Free Printable Crossword Puzzle #1

This is the Daily Crossword Puzzle #1 for Dec 18, 2025
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Across
  • 1. "Alfred" composer
  • 5. Hits
  • 10. Lion's share
  • 14. '60s White House resident
  • 15. Big cat in Caen
  • 16. Old vow word
  • 17. Start of a quip
  • 20. Winningest baseball southpaw
  • 21. Song pour les enfants
  • 22. Addams family nickname
  • 25. "A Chorus Line" song
  • 26. Quip, part 2
  • 30. "Air Music" Pulitzer winner, 1976
  • 35. Shakespeare title word
  • 36. Fluids in shots
  • 37. "A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving" speaker
  • 38. Gas at a diner
  • 40. Haiku, e.g.
  • 42. Force
  • 43. Winter melon
  • 45. Soft drink option
  • 47. Fashion designer Anna
  • 48. Fragrant resin
  • 49. Quip, part 3
  • 51. Counter container
  • 53. End of the world?
  • 54. Makes as it was
  • 59. Gemini rocket
  • 63. End of the quip
  • 66. Pesky biter
  • 67. Farm follower?
  • 68. Auxiliary
  • 69. Really fill
  • 70. Pool figure
  • 71. Word in seven Hope titles
Puzzle Grid
Down
  • 1. __ volat propriis: Oregon's motto
  • 2. Beef cut
  • 3. ESPN subject
  • 4. Pizza slice, often
  • 5. Short stop?
  • 6. Call a spade a club?
  • 7. Ottoman bigwig
  • 8. Opening words
  • 9. Attach, as a patch
  • 10. Pouty face
  • 11. Closing words?
  • 12. Methodists, say
  • 13. Au pair's charge
  • 18. Some OKs
  • 19. Editor's in-box item
  • 23. Race car driver Tom
  • 24. Bring on board
  • 26. Armstrong who wrote "It's Not About the Bike"
  • 27. 10, in some cases
  • 28. Silly one
  • 29. Stupor: Prefix
  • 31. Cmd.
  • 32. Worker's reward
  • 33. World-weariness
  • 34. Recurring theme
  • 37. Soloist in Saint-Sa뮳's "The Swan"
  • 39. Subject of the 1984 film "Birdy"
  • 41. Dinner course
  • 44. Jewel
  • 46. Jack's UN ambassador
  • 49. Card type
  • 50. Nonchooser?
  • 52. Gauguin spent two months there in 1888
  • 54. Fixes
  • 55. Sicilian hot spot
  • 56. Try for a fly
  • 57. Schlep
  • 58. Dagger of old
  • 60. Basso Pinza of "South Pacific"
  • 61. Nothing
  • 62. Like much fine wine
  • 64. Its atomic number is 50
  • 65. Tumultuous scene