Crossword Answers For: Saturday, December 25, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Surprise with cheese and wine, perhaps => GIFTBASKET
11 Across: Craft fare => BREW
15 Across: Traveler's question => AREWETHERE
16 Across: Mother of Judah => LEAH
17 Across: Pieces for a wannabe conductor? => MODELTRAIN
18 Across: Afterthought preceder => ALSO
19 Across: U.S.'s leading employer of mathematicians, it's said => NSA
20 Across: How some agents travel => INCOGNITO
22 Across: What looks can't do? => KILL
25 Across: Wind => SNAKE
26 Across: Arranges => SCHEDULES
30 Across: Took off => LEFT
32 Across: Give false hope => LEADON
33 Across: __ wedge: golf club with maximum loft => LOB
35 Across: Evil => DARK
37 Across: Sunday morning server => URN
38 Across: Blank spaces => LACUNAE
41 Across: Underwater beginnings => ROE
42 Across: First-aid product prefix => MEDI
44 Across: Cone's counterpart => ROD
45 Across: Long and hard, as a stare => STEELY
47 Across: Trig calculation => SINE
49 Across: Metaphors for high esteem => PEDESTALS
51 Across: Home of the 75-feet-tall Golden Driller statue => TULSA
53 Across: Controversial late Russian painter Glazunov => ILYA
54 Across: Tiger, perhaps => EXOTICPET
57 Across: Only team with a gold at every Summer Olympics: Abbr. => GBR
60 Across: Bush advisor => ROVE
61 Across: Weather record => ALLTIMELOW
65 Across: Lumberjack => AXER
66 Across: Cleaning product claim => LEMONFRESH
67 Across: Lawn care brand => TORO
68 Across: Corridor => PASSAGEWAY

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Leg, slangily => GAM
2 Down: Pressing need? => IRON
3 Down: Mulder and Scully, briefly => FEDS
4 Down: Fine-tuned => TWEAKED
5 Down: The Fresh Prince of __-Air => BEL
6 Down: NFL passing stat => ATT
7 Down: Ear-piercing => SHRILL
8 Down: New Jersey public university with a campus in China => KEAN
9 Down: Swedish company that invented Bluetooth => ERICSSON
10 Down: Mortise mate => TENON
11 Down: Shut out => BLANKED
12 Down: Place for pets at an airport => RELIEFAREA
13 Down: Right way? => EAST
14 Down: Yay! => WHOO
21 Down: __ pal => GAL
23 Down: Role model => IDOL
24 Down: Like some probes => LUNAR
26 Down: Blighted area => SLUM
27 Down: Dwarf planet between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter => CERES
28 Down: Give me that! => HANDITOVER
29 Down: Get past => ELUDE
31 Down: Online flame thrower? => TROLL
34 Down: Swiss cultural city => BASEL
36 Down: 2019 and 2020 Grammys host, or what she plays => KEYS
39 Down: Get time off? => COPAPLEA
40 Down: Maker marketplace => ETSY
43 Down: Not yet delivered => INUTERO
46 Down: Knickknack stand => ETAGERE
48 Down: Director Roth => ELI
50 Down: Signs of repetition => DITTOS
52 Down: Hawk tickets => SCALP
54 Down: Q.E.D. part => ERAT
55 Down: Amorous letters => XOXO
56 Down: Trees with split-resistant wood => ELMS
58 Down: Squandered => BLEW
59 Down: Parks of Alabama => ROSA
62 Down: Words with bit and way => INA
63 Down: Plant activity: Abbr. => MFG
64 Down: Word that sounds like its last letter => WHY

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This crossword has 33 across clues and 40 down clues. In total 73 clues are solved in the section above.
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