Fictional detective Holmes Crossword Clue

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Fictional detective Holmes Crossword Answer

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

DETECTIVE (noun)
1. a police officer who investigates crimes
2. an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public
FICTIONAL (adjective)
1. formed or conceived by the imagination

Hint 2: Anagram

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ALONE

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Across

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5. People likely to chicken out

10. Scholastic stats

14. Name that's an anagram of Alan

16. Flat fee?

17. During the extra period of a game, for short

18. Unoriginal

19. Deliberately provocative

20. Subway___ (internet talk show with controversial opinions)

22. King, in Spanish

23. In and of itself

24. Smug expression

25. Alternative to white or wheat

26. Little twerps

27. Path for cyclists

30. Conflict that ended in 1918 (Abbr.)

32. Burr who dueled Alexander Hamilton

33. Bitter brew

36. Backbone of a boat

37. Current fashion

38. Ladies

40. 'Whoa, ___!'

42. Get the picture

43. Fling

44. "I'm ready!"

46. Passed the class with flying colors

47. "Porque te ___" (Jeanette song)

48. Something that's good to hit

52. '___ me ask you this . . .'

53. Best Comeback Athlete, for example

55. The Hunger Games character whose name sounds like a type of bread

56. Barbies' counterparts

57. Beginnings of a transformative development

60. How a ribbon might be tied

61. __ corpus

62. The Lowdown star Hawke

63. Sounds from kittens

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Down

1. Narrow cuts

2. Competitor of TWA

3. Skinny mushroom

4. Statements run up by leaks

5. Spun trap

6. Behind on payments

7. Auspicious plant that might be grown using the answers to the bolded clues?

8. Video-game competitor

9. Khan Academy creator Khan

10. Go-ahead

11. “The Mandalorian” star Pascal

12. Existential dread

13. Eye ailments also known as hordeola

21. Go downhill, in a way

23. Trident-shaped Greek letter

28. Kit ___ bar

29. Word in many partnership names

30. Little girl, in Glasgow

31. Like time that's used judiciously

34. Coworker of an attorney

35. What Gwendolyn Brooks compared to "an apple that is small and sweet and round and cold and for just you"

36. Scoundrel

39. Hits a fly

41. Opposite of "nah"

43. Lil 'un

45. Hits lightly, like the glass of a fish tank

46. __ cracker

49. "Hothothot!"

50. Dictionary entry: Abbr.

51. Poison ivy symptom

54. Opposite of "nah"

56. Didn't just think

58. Trade name, for short

59. 'Honest' president

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