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Universal Crossword Answers & Hints - July 22, 2026
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July 22, 2026
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1.Arm bone4 letters5.Promos3 letters8.Some craft beers, for short4 letters12.Wiggle ___4 letters13.Rug cleaner, briefly3 letters14."Quickly!"6 letters16.*Fundraiser with muffins, often8 letters18.PC shortcut for switching programs6 letters19.___ acids5 letters20.Name hidden in "the man I love"4 letters22.Jr.'s jr.3 letters23.Cryptology org.3 letters24.*Zest for life, from the French11 letters28.Coder's concern3 letters29.Raccoon relative5 letters30.T. rex, e.g.4 letters33.Latvian capital4 letters36.___ Vaughan, the "Queen of Bebop"5 letters39.*Advice to Skywalker15 letters42.Artery from the left ventricle5 letters43."To summarize ..." acronym4 letters44.Brit's "Good heavens!"4 letters45.Actor Lundgren5 letters47."Easy" sequence3 letters49.*"Again!"11 letters53.Crow's call3 letters56.Inflate, as sports stats3 letters57.Not "shot on a potato," briefly4 letters58.Pageant headpiece5 letters60.___ horse (wooden "gift")6 letters63.Southpaws' counterparts, or a phonetic hint to the last letters of all words in the starred clues' answers8 letters65.Recreate "The Thinker," e.g.6 letters66.Artist Yoko3 letters67.Prefix in juice names4 letters68."Enough!"4 letters69.Mouthful of gum3 letters70.Emcee4 letters
Down
1.City-related5 letters2.Nutrient-rich soils5 letters3.Finnish company that pivoted from phones to network equipment5 letters4."Preach!"4 letters5."Abbott Elementary" principal3 letters6.___ Lama5 letters7.Play part5 letters8.Not online, online3 letters9.Cooking vessel3 letters10.Like Windows treatments?9 letters11.Step5 letters14.Hunter-gatherer diet5 letters15.Off-Broadway award4 letters17.Colorless Korean alcohol4 letters21.Proof of legal age, perhaps6 letters25.Monster such as Shrek4 letters26.Florist's container4 letters27.Like tilted type6 letters28.Down side?6 letters30."Levitating" singer Lipa3 letters31.Prefix with -morphic3 letters32.Happily explained a character's origin story, maybe9 letters34.Conditional construct in programming6 letters35.Futbol announcer's shout3 letters37.Robyn Fenty, ___ Rihanna3 letters38."You there!"3 letters40.Heavenly ring4 letters41.Study frantically4 letters46.Finger or paw mark5 letters48.___ Harmon, chess prodigy in "The Queen's Gambit"4 letters49.Selects4 letters50.Deal breakers?5 letters51.Judo move5 letters52.Menzel of "Wicked"5 letters53.Home of the Egyptian Museum5 letters54.Regions5 letters55."I ___ listening!"5 letters59.Hankering4 letters61."On The Floor" singer, for short3 letters62.Notes or Maps3 letters64.Higher power3 letters
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