Firework without the fire
Released 2026.03.29, a medium crossword puzzle
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FEATURED CLUE | 21-across: Firework without the fire, in a way
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Puzzle clues
1-Across: Tuca and Sam, for two
8-Across: Some flat ferries
13-Across: Main actor in “Boy Meets World”
15-Across: Acetaminophen : Tylenol :: Naproxen : _____
16-Across: Causes of some neighbor quarrels
17-Across: Chicken curry dish derived from the Hindi-Urdu word for “braising”
18-Across: Source of the spinoff subtitled “Tony & Ziva”
19-Across: Except for
21-Across: Firework without the fire, in a way
22-Across: US combatants in WW2
24-Across: Flaubert who wrote “Madame Bovary”
25-Across: Stickers of fish
27-Across: Org. with a blue streak
28-Across: Clear (of)
29-Across: ____ 101, building eclipsed by the Burj Khalifa in 2009
31-Across: Camembert relative
33-Across: Bits to recall
35-Across: Stored (up)
36-Across: Cry of an unfair election
37-Across: Tide fighter?
38-Across: Step between E and F?
39-Across: Bacon or more helter-skelter
43-Across: Simba or Nala, early in the movie
46-Across: Focus of Michael Shannon’s cover band
47-Across: Windows equivalent of .dmg
48-Across: Asked out or bought some drinks, for example
50-Across: Tongue binding, of a sort
51-Across: Remarks made in passing, in short?
52-Across: Played one part in a flea flicker
55-Across: Sloppy snow
56-Across: Quality of the affectedly creative
57-Across: Thompson of “Men in Black: International”
58-Across: Jibber-jabberers
1-Down: Kind of little piggy
2-Down: VAR determination
3-Down: The five in 5-in-1 products, possibly
4-Down: Member of the rec. league, maybe
5-Down: Park in NYC, for one
6-Down: Grammy’s alternative
7-Down: Drill or staff roles, abbr.
8-Down: Leaves not leaves, say
9-Down: Up in the air
10-Down: Opponent vehicles in a 2019 Damon and Bale film
11-Down: Hallmark hallmark
12-Down: Sewn together
13-Down: Is 35-down
14-Down: Giving one’s J0hn H@nc0ck?
20-Down: French courtier
22-Down: Land _____ university
23-Down: That so?
26-Down: “I wouldn’t touch that with ____ foot pole.”
27-Down: Places with counter measures
30-Down: It follows an ellipse, in math
31-Down: Second stringers
32-Down: All the coolest stars
33-Down: The “claws” of an earworm, most times
34-Down: Swamp dweller, they say
35-Down: Fit to get into shape
37-Down: Just about
38-Down: Sticky stick, after a lick
40-Down: Village doctor
41-Down: “The mother of ____ is not joy but joylessness.” (Nietzsche quote)
42-Down: Forms of papyrus
44-Down: Kuber_____, system designed by Google which means “helmsman” in Greek
45-Down: _____ wide net
46-Down: Donna player, in “Parks and Rec”
49-Down: Don’t conform, as results
50-Down: Smallest unit on the road
53-Down: Intuition, maybe, briefly
54-Down: Initials in a graveyard