Sudden police action Crossword Clue

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Sudden police action Crossword Answer

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(verb)
1. search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on
2. enter someone else’s territory and take spoils
(noun)
1. a sudden short attack
2. an attempt by speculators to defraud investors

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

SUDDEN (adjective)
1. happening without warning or in a short space of time
ACTION (noun)
1. a military engagement
2. a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong
ACTION (verb)
1. institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against
2. put in effect

Hint 3: Anagram

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ARID

More Newsday Crossword (2/16/2026) Answers

Across

1. Pets that purr

5. __ now (so far)

9. Showroom sample, for short

13. Pleasant scent

15. Copenhagen native

16. Villainous

17. Attach, as a shirt button

18. Arm or leg

19. Sheet of glass

20. Motorless sky ride for one person

22. Poems of praise

23. Scientist's research room

24. Say out loud

26. Rags-to-__ story

30. 'Constrictor' snakes

32. Fire remnants

33. Sky ride with a jet engine

38. Great enthusiasm

39. Ahead of schedule

41. Decide not to include

42. Gasoline-powered sky-ride balloon

44. Refrigerates

45. Any precious stones

46. ''Hee-haw!'' horse relative

47. Ice cream utensil

50. ___ sauce (sushi condiment)

51. White precious stone

52. Sky ride that can hover

60. Getting rain rarely

61. Gray stocking shade

62. Farmland measure

63. Three-quarters of 12

64. Bert's 'Sesame Street' pal

65. Explorer Ponce de __

66. Golfer's pegs

67. Bulletin board fastener

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Down

1. __ register (checkout machine)

2. Vicinity

3. Small city

4. Urban pollution

5. Off-script remark

6. Remarked

7. 'It's my treat'

8. Shortest month of the year

9. Train station

10. Manage to elude

11. Worker digging for coal

12. Spanish cheers

14. Right __ (90-degree shapes)

21. __ Vegas, NV

25. Small amount of sugar: Abbr.

26. Make fun of, informally

27. It makes sense now

28. British fellow

29. Lend a hand

30. Buildings with haylofts

31. Auto lubricant

34. Lake bird

35. Run __ (rage)

36. Major Egyptian river

37. Handicrafts website

39. Big beast with a trunk

40. 'We __ to please'

43. Self-image

44. Western howling canine

46. Physician, for short

47. Parking lot spot

48. Capital of Egypt

49. __ days (long ago)

50. Competing teams

51. Spoken out loud

53. A Great Lake

54. Row of people waiting

55. Role for an actor

56. __ fish sandwich

57. Long heroic tale

58. Smell bad

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