Summer 2026 Themeless Week, Puzzle 1
Across
- 1. One may not survive beyond "Survivor"
- 10. Longtime Bravo star DeSorbo
- 15. "Let's rally!"
- 16. ___ nonsense
- 17. Currently traveling
- 18. Pains in the butt
- 19. Digit in this clue's number
- 20. Common Halloween candy size
- 21. Genre for N.K. Jemisin or H.G. Wells
- 22. Heinie
- 24. Tomato soup add-ins
- 27. Hertz or ounce
- 29. Drill sergeant's syllable
- 30. Letter between pi and sigma
- 31. Stale statements
- 35. Person who may use 2-Down
- 36. Like a unicorn's horn
- 37. Some undergrad degrees
- 38. Skin care brand
- 39. But wait, there's ore!
- 40. Nonverbal prompts
- 42. "The Joy Luck Club" author Tan
- 43. Sin/___ = tan
- 44. Rotate on an axis: Var.
- 45. Lopsided victories
- 48. Queen of King's Landing
- 52. Distinctive airs
- 53. "Pick me! Pick me!"
- 55. Boy
- 56. Genetic attribute
- 57. "Your happy relationship makes ME happy!"
- 59. Have the same opinion
- 60. Say who
- 61. Jury composition
- 62. Share in multiple subreddits, perhaps
Down
- 1. Dive like a hawk
- 2. Mehndi colorant
- 3. Group where eight is enough
- 4. Baby's cry
- 5. "Please excuse my dear aunt Sally," e.g.
- 6. "Fess up already"
- 7. Palindromic time of day
- 8. Palindromic Honda model
- 9. Palindromic saison
- 10. Restaurant's rhyming treat for a dog
- 11. Failed in grand fashion
- 12. Comment from a gift giver
- 13. Snappish summons
- 14. Places to receive immediate care, for short
- 21. ___-chef
- 23. Protruding navel
- 25. Kind of monkey
- 26. Sensitive spots
- 28. One who starts and ends on a low note?
- 31. Schoolroom predating laptops
- 32. Be of great influence
- 33. Rude question after someone pipes up
- 34. Der, die, ___ (German 101 lesson)
- 35. Tool for cubing vegetables
- 38. Colorfully named Delaware team
- 40. "Voulez-___" (ABBA song)
- 41. Spots for built-in bookcases
- 43. "The Case for Reparations" author Ta-Nehisi
- 46. More twisted
- 47. Renewable energy type
- 49. Dramatic editing effect
- 50. Roof projections
- 51. Latin phrase shortened to i.e.
- 54. ___ sapiens
- 56. Show interest on Grindr
- 57. Business name abbr.
- 58. Cozy resting spot for a pet