Boston Globe Mini Crossword August 16 2026 Answers (8/16/26)

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Boston Globe Mini Crossword August 16, 2026 Answers

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# Clue
1A "Rumor has it ..."
8A Curaçao neighbor
13A Mountain top?
19A Where you might "drive" someone (when the wall isn't available)
20A Egg container
21A Present
22A "Bye, __!" ("Get lost!")
23A Heaviness measured before bedtime?
25A Pen's liquid
26A Rear
28A Acting nudge
29A AARP founder __ Percy Andrus
30A Hag that smells awful?
34A Throw in
36A "Pachinko" author Min Jin __
37A R&B singer Janelle
38A BBC : UK :: __ : Italy
39A With 55-Down, "Dessert: Harmony in Red (The Red Room)" painter
41A Slick
42A Actor Ed __ Jr.
45A Group consent phrase
46A Vocalized
48A "Adorbs!"
51A When la lune shines
52A Subsidiary: Abbr.
53A Very little resistance?
56A Arab League nation
58A Sumida River city
60A Big CD-ROM producer of the '90s
61A Make lace
63A Get situated
64A Asian berry "superfood"
65A Iberian river
67A "Srsly?!?"
68A Very pretentious
69A Blessing
72A "Pet" that grows
73A Beluga eggs
74A Pizza leftover
75A Opinion column
76A Like best friends
78A Parties
79A Leatherworker's tool
80A Hot coal
82A Unmoved
83A Became a new person?
86A Muscles targeted in planks
87A Chuck's Public Enemy sidekick
88A Soccer star Messi, to fans
89A It's done in France
90A Grand Ole __
92A 2016 UK referendum vote
94A Not good, but not bad
96A Delicate
98A Just like
99A Went out
103A March sound
104A Movie grp. with an annual Top 100 list
105A Massive underwater-traveling mammal?
109A Landed property?
111A Indiana Jones quest
113A Midland neighbor
114A Bagel fish
115A Critical examination of a kitchen implement?
118A "Sign me up!"
121A Like some windows
122A Linux variety
123A "__ Place"
124A Quaint oath
125A Car bomb?
126A More close-fitting
1D Islamic faith
2D Game for (anything)
3D Conservative commentator Michelle
4D Prefix with Pen and cure
5D Liberal arts maj.
6D Out lines?
7D Have a yen (for)
8D DJ with the hit "Wake Me Up"
9D "Correctamundo!"
10D Seat, slangily
11D Brought together, as a cluster
12D First Amendment defender: Abbr.
13D Boar's mate
14D Injured below the belt
15D "Let me guess ..."
16D Big-moment spinner?
17D Closely behind
18D Tea name
20D Kind of street
24D Four seasons
27D Wading bird
31D Capture
32D Tool singer Maynard James __
33D Chase in the movies
35D Cheap vinyl?
40D __ de guerre
41D Acorns for Peace artist
43D Failure on a Les Paul?
44D "F9" director Justin
45D User-edited site about a London copper?
47D Some addresses
48D On the train
49D Command center
50D Wines enjoyed in April and May?
52D Martial arts place
54D "Aladdin" parrot
55D See 39-Across
57D Curious George creator
58D Rich German dessert
59D Cousin of a mink
62D "... oh really?"
64D Provider of a direct line?
66D Word with foreign or visual
70D Whine and whimper
71D Mocks by imitating
72D __-de-sac
74D Bos'n's boss
77D Critical piece
81D "The Wire" druglord Stanfield
82D Hefeweizen alternative
84D Brazilian city, familiarly
85D ER pronouncement
87D Brothers' home
91D Like jangajji
92D Most melancholy
93D "If we're keeping it real," in a text
94D Attractive young woman, in AAVE
95D Boo-boo
97D "Knives Out" director Johnson
98D It ranges from 520 to 1710 kHz
100D Middle-earth demon
101D Kay Thompson girl
102D TV serial killer with the last name Morgan
104D Appealed
106D Israel's Dayan
107D Digital markers built directly in one's cellphone
108D Japanese noodles
110D "__ perpetua" (Idaho's motto)
112D Endangered, perhaps
116D Athletes do them for money
117D Patriot gains: Abbr.
119D Wintertime bug
120D Nonprofit domain

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