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July 26, 2026
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1.Do something3 letters4.Career fair haul4 letters8.Claim forcefully6 letters14.Insert, as a link5 letters19.Prepping period8 letters21.Mammals with big calves6 letters22.Stains with ash5 letters23.*Command to turn8 letters24.Winter cap feature6 letters25.Jam5 letters26.Clarifying phrase4 letters27.Too sure of oneself4 letters29.*Recovers somewhat11 letters31.Coup target4 letters33.Small camping shelter7 letters35.Slowpoke's place4 letters36."Despacito" singer Fonsi4 letters39.Part of LAPD3 letters40.Nonprofit org. with a school for aspiring moviemakers3 letters42.Infatuated4 letters45.*Flourishing10 letters49.*Perform a daring act10 letters52.Dedicated poem3 letters53.Tudyk of "Firefly"4 letters54.Emulate Alysa Liu8 letters56.Bark beetle target3 letters57.Fancy-schmancy4 letters59.Previously4 letters61.Relaxed sigh3 letters62.Novel at the center of Bloomsday celebrations7 letters64.Westernmost city in Texas6 letters66.McIntosh or Macintosh5 letters68.Poison Ivy, to Robin5 letters69.Seasoning for kimchi4 letters70.*Makes explicitly clear9 letters72.Insects in a colony4 letters75.Apex predators of the sea5 letters77.New York City's __ Place5 letters78.Baseless6 letters80.Vidal of hair care7 letters83.Vader's childhood nickname3 letters84.Southernmost Ivy4 letters86.Party leader?4 letters87.Software-driven F/X3 letters88.Improviser's concluding phrase8 letters91.Fat-heavy diet4 letters93."Look what I found!"3 letters94.*Person who works a lot?10 letters96.*Ink-filled tool for illustrators10 letters99.Org. running many missions4 letters100.Snack for a frog3 letters101.Of vital importance3 letters102.Speak unclearly4 letters103.Ione of "La Brea"4 letters105.Lions and tigers7 letters109.Gets the picture4 letters112.*Places to drop envelopes11 letters115.High-five sound4 letters118.Starts to work together4 letters120.In flames5 letters121.Make public6 letters123.Start of a spelling rule, or a rule to keep in mind while answering the starred clues8 letters125.Spot of land5 letters126.Lower in fat6 letters127.Trial spin on a bike8 letters128.Parts in a play5 letters129.Daisylike flowers6 letters130.Tuck away4 letters131.Telepath's ability3 letters
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1.__ Romeo: motorsport brand4 letters2.Discontinue5 letters3.Implicit5 letters4.Busiest airport in MO3 letters5.Nintendo consoles that debuted in 20064 letters6.Switch on the radio?4 letters7."Rise and shine!"5 letters8.Dazzle3 letters9.Vertical passages6 letters10.Draped wedding garment5 letters11.Discovery astronaut Ochoa5 letters12."I'm gonna be straight with you ... "8 letters13.Cough syrup amts.4 letters14.OPI rival5 letters15.Sequence of film cuts7 letters16.Regattas9 letters17.Raison d'__4 letters18.High-end camera initials4 letters20.National park north of Anchorage6 letters28.Shorebird with webbed feet4 letters30.Easily broken7 letters32.Salade Niçoise fish4 letters34.__-sci4 letters37.Nome dome home5 letters38.Bird with a long neck4 letters41.Display flagrantly6 letters43.Destructive wind4 letters44.Bank lobby devices4 letters45.Leisurely gait4 letters46.Subjects of fan clubs5 letters47."Roman Holiday" scooter5 letters48.Like some heated posts6 letters49.Command6 letters50."Kinda"3 letters51."What's up, bro!"6 letters55.Reports by hotline7 letters58.Head lights?5 letters60.Prefix with graph or gram3 letters63.Electronica instrument5 letters65.Hybrid thoroughfare with frequent access points6 letters67.Smoothing tool6 letters68.Shout of discovery6 letters70.Open-toed shoe6 letters71.Alley-__3 letters73.Scouting unit5 letters74.Gimbap alternative5 letters76.Cypress, for one7 letters78.Up to5 letters79.Ian Fleming's alma mater4 letters80.Glance over4 letters81.Amazon contents4 letters82.Quits fidgeting9 letters83.Card with a single pip3 letters85.Front page material4 letters89.Cunning folks8 letters90.Garden with forbidden fruit4 letters92.Responsibility4 letters95.Home for a squirrel7 letters97.Some deli loaves4 letters98.Genetics pioneer Mendel6 letters101.Piehole6 letters104.Throws, in slang5 letters106.Kiwi in Kyoto, say5 letters107.Sierra __, Africa5 letters108.Features of some skirts5 letters110.Quietly unnerving5 letters111.Snow day rides5 letters112.Dragon's place4 letters113."In that case ... "4 letters114.Grammy-winning banjoist Fleck4 letters116.Help out on a heist4 letters117.Cozumel coin4 letters119.Ooze4 letters122.Workplaces for some RNs3 letters124.Texter's "Victory!"3 letters
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