Missing Letter Crossword August 9 2025 Answers (8/9/25)

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The Missing Letter Crossword August 9, 2025 Answers

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#	Clue
1A	NOUN: "a fast-growing Asian vine (Pueraria montana) of the legume family that is used for forage and erosion control"
6A	NOUN: "any of various herons that bear long plumes during the breeding season"
7A	Clumsy type
10A	Put a big smile on the face of
11A	Sassy waitress on "Alice"
12A	NOUN: "a member of an Indigenous people of southern Arizona and northern Mexico"
13A	VERB: "to put away for future use"
14A	They issue nine-digit IDs
15A	NOUN: "a precious stone"
16A	GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "capital of Ecuador, located on a fertile plateau just south of the Equator"
18A	NOUN: "the short thick digit of the human hand that is analogous in position to the big toe and differs from the other fingers in having only two phalanges, allowing greater freedom of movement, and being opposable to each of them"
20A	NOUN: "1,048,576 bytes"
23A	VERB: "to express deep sorrow for usually by shedding tears"
24A	VERB: "to convey to another"
25A	NOUN: "intense and usually openly displayed anger"
26A	NOUN: "cloth made of flax and noted for its strength, coolness, and luster"
27A	COMBINING FORM: "guest; foreigner"
28A	Steffi's husband and tennis partner
29A	NOUN: "something on which something else is established"
1D	Playing for ___ (not messing around)
2D	Jamaican fruits
3D	NOUN: "a person given to often excessively emotional performances or reactions"
4D	NOUN: "the 6th letter of the Greek alphabet"
5D	Sport-___ (vehicle for outdoorsy types)
7D	IDIOM: "not decided or certain about something"
8D	NOUN: "any of a large genus...of succulent chiefly southern African plants"
9D	NOUN: "a cock or hen of the domestic chicken (Gallus gallus)"
13D	Where a movie is made
15D	"I like the cut of your ___"
17D	NOUN: "an official in a sport who rules on plays"
18D	Candy bar that becomes a breakfast cereal if you change its second letter
19D	ADVERB: "at this place"
21D	Roberta Flack's "The First Time ___ Saw Your Face"
22D	Trait carriers
24D	Actress Gershon or Rodriguez
26D	Mad scientist's workspace

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