Crossword Answers For: Sunday, February 27, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Often abbreviated reaction to information overload => TODIDNTREAD
12 Across: Ukulele ridge => FRET
16 Across: Gotcha sounds => AHS
19 Across: Starter => HORSDOEUVRE
20 Across: Indian flatbread => ROTI
21 Across: Laser pointer chaser => CAT
22 Across: Altruism => SELFLESSNESS
23 Across: Most of the 2010s => OBAMAERA
25 Across: Span of a scale with three sharps => ATOA
26 Across: That, in Madrid => ESA
27 Across: Gucci of fashion => ALDO
29 Across: Elements of Algebra author => EULER
30 Across: Don't back down, bro! => MANUP
32 Across: Completely different situation => AWHOLEOTHLGAME
36 Across: Certain carton components => EGGCUPS
39 Across: Reunion attendees => AUNTS
40 Across: Café freebie => EAU
41 Across: Don't think so => IBET
42 Across: Nos. for alums => YRS
43 Across: Comparative data diagram => BARGRAPH
48 Across: The Misery Index network => TBS
51 Across: Bulgarian's neighbor => SERB
53 Across: Type of diet that might replace potatoes with cauliflower => LOWCARB
56 Across: New Deal agcy. => NRA
57 Across: High Rollers co-host __ Lee => RUTA
59 Across: Grams => NANAS
61 Across: Alert on the road => HONKAT
63 Across: __ in Charlie => CAS
64 Across: Play it cool => ACTCASUAL
66 Across: Prefix with treat or giving => MIS
67 Across: Blow a fuse => LOSEIT
69 Across: Sellers of KAFFEREP cinnamon buns => IKEAS
70 Across: Middle-earth ring bearer => BILBGGINS
74 Across: Following => POSSE
75 Across: Tokyo airport => NARITA
77 Across: Apple runs on it => IOS
78 Across: Raggedy => MOTHEATEN
80 Across: Hot state => IRE
81 Across: How three nursery-rhyme merchants went to sea => INATUB
84 Across: Trailer follower => MOVIE
85 Across: Laker legend, familiarly => KOBE
86 Across: Votes against => NOS
87 Across: Soybeans served in the pod => EDAMAME
89 Across: Gawk at => OGLE
91 Across: With 6-Down, Rudolph's guiding light => RED
92 Across: Dad's referral? => GOASKMOM
95 Across: Boarding precedes it: Abbr. => ETD
97 Across: Penicillium, e.g. => MOLD
99 Across: Half a martial art => TAI
100 Across: Kendrick with a Pulitzer => LAMAR
102 Across: On the lam => ATLARGE
106 Across: Résumé alert about an unfinished goal => DEGOTCOMPLETED
112 Across: Like a romantic dinner, in Paris => ADEUX
113 Across: Chef's protection => APRON
114 Across: Word with words or chance => LAST
115 Across: Org. with many returns => IRS
117 Across: Paris gal pal => AMIE
118 Across: Most sentimental => WEEPIEST
120 Across: Total removals => ERADICATIONS
125 Across: Maiden name preceder => NEE
126 Across: __-Ball => SKEE
127 Across: The Crocodile of early tennis => RENELACOSTE
128 Across: ID on many returns => SSN
129 Across: Post => SEND
130 Across: Give me some gossip! ... and a hint to this puzzle's sets of circles, which affect four Across answers => SPILLTHETEA

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: What Rickey Henderson often beat => THETAG
2 Down: Chinese for black dragon => OOLONG
3 Down: NIAID director => DRFAUCI
4 Down: Luzon, for one: Abbr. => ISL
5 Down: JFK predecessor => DDE
6 Down: See 91-Across => NOSE
7 Down: Thompson of Marvel movies => TESSA
8 Down: Beat it => RUNAWAY
9 Down: Night before => EVE
10 Down: ___ Technica: tech news website => ARS
11 Down: Make drinkable, as seawater => DESALT
12 Down: 70-Across nephew => FRODO
13 Down: Mr. __: Rami Malek drama => ROBOT
14 Down: ORD posting => ETA
15 Down: Zoom annoyance => TIMELAG
16 Down: Amtrak speedster => ACELA
17 Down: Sultan's group => HAREM
18 Down: Intimidate, with down => STARE
22 Down: Identical => SAME
24 Down: Foretell => AUGUR
28 Down: Paris article => LES
31 Down: Trivia night settings => PUBS
33 Down: Flings => HURLS
34 Down: That's wrong __ many levels => ONSO
35 Down: Like some remedies => HERBAL
37 Down: Hammer parts => PEENS
38 Down: Ghost Story author Peter => STRAUB
43 Down: Forbid => BAN
44 Down: Flood shelter => ARK
45 Down: 23andMe discovery => ANCESTOR
46 Down: Thank the Lord! => PRAISEBE
47 Down: Got a move on => HASTENED
48 Down: Instruction => TRAINING
49 Down: __ Holiday: opening section of Copland's Rodeo => BUCKAROO
50 Down: First woman to be named Doctor of the Church, briefly => STTERESA
52 Down: __ B'rith => BNAI
54 Down: Tory adversary => WHIG
55 Down: __ de' Medici, first de facto Lord of Florence => COSIMO
58 Down: Berry in a bowl => ACAI
60 Down: Garlic genus => ALLIUM
62 Down: Get plastered => TOPE
65 Down: Piedmont bubbly => ASTI
66 Down: Classic U.K. sports cars => MGS
68 Down: Prepare, as beans => SOAK
71 Down: Fett in The Mandalorian => BOBA
72 Down: De __: again => NOVO
73 Down: Stain => STIGMA
76 Down: Short on iron, maybe => ANEMIC
79 Down: Serf of Sparta => HELOT
82 Down: Ruckus => ADO
83 Down: Cap with a pompon => TAM
84 Down: Convened in => METAT
88 Down: Idea that spreads in a culture => MEME
90 Down: First Lady of Song => ELLA
93 Down: Entrance porch => STOOP
94 Down: Teen dystopian novel narrator => KATNISS
96 Down: Hanukkah top => DREIDEL
98 Down: Duchamp, for one => DADAIST
100 Down: CD precursors => LPS
101 Down: Lets out, say => ALTERS
103 Down: Channel changer => REMOTE
104 Down: Kind of pig that's not a pig => GUINEA
105 Down: They can be tricky to run into => EXES
106 Down: Daybreaks => DAWNS
107 Down: Foil relatives => EPEES
108 Down: Putting __ => GREEN
109 Down: Designer Ashley => OLSEN
110 Down: Like some cornered kings => MATED
111 Down: You know the __ => DRILL
116 Down: 90-Down's improv => SCAT
119 Down: Just make, with out => EKE
121 Down: Good name, briefly => REP
122 Down: Star Wars nickname => ANI
123 Down: German Alas! => ACH
124 Down: __ the line => TOE

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This crossword has 65 across clues and 76 down clues. In total 141 clues are solved in the section above.
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