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Crossword #12081

Crossword #12081: a hand-curated English crossword with 78 clues on a 15 × 15 grid. Read the clues and play online.

English · 15 × 15

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Across

  1. Attribute blame to someone (6)
  2. Donkey (3)
  3. Collections of written texts, in linguistics (7)
  4. Relating to body fat (7)
  5. They polish authors' prose (7)
  6. Throws off the tracks (7)
  7. A person who drinks excessively (3)
  8. Earnest request, or court statement (4)
  9. Parcel of land for sale (3)
  10. Round dish for soup or cereal (4)
  11. Old unit of cloth length (3)
  12. Put into service (3)
  13. Fourteen-line poem (6)
  14. Abstains from food (5)
  15. Pub brew (3)
  16. Opposed to (4)
  17. Pole for rowing a boat (3)
  18. For each, as in a rate (3)
  19. A particular shade or tint on the colour spectrum (3)
  20. Black belt grade in judo (3)
  21. Receding tide (3)
  22. Pronoun for a woman (3)
  23. Imitated mockingly (4)
  24. In favor of (3)
  25. Show feelings theatrically (5)
  26. Structured outline or diagram (6)
  27. Forbid officially (3)
  28. Advice columnist Landers (3)
  29. Aromatic plant used in cooking (4)
  30. Curved line segment forming part of a circle (3)
  31. To stop activity and relax (4)
  32. Before, to a poet (3)
  33. Open-topped glass bottles for wine or water (7)
  34. Word formed from initial letters (7)
  35. Protective folds over the eyes (7)
  36. Doorman who keeps order at a club (7)
  37. Rest on a seat (3)
  38. Preoccupy continually (6)

Down

  1. Frozen water (3)
  2. Remainder after division in arithmetic; clock arithmetic operation (3)
  3. Inmates held behind bars (9)
  4. Toward the residential part of a city (6)
  5. Play a flute softly; drive along casually (6)
  6. Make a mistake (3)
  7. Gas we breathe (3)
  8. Resort for relaxation and baths (3)
  9. Dirties; types of earth for planting (5)
  10. Cleopatra's snake (3)
  11. Capital of South Australia (8)
  12. Business agreements (5)
  13. Blackthorn berry used in gin (4)
  14. N.Y.C. clock setting in winter, briefly (3)
  15. Opposite of right; departed (4)
  16. Trunk of a tree (4)
  17. Land of the free, in brief (3)
  18. Fluid flowing in a tree (3)
  19. Greek letter representing the ratio of circumference to radius (3)
  20. Heavy unit of weight (3)
  21. Tidiness (8)
  22. Citation in a text; a character endorsement (9)
  23. Folded edge stitched at the bottom of a garment (3)
  24. Billboard messages (3)
  25. Explosive device, or a total flop (4)
  26. Undergarment supporting a woman's bust (3)
  27. Female chicken (3)
  28. Writing tools, or enclosures for pigs (4)
  29. Propelled with paddles (5)
  30. Chubby winged angel (6)
  31. Long-legged wading birds (6)
  32. Donkey's loud cry (4)
  33. Land area units (5)
  34. Tennis serve untouched by the opponent (3)
  35. A small flap; also a running total of charges (3)
  36. Muhammad ___, 'The Greatest' (3)
  37. Statistical measure of how well a model matches data (3)
  38. Pigeon's sound (3)
  39. Affirmative reply (3)
  40. Title for a married woman (3)

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