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April 12th, 2026
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1. It may be over your head
5. India neighbor
10. Like 66-across messages
14. Kind of bus
15. Japanese beer
16. Calls on
17. "Everything Is Illuminated" director Schreiber
18. Strains
19. José María Gutiérrez Hernández, to fans
20. AOL's announcement that someone wrote to you
23. Chemical suffix
24. "You're right!"
28. Part of "Alouette" refrain
32. Make certain
33. Policy shared by PBS and Wikipedia
34. Competition or rivalry between corporations to secure rights for litigation
37. Tolkien's Dark Elf
38. Country postal abbr.
39. AIDS cause
40. Carl Sagan said we're all made of this
44. Actress Rainer aka "The Viennese Teardrop"
46. Snapped out of it
47. Old-time pickpocket
49. Harmonious
50. Word of cheer
51. Messages you haven't looked at yet
58. Taiwanese singer and record producer
61. Suitcase attachment
62. Frost, for example
63. Humorist Barry
64. Not familiar with
65. Welsh form of John
66. Unwanted messages
67. Respond to a pun, perhaps
68. Without: Fr.
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1. Blessed
2. "___ babbino caro" (Puccini aria)
3. "Pimp Da ___ Love" (Charli Baltimore song)
4. Split (up)
5. Cable channel with many science shows, familiarly
6. "___ Trot" (Dahl book whose title, read backwards, is an animal)
7. Section
8. Attention-getter
9. Author of On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
10. Developer's enumeration of issues to fix
11. Japanese volcano
12. Tennis word
13. Pressure initials
21. Make ___ meet
22. Freelancer's income-tax form
25. Owl's call
26. Poker player's words
27. Restaurant employee
28. "Romanian Rhapsodies" composer George
29. Overly exposed to the sun, perhaps
30. Village in Bandar Charak Rural District, Shibkaveh District, Bandar Lengeh County, Hormozgan Province, Iran
31. Science Policy Research Unit, briefly
35. TV alien
36. Squabble
41. Church service
42. Wow
43. Bit of jewelry
44. "Taken" star Neeson
45. Horseshoes have them
48. It's north of California
52. River in Germany
53. "A-one and ___"
54. Figures
55. Des Moines is its capital
56. Barren
57. Train stops: Abbr.
58. They're often pop-ups
59. GPS display
60. Longoria of "Desperate Housewives"

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