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October 21, 2026

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Across

1.One of the components of Einstein’s equation4 letters 5.Hand makeup5 letters 10.Tears4 letters 14.Working hard4 letters 15.“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” playwright5 letters 16.Creative flash4 letters 17.Passport info4 letters 18.Smelling salts?10 letters 20.Monotonous sound5 letters 22.“Yeah, that’s better”7 letters 23.Problems with young’uns?12 letters 27.Many a middle schooler7 letters 28.Press into service3 letters 31.Crowning point4 letters 35.Play adapted from the works of Capote3 letters 36.Official timekeeper of tennis’s U.S. Open5 letters 38.Irritation resulting from an insult?15 letters 42.Dance akin to the maxixe5 letters 43.Joke around3 letters 44.“Shoot!”4 letters 45.Make a choice3 letters 46.Jackson who sang at JFK’s inaugural ball7 letters 50.Under the couch cushions, maybe?12 letters 55.Shoulder adornment7 letters 58.Like doves and hawks5 letters 59.What got rocker Tom a record?10 letters 63.“Ars Amatoria” poet4 letters 64.Entertaining awards feat4 letters 65.Squalid dwelling5 letters 66.“Those ___ the days”4 letters 67.Catch sight of4 letters 68.Peaceful places5 letters 69.Zen garden stuff4 letters

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1.Chocolate candy with a shell5 letters 2.Missile Command company5 letters 3.Who says?5 letters 4.Court recorder5 letters 5.High school eatery, informally3 letters 6.In the style of3 letters 7.Hitter’s stat3 letters 8.Stuart’s love on “Stuart Fails to Save the Universe”6 letters 9.Avoid a trial6 letters 10.Carnival attractions5 letters 11.Revered one4 letters 12.Crook, in cop show lingo4 letters 13.Lip4 letters 19.Literary master of irony6 letters 21.Triage sites3 letters 24.Sluglike race in the “Star Wars” galaxy4 letters 25.“___-Ca-Dabra” (1974 pop hit)4 letters 26.Had absolutely no talent for7 letters 28.Wrist-to-elbow bone4 letters 29.Breakaway group4 letters 30.Past dates?4 letters 31.Concerning4 letters 32.Thunder sound4 letters 33.Change source4 letters 34.Early bird holder3 letters 37.Sculling tool3 letters 39.Not much to look at6 letters 40.Khartoum’s river4 letters 41.Like “To a Skylark”4 letters 47.Don of “Trading Places”6 letters 48.Drag performer?6 letters 49.“That’s it!”3 letters 50.Like dirt roads, often5 letters 51.Maintains5 letters 52.Maker of Botanical Blossom body wash5 letters 53.Memorial mound of stones5 letters 54.Broke off5 letters 55.Saber’s kin4 letters 56.Cribbage pieces4 letters 57.On4 letters 60.“Now ___ seen everything!”3 letters 61.Chess pieces3 letters 62.Movers on high tracks3 letters

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