Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Danish director von Trier => LARS
5 Across: One of a yardstick's 36 => INCH
9 Across: High waving heather __ stormy blasts bending: E. Brontë => NEATH
14 Across: Actor Baldwin => ALEC
15 Across: Home of the NFL's Saints, informally => NOLA
16 Across: Bert's Muppet buddy => ERNIE
17 Across: Old Italian money => LIRA
18 Across: Do a guard's job => STANDWATCH
20 Across: Addis __ => ABABA
22 Across: Zagreb natives => CROATS
23 Across: Prevail in the race (just barely) => WINBYAHAIR
25 Across: Pitching stats => ERAS
29 Across: Furthermore ... => AND
30 Across: Musical effect involving two quickly played repeated notes => TRILL
31 Across: Lasting emotional injury => SCAR
34 Across: Llama relative => ALPACA
39 Across: Jack Ryan org. => CIA
40 Across: Brace yourself => HOLDONTOYOURHAT
43 Across: QB's concern => INT
44 Across: Food on the farm => FODDER
45 Across: Gas sign in green letters => HESS
46 Across: Laugh at a joke, say => REACT
48 Across: Big Aussie bird => EMU
50 Across: Banks of America's Next Top Model => TYRA
51 Across: Peel out => BURNRUBBER
58 Across: Seaman's Help! => MAYDAY
60 Across: Surname of vintners Ernest and Julio => GALLO
61 Across: Musical conductor ... and what the end of 18-, 23-, 40- or 51-Across can be? => BANDLEADER
65 Across: Hoarse voice => RASP
66 Across: Disney's Little Mermaid => ARIEL
67 Across: Miller __: beer => LITE
68 Across: Soft French cheese => BRIE
69 Across: First AFL-CIO leader George __ => MEANY
70 Across: Unable to find the way => LOST
71 Across: Tourney ranking => SEED

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Calif. legal drama => LALAW
2 Down: Suspect's out => ALIBI
3 Down: Showed over => RERAN
4 Down: Sword sheath => SCABBARD
5 Down: __ and outs: workings => INS
6 Down: Mountain gap => NOTCH
7 Down: Santa __, Calif. => CLARA
8 Down: Vietnam's capital => HANOI
9 Down: Small salamander => NEWT
10 Down: Solution for a pencil error => ERASER
11 Down: Tiny six-legged crawler => ANT
12 Down: It can precede or follow tac => TIC
13 Down: Clever chuckle => HEH
19 Down: __ es Salaam => DAR
21 Down: Author Rand => AYN
24 Down: Hersey's A Bell for __ => ADANO
26 Down: Rolling in francs => RICHE
27 Down: a.k.a. name => ALIAS
28 Down: Blind strips => SLATS
30 Down: Cross-shaped letter => TAU
31 Down: Metaphor in a big gambling loss => SHIRT
32 Down: __ Island, home of the original Nathan's => CONEY
33 Down: I do site => ALTAR
35 Down: Part of LLC: Abbr. => LTD
36 Down: Group of whales => POD
37 Down: Vote of approval => AYE
38 Down: Apple pie maker's device => CORER
41 Down: Poet's many times => OFT
42 Down: Tart-tasting preserve veggies => RHUBARBS
47 Down: Oriole Park at __ Yards => CAMDEN
49 Down: Coffee cup => MUG
51 Down: So long => BYE
52 Down: Arizona politics family name => UDALL
53 Down: Car music source => RADIO
54 Down: Nos in Novgorod => NYETS
55 Down: Play loudly, as a 53-Down => BLARE
56 Down: Commercial cow => ELSIE
57 Down: Lured (in) => ROPED
59 Down: Friend => ALLY
61 Down: Pow! relative => BAM
62 Down: What __ the odds? => ARE
63 Down: Vardalos or Long => NIA
64 Down: IRA part: Abbr. => RET

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This crossword has 35 across clues and 44 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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