Crossword Answers For: Thursday, January 6, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Star-crossed => HAPLESS
8 Across: Enhanced the recipe with => ADDEDIN
15 Across: Invisible Man author => ELLISON
16 Across: Always raring to fight => WARLIKE
17 Across: Buzz => NOISEMADEBYBEES
19 Across: Increase, with up => STEP
20 Across: Org. monitoring insecticides => EPA
21 Across: Vex => EATAT
22 Across: Sideline advisers => COACHES
25 Across: Buzz => WORDONTHESTREET
33 Across: Tickle => AROUSE
34 Across: Rock box => AMP
35 Across: Marathon Petroleum brand => ARCO
36 Across: The spring is __ when green geese are a-breeding: Shak. => NEAR
37 Across: Intuitively grasp, in slang => GROK
38 Across: Calculated intake => DOSE
39 Across: Medical sports nickname => DRJ
42 Across: Cuisine including jambalaya => CREOLE
44 Across: Buzz => ASTRONAUTALDRIN
47 Across: Calculated intake => RATIONS
48 Across: West African capital => ACCRA
52 Across: Bed for an unexpected guest, maybe => COT
53 Across: Puts out, in a way => TAGS
57 Across: Buzz => MILITARYHAIRCUT
61 Across: Developing => INUTERO
62 Across: Place to put your feet up => OTTOMAN
63 Across: Lowered => DEBASED
64 Across: Bygone employees of cautious royalty => TASTERS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Toothless farm denizens => HENS
2 Down: Plenty => ALOT
3 Down: Ballet motion => PLIE
4 Down: Struggle with scissors? => LISP
5 Down: Santa Fe-to-Dallas dir. => ESE
6 Down: 2013 Alice McDermott novel that was a National Book Award finalist => SOMEONE
7 Down: Get testy with => SNAPAT
8 Down: Evoke an ooh from, maybe => AWE
9 Down: Small application => DAB
10 Down: Like a country at the bottom of a rainfall chart => DRYEST
11 Down: 2013 Mandela portrayer => ELBA
12 Down: Food regimen => DIET
13 Down: Swedish superstore => IKEA
14 Down: Hornet home => NEST
18 Down: Russian retreat => DACHA
22 Down: Trig. function => COS
23 Down: Verbal pause => HEM
24 Down: Dubious ability => ESP
25 Down: Sykes of black-ish => WANDA
26 Down: Treats with embossed surfaces => OREOS
27 Down: __ beast: holiday dinner in a Seuss classic => ROAST
28 Down: Engraver Albrecht => DURER
29 Down: Persisted noisily, as a storm => RAGED
30 Down: Diamond flaw? => ERROR
31 Down: USDA concern => ECOLI
32 Down: Memento => TOKEN
39 Down: CSI stuff => DNA
40 Down: Snitch => RAT
41 Down: Like gossip worth spreading => JUICY
42 Down: Bach wrote one about coffee => CANTATA
43 Down: Kidnapped monogram => RLS
45 Down: Speaks formally => ORATES
46 Down: Likely to scald => TOOHOT
48 Down: Within => AMID
49 Down: With 50-Down, group for movie enthusiasts => CINE
50 Down: See 49-Down => CLUB
51 Down: Comic Rudner => RITA
53 Down: Bring (out) => TROT
54 Down: Top => ACME
55 Down: __ gum: common thickening agent => GUAR
56 Down: RR sched. components => STNS
58 Down: __ we on for tonight? => ARE
59 Down: Dowel => ROD
60 Down: Repeated contraction in the '50s TV Superman intro => ITS

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This crossword has 28 across clues and 45 down clues. In total 73 clues are solved in the section above.
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