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Daily Crossword Puzzle #9 for Mon, May 25, 2026

ACROSS
1. Perform or handle clumsily
5. Wander
9. Suttee (variant)
13. Silent film actress Nazimova
14. Stare
15. Traditional theme or motif
16. Astound
17. Household entertainment appliance
19. Three (prefix)
20. Frozen water
21. Shallow baking pan
22. The first octave above the treble staff
23. First of billions?
25. Observe
26. Travels by water
30. Trial
34. Damascus' land
35. Jane of fiction
36. Wise men
39. Bee-related
42. It's straight from the horse's mouth
43. It was, poetically
44. Sibling's daughter
46. Emitted
47. Distinguishing feature
48. R.R. building
51. Georgia ____ (Atlanta school)
54. Sep. follower
57. Rowing implement
58. Compass dir.
60. Greek goddess of the dawn
62. Appease
65. Moist
66. Add up to
67. Opposed to
68. Toward the sea
69. Moved rapidly
70. Be tempered by heat
71. 270 degrees

DOWN
1. Vertical spar for supporting sails
2. Extremist
3. Watery
4. Avid follower
5. College mil. group
6. Double curve, resembling the letter S
7. 100%
8. Confronts
9. Distress signal
10. Capital of Western Samoa
11. Utensil
12. Is not
15. Prong on a fork
18. Compete
20. "If ____ say so..."
24. Help
27. Retirement account (abbr.)
28. Mouth edge
29. Inhabitant of Heaven
30. Cigar-shaped
31. Sight organ
32. _ Lanka
33. "___ Little Indians"
36. Mountains (abbr.)
37. Deep reverence
38. Separate the seeds from cotton
40. Wind
41. Teachers' org.
45. Quote
48. Earth
49. Make lace
50. Believer in; advocate of (suffix)
52. Stop
53. Residences
54. Chooses
55. Riding implement
56. Haul
58. Singer James
59. Famous astronaut Armstrong
61. Argument over a trivial matter
63. Groovy apt.
64. A saturated hydrocarbon
65. Fool