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August 15, 2026

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Across

1.Bad guy4 letters5.Buyer be where?4 letters9.Rugged cliff4 letters13.Whodunit discovery6 letters19.Garden worker4 letters20.Cor anglais kin4 letters21.Expressive dance4 letters22.Tickled6 letters23.Censorship-fighting org.4 letters24.Give the cold shoulder to Dr. McCoy?9 letters26.Butterfly, e.g.6 letters27.Top competitors, often5 letters29.Baseball great Lefty with a namesake bridge near Oracle Park5 letters30.Pays attention7 letters31.Something usually doubled8 letters33.Revenuers, e.g.4 letters36.Garage sale caveat4 letters37.Loses heart8 letters38.Cowled contingent6 letters40.Aristotle’s “waking dream”4 letters44.Will of “Arrested Development”6 letters46.Use a Shop-Vac instead of a rake?10 letters49.“Walk on the Wild Side” singer7 letters52.Ices6 letters55.Fascinated6 letters56.Places for vows6 letters57.Toe treatment, familiarly4 letters58.Trilled in the heights7 letters59.Roles for stars5 letters60.“No Exit” playwright6 letters62.Without4 letters63.Tennis great Arthur4 letters64.Beard for Daffy, e.g.?11 letters66.Island nation with a Coral Coast4 letters70.Like boars and bucks4 letters71.Rejects with disdain6 letters72.Group of scouts5 letters73.Chilled7 letters77.Author Wiesel4 letters78.Indian loincloths6 letters79.Forward surge6 letters80.Country singer Ronnie6 letters83.Neighborhood west of Encino7 letters84.Snippet of a Motown hit used in another song?10 letters86.Evening event6 letters88.First-year law student4 letters89.“Nice burn!”6 letters92.Spanish turnover8 letters96.Talks incessantly4 letters99.Bread boxes?4 letters100.Where cell phones don’t work8 letters101.Fairbanks in films7 letters104.Place for a barbecue5 letters106.Backgammon piece5 letters107.Skillful6 letters108.“Drive carefully—90% of humans are caused by accident,” e.g.?9 letters112.Sheepskin boots4 letters113.Threaten6 letters114.Boris Godunov, e.g.4 letters115.Crown4 letters116.Fedora material4 letters117.Many a Degas6 letters118.French door part4 letters119.Otherwise4 letters120.Phone bill listing4 letters

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1.Discontinued, with “out”6 letters2.Epoch that saw the first early primates6 letters3.Finds new tenants for6 letters4.Moral Majority march?11 letters5.Criminal patterns, for short3 letters6.Couldn’t stand8 letters7.Registering the most decibels7 letters8.Carson’s successor4 letters9.Anger6 letters10.Bleed3 letters11.Pub potable3 letters12.Krypton, e.g.3 letters13.“The Myth of Sisyphus” writer5 letters14.Emirati’s neighbor5 letters15.Impertinent remark at a 12-step meeting?9 letters16.Ad Council ads, briefly4 letters17.Trucker’s rig4 letters18.Ideal site4 letters25.In shape4 letters28.Trap setters7 letters30.Item on a to-do list4 letters32.Uses the good china5 letters34.Puck, e.g.4 letters35.Algonquian tribe4 letters39.Some colas, briefly3 letters41.Almond outline4 letters42.Le Pew of cartoon fame4 letters43.Abbr. on a town’s welcoming sign4 letters45.Bounce your booty5 letters47.Currency of (and part of the name of) a West African nation5 letters48.Goals4 letters49.Refrain bit4 letters50.Flamenco cries4 letters51.Jazz setting4 letters53.Many flat screens5 letters54.Snoopy and the Red Baron, say7 letters57.Clip4 letters58.Bhutan bovines4 letters60.Do some pouting4 letters61.Name on a WWII bomber5 letters62.“Auld Lang ___”4 letters64.Russian country house5 letters65.Faucet faults5 letters66.Glaciers and icebergs?11 letters67.Tiny bit4 letters68.Enlist in4 letters69.Res ___ loquitur4 letters70.Assemble in great numbers4 letters72.Attire, informally7 letters73.Middling4 letters74.Soon, to a bard4 letters75.In alignment4 letters76.Top-notch tyrant?9 letters78.Agcy. that pioneered the internet and GPS5 letters80.Dash abbr.3 letters81.“Casablanca” role4 letters82.Mardi Gras follower4 letters83.Play breaks8 letters85.Forest growth4 letters87.Like some unhealthy attachments7 letters90.Current amount6 letters91.H.S. exam4 letters93.Orbital extreme6 letters94.Widget plugged into a computer6 letters95.Bikini trials, informally6 letters97.Rabbit chaser of fiction5 letters98.Dev of “Slumdog Millionaire”5 letters101.Like many a cellar4 letters102.Ancient theaters4 letters103.Coffee dispensers4 letters105.Category4 letters108.“The Racer’s Edge”3 letters109.Botanist Gray3 letters110.Whiff3 letters111.Born, in Bordeaux3 letters

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