Crossword Answers For: Saturday, June 5, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Heck, yeah => SOTRUE
7 Across: Area above an eave => FASCIA
13 Across: Orange-colored snack puff => CHEETO
14 Across: Game with blanks to fill => MADLIBS
15 Across: Says I'll say, say => AGREES
16 Across: What might make some people single-minded? => BADDATES
17 Across: A baseball era was named for them, briefly => ROIDS
18 Across: Trig. calculation => COS
19 Across: Top seen by churchgoers => SPIRE
20 Across: Provocative => EDGY
21 Across: Punch list items => TASKS
23 Across: Sulk => SNIT
24 Across: Strands inside a cell? => DNA
25 Across: Kind of shot or gift => PARTING
27 Across: Lincoln's need => GAS
28 Across: Lifesavers, often => ORGANDONORS
31 Across: Creating a disturbance => RAISINGCAIN
33 Across: Be responsible for => BRINGTOPASS
35 Across: Card game for two, usually => WAR
38 Across: Route for shipping vessels => SEALANE
39 Across: See 26-Down => FOX
41 Across: Incessantly => EVER
43 Across: Incline => SLOPE
44 Across: Done some freestyle, say => SWUM
45 Across: Become less green, maybe => RIPEN
47 Across: Mariner's hdg. => SBE
48 Across: Academy Award-winning director who became an army major during World War II => CAPRA
49 Across: Fruit brandy that translates to water of life => EAUDEVIE
51 Across: Rages => MANIAS
52 Across: Place to put one's dogs? => OTTOMAN
53 Across: Software provider sharing a name with a Greek prophet => ORACLE
54 Across: Liam of Batman Begins => NEESON
55 Across: Kids => TEASES

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: More than a little nervous => SCARED
2 Down: Why would you even consider that?! => OHGODNO
3 Down: She played Phoebe's mom on Friends => TERIGARR
4 Down: Like oboe music => REEDY
5 Down: Western natives => UTES
6 Down: Camera named for a Greek goddess => EOS
7 Down: It doesn't last => FAD
8 Down: Sums => ADDS
9 Down: Puts (on) hastily => SLAPS
10 Down: Using as an example => CITING
11 Down: Porto's peninsula => IBERIA
12 Down: They may be fixed => ASSETS
14 Down: Protection against bleeding => MASKINGTAPE
16 Down: Northeast paper with 26 Pulitzers => BOSTONGLOBE
18 Down: Serious lapse => CARDINALSIN
21 Down: Flowers known as golden buttons => TANSIES
22 Down: Shaved-ice treat => SNOCONE
25 Down: Hold 'em holdings => PAIRS
26 Down: Fruit associated with a fabled 39-Across => GRAPE
29 Down: Natter => GAB
30 Down: Cheap Thrills singer with Sean Paul => SIA
32 Down: Warning on some forwarded emails, briefly => NSFWPICS
34 Down: Mouth-puckering brew => SOURALE
35 Down: It's go time! => WEREON
36 Down: Move up in the world? => AVIATE
37 Down: Public stature => REPUTE
40 Down: Present times, briefly => XMASES
42 Down: Second tries => REDOS
44 Down: Capital near the Red Sea => SANAA
46 Down: Verne captain => NEMO
48 Down: Au pair's concern => CARE
50 Down: Wheels for a move => VAN
51 Down: Zinger => MOT

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This crossword has 33 across clues and 34 down clues. In total 67 clues are solved in the section above.
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