___ Stanley Gardner (detective novelist) Crossword Clue

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STANLEY (noun)
1. Welsh journalist and explorer who led an expedition to Africa in search of David Livingstone and found him in Tanzania in 1871; he and Livingstone together tried to find the source of the Nile River (1841-1904)
2. United States inventor who built a steam-powered automobile (1849-1918)
DETECTIVE (noun)
1. a police officer who investigates crimes
2. an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public

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1. GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "state of the central U.S. between the Mississippi River on the east and the Missouri River on the west"

5. Throw in the towel

9. Performed karaoke

13. Part of UAE

14. "___ down?" (question asked in an elevator)

15. Skunks' features

17. NOUN: "either of two relatively slender mackerel sharks...that are dark blue above and white below with long pointed snouts and that are notable sport fish"

18. Chaplin or O'Neill

19. "Let me ___ this way..."

20. NOUN: "an ideal or imaginary place"

23. French water

24. NYT rival

25. NOUN: "a calculated campaign to use one's personal [magnetism] to gain favor or support"

33. Crab cover

34. NOUN: "a musical instrument having steel wire strings that sound when struck by felt-covered hammers operated from a keyboard"

35. NOUN: "either of two complex cartilaginous or bony structures in most vertebrates that border the mouth"

36. VERB: "to cause to sleep or rest"

37. Mattress brand

38. Really cool

39. Yoga wear brand

40. Short and to the point

41. Fireplace tool

42. NOUN: "someone who gives unwanted advice or who tries to control something that is supposed to be controlled by another person"

45. Stanford-Binet test results

46. Wide shoe size

47. NOUN: "a chain of events in which one desirable occurrence leads to another which further promotes the first occurrence and so on resulting in a continuous process of improvement"

55. "Can ___ rain check?"

56. Gas associated with Las Vegas

57. Pledge

59. NOUN: "[one who]...partition[s]...a city, borough, or township....by ordinance into sections reserved for different purposes (as residence or business)"

60. "___ Running Mate" (2025 South Korean drama)

61. Language similar to Lao

62. "Don't take that ___ with me!"

63. NOUN: "a Christian feast on December 25"

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1. "___ Legend 2" (forthcoming Will Smith movie)

2. Algerian port

3. VERB: "to rouse from or as if from sleep"

4. ADVERB: "especially"

5. NOUN: "the minimum number of officers or members of a body that is required to be present at a given meeting (as to transact business)"

6. PREPOSITION: "used as a function word to indicate position in contact with and supported by the top surface of"

7. Skye of "Say Anything …"

8. Bookstore section (abbr.)

9. NOUN: "the highest voice part in a 4-part chorus"

10. Former children

11. "This is ___ joke!"

12. VERB: "to draw back the lips so as to show the teeth especially in amusement or laughter"

16. Normal: Abbr.

21. NOUN: "a member of the British peerage ranking below a marquess and above a viscount"

22. First name on the Supreme Court

25. ___ Vista, Calif.

26. Loan acronym

27. NOUN: "a drama set to music and made up of vocal pieces with orchestral accompaniment"

28. ADJECTIVE: "preceding all others in time, order, or importance"

29. Ill-___ (doomed)

30. "Just kidding," poshly

31. Former smoker, often

32. Fancy pitcher

33. Piece of marble, say

37. "I ___ it's my fault?"

38. NOUN: "a small compartmented raised house or box for domestic pigeons"

40. NOUN: "a ruler with a crosspiece or head at one end used in making parallel lines"

41. Dock's cousin

43. NOUN: "a young cat"

44. Queens, in parts of Queens

47. Namely, in Latin

48. "___ next" (basketball court claim)

49. GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "city in western Nevada north-northeast of Lake Tahoe population 225,221"

50. AT&T operating system

51. Series of stitches

52. Unconscious state

53. Bert in "The Wizard of Oz"

54. List-ending wds.

58. VERB: "to go quickly"

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