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August 5, 2026

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Across

1.Mess up5 letters 6.Beer foam4 letters 10.Golden Arches sandwich5 letters 15.Sneeze sound5 letters 16.Upfront stake4 letters 17.Family, in Hawaiian5 letters 18.First lesson in "How To DJ"?16 letters 21.Summer shirts8 letters 22."Let me say it again ... "7 letters 23.Antlered grazer3 letters 24.Trauma ctrs.3 letters 25.Vocalized4 letters 26.First lesson in "Plumbing: A Beginner's Guide"?13 letters 32.Rights org.4 letters 35.Uttered4 letters 36.Mexican state on the Gulf of California6 letters 37.Leap happily5 letters 39.Some jeans4 letters 41.Lute in Hindi cinema5 letters 42.Hosts6 letters 44.2022 Super Bowl winners4 letters 46.Forecast no.4 letters 47.First lesson in "Sport Climbing and You"?13 letters 50.Like Death Valley4 letters 51.Coconut __3 letters 52.Poke bowl protein3 letters 55.Home exercise bike brand7 letters 59.Natural disaster, legally8 letters 61.First lesson in "A Handbook of Competitive Eating"?16 letters 63.More frigid5 letters 64.Ingredient in a cooling lotion4 letters 65.Locations for Christmas lights5 letters 66.Welcome relief on a hot day5 letters 67.Scottish lids4 letters 68.High-protein grain5 letters

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1.Slather with butter, perhaps5 letters 2.In base eight5 letters 3."You'll __ me someday"5 letters 4.Winery keepsake4 letters 5.Throat-soothing brew6 letters 6.Ice dweller off the coast of Greenland8 letters 7.Actress Mireille4 letters 8.Self-serve bank device3 letters 9."You are my fire / The one __": "I Want It That Way" opening lyrics6 letters 10.Cherries atop Black Forest cake8 letters 11.Crack, as lips4 letters 12.Assign stars to4 letters 13.Cuzco civilization4 letters 14.Thai currency whose symbol was once used to represent Bitcoin4 letters 19.Tined flatware5 letters 20.Dice game5 letters 25."Heavens!"6 letters 26.Guitar peg, e.g.5 letters 27.Like the rice terraces of the Philippine Cordilleras6 letters 28.Bushels and pecks5 letters 29.Scribbled reminder4 letters 30.Family nickname4 letters 31.Wyatt of Tombstone4 letters 32.Biblical brother4 letters 33."Follow me"4 letters 34.Pixar film about a young sea monster4 letters 38.Unfold, as a protein8 letters 40.Makes out8 letters 43.Sharpen on a leather belt5 letters 45.Ill will5 letters 48.Suggest6 letters 49.Gets married by Elvis, perhaps6 letters 52.Tequila plant5 letters 53.Guest spot?5 letters 54.Namely5 letters 55.Trident-shaped letters4 letters 56.__ A Sketch4 letters 57.Skywalker raised on Alderaan4 letters 58.Pointed column4 letters 59.Chemistry class model4 letters 60.Try to fly4 letters 62.Lisbon greeting3 letters

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