Word before “love” or “defense” Crossword Clue

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Word before “love” or “defense” Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. your consciousness of your own identity
2. a person considered as a unique individual

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

DEFENSE (noun)
1. the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions
2. (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring
WORD (noun)
1. the divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus)
2. information about recent and important events
WORD (verb)
1. put into words or an expression

More Apple+ Crossword (9/27/2026) Answers

Across

1. Players for the Las Vegas Aces, but not the Evansville Purple Aces

5. Step on the corporate ladder

9. Performed in Hollywood or Bollywood

14. Wynonna ___ (Syfy series)

15. Heaviest (and vowel-heaviest) fencing sword

16. Snap

17. Antioxidant-rich (and vowel-rich) berry

18. Lacking pop, or like pop that’s lacking

19. Fit for a queen

21. Lead-in to a long rebuttal

23. Worry

25. Beach shades

26. Worked as an agent

28. Pro's opposite

29. Smooch-encouraging jumbotron entertainment

33. The Queen star Mirren

34. Surf with all one’s toes off the board

36. "Party in the ___" (Miley Cyrus hit)

37. Impossible to miss

38. Mined material

39. Belong socially

41. Abyssal grenadier’s habitat

42. Find great and sudden success, like a California miner in 1849

44. Like tailgaters’ beer, usually

45. Era predicted by doomsdayers

47. Letters before an alias

48. Silences on Zoom

49. Swan Lake outfit

51. Ren Faire title

52. Key part of an emergency-preparedness strategy

56. Aries animals

60. Black suit

61. Prefix for “tune” or “focus”

62. Support a hypothetical romantic coupling

63. Monster’s Ball actress Berry or The Little Mermaid actress Bailey

64. Two queens, for example

65. Relieve

66. Nocturnal newborn

67. Many dad jokes

68. Hint to the letter in squares 29, 35, 42, and 46, meaning something different in each

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Down

1. Samosa veggies

2. "RuPaul's Drag ___"

3. Like some traditions

4. More stylishly dressed

5. Officiated a game

6. Like many monuments at night

7. "___, far, wherever you are..."

8. Enter into high society?

9. Protective wear for a grill master

10. Satisfied cook’s gesture

11. Ancient wrap

12. List-shortening abbreviation

13. Bratz toy

22. Zest

24. Form of protest in which tenants refuse to pay

26. One-digit prime number

27. Beg

28. Former The Chew cohost Hall or celebrity chef Lalli Music

30. Adorable person

31. New Balance competitor

32. Zonkey’s hair

33. Slip 'N Slide attachment

34. Grindr or Scruff, for example

35. "Message received," to a trucker

40. Identity represented by a flag with a purple circle on a yellow background

43. Baldur’s ___ (video-game series)

46. List of mathematical products for a specific number

48. Secondary areas of college study

50. Unexpected March Madness victory

51. Lustrous fabric

52. Video call annoyance

53. Chicken-sandwich side

54. Cherry-pick from a group

55. Feast with haupia and poi

57. Fictional captain with a whalebone leg

58. Fermented soybean paste

59. Glasses, informally

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