Crossword Answers For: Friday, March 25, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Earth, for one => ORB
4 Across: Dred Scott decision Chief Justice => TANEY
9 Across: Leg section => CALF
13 Across: Two-digit sign => VEE
14 Across: Thrifty to begin with? => ECONO
15 Across: Central Plains tribe => OTOE
16 Across: __ la vie => CEST
17 Across: *Guide for Smithsonian visitors, say => MUSEUMDENT
19 Across: Food scrap => ORT
20 Across: Hardly libertine => PRIM
21 Across: Pithy saying => ADAGE
22 Across: *Ken Burns specialty => DUMENTARYFILM
26 Across: Fairy tale figures => GNOMES
27 Across: Mother __ => LODE
28 Across: Money with hits => EDDIE
29 Across: Retreats => LAIRS
31 Across: Word with bonds or games => WAR
34 Across: Line holder => REEL
35 Across: Barely detectable => FAINT
36 Across: Tiny particle => MOTE
37 Across: Future H.S. grads, probably => SRS
38 Across: Volcanic eruption sight => PLUME
39 Across: Nested supermarket array => CARTS
40 Across: Nana => GRAN
41 Across: Amen to that! => SOTRUE
42 Across: *Southeast Asian colonial region dismantled in 1954 => FRENCHINDHINA
45 Across: Earth's volume? => ATLAS
47 Across: Mandlikova of '80s tennis => HANA
48 Across: Mexican pinch? => SEL
49 Across: Classic Looney Tunes tagline offering some direction in solving the starred clues => WHATSUPDOC
51 Across: Office figure => BOSS
52 Across: Legends and such => LORE
53 Across: Cloth-dyeing method => BATIK
54 Across: Pro using a siren, perhaps => EMT
55 Across: Went after, in a way => SUED
56 Across: Objects of worship => IDOLS
57 Across: Earth opening? => GEO

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: With 3-Down, sportsbook option based on the final score => OVERUNDER
2 Down: Game system turnoff options => RESTMODES
3 Down: See 1-Down => BET
4 Down: What a siren does => TEMPTS
5 Down: Lexus competitor => ACURA
6 Down: Polite denial => NOSIR
7 Down: Combat demarcation point => ENEMYLINE
8 Down: __ busy? => YOU
9 Down: Indulge => CODDLE
10 Down: Starting players => ATEAM
11 Down: Sleep-inducing, maybe, as a lecture => LONG
12 Down: Fancy party => FETE
16 Down: Eccentric old guys => CODGERS
18 Down: Downton Abbey personnel => MAIDS
23 Down: Man's name that becomes a measurement when one letter is moved => EMIL
24 Down: Once called => NEE
25 Down: The Alamo, e.g. => FORT
29 Down: Starting point of many modern missions => LAUNCHPAD
30 Down: Intention => AIM
31 Down: Unsettling => WORRISOME
32 Down: Puts in sync with => ATTUNESTO
33 Down: Zips again, as a Ziploc bag => RESEALS
35 Down: Rich dessert => FLAN
36 Down: Subject with shapes => MATH
38 Down: First Amendment concern => PRESS
39 Down: Fish-and-chips fish => COD
40 Down: Like Romano, often => GRATED
41 Down: Chips, say => SNACKS
42 Down: Emergency device => FLARE
43 Down: Couldn't not => HADTO
44 Down: How tuna may be packed => INOIL
45 Down: Hole makers => AWLS
46 Down: O Julius Caesar, __ art mighty yet!: Brutus => THOU
50 Down: Where, to Brutus => UBI
51 Down: Entreat => BEG

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This crossword has 37 across clues and 36 down clues. In total 73 clues are solved in the section above.
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