Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: D.C. insider => POL
4 Across: Anxious feeling => ANGST
9 Across: Silent Night words before calm and bright => ALLIS
14 Across: Actress Gardner => AVA
15 Across: More rational => SANER
16 Across: Africa's Sierra __ => LEONE
17 Across: Star Wars sequel trilogy heroine => REY
18 Across: Spicy condiment => PEPPERSAUCE
20 Across: Pay off illicitly => BRIBE
22 Across: How a scary-movie watcher might recoil => INHORROR
23 Across: Astronaut's milieu => OUTERSPACE
26 Across: Deserved, as recognition => DUE
27 Across: Keep separate from the rest => ISOLATE
28 Across: Restaurant chain with an owl logo => HOOTERS
31 Across: Horne of jazz => LENA
32 Across: In the manner of => ALA
34 Across: Oktober endings => FESTS
35 Across: Lawn areas lacking grass => BARESPOTS
39 Across: Perth __, NJ => AMBOY
42 Across: LBJ's boy beagle => HIM
43 Across: Big brass => TUBA
47 Across: Greets with guffaws => ROARSAT
50 Across: Features of some cruise ships => CASINOS
52 Across: Heavy weight => TON
53 Across: NYC's World Financial Center architect => CESARPELLI
55 Across: Working together as one => INTANDEM
58 Across: '90s candidate __ Perot => HROSS
59 Across: Coins in one's pocket ... and what literally happens in each set of circles => SPARECHANGE
62 Across: When doubled, a Latin dance => CHA
63 Across: Fix in the crosshairs => AIMAT
64 Across: Knighted composer Edward => ELGAR
65 Across: Showy pond fish => KOI
66 Across: Stacks like Tupperware => NESTS
67 Across: Wed on the sly => ELOPE
68 Across: Vicious with a bass => SID

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Partially cook, as rice => PARBOIL
2 Down: Employ excessively, as muscles => OVERUSE
3 Down: Overdo the flattery => LAYITON
4 Down: Last word of Kansas' motto => ASPERA
5 Down: Macduff rebuff => NAE
6 Down: Econ. measure => GNP
7 Down: Old photo hue => SEPIA
8 Down: Battlefield furrow => TRENCH
9 Down: What's more ... => ALSO
10 Down: Norman who created Archie and Edith Bunker => LEAR
11 Down: French pilgrimage site => LOURDES
12 Down: Trying a case, say => INCOURT
13 Down: Prophetic woman => SEERESS
19 Down: Prefix with stat => RHEO
21 Down: Overdo, as a point => BELABOR
24 Down: Twinkler => STAR
25 Down: Soccer standout => PELE
29 Down: Frequently, to a bard => OFT
30 Down: More irritable => TESTIER
33 Down: Fireplace grate buildup => ASH
36 Down: Shakespearean cries => AYS
37 Down: 12-point type => PICA
38 Down: Actor Epps => OMAR
39 Down: Craftsperson => ARTISAN
40 Down: Marshmallowy treat => MOONPIE
41 Down: Little chickens => BANTAMS
44 Down: Disengages the bolt for, as a door => UNLOCKS
45 Down: Russian ballet company => BOLSHOI
46 Down: Let me reiterate ... => ASISAID
48 Down: High Voltage band => ACDC
49 Down: Far from a guffaw => TEEHEE
51 Down: Round figure => SPHERE
54 Down: Little => SMALL
56 Down: I smell __! => ARAT
57 Down: Ping-Pong supplies => NETS
60 Down: Private aid prog. => NGO
61 Down: Space between outfielders => GAP

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This crossword has 35 across clues and 38 down clues. In total 73 clues are solved in the section above.
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