Commando action Crossword Clue

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Commando action Crossword Answer

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(verb)
1. search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on
2. enter someone else’s territory and take spoils
(noun)
1. a sudden short attack
2. an attempt by speculators to defraud investors

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

COMMANDO (noun)
1. a member of a military unit trained as shock troops for hit-and-run raids
2. an amphibious military unit trained for raids into enemy territory
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: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
ARID

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24. “Great comeback!”

25. Dah’s counterpart

26. Chest protector

27. Avoid a sentence

29. Gaping mouth

30. Namesake of the ATP’s humanitarian award

32. Some deliveries

33. Cotillion honoree with a great manicure treatment?

36. Take up the slack

38. Strait-laced sort

40. Coordinate, as phone and tablet settings

41. Shipping inquiry

43. Be an inconvenience

45. Source of the meteors in a meteor shower

48. Table talk at the bridge tournament?

51. Hawaiian goose

53. “The Every” author Eggers

54. Adjust to new conditions

55. Stew bit

56. Ovine mascot of the North Carolina Tar Heels

58. List header

59. Some lighting fixtures

63. Anchorman Díaz-Balart

64. Fourth-yr. group

65. Deep hole in a floe?

69. Sheet edge

72. Agricultural laborer

73. Like planners that can be sold year after year

74. Fraternal order founded as a club for minstrel show performers

78. "Presumably..."

80. High rollers, of a sort

81. Spiral shell dweller

82. Jab

83. Head line site

86. Person who buddies up to folks with opulent lifestyles?

89. Florists trim them

91. Pantry’s kin

93. Requiring less travel time

94. Phone fillers

96. Heat energy unit

97. In layers

99. Chocolate-flavored chew?

104. Musher's vehicle

106. Broad st

107. Cant stand

109. Powerful bunch

110. Japanese sea bream, on a sushi menu

111. Like lasers and pianos

114. Dispensary wares imported from all over?

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120. Facilitate

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122. Jah worshipers

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Down

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2. Targeted by AARP, perhaps

3. Better than expected

4. Do that may be picked

5. Bumbler

6. Like hearts

7. Board feature

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9. Lacto-__-vegetarian

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11. Became, ultimately

12. Used as a base

13. Checks for freshness, perhaps

14. Series finale?

15. Sturgeon yield

16. Quantity measured in daltons

17. Lock setting

18. Large quantities

21. "Dope!"

23. Pressing person

28. Taking Ozempic, maybe

31. ABBA’s music

32. Small denomination

34. MoMA location

35. Battery part

37. 1920s chief justice

38. Cute Pokémon creature

39. Apt. ad listing

42. Swindle

44. Coat, as with chocolate

46. At all times

47. Julia Roberts’s “Ocean’s Eleven” role

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52. Moved cautiously

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59. Exorbitant

60. Stock holder

61. Poet’s nightfall

62. Like Steve Cishek’s pitching

63. Surname of toons George, Jane, Judy and Elroy

66. Kinda sorta

67. Ref’s ruling

68. Millennials’ moms, maybe

69. Hula swayers

70. Elton John accomplishment of 2024

71. Atone

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76. Creme de cassis cocktail

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81. Confident

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86. Pricing word

87. Sexology subject

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100. Soft palate projection

101. Abide by

102. Rummage (through)

103. Hand costs

105. Failed to

108. “Now, nurse!”

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118. Surgery sites for short

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