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Thursday, October 22, 2026

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Difficulty: Medium
15x15 Grid

Daily Crossword

Theme: General Knowledge

Difficulty: Medium (3/5 stars)

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Across

1.Address on the internet
4.Militant gr. of the '60s
8.Pit-__
12.1954 physics co-Nobelist Walther
14.Juno co-star
15.Streets of ___
16.Circe's island home
17.Headstone inscription: hic requiescit in pace.
18.WWII craft
19.Refusals
20.Vehicles for small fry.
23.For __ jolly ...
24.Tile: Lat.
25.Complete a toll road?
30.Vienna subway system
31.Southern alternative to you guys
32.Nothing, in Nayarit
35.D-Day vessels.
36.Kaley who played Penny on "The Big Bang Theory"
38.Shipping Wars channel
39.___ Bela, Baluchistan.
40.Low-caste Hindu.
41.Tassimo's answer to the K-Cup
42.*Literally, "outside the works"
45.Couturier Arnold
48.Dist. above the equator
49.Compass direction
52.405, in some dates
55.Does the chasing in tag
56.Water-skier's marker
57.Prefixes for large birds
59.Runner's rate
60.Singer Mikky whose surname sounds like a reverberation
61.New Zealand trees.
62.Comic dictionary compiler Evan
63.Mi casa ___ casa
64.___ Radcliffe, gothic novelist who wrote "The Mysteries of Udolpho"

Down

1.Thespian Hagen and namesakes
2.Line score initials
3.Don't remove
4.Whipped cream, in Vienna
5.Ancient fiddler
6.Ring for condensing lamp flame.
7.Something that looks like nothing?
8.Claim
9.___ tout (not at all): Fr.
10.Protective arch: Mining.
11.___ coin (flip to decide)
12.Forbid
13.Antipoverty agcy.
21.English Speaking Union.
22.One of the first programming languages I ever learned, in which "$_" is a thing
23.Royal titles: Abbr.
25.Thick as a Brick band, for short
26.The oldest in the U.S. is Cheyney University of Pennsylvania
27.They can be steel-cut, rolled, or instant
28.Tongue bone
29.Univ. staff
32.Desi film director Mira
33.As I Lay Dying father
34.Mil. assistants
36.Indian of Central America.
37.Battleship letters
38.Notice, in brief
40.Like a penthouse
41.Reptile of New Zealand
42.Mad man?
43.. . . hurt the ___ love
44.Jelly Roll Morton quartet?
45.Bushwhack
46.Juan's things
47.Chilean port
50.Some laughs
51.Stir-fry utensils
52.Ala. commodity
53.Edmond O'Brien film
54.Bibl. quotes, often
58.Suffix with Euclid

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