Missing Letter Crossword October 28 2025 Answers (10/28/25)

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The Missing Letter Crossword October 28, 2025 Answers

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#	Clue
1A	NOUN: "a network of silken thread spun especially by the larvae of various insects (such as a tent caterpillar) and usually serving as a nest or shelter"
4A	BIOGRAPHICAL NAME: Franz 1883–1924 Czech-born author writing in German"
9A	___ Lingus (Dublin-based carrier)
10A	NOUN: "a defensive misplay other than a wild pitch or passed ball made by a baseball player when normal play would have resulted in an out or prevented an advance by a base runner"
11A	NOUN: "a national policy of treating the whole world as a proper sphere for political influence"
13A	NOUN: "a combination of nine instruments or voices"
14A	NOUN: "American music developed especially from ragtime and blues"
16A	Poker category
19A	NOUN: "frozen water"
20A	Suffix with Canton or Peking
21A	NOUN: "a female parent"
23A	Drescher who played "The Nanny"
24A	"___ Holmes 3" (forthcoming mystery)
26A	NOUN: "a forest characterized by the presence of large [ancient] trees, numerous snags and woody debris, and a multilayered canopy"
30A	BIOGRAPHICAL NAME: "Charles Willson 1741–1827 and his brother James 1749–1831 and Charles's son Rembrandt 1778–1860 American painters"
31A	"Caught you red-handed!"
32A	GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "city and capital of Oregon on the Willamette River"
33A	NOUN: "the basic monetary unit of Japan"
1D	"___ the Dog" (1997 black comedy)
2D	Elongated swimmer
3D	NOUN: "[prize] that is awarded as the prize for third place in a sports competition"
4D	New Jersey's ___ University
5D	GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "city in southeastern France on the Rhône River population 53,660"
6D	PHRASAL VERB: "to spend or use up (something) in a slow and usually foolish way"
7D	Boxing wins, briefly
8D	The shoulder holds it
12D	Literary nickname for Charles Dickens
14D	Funnyman Gaffigan or Carrey
15D	"Obamacare," more formally
17D	GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "country...capital Washington"
18D	NOUN: "a comfortable usually secluded room"
22D	Pool player's calculation
23D	Good name for a river rafter?
25D	Utah city
26D	Photo-___ (time to take pictures)
27D	NOUN: "farmland occupied chiefly by forage plants and especially grasses"
28D	DEFINITE ARTICLE: "used as a function word to indicate that a following noun or noun equivalent is a unique or a particular member of its class"
29D	NOUN: "the Chinese peoples especially as distinguished from non-Chinese (such as Mongolian) elements in the population"

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