Crossword Answers For: Thursday, December 9, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Guttural interruption => AHEM
5 Across: Hook or Kirk: Abbr. => CAPT
9 Across: Logician's E => ERAT
13 Across: Rope fiber => SISAL
15 Across: Confidently say => AVER
16 Across: Earned => MADE
17 Across: Vintage hue on a photo app => SEPIA
18 Across: Digital media brand => ROKU
19 Across: Plains people => OTOS
20 Across: Often euphemistic words for lacking employment => INBETWEENJOBS
23 Across: __-pitch softball => SLO
25 Across: I-5 state => ORE
26 Across: Liberia neighbor => GUINEA
27 Across: Manhattan attraction => CENTRALPARK
31 Across: Petri dish gels => AGARS
32 Across: Former Romanian president => ILIESCU
36 Across: Buster Brown's dog => TIGE
37 Across: Flat sign => TOLET
39 Across: Alternatively => ELSE
41 Across: Mosaic piece => TESSERA
43 Across: Pricing word that rhymes with its opposite => STEEP
44 Across: Rounding third base after starting at second, say => HALFWAYHOME
47 Across: Axis foes => ALLIES
51 Across: Guffaw sound => HAR
52 Across: Cue preceder? => PEE
53 Across: Just plain folks => MIDDLEAMERICA
57 Across: Cream additive => ALOE
58 Across: It may be wild => RICE
59 Across: Union station? => ALTAR
62 Across: Midday refreshers => NAPS
63 Across: Inland Asian sea => ARAL
64 Across: Hospital cry => NURSE
65 Across: Time spent with __ is never wasted: Colette => ACAT
66 Across: P.D. ranks => DETS
67 Across: Thai money => BAHT

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Jenny's offspring => ASS
2 Down: Hustle, quaintly => HIE
3 Down: Threat to national security => ESPIONAGE
4 Down: Water __ => MAIN
5 Down: Breaking Bad bad guys => CARTEL
6 Down: Swear => AVOW
7 Down: Short dog, for short => PEKE
8 Down: 1969 film remade in 2010 with Jeff Bridges in John Wayne's role => TRUEGRIT
9 Down: Smiley face with hearts for eyes, e.g. => EMOJI
10 Down: Betray => RATON
11 Down: Sun-dried brick => ADOBE
12 Down: Thompson of Westworld => TESSA
14 Down: Hercules' dozen => LABORS
21 Down: Historic time => ERA
22 Down: Zap => NUKE
23 Down: Shoo relative => SCAT
24 Down: Kosher => LEGIT
28 Down: __ chic! => TRES
29 Down: Dish from which paella evolved => PILAF
30 Down: Sierra Nevada, e.g. => ALE
33 Down: Genesis son => SETH
34 Down: The her in Shakespeare's Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale / Her infinite variety => CLEOPATRA
35 Down: I can help => USEME
37 Down: Buzz-creating promo => TEASERAD
38 Down: The NBA's Magic => ORL
40 Down: Duel tool => EPEE
42 Down: Kid-lit poet Silverstein => SHEL
43 Down: Iraqi neighbor => SYRIAN
45 Down: Slangy alternative to walking => WHEELS
46 Down: Swiss river => AAR
47 Down: Range name => AMANA
48 Down: New Hampshire state flower => LILAC
49 Down: Parkinson's treatment => LDOPA
50 Down: Latin in other words => IDEST
54 Down: Suffix for the rich => AIRE
55 Down: Future doc's exam => MCAT
56 Down: Black card, maybe => CLUB
60 Down: Bat wood => ASH
61 Down: No longer working: Abbr. => RET

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This crossword has 35 across clues and 40 down clues. In total 75 clues are solved in the section above.
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