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Crossword #12800

Crossword #12800: a hand-curated English crossword with 78 clues on a 15 × 15 grid. Read the clues and play online.

English · 15 × 15

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Across

  1. Donkey (3)
  2. Move rapidly back and forth (5)
  3. Before, as a word beginning (3)
  4. To take the evening meal; to dine at night (3)
  5. Starchy tropical root crops (5)
  6. Wild animal's den (4)
  7. Small round green vegetable (3)
  8. Cowboy's lasso (6)
  9. Border or rim (4)
  10. Marked with long, irregular lines of contrasting colour (8)
  11. Not good (3)
  12. Bakery desserts in pans (4)
  13. Metal clip binding paper (6)
  14. More cunning (5)
  15. Assumed names used to conceal identity (7)
  16. Gentle, loving touch (6)
  17. 'The,' in German (3)
  18. 'By the way,' in a text (3)
  19. In the past, as in days ___ (time reference) (3)
  20. Group sharing a common ancestor (5)
  21. Pole for rowing a boat (3)
  22. Big ___, London clock tower (3)
  23. Worn-out scrap of old cloth (3)
  24. Calm and dignified (6)
  25. Strong seaward current pulling swimmers from shore (7)
  26. Consumed, as a meal (5)
  27. Exclusive news stories (6)
  28. Narrow ledge or raised bank beside a road or canal (4)
  29. Pub brew (3)
  30. Trade; a commercial enterprise (8)
  31. To telephone or shout to someone (4)
  32. Slender and elegant (6)
  33. Muhammad ___, 'The Greatest' (3)
  34. Troubles or sickens (4)
  35. Hardware on which a door swings (5)
  36. Patch of turf with grass (3)
  37. A layer or thickness of a material (3)
  38. One who dines (5)
  39. Peg that supports a golf ball (3)

Down

  1. Venomous snakes of the Nile (4)
  2. Beef fat used in cooking (4)
  3. Easily split crystalline mineral (4)
  4. Wager; pointed post (5)
  5. Long-eared relatives of rabbits (5)
  6. Receiving very little rainfall (4)
  7. Hawaiian timber tree of the acacia family (3)
  8. N.Y.C. clock setting in winter, briefly (3)
  9. Pedal-driven craft on a pond (10)
  10. A framework or apparatus set up for a specific purpose (3)
  11. Before, to a poet (3)
  12. Bounds or jumps (5)
  13. Dens of wild animals (5)
  14. Fencing sword (4)
  15. Sheep's bleat (3)
  16. Vehicle for sliding over snow (4)
  17. Wears out; car's rubber wheels (5)
  18. Large property with a grand house (6)
  19. Crust over a healing wound (4)
  20. Crisp pale beers (6)
  21. In a way oddly contrary to expectation (10)
  22. Time-worn saying (5)
  23. Substitute paper currency (5)
  24. Tiny brown songbird (4)
  25. Young fellows (4)
  26. Strange and spooky (5)
  27. Condemn to ruin (4)
  28. Opinion surveys (5)
  29. Digit on the foot (3)
  30. Swelling outward (5)
  31. Organic compound formed by reaction of acid and alcohol (5)
  32. Curved; a natural inclination (4)
  33. Sunrise direction (4)
  34. Blackthorn berry used in gin (4)
  35. Edge or flank (4)
  36. Brimless head covering (3)
  37. Be unwell (3)
  38. Pronoun for a woman (3)
  39. By way of; passing through a particular route (3)

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