Investigation you don’t want when cooking the books Crossword Clue

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Investigation you don’t want when cooking the books Crossword Answer

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(verb)
1. examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification
2. attend academic courses without getting credit
(noun)
1. an inspection of the accounting procedures and records by a trained accountant or CPA
2. a methodical examination or review of a condition or situation

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

INVESTIGATION (noun)
1. the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically
2. an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities
COOKING (noun)
1. the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat

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Across

1. 45, for a vinyl single

4. Skills

9. Leaves to get dressed?

14. Savings plan type

16. Keep hope ___

17. Calligrapher's tool

18. Record-production duo formed by Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo

20. Birthstones for the majority of Libras

22. Even score

23. ___ Wearhouse

24. Preordained path

25. Legitimate businesses that provide cover for organized crime

28. Factor in deciding who goes first in Candy Land

29. Queen frontman (Continued at 47-Across)

31. Country that currently doesn’t allow entry to U.S. citizens

33. “Did I call it or what?”

34. Imaginary line around which the Earth rotates

36. Not prone to bragging

37. Entertainer on the Romantic Tour in 2026

39. Crashed out?

42. Highest one-digit perfect square

43. Fitting

46. Steep-sided split

47. See 29-Across

49. Sound from a crow

50. Sounds in a cave

54. At the crest of

55. Black-and-white apex predator

57. Young wolf or seal

58. Have a soft spot for

59. Music genre of the 1950s and ’60s that could also include 18-, 37-, and 29/47-Across?

63. Faux ___

64. Liable to snap

65. Slowly diminish

66. Chowed down

67. Mesh kitchen tool

68. Cooperative missions in some video games

69. Even so

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Down

1. Bad deals

2. Get ready

3. Sea creature with a paddle-shaped tail

4. Animals in some cafés

5. “Whazzat?”

6. Reverent poem

7. Type of bean

8. Biergarten souvenir

9. Didn’t start and didn’t come off the bench

10. Class of ’25 member, today

11. Ancestry

12. Gets retribution for

13. Cake pop or soda cake

19. “Adopt, don’t shop!” subject

21. Was winning

25. Recondition

26. Equestrian's strap

27. Noisy bedmate

30. “Go ahead, say I won’t do it”

32. Dispensary requirements

35. Daughter's brother

36. Features of horses and lions

37. Wanna___ (imitators)

38. Nonspeaker trapped inside an invisible box

39. Approaches aggressively

40. Chow-chow relative

41. Something taken on by an attorney

43. Set-it-and-forget-it option in a rent portal

44. Charge 50% for something that starts halfway through the month, for example

45. Formatted for publication

48. Canadian currency code

51. Tax prep expert

52. More massive

53. Word after rock or soap

56. When Prince Escalus says, “For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo”

58. Gorillas and gibbons

60. "I spy with my little ___..."

61. Native Hawaiians’ staple starch

62. Out of the ordinary

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