Crossword Answers For: Monday, January 31, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Relaxing retreat => SPA
4 Across: Picket line crosser => SCAB
8 Across: Tied, as sneakers => LACED
13 Across: Work like heck => TOIL
15 Across: Arrived => CAME
16 Across: Old piano key material => IVORY
17 Across: European car brand that sounds sort of like a Western greeting => AUDI
18 Across: Ordered like dictionary words => ALPHABETIC
20 Across: *The Bible's golden calf, e.g. => GRAVENIMAGE
22 Across: Sound of fear => EEK
23 Across: Roadside haven => INN
24 Across: About 1/2000th of a euro, in 2002 => LIRA
26 Across: *Giving a higher mark than students deserve => GRADEINFLATION
33 Across: Slimy substance => GOO
34 Across: Dolphin family killer => ORCA
35 Across: Inventor Otis => ELISHA
36 Across: Roman moon goddess => LUNA
38 Across: Tease => KID
40 Across: Site of Napoleon's exile => ELBA
41 Across: Where Amin ruled => UGANDA
44 Across: Puffin relatives => AUKS
47 Across: Geological time span => EON
48 Across: *It's not always the same as one's assigned sex at birth => GENDERIDENTITY
51 Across: What a coach gives a base runner => SIGN
52 Across: Corn unit => EAR
53 Across: Suffix with script => URE
56 Across: *Intuition, often => GUTINSTINCT
62 Across: Cape Cod and Baja => PENINSULAS
64 Across: Former Neet rival => NAIR
65 Across: Two in a deck => DEUCE
66 Across: Evening, in ads => NITE
67 Across: Required bet => ANTE
68 Across: Rubbed out, gang-style => OFFED
69 Across: NBA conference => EAST
70 Across: USO show audience ... and a hint to the answers to starred clues => GIS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Male deer => STAG
2 Down: Serve the wine, say => POUR
3 Down: Verdi classic => AIDA
4 Down: Medical diagnostic device => SCANNER
5 Down: Colombian metropolis => CALI
6 Down: Alarm clock toggle => AMPM
7 Down: On __ of: representing => BEHALF
8 Down: Loose, like a translation => LIBERAL
9 Down: D.C.'s Pennsylvania, e.g. => AVE
10 Down: Pigeon shelter => COTE
11 Down: Shallowest Great Lake => ERIE
12 Down: Flemish painter Sir Anthony van __ => DYCK
14 Down: Wife of Augustus => LIVIA
19 Down: Light-footed => AGILE
21 Down: Prefix with scope => ENDO
25 Down: It's __: Nobody wins => ATIE
26 Down: Charge triple, say => GOUGE
27 Down: Journalist Farrow => RONAN
28 Down: Disgusting! => ICK
29 Down: Water nymph => NAIAD
30 Down: Speck in the ocean => ISLET
31 Down: That's exciting! => OHBOY
32 Down: Indian bread => NAAN
33 Down: Water cooler sound => GLUG
37 Down: No ifs, __ or buts => ANDS
39 Down: Payable now => DUE
42 Down: Condescended => DEIGNED
43 Down: Jason's shipbuilder => ARGUS
45 Down: Israeli parliament => KNESSET
46 Down: RBI or ERA => STAT
49 Down: On key => INTUNE
50 Down: Russian supermodel Shayk => IRINA
53 Down: High hairstyle => UPDO
54 Down: Great Barrier __ => REEF
55 Down: Plenty, phonetically => ENUF
57 Down: Pelvic bones => ILIA
58 Down: D.C. baseball team => NATS
59 Down: Vietnam's Da __ => NANG
60 Down: Banking giant => CITI
61 Down: Uno y dos => TRES
63 Down: Rapper __ Cube => ICE

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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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