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Daily Crossword Puzzle #2 for Thu, Jan 1, 2026

ACROSS
1. Double-curved letter
4. Lacking originality or spontaneity
9. Give a ring to
13. Compete
14. Drinks excessively
15. Mitch Miller's instrument
16. Connecticut Ivy Leaguer
17. Originate
18. Teases
19. Oval reproductive body of a fowl
21. Floor covering
22. Portable shelters
24. Sense of smell
26. To separate or throw off
27. Travels by water
29. Nanny
30. Upward
31. Alleged
33. Three (prefix)
36. Title for a knight
37. Paper fasteners
40. Boat paddle
41. Filthy place
42. Johnson of "Laugh-In"
43. Feeling or showing extreme anger
45. Root beer relative
47. Methods
48. One (Scot)
49. Elects
50. Dwellings
52. Part of a journey
54. _ moment's notice (2 wds.)
56. Old wives' tales, e.g.
57. For Whom the Bell _____
59. Choose
61. Having or resembling wings
62. Off-Broadway awards
63. Bear (Spanish)
64. Actor Lugosi
65. Honkers
66. Allow

DOWN
1. Night before a holiday
2. Drop; flow; fall
3. Signiory (variant)
4. R.R. building
5. Singer Mel
6. Capital of Western Samoa
7. For fear that
8. Compass dir.
9. Pupil covering
10. "This won't hurt ____!"
11. Tennis shots
12. French article
20. Eighteen holes
22. Barter
23. Car or cant ending
25. Fast planes
27. Backtalk
28. Set down
29. Mediterranean tributary
31. "Two Mules for Sister ____"
32. Fitting
33. Inedible or poisonous agaric
34. Pace
35. Angers
38. Falsehoods
39. Simple or foolish person
44. Roll call or roster of names
45. Device for capturing images
46. Single
49. Stares at amorously
50. Opening into or through something
51. Of the mouth
52. Ear part
53. Writer Wiesel
55. Domed church section
56. Experiment locale
57. Coat; cloak
58. Compass dir.
60. Small child