Free Printable Crossword Puzzle #3

This is the Daily Crossword Puzzle #3 for Sep 16, 2025
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Across
  • 1. Bubblehead
  • 5. Freeloader
  • 11. Mushroom morsel
  • 14. The eye has it
  • 15. Lose interest in
  • 16. Stupefy
  • 17. Item once on Hugh Hefner's to-do list?
  • 19. Diamond club
  • 20. Bugs bugger
  • 21. Stunning swimmers
  • 22. Wife who survived Henry VIII
  • 23. Flavoring from the deep
  • 25. Temptress on the Rhine
  • 27. Netizens
  • 29. "Children of the Albatross" author Anaïs
  • 30. Light-meal entrée?
  • 33. Grimm guardian
  • 37. "Who wants ice cream?" reply
  • 38. Blackbeard by another name
  • 41. Rip off
  • 42. Fall guy
  • 45. Make Newhart a bit more well-rounded?
  • 48. Shade of green
  • 50. "8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter" star Katey
  • 51. "Still the One" pop rockers of the '70s
  • 55. Worldly
  • 59. "Got milk?" plaint
  • 60. Whispers sweet nothings
  • 62. "...like a big pizza pie, that's ___"
  • 63. Check the check
  • 64. Heart-in-throat sounds?
  • 66. Hold tight
  • 67. Go postal
  • 68. Comic Kaplan
  • 69. Good feller?
  • 70. Obscure corner
  • 71. Flight from Israel?
Puzzle Grid
Down
  • 1. Rhinestone cowboys?
  • 2. Seed-to-be
  • 3. Preliminary proposition
  • 4. Holds together temporarily
  • 5. R-V hookup?
  • 6. Down East emblem
  • 7. English Channel feeder
  • 8. Sam of "The Piano" and "Jurassic Park"
  • 9. Keeps at it
  • 10. "Fluffy" threesome
  • 11. Political intrigue
  • 12. Clued in
  • 13. German with a dish named after him
  • 18. Chutzpah
  • 22. "I Am Sam" star
  • 24. Tolerant Latvian?
  • 26. Jury-___ (improvise)
  • 28. Gives and takes
  • 30. Mouth piece
  • 31. Toothpaste tube palindrome
  • 32. Verbal gem
  • 34. Symbol of sovereignty
  • 35. Bossy bellow
  • 36. Go with the flow, perhaps
  • 39. College keepsake
  • 40. Brobdingnagian
  • 43. Belch forth
  • 44. "___, verily!"
  • 46. South American squawker
  • 47. Tern coat
  • 49. Popeye's tattoo
  • 51. 1935 Triple Crown winner
  • 52. John Updike's "Rabbit ___"
  • 53. Get stuck
  • 54. "Marching Along" autobiographer
  • 56. Staunch
  • 57. Resort isle northeast of Maracaibo
  • 58. Fight off
  • 61. Handwriting on the wall
  • 64. "Unpretty" R&Bers
  • 65. Mudhole