Chicago airport code Crossword Clue

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Chicago airport code Crossword Answer

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

AIRPORT (noun)
1. an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo
CHICAGO (noun)
1. largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan
2. a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card

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DOR

More USA Today Crossword (9/18/2026) Answers

Across

1. Send by truck, ironically

5. “Like that’ll ever happen!”

8. Not straight

13. Assistant

14. ___ gov'nor (punny name for a plant shop)

16. ___ off (deter)

17. Sushi protein made with Sriracha or chili oil

19. Danger

20. Gave an address

21. Yankees' crosstown rivals

23. Place to hang art

24. ___ Kippur

25. Low-pH

27. "There's a red light ahead!"

28. Like tissue paper

29. One might be used to test the temperature of bathwater

31. Species of the insurance spokesbird that's about 10x heavier than the Aflac duck

32. "Don't leave without me!"

34. Piece of tennis gear

36. Singer who said "musicians are the architects of heaven"

38. Tasty bit

39. Completely out of energy

41. NBA Hall of Famer Duncan

43. Crash another streamer's event

44. Excited tail movements

46. Superficial appearance

48. Recede

51. "Next to the plate!"

53. Polite

55. Shakespearean loverboy

56. Winless chess ending

58. Regions

59. Bring onto the team

60. "Now, here's an ___ . . ."

61. Costume ball concealers

62. Himalayan cryptid

63. Where egg mimicry make take place

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1. Full of attitude

2. Aquatic African mammal

3. Saying that's hard to translate

4. Quick kiss

5. Bowler or fedora

6. Lightweight metal

7. Refined, like a new skill

8. Egyptian snake

9. Dishes with gravylike consistencies

10. Role for Ralph Macchio and Jaden Smith

11. Sign of bad things to come

12. “I couldn’t have said it better!”

15. Wipe out

18. "Like that'll happen!"

22. Sheet with board game results

26. "The hustle and bustle"

28. Bills that have to be closed

30. Spy's communication gadget

32. Scattergories and Scrabble, for two

33. Computer lab array

35. Rep

36. Island surrounded by a lagoon

37. With lots of distance between

38. Take care of the lawn

42. Like a bog

45. Filet mignon, e.g.

47. Rhyming partner of "patootie"

48. Slip past

49. Bagel ___

50. Make goat noises

52. Casually throw

54. Let's do it!

55. Sheep with big horns

57. Floral Polynesian gift

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