Times-Echo Crossword Puzzle: May 7, 2026

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Editor's Note: Because of a production error, clues for this puzzle were numbered incorrectly. Below are the correct clue numbers.

Across

1. Suffix for station and element

4. City in Russia

9. Black piano key

14. Stephen of “V for Vendetta”

15. Name of Latin origin meaning “queen”

16. Seed coverings

17. Katniss’ advice to get to the resources in The Hunger Games

20. Garage sale warning

21. Hockey great Howe

22. Novel by Ann Patchett

26. Pres. after USG

27. “So that’s it!”

30. Fifty Shades of Grey heroine affectionately

31. Cong. period

33. Square peg in a round hole

35. It is usually sweet in Arkansas

37. ___ facto

38. Repeatedly, in literary fashion

42. Event for seniors

43. California’s ___ Sea

44. Sailor of the Seven

Seas

47. MTV’s Ms. Tequila

48. Levin, author of Rosemary’s Baby

51. “Gosh!”

52. Hundred Acre Wood denizen

54. Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Toni Morrison

56. Racer usually next to putt-putt

59. E-mail command

60. Shelby Van Pelt’s novel Remarkably _with the most remarkably clever Octopus, Marcellus

65. Jazz singer Carmen

66. Agatha Christie created an ___ mystery

67. SNL’s Nwodim

68. Coconut sources

69. Red giant

70. Cozy room

Down

1. ___ di Mare (fashion label)

2. Justification

3. City near Mt. Rainier

4. Isthmus of ___, Malay peninsula

5. Dept. that investigates corruption in a PD

6. ___ grass (meadow barley)

7. Blood type for a universal donor

8. Great courage in the face of danger

9. He said “The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

10. Liberated, in Germany

11. Yann Martel’s “Floating tale with a tiger”

12. High end yoga apparel company

13. Dungeons & Dragons game co.

18. Night school subj.

19. Nuclear weapon, for short

23. Fungal spore sacs

24. Eager

25. “Cómo ___?”

28. Dogpatch possessive

29. Ear: Prefix

32. French assembly

34. Clifford in the BBC series Fleabag

35. Metrical foot

36. Improvise

38. Singer India.___

39. Gillian Flynn’s pyschological thriller

40. Asian evergreen

41. Good shot

42. Utility supplier, in many places

45. National Park in Utah

46. “That won’t ___ all!”

48. Brand of lice shampoo

49. Take back

50. Appends

53. Killer whales

55. Sch. in Stillwater

57. Old Irish writing

58. Shailene’s character in Divergent

60. File extension for a Microsoft Paint file

61. ___ Victor

62. Urge on, in Scotland

63. Govt. agency for D.O.s

64. A tool used for understanding population growth

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