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Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition!
The Washington Post · Sunday · Sunday, July 12, 2026 · Evan Birnholz
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Legal action
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Across
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Legal action
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Across
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Legal action
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Temple VIP
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Skate park fixture
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Engage in sycophancy
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Like so, informally
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Baltic feeder
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See 117 Across
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Noted mausoleum city
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Female horse handle? (Surprise! Did you expect a clue about a movie star?)
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Start of a conversation with Fox News analyst Hume? (Surprise! Did you expect a clue about a moniker?)
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Play chords, in a way
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Newspaper with Société pages
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___ Clown Posse ("Hokus Pokus" horrorcore group)
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Gather
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Judge of 1990s news
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Pro ___
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No. 39 on a table
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Wedding VIPs' fight? (Surprise! Did you expect a clue about flowers?)
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Lake by Euclid
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Illustrative puzzle
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Columnist Collins
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"Alla ___" (classic Mozart rondo)
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Create fiction, say
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Disadvantage
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"C'mon, help me out"
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Hunchback of fiction
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Minimum number of roles an actor can get? (Surprise! Did you expect a clue about hardwood?)
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Repulses
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Exit
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Non-democratic rule
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Ton of, casually
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Makes use of "It," say?
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Posted
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Looping online images
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Heraklion's locale
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Influential faction
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Bridges in pictures
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Game spots
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Became belligerent
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Field for analyzing an old medical show? (Surprise! Did you expect a clue about LGBT issues?)
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Moisturizing additive
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Cleaning aid
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App prototypes
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One-third of nove
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Aotearoa people
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Ax
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Ibis, e.g.
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"I like it!"
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Opposed to a Vegas worker? (Surprise! Did you expect a clue about selling heirlooms?)
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Puts another way
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Proverbs preposition
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Civil War loser, for short
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He overthrew Fulgencio in the 1950s
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Region greatly affected by climate change
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Like some signatures
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___ Maza (human protagonist of the 1990s cartoon "Gargoyles")
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Valentine's alias, briefly? (Surprise! Did you expect a clue about a famous drummer?)
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"Are there breaks in this song?" (Surprise! Did you expect a clue about asking what someone wants from the market?)
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Negate, as a user would
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With 21 Across, member of the comedy troupe that made this puzzle's title famous
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Citrus taste
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Detach, as some ties
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Improves, in a way
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Strive for
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Vowel-rich treat
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Perfume compounds
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20s sources
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"Great," in 1990s hip-hop lyrics
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Sound from a sphynx
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GQ alternative
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Group of donors, often
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Soap component
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Social butterfly's antithesis
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West once on TV
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Politico's stories
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Coy response
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"All ___"
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Trouble
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Org. with workers who regularly have strikes?
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Former White House press secretary Dana
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Browsing resources
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Taqueria beverage
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Small passerine bird
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Sabermetrician Silver
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36 Across, e.g.
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Like some desk baskets
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Giant rival
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Vengeful beings in Aeschylus's plays
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Radar observation
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Ukrainian subdivisions
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Modern restaurant critic
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Prioritization system
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___ del Fuego
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Peter Pan, e.g.
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Org. offering jumps
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Strawberry ___ (old Nestlé drink)
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Press
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Bus. major's course
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Smears
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Golden Corral offering
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Bit of a shellfish dish
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Web-crawling program
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Kindle content, briefly
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Logical letters
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Muesli tidbit
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Sonoran succulent
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Health meter, in video game terminology
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"The Handmaid's Tale" protagonist
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Auxiliary action
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"Isn't that interesting!"
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"Great," to a 1980s surfer
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One who will correct you if you're wrong
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Steering system piece, and an anagram of 69 Down
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Supporters of the arts?
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Abolitionist Elizabeth Van ___
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Bluegrass instrument
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Betrayed fascination
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LSU rival
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Tudyk who voiced K-2SO in "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story"
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Be a whistle-blower?
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Polo of "The Fosters"
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Subject of the House of Thani
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Completely clean
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Flap
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Garnish on some rolls
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Announcement when the job is done?
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Streamed course
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Gather
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Some wedding guests
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Smoothly, on a score
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Tykes, informally
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FX series inspired by a Coen brothers film
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Pool hue
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Hierarchical level
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Grant
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Possessive on takeout menus
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Queens setting?
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Actress Daly with six Emmys
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Honeymoon spot, maybe
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Cake mix instruction
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Egyptian dangers
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Metallurgy material
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Contend
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Word of Spanish inquisition that maybe you didn't expect to see in this puzzle's theme entries