Crossword Answers For: Thursday, March 31, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Day __ => SPA
4 Across: Door support => JAMB
8 Across: Keep busy => OCCUPY
14 Across: China shop threat => OAF
15 Across: Native Nebraskan => OTOE
16 Across: Newcomer => ROOKIE
17 Across: Red crawler, perhaps => ANT
18 Across: Patient shopper's reward => SALE
19 Across: Bays, e.g. => INLETS
20 Across: Only way to tackle a 57-Across => PIECEBYPIECE
23 Across: Paper bit => SCRAP
24 Across: __ only: sale caveat => ONETIME
28 Across: Question muttered while tackling a 57-Across => WHYWONTITFIT
32 Across: Modern cash source => ATM
35 Across: Barely flow => SEEP
36 Across: Back nine opener => TENTH
37 Across: Gunk => GOO
38 Across: Jackson Hole's county => TETON
41 Across: Salem's lot?: Abbr. => ORE
42 Across: Frottage artist Max => ERNST
45 Across: 13-Downs heard in pairs => IDOS
47 Across: Contacts list no. => TEL
48 Across: Popular theme for 57-Acrosses => NATURESCENES
52 Across: Aptly named Music From Big Pink group => THEBAND
53 Across: Enlighten => TEACH
57 Across: Challenge commercialized by mapmaker John Spilsbury circa 1760 => JIGSAWPUZZLE
61 Across: Novelist Graham => GREENE
64 Across: Sky-high stunt => LOOP
65 Across: Shade on a beach => TAN
66 Across: Amazon delivery => PARCEL
67 Across: About => ORSO
68 Across: PC rescue key => ESC
69 Across: Outpourings => SPATES
70 Across: First-time biology student, usually => TEEN
71 Across: Friend of Fidel => CHE

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Cakes not for eating => SOAPS
2 Down: Kind of button or room => PANIC
3 Down: Time-telling word => AFTER
4 Down: Margaret of The Real Housewives of New Jersey => JOSEPHS
5 Down: Run __ => ATAB
6 Down: Holy __! => MOLY
7 Down: Car talk? => BEEP
8 Down: Familiarize => ORIENT
9 Down: Downfall for Narcissus => CONCEIT
10 Down: Gigi novelist => COLETTE
11 Down: Usually four-stringed instrument => UKE
12 Down: Peach center => PIT
13 Down: Without a doubt => YES
21 Down: Crow's cry => CAW
22 Down: Charged particle => ION
25 Down: __ for You: Dylan song to his first wife => IFNOT
26 Down: British bishop's headdress => MITRE
27 Down: I Love Lucy role => ETHEL
29 Down: Up to now => YET
30 Down: Apt adjective for Stuart Little => WEE
31 Down: Eye-related => OPTIC
32 Down: CIA worker => AGENT
33 Down: Synagogue scroll => TORAH
34 Down: Three-card con => MONTE
39 Down: Literary homage => ODE
40 Down: Prefix with binary => NON
43 Down: Sentence focus, grammatically => SUBJECT
44 Down: Newcomer => TRAINEE
46 Down: Attack => SETUPON
49 Down: Marx co-author => ENGELS
50 Down: '60s protest gp. => SDS
51 Down: Word with who or me => SEZ
54 Down: Montezuma follower => AZTEC
55 Down: Fail to match => CLASH
56 Down: Therefore => HENCE
58 Down: Dozens and dozens => ALOT
59 Down: Eroded => WORE
60 Down: The Thinker has an iconic one => POSE
61 Down: Traveler's aid, briefly => GPS
62 Down: Knock hard => RAP
63 Down: Time capsule time => ERA

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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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