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Crossword #40579

Crossword #40579: a hand-curated English crossword with 76 clues on a 15 × 15 grid. Read the clues and play online.

English · 15 × 15

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Across

  1. A pouch-like anatomical structure (3)
  2. Cry of sudden discovery (3)
  3. Pitched or tossed, in the past (5)
  4. Lets oxygen into soil or water (7)
  5. Whooshing sound of rushing air (6)
  6. Makers of beer (7)
  7. One who imitates another (7)
  8. Weak or unconvincing; limping (4)
  9. Sense of self-importance (3)
  10. Muhammad ___, 'The Greatest' (3)
  11. Greek letter used to denote efficiency or arrival time (3)
  12. Female pig (3)
  13. Letter before cue (3)
  14. A person who drinks excessively (3)
  15. Land of the free, in brief (3)
  16. Peppery salad leaf grown on water or soil (5)
  17. Fabric with a corded or ribbed transverse surface (3)
  18. Place firmly in position (3)
  19. Scottish no (3)
  20. Tucked in for the night (4)
  21. Long, thin, and limp, as hair (4)
  22. Weep (3)
  23. To place flat; to set something down horizontally (3)
  24. Receding tide (3)
  25. Loose rock debris on a mountain slope (5)
  26. Barely manage to make, with 'out' (3)
  27. One circuit of a track; a complete round (3)
  28. Hawaiian timber tree of the acacia family (3)
  29. Honey-making insect (3)
  30. Nocturnal bird with big eyes (3)
  31. McKellen of 'The Lord of the Rings' (3)
  32. Donkey (3)
  33. Manufactured; achieved success (4)
  34. Worker boring into rock for oil (7)
  35. Tendency to resist motion change (7)
  36. Witty mockery of vice or folly (6)
  37. Engines fueled by a heavy oil (7)
  38. Shrub yielding dark berries for wine (5)
  39. Large member of the deer family (3)
  40. Colour-changing liquid applied to fabric (3)

Down

  1. Dark fur-bearing animals (6)
  2. Device that infuses air into liquid (7)
  3. Reduce a body to ashes (7)
  4. Consumed a meal (3)
  5. Belonging to that woman (3)
  6. Evaluated; valued for tax (8)
  7. The even number that follows one (3)
  8. Jump on one foot (3)
  9. Lichtenstein of Pop Art (3)
  10. One who fled from prison (7)
  11. Largest of the sea mammals (6)
  12. Reverent wonder (3)
  13. Flat-bottomed boat for hauling freight (4)
  14. Neckwear pieces (4)
  15. Horned animal that climbs rocky slopes (4)
  16. Put into service (3)
  17. Cable news channel, in brief (3)
  18. Garden tool with teeth for leaves (4)
  19. Trim the skin off (4)
  20. Farewell word (3)
  21. Land bordering a large inland body of water (8)
  22. Yes vote (3)
  23. Relating to the skull (7)
  24. Sediment at the bottom of a wine cask (4)
  25. Swollen with gas or fluid (7)
  26. In a lewdly comic manner (7)
  27. Sliding motion on a slippery surface, common when braking (4)
  28. Rough in texture; crude (6)
  29. Polite word with a request (6)
  30. Naked; uncovered (4)
  31. Title for a married woman (3)
  32. British company suffix (3)
  33. Falsehood, or to recline (3)
  34. Make a mistake (3)
  35. Zero; nothing; no quantity at all (3)
  36. Startled shriek (3)

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