Deserves Crossword Clue

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Deserves Crossword Answer

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MERITS

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RATES

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RATES
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NARES

More Missing Letter Crossword (10/18/2026) Answers

Across

1. NOUN: "a number that is one more than three"

5. Key for Bartok's Piano Concerto No. 3

9. Quite a shout

13. Romain de Tirtoff, to art fans

14. Italian pal

15. Sword many see quadrennially

16. Amount often discussed at Dunder Mifflin

17. NOUN: "a recess in a wall especially for a statue"

18. Trifling

19. ADJECTIVE: "working out of public view or in secret"

22. T, to Tiberius

23. NOUN: "something (such as a ruse) used deceptively to gain another's [trust]"

24. ADJECTIVE: "having several answers from which one is to be chosen"

32. Totally thrown for a loop

33. 1879 Robert Louis Stevenson poem about sleeping under the stars

34. NOUN: "a carved pole erected as a memorial to the dead by some Indigenous people of western North America"

36. NOUN: "a noncommercial often homemade or online publication usually devoted to specialized and often unconventional subject matter"

37. GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "city in west central Honshu, Japan, north-northeast of Osaka"

38. NOUN: "used formerly as a form of address and as a title"

39. Gobble up

40. NOUN: "an ancient Italian goddess of the forest and of childbirth who was identified with the moon goddess Artemis by the Romans"

41. Michael in 1988's "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"

42. NOUN: "the political principles and ideas...that center around a belief in a strong central government, broad interpretation of the federal constitution...and a general distrust of the political capacity or wisdom of the common man"

45. Lacto-___ vegetarian

46. "Autumn has arrived, I guess"

47. NOUN: "a device in a kitchen sink that grinds up food waste so it can be washed down the drain"

56. "Canadian ___" (singing show)

57. VERB: "to increase the amount of (a poker bet)"

58. NOUN: "a structure built parallel to the bank of a waterway for use as a landing place"

59. NOUN: "an endorsement made on a passport by the proper authorities denoting that it has been examined and that the bearer may proceed"

60. Invite past the doorway, say

61. GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "river 1509 miles (2428 kilometers) long in Russia and Kazakhstan"

62. Plenty, archaically

63. Get together

64. "___ on Down the Road" ("The Wiz" song)

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Down

1. Phineas's cartoon pal

2. Name ending for a festival, sometimes

3. Only state made of straight lines

4. Payment receiver

5. VERB: "to send (light, energy, etc.) out from a source"

6. Two-part state (abbr.)

7. VERB: "to experience a painful eagerness or yearning"

8. NOUN: "an average or ordinary man"

9. ADJECTIVE: "of, relating to, or characteristic of [a Middle-Eastern] language or its people"

10. ADJECTIVE: "enterable by both amateur and professional contestants"

11. VERB: "past tense second-person singular, past tense plural, and past subjunctive of 'be'"

12. PLURAL NOUN: "the sediment of a liquor (such as wine) during fermentation and aging"

14. Or higher

20. Get exactly right

21. Chicken's home

24. Escape room, but on paper

25. ___ Heep ("David Copperfield" schemer)

26. ___ hand (pitched in)

27. ___ someone's feet (hold them responsible)

28. ___ Lodge (motel chain)

29. Game that lost its "Settlers of" in 2015

30. 113

35. VERB: "to become filled to overflowing"

37. About 2.2 pounds

38. Spain's patron saint of dogs

40. Madonna or Whitney, say

41. Make petty complaints

43. Lack of order

44. BIOGRAPHICAL NAME: "Henrik 1828–1906 Norwegian poet and dramatist"

47. Hand over

48. Game point for the server

49. Literary word for red, in Spanish

50. Absence of hassle

51. Flood preventer

52. "You sure about that?"

53. ___ puttu (Indian dish made with shark meat)

54. Itty-bitty batteries

55. Beloved Lovett

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