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Summer 2026 Themeless Week, Puzzle 3

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Across

  • 1. Tomato juice, e.g.
  • 5. Cause to turn beet red
  • 10. Cribbage pieces
  • 14. Bean type
  • 15. "That's BRILLIANT!"
  • 17. Bad to the bone
  • 18. Ignores growls and grows grumpy
  • 19. Something to atone for
  • 20. Done, in French
  • 21. Sonnets and others
  • 22. "Hamnet" director Zhao
  • 24. Bring up to speed
  • 27. Low-level employee
  • 28. Bean type
  • 29. Company that helps you build a website
  • 32. ___ loyalty (customer's faithfulness)
  • 33. Movies such as "The Odyssey"
  • 34. "Lemme think ..."
  • 35. Meet an audience's high expectations
  • 38. Lucille Clifton's "homage to my hips," e.g.
  • 39. Spine-tingling
  • 40. Noble gas used in car headlights
  • 41. ___ Beta (people born from 2025-39)
  • 42. Results of labor movements?
  • 43. Sci-fi saucers
  • 44. ^
  • 45. Light bulb units
  • 46. Drag through the mud (metaphorically or literally)
  • 49. Letters in boxes, perhaps
  • 51. Drill insert
  • 53. "I'm not sure ..."
  • 56. Mongolian desert
  • 57. "Seriously!"
  • 58. "___ all work out in the end"
  • 59. Quite slow
  • 60. Lavish celebrations
  • 61. Clarified butter

Down

  • 1. Brewpub brews
  • 2. Community appreciation
  • 3. "Ahhh, this is the life"
  • 4. ___ makhani (buttery dish)
  • 5. Texas A&M student
  • 6. "We've all ___ there"
  • 7. Portmanteau for the feeling when something doesn't 35-Across
  • 8. Sorority member, informally
  • 9. "How odd!"
  • 10. Attach, as a brooch
  • 11. Word after "cutting" or "bleeding"
  • 12. Sanitizer target
  • 13. Remarks
  • 16. Preferring brains over brawn
  • 20. Event where you might dip in and out?
  • 23. Sole
  • 25. Joins forces
  • 26. Carve in an art class
  • 28. "Rogue One" and "Sex Education" actor Alistair
  • 29. "Do we need to choose just one?"
  • 30. "Can't be done!"
  • 31. Marvel mutants
  • 32. Many an indie crossword site
  • 36. Fruit with a broad base
  • 37. Weightiness
  • 44. Storage container with divisions
  • 45. Droops
  • 46. "Mother___ Connection" (Parliament album with a space theme)
  • 47. Shark that can swim 45 mph
  • 48. "Gnossiennes" composer Satie
  • 50. Soothing succulent
  • 52. One of 100 in Scrabble
  • 54. "Yeesh"
  • 55. Election day: Abbr.
  • 56. Bar set, say?