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August 18, 2026

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1.Ed of "Lou Grant"5 letters 6.Flower holder4 letters 10.Baseball officials4 letters 14.Stir up5 letters 15.Bar mitzvah dance4 letters 16.Bean fermented to make miso4 letters 17.*Be a little nosy10 letters 19.__ a living4 letters 20.Yale student3 letters 21.Song for two4 letters 22.Apple Music predecessor6 letters 24.Whys and wherefores7 letters 26.Invitation letters4 letters 27.Toward the stern3 letters 28.Store4 letters 29.Acai bowl grain3 letters 32.*Music, dance, drama, and the like14 letters 36.Penne __ vodka4 letters 37.+ or - atomic particle3 letters 38.Self-referential4 letters 39.*Squeeze-box instrument with a keyboard14 letters 44."__-Hur"3 letters 45.Move like a spooked horse, maybe4 letters 46.McKellen of "X-Men"3 letters 47.Alien-hunting subj.4 letters 48.Royalties, e.g.7 letters 52.Deli order6 letters 55.Ultrasoft mineral4 letters 56.More, on a music score3 letters 57."Growing Pains" actor Thicke4 letters 58.*Public relations manager10 letters 61.Suppressed, with "up"4 letters 62.Toward sunrise4 letters 63.Ore finder5 letters 64.On a trawler, say4 letters 65.Gains after taxes4 letters 66.Bamboo-loving bear, or, when parsed in three parts, a feature of the answers to the starred clues5 letters

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1.According to5 letters 2.Took without asking5 letters 3.Big name in brick phones5 letters 4.__ out a living3 letters 5.List, as names during roll call7 letters 6.Footwear5 letters 7.Sell aggressively4 letters 8.Directional suffix3 letters 9.Wisconsin's capital7 letters 10.Drain completely5 letters 11.Kvetch4 letters 12.Funeral pile4 letters 13.Comic __: informal typeface4 letters 18.Reach a cost of5 letters 23.Rating for many shows aired at 8 p.m.4 letters 25.Plastic wrap brand5 letters 26.Big horned animal5 letters 28.Recommended garment when using glitter glue5 letters 29.Double Stuf cookie4 letters 30.Env. directive4 letters 31.Bag-screening org.3 letters 32.Part of a glissade, in ballet4 letters 33.Dynamism4 letters 34.Christina who played Wednesday Addams and appeared on "Wednesday"5 letters 35.__ acid5 letters 36.PD alert3 letters 40.Listen to4 letters 41.Signature replicator7 letters 42.Iranian currency5 letters 43.Summer childcare option7 letters 47.Christmas cookie receiver5 letters 48.Histories5 letters 49.Philly Ivy League sch.5 letters 50.Like a fork5 letters 51."Kama __"5 letters 52.West Coast wine region4 letters 53.Fútbol cheers4 letters 54.Locks on a mustang4 letters 55.Exam4 letters 59."Insecure" star Issa3 letters 60.Supermodel Carangi3 letters

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