t know much about it
  2. Start of a 1981 Mel Brooks title
  3. Some say it repeats itself
  4. Doris Kearns Goodwin genre
  5. You have it with your ex
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This one goes to RivkahChaya, for this clever entry:

I like it; it’s the kind of clue that would leave you wondering until you had a few more letters.

Take it away, Rivkah!

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Thank you, Spoons!

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