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Crossword #2897

Crossword #2897: a hand-curated English crossword with 84 clues on a 15 × 15 grid. Read the clues and play online.

English · 15 × 15

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Across

  1. Brazen or impudent woman (5)
  2. N.Y.C. clock setting in winter, briefly (3)
  3. Devices that blow cooling air (4)
  4. Brings together as one (6)
  5. Casual refusal (3)
  6. Nitrogen compound in urine (4)
  7. Cereal flour used to make hot breakfast porridge (6)
  8. The even number that follows one (3)
  9. Examine quickly (4)
  10. Ridge on a guitar neck (4)
  11. Scottish no (3)
  12. Outdoes; finest examples (5)
  13. Brings into time alignment (5)
  14. Shouts of approval at a performance (6)
  15. Pronoun for a woman (3)
  16. Steers a rowing crew (5)
  17. Small piece or fragment of material (3)
  18. Consume food (3)
  19. Storage containers for waste (4)
  20. Before, to a poet (3)
  21. Herring-like food fish (4)
  22. Microbe that makes dough rise (5)
  23. Require (4)
  24. Heavy unit of weight (3)
  25. Snapping reptile, for short (4)
  26. Perceive with the eyes (3)
  27. Up to now; nevertheless (3)
  28. Slowly, in music (5)
  29. A small flap; also a running total of charges (3)
  30. Talked back impudently (6)
  31. Moved slowly and quietly (5)
  32. Test the purity of a metal (5)
  33. Fabric with a corded or ribbed transverse surface (3)
  34. Draped garment of South Asia (4)
  35. Attempt to score (4)
  36. Muhammad ___, 'The Greatest' (3)
  37. Relating to the backbone (6)
  38. Lacking color, wan (4)
  39. The person being addressed (3)
  40. Purple-vapor element used as antiseptic (6)
  41. Female pronouns, in plural (4)
  42. Shade tree with serrated leaves (3)
  43. Quick furtive glances (5)

Down

  1. Breathes heavily in annoyance (5)
  2. Involving a single operand (5)
  3. Emergency vehicle wailers (6)
  4. Sewn with needle and thread (8)
  5. A strong desire or longing for something (3)
  6. Gut-dwelling microbe of the family that includes E. coli (15)
  7. Toothed blade for cutting (3)
  8. However, informally (3)
  9. Safety devices that blow when circuits overload (5)
  10. Curved paths or portions of a circle (4)
  11. Tidy (4)
  12. Without, in French (4)
  13. ___ Francisco (3)
  14. The basics, so to speak (3)
  15. Person in charge at work (4)
  16. Large body of saltwater (3)
  17. Imaginary line a body rotates around (4)
  18. Air ducts (5)
  19. Honey-making insect (3)
  20. Strong anger (3)
  21. Danson of 'Cheers' (3)
  22. British spelling of car's rubber rings (5)
  23. Pig's muddy enclosure (3)
  24. Garden tool for weeding (3)
  25. Tiny industrious insect (3)
  26. Extremely long periods (4)
  27. Kerb-adjacent aspect of a vehicle; the left in UK traffic (8)
  28. Sticky moldable earth (4)
  29. 'And so on,' in short (3)
  30. Lyric poem of praise (3)
  31. Snug knitted cap (6)
  32. Fully satisfies (5)
  33. Practical joke (5)
  34. Scrabble pieces or floor squares (5)
  35. Venomous snakes of the Nile (4)
  36. Former Iranian monarch (4)
  37. Flat seabed-dwelling fish (4)
  38. Greek letter; also denotes pressure in pounds per square inch (3)
  39. Yes vote (3)
  40. Text reply to something funny (3)
  41. Catchy mainstream music genre (3)

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