Thursday, October 8, 2026
Crossword Daily
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Difficulty: Easy
15x15 Grid
Daily Crossword
Theme: Health & Wellness
Difficulty: Easy (2/5 stars)
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Across
1.Surfeit, in Scotland (4)
5.Garbage boat (4)
9.Romeo and Juliet role (5)
14.Peer Gynt's mom (4)
15.Hypothetical core material of the earth, supposedly nickel and iron: Geol. (4)
16.Drang nach ___ (thrust toward the East): Ger. (5)
17.Hipbones connected to the thighbones (4)
18.Children (10)
20.Tamper with (6)
22.Slightly (4)
23.Our country, to Italians (3)
24.Briefly (7)
26.Hit signs (4)
28.Ancient Sumerian city. (5)
30.Kind of partner or treatment (6)
34.German waiters: Colloq. (5)
37.Base metal, old usage (4)
39.Indian of Guatemala. (4)
40.Company whose mascot has a Cockney accent (4)
41.Adjective intensifier after bare-, half-, or tight- (5)
42.The Days and Nights of Molly ____ (4)
43.Pee compound used in fertilizer (4)
44.Tea cake: Var. (4)
45.Russian Czar: Var. (5)
46.Hospital workers (6)
48.Author Okorafor (5)
50.___ word (retard) (4)
52.____ lovely day? (7)
56.Certain computer code (3)
59.On the mend, perhaps (4)
61.Writer Dostoyevsky (6)
62.Property holder's holding (10)
65.Roman religious festivals. (4)
66.Hearty Spanish dish (5)
67.Union member (4)
68.Jewish month (4)
69.Alleyn and Morse, for example: Abbr. (5)
70.French Channel village. (4)
71.Q-Vconnector (4)
Down
1.Variety of date much cultivated in Egypt. (5)
2.Eagle's claw (5)
3.Alternative to Nikes (5)
4.Part of the evening news (11)
5.Egils saga author Sturluson (6)
6.Billing method: Abbr. (3)
7.... long walk ___ short pier (4)
8.Bridge positions (5)
9.Me neither (6)
10.Music center? (3)
11.Election Day stats. (4)
12.Region in French Sudan. (4)
13.Britain's USO. (4)
19.Diagrammed in class (6)
21.Ours, in Scotland
25.Tassimo's answer to the K-Cup (5)
27.Let me look at that, to a tablemate (11)
29.Canada porcupine. (5)
31.Whence the phrase "burning bush": Abbr. (4)
32.Nest, in Napoli (4)
33.Letters before an email summary (4)
34.Yoruba god of iron (4)
35.Aunt ___ ("Star Wars" character) (4)
36.Eggs: Ger. (4)
38.Foreign Minister of Italy. (5)
41.Agree (6)
45.Heroic 9/11 gp. (4)
47.Medium word (6 letters) (6)
49.Deliberately procrastinate (6)
51.Mikhail's Mrs. (5)
53.Adored ones (5)
54.Part of the "Stepquote." (5)
55.Babylonian abode of the dead (5)
56.Sights at Aosta (4)
57.Hymn of praise: Var. (4)
58.Sizes with some other name at Starbucks: Abbr. (4)
60.Westernmost Aleutian (4)
63.Member of a "Bavarian," "Bohemian," or "Transylvanian" mountain range (3)
64.Kobe's team, on scoreboards (3)
Solving Tools
Across
1.Surfeit, in Scotland (4)
5.Garbage boat (4)
9.Romeo and Juliet role (5)
14.Peer Gynt's mom (4)
15.Hypothetical core material of the earth, supposedly nickel and iron: Geol. (4)
16.Drang nach ___ (thrust toward the East): Ger. (5)
17.Hipbones connected to the thighbones (4)
18.Children (10)
20.Tamper with (6)
22.Slightly (4)
23.Our country, to Italians (3)
24.Briefly (7)
26.Hit signs (4)
28.Ancient Sumerian city. (5)
30.Kind of partner or treatment (6)
34.German waiters: Colloq. (5)
37.Base metal, old usage (4)
39.Indian of Guatemala. (4)
40.Company whose mascot has a Cockney accent (4)
41.Adjective intensifier after bare-, half-, or tight- (5)
42.The Days and Nights of Molly ____ (4)
43.Pee compound used in fertilizer (4)
44.Tea cake: Var. (4)
45.Russian Czar: Var. (5)
46.Hospital workers (6)
48.Author Okorafor (5)
50.___ word (retard) (4)
52.____ lovely day? (7)
56.Certain computer code (3)
59.On the mend, perhaps (4)
61.Writer Dostoyevsky (6)
62.Property holder's holding (10)
65.Roman religious festivals. (4)
66.Hearty Spanish dish (5)
67.Union member (4)
68.Jewish month (4)
69.Alleyn and Morse, for example: Abbr. (5)
70.French Channel village. (4)
71.Q-Vconnector (4)
Down
1.Variety of date much cultivated in Egypt. (5)
2.Eagle's claw (5)
3.Alternative to Nikes (5)
4.Part of the evening news (11)
5.Egils saga author Sturluson (6)
6.Billing method: Abbr. (3)
7.... long walk ___ short pier (4)
8.Bridge positions (5)
9.Me neither (6)
10.Music center? (3)
11.Election Day stats. (4)
12.Region in French Sudan. (4)
13.Britain's USO. (4)
19.Diagrammed in class (6)
21.Ours, in Scotland
25.Tassimo's answer to the K-Cup (5)
27.Let me look at that, to a tablemate (11)
29.Canada porcupine. (5)
31.Whence the phrase "burning bush": Abbr. (4)
32.Nest, in Napoli (4)
33.Letters before an email summary (4)
34.Yoruba god of iron (4)
35.Aunt ___ ("Star Wars" character) (4)
36.Eggs: Ger. (4)
38.Foreign Minister of Italy. (5)
41.Agree (6)
45.Heroic 9/11 gp. (4)
47.Medium word (6 letters) (6)
49.Deliberately procrastinate (6)
51.Mikhail's Mrs. (5)
53.Adored ones (5)
54.Part of the "Stepquote." (5)
55.Babylonian abode of the dead (5)
56.Sights at Aosta (4)
57.Hymn of praise: Var. (4)
58.Sizes with some other name at Starbucks: Abbr. (4)
60.Westernmost Aleutian (4)
63.Member of a "Bavarian," "Bohemian," or "Transylvanian" mountain range (3)
64.Kobe's team, on scoreboards (3)
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