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October 18, 2026

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1.Come & Get It! pet food brand4 letters5."Scrubs" role for Judy Reyes5 letters10.Some language exams5 letters15.Escalator part4 letters19.Large Hadron Collider org.4 letters20.Orca habitat5 letters21.Upgrade, as machinery5 letters22.Simplicity4 letters23.Fizzled out4 letters24.Versace parent company5 letters25."12-Point Type: A History"?10 letters27.Prankster?11 letters30.Fortune6 letters31.Corporate VIPs4 letters32.Dance club version, say5 letters34.Like fabric in a quilting kit6 letters38.Silver-white metal6 letters41.Audition hopeful5 letters43.Like a car made between 1919 and 19307 letters44."You for Me" singer Rita3 letters45.Cut-rate vacation rentals?13 letters49.Issa of "Insecure"3 letters50.Chutney fruit5 letters52.D-backs st.4 letters53.Chimp kin5 letters54.Helsinki native4 letters55.Perform terribly5 letters56.Barbie's boo3 letters57.IRS convenience5 letters58.Pickles5 letters59.Rowlands with an Honorary Academy Award4 letters60.Poor grade3 letters61.Played a pipe in a parade5 letters62.Figure in the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition6 letters63.Decorative jugs5 letters65.Teams5 letters66.Home network need5 letters67."MasterChef" host Gordon6 letters69.Bank investment?5 letters70.Word with brow or blow3 letters71.__ bean4 letters74.Noisy, as a crowd5 letters75.Driveway brick5 letters76.With 16-Down, official cocktail of the city of Oakland3 letters77.Shot in the arm, say5 letters78.Eyelash treatment4 letters79.Basic framework5 letters80.Frames4 letters81.Leftover5 letters82.Playpen denizen3 letters83.Motto of a therapist who uses origami to teach anger management?13 letters86.Cake mix need3 letters87.Traditional source of wood for baseball bats7 letters89.On the periphery5 letters90."No __!"6 letters92.Had a snack6 letters93.Fillable flatbreads5 letters95.H-Town ALer4 letters96.Gain back6 letters98.Morning-after-the-wedding stories?11 letters104.Useful tool in making some Thanksgiving pies?10 letters108.Vedder of Pearl Jam5 letters109.Make mittens, perhaps4 letters110.Winged archer4 letters111.Primer mes del año5 letters112.PowerPoint unit5 letters113.Periphery4 letters114.Well-worn trail4 letters115.Showed again5 letters116.Words to live by5 letters117.Short message of gratitude4 letters

Down

1.Adapter letters4 letters2."Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope" speaker4 letters3.Slice and dice, perhaps4 letters4.Coming right up6 letters5."Priscilla" writer/director Sofia7 letters6.Ranch units5 letters7.Raise4 letters8.Some pub pals4 letters9."Devious Maids" star8 letters10.Magic, on sports tickers3 letters11.Form of energy healing5 letters12.Tack on5 letters13."Not one word of this is true!"4 letters14.Walking noisily8 letters15.The continents, e.g.6 letters16.See 76-Across3 letters17.PC "oops" key3 letters18.Split __ soup3 letters26.Forest plants5 letters28.Hoka rival6 letters29.Highlighter hue4 letters33.Automatic drip-brew pioneer8 letters35.One with next-level skills in being thoughtful and compassionate?12 letters36.Tanzania neighbor6 letters37.Wee6 letters38.Claim on some menus5 letters39.Mighty mad5 letters40.The dog days of summer?12 letters41.Correspond5 letters42.Adam's eldest4 letters43.Ivy, for one4 letters46.Tools with teeth5 letters47.Zodiac ram5 letters48.Un-locked?4 letters51.Really bothers7 letters54.Mozilla web browser7 letters57.Down source5 letters58.Figure, casually3 letters60.Towel off3 letters61.Fin8 letters62."I don't have all day!"3 letters64.Tuner's asset3 letters65.Cut5 letters66.Damp5 letters67.Lanai furniture material6 letters68.Melodic passage6 letters69.Strike zone?4 letters70.Pulitzer-winning rapper Kendrick5 letters72.Brink5 letters73.Wise words5 letters75.Leader of the Holy See4 letters76.Attic pests4 letters77.Strong urge6 letters79.Big name in classic travel guides8 letters80.Disorderly place8 letters83.Primp5 letters84.Island feast4 letters85.Springsteen's __ Band7 letters88.Clobber6 letters91."Guardians of the Galaxy" voice role for Bradley Cooper6 letters93.Overly inquisitive sort5 letters94.Prefix with structure5 letters95.Slyly cutting5 letters97.Hathaway of "The Odyssey"4 letters99.Just chilling4 letters100.All-father of Norse myth4 letters101.Roddick who was the last American man to win the US Open4 letters102.__ in a blanket4 letters103.Half note feature4 letters104.Energy3 letters105.Cy Young stat3 letters106.Basic bed3 letters107.Long time3 letters

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