Midi Crossword Hints & Answers - Tuesday, November 3, 2026
Stuck on the Midi Crossword puzzle for Tuesday, November 3, 2026 (puzzle #68)? Get a one-letter hint clue-by-clue, reveal individual answers as you need them, or unhide the full solution grid below. 20 across · 16 down.
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- 1A. Father's Day gift cliche (3)
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TIE - 4A. X marks it (4)
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SPOT - 8A. Microscopic or wee (4)
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TINY - 9A. Masai hunter's long weapon (5)
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SPEAR - 10A. Bitter loathing (4)
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HATE - 11A. Vessel carrying oxygenated blood (5)
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AORTA - 12A. Small metric land measure (3)
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ARE - 13A. Half-melted snow on sidewalk (6)
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SLUSHY - 14A. Trojan or Cold (3)
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WAR - 15A. Frilly dance performance costume (4)
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TUTU - 16A. Fasten windows against rain (4)
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SHUT - 18A. Eeyore, essentially (3)
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ASS - 21A. Comedy that bites (6)
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SATIRE - 23A. Third-person feminine subject (3)
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SHE - 24A. Employee-of-the-month honor (5)
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AWARD - 25A. Exhaust someone's patience (4)
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TIRE - 26A. Pirate-speak for pal (5)
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MATEY - 27A. Cell released during ovulation (4)
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OVUM - 28A. Scrutinized with interest (4)
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EYED - 29A. Spider's silk trap (3)
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- 1D. Papal triple headdress crown (5)
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TIARA - 2D. I-95, for one (10)
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INTERSTATE - 3D. Potato's sprouting bud (3)
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EYE - 4D. Whale's blowhole vapor plume (5)
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SPOUT - 5D. Cogent and logically sound (10)
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PERSUASIVE - 6D. Curse word, quaintly (4)
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OATH - 7D. Ice cube holder (4)
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TRAY - 8D. Melt back into liquid water (4)
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THAW - 9D. Formal naval cannon tribute (6)
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SALUTE - 13D. Nothing flimsy about it (6)
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STURDY - 17D. Engaged a plumber's services (5)
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HIRED - 19D. Multi-stemmed woody perennial (5)
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SHRUB - 20D. Give the distinct impression (4)
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SEEM - 21D. Identical without slightest difference (4)
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SAME - 22D. Out of town (4)
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AWAY - 25D. In ___ (following behind closely) (3)
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