ABBREVIATION: [Webster's rival, briefly] Crossword Clue

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(noun)
1. an unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

WEBSTER (noun)
1. United States politician and orator (1782-1817)
2. English playwright (1580-1625)
ABBREVIATION (noun)
1. a shortened form of a word or phrase
2. shortening something by omitting parts of it

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Across

1. NOUN: "a fore-and-aft rigged vessel similar to a yawl"

6. NOUN: "a large heavily built social cat...of open or rocky areas chiefly of sub-Saharan Africa"

10. Hot

14. Find irresistible

15. It's half of dieciseis

16. Lemon or lime, say

17. NOUN: "the [time] at which there are so many of a thing that no more can be added successfully"

20. Punk offshoot

21. Biting arachnids

22. ___ way (not at all)

23. Guatemalan guy

24. Test with a 340 perfect score

25. VERB: "to adapt or conform oneself (as to new conditions)"

28. Night watchman, say

32. Baby carriage, in Brisbane

33. ___-O-Caster (baseball game)

35. L.A. group representing many actors

36. NOUN PHRASE: "the earliest, most obvious, or most superficial manifestation of some phenomenon"

40. "___ Longoria: Searching for Spain" (2025 travel series)

41. NOUN: "a...region in which something is dominant"

42. Scatting Fitzgerald

43. Saying it never happened

45. Drugstore sections

48. Shaves off a lime peel, e.g.

50. Told, as tales

52. Class anyone can pass

53. Corn chip flavor, often

56. PHRASE: "used to say to someone that he or she should have listened and followed one's advice"

59. Lawnmower brand

60. NOUN: "wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh)"

61. Poetic feet, in a posh plural

62. NOUN: "a power vested in a chief executive to prevent permanently or temporarily the enactment of measures passed by a legislature"

63. Social equal

64. ADJECTIVE: "obtainable at a low price"

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1. Cheese, in Berlin

2. Dutch town after which a cheese is named

3. Dorothy's doggie

4. French vineyard

5. NOUN: "a Greek god of commerce, eloquence, invention, travel, and theft who serves as herald and messenger of the other gods"

6. Numbers game?

7. Less friendly

8. Cries of discovery

9. PREFIX: "absence of"

10. Otto on "The Simpsons," e.g.

11. "The Office" role

12. COMBINING FORM: "strange"

13. ADVERB: "so far"

18. Fails to be, casually

19. VERB: "to reproduce without authorization especially in infringement of copyright"

23. Grappling sport

24. Green dip

25. Michael who directed "Coal Miner's Daughter" and "Gorillas in the Mist"

26. NOUN: "a device for reading or writing on magnetic, optical, or electronic media (such as tapes, disks, or flash memory)"

27. GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "country in eastern Asia...population 126,168,000"

28. ADJECTIVE: "stern or forbidding in action or appearance"

29. Battery type

30. "Copperhead Road" singer Steve

31. Tunes sung in Telugu, often

33. Plush carpet

34. Abbr. on a business card

37. NOUN: "a person included in a list of one's designated connections on a social media service"

38. __ bar (serve drinks)

39. Mrs. Harry Truman

44. "Have a good weekend!" reply

45. ‘___ sow so shall ”

46. ADJECTIVE: "of or relating to a type style with characters that slant upward to the right"

48. GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "country in central Africa [1971-97] comprising most of the Congo River basin east of the lower Congo River and crossed by the Equator; capital Kinshasa"

49. NOUN: "any of a class of often fragrant organic compounds"

50. It may have a tongue

51. Role in a movie

52. Woman's name that sounds like two letters of the alphabet

53. "You wanna run that ___ again?"

54. NOUN: "a sweet drink of tea mixed typically with milk, tapioca balls, and additional ingredients (such as fresh fruit or fruit syrup) and served hot or cold"

55. NOUN: "a witty or funny observation or response usually made on the spur of the moment"

56. "I don't care either way," when texting

57. Adorable troublemaker

58. ___-di-dah (pretentious)

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