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Universal Crossword Answers & Hints - July 26, 2026
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July 26, 2026
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Across
1.Jamaican fruit also called a uniq4 letters5.Spanish for "daddy"4 letters9.Queen of Hearts' pastries5 letters14.Fourscore?9 letters16.Filmmaker Kurosawa5 letters17."Just try!"9 letters18.It may be everything5 letters19.Only Beatles surname that fits here5 letters20.Kidney-related5 letters22.Half a giggle3 letters23.Lions or Tigers or Bears (oh my!)4 letters25.Goodies6 letters27.Idiosyncrasies4 letters28.Bread category?8 letters30."Great to be home!"8 letters32.Mount where Moses received two 9-Down5 letters33.Poke tuna3 letters34.Sandwich that might be served with Cajun french fries5 letters36.Tax prep expert3 letters37.Hits on the noggin5 letters40.Steadfast8 letters43."Now pay attention here ..."8 letters45."Acoustic Soul" singer India.___4 letters46."Gateway to the Japanese Alps"6 letters47.Drescher who made her screen debut in "Saturday Night Fever"4 letters48.Oldest "Little Women" sister3 letters49.Hope chest wood5 letters51.Vigor5 letters55.Useful Scrabble tile (though it's pointless!)5 letters57.Where a cook gets cracking?9 letters59."The Lovely Bones" author Sebold5 letters60.Backyard pendulum9 letters61.Ecclesiastical council5 letters62.Kernel4 letters63.___ buco (Italian for "bone with a hole")4 letters
Down
1.Trendy boots4 letters2.Stick-to-itiveness4 letters3."Said one volcano to the other, 'I ___ you!'" (dad joke)4 letters4.Subject of Newton's first law7 letters5.Clock setting at LAX3 letters6.Chili rating unit5 letters7.It's one for the books!4 letters8."The jig is up!"9 letters9.See 32-Across7 letters10.Alias letters3 letters11.Exactly when expected10 letters12.Forest scene9 letters13.Event for shoppers4 letters15.Tell actors what to do6 letters21.(I'm a doggo!)3 letters24."Stat!"4 letters26.Nickname for singer Grande3 letters27."Not so!"10 letters28.Buffalo athlete in skates5 letters29.Sorento manufacturer3 letters30."Now wait just a minute!"9 letters31.Activities that foster connection?9 letters33.Do something3 letters35.2026, e.g.4 letters38.Bar barrel3 letters39.Satisfied the munchies7 letters41.Atlanta 23-Across that won the 2021 World Series6 letters42.Extension at the office7 letters44.Number that is its own square3 letters47.Jacques of song5 letters48.CEOs' degrees, often4 letters50.Friend, in French4 letters52.Hank Aaron got a record 2,297 of them, for short4 letters53.Movers' vehicles4 letters54."And so ..."4 letters56.Military abbr. hidden in "division commander"3 letters58.Spearheaded3 letters
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