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Daily Crossword Puzzle #9 for Fri, Jul 24, 2026

ACROSS
1. Was introduced to
4. Practice fight
8. Play the lead
12. "___ Maria"
13. Old wives' tales, e.g.
14. Musical group of three
15. Looks after
18. Toward shelter
19. San ____ (Riviera town)
20. Slender, wiry
22. Clumsy lout
23. Indian skirt
24. Nonscientific branch of learning
25. Set
26. Photo
30. _ Lanka
33. Be
36. Cassini of fashion
37. Gouge
39. Mountains (abbr.)
40. Nanny
41. Singer Murray
42. Goes without food and/or water
44. Lower and raise head in agreement
45. Smoochers
47. No longer planned or scheduled
50. Ring climax
51. Mouths or openings
53. Standoff
54. Commissioned military rank
57. Flat circle
59. Small Indonesian buffalo
61. Debunk (Brit. slang)
63. Of or related to the anus
64. 911 reaches them
65. Ending with capital
66. Have the gumption
67. Celtic language
68. Born

DOWN
1. Floor protector
2. Nights before holidays
3. Portable shelters
4. Volcanic refuse
5. More than one (prefix)
6. "We ___ not amused" (Victoria)
7. Portuguese money of account (variant)
8. Ski resort town in Vermont
9. Unclean, religiously
10. Direct toward a target or goal
11. Friend of Pooh
16. To trail on the ground
17. Title for a man of rank and authority
21. The longest river in the world
22. The grampus (Milton)
24. Small island
26. Inconspicuous attention getter
27. Uhlan (variant)
28. Former U.S. Attorney General Janet
29. Mild oath
30. Neighbor of Neb.
31. Painter Guido (1575-1642)
32. Lodging establishments
34. Dec. holiday
35. ___ a Wonderful Life
38. One of the two male reproductive glands
42. Away
43. Within a short period
46. Supplement with great effort
48. Flintstone
49. Conductor's collection
52. Unit of acoustic absorption
53. Russian ruler of old
54. Republicans
55. Comfort
56. Goldbrick
57. June honoree
58. _ tizzy (2 wds.)
59. Adept person
60. Not either
62. Unit of force equal to gravity