Besmirches Crossword Clue

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Besmirches Crossword Answer

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TAINTS

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STAINS

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More Apple+ Crossword (1/23/2026) Answers

Across

1. Hey, you! Over here!

5. Mornings, for short

12. University in Columbus

15. Ostrichlike bird in South America

16. Southern stretch of Croatia

18. Admission of deceit

19. Sulky look

20. Place to play darts

22. Bronx-born congresswoman's initials

23. Has a chat

25. Mine find

26. Archipelago that includes Gozo and Comino

31. Ran on TV

32. Have as a stopping time

33. Manipulated psychologically

35. Overly prim and proper

37. Final Fantasy IV protagonist

38. Remove frost from, like a plane

39. Valley-filled area of northern England

44. Boxer who said, "I am the greatest"

45. Some qualifying exams for PhD candidates

46. Actress Long

48. __ de plume

49. Stocking issue

50. Products in a knitting shop

52. Deterioriating, or visiting 16-, 26-, and 39-Across?

56. ___ Caribbean

57. Like something that can be weathered

58. "ttyl"

59. Direction opposite NNW

60. "Until we ___ again!"

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Down

1. Speakers' places

2. Hebrew hello

3. Contents of "DO NOT EAT" packets

4. Heavy volume

5. Stat for a quarterback (Abbr.)

6. ___ tai

7. Like some packets

8. Medium gait for a horse

9. I get it now

10. Gets back to someone

11. "___ Nite" (Earth, Wind & Fire song)

13. Like this: 🙁

14. Hot-pot mushroom

17. TALK LIKE THIS

21. Outdo

23. Mr. Mom star Garr

24. I hate to break up __

27. Vision-correcting surgery

28. Cash-register compartments

29. Expensive German camera brand

30. Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico photographer Adams

33. ___ time scale (system based on the history of the Earth)

34. Bitter feeling

35. Slippery part of a banana

36. Disencumbers

37. One of the colors in the CMYK model

38. Smaug and Puff, for two

40. ___ Kong

41. Hopping mad

42. Give a coating

43. Track released by a band

47. Opposite of a liability

49. ___-cone

50. "Haud ___ wheesht!" (Scottish "Shut up!")

51. Michelangelo's "The Creation of __"

53. ___ B. Wells

54. Stats for a quarterback (Abbr.)

55. Fuchsia or rose

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