Piercing tool Crossword Clue

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Piercing tool Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. a pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

PIERCING (adjective)
1. painful as if caused by a sharp instrument
2. having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
TOOL (verb)
1. ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it
2. drive
TOOL (noun)
1. the means whereby some act is accomplished
2. a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else

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19. Peanut butter and jelly

21. Keeps occupied

22. Public square that gets really sticky in the heat?

24. Would rather not

25. Biblical suffix

26. Sp. address

27. Quite the commotion

28. Ski lift

30. Actor Kilmer

31. Chuckle syllable

33. Founded, as a co.

36. "Don't play," in music

38. Phi __ Kappa

39. One who can only rasp quietly?

44. Title for Judi Dench

46. Fox or ox

47. __ monster

48. Spot in a store with toys, water bowls, and leashes?

51. Castle-breaching explosive

53. Sandbox visitor

54. Rapper Dr. __

55. Matar paneer vegetables

57. Cause friction

60. Cookie whose website has recipes for cheesecake and empanadas

62. Derby-sporting Addams

64. Ancient hulled wheat

66. Old Jutland resident

67. Fiddlesticks!

68. Warning before a particularly scary monster flick?

71. Lysol target

72. Chemist Mendeleev who created the periodic table

74. Castle trenches

75. Hit the slopes

76. Blackthorn berry

77. Beyoncés I Am… ___ Fierce

78. In the mail

79. Blunder

81. Liberty Mutual's bus.

82. Hybrid synth instrument

84. R-rated NASA event?

89. Pedal pushers

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92. What fun!

93. Oak trees?

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100. Broadcast again

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102. Halloween mo

105. Off-rd. wheels

106. "Stranger Things" actor Wolfhard

107. Hoppy fave

110. Wireless std.

112. "Midsommar" director Aster

114. Minor flaw

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1. Broad valley

2. "Ethan Frome" novelist Wharton

3. Browser storage

4. In the past

5. Many Christmas trees

6. Fancy affair

7. NNW reversal

8. "Play very, very softly," in music

9. Met highlight

10. Assessment

11. Lipton division

12. Curved cutting tool

13. "Nothing you say is true!"

14. Tennis do-over

15. Affectionate sign-off

16. Change genetically

17. Like molecules that cannot form permanent bonds

20. Nickname for Louis Armstrong

21. "There isn't anything else!?"

23. Lettuce or cabbage

29. Neutral shades

32. Web design code

34. Warty amphibian

35. Paul of “The Batman”

38. Tight squeezes

40. Listen to

41. Fix badly?

42. Texting tech

43. Put a name to

44. Natural history museum display

45. 'M*A*S*H' star

48. Not on the same page

49. Savanna antelope

50. Glam gala

51. Trails

52. Intro to many a newsreel

55. Calligraphy tools

56. Some city trains

58. As a departure from the norm

59. Snare

61. Without any planning

63. More family-friendly

64. Walks or runs

65. Where some get tired quickly?

66. Movement while asking "How do I look?"

69. Junior

70. Rubber-stamped

73. Like a daisy

78. Shiny fabric

80. Sultry growl

83. Boston University athlete

84. Trivial objection

85. Product of incomplete combustion

86. Ship stabilizer

87. Noted times

88. "Um, think again"

90. Showy carp

91. From Cairo or Cape Town

93. Makes with skill

94. Medium for deep-frying

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