Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Insult => SLUR
5 Across: Golden fruit that, legend has it, started the Trojan War => APPLE
10 Across: Heat in The Heat => COPS
14 Across: First-rate => AONE
15 Across: Stands at lectures => PODIA
16 Across: Like some hygiene => ORAL
17 Across: Midas stock item => MUFFLERASSEMBLY
20 Across: Slept noisily => SNORED
21 Across: Period in office => TERM
22 Across: Leered at => OGLED
23 Across: Left surreptitiously => STOLEAWAY
28 Across: Beatty and Kelly => NEDS
29 Across: Walking in Memphis Grammy winner Marc => COHN
30 Across: Bill for svc. rendered => INV
31 Across: Berry who played Storm in X-Men => HALLE
33 Across: Israeli or Arab => SEMITE
36 Across: Simple New England houses => CAPECODCOTTAGES
40 Across: From dawn to dusk => ALLDAY
41 Across: '90s candidate __ Perot => HROSS
42 Across: Buzzer in a swarm => BEE
43 Across: Half-moon tide => NEAP
44 Across: Office fill-in => TEMP
48 Across: Gobble up => SCARFDOWN
52 Across: Wherefore art thou guy => ROMEO
53 Across: Weighty Kuwaiti? => EMIR
54 Across: Girl-asks-guy dances, informally => SADIES
55 Across: Director's We're done for today, people ... and hint to the start of 17-, 23-, 36- and 48-Across => THATSAWRAPFOLKS
60 Across: Bequest beneficiary => HEIR
61 Across: Linney of Ozark => LAURA
62 Across: Blue or White African river => NILE
63 Across: This is __ a test => ONLY
64 Across: Matches audio to video, e.g. => SYNCS
65 Across: Verbalizes => SAYS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Lover of Delilah => SAMSON
2 Down: Airport waiting area => LOUNGE
3 Down: Prepare to use, as a lawn chair => UNFOLD
4 Down: Updated, as a Web page => REFRESHED
5 Down: Mimicked => APED
6 Down: For, to Fernando => POR
7 Down: Get a room! evoker, initially => PDA
8 Down: Sonny who lost to Clay in 1964 => LISTON
9 Down: Portraitist's prop => EASEL
10 Down: City-state separator => COMMA
11 Down: Globe => ORB
12 Down: Pay or pen follower => PAL
13 Down: Foxy => SLY
18 Down: Captained => LED
19 Down: She desires to speak with you ... __ you go to bed: Hamlet => ERE
23 Down: Realtor's favorite sign => SOLD
24 Down: 2010s cooking-themed talk show => THECHEW
25 Down: Kristen of Bridesmaids => WIIG
26 Down: Required wager => ANTE
27 Down: The Y of YSL => YVES
29 Down: Be saccharine => CLOY
32 Down: Here, in Havana => ACA
33 Down: Octagonal sign => STOP
34 Down: Short aliens? => ETS
35 Down: Extinct elephants => MASTODONS
36 Down: Uber competitors => CABS
37 Down: Match Game host Baldwin => ALEC
38 Down: Earnest request => PLEA
39 Down: Algerian port => ORAN
43 Down: Land with fjords => NORWAY
45 Down: Clarke who played Daenerys on Game of Thrones => EMILIA
46 Down: Sheepishly => MEEKLY
47 Down: Deputized bands => POSSES
49 Down: Second attempt => RETRY
50 Down: Radio settings => FMS
51 Down: Circular dashboard devices => DIALS
52 Down: U.K. fliers => RAF
54 Down: Restorative resorts => SPAS
55 Down: Albeit, briefly => THO
56 Down: Barnyard layer => HEN
57 Down: Disturb => AIL
58 Down: Operate => RUN
59 Down: Pendulum path => ARC

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This crossword has 33 across clues and 44 down clues. In total 77 clues are solved in the section above.
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