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Crosswords · English · 9×9 · 2026-10-28 · #172912

Crosswords · English · 9×9 · 2026-10-28 · #172912: 32 clues on a 9×9 grid. Read the clues and play online.

English · 9 × 9 ·

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Across

  1. Cool, in old slang (3)
  2. Stars-and-stripes nation, briefly (3)
  3. Depart from the correct course (3)
  4. Potassium nitrate, saltpeter (5)
  5. True to life; not fanciful (9)
  6. Common feline pet (3)
  7. Large flightless Australian bird (3)
  8. Untidy room, figuratively (3)
  9. Harry Nilsson song about solitude (3)
  10. Hawaiian taro paste (3)
  11. Blue, but not a colour (3)
  12. Give heart to; urge on (9)
  13. Plant yielding tequila (5)
  14. French for 'no' (3)
  15. British term for a boy or fellow (3)
  16. An old unit of weight for wool, about 28 pounds (3)

Down

  1. Belonging to that woman (3)
  2. Before, to a poet (3)
  3. Hands-on and useful in the real world (9)
  4. Apartment, perhaps (4)
  5. Sibling addressed informally (3)
  6. One who serves or waits on others (9)
  7. Coating of frost on cold surfaces (4)
  8. Old French silver coin; also a pale yellowish-grey hue (3)
  9. To place flat; to set something down horizontally (3)
  10. It may have verses and a chorus (4)
  11. Pole for rowing a boat (3)
  12. Princess's mattress irritant, in a fairy tale (3)
  13. Took to court (4)
  14. Plural of the egg-shaped biological cell (3)
  15. Sticky, viscous stuff (3)
  16. Terminal point of a line segment (3)

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