Missing Letter Crossword August 21 2025 Answers (8/21/25)

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The Missing Letter Crossword August 21, 2025 Answers

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« August 20 2025 Answers

#	Clue
1A	NOUN: "one of a class of speech sounds...usually used in English of a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y"
6A	NOUN: "a picture produced on an electronic display (such as a television or computer screen)"
7A	Beach ___ (sun worshiper)
10A	Dance for two, as the saying goes
11A	Grandfather of Bart, Lisa, and Maggie
12A	"The Office" character
13A	NOUN: "one of a series of ridges fixed across the fingerboard of a stringed musical instrument (such as a guitar)"
14A	"You ___ like a rug!"
15A	NOUN: "any of several swift African mammals"
16A	GEOGRAPHICAL NAME: "river 820 miles (1320 kilometers) long in western Europe flowing from southeastern Switzerland to the North Sea in the Netherlands and forming the western boundary of Liechtenstein and Austria and the southwestern boundary of Germany"
18A	NOUN: "a complex tissue in the vascular system of higher plants"
20A	Part of a lowercase I or J
23A	Wham!'s "Wake ___ Before You Go-Go"
24A	Air-kiss sound
25A	Green space creatures of 1982
26A	NOUN: "a composite plant (as of the genera Bellis or Chrysanthemum) having a flower head with well-developed ray flowers"
27A	NOUN: "a minor shortcoming"
28A	Two-word Latin phrase meaning "relevantly"
29A	PLURAL NOUN: "any of numerous large waterfowl (family Anatidae) that are intermediate between the swans and ducks and have long necks"
1D	Of the utmost importance
2D	NOUN: "[native of a] country in Asia in southeastern Arabia bordering on the Arabian Sea; a sultanate; capital Muscat"
3D	NOUN: "strong longing for or impulse toward...[traveling] from place to place"
4D	ADJECTIVE: "[made with or tasting of] the hard-shelled reproductive body produced by a bird and especially by the common domestic chicken"
5D	NOUN: "one born under...the fifth sign of the zodiac in astrology"
7D	NOUN: "twisted...metal in the form of a usually very flexible thread...armed with...sharp points"
8D	PREFIX: "being a superlative example of its kind or class"
9D	PREFIX: "transcending"
13D	Swampy area
15D	South Africa neighbor, casually
17D	INTERJECTION: "used to mark a marching cadence"
18D	"___: Apocalypse" (2016 movie)
19D	NOUN: "a mysterious creature with human or apelike characteristics reported to exist in the high Himalayas"
21D	Desert stops
22D	NOUN: "a Mediterranean garden herb"
24D	"___ you look!"
26D	First U.N. Secretary-general ___ Hammarskjöld

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