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Daily Crossword Puzzle #5 for Thu, Dec 18, 2025

ACROSS
1. Small island
4. Drink excessively
8. _ Lanka
11. Grant temporary use of
13. Inky black, to poets
14. Lacerate
15. Inside; within (prefix)
16. Pace
17. Polynesian shrub of the pepper family
18. Core
21. Music written for nine
22. Plunder
23. Environmental prefix
25. Compass dir.
26. Was introduced to
29. Orators
32. Came up
34. Commissioned mil. rank
35. Period
38. Sweet dark-red dessert wine
39. Obtain by seizing forcibly or violently
41. Prong on a fork
43. "Barney Miller" actor Jack
44. Car or cant ending
45. Rings
46. One to whom something is allotted
50. Followers of ems
51. Chicken ___ king
54. Raised railways
55. Jane of fiction
57. It is permitted: Lat.
59. Inhabiting a nest
63. Hearing organs
64. Precious metal
67. Russian ruler of old
68. A single undivided whole
69. One of the Great Lakes
70. Against
71. Small boy
72. Put down
73. Nine, plus one

DOWN
1. Toward shelter
2. Charged particles
3. Bits
4. Cylindrical with tapered ends
5. Chief or king in Benin or Nigeria
6. Cooking vessel
7. Compass dir.
8. Seines
9. All-night dance parties
10. Feeling or showing extreme anger
12. Christmas carol
14. Ring climax
19. Olfactory organ
20. Police officer (slang)
21. Not either
23. Supplements with great effort
24. Penny
26. Atlas unit
27. Greek god of love
28. "Corrida" creature
30. Rep
31. Bristle
33. Portico
36. Cause heat under the collar
37. At once, immediately (arch.)
39. Water source
40. Vintage cars
42. Curvy letter
45. Possessive pronoun
47. Allow
48. Watched over
49. Sight organ
51. Eskimo relative
52. Climbing, woody, usually tropical vines
53. Sour-tasting
56. Singer James
58. Eastern Standard Time (abbr.)
60. Is not
61. Nathan's nickname
62. Broad smile
64. Set
65. Mouth or opening
66. Cards in a Roman deck?