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Crossword - Best of 2026 Edition
May 28, 2026
by Sanchita Koppa, Alison Kumpf, Kendrick Lam, Andrew Wang
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Across
1. Sweet treat locale across from Dublin’s
7. “Piece of cake!”
15. “Fancy seeing you here”
16. Indigenous group in Maryland
17. White house, perhaps
18. Places (down)
19. Home of the Cardinals (abbr).
21. Earworm syndrome (abbr.)
24. Baroque music genre with three musical lines but often four players
30. Decorates, as a cake
32. Accessory useful to dodge tablers
33. Screaming like a kid
35. Famous ‘90s girl group
36. Most embarrassed, maybe
37. Dishonorable
41. Like someone who prefers platonic relationships, for short
42. Miss Peregrine, in film
43. Showers, say
48. SF train system
49. Waved warning
50. Social media feed predecessor
51. Mythical bird in Middle Eastern mythology
52. Rapper Flo ___
55. On the fly speaking
59. Best boba in Isla Vista
61. Compelling, in uncommon usage
64. Neighborhood between Calabasas and North Hollywood
66. Poster header from a frantic feline owner
67. Some statistical analyses of means]
14.. Corner store
Down
1. Alternative to the ap high school program
2. ___-ed (schooling for a trade or craft)
3. Type of cyberattack
4. Descartes of “I think, therefore I am”
5. “Let me show you how it’s done!”
6. What one does monthly in Isla Vista
7. Moon of Galileo
8. Suffix for rankings after third
10. Test that measures brain waves, in brief
11. More than most
12. Soccer team UCSB tied 0-0 against last fall
13. “___-hoo! Over here!”
19. Poor ___, in England
20. Baking meas.
21. Level up here to be quieter
22. White parts of eyes
23. What fries may be cooked in
25. Niagara Falls airport code
26. “___ doubt about it!”
27. Alternative name for an aardvark
28. Employees at bank counters
29. First halves of many hikes
31. Down in the dumps
34. ___ amo
37. Groceries across from Anisq'Oyo Park
38. Jupiter, but not Venus
39. Opposite of ‘OK’, in Japan
40. Eyeball
42. Pinpoint of an emergency, in brief
44. Dutch language code
45. ___ acid, natural food preservative
46. Number of floors in Santa Rosa Hall
47. Texter’s “absolutely!”
53. They’re loaded when rigged
54. “Amarillo” chili peppers
55. Tongue that doesn’t require the tongue (abbr).
56. App providing multi-factor authentication for UCSB
57. ___ Vegas
58. A field expert’s suffix
60. School in the Dallas metropolitan area
62. One helping to get the dub, in brief
63. “___ phone home”
65. System software (abbr).
9.. Titular dog in a Phyllis Reynolds Naylor novel
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