Louis XIV declaration
Released 2025.07.06, a themed medium-hard puzzle
Crossword
FEATURED CLUE | 53-down: "L'____ c'est moi," Louis XIV declaration
The Commons
CLUE: Where F comes before E? — 🖋️Joe DiPietro
⬇️ Answer below
The Commons is a guessing game of common answers or “crosswordese” used in puzzles.
Cryptick
CLUE: The first two follow after three as below silver (6)
CLUE: High point from pod occupant plus one thousand (4)
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Cryptick is a Crosswoods hat-tip to cryptic crosswords. Here’s a good explainer on them.
This won’t be the last word!
Sincerely,
— Crosswoods
Answers
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Puzzle clues
1-Across: Little garden resident
5-Across: Ways to clean piggies, say
10-Across: Ninth mth. of the Gregorian calendar
14-Across: Tech maker that's an anagram of acre
15-Across: Black-robed name
16-Across: Ending for fairy or tall
17-Across: Three out of 5, say
18-Across: *Crustacean color
20-Across: *Polar paint
22-Across: Drug that lent its nickname to a Billie Eilish song
23-Across: “Whether by land ____”
24-Across: Muzzle on a mammal
26-Across: Overflow
27-Across: Colonies, symbolically
31-Across: States, symbolically
33-Across: Family with sixteen #1 gospel hits (that sounds related to 18-across)
35-Across: [So relaxing]
36-Across: 100 Years and 30 Days, for two
37-Across: Ensures it's no longer 49-down
38-Across: Magi description
39-Across: Modern art?
40-Across: Dolly, for one
41-Across: ,02, in Europe
42-Across: Mate, black, or green purveyor
44-Across: Union member, briefly
45-Across: “_______ moo-moo here and...”
47-Across: Weird Al song parodying a Michael Jackson hit
49-Across: Dirty tank top?
52-Across: *Sea shade
55-Across: “No Kings” day?...or a hint to the ends of the starred clues
57-Across: Not the main handles, online
58-Across: Author of "A Death in the Family"
59-Across: Like most people on Earth
60-Across: Platform, cup, cavity, or pendant, as an example
61-Across: Break apart
62-Across: Put in, as a vending machine
63-Across: Crossword container
1-Down: Type of avocado
2-Down: Money-saving prefix
3-Down: Mountain side or beach front property, depending on the season
4-Down: Offerings from Brave and DuckDuckGo
5-Down: 2009 remake "The Taking of ______ 123"
6-Down: Species in "The Time Machine"
7-Down: Collections for collections
8-Down: Unfeeling
9-Down: Wk. end
10-Down: Low-forming, extensive puffs
11-Down: Merit
12-Down: Response to a judge's inquiry
13-Down: Offshoot speaking event
19-Down: Out-there community still tied to a metropolitan area
21-Down: Goes potty
25-Down: Place to lay down some cash away from the races, in brief
28-Down: It's popped during post-op, maybe
29-Down: NEWS article
30-Down: “____ the Man,” Amanda Bynes film
31-Down: Go after a fly
32-Down: Setting on a kitchen scale
33-Down: Steak lover's haunt
34-Down: Sprint or be mobile
37-Down: Cubby
38-Down: Exploded, like fireworks
40-Down: Executive leadership?
41-Down: James of "Elf"
43-Down: Convinced
44-Down: Wishy-washy answer to a binary question
46-Down: Biting, as a scent
48-Down: Rwandan faction
49-Down: Cracked
50-Down: Olympic racer
51-Down: Powell of "Hit Man"
53-Down: “L'____ c'est moi,” Louis XIV declaration
54-Down: Created, briefly
56-Down: Big goober