Perfect scores, perhaps Crossword Clue

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SCORES (noun)
1. a large number or amount
PERHAPS (adverb)
1. by chance

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More The Atlantic Crossword (8/30/2026) Answers

Across

1. 'This can't be good . . .'

5. Chaps and blokes

9. SoCal school repped by Joe and Josephine Bruin

13. "A woman must have money and a ___ of her own if she is to write fiction" (Virginia Woolf quote)

14. You don't have to tell me!

15. Thinly veiled criticism

17. Tina Turner, a.k.a. ___ Mae Bullock

18. 1999 Santana hit on the Billboard Hot 100 60th Anniversary list

20. Vegetable in the amaryllis family

21. Simpsons meme humorously used in perilous situations

22. Court order

24. State of perfect balance

25. Fitting anagram of evil

26. Like a skinny-dipper

27. Clump

29. Connecticut town for which a disease is named

33. Honor declined by Brian Eno and John Oliver: abbr.

34. Massage technique that might involve the use of elbows and knuckles

37. Vinaigrette ingredient

40. Encourage

41. Pick off the vine, maybe

43. Coding companion of CSS

45. Establishment from whence Peanuts character Lucy van Pelt runs her psychiatry practice

46. "That's my read, anyway ..."

51. Sparing no expense, e.g.

52. 'Vogue' competitor

54. Change with the time?

55. Hefty serving of ribs

56. Name that means "the king" in France

57. It means nothing in France?

58. Reference site that began tracking podcasts in 2021

59. Cookie crumbs?

60. ___ and the Real Girl (2000s Ryan Gosling rom-com)

61. Pu'er and oolong, for two

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Down

1. Mouthy?

2. Nickname for the 16th U.S. president

3. Classic reply to "No offense!"

4. Dining experience that Michelin Guide describes as both revered and intimidating

5. Circumscribes

6. Character considered one of the first LGBTQ individuals in the Avatar universe

7. "Beyond the Sea" singer Bobby

8. Will-they-won't-they decision

9. Letters at the post office?

10. Emulate, maybe

11. Fountain drink size

12. "Fare thee well!" in French

16. Wynonna ___ (sci-fi show about the great-great-granddaughter of a Western legend)

19. Goes offline?

23. Divests

24. Brat

27. Divisive term that describes a woman who unquestioningly supports her peers

28. Zoom-meeting frustration

30. "Why would I know the answer?"

31. Drink whose name might be derived from the Spanish for "my cold beer"

32. "Yellowstone" character

35. The opposite of heartless

36. Stratford-___-Avon (Shakespeare's birthplace)

39. Vegetable in the amaryllis family

42. Blows one's lid

44. Material covered in a bar exam?

45. Majorette props

46. "Am I my brother's keeper?" subject

47. Jena Malone and Mandy Moore dark comedy about evangelical-Christian high schoolers

48. Counterpart of fauna

49. Ancient region with an eponymous architectural aesthetic

50. "I didn't peak in high school, I'm still out here gettin' ___" ("Industry Baby" lyric)

53. Subsides

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