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Crossword #12709

Crossword #12709: 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. Donkey (3)
  2. Sign up for a course (6)
  3. Side sheltered from the wind (3)
  4. Place firmly in position (3)
  5. Single-celled blobs that move by pseudopods (7)
  6. Sturdy hardwood tree (3)
  7. Small round green vegetable (3)
  8. Spouse of a reigning monarch (7)
  9. Before, as a word beginning (3)
  10. Two cups, in volume (4)
  11. Danson of 'Cheers' (3)
  12. Unit of sound intensity (3)
  13. ___ Lanka, island nation (3)
  14. Send the ball to a teammate (4)
  15. Warm and snug, British-style (4)
  16. Hillside, in Scotland (4)
  17. Fifth note of the scale (3)
  18. Brimless head covering (3)
  19. Sense-of-self inflations (4)
  20. Selectively removed from a herd (6)
  21. Muhammad ___, 'The Greatest' (3)
  22. Shaped like an ice-cream cone (7)
  23. Pole for rowing a boat (3)
  24. Caught in mesh, or earned after costs (6)
  25. Of sound mind (4)
  26. Snoop into others' business (3)
  27. Land of the free, in brief (3)
  28. Editor's 'let it stand' (4)
  29. Without, in French (4)
  30. Female pronouns, in plural (4)
  31. N.Y.C. clock setting in winter, briefly (3)
  32. Fasten with a knot (3)
  33. However, informally (3)
  34. Solemn vow, or a curse word (4)
  35. Feeling down (3)
  36. Stirred up or awakened (7)
  37. Old unit of absorbed ionizing dose (3)
  38. Form of the verb 'to be' (3)
  39. Withhold a necessity from (7)
  40. The first and smallest positive integer (3)
  41. Guided the way, in the past (3)
  42. Strong wish or longing (6)
  43. Enclosure for farm animals (3)

Down

  1. Cleopatra's snake (3)
  2. Oozes slowly through (5)
  3. One step in a flight (5)
  4. Angsty rock genre (3)
  5. French for 'no' (3)
  6. Pauses to relax (5)
  7. Double-reed woodwinds (5)
  8. Rendered pork fat for cooking (4)
  9. Allow (3)
  10. Moves with bounding strides (5)
  11. Before the expected time (5)
  12. Barely manage to make, with 'out' (3)
  13. Part of a play (3)
  14. Tip of a fountain pen (3)
  15. Cotton seed pod (4)
  16. Tiered Asian temple tower (6)
  17. Immeasurably long stretch of time (4)
  18. Deep ravine cut by water (6)
  19. School playtime break (6)
  20. Provides in stingy amounts (6)
  21. Sealed metal food container (3)
  22. Pub brew (3)
  23. Stone in the center of a fruit (3)
  24. Female sibling, informally (3)
  25. Cut off a branch (3)
  26. Organ used to detect sound (3)
  27. Remove moisture from (3)
  28. Matter for a detective (4)
  29. Catchy melody (4)
  30. Brewed leaf beverage (3)
  31. Gaze fixedly (5)
  32. Helped (5)
  33. Retail stores (5)
  34. Beautiful maiden of Muslim paradise (5)
  35. Leather strip for sharpening a razor (5)
  36. Scottish noble of feudal rank (5)
  37. Tall woody plant with branches (4)
  38. Lyric poem of praise (3)
  39. East Indian timber tree yielding resin (3)
  40. Combine numbers for a sum (3)
  41. Polite address for a man (3)
  42. The day or night immediately preceding an occasion (3)
  43. Wild animal's lair (3)

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