Apple or pear Crossword Clue

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Apple or pear Crossword Answer

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TREE

(4 letters)

FRUIT

(5 letters)

Helpful Hints

(noun)
1. a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

PEAR (noun)
1. Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties
2. sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties
APPLE (noun)
1. native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits
2. fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

TREE
(4 letters)
FRUIT
(5 letters)

Hint 4: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
MOPE

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16. Biz bigwig

17. It may be broken after the election

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21. Pen on a pig farm

22. Tiny bits

23. Org. for motorists

25. Journalist Curry

26. One might contain a flashlight and protein bars

31. Birds of a feather that don’t fly together

33. Endowment

34. Sharp changes of direction

37. Dork’s kin

39. Out of date

40. Bit of potpourri

41. Furious

42. Plot device in “Memento”

45. Indefinite amount

46. Like a thrill ride

49. Garment under a blouse

50. Remote batteries, perhaps

51. Brown marten

54. Karaoke bar figures

57. “Egad!”

61. Marital split, and a hint to this puzzle’s circled letters

64. Complete range

65. Sports spot

66. Upscale hotel chain

67. “The Big Board,” for short

68. Carried on, as a war

69. Political cartoonist Thomas

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Down

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2. Zion National Park setting

4. Performer’s reward

5. Pollution stat

6. Galoots

7. Easter lead-up

8. Car trip game of observation

9. Neither follower

10. Make look bad

11. Highway ramp

12. Monument Valley sight

13. Cools down

18. Many miles away

19. Noise from a pig farm

24. Math mean: Abbr.

25. PC key

26. Material for some blue shoes of song

27. Jeremy with an Oscar

28. Parking assistant

29. “Thus...”

30. Moon of Saturn

31. Techno genre initialism

32. Sound of a kiss

35. The Sharks or the Jets, e.g.

36. Cunning

38. Winery container

40. Smoothie fruit

43. Letters on NYC subway cars

44. Sierra Nevada offering

47. Burning brightly

48. Mic check question

51. Baseball’s Musial

52. Creatively pretentious

53. Life stories

54. Farmiga of “The Conjuring”

55. Common image format

56. Reasonable

58. Strong cotton variety

59. Many, many years

60. Fit of pique

62. Tool with teeth

63. “Awesome!”

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