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Universal Crossword Answers & Hints - September 28, 2026
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September 28, 2026
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Across
1.Chocolate-___ peanuts6 letters7.Puffed cereal3 letters10.Marry3 letters13."Dawn of the Dead" filmmaker George6 letters14.Assistant4 letters15.Listener?3 letters16.Abashed11 letters18.Garment with straps3 letters19.Design detail, briefly4 letters20.Gather up5 letters21.Word yelled after accidentally speaking in unison4 letters22.Hedge plant5 letters24.Number that's "ichi" in Japanese3 letters25.What App Store apps run on3 letters26.Terrified12 letters31.Little lie3 letters34.Pen ends4 letters35.Coal remnant6 letters36.Moody genre3 letters37.It appears backward in "stranded"3 letters38.Adventure resort rental, for short3 letters39.She-sheep3 letters40.Remove a harness from6 letters42.Symbol on the Lebanese flag4 letters43.Sad14 letters48.Snitched4 letters49.Caution ___ Floor3 letters50.Models strike them5 letters52."What a disaster ..."4 letters53.Drop a bass line, maybe?4 letters54.Wizard4 letters55.Old Glory ... or an alternate set of clues for the three longest answers15 letters59.___long (soon, poetically)3 letters60.Season-long stories, perhaps4 letters61.Prepared6 letters62.Above, poetically3 letters63.Syllable of disinterest3 letters64.Some loaves4 letters
Down
1.Peppery salad herb5 letters2.Zing5 letters3.Substance many insects are preserved in5 letters4.Drinking vessel such as Chip from "Beauty and the Beast"6 letters5.Drop the ball3 letters6.Cartoon character with a map named Map4 letters7.Half of XOXO6 letters8.Mid-March date4 letters9.Crossed (out)3 letters10.Bit of "Broad City" content, originally8 letters11.Make, as money4 letters12.Partner of Star-Lord and Gamora4 letters14.Positions on a mat6 letters17.Jellylike organism6 letters21.Lewis in the graphic novel series "March"4 letters23.Teen who may play the sax7 letters25."You win!"7 letters27.Breathable sheet fabric5 letters28.Played a character5 letters29.Stitch up3 letters30.Three, in Turin3 letters31.Prolonged dispute4 letters32."Don't hand me that phone!"9 letters33.Epithet for Batman's sidekick9 letters38."Queen of Soul" Franklin6 letters41.Barely simmering5 letters42.End-of-year graduate papers6 letters44.Site where some stream crosswords6 letters45.Severely sleep-deprived parent, in slang6 letters46."Symphony of ___" (Stravinsky work inspired by hymns)6 letters47.Transition5 letters51.Birdfeeder bit4 letters52.Cookie with a Stuf of Doom variety4 letters53.Word before "house" or "work"4 letters56.Cuban sandwich meat3 letters57."Bullseye With Jesse Thorn" network3 letters58.Sober3 letters
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