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Across hints for October 8, 2025
- 1A — “___ of personality”
Hint: A small but passionate fan base.
- 5A — “Spelling Bee rank achieved by getting 70% of total points”
Hint: A person with an IQ above 140.
- 7A — “THC-infused gummy, e.g.”
Hint: Something you can eat.
- 8A — “Grid with numbers”
Hint: The movie associated with “bullet time.”
- 9A — “Harvest”
Hint: What you do long after sowing.
Down hints for October 8, 2025
- 1D — “Moth-repellent wood”
Hint: An Iowa city ends with “Rapids.”
- 2D — “Join together”
Hint: Become allied for a common cause.
- 3D — “Zodiac sign before Scorpio”
Hint: Often described as fair and balanced.
- 4D — “Flower that caused the world’s first economic bubble in the 1630s”
Hint: The Netherlands’ national flower.
- 5D — “Rock on a band”
Hint: A jewel such as an emerald.
- 6D — “It sells, in an old maxim”
Hint: Alfred Kinsey’s area of study.
Full answer list
These clue-and-answer pairs are reported in Forbes’ October 7 guide. Try Hard Guides’ October 8 entry lists the same clue prompts.
Quick Recap
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Across
- 1A: CULT
- 5A: GENIUS
- 7A: EDIBLE
- 8A: MATRIX
- 9A: REAP
Down
- 1D: CEDAR
- 2D: UNITE
- 3D: LIBRA
- 4D: TULIP
- 5D: GEM
- 6D: SEX
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