Missing Letter Crossword October 20 2025 Answers (10/20/25)

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The Missing Letter Crossword October 20, 2025 Answers

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#	Clue
1A	ADJECTIVE: "of no legal force or effect"
5A	VERB: "to have an intense desire"
8A	Chaplin or O'Neill
9A	"Sula" novelist Morrison
10A	NOUN: "a grizzled thickset marmot...chiefly of Alaska, Canada, and the northeastern U.S."
12A	Drink in Deutschland
13A	No Einstein
16A	NOUN: "used as a conventional title of courtesy...before a married woman's surname"
19A	NOUN: "any of various small chiefly insectivorous and herbivorous marsupial mammals...of Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea"
21A	NOUN: "a closed vessel usually with a spigot for serving a hot beverage"
22A	TRADEMARK: "used for a system of exercise performed to upbeat Latin music"
23A	ADJECTIVE: "grown old"
25A	NOUN: "a swift and graceful southern African gazelle...noted for its habit of [jumping] lightly and suddenly into the air"
30A	Groups of whales or workers
31A	___ Stanley Gardner (he wrote the Perry Mason novels)
32A	"Obviously!"
33A	NOUN: "a woman of refinement and gentle manners"
1D	Pledge
2D	"Tic-Tac-Dough" victory
3D	"___ longer call you servants" (John 15:15)
4D	NOUN: "a [male] physique...that is slightly overweight and not extremely muscular"
5D	Parent referenced in many playground insults
6D	ABBREVIATION: "[used to indicate another paper or papers within an envelope]"
7D	NOUN SUFFIX: "one connected with or characterized by being"
9D	DEFINITE ARTICLE: "used as a function word to indicate that a following noun or noun equivalent is definite or has been previously specified by context or by circumstance"
11D	NOUN: "a native or naturalized person who owes allegiance to a government and is entitled to protection from it"
13D	Shina ___ (Japanese breed of dog)
14D	Folk singer Williams
15D	PLURAL NOUN: "the internal organs of a human being or animal"
17D	VERB: "to take something away from by force"
18D	Stop on a subway system (abbr.)
20D	Short stick used as a weapon
24D	Enlisted crew (abbr.)
25D	Austin Powers, say
26D	BIOGRAPHICAL NAME: "Edgar Allan 1809–1849 American poet and short-story writer"
27D	Thirdlove garment
28D	ADJECTIVE: "dating from the remote past"
29D	ADJECTIVE: "crucially important"

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