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Daily Crossword Puzzle #9 for Thu, Dec 25, 2025

ACROSS
1. Soggy
4. Rich soil
8. Prejudice
12. Prepare for publication
14. Comfort
15. At sea
16. Prong on a fork
17. Interpreter
20. Religious group
21. Ocean
22. Cuckoo
23. Giggle
27. Inky black, to poets
29. Johnson of "Laugh-In"
31. Lettered men learn these first
34. Narrow boards
35. Beer foam
36. Connect, as a bridge
39. Auto club (abbr.)
41. Otherwise
42. Capri or Wight
43. Leg joints
46. Cause heat under the collar
47. Charged atoms
48. Relating to the mouth
51. Moving about
54. The first octave above the treble staff
56. River (Sp.)
58. Pacific island yam
61. Happening in regular succession
66. Made supply last
67. Ship's personnel
68. Writer Wiesel
69. Ancient Persian
70. Sew up the eyelids of hawks and falcons
71. Pinches, bites
72. Two (Sp.)

DOWN
1. Soaks
2. Singer Brickell
3. A color or tint
4. Allow
5. Boat paddle
6. White ___ sheet
7. Not women's
8. Sound made by sheep
9. Byzantium, centuries later
10. A really long time
11. Indian skirt
13. Wig
18. Perceive with the eye
19. Experiment locale
24. Actor Linden
25. Epoch
26. Singer James
28. Fertile tracts in a desert
30. 1973 Nobel Price Winner (Physics) Leo
32. Music discs
33. Compass dir.
34. Scornful expression
36. Title for a knight
37. 23rd letter of the Greek alphabet
38. One to whom something is allotted
40. Small Philippine buffalo
44. Followers of ems
45. Eastern Standard Time (abbr.)
49. Tate display
50. Cards in a Roman deck?
52. A whole individual unit
53. Swept the length of
54. Curves
55. Old wives' tales, e.g.
57. Baking chamber
59. Make new
60. Lyric poems
62. Leather borer
63. Connecticut Ivy Leaguer
64. Mouth edge
65. Affirmative reply