Crossword Answers For: Monday, February 21, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Skin growth => WART
5 Across: Learns via word of mouth => HEARS
10 Across: Riot spray => MACE
14 Across: Camera or eye part => IRIS
15 Across: Bates __: Psycho setting => MOTEL
16 Across: Muslim holy man => IMAM
17 Across: How a boat may rock => SIDETOSIDE
19 Across: Busting agent => NARC
20 Across: Ziti or rigatoni => PASTA
21 Across: How boxers square off => TOETOTOE
23 Across: Generous slice => SLAB
26 Across: Macho => VIRILE
27 Across: How Fred and Ginger sometimes danced => CHEEKTOCHEEK
32 Across: The guy over there => HIM
33 Across: Stadium attendance counter => STILE
34 Across: Sports show rundown => RECAP
38 Across: Not fer => AGIN
40 Across: Assumed name => ALIAS
42 Across: Lotus position discipline => YOGA
43 Across: Pulsate => THROB
45 Across: Furnish with a fund => ENDOW
47 Across: Fond du __, Wisconsin => LAC
48 Across: How BFFs converse => HEARTTOHEART
51 Across: Division in a church => SCHISM
54 Across: Black gemstone => ONYX
55 Across: How people may agreeably see => EYETOEYE
58 Across: Use elbow grease on => SCOUR
62 Across: Take __ the waist: alter => INAT
63 Across: 1984 De Palma film, and a hint to five puzzle answers => BODYDOUBLE
66 Across: __ Talkin': Bee Gees #1 hit => JIVE
67 Across: Birch relative => ALDER
68 Across: Cosecant's reciprocal => SINE
69 Across: Cake decorator => ICER
70 Across: Video chat choice => SKYPE
71 Across: Abbr. at the end of a list => ETAL

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Thin trail of smoke => WISP
2 Down: Mozart's Il mio tesoro, e.g. => ARIA
3 Down: Frees (of) => RIDS
4 Down: Scary African fly => TSETSE
5 Down: Managed care gp. => HMO
6 Down: Camera named for a Greek goddess => EOS
7 Down: Going __: bickering => ATIT
8 Down: Second effort => REDO
9 Down: Place to hide a metaphorical ace => SLEEVE
10 Down: Beethoven's Ninth is written in one => MINORKEY
11 Down: Stradivari's tutor => AMATI
12 Down: Christmas song => CAROL
13 Down: Roast host => EMCEE
18 Down: Conversations => TALKS
22 Down: Bleacher feature => TIER
24 Down: __ boy! => ATTA
25 Down: Water heater => BOILER
27 Down: Chew the fat => CHAT
28 Down: Tipsy from wine, say => HIGH
29 Down: Kuwaiti ruler => EMIR
30 Down: Cry Macho (2021) star Eastwood => CLINT
31 Down: Set out for, as a destination => HEADTO
35 Down: Pepsi, for one => COLA
36 Down: Food thickener => AGAR
37 Down: Agreement => PACT
39 Down: One of Nolan Ryan's seven => NOHITTER
41 Down: Any day now => SOON
44 Down: Kiss from Consuela => BESO
46 Down: And your reason? => WHYSO
49 Down: One-celled pond dwellers => AMEBAS
50 Down: The dog ate my homework is a sad one => EXCUSE
51 Down: Conductor Ozawa => SEIJI
52 Down: Pessimist => CYNIC
53 Down: Throw with effort => HEAVE
56 Down: Egg yellow => YOLK
57 Down: Drain swirl => EDDY
59 Down: Passing words? => OBIT
60 Down: Arm bone => ULNA
61 Down: Fishing rod attachment => REEL
64 Down: You betcha => YEP
65 Down: Dr. of hip-hop => DRE

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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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