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Friday, October 30, 2026

Crossword Daily

Start your day with the perfect blend of challenge and comfort. Grab your coffee and dive into today's puzzle.

Difficulty: Easy
15x15 Grid

Daily Crossword

Theme: Sports & Fitness

Difficulty: Easy (2/5 stars)

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Across

1.Bug sci. (5)
6.WWII craft (4)
10.Texter's "Unless my memory deceives me" (4)
14.Breaks up (10)
16.Memory: Prefix. (4)
17.Comprehensively defeated (10)
18.Fishing hole (4)
19.One of the triangle congruence theorems, for short (3)
20.Famed racer (5)
21.Coach (5)
22.The singing of no songs, in Japan. (4)
23.Southern alternative to {/you guys/} (4)
25.Loser to Holmes: June 11, 1982 (6)
28.___ assumption (pretty sure) (8)
32.Part of the "Stepquote." (5)
33.Having two equal sides (9)
34.Emperor who had the Praetorian Guard strike down Galba (4)
35.Agassi of tennis (5)
36.__ ever so humble, ... (4)
37.They have very thick skins (9)
39.Remove from office, soviet-style (5)
40.Singer with the 1965 hit "1-2-3" (8)
41.Popular tennis player? (6)
42.Chine silk of Sumatra. (4)
43.In debt (4)
44.Like the novel "Gadsby" (5)
47.Port in North Korea. (5)
49.Manuscript abbreviation (3)
52.The hell is wrong with people?, in a text (4)
53.Cloned lion? (10)
55.Tiberis feeder (4)
56.Carved walrus teeth, etc. (10)
57.Frisk about (4)
58.Darby of "Flight of the Conchords" (4)
59.Old nickname for uncle. (5)

Down

1.N.Y. times (4)
2.Indonesian island (4)
3.Clucks of the tongue (4)
4.Chemical suffix (3)
5.Miss ___ ("Loki" character voiced by Tara Strong) (7)
6.Mistakes: Lat. (5)
7.Union member (4)
8.Regional pair? (9)
9.Concorde, e.g.
10.Spur-of-the-moment purchases (11)
11.Beyond regulation, for short (4)
12.City that self-describes as "The Biggest Little City in the World" (4)
13.USN rank (4)
15.Central Philippine island (5)
21.Obsolete Spanish coin. (4)
22.Civil War cleric? (11)
24.Dusseldorf donkey (4)
25.Lowest-ranking freeman (5)
26.____ QT (hush-hush) (5)
27.Norse god: Var. (5)
28.When the well _____, we know the worth of water (5)
29.Oldsmobile model (5)
30.Pretend (5)
31.Cosmetician Lauder (5)
33.Deep cut that's kept immobilized? (9)
35.Summit: Lat. (4)
38.Thousand __, CA (4)
39.Lung: Prefix. (7)
41.Impetuously, after "on" (5)
43.Bone: Lat. (5)
44.Comic dictionary compiler Evan (4)
45.K-P connection (4)
46.Russian chess great Geller (4)
48.Repulsive (4)
49.Manchurian port (4)
50.Benefit (4)
51.Little ones (4)
53.Chemin de ___ (3)
54.Old province of Honshu. (3)

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