Permissible ... and an "initial" description of 23 Across? Crossword Clue

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Permissible ... and an "initial" description of 23 Across? Crossword Answer

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(adjective)
1. having legal efficacy or force
2. allowed by official rules

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

PERMISSIBLE (adjective)
1. that may be permitted especially as according to rule
2. that may be accepted or conceded
INITIAL (verb)
1. mark with one’s initials
INITIAL (adjective)
1. occurring at the beginning
INITIAL (noun)
1. the first letter of a word (especially a person’s name)

More Vox Crossword (9/15/2026) Answers

Across

1. Coffee order that lacks a jolt

6. When repeated, a kicking dance

9. Spurs (on)

14. More than merely impress

15. ___ filter (under the hood item)

16. Loosen the laces of

17. Monarch guillotined during the French Revolution

20. Company with the pioneering 5150 personal computer: Abbr.

21. Many an Italian ... and an "initial" description of 35 Down?

22. Nervous spasm

23. 2021 Pulitzer Prize winner for the novel "The Night Watchman"

26. Digit secured by a shoe

27. "Tastes great!"

28. ___ Picchu (historic site in Peru)

31. Toward the stern

34. Embellishment on a letter

38. Every single one

39. Unaccompanied performer

42. Setting for a nurse: Abbr.

43. 1% alternative

46. Highly skilled sorts

47. Cry for help

49. To the other side of

51. Put on cloud nine

53. Unlike someone who wears their emotions on their sleeve

54. Unit also known as a siemens

56. Final stage of a race

58. Storage spot in a synagogue

61. "Holy mackerel!"

63. LeBron James's team, on scoreboards

64. Follow

66. Stereotypical material for professorial clothing

67. Root with orange flesh

68. Benefitting of charity

69. "Take my wife...please" comic Youngman

70. Severe mess

71. Hits at a Grateful Dead show, perhaps

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Down

1. Hydroelectric system installation

2. Business card info

3. ___ load (fill up on pasta, say)

4. Measurement of an arc, in astronomy

5. Charge

6. Motorless boat

7. Request for another card

8. Rooting loudly

9. Item carried by one "packing heat"

10. In the past

11. Top floor

12. Runoff collector

13. Get it

18. Backside, in Birmingham

19. Midwest capital city, informally

24. Notes for borrowers

25. Metal degradation

28. Service led by a pastor

29. __-Seltzer

30. Portrayer of Bill Clinton in "Impeachment: American Crime Story"

31. Product often offered in pints

32. Cloudy vapor

33. Aunt at a quinceañera

35. Guitarist/singer for The Cars

36. Puts on the rocks

37. Make a stink?

40. Gospel singer Adams

41. Pricey roofing material

44. Hollywood great Brooks who turned 100 in 2026

46. Graynor of The Disaster Artist

48. Ailment ... and an "initial" description of 17 Across?

50. Logically sound ... and an "initial" description of 30 Down?

52. Jalen Brunson won three of them in 2026

53. Coated with ooze

54. Story with gods and goddesses

55. Gordie nicknamed "Mr. Hockey"

57. Word of indication

59. Far from friendly

60. Small islands

62. School of meditation

65. Prefix meaning 'modern'

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