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Sunday, August 2, 2026
Puzzle by
Tobin Saxton
● Edited by
James Knake
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Sunday, August 2, 2026
Puzzle by
Tobin Saxton
● Edited by
James Knake
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Word after "oven" or "baseball"
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Literary Jane
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Japanese rice cake that may be filled with ice cream
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Light beige
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Red as a ___
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Forgo one's fedora, say
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Meditation experience with soothing vibrations
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Mazda two-seater
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Mean mien
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Dinner date booking, for short
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Title for a first-year law student
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Personal affairs that can be "aired"
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You might wrestle with it
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Golfer's goal
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Fiona or Shrek
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"Hold your horses!"
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What seven ate, in a joke
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Disney's "___ & Stitch"
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Entertaining luxuriously
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Garnish for a Corona
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Helen of Troy's mother
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"___ room!" ("Stop that PDA!")
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Jess' bestie on "New Girl"
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Little rascal
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Vehicles for a cross-country roadtrip, perhaps, for short
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Soundgarden hit of 1994 that spent seven weeks at #1 on the Billboard Charts
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Capitale d'Italia
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Sign for a sold-out show
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Woman on WWII-era posters
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Turn away, as one's gaze
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2026 film based on an internet horror myth ... or a literal description of what 17-, 24-, 40- and 52-Across all have
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Cape ___ (smallest nation to ever reach the knockout stage in the World Cup)
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Really digging
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Charli XCX album that had it's own summer
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Wipe off a whiteboard
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Bygone Russian ruler
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Min. divisions
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State of a playroom, typically
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Style ___ (fashion inspiration)
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Not false
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Ready to be played, as a guitar
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Tidal movement
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Word said in passing?
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Go at it again
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"American Teenager" singer Cain
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Mother, in Manchester
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What Homer used to propose to Marge
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Lighting fixture in a mansion, perhaps
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Critic in the comments, maybe
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Sicily's country
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Faucet annoyance
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___ Paulo, Brazil
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Pressed the doorbell
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Some streaming services offer a free one
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University of Michigan library next to Hatcher
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"So cute!"
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Staircase support
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They get punched at work
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Mississippi-to-Michigan dir.
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"The Five People You Meet in Heaven" protagonist
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Showing, as a sitcom
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Long part of a giraffe
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Beaver endeavors
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___ guzzler
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Stereotypical Canadian sentence enders
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[This is some good catnip!]
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Atlanta baseballer
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"___, You Should've Come Over" (Jeff Buckley song)
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It makes the world go round!
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Things students may take out to pay for college
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Inexperienced gamers, slangily
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Like feet after a long hike
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Big Apple?
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Repair shop figs.
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Golf ball prop
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Org. that runs the "L"
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Divided Asian country: Abbr.
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