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Daily Crossword Puzzle #2 for Thu, Oct 9, 2025

ACROSS
1. Hit sharply and swiftly
4. First of billions?
8. Behest
12. Mouths or openings
14. Make _____ (do battle with)
16. Double curve, resembling the letter S
17. Food container
18. Pleas
20. Ingested
22. Shade tree
23. Fast jet (abbr.)
24. Single
25. Partially opened flower
28. 54 in ancient Rome
30. Female horse
31. Flat circles
35. Whopper
37. Yard entry
40. US Secretary of Labor Elaine L. _
41. Do not
42. Opt
44. "Corrida" creature
45. Pledge
46. Frozen precipitation
47. Baseball player Mel
48. Snout, nose
50. Den
52. Pat or tap gently
54. Eastern Standard Time (abbr.)
55. R.R. building
58. Federal power corp.
61. Floor covering
63. Prevent from occurring
65. Wine waiters
70. Indian skirt
71. Toward shelter
72. Potato state
73. Otherwise
74. Monthly bill
75. Greek god of love
76. Snakelike fish

DOWN
1. Cowboy competition
2. Believer in; advocate of (suffix)
3. Thick mixture
4. Deep reverence
5. One of the 12 tribes of Israel
6. Nonscientific branch of learning
7. Greater amount
8. Being at a high temperature
9. Armor plate that protects the chest
10. Perceives with the eye
11. Trial
13. A female animal or person
15. 1994 drama film starring Jodie Foster
19. Among
21. Basketball assoc.
26. Goad
27. Allots cards
29. Winning man's name
30. Mode
32. Opportunity
33. Draw slowly or heavily
34. "Barney Miller" actor Jack
35. Grant temporary use of
36. To the inside or interior of
38. "___ Little Indians"
39. Learning spot: Fr.
41. Two (Sp.)
43. It was, poetically
49. Docile
51. It would
53. Indonesian resort city
55. Lacking originality or spontaneity
56. Laconic
57. Satellite of Uranus
58. Russian ruler of old
59. Short-tailed, large-bodied rat
60. So be it
62. Event that recurs at intervals
64. Compass dir.
66. Was introduced to
67. Hearing organ
68. 17th letter of the Greek alphabet
69. Mayday