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Crossword #12566

Crossword #12566: 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. Small piece or fragment of material (3)
  2. Short life story on a book jacket (3)
  3. Nights before holidays (4)
  4. Supplies delivered by parachute (7)
  5. Run at top speed briefly (6)
  6. One who keeps a daily journal (7)
  7. Keyboard instrument with bell-like tones (7)
  8. Scottish no (3)
  9. Squarish in shape (4)
  10. Townsman, archaically (3)
  11. N.Y.C. clock setting in winter, briefly (3)
  12. Compressed bundle of goods ready for shipping (4)
  13. Mineral-bearing rock (3)
  14. Clumsy, stupid person (3)
  15. Theater chairs (5)
  16. Buzzing honey-making insects (4)
  17. Male sibling, informally (3)
  18. Without, in French (4)
  19. East Indian timber tree yielding resin (3)
  20. Encroachment or advance into territory (6)
  21. Reef-building marine organisms (6)
  22. Adult male (3)
  23. Thin narrow strip in a blind (4)
  24. Old French coin of little value (3)
  25. Wordless jazz singing (4)
  26. Beer mug with a lid (5)
  27. Heavy unit of weight (3)
  28. Consume food (3)
  29. Carry, or a kind of bag (4)
  30. Container for rubbish (3)
  31. ___ Lanka, island nation (3)
  32. Cave-dwelling fliers; cricket gear (4)
  33. A pouch-like anatomical structure (3)
  34. Open declarations or admissions (7)
  35. Mournful, like a lament (7)
  36. Lowly and unskilled, as work (6)
  37. Distinguished conductor or master musician (7)
  38. Formerly, in old usage (4)
  39. Not divisible evenly by two; an unpaired number (3)
  40. A strong desire or longing for something (3)

Down

  1. Not good (3)
  2. Roman numeral for three (3)
  3. Complete or dramatic changes in form or character (15)
  4. Soft French cheese (4)
  5. Apple's mobile operating system (3)
  6. Make a choice (3)
  7. Before, to a poet (3)
  8. Property of matter that both flows and springs back (15)
  9. Whole, with nothing left out (6)
  10. Declares; members of a federal union (6)
  11. Mild expression of annoyance (4)
  12. Male and female categories (5)
  13. A layer or thickness of a material (3)
  14. Young male horse (4)
  15. Sheep sounds (4)
  16. Receive payment for labor (4)
  17. Big ___, London clock tower (3)
  18. Wide sash worn around a Japanese kimono (3)
  19. Feeling down (3)
  20. Place serving alcoholic drinks (3)
  21. ___ Francisco (3)
  22. A person who drinks excessively (3)
  23. Cereal grain for porridge (3)
  24. Sealed metal food container (3)
  25. Diving water bird with an eerie call (4)
  26. Star at the center of our system (3)
  27. Tennis match divisions (4)
  28. Falsehood, or to recline (3)
  29. Seed used on burger buns (6)
  30. One who whittles or sculpts (6)
  31. Market booth; engine quit (5)
  32. Little kids (4)
  33. Sacks; secures or catches (4)
  34. Sheep's bleat (3)
  35. Embryo that grows into a plant (4)
  36. The capacity for quick, clever thinking (3)
  37. Angsty rock genre (3)
  38. Young boy or fellow (3)
  39. Form of the verb 'to be' (3)
  40. Swindle or trick (3)

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