Sax
Released 2026.04.05, a medium-hard crossword puzzle
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Crossword
FEATURED CLUE | 50-down: Most common sax
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Puzzle clues
1-Across: First book after the gospels
5-Across: Like runways from the night sky
10-Across: Certain contract units, in brief
14-Across: Sea north of Siberia, with a female-like name
15-Across: Share perspective
16-Across: Seehorn of “Pluribus”
17-Across: In the vein of Cubism and Dadaism
19-Across: Decision maker’s list
20-Across: “Look at me. I’m _______,” lyrics from “Grease”
21-Across: Loses for the summer
22-Across: Bit of some body art
23-Across: Buzzer whose lineage follows the Fibonacci sequence
25-Across: ABBA song if written about Spain
28-Across: Sound sleepers?
29-Across: How to get out
31-Across: The ____ Bandits, “Home Alone” baddies who clog sinks and toilets
32-Across: Like drinking, in Islam
33-Across: Band behind “Steal My Sunshine”
36-Across: Key-ins for the keyless
40-Across: Rocky follow-up sequel
43-Across: Set of rules made up of 4 letters and 64 three-letter “words”
44-Across: Fix for an uneven playing field, on the green
46-Across: WWII light machine gun
47-Across: Cho who starred in “KPop Demon Hunters”
48-Across: The strikeout king, with 839 more than Randy Johnson
52-Across: Misspoke on purpose
53-Across: For show
54-Across: Concern for Macron
55-Across: Honored with a party
56-Across: Short time in the dark?
57-Across: Novice
58-Across: Homes for the aging
59-Across: Wedding symbol
1-Down: Street names, on a poster
2-Down: Mediterranean slop bowler
3-Down: Wire
4-Down: Desert feline
5-Down: Alternative to linear, as scales go
6-Down: Tablet paradigm
7-Down: Spent
8-Down: “Capiche?”
9-Down: #1
10-Down: Competition where you’re meant to take a bow
11-Down: Singer of “Smelly Cat”
12-Down: Finger, as with chicken
13-Down: Gives it to
18-Down: Public cars on the street
21-Down: Amorous exercise, in Britain
24-Down: Performers with a drum machine, loop pedal, and doubleneck, maybe
25-Down: Cat call, just a little?
26-Down: Unemploy
27-Down: Major body that leads to the Strait of Hormuz
30-Down: Pedro’s director in “Eddington”
33-Down: Setting for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” for one, pejoratively
34-Down: ___-to-___, fittingly
35-Down: W preceders in a directional acronym
36-Down: Gave
37-Down: Thor’s pop
38-Down: Mountain pools
39-Down: Frozen pool
40-Down: Place for a mountain pool, maybe
41-Down: Diamond in the rough
42-Down: Come to admire
45-Down: Beauty and the Beast surname
49-Down: Potato pal, in soup
50-Down: Most common sax
51-Down: Nah da?
53-Down: Most def