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Daily Crossword Puzzle #9 for Wed, Aug 12, 2026

ACROSS
1. Parent Teacher Association (abbr.)
4. Is not
8. Past tense of be (plural)
12. Tennis shots
14. Drop behind
16. Length times width
17. Writer Wiesel
18. Seigniories (variant)
20. Tree or shrub in the Birch family
22. _-fi
23. Bank Draft (abbr.)
24. Compass dir.
25. Personal question
28. Shade tree
30. Practice fight
31. Religious groups
35. River (Sp.)
37. Conclusions
40. Change direction abruptly
41. Australian parrot (variant)
42. Climbing, woody, usually tropical vines
44. Bristle
45. Slanted text style (abbr.)
46. Snake ____ (dice throw)
47. Australian flightless bird
48. Natives or inhabitants of Denmark
50. Snakelike fish
52. ___ good deed
54. Actress Charlotte
55. Fitting
58. Music discs
61. Chicken ___ king
63. An organ shaped like a helmet
65. Abnormally rapid or deep breathing
70. Fast planes
71. Of or related to the anus
72. Sir (Sp.)
73. Left side of a ship or aircraft
74. Painter Guido (1575-1642)
75. Gone
76. Sliced dessert

DOWN
1. Entreaties
2. For Whom the Bell _____
3. Stay
4. It is
5. _ Lanka
6. Tired old horse
7. Canisters
8. Armed conflict
9. 4th largest of the Great Lakes
10. Coral ridge
11. Compass direction
13. Observe
15. Louse (plural)
19. Lubricates
21. Reproach for some lapse or misdeed
26. Highlander
27. Bert's buddy
29. Makes clutter
30. Dirtied
32. Clement's nick name
33. Ballerina skirt
34. Ocean
35. Roll call or roster of names
36. SW Asia republic
38. 24 hours
39. Contemptuous expression
41. Flaplike covering
43. Toward the sea
49. Fly high
51. Part of a journey
53. High mountains
55. Columnist Joseph or Stewart
56. _ dish (used to culture cells)
57. Clothes sense
58. Burn to charcoal
59. Unit of force
60. Connect, as a bridge
62. Afresh
64. Cleo's killer
66. Biblical high priest
67. Single
68. A really long time
69. Nonscientific branch of learning