Friday, November 6, 2026

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Difficulty: Medium

15x15 Grid

Daily Crossword

Theme: Animals & Pets

Difficulty: Medium (3/5 stars)

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Across

1.Father: Prefix. (4)

5.Entry in a Spanish atlas (4)

9.Mount for Cheryl White or Donna Cheek (5)

14.Kirghiz town (4)

15.Big League ___ (4)

16.Why did the deer need to wear braces? Because he had buck ___! (5)

17.Hoarseness. (4)

18.Become infatuated with (10)

20.Shelled reptile (6)

22.___! Yarrh! Grr! Arrh!: Kipling (4)

23.Suffix that's also a Spanish letter (3)

24.Eagle wearer (7)

26.Sch. punishment (4)

28.Deli stock with seeds (12)

33.Okays. (5)

36.Sled for hauling logs. (4)

37.Melville novel (4)

38.Bitter: Prefix (4)

39.Attempts (5)

40.What "Pore Jud" is. (4)

41.Islands SW of New Guinea (4)

42.Light-colored native of Nippon. (4)

43.Trumpian adverb (5)

44.Joseph's acres? (12)

47.Dutch painter Jan (4)

48.Fiery fellow (7)

52.Loop initials (3)

55.Pueblo Indian (4)

57.Describing a duck's walk. (6)

58.End of the observation (10)

61.___-Z (Camaro model) (4)

62.Stoli rival (5)

63.Molecule key for studying evolutionary relationships between species: Abbr. (4)

64.Oof... rough... (4)

65.Southend-___ (English resort) (5)

66.Measure equivalent to 14,500 psi, for short (4)

67.Gds. (4)

Down

1.Medicare Advantage, familiarly (5)

2.Hearing: Comb. form (5)

3.Bovine hip joint. (5)

4.Harshly criticize (11)

5.Fibber and Molly (6)

6.Exclamation: Var. (3)

7.Division of Lower Burma peopled by Mons. (4)

8.Phrase: Part II (11)

9.Interjection heard when breaking up (6)

10.Antipoverty agcy. (3)

11.Deneuve's dream (4)

12.Flute feature (4)

13.Honor: Ger. (4)

19.Loons' kin (6)

21.Rolex alternative (4)

25.Trellis feature (11)

27.He proclaimed himself the first president of the Republic of Vietnam (11)

29.Hawaiian food fish (5)

30.Intuitively reasonable but rarely actually used name for an online publication (4)

31.- (4)

32.Beverage: Dial. (4)

33.Milky stone (4)

34.Godly figure in the manga series "Death Note" (4)

35.Bus. major's course (4)

39.Martina McBride "___ the Arms of Love" (6)

43.__-carotene (4)

45.At an adjacent interval, in music (6)

46.Ready-___. (6)

49.English king, 946-55 (5)

50.At ___ (5)

51.Northwestern's stadium (5)

52.Sci-fi character who claims fluency in more than six million forms of communication (4)

53.Garfield (4)

54.Some French-inpsired chain restaurants, for short (the name means "place with good bread") (4)

56.Restrictive questionnaire options (4)

59.Want-ad abbr. (3)

60.Winter white, to Scots (3)

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Across

1.Father: Prefix. (4)

5.Entry in a Spanish atlas (4)

9.Mount for Cheryl White or Donna Cheek (5)

14.Kirghiz town (4)

15.Big League ___ (4)

16.Why did the deer need to wear braces? Because he had buck ___! (5)

17.Hoarseness. (4)

18.Become infatuated with (10)

20.Shelled reptile (6)

22.___! Yarrh! Grr! Arrh!: Kipling (4)

23.Suffix that's also a Spanish letter (3)

24.Eagle wearer (7)

26.Sch. punishment (4)

28.Deli stock with seeds (12)

33.Okays. (5)

36.Sled for hauling logs. (4)

37.Melville novel (4)

38.Bitter: Prefix (4)

39.Attempts (5)

40.What "Pore Jud" is. (4)

41.Islands SW of New Guinea (4)

42.Light-colored native of Nippon. (4)

43.Trumpian adverb (5)

44.Joseph's acres? (12)

47.Dutch painter Jan (4)

48.Fiery fellow (7)

52.Loop initials (3)

55.Pueblo Indian (4)

57.Describing a duck's walk. (6)

58.End of the observation (10)

61.___-Z (Camaro model) (4)

62.Stoli rival (5)

63.Molecule key for studying evolutionary relationships between species: Abbr. (4)

64.Oof... rough... (4)

65.Southend-___ (English resort) (5)

66.Measure equivalent to 14,500 psi, for short (4)

67.Gds. (4)

Down

1.Medicare Advantage, familiarly (5)

2.Hearing: Comb. form (5)

3.Bovine hip joint. (5)

4.Harshly criticize (11)

5.Fibber and Molly (6)

6.Exclamation: Var. (3)

7.Division of Lower Burma peopled by Mons. (4)

8.Phrase: Part II (11)

9.Interjection heard when breaking up (6)

10.Antipoverty agcy. (3)

11.Deneuve's dream (4)

12.Flute feature (4)

13.Honor: Ger. (4)

19.Loons' kin (6)

21.Rolex alternative (4)

25.Trellis feature (11)

27.He proclaimed himself the first president of the Republic of Vietnam (11)

29.Hawaiian food fish (5)

30.Intuitively reasonable but rarely actually used name for an online publication (4)

31.- (4)

32.Beverage: Dial. (4)

33.Milky stone (4)

34.Godly figure in the manga series "Death Note" (4)

35.Bus. major's course (4)

39.Martina McBride "___ the Arms of Love" (6)

43.__-carotene (4)

45.At an adjacent interval, in music (6)

46.Ready-___. (6)

49.English king, 946-55 (5)

50.At ___ (5)

51.Northwestern's stadium (5)

52.Sci-fi character who claims fluency in more than six million forms of communication (4)

53.Garfield (4)

54.Some French-inpsired chain restaurants, for short (the name means "place with good bread") (4)

56.Restrictive questionnaire options (4)

59.Want-ad abbr. (3)

60.Winter white, to Scots (3)

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