Apt rhyme for "fiddle" Crossword Clue

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Apt rhyme for "fiddle" Crossword Answer

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(verb)
1. turn in a twisting or spinning motion
2. manipulate, as in a nervous or unconscious manner
(noun)
1. a series of small (usually idle) twists or turns

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

FIDDLE (verb)
1. manipulate manually or in one’s mind or imagination
2. play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly
FIDDLE (noun)
1. bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow
RHYME (noun)
1. a piece of poetry
2. correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)
RHYME (verb)
1. compose rhymes
2. be similar in sound, especially with respect to the last syllable

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10. Dried chili pepper

15. Like a limbo bar, after a few rounds

16. "Seinfeld" role for Julia Louis-Dreyfus

17. Seating option at a diner

18. Magritte's "Ceci n'est pas ___ pipe"

19. Three-star review of a cocktail shaker?

21. "Toodle-oo!"

23. Thurman of Kill Bill

24. Sell/buy-back agreement, for short

25. Three-star review of Battleship?

28. Diamond stat

30. Shipshape

31. Spike of cinema

32. Tax-related

36. A good one is bright

37. Sea-__

38. Pens

39. Piece of bread dipped in gravy

40. Three-star review of a no-stress class?

42. Actress Vardalos

45. Clear, as dishes

46. Like a step in the right direction?

47. Sign that there's no turning back

48. Sign on a park bench, maybe

49. S.F. commuter train system

50. AOL, e.g., in brief

51. Three-star review of Tulsa?

54. Subject line abbr.

57. Drop down?

59. Source of smoke for a model volcano

60. Three-star review of the Friday before Easter?

64. Title in Spain: Abbr.

65. Opposite of forward?

66. Starbucks drink made with olive oil

67. M&M color replaced in 1995

68. ___ manager

69. Spiff (up)

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Down

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2. "You're getting too excited"

3. Sugar

4. "No man has a good enough ___ to be a successful liar": Lincoln

5. Pelvis bone

6. Hardly strict

7. Bluff, e.g.

8. Ultimate purpose

9. Length for a pregnancy or presidency

10. They might be made of steel, hyperbolically

11. Cultivate

12. Actor Sprouse of "Riverdale"

13. Address opener

14. Extremely

20. Talking-tos

22. Sage-colored sage

26. Words of defeat

27. Puts on a patch, say

29. "Fine, I'll ___"

33. Ones getting good marks?

34. Stereotypical monocle wearer

35. Hurdle for a future "Esq."

36. "That ___ say . . ."

37. Odysseus' captor

38. Touches

40. Smartphone predecessors, in brief

41. Perform a felonious favor for

44. Fall off

46. Very doable

48. Squirm

49. LeVar who hosted TV's "Reading Rainbow" for 23 years

52. Where Jewish singles might mingle

53. Reeves of "Point Break"

54. City seen in Instagram?

55. "Piggies"

56. At most

58. Gobs

61. Pub. that predicted it would take one to 10 million years to invent a flying machine, two months before the first airplane flight

62. Stephen of "The Crying Game"

63. Urging at the start of a meal

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