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Universal Crossword Answers & Hints - August 11, 2026
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August 11, 2026
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Across
1."Mad" run4 letters5.Twitch5 letters10.Make small talk4 letters14.Dos x cuatro4 letters15.Michelangelo masterwork5 letters16.Bat mitzvah or baptism4 letters17."Get well!" (In this answer, see letters 2-7)10 letters19.Sephora rival4 letters20.Stretched the truth6 letters21.Pest ... or pester3 letters22."Je ne ___ pas" (French for "I don't know")4 letters23.Vacant look5 letters24.Like a mighty wind (... letters 2-5)9 letters26.Fish in Hawaiian (not Greek!) cuisine4 letters28.Nonurban outfitter3 letters29.The lowdown4 letters32.Pinpoint6 letters36.Make up one's mind3 letters39.Fixes glitches ... or unscrambles this puzzle's indicated letters?15 letters42.Run a tab, say3 letters43.Nancy who was the first madam speaker6 letters44."Right away!"4 letters45.St. Louis-to-Chicago dir.3 letters47.They might be loose or tight4 letters49.Alternative to the Buick Enclave and Chevrolet Traverse (... letters 3-8)9 letters54.Target5 letters58.Pearl Harbor's island4 letters59.___-Magnon3 letters60.Under Cupid's spell6 letters61.Silent signals4 letters62.Like some lemurs (... letters 3-6)10 letters64.Canal opened in 18254 letters65.Cornell and Columbia5 letters66.Part of a deck4 letters67.Morning host Kelly4 letters68.Wooden duck, say5 letters69.Bohemian4 letters
Down
1.Removes, as a hat5 letters2.Nail the midterm5 letters3.Biblical queendom5 letters4.Hal who won a Tony for "Mark Twain Tonight!"8 letters5.Zoomed4 letters6.Orchestra's place3 letters7.Health insurance giant5 letters8.Sweet bargain5 letters9.TV mom whose blue hair makes her 8-foot-65 letters10.Fictional castaway Robinson6 letters11.Sidesplitting9 letters12.Spooky story?5 letters13.Rib5 letters18.(The light's green!)4 letters24.Grave-robbing spirit5 letters25.Unencumbered4 letters27.Sunburn balm4 letters29.___ Jima3 letters30.Presently3 letters31.Roast beef sandwich served au jus9 letters33.IT VIP3 letters34.Befuddled5 letters35.___ Mints (Girl Scout cookies)4 letters37.Org. fixated on eagles and birdies3 letters38.Amt. of vanilla, maybe3 letters40.Design deet4 letters41.St. Peter's, for instance8 letters46.Queasiness6 letters48.Real first name of Queen Latifah4 letters49.Lost cause5 letters50.Indigenous New Zealander5 letters51.Sharp-smelling5 letters52.Take the wheel5 letters53.Type of bond or column5 letters55.Back biter5 letters56.Prevent, as a crisis5 letters57.Abe's Mount Rushmore neighbor5 letters60.___-bitsy4 letters63.Logical beginning?3 letters
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