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Daily Crossword Puzzle #9 for Fri, Jan 2, 2026

ACROSS
1. Baseball player Mel
4. Lyric poems
8. Constrict
12. Plate
14. General guideline
15. Arranges properly for use
16. Brightly colored fish
17. Pieces
20. Travel on or in a vehicle
21. Neckwear
22. Cooking vessel
23. Spew [out]
27. Unable to walk
29. Common sense
31. Washington bills
34. Short, simple song
35. Lodging establishments
36. Ancient Persian
39. RI univ.
41. System (abbr.)
42. Length times width
43. An arm off of a larger body of water
46. Give a ring to
47. An important port of Yemen
48. At sea
51. More peculiar
54. Dripping
56. Compass dir.
58. Not recorded
61. The property of being fit to eat
66. In a ____ (agitated or irritated)
67. Small Philippine buffalo
68. Tenth: prefix
69. He sold his birthright
70. Austrian-born American filmmaker Fritz
71. Sever or remove by pinching or nipping
72. Biblical high priest

DOWN
1. Scent
2. Native american tent (variation)
3. Sadhe (variant)
4. The grampus (Milton)
5. Superhero pair
6. Shade tree
7. Back-to-school mo.
8. Compass dir.
9. 3-inch nail
10. "Beetle Bailey" pooch
11. Inconspicuous attention getter
13. "Mermaids" star
18. Lubricate
19. Teachers' org.
24. Corn or form start
25. Small bed
26. Ballerina skirt
28. Damp
30. Damascus' land
32. Followers of ems
33. Fast jet (abbr.)
34. Allots cards
36. Apple computer (short form)
37. Period
38. Conveyance
40. _ china
44. Directed
45. Conclude
49. Snakelike fish
50. A saturated hydrocarbon
52. Otherwise
53. Remove soap
54. Welt
55. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ferber
57. Extremities
59. Small bottle
60. Needle case
62. Container for groceries
63. Car or cant ending
64. _-fi
65. Small drink