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Crossword #12593

Crossword #12593: a hand-curated English crossword with 86 clues on a 15 × 15 grid. Read the clues and play online.

English · 15 × 15

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Across

  1. Red or green orchard fruit used in pies (5)
  2. Young cow (4)
  3. Donkey (3)
  4. Layers of sedimentary rock, plural (6)
  5. Place, as in 'in ___ of' (4)
  6. Grassy meadow (3)
  7. Second helpings' successors (6)
  8. Time without end (8)
  9. Strong cravings (4)
  10. Distinctive doctrine or belief system (3)
  11. Curved chest bone (3)
  12. Illuminated; past tense of being bright (3)
  13. Withered and dry (4)
  14. Relieves or lessens (5)
  15. Put into service (3)
  16. Recoils in embarrassment (7)
  17. Buddy or chum (3)
  18. Thin groove or stripe (5)
  19. Also; excessively (3)
  20. Not a single one, old-style (4)
  21. Clay-pigeon launching device in shooting sport (4)
  22. Aware of, as a scheme (4)
  23. Excavates, or living quarters (4)
  24. Possessed, in the past (3)
  25. Standing upright; build (5)
  26. Tennis serve untouched by the opponent (3)
  27. Drink and revel noisily (7)
  28. Greek letter used in statistics for a test of fit (3)
  29. Immature stage of certain insects that undergo incomplete metamorphosis (5)
  30. Pre-owned; not new (4)
  31. Brimmed head covering worn outdoors (3)
  32. Gradual decay or decomposition over time (3)
  33. Sprinted, in the past (3)
  34. Young female child (4)
  35. Put up with (8)
  36. Heavy, filling food (6)
  37. Cut and dried grass for fodder (3)
  38. Barely manages, with 'out' (4)
  39. Deserved through effort or work (6)
  40. Before, to a poet (3)
  41. Dispatched, in the past (4)
  42. Place, as in someone's ___ (5)

Down

  1. One who denies the existence of God (7)
  2. Producer of text on paper (7)
  3. Standard golf hole scores (4)
  4. British company suffix (3)
  5. Less difficult (6)
  6. Mild and merciful, as weather (7)
  7. Small island in a river (3)
  8. Sly, suggestive look (4)
  9. Avenging goddesses of Greek myth; bouts of rage (6)
  10. Muhammad ___, 'The Greatest' (3)
  11. Place firmly in position (3)
  12. To express in words; to speak or utter (3)
  13. Pen-like pointing device (6)
  14. Basketball league, in brief (3)
  15. ___ Lanka, island nation (3)
  16. Bare rocky outcrop on a hillside (4)
  17. Resort for relaxation and baths (3)
  18. Organ used to detect sound (3)
  19. Cunning or crafty in a subtle way (3)
  20. Sticky, viscous stuff (3)
  21. An immeasurably long period of time (3)
  22. Belonging to that thing (3)
  23. Conjunction used after 'neither' to connect two negative alternatives (3)
  24. Cry of sudden discovery (3)
  25. An equal or standard level; face value of a security (3)
  26. Set up the golf ball (4)
  27. Black belt grade in judo (3)
  28. Frozen and slippery (3)
  29. Precious stone (3)
  30. Most stern and gloomy (7)
  31. Spiny egg-laying Australian mammal (7)
  32. Rushed forward or billed for payment (7)
  33. Given a name, as a book (6)
  34. Routine household tasks (6)
  35. Land of the free, in brief (3)
  36. Sight, smell, taste and the rest (6)
  37. Before, as a word beginning (3)
  38. To grasp and carry away (4)
  39. Spilled blood (4)
  40. Most common English article (3)
  41. Pole for rowing a boat (3)
  42. Caustic soap-making chemical (3)
  43. The number after nine; one more than nine (3)
  44. Make lace by knotting thread with a small shuttle (3)

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