News crossword for September 20, 2026
A 9×9 grid, three clue difficulties, and a few stories worth a closer look.
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These are the original source stories linked to news answers in this edition. Reading them may give you a head start on the clues.
- The GuardianLouisiana firefighters find feline native to sub-Saharan Africa while responding to house fire ↗
- BBC NewsShark attack prompts rare kill order in Western Australia as victim named ↗
- The Guardian‘We demand the truth’: Olga Tokarczuk and JM Coetzee lead calls for proof of life of disappeared Eritrean writers ↗
- The GuardianSouth Korea will not send military to support US war on Iran, defying Trump pressure ↗
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