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August 5, 2026

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Across

1.Fist bump3 letters 4.Full of energy5 letters 9.Blows off steam5 letters 14.Commotion3 letters 15.Letter on a resistor5 letters 16.Old assembly area5 letters 17.Operate the camera for a 1994 Bullock/Reeves action movie?9 letters 19.Nickname of Hall of Famer Ernie Banks5 letters 20.Spun yarn4 letters 21.Digest founder Eric4 letters 22.Quiet partner5 letters 23.Arrange the kliegs and spots for a 1973 Woody Allen movie?12 letters 26.Grave6 letters 29.The rite answer3 letters 30.Put to the test5 letters 31.Papers in pots4 letters 34.Barclays Center ballers4 letters 38.Star pitcher3 letters 39.Provide funding for a 2004 James Wan horror movie?7 letters 42.Plumeria product3 letters 43.Kansas or Alabama, e.g.4 letters 45.Planted plots4 letters 46.Key5 letters 48.Press into service3 letters 50.Relaxed6 letters 51.Helm a 2012 Denzel Washington movie?12 letters 57.“Oh My God” singer5 letters 58.Chaplin of “Avatar: Fire and Ash”4 letters 59.Terrible time for a toddler4 letters 63.University of Louisiana’s ___ Cajuns5 letters 64.Hire actors for a 2008 Meryl Streep movie?9 letters 66.1960s United Nations secretary-general5 letters 67.When many take their coffee break5 letters 68.Veggie burger protein3 letters 69.Numbers5 letters 70.Tibet’s capital5 letters 71.Passport datum3 letters

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1.Absurd4 letters 2.Sarah McLachlan hit4 letters 3.Campaign predictor4 letters 4.“Veritas ___ liberabit” (“Truth will set you free”)3 letters 5.Call into question6 letters 6.Some of them bear crowns5 letters 7.Star pitcher?5 letters 8.Fills with cargo5 letters 9.Ratcheted (up)6 letters 10.Accept mutually7 letters 11.“For real!”5 letters 12.Battle break5 letters 13.Fencing choice5 letters 18.Rumble5 letters 24.Online reference for cinephiles4 letters 25.Homer’s middle child4 letters 26.Wild guess4 letters 27.Black-and-white mammal4 letters 28.Bank holding4 letters 31.Rocks in slings?3 letters 32.Approved3 letters 33.Cruiser letters3 letters 35.Fitzgerald of jazz4 letters 36.Concert merch4 letters 37.Position4 letters 40.Be complicit4 letters 41.In the company of4 letters 44.Some swordplay7 letters 47.Fight5 letters 49.Perfumery products6 letters 50.Playing marbles6 letters 51.Game with a numbered board5 letters 52.Its license plates say “Famous potatoes”5 letters 53.Lear’s middle child5 letters 54.Kind of point5 letters 55.Reluctant5 letters 56.Place for online pic posting5 letters 60.Gutless sort4 letters 61.Double-reed instrument4 letters 62.“Come Sail Away” rock group4 letters 65.Crime scene evidence3 letters

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