Crossword Answers For: Friday, May 6, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Flows back => EBBS
5 Across: Sci. major => BIO
8 Across: Fisher of Wedding Crashers => ISLA
12 Across: Eight or nine on the Beaufort scale => GALE
13 Across: Twinge => PANG
14 Across: Hijab and naqib, e.g. => VEILS
16 Across: NVS => GREENEYED
18 Across: Like Keebler's animated bakers => ELFIN
19 Across: Daze => STUPOR
20 Across: Serpentine fish => EEL
22 Across: Toy company with theme parks => LEGO
23 Across: TDS => MINDNUMBING
26 Across: Bound => JUMP
30 Across: Island chain => LEI
31 Across: Parts of an island chain => CAYS
32 Across: Bagel flavor => ONION
34 Across: Part of a flight => STAIR
36 Across: Steve Carell voice role => GRU
39 Across: IC => DISTANT
41 Across: MT => VACUOUS
43 Across: __ been a while! => ITS
44 Across: Place to have a ball? => DISCO
46 Across: Smog element => OZONE
47 Across: Sweeping => EPIC
49 Across: Olive extract => OIL
51 Across: Some Neruda poems => ODES
52 Across: DVS => UNDERHANDED
56 Across: Costa __ => RICA
57 Across: Pull the plug on => END
58 Across: Top 10 U2 song from Rattle and Hum => DESIRE
63 Across: High-five sounds => SLAPS
65 Across: ODS => JUSTAWFUL
67 Across: Totally fine => ALLOK
68 Across: Cuatro y cuatro => OCHO
69 Across: Resale warning => ASIS
70 Across: Betsy's Wedding writer/director => ALDA
71 Across: Sporty truck, briefly => UTE
72 Across: Zero => NONE

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: What some layers cover => EGGS
2 Down: Toon boy known for chalkboard gags => BART
3 Down: Flag couleur => BLEU
4 Down: Flow slowly => SEEP
5 Down: __ leaf => BAY
6 Down: This isn't optional! => INEEDIT
7 Down: Nash who rhymed Bronx and thonx => OGDEN
8 Down: First-person contraction => IVE
9 Down: Date stamp => SELLBY
10 Down: Apparel company with a smiling stick-figure icon => LIFEISGOOD
11 Down: Set straight => ALIGN
13 Down: Grave danger => PERIL
15 Down: Love thy neighbour, say? => SNOG
17 Down: Snarfing sound => NOM
21 Down: Saint __: only country named for a woman => LUCIA
24 Down: Sticky places? => NESTS
25 Down: Venice's Piazza San __ => MARCO
26 Down: Novelist Picoult => JODI
27 Down: Peck, e.g. => UNIT
28 Down: Notification while in silent mode, perhaps => MISSEDCALL
29 Down: Cauldron => POT
33 Down: Low point => NADIR
35 Down: Skirt => AVOID
37 Down: Mythological character? => RUNE
38 Down: Applications => USES
40 Down: __ market => NICHE
42 Down: Aduba of In Treatment => UZO
45 Down: Manage => CONDUCT
48 Down: Online grocer with green delivery trucks => PEAPOD
50 Down: Resulted in => LEDTO
52 Down: __ Major => URSA
53 Down: Wafer brand => NILLA
54 Down: Short-necked pear => ANJOU
55 Down: Snowfall law gp. => DEA
59 Down: Graceful bird => SWAN
60 Down: Assuming that's the case ... => IFSO
61 Down: Mess up => RUIN
62 Down: Choice word => ELSE
64 Down: Genre with Jamaican roots => SKA
66 Down: __/her pronouns => SHE

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This crossword has 38 across clues and 41 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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