Crossword Answers For: Saturday, December 11, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Some chocolate purchases => ASSORTMENTS
12 Across: Inflation fig. => PSI
15 Across: Purveyor of fraudulent credentials => DIPLOMAMILL
16 Across: Bit of positivity? => ION
17 Across: Hair, in many cases => DNAEVIDENCE
18 Across: Latin word in many academic mottos => LUX
19 Across: Climber's rest stop => LEDGE
20 Across: Poetic indicator of relative time => ERE
21 Across: Juice extractor => PRESS
23 Across: Pasture palindrome => EWE
24 Across: Wouldn't share => BOGARTED
26 Across: Imperious dismissal => LEAVEME
28 Across: Surfboard damage => DING
31 Across: Shocked big-time => APPALLED
34 Across: Official who sings in Hebrew => CANTOR
36 Across: Leverage provider => CROWBAR
37 Across: Where to find Octopus's Garden on Abbey Road => SIDEONE
38 Across: Utah Jazz center Whiteside => HASSAN
39 Across: Ran into trouble => HITASNAG
40 Across: Shakespearean last gasp => ETTU
41 Across: Neologists => COINERS
43 Across: Zoom frustrations => TIMELAGS
45 Across: __ rule => MOB
48 Across: Love of collectibles => VIRTU
50 Across: __ Kapital => DAS
51 Across: Succumbed to stage fright => FROZE
53 Across: Brown or Rice ending => EDU
54 Across: '90s-'00s HBO series with lots of therapy sessions => THESOPRANOS
57 Across: Comprehend => GET
58 Across: Impresario's contact => TALENTAGENT
59 Across: Hibachi waste => ASH
60 Across: Election focuses => SWINGSTATES

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Disorient => ADDLE
2 Down: Power cord? => SINEW
3 Down: Club relative => SPADE
4 Down: First name in film designers => OLEG
5 Down: Wander => ROVE
6 Down: Eww! Say no more! => TMI
7 Down: Redesigned => MADEOVER
8 Down: Popped up => EMERGED
9 Down: Common starting hr. => NINEAM
10 Down: I Am Jazz cable channel => TLC
11 Down: Took a day to consider, with on => SLEPT
12 Down: Faulted to excess => PILEDITON
13 Down: __-chef => SOUS
14 Down: Need You Tonight band => INXS
22 Down: Dermatological symptom => REDNESS
24 Down: Yoga asset => BALANCE
25 Down: Reels off => RECITES
26 Down: Premise in many John Grisham novels => LAWSUIT
27 Down: Idris of The Jungle Book => ELBA
29 Down: Actress Gaye of Ali => NONA
30 Down: Novelist Iles => GREG
31 Down: Reason to call a chiropractor => ACHE
32 Down: Nit, to a Brit => PRAT
33 Down: Like a situation in which emotional persuasion trumps factual accuracy => POSTTRUTH
35 Down: Purim month => ADAR
37 Down: Voice used for Humpty Dumpty, say => SINGSONG
39 Down: Crime novelist Carl => HIAASEN
42 Down: Yale sobriquet => OLDELI
44 Down: Crosses at obedience school? => MUTTS
45 Down: Rouen Cathedral painter => MONET
46 Down: Thinning layer => OZONE
47 Down: Tops => BESTS
48 Down: Chevy named for a star => VEGA
49 Down: When 40-Across was spoken => IDES
51 Down: Alpha Phi Alpha, e.g. => FRAT
52 Down: Sitar sequence => RAGA
55 Down: Hem partner => HAW
56 Down: NBA stat => PTS

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This crossword has 32 across clues and 39 down clues. In total 71 clues are solved in the section above.
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