Crossword Answers For: Saturday, January 1, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Over the moon => HAPPYASACLAM
13 Across: Figurehead?: Abbr. => CPA
16 Across: Japanese art piece that symbolizes good fortune and longevity => ORIGAMICRANE
17 Across: Inlet, to the sea => ARM
18 Across: Much-photographed event => TOTALECLIPSE
19 Across: Fairy-tale disruption => PEA
20 Across: Son of Akhenaten => TUT
21 Across: To recap ... => INSUM
22 Across: Law school course => ETHICS
24 Across: Tangents => ASIDES
26 Across: Throbs => PULSATES
28 Across: Drawing game => KENO
29 Across: Sound of alarm => GASP
31 Across: Connection point => NODE
32 Across: Aid in fixing rough borders => EDGETRIM
35 Across: Dickered => HAGGLED
38 Across: Program resource => HELPMENU
40 Across: Last part => BACKEND
44 Across: Offer not seen by competitors => BLINDBID
49 Across: DOL watchdog => OSHA
50 Across: My stars! => EGAD
52 Across: Hill assistant => AIDE
53 Across: Who, me? => WHATDIDO
56 Across: Papyrus plants, e.g. => SEDGES
58 Across: Vet => SCREEN
59 Across: Island in a popular board game => CATAN
62 Across: Dance step => PAS
63 Across: Crew implement => OAR
64 Across: Iran, for one => ISLAMICSTATE
67 Across: It may be plucked on a beach => UKE
68 Across: Vader underling => STORMTROOPER
69 Across: Talking stuffed bear in a 2012 film => TED
70 Across: Permanent marker? => TATTOOARTIST

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Provocative opinion => HOTTAKE
2 Down: Galvanized => AROUSED
3 Down: Placing in direct competition => PITTING
4 Down: __ Tour => PGA
5 Down: Amy Klobuchar, for one => YALIE
6 Down: Chorus of approval => AMENS
7 Down: Unleashes => SICS
8 Down: Women's Rights Project org. => ACLU
9 Down: Pinches together => CRIMPS
10 Down: 2.5 miles, at Indy => LAP
11 Down: Elgort of The Fault in Our Stars => ANSEL
12 Down: Some contests => MEETS
13 Down: Building partly burned by Britain in 1814 => CAPITOL
14 Down: Antedate => PRECEDE
15 Down: Brought together => AMASSED
23 Down: Get hooked? => HANG
25 Down: John in court, maybe => DOE
27 Down: Maintained => UPHELD
29 Down: __ Age: post-Civil War period => GILDED
30 Down: Gig gear => AMP
33 Down: It accounts for about 7% of all printed English words => THE
34 Down: The Villain in Black rapper MC __ => REN
36 Down: The Phantom Menace boy => ANI
37 Down: Cause to race => GUN
39 Down: Wall St. asset => MBA
40 Down: Gracefully exits => BOWSOUT
41 Down: Bread named for how it's baked => ASHCAKE
42 Down: Blackened => CHARRED
43 Down: Sexual Politics author Millett => KATE
45 Down: Witness to a delivery, often => DAD
46 Down: 2000s Red Sox hero, familiarly => BIGPAPI
47 Down: Conceives => IDEATES
48 Down: Madeleine or Napoleon => DESSERT
51 Down: Soap Box Derby entrant => GOCART
54 Down: Dmitri Mendeleev, religiously => DEIST
55 Down: Photo-sharing app, for short => INSTA
56 Down: Triangular pelvic bones => SACRA
57 Down: Former CNN journalist David => ENSOR
60 Down: Snowball pile, say => AMMO
61 Down: Jazz great Puente => TITO
65 Down: Parking __ => LOT
66 Down: Little one => TOT

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This crossword has 33 across clues and 43 down clues. In total 76 clues are solved in the section above.
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