Soundly defeats Crossword Clue

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Hint 1: Clue Definition

SOUNDLY (adverb)
1. completely and absolutely (`good’ is sometimes used informally for `thoroughly’)

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More WSJ Crossword (3/17/2026) Answers

Across

1. Junior whopper?

4. Remove, as a plant bud

10. Chest protectors, of a sort

14. Hurly-burly

15. Aviator Earhart

16. Square measure

17. Original

18. Explanatory guide provided by an invention’s creator?

20. Fuel-guzzling auto

22. Belt settings

23. Stepped down

25. It's true!

26. The green robes worn by the Statue of Liberty, e.g.?

31. That maiden

32. Biz bigwig

33. Put out

35. Ready for customers

37. Not needing another bite

39. Sushi bar cupful

40. Melody

41. “Bag Lady” singer Erykah

42. Silent bid?

43. Fastener for a beat cop’s badge?

48. Outside the goal posts, e.g.

49. Some ring decisions

50. Tommy Lee Jones’s Harvard roommate

53. Bit of chiding

57. Red-white-and-blue outfit?

61. Pint in a pub

62. Frenzied way to run

63. What you should pay to unimportant things

64. Some hosp. staffers

65. Bonny girl

67. Saint honored in March (and in this puzzle), familiarly

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Down

1. One of a vampire’s pair

2. Inspired flash

3. Tools for archers or cellists

4. Pizza’s Italian birthplace, to natives

5. Conjures up

6. Puppy or parrot

7. Soccer game cheer

8. Fish feature

9. Islamic rulings

10. White tigers and blue moons, e.g.

11. Nettles

12. Borscht vegetable

13. Utters

19. Pricing word

21. Milliner’s product

24. Like capital gains

25. Accepted reality

26. Enliven

27. Spot for sports

28. Type of position or monitor

29. Muscat man, e.g.

30. Japanese camera brand

31. All the rage

34. Lasso on TV

36. Show showers

38. Carnival attraction where you might make a splash

44. "Diamonds" singer, to fans

45. Old theaters

46. Traditional maracas are made from them

47. Winter hrs. in Washington

50. “Be ___!” (“Help me out here!”)

51. Tibetan monk

52. Pontiac power cars

54. Diamond protector

55. Forearm bone.

56. Final, for one

58. Outdo

59. ABC show for early risers, familiarly

60. A in German class?

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