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August 22, 2026

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Across

1.Diplomatic assignment4 letters5.Weighs down5 letters10.Infectious bug4 letters14.One might get tipped3 letters17.Contrail makeup5 letters19.Vengeful swordsman Montoya5 letters20.Potatoes, in Indian cuisine4 letters21.Parcel (out)4 letters22.Long-necked swamp speaker?11 letters24.Honey-based drink4 letters25.Around 314, for a circle of radius 104 letters26.Alamo option7 letters27.Final glimpse of a forbidding silhouette?11 letters30.Precocious “Family Guy” character6 letters32.“That had to hurt!”3 letters34.Dreyer’s partner3 letters35.Imposes (upon)6 letters36.Used to be3 letters37.1982 movie with 2010 and 2025 sequels4 letters39.One of 265 in the Bronx Zoo4 letters41.Regional flora and fauna5 letters42.Two things that meet when applying balm after a workout?13 letters45.Losses in a ledger6 letters47.Cynical crime genre4 letters48.Injures badly5 letters49.Latin for “load”4 letters51.Yao in the Basketball Hall of Fame4 letters53.Having the most pepper icons on the menu, perhaps8 letters56.Result of a burning desire5 letters58.Strung along5 letters59.Take in3 letters60.Fawn’s kin4 letters62.Genesis creator4 letters64.Memorable span3 letters65.Salon choice without waves or curls?10 letters70.Drone-based delivery vehicle?10 letters73.Nintendo avatar3 letters74.“Whiskey in My Water” country singer Tyler4 letters75.Place to grab a mocha4 letters77.___ Lingus3 letters78.North Pole workers5 letters80.Factory worker5 letters82.“You doubt me?”8 letters87.Garden with a snake problem4 letters88.Surrender4 letters89.Saharan stopovers5 letters91.Modernists4 letters93.Genre for Björk and Kate Bush6 letters95.Two-wheeler with cables pulled taut?13 letters99.Bargain hunters’ finds5 letters100.Home of Iowa State4 letters101.Memo starter4 letters102.Receipt line3 letters103.Climbing expert6 letters105.Bestie, in Bordeaux3 letters106.Youngest king in the Valley of the Kings3 letters108.Capital on the Hudson6 letters110.Easy scores during a casual round?11 letters113.Snitch7 letters115.Initial cost4 letters116.Snore-inducing4 letters117.Perfectly negotiated agreements?11 letters121.Xmas, for Jimmy Buffett4 letters122.Southernmost Great Lake4 letters123.Liquefy in a blender5 letters124.Sonata section5 letters125.___ admin (IT pro)3 letters126.Dirt road tracks4 letters127.Microscope insert5 letters128.Drei squared4 letters

Down

1.Piping plastic, for short3 letters2.Crew member3 letters3.Enterprise, e.g.9 letters4.Thus far5 letters5.Old Milanese money4 letters6.World’s heaviest snakes9 letters7.“Likewise!”5 letters8.Braggart’s attribute3 letters9.Put in order4 letters10.They may include only the first levels9 letters11.Mournful poem5 letters12.Stadium sound4 letters13.Tweaks8 letters14.“How about this...”11 letters15.Really bothered5 letters16.Drops from ducts5 letters18.Sends, as payment6 letters21.Seafaring8 letters23.Ralph Vaughan Williams’s “Hugh the Drover,” e.g.5 letters28.Daughter of Cronus4 letters29.State of mind4 letters30.Pond glider4 letters31.Some food truck fare5 letters33.Growing business?4 letters38.“Put your wallet away”4 letters40.France’s film award5 letters41.Sultanate on the South China Sea6 letters43.Gospel singer Campbell5 letters44.Named as a source5 letters46.Bouillon brand5 letters50.Like a busybody4 letters52.Pest in a cloud4 letters54.Salon offerings5 letters55.“Young Frankenstein” role4 letters57.Elizabethan collar4 letters58.Cold-fermented beer5 letters61.Pixar film set during el Día de los Muertos4 letters63.Chew like a capybara4 letters65.Hook’s sidekick4 letters66.Swinton of “Michael Clayton”5 letters67.Big mouth features11 letters68.Corp. benefits experts6 letters69.Stepped (on)4 letters71.Home page, in a way5 letters72.Partner in crime5 letters76.Priest’s advice5 letters79.ATM feature8 letters81.Fellows who follow9 letters83.Practiced mindfulness, say9 letters84.Bookstore ID4 letters85.Smooth fruit9 letters86.Ancient city that lent its name to a Middle Eastern plateau5 letters88.Utensil that’s full of holes8 letters90.Mgr.’s underling4 letters92.Hot, in a way4 letters94.Daddy, in Durango4 letters96.Doha dignitary4 letters97.Really steamed5 letters98.Where losers dwell6 letters103.DNA lab items5 letters104.Good around the house5 letters105.Challenging H.S. English course5 letters107.Ultrasound targets5 letters109.Back with bucks5 letters111.Revered adviser4 letters112.Easy victims4 letters114.Hazel or olive4 letters118.___-de-sac3 letters119.End of an academic address3 letters120.Heir, often3 letters

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