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August 8, 2026
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1.Kitchen drawer?5 letters6.Follow4 letters10.NYC venue whose final show featured Patti Smith4 letters14.Economic justice topic10 letters16.Willie who broke the NHL's color barrier4 letters17.Forest formations with mythological associations10 letters18.Crux4 letters19.Useful element in making connections3 letters20.Group in Mercury's orbit?5 letters21.Causes of spiraling, at times5 letters22.Their feet may have claws4 letters23.Writers commissioned for tributes6 letters25.Tightens, perhaps6 letters28.Down for drama?6 letters29.Stuff5 letters30.Chrysler that won the 1978 Motor Trend Car of the Year Award9 letters33.Receive5 letters34.Offline3 letters35.Threw a pity party, perhaps5 letters36.Feature of HAL 9000 in "2001: A Space Odyssey"9 letters38.Nephric5 letters39.Coin bearing a bear6 letters40.Bear claw, e.g.6 letters41.Volunteer6 letters42.Result of productive talks4 letters43.Some bookmarks5 letters44."Find out"5 letters46.Mercury, for one3 letters49.Nursing spot4 letters50."Perfectly reasonable"10 letters52.Some Indigenous Canadians4 letters53.Clue in evolutionary history10 letters54.Cobbler's tool4 letters55.Around4 letters56.Maker of the One SL speaker5 letters
Down
1.__ Romeo4 letters2.Filmmaker Johnson4 letters3.Poet frequently referenced in "Don Quixote"4 letters4.Bygone orbiter3 letters5."All clear?"12 letters6.Boo-boos5 letters7.Curse4 letters8.Spaetzle, e.g.9 letters9."Uh-huh!"3 letters10.Settles11 letters11.One may be taken on a date10 letters12.Shift workers?5 letters13.Kalshi actions4 letters15.Some bait5 letters21.Party poppers12 letters22."Cock-a-doodle-doo!"11 letters24.Vibed on3 letters25.Fixes4 letters26.Peut-__: French "perhaps"4 letters27.Animated superhero series featuring the voice of Tara Strong10 letters28.Word in Beaufort readings5 letters30.Setting for some on-line orders?9 letters31.Close4 letters32.How much scrolling is done4 letters37.Producer on seven U2 albums3 letters40.Dated5 letters41.Italian home of the world's oldest bank5 letters42.Coat put on in the kitchen?5 letters43.Verb in a polenta recipe4 letters45.Sticks in the water4 letters46.Longtime "PBS News Hour" anchor Ifill4 letters47."Gah!"4 letters48.Top jobs?4 letters50.Letters expressing personal thoughts3 letters51.Team challenge3 letters
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