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Universal Crossword Answers & Hints - July 20, 2026
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July 20, 2026
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1.Liquor in Jamaican black cake3 letters4.Covert agent3 letters7.Domesticated4 letters11.GPS calculations4 letters13.Megan ___ Stallion4 letters14.Track shape4 letters15.Digital information4 letters16.Party thrower4 letters17.Prodded5 letters19.Major maker of electric vehicle supply equipment11 letters22."So ___ heard"3 letters23.Like many opponents of 15-Across centers6 letters24."Daaang, things just got interesting!"6 letters26."Everyone needs to hear this," for short3 letters27.Unloading a sermon on11 letters31.Passover6 letters32.Menu section5 letters33.Prefix similar to pre-4 letters36.Even score3 letters37.Amount of Wellbutrin, for instance4 letters38.Make impossible5 letters40.Make possible6 letters43.Trainer at a golf club11 letters45.Dallas sch.3 letters48.Arrowhead?6 letters49.Major arteries6 letters51.Back muscle, for short3 letters52.Online drawing game involving constant reinterpretation ... and whose name is an anagram of 19-, 27- and 43-Across11 letters56."My Fair Lady" protagonist5 letters58.Move carefully4 letters59."___ be surprised"4 letters60.Minnesota's state bird4 letters61.Quadrant separators4 letters62.Quarrel4 letters63.Kiss, in Peckham4 letters64.Deceptive claim3 letters65.___-mo3 letters
Down
1.Amtrak baggage handler with a scarlet hat6 letters2.Beehive State residents6 letters3."Hakuna ___"6 letters4.Buy products4 letters5.Currency in the Philippines4 letters6.Himalayan cryptid4 letters7."See if you can do better!"7 letters8.Green ingredient on toast, for short3 letters9.Figuring it out8 letters10.Turns from everyday to gourmet, say8 letters12.Draped garment4 letters13.That person's6 letters18.Remove, like a tyrant6 letters20.Display astonishment4 letters21.Form of Japanese theater3 letters25.Indirectly insulting5 letters28."Have you ___?"5 letters29.Passing with flying colors5 letters30.Stingy5 letters31.Seat (or, in another sense, possible food) for a bird5 letters33.Word after "femme" or "homme"6 letters34.Denim pair with a bib, perhaps8 letters35.Highlight of a chemistry demonstration8 letters39.Kool's bandmates7 letters41.Ordeal for a popcorn-loving teen6 letters42.Repeating video4 letters44.401(k) alternative3 letters45.Deigns6 letters46.How-to resource6 letters47.Did, once6 letters50."The Americans" star Matthew4 letters53.Legit4 letters54.Rideshare alternative4 letters55.*nods sagely*4 letters57.Tourist attraction that's also a metaphor for chaos3 letters
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