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Crossword #12111

Crossword #12111: a hand-curated English crossword with 80 clues on a 15 × 15 grid. Read the clues and play online.

English · 15 × 15

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Across

  1. Recedes, as the tide (4)
  2. Wordless jazz singing (4)
  3. Of sound mind (4)
  4. Underground part of a plant (4)
  5. Ripped apart (4)
  6. Relating to the sun (5)
  7. Festive formal event (4)
  8. Stake placed before cards are dealt in poker (4)
  9. Gradually narrow to a point (5)
  10. Free of germs, or barren (7)
  11. Drench thoroughly (4)
  12. Foot digits (4)
  13. Brims shading the eyes (6)
  14. Word ending a prayer (4)
  15. Open to both sexes, as a dorm (4)
  16. Cry of relief or pleasure (3)
  17. Boxes for practice, or ship masts (5)
  18. Advice columnist Landers (3)
  19. Brazilian city of Carnival (3)
  20. Extremely long periods (4)
  21. Raw, painful skin spots (5)
  22. Move upward (4)
  23. Oval food laid by a hen (3)
  24. Make lace by knotting thread with a small shuttle (3)
  25. Units of heredity (5)
  26. Key that erases, on a keyboard (3)
  27. Tennis match divisions (4)
  28. Breakfast staples laid by hens (4)
  29. Machine for sowing (6)
  30. Large ocean fish often canned (4)
  31. Bristles on heads of grain (4)
  32. Punishes with a fine (7)
  33. Wooden container for shipping goods (5)
  34. Poetic foot of two syllables (4)
  35. Extremely serious or urgent (4)
  36. Propelled with paddles (5)
  37. You, old-style (4)
  38. Lack of difficulty (4)
  39. Moved quickly, in the past (4)
  40. British nobleman between marquess and viscount (4)
  41. Small round marks (4)

Down

  1. Units of work or energy (4)
  2. Small craft for travel on water (4)
  3. Trunk of a tree (4)
  4. First courses; players in the opening lineup (8)
  5. No longer fresh (5)
  6. Ice cream holders (5)
  7. Works in a gallery (3)
  8. Pegs that hold golf balls (4)
  9. Immerses thoroughly in liquid (5)
  10. Swiss peak (3)
  11. Scottish no (3)
  12. Make a mistake (3)
  13. Sedate and respectably dull (5)
  14. Charged particles in an electric field (4)
  15. Enclosed chambers for baking (5)
  16. Propelling a boat by rowing (6)
  17. Salary bumps; lifts higher (6)
  18. Footwear for the streets (5)
  19. Highest point; orbital peak farthest from Earth (6)
  20. Mutilate or crush (6)
  21. Shopping trolleys (5)
  22. The first and smallest positive integer (3)
  23. Small plant embryos, like sesame or sunflower, eaten as food (5)
  24. Back end of a ship (5)
  25. Cereal grain for porridge (3)
  26. Considered or esteemed (8)
  27. Unit of heredity in DNA (4)
  28. Stitched with needle and thread (5)
  29. Old-fashioned (5)
  30. Lion handler at a circus (5)
  31. Flat-topped flower cluster, as in dill (5)
  32. Location of a building (4)
  33. Italian farewell (4)
  34. Formerly, in old usage (4)
  35. Perceives visually (4)
  36. Trig ratio, briefly (3)
  37. Rhythmic spoken-word genre (3)
  38. Form of the verb 'to be' (3)
  39. Cry of sudden discovery (3)

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