Crossword Answers For: Thursday, January 20, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Rearmost, as decks => AFT
4 Across: Winter wear => PARKA
9 Across: App with pics, familiarly => INSTA
14 Across: Lead-in to gender => CIS
15 Across: Brown and Yale => IVIES
16 Across: Auctioned autos, often => REPOS
17 Across: Ended corruption => DRAINEDTHESWAMP
20 Across: __ fire => CEASE
21 Across: Tofu source => SOYA
22 Across: First Nations tribe => CREE
23 Across: Shindig => GALA
25 Across: __ in the Boys Room: 1973-'74 hit => SMOKIN
27 Across: Vented => BLEWOFFSTEAM
32 Across: Actor Somerhalder of Lost => IAN
33 Across: Lizard-approved coverage? => GEICO
34 Across: Place to get clean => REHAB
38 Across: Shakespearean verb => DOTH
40 Across: Intense anger => WRATH
42 Across: What some queens do => RULE
43 Across: Boston suburb named for an English county => ESSEX
45 Across: Common conveyances for Calvin and Hobbes => SLEDS
47 Across: Depression Era pres. => FDR
48 Across: Made everything clear => LIFTEDTHEFOG
51 Across: Nielsen of The Naked Gun films => LESLIE
54 Across: Caesar's 18-Down => VIDI
55 Across: Swift steed => ARAB
56 Across: Sushi pairing => SAKE
60 Across: Brief but sharp pains => PANGS
63 Across: Historical turning point ... and, as three words, a literal description of 17-, 27- and 48-Across => WATERSHEDMOMENT
66 Across: Timberlake's old crew => NSYNC
67 Across: Trade discount quintet => AEIOU
68 Across: Portuguese saint => SAO
69 Across: Sleeping giant => SERTA
70 Across: Grabbed forty winks => SLEPT
71 Across: Oil additive brand => STP

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Back in Black group => ACDC
2 Down: Kindle __ => FIRE
3 Down: Modern-day wand wielders => TSAAGENTS
4 Down: Source of Yuletide coziness => PINELOG
5 Down: __ Maria => AVE
6 Down: Divests => RIDS
7 Down: Low-carb, high-fat diet => KETO
8 Down: Pale => ASHY
9 Down: Apr. addressee => IRS
10 Down: Often-hazed member => NEWCOMER
11 Down: Lively quality => SPARK
12 Down: Marisa of The Wrestler (2008) => TOMEI
13 Down: Sawatch Range resort => ASPEN
18 Down: 54-Across, here => ISAW
19 Down: Verb that sounds like multiple vowels => EASE
24 Down: Not lots => AFEW
26 Down: Damage => MAR
27 Down: __ one's time: be patient => BIDE
28 Down: Vietnam neighbor => LAOS
29 Down: Top spot => FIRST
30 Down: E to E, e.g. => SCALE
31 Down: Carried => TOTED
35 Down: Arrogance => HUFFINESS
36 Down: Canadian shoe retailer => ALDO
37 Down: Scary floater => BERG
39 Down: Recklessly determined => HELLBENT
41 Down: Many a flat-screen => HDTV
44 Down: Top of many a dial => XII
46 Down: Begin a naval deployment => SHIPOUT
49 Down: Own (up) => FESS
50 Down: Wax-coated cheese => EDAM
51 Down: Targets of much fertilization => LAWNS
52 Down: Rub off => ERASE
53 Down: Woodland deity => SATYR
57 Down: Light-bulb moments => AHAS
58 Down: Ship stabilizer => KEEL
59 Down: Falco of Nurse Jackie => EDIE
61 Down: Pesky insect => GNAT
62 Down: No más! => STOP
64 Down: Early TV maker => RCA
65 Down: Swabbie's tool => MOP

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This crossword has 35 across clues and 42 down clues. In total 77 clues are solved in the section above.
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