Action-packed Crossword Clue

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EXCITING

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(adjective)
1. having important issues or results
2. full of events or incidents

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

PACKED (adjective)
1. extremely crowed or filled to capacity
2. pressed together or compressed
ACTION (noun)
1. a military engagement
2. a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong
ACTION (verb)
1. institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against
2. put in effect

Hint 3: Other Answers Used in the Past

EXCITING
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More USA Today Crossword (11/12/2025) Answers

Across

1. Awards season omission

5. Faith with a holy site in Mecca

10. Software test version

14. Cocktail word with a tilde

15. Spanish for "good"

16. 'What a shame'

17. Substance with a low pH

18. Logistical hiccups

19. Cab

20. Do-over on a movie set

22. Picked up

24. Teeth-related

26. The ones right here

27. ___ azul (plant used for tequila)

30. Boise's state

32. Like sinigang and kare-kare

34. __ tax

39. French word hidden in "times have changed"

40. Wounded by a jellyfish

42. X-, y- or z- line

43. Subside

45. "I want your actual opinion"

47. Domain

49. Large ray

50. Sri ___

54. Asked for more catnip, perhaps

58. Tooth's outer layer

62. What bicycle crunches work

63. Story in court

65. Jump into a pool

66. "The surprise party guest of honor is coming!"

67. Put off until later

68. Largest continent

69. Ice cream brand

70. Horse for a knight

71. Runny part of a sunny-side-up egg

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Down

1. Train for a boxing match

2. "Play ___!" ("No fighting back there!")

3. Inch or pound

4. Foul tip?

5. "Peer Gynt" playwright Henrik

6. Star seen on many flags

7. Be one person by day and another by night, say

8. "Beauty and the Beast" actor Lansbury

9. Nearly all

10. Amount of brownies

11. Fill with glee

12. Payments to the IRS

13. Step ___!

21. Retain

23. British boarding school

25. Shade

27. A long way off

28. Be generous

29. Actor Mapa

31. ___ jump (track event)

33. Gotcha

35. July 1 observance for some North Americans

36. Animals that pull plows

37. Ocean spray

38. ___ noche (tonight)

41. Pixar clownfish

44. Fiddlesticks!

46. Warning sign

48. Good-luck charm

50. ___ flan (creamy 32-Across dessert)

51. Steer clear of

52. Like Chidi Anagonye in "The Good Place"

53. Ripped jeans might show them

55. Peculiar

57. Fidget spinners and hoverboards, for example

59. Soup paste

60. Doofenshmirtz ___ Inc. (villainous company in "Phineas and Ferb")

61. Security breach

64. Spelling contest

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