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Wednesday, October 21, 2026

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Difficulty: Easy
15x15 Grid

Daily Crossword

Theme: General Knowledge

Difficulty: Easy (2/5 stars)

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Across

1.Block unit
5.Cut (down), as expenses
9.It holds the lock
13.Set free
15.Mountain between lakes Lucerne and Zug.
16.___ Rose.
17.Led Zeppelin's gear
18.NCAA football poll aggregator
19.Solitary: Comb. form.
20.Become difficult to drive on, in Minnesota
21.Short time per.
22.Shield's center
24.First two words of a Christmas carol.
27.Follower of a Dutch humanist
31.Job for the exterminator
32.Wendy's burger for "discerning carnivores"
33.Lithuanian dimes.
34.Turk's neighbor: Abbr.
35.Pizza chain with square pies
36.Totally normal behavior there
38.Same as 45A
39.Uranium isotope separators.
40.Prance, as a Disney princess in a meadow might
41.Money-related: Abbr.
42.Squirrel's nest
43.Variant spelling for an eskimo boat recently added to the Scrabble dictionary (you'll need at least one blank to play it)
46.Singapore's prime minister Lee ___ Loong
48.Pro vote: Abbr.
51.All in agreement: Abbr.
52.Minded
54.The Wasp Factory author Banks
55.Star of "Star Wars"
56.Def Leppard "High ___"
57.To another place: Lat.
58.Soviet WWII counterintelligence

Down

1.CNN alternative
2.Bush and Clinton, once
3.Love, to Bobby Burns.
4.Goes off
5.Georges who wrote "Life: A User's Manual
6.Lively, on scores
7.They may be natural
8.Old English letter
9.Fictional school bully with henchmen named Crabbe and Goyle
10.Alas: Rare.
11.Soviet secret police, once
12.MLB stat concerning men on second and third
13.Southern sch. in its state's largest city
14.Sailor serenader
20.Peer Gynt playwright
21.Yeah, right
23.Biblical town
24.Dwight's two-time opponent
25.Drumming goddess Janet
26.__ Detoo (Princess Leia's robot)
27.Charles or Ray of midcentury design
28.Can ___ you something?
29.Garment at some Vietnamese weddings
30.Prog. for future ensigns
32.Kind of anatomical tube
34.Fusses
37.French actor Ebouaney
38.Winner of the first Best Supporting Actor Oscar
40.Mueller's predecessor as FBI director
42.Steve who co-created Spider-Man
43.One with four siblings from the same birth, colloquially
44.Run ___ in the paper
45.President-elect Bolsonaro
47.Depression fighter: Abbr.
48.Take ___ at (someone)
49.Work meas.
50.Page no.
52.Privacy please text
53.Senate monogram

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