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Crossword - May 21, 2026
May 21, 2026
by Alison Kumpf
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Across
1. Advance with a lance
6. Chaotic little monster
13. Restarting completely … or a hint to reading six other shaded answers in this puzzle
16. Third-to-last
17. *10 in chemistry, maybe*
18. “Essential” aromatics
19. “What Makes You Beautiful” band, informally
20. Harmonic combinations
23. Small brown songbirds with upright tails
24. Fish whose eyes migrate to the same side
27. Peculiar
28. Lists of citations or commentary at the end of a chapter, for example
30. That, en México
31. Soft rock
32. Fool
34. At sea, in a way
38. *Butter alternative*
40. Precede
42. Pops, maybe
44. Scolds
45. Most bike paths on campus have two of these
46. “It was a dark and ___ night”
48. Celebrity couple
49. Word filling both blanks of “Que ___, ___”
50. *Cutting insult*
53. Magician’s vanishing trick
58. “This can’t be!!”
59. Tapes or films
60. Mistreat
Down
1. Dr. ___ Goodall
2. Prefix for the tenth month
3. Small stringed instrument, informally
4. 25ºC and 1 atm in chemistry, for short
5. Digital asset?
6. Seabirds closely related to terns
7. “Dang nabbit!”
8. *Shortest and shallowest H.O.M.E.S. lake*
9. U.S. holiday observed in late May
10. Borrowed item
11. Mean
12. Must, with “to”
13. Prohibition
14. Laughed sharply, maybe
15. Pound, colloquially
20. El día de la Batalla de Puebla
21. Streaming service with “Game of Thrones”
22. Some navels
23. “Royal” pronouns
24. Eighth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, in one spelling
25. Santa ___ winds
26. “Bad” cholesterol
27. Like an ocean vis à vis a desert
29. “Unstoppable” singer
33. In agreement, as with a plan
35. Granola grain
36. Holy Madame, abbr.
37. *Midterm, typically*
39. Spanish article
41. Nerdy lead in to “actually”
42. Genre for Nexustentialism
43. “BRB”
45. Laser-based mapping technology
46. Looks for
47. *Characteristic*
49. Tater
50. Totes, e.g.
51. Apex
52. GPS suggestion
54. ___ favor
55. Journalist and civil rights activist ___ B. Wells
56. Pilot’s tip?
57. Wildebeest
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