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Daily Crossword Puzzle #9 for Fri, Dec 5, 2025

ACROSS
1. Assist
4. Collect or gather
9. Comfort
13. Compass dir.
14. _ pole
15. Loyal
16. Adept person
17. First name in cosmetics
18. Person who is morally reprehensible
19. 100%
21. Put into a specified state
22. Annoyingly loud
24. _ and Stitch
26. The grampus (Milton)
27. Place in a line
29. Crowds into
30. Music written for nine
31. It was, poetically
33. Scottish cap
36. Coat; cloak
37. Orator
40. Nanny (var.)
41. It is
42. Measure of real estate
43. Lowest deck of a ship
45. Expression of disdain
47. Ms. Damita and namesakes
48. Car dealer's back yard
49. Waist strap
50. Silly
52. "We ___ not amused" (Victoria)
54. Ewer handle
56. Naughty child
57. Entreaties
59. Area sheltered from the wind
61. Assign a rank or rating to
62. Vices
63. Begley and Asner
64. Washington bills
65. Indian princess (variant)
66. Distress signal

DOWN
1. Santa ___, CA
2. South American Indian
3. Homes
4. A saturated hydrocarbon
5. With motion or animation
6. Johnson of "Laugh-In"
7. Proofreading order
8. A female animal or person
9. Value system
10. Ancient Greek god of war
11. Chop _
12. Snakelike fish
20. Actor's bit
22. Trap for birds or small mammals
23. Globe
25. Allows
27. Opposed to
28. Plunder
29. Cause to be
31. Technical work
32. Armed conflict
33. Baron Munchausen's specialties
34. Mine, in Marseilles
35. Atlas contents
38. Thick mixture
39. Hero or heavy, e.g.
44. Cause heat under the collar
45. Food holders
46. Electrically charged atom
49. Calif. Air Force Base
50. SW Asia republic
51. Nathan's nickname
52. Inventor's middle name
53. It's straight from the horse's mouth
55. Redecorate
56. Sis' sibling
57. For each
58. Compass dir.
60. Double-curved letter