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The Washington Post · Sunday · Sunday, July 26, 2026 · Evan Birnholz
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Do some kidding, as kids do
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Do some kidding, as kids do
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Across
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Do some kidding, as kids do
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"Dear ___" (advice column)
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Disney pride member
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Improvise at a jazz club
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Hearing-based
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What you play in a play
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Car with an ECO mode
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Service provider?
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"Swim Good" musician with a body of water in his name (soda)
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Sushi servings
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Unit of coal or sugar
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"___ you so!"
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DEA figure
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Hawaiian animal attraction (Greek liqueur)
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___ Piper
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"The Umbrella Academy" character who can communicate with the dead
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Sch. program for 4- and 5-year-olds
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A series of unfortunate events, maybe (brew from roasted beans)
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Parts of course schedules
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"The Joy Luck Club" novelist
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"I'll put it this way ..."
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Sells
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Marcher in a colony
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Put a blot or blotch on
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Earth's surface area?
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Atmosphere's makeup
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"CODA" honor
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Huge mess
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Well-put
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Tactical attack unit (fermented milk beverage)
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"The Baron in the Trees" novelist Calvino
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"Masters of the Universe" actor Idris
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Fill with 51 Across
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Person who's known to rhyme / At least some of the time
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Musician's timbre (Mexican liquor)
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Three-piece suit piece
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The O of Jackie O
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Dink near the plate
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Exercise with blades
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"We've got nothing to worry about" (anise-flavored spirit)
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Acupuncture venue
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Mountains running through Russia
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Decline
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Actor Mitchell who co-starred on a Nickelodeon show with Kenan Thompson
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"You are so right!"
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Talk like a pigeon
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Org. that banned DDT in 1972
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Cleaned with a rag
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"___ the night before Christmas ..."
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Soluble fiber used as a gelling agent
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Written in the stars
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Maximum amount that can be charged for a product (frozen beverage)
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Court judges, briefly
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Under 90 degrees
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Royal Boleyn
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1989 sports comedy with the tagline "When these three oddballs try to play hardball, the result is totally screwball" (beer)
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Surrender, as control
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Bedazzles
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Each
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Cartographic work
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Beverage that hints at each scrambled circled word, and a description of the beverage formed by the first letters of the unscrambled circled words
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Mosquito net material
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Corn
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"Move it, doc!"
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Composer of the chorus "Va, pensiero"
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Pale-faced
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Compound that sounds like a woman's name
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Ball rooms?
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Couturiere's creation
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President who was an intramural wrestling champion at Yale
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Currency that replaced 91 Down
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International Fund for Saving the ___ Sea (org. founded in 1993)
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Excavation locale
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Yellowstone beast
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Play house?
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Historical settler of the Orange Free State
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People known as the Children of the Plains
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Intense desire
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Experience growth
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Clubs carried by caddies
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Venus de ___
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Where a closer warms up
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Made guarantees
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Hunting dog that's the mascot of Southern Illinois University
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"Ferrari" actress Penélope
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Peas or tomatoes in a food fight, say
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Featture of this clue
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Two-goal tie score
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Access secret files, say
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Releases, as steam
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Trapped by the same old boring routine
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Revolutionary Trotsky
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River barriers
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Neighbor of Yemen
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"___ Breckinridge" (Gore Vidal novel)
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Activate, as a switch
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"Meet the Parents" co-star Polo
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Meredith of "Petticoat Junction"
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Makes official, as a law
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Path of urban design
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Like videos that break the internet
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Rainy day overshoe
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Turn up near home?
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One getting a clue
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Feels welcome socially
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Tossed over a shoulder, as a purse
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Bar with a "Gimme a break" ad jingle
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"The Celtic Goddess of New Age Music," per Woman's World
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Plugging away
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Identical in value
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Calm and collected
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Recorded by a camera
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Courses where you can coast
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Receded at the beach
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"You're prolly right"
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More likely to cause school cancellations, as winter forecasts
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Catch, as a radio show
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Scraped by, with "out"
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Houston's cosmic nickname
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First part of a play
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Tender cut of meat
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Pop or rock piece
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Emmy winner Loretta
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Started the bidding
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Stir up emotional heat
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Barcelona bills, once
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"Facts"
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Less ambiguous
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Spoils of sport
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One doing Windows shopping, maybe
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West Point trainees
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Staring intently
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Cry that may signal a need for milk
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Orangutans, e.g.
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2024 NFL MVP ___ Allen
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Landed
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Closed-book ___
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Junction box connector
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Edges
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Strips outside in cold weather?
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BBQ rub additive
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Format akin to Blu-ray