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NY Times Crossword

July 27, 2023

Guilherme Giliogi

Each clue below contains the definitions of two words which can be combined to form a third, unrelated word - without any re-arrangement of letters.

1. Long, heroic tale + Come in

2. Dance craze of the 70s + In a high degree

3. Lemon partner + Ranger _ _ _ _

4. Vote against + Tension

5. Certain month + dress feature

HINTS:

1. Earthquake

2. Finding

3. Kind of verse

4. Compel/restrict 

5. Chaos

Answers:

 

1. EPICENTER (epic + enter)

2. DISCOVERY (disco + very)

3. LIMERICK (lime + rick)

4. CONSTRAIN (con + strain)

5. MAYHEM (may + hem)