Crossword Answers For: Saturday, January 29, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Biography beginning? => AUTO
5 Across: Energy => VIM
8 Across: It may be fictional => ALIBI
13 Across: Works on walls => GRAFFITI
15 Across: Where Madama Butterfly premiered => MILAN
16 Across: What spies often do => LISTENIN
17 Across: Works on walls => PAINTS
19 Across: Cereal bit => OAT
20 Across: Prisoner's place, in an 1894 adventure novel => ZENDA
22 Across: Most coins have them => RADII
23 Across: Make sharp => WHET
25 Across: 2004 World Golf Hall of Fame inductee Isao __ => AOKI
27 Across: Titled woman => DAME
28 Across: Radiation Protection Program org. => EPA
31 Across: Las Palmas lad => NINO
33 Across: Badger => NAG
34 Across: Celebrity's arrival, perhaps => GRANDENTRANCE
37 Across: In the negative, unlikely to be fooled => BORNYESTERDAY
38 Across: Bet, in a way => PLAYTHEPONIES
39 Across: Alley __ => OOP
40 Across: Works on, as a lawn => SODS
41 Across: Five mL, in medicine => TSP
42 Across: Is beholden to => OWES
44 Across: __ sauce => WEAK
46 Across: Oodles => TONS
50 Across: Musical skill => CHOPS
52 Across: Sign up, in Salisbury => ENROL
55 Across: Zilch => NIL
56 Across: Wanting success? => HAVING
58 Across: Assign responsibility => DELEGATE
60 Across: Summary => RECAP
61 Across: Serious predicament => QUAGMIRE
62 Across: Wine residue => DREGS
63 Across: Modern marshal's milieu => SKY
64 Across: Text translation => TROT

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Radiant => AGLOW
2 Down: First name in a Dickens classic => URIAH
3 Down: Preference => TASTE
4 Down: For the apparel __ proclaims the man: Polonius => OFT
5 Down: Wisteria, e.g. => VINE
6 Down: Memoir that led to the movie What's Love Got to Do With It => ITINA
7 Down: Act mannerly => MINDONESPSANDQS
8 Down: Music box, maybe => AMP
9 Down: Yarn spinner => LIAR
10 Down: Homeric epic => ILIAD
11 Down: Versatile head-neck garb => BANDANNAS
12 Down: Getting very close => INTIMACY
14 Down: Tasseled hat => FEZ
18 Down: Extended attack => SIEGE
21 Down: Like => AKINTO
24 Down: Looped fabric => TERRY
26 Down: Strongly focused => INTENT
29 Down: What a hot dog does? => PANTS
30 Down: But I digress ... => ANYHOW
32 Down: Root in perfumery => ORRIS
34 Down: Wig out about => GOAPEOVER
35 Down: Clinton press secretary Myers => DEEDEE
36 Down: Crackerjack => ADEPT
37 Down: Windbag => BLOWHARD
38 Down: Dog => POOCH
43 Down: Food flavoring => SPICE
45 Down: Smallville actress Kristin => KREUK
47 Down: Studio sign => ONAIR
48 Down: Explosive, briefly => NITRO
49 Down: Letter carrier's challenge => SLEET
51 Down: Catch-22 => SNAG
53 Down: Skin care brand => OLAY
54 Down: Relay part => LEG
57 Down: Family docs => GPS
59 Down: Clock-setting std. => GMT

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This crossword has 35 across clues and 36 down clues. In total 71 clues are solved in the section above.
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