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September 16, 2026
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1.Image in a botanical print4 letters5.Feminist Frequency founder Sarkeesian5 letters10.Hardly hard4 letters14.Jessica of "Sin City"4 letters15.__ New Year5 letters16.Wagon rod4 letters17.Prohibition of some single-use products15 letters20.__ Domingo: Caribbean capital5 letters21.Permit3 letters22.Grinds to a halt5 letters23.German article3 letters24.Earth-friendly prefix3 letters25.Female moose3 letters26.Spiral burners that deter biting pests13 letters30.Bottled, as emotions6 letters31.Add to an email6 letters33.Subject of a miner dispute, maybe3 letters34.Shuns7 letters38.Splash of color in an ornamental pond3 letters39.Ties the knot4 letters41.Granola bar fleck3 letters42.Groks4 letters43.Liquid in a vampire slayer's vial9 letters48.Home of the College World Series5 letters50.Cover story5 letters53."Later, chumps!," or what can be said while putting 17-, 26-, and 43-Across to good use?13 letters57.Actor James __ Jones4 letters58.Liquid-Plumr rival5 letters59.Battery unit4 letters61.Distort4 letters62.Shoutout to a parent5 letters63.__ out a living4 letters64.Like muted colors4 letters65.Ukrainian port on the Black Sea5 letters66.Tennis match units4 letters
Down
1.Track circuits4 letters2.Spanish pronoun4 letters3.Like ghost towns9 letters4.Like a race winner7 letters5.Boxer Muhammad3 letters6.Atomic centers6 letters7.Bug6 letters8.Bit of henna art6 letters9.Train board abbr.3 letters10.Took care of a situation7 letters11.U-shaped body formed by a river diversion9 letters12.Cardboard carton part4 letters13.Till stack4 letters18.Rotational force6 letters19.Broad neckties6 letters26.Trifling4 letters27.Company with brown trucks3 letters28.Cry from a crow's nest3 letters29.Glaswegian, e.g.4 letters30."Ka-blammo!"3 letters32.The "H" of HMS3 letters35.Demure3 letters36.Hem and __3 letters37.Greek vowel3 letters40."Ready to get moving?"7 letters42.Mourns7 letters44."Well, well, well!"3 letters45.Cry from a crow's nest6 letters46.Puget Sound city6 letters47.Large deer3 letters48.Financial center in Honshu5 letters49.Gourmet mushroom5 letters51.Insolvent5 letters52.Typically uninhabited key5 letters54.Sudoku diagram4 letters55."I feel seen!"4 letters56.Chicago-style pizza chain, familiarly4 letters57.Seer's gift3 letters60.Scores equal to two FGs3 letters
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