Crossword Answers For: Friday, January 21, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Like Jack Sprat, one would expect => SLIM
5 Across: Role in a Gershwin opera => BESS
9 Across: Fellow => CHAP
13 Across: Her musical career started at age 16 at the Cotton Club => LENAHORNE
15 Across: Pre-euro currency => LIRA
16 Across: Atomic physicist's favorite cookie? => FIGNEUTRON
17 Across: __ a girl who sang the blues: Don McLean lyric => IMET
18 Across: Musicologist's term => OPUS
19 Across: Deity with an eponymous day => THOR
20 Across: Gaping mouths => MAWS
21 Across: Uncommon sense => ESP
22 Across: Atomic physicist's favorite Golden Age movie star? => QUARKGABLE
25 Across: U.N. Security Council permanent member => RUS
26 Across: Poetic adverb => EER
27 Across: Say further => ADD
29 Across: Word after look or sound => ALIKE
32 Across: Wafer brand => NILLA
34 Across: __ awake? => YOU
35 Across: Atomic physicist's favorite side dish? => BOSONBAKEDBEANS
38 Across: Consume => USE
39 Across: Lion __ => TAMER
40 Across: Mounted, as gems => INSET
41 Across: Rightmost bowling pin => TEN
42 Across: Wrath => IRE
43 Across: Not leave alone => NAG
44 Across: Atomic physicist's favorite wall builder? => STONEMESON
48 Across: Beret relative => TAM
51 Across: Move a bit => STIR
52 Across: Superior cousin? => ERIE
53 Across: Takes charge of => OWNS
54 Across: Filled food => PITA
55 Across: Atomic physicist's favorite spy novelist? => IONFLEMING
57 Across: Painter Nolde => EMIL
58 Across: As initially evident => ONITSFACE
59 Across: Cozy places => DENS
60 Across: Comprehends => SEES
61 Across: Cretaceous giant => TREX

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Lingerie items => SLIPS
2 Down: Assistance, with a => LEGUP
3 Down: Accommodating places => INNS
4 Down: W.C.'s My Little Chickadee co-star => MAE
5 Down: '80s South African president => BOTHA
6 Down: Misstep => ERROR
7 Down: Coral reef visitor => SNORKELER
8 Down: Snowe of ME, once => SEN
9 Down: Begin a flight => CLIMB
10 Down: Region from the Sanskrit for snow abode => HIMALAYAS
11 Down: Anything else? => AREWEDONE
12 Down: Light touches => PATS
14 Down: Many Rwandans => HUTUS
16 Down: Other side => FOE
22 Down: He directed Samuel in Pulp Fiction => QUENTIN
23 Down: Do a vet's job => GELD
24 Down: Versatile mount => ARABIAN
25 Down: Notorious studio => RKO
28 Down: Roomba target => DUST
29 Down: Lie next to => ABUT
30 Down: Falls behind => LOSESTIME
31 Down: Possible Finish your tax return yet? reply => ISENTITIN
32 Down: Got any examples at all? => NAMEMEONE
33 Down: Dick was his veep => IKE
36 Down: __ minimum => BARE
37 Down: U.K. part => ENG
43 Down: Holiday songs => NOELS
45 Down: Tests without papers => ORALS
46 Down: Orange Muppet => ERNIE
47 Down: Goes (through) carefully => SIFTS
48 Down: Safer way to think => TWICE
49 Down: Wing => ANNEX
50 Down: Umami source => MSG
51 Down: Broke the law, in a way => SPED
53 Down: Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan __ => OMAR
55 Down: Apple product => IOS
56 Down: Young newt => EFT

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This crossword has 37 across clues and 38 down clues. In total 75 clues are solved in the section above.
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