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July 16, 2026

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1.World's top-selling cookie4 letters 5.Used a broom5 letters 10.Go by4 letters 14.Coal chunk4 letters 15.Indiana NBA player5 letters 16.Woody's folk-singing son4 letters 17.Parting words in "The Sound of Music"10 letters 19.Authentic4 letters 20.Plants with fronds5 letters 21.Gorilla, e.g.8 letters 23.(Did you forget I'm here?)4 letters 26.Cunning3 letters 27.Academic field for which you may learn Old English15 letters 35.Ginger ___3 letters 36."Jerry Maguire" star Zellweger5 letters 37.Chop finely5 letters 38.Prep, as a plane in winter5 letters 40.Ruby or emerald3 letters 42.Lowly worker4 letters 43.With 50-Across, classic hit7 letters 46."You ain't seen nothin' ___"3 letters 48.Trains to Wrigley Field3 letters 49.Flowing locks4 letters 50.See 43-Across10 letters 53.Guy seen on the Food Network5 letters 55.Palindromic Korean word for "dad"4 letters 56.Brew with major hops3 letters 59."Move on!"6 letters 61.What Taylor Swift has more of than geological time4 letters 64.Kathmandu native6 letters 66.Ideal vacation spot ... or a phonetic hint to a word hidden twice in 17-, 27- or 43-/50-Across8 letters 68.Snapple competitor6 letters 69.Divas have big ones4 letters 70.___ de los Muertos3 letters 71.Risk getting pulled over5 letters 72.Puts on4 letters 73.Unit of corn3 letters

Down

1."Frozen" snowman4 letters 2.Impolite4 letters 3.Middle Eastern bigwig4 letters 4.Company behind ChatGPT6 letters 5.Place to unwind3 letters 6.Bundle of bills3 letters 7.Vaping device4 letters 8.Social equal4 letters 9.Most loyal6 letters 10.It can have seven layers8 letters 11.___ 51 (alien site?)4 letters 12.Really rock, in slang4 letters 13.Shoe part4 letters 18.Showed guests their seats7 letters 22.HS reunion attendee4 letters 24.Time for final holiday prep, say3 letters 25."Geez!"3 letters 27.Sir's counterpart5 letters 28.Justice Kagan5 letters 29.Sanders who played for the Falcons5 letters 30.Relay race unit3 letters 31."I gotta jet"5 letters 32.Words before requesting an Uber10 letters 33.Reason for a food recall5 letters 34.Taste or touch5 letters 39.Musical opener?4 letters 41.Transformers' archenemy8 letters 44.Spain's peninsula6 letters 45.Coin with 44-Down pictured on it4 letters 47.Bottom's opposite3 letters 51.Supported a busker6 letters 52.Columnist's piece4 letters 54.Did nothing5 letters 56.Rustic hotels4 letters 57.Chewy Easter treat4 letters 58.Church recess4 letters 60.Emilia's husband in "Othello"4 letters 62.Home to seven "-stans"4 letters 63.Burn on the grill4 letters 65.Had a nibble3 letters 67.A beast of burden3 letters

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