Crossword Answers For: Saturday, March 26, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Scholarly titles, briefly => DRS
4 Across: Certain cephalopods => OCTOPI
10 Across: Spaghetti strap top => CAMI
14 Across: Please tell me that didn't happen! => YOUDIDWHAT
16 Across: Rights activist Clooney => AMAL
17 Across: Banishing acts => EXPULSIONS
18 Across: Choice => WILL
19 Across: Strategically placed whoopee cushion, say => JAPE
20 Across: Waters down => THINS
22 Across: Canine greeting => WAG
23 Across: About half the weight of an average car => ONETON
26 Across: Request for a distraction => COVERME
28 Across: Flower plot => BED
29 Across: Vulgar => LEWD
32 Across: Hightail it => BUGOUT
33 Across: King nicknamed Longshanks => EDWARDI
35 Across: Pro fighter => ANTI
36 Across: Cyborg detective of TV and film => INSPECTORGADGET
40 Across: Formal denial => NOTI
41 Across: Email attention-getters => ATSIGNS
42 Across: Shim, for example => SPACER
44 Across: Slant => SPIN
45 Across: Saw from behind? => WAS
48 Across: Most charged => TENSEST
50 Across: Take a chill pill => EASEUP
52 Across: Include => ADD
53 Across: Popular tech service => GMAIL
56 Across: Goddess credited in a Milky Way origin account => HERA
57 Across: Stat in standings => LOSS
59 Across: Smallest Central American country => ELSALVADOR
62 Across: Job under the hood => LUBE
63 Across: Ones who see what you mean => LIPREADERS
64 Across: Come Sail Away rock band => STYX
65 Across: Applies, as flattery => LAYSON
66 Across: Nanjiani's The Lovebirds co-star => RAE

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Going platinum, maybe => DYEJOB
2 Down: Hunger memoirist __ Gay => ROXANE
3 Down: Ate dinner => SUPPED
4 Down: Massage therapist's supply => OIL
5 Down: Vinyl successors => CDS
6 Down: Buffoon => TWIT
7 Down: Cry from one who knows the answer => OHOH
8 Down: Near-the-deadline response, at times => PANIC
9 Down: Whatevs => ITSNOBIGGIE
10 Down: Farm country avian cry => CAW
11 Down: You don't doubt me, do you? => AMIWRONG
12 Down: Husky cousin => MALAMUTE
13 Down: Doorbell response => ILLGETIT
15 Down: Song one can't perform? => DUET
21 Down: Dept. in a Law & Order spin-off => SVU
24 Down: Shoppe name word => OLDE
25 Down: It can be faked with air freshener => NEWCARSMELL
27 Down: My heavens! => EGADS
30 Down: Power measure => WATT
31 Down: Refuse => DROSS
33 Down: Paradise Lost et al. => EPICS
34 Down: __ coffee => DRIP
36 Down: Puts on the hard drive => INSTALLS
37 Down: Left in disgust or fear, slangily => NOPEDOUT
38 Down: Is ready to act => STANDSBY
39 Down: Oscar winner Paquin => ANNA
43 Down: Brain scan inits. => EEG
45 Down: Garden tool => WEEDER
46 Down: Northern sky sight => AURORA
47 Down: Minimalist => SPARSE
49 Down: Shire of Rocky => TALIA
51 Down: Herring type => SHAD
54 Down: Road game => ISPY
55 Down: Metallica drummer Ulrich => LARS
58 Down: Census checkbox => SEX
60 Down: Cancer follower => LEO
61 Down: Soccer mom's usual ride => VAN

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This crossword has 35 across clues and 38 down clues. In total 73 clues are solved in the section above.
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