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Crossword #2578

Crossword #2578: a hand-curated English crossword with 84 clues on a 15 × 15 grid. Read the clues and play online.

English · 15 × 15

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Across

  1. Land of the free, in brief (3)
  2. Cancel a planned launch (5)
  3. Raised earth banks (5)
  4. Fabric with a corded or ribbed transverse surface (3)
  5. Rub out completely (5)
  6. Along a central line (5)
  7. Mischievous little devil (3)
  8. Marked with rules, or had an inner layer (5)
  9. Crazy, informally (5)
  10. Small ornamental band worn on the head (7)
  11. Place firmly in position (3)
  12. Fifth note of the scale (3)
  13. Large body of saltwater (3)
  14. Painful kink in the neck (5)
  15. Place to buy a pint (3)
  16. Temperamental opera star (4)
  17. Slightly chilly (4)
  18. Looming danger (6)
  19. Black sticky road substance (3)
  20. Flat seabed-dwelling fish (4)
  21. Roman numeral for three (3)
  22. Cry of relief or pleasure (3)
  23. Brewed leaf beverage (3)
  24. Touch gently with the hand (3)
  25. Dressed or covered (4)
  26. Apple's mobile operating system (3)
  27. Mental pressure; emphasize a syllable (6)
  28. Fully satisfy an appetite (4)
  29. Goal barriers in soccer or hockey (4)
  30. Organ used to detect sound (3)
  31. Respond to a stimulus (5)
  32. Affirmative reply (3)
  33. State of matter, not solid or liquid (3)
  34. ___ Moines, Iowa (3)
  35. Acted dishonestly to gain advantage (7)
  36. Exposed to view (5)
  37. Sedate and respectably dull (5)
  38. Strong anger (3)
  39. Came into being (5)
  40. Sharpened; refined a skill (5)
  41. Plural of the egg-shaped biological cell (3)
  42. Money owed (5)
  43. Doorway or a contest submission (5)
  44. French for 'no' (3)

Down

  1. Pertaining to a kidney acid (4)
  2. Big rigs on the highway (5)
  3. Suitable for the occasion (11)
  4. Exchange goods for money (4)
  5. Loud calls of distress (5)
  6. Spoke in an angry tirade (6)
  7. Put into service (3)
  8. Furniture for sleeping (3)
  9. Hay-bundling farm machine (5)
  10. Plants or animals not native to a region (7)
  11. Brazilian city of Carnival (3)
  12. Adult male (3)
  13. Cunning or crafty in a subtle way (3)
  14. Hint to a solution (4)
  15. Sudden frights (6)
  16. Small island in a river (3)
  17. Working together toward a shared goal (11)
  18. Caffeine-rich nuts used in colas (5)
  19. Sheep's bleat (3)
  20. Large tank for liquids (3)
  21. Permits; rents out (4)
  22. Nervous twitches (4)
  23. Relating to the hilum, the scar on a seed where it attached to the pod (5)
  24. Contaminates; moral blemishes (6)
  25. Garden tool for weeding (3)
  26. Consumed a meal (3)
  27. Most lifeless or quietest (7)
  28. Pig's muddy enclosure (3)
  29. Melodic framework in Indian music (4)
  30. Trigonometric reciprocal of cosine (6)
  31. Yields, as ground (5)
  32. More timid (5)
  33. Feedback-controlled motor (5)
  34. Small swirling current (4)
  35. Head of a college faculty (4)
  36. Not good (3)
  37. Form of the verb 'to be' (3)
  38. Hold up at gunpoint (3)
  39. Pronoun for a woman (3)
  40. Heavy unit of weight (3)

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