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Crossword #12556

Crossword #12556: 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. To seize suddenly (4)
  2. Pompous, inflated language (7)
  3. Gave birth, as a mare (6)
  4. Heated enclosure for raising chicks (7)
  5. Cattle and their relatives (7)
  6. Reddish-orange, as some hair (7)
  7. Roman numeral for three (3)
  8. Female sibling, informally (3)
  9. Peg that supports a golf ball (3)
  10. Finishes, or extremities (4)
  11. Central parts (5)
  12. Nocturnal bird with big eyes (3)
  13. Staggers dizzily (5)
  14. French plural article (3)
  15. Solo vocal piece in an opera (4)
  16. Feeling of sickness and urge to vomit (6)
  17. Red planet (4)
  18. Make paler or bleach (6)
  19. Round paving stone for a road (6)
  20. Lecherous old man (4)
  21. Relating to the stars (6)
  22. Vessels for ashes (4)
  23. Drink in small amounts (3)
  24. Peppery salad leaf grown on water or soil (5)
  25. Wager (3)
  26. Markdown events at stores (5)
  27. Ridge on a guitar neck (4)
  28. Remained in a seated position; past of sit (3)
  29. Vehicle hired for a ride (3)
  30. Unit of radiation dose (3)
  31. Severe widespread food shortages (7)
  32. More comfortable and undemanding, as a job (7)
  33. Recipient of a prize (7)
  34. Shallow sandbanks in water, plural (6)
  35. Lord's own land in feudal times (7)
  36. Snakelike fish (4)

Down

  1. More sticky and viscous (6)
  2. Narrow steep-sided valley (6)
  3. Muhammad ___, 'The Greatest' (3)
  4. Big ___, London clock tower (3)
  5. British broadcaster, for short (3)
  6. Speaks pompously to a crowd (6)
  7. Customs of a society (5)
  8. Tedious person (4)
  9. Fuss or commotion (3)
  10. Place firmly in position (3)
  11. Make an attempt (3)
  12. U.S. crime-fighting agency, briefly (3)
  13. ___ Moines, Iowa (3)
  14. Thus, in a quoted error (3)
  15. Flat seabed-dwelling fish (4)
  16. Refuses to acknowledge (6)
  17. Thin narrow strip in a blind (4)
  18. Respond to a stimulus (5)
  19. Spoken, not written (4)
  20. Thin strand of metal (4)
  21. ___ Vegas, Nevada (3)
  22. Take to court (3)
  23. Leisurely walker (6)
  24. Slow shelled garden creature (5)
  25. Had on, as a hat (4)
  26. To chase animals for food (4)
  27. Tolkien's brutish, goblin-like warrior (3)
  28. Throw up, slangily (4)
  29. Apply friction to (3)
  30. Detailed requirement, informally (4)
  31. Glossy cotton fabric (6)
  32. Story told in installments (6)
  33. Hardens one's resolve; iron alloys (6)
  34. Beach grains (5)
  35. A pouch-like anatomical structure (3)
  36. Father of a foal (4)
  37. Public transit vehicle (3)
  38. Title for a married woman (3)
  39. Brief popular trend in fashion or style (3)
  40. Reverent wonder (3)
  41. Mother, in dialect (3)
  42. Perceive with the eyes (3)
  43. Pronoun for a woman (3)
  44. Garden tool for weeding (3)

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