Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Natural sand bank => BERM
5 Across: Historic times => AGES
9 Across: Standing at attention, say => ERECT
14 Across: Diva's solo => ARIA
15 Across: Meter starter => DECI
16 Across: Cookie maker's tool => MIXER
17 Across: Oxymoronic '80s sci-fi film title => BACKTOTHEFUTURE
20 Across: Jeopardy! contestant => ASKER
21 Across: Cub slugger => SOSA
22 Across: Paradise => EDEN
23 Across: Anasazi home setting => MESA
25 Across: __ the season ... => TIS
27 Across: Crowd no., often => EST
28 Across: Out-of-the-way access => SIDEENTRANCE
33 Across: It's its own square => ONE
34 Across: Nice water? => EAU
35 Across: Lanai greeting => ALOHA
39 Across: '70s-'80s series about the Drummond family ... and what the starts of four long answers are => DIFFRENTSTROKES
44 Across: Enjoying a scone, maybe => ATTEA
45 Across: Call to Jude? => HEY
46 Across: RN workplaces => ORS
47 Across: Place for a pen => BREASTPOCKET
52 Across: African snake => ASP
55 Across: Major NJ airport => EWR
56 Across: Prepare to mail => SEAL
57 Across: Small deer => ROES
59 Across: NYC's __ River => EAST
61 Across: Salamanca snacks => TAPAS
65 Across: Seafood order => BUTTERFLYSHRIMP
68 Across: Frisky swimmer => OTTER
69 Across: The Clan of the Cave Bear protagonist => AYLA
70 Across: Fencing tool => EPEE
71 Across: Feature of Mike and Ike candy? => RHYME
72 Across: Pour => TEEM
73 Across: Look after => TEND

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Quick Draw's sidekick __ Looey => BABA
2 Down: Historic times => ERAS
3 Down: Casablanca hero => RICK
4 Down: Bully's challenge => MAKEME
5 Down: Turmoil => ADO
6 Down: Enjoys the beach, say => GETSATAN
7 Down: Canyon comeback => ECHO
8 Down: Afternoon break => SIESTA
9 Down: Long-legged runner => EMU
10 Down: Serious ceremony => RITE
11 Down: Radiate => EXUDE
12 Down: Roman goddess of agriculture => CERES
13 Down: Stoke-on-__: English city => TRENT
18 Down: Plant with a trunk => TREE
19 Down: Gladly, to Shakespeare => FAIN
24 Down: Old-time knife => SNEE
26 Down: Sign of surgery => SCAR
28 Down: Pop at a counter => SODA
29 Down: Down but not out => INIT
30 Down: Slick => DEFT
31 Down: Babe and a doctor => RUTHS
32 Down: Do Ya rock gp. => ELO
36 Down: That's enough! => OKOK
37 Down: You are __: mall map info => HERE
38 Down: Exec.'s helper => ASST
40 Down: Big mo. for chocolate purchases => FEB
41 Down: Steakhouse order => RARE
42 Down: Established method => SETSTYLE
43 Down: Work at a keyboard => TYPE
48 Down: Pretty pitcher => EWER
49 Down: 1994 Peace co-Nobelist with Rabin and Peres => ARAFAT
50 Down: Solemn vow => OATH
51 Down: Brit's Bordeaux => CLARET
52 Down: Garden recess => ARBOR
53 Down: TV's __ Park => SOUTH
54 Down: Tom of the Traveling Wilburys => PETTY
58 Down: Stop, as a flow => STEM
60 Down: Roy Rogers' birth name => SLYE
62 Down: Plumbing part => PIPE
63 Down: Right you are! => AMEN
64 Down: Went too fast => SPED
66 Down: Before, to a poet => ERE
67 Down: Yosemite __ => SAM

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This crossword has 35 across clues and 44 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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