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Sunday, October 18, 2026
Puzzle by
Jules Frankel and Tobin Saxton
● Edited by
Kiran Parekh
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Sunday, October 18, 2026
Puzzle by
Jules Frankel and Tobin Saxton
● Edited by
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Tag line?
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Lang. of Rome
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Dentist's request, perhaps
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"10 Things I ___ About You"
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Prop for Mr. Monopoly
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Eat at
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Faux cough
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Museo display
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Woman's nickname that sounds like its first and third letters
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Lifting weights, slangily
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Metropolis in Mo.
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Start of something
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Neither's companion
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Prez who signed the Civil Rights Act
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Thick-cut french fry alternative
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Candy heart words
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Palindromic anxiety drug, informally
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Paul McCartney and Elton John, for two
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Relating to union issues?
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Most songs on a DJ's set
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Strong as ___
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Chinese steamed bun
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$100 bill, slangily
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Orange juice and vodka cocktail
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"Old Town Road" rapper Lil ___ X
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Modern, in Munich
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Every other line of "Deck the Halls"
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Many a "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" character
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Extracurricular event ... or where you might find the ends of 20-, 30- and 48-Across?
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"___, Jamaica, ooh, I wanna take ya" (The Beach Boys lyric)
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___ Crunch (cereal)
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Playa Bowls' signature
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Like pink steak vis-à-vis darker steak
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Out on the ocean
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Hospital count
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Ooze red
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One in first class is usually 9-Across
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London boy
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Where Pearl Harbor is
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Flower stalk
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Something a musician might pick up
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"You underestimate me!"
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Store with a bullseye logo
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Like the Boston Tea Party participants
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Skeevy look
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"That's no surprise to us"
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Roth ___
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Pac-Man's sustenance
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Polish
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Instagram video akin to a TikTok
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Two cents
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Two ___ (double-teaming situation)
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Tree compound that might trap an insect
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Tiny green beans
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"Knives Out" detective Benoit
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One with a courtside seat?
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Black road substance
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Mason-___ line (historical boundary)
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Climate activist Thunberg
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Letters before tees
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The fourth of Santa's nine reindeer
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2026 Senate candidate and University of Michigan alum El-Sayed
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Matthew Stafford's team, briefly
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Tate who sings "greedy"
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Kind of paint with a smooth finish
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"IDs are required to get in"
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Repeated a musical section during a solo
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Justice Kagan and others
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Skewers
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Keto no-no
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Like many a language exam
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2016 compilation album "___ McCartney"
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West Coast sch. whose colors are similar to the University of Michigan's
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Big name in frozen confections
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