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July 20, 2026
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Across
1.Scouting mission, briefly5 letters6.Assent nonverbally3 letters9.Blue-green hue4 letters13.Greeting at a luau5 letters14.Identical4 letters15.Organ with bronchioles4 letters16.Nickname for Hollywood10 letters18.Meaty spread4 letters19.Meh4 letters20."Tastes great!"3 letters21.__ to go: full of enthusiasm5 letters22.Sanction for running a red light13 letters26.Hopelessly stuck6 letters28.Peruvian capital4 letters29.One-named "Dancing on My Own" singer5 letters30.Astonish4 letters32.Pepper partner4 letters36.Comm. used by many CODAs3 letters37.Collections with cups and saucers, or a phonetic description of 16-, 22-, 49-, and 60-Across7 letters40.Fish eggs3 letters41.Require4 letters43.Tears4 letters44.Secures with a key5 letters46.King of the Norse pantheon4 letters48.Many a chart-topping song6 letters49."Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers," e.g.13 letters54.Express feelings5 letters55.Approves3 letters56.Like a plump red strawberry4 letters59.Org. with a phonetic alphabet4 letters60."Magic Tree House" subject10 letters63.Gender-neutral pronoun4 letters64.Zone4 letters65.Gaming giant5 letters66.Back talk4 letters67.Frying vessel3 letters68.Gets soupy, as ice cream5 letters
Down
1.Sewer scurriers4 letters2.Pixar film about a boy who meets aliens4 letters3.British police officer9 letters4."Whoops, my bad"7 letters5.Scottish denial3 letters6.Tennis star Osaka5 letters7.Texter's "Coming!"3 letters8.Cozy room3 letters9.Pack animals known for spitting7 letters10.Elementary subatomic particle5 letters11.Loosen, as a knot5 letters12.Representative5 letters14.Double __ Oreo4 letters17.Uber competitor4 letters21.Outer edge3 letters23.Mom's sister4 letters24."Blue's __": Nick Jr. show5 letters25.Add color to4 letters26.Tehran's country4 letters27.Rudolph's red body part4 letters30.Exceptionally kind person5 letters31.Baking qty.3 letters33.Biggest competitor9 letters34.Trickster of the Norse pantheon4 letters35.Midterm, e.g.4 letters38.Shallowest Great Lake4 letters39.Opening in a spatula4 letters42.Nylabones, squeak balls, and the like7 letters45.Do surgery7 letters47.Payable now3 letters48.Soft "Hey, you!"4 letters49.Camp shelters5 letters50.Biggest city in the Cornhusker State5 letters51.Parts of a scale5 letters52.People celebrated internationally every March 85 letters53.Furniture chain founded in Sweden4 letters57.Cheeky4 letters58.Yale students4 letters60.Alternative to bottled, in a restaurant3 letters61.Golden yrs. fund3 letters62.Aries animal3 letters
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