Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Works in a park, perhaps => STATUES
8 Across: Chooses => SELECTS
15 Across: City of ancient Greece => CORINTH
16 Across: Steelmaking raw material => IRONORE
17 Across: First part of a quip about climate change => AMINDCONTROLLED
19 Across: Cool beans! => NEATO
20 Across: Cookware purchase => POT
21 Across: Streaming delay => LAG
22 Across: Finale => END
24 Across: Cornish game __ => HEN
26 Across: Abhor => HATE
27 Across: Second part of the quip => AIRDEODORIZER
32 Across: This Is Just My Face: __ Not to Stare: memoir by Gabourey Sidibe => TRY
33 Across: Green, in a way => NEW
34 Across: Hearing organ => EAR
35 Across: 2020 N.L. MVP Freddie => FREEMAN
38 Across: Beverage similar to hard seltzer => ALCOPOP
42 Across: Short lunch? => BLT
43 Across: Form 1099 agcy. => IRS
44 Across: Future flower => BUD
45 Across: Third part of the quip => MAKESSCENTSIF
49 Across: Time for action => DDAY
51 Across: With 58-Down, 2018 Best New Artist Grammy winner => DUA
52 Across: Land north of Den. => NOR
53 Across: Decompose => ROT
54 Across: __ and cheese => MAC
56 Across: Works very hard => TOILS
60 Across: Last part of the quip => YOUTHINKABOUTIT
65 Across: Neither here nor there => ENROUTE
66 Across: Flute played by Zamfir => PANPIPE
67 Across: Confirm, as a password => REENTER
68 Across: Syrup source => TREESAP

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: PC virus check => SCAN
2 Down: Hefty book => TOME
3 Down: Opera solo => ARIA
4 Down: Like some windows => TINTED
5 Down: Brought to ruin => UNDONE
6 Down: The rest is obvious abbr. => ETC
7 Down: Factory => SHOP
8 Down: Minor minder => SITTER
9 Down: To __ is human ... => ERR
10 Down: British lav => LOO
11 Down: Picture that shows more detail: Abbr. => ENL
12 Down: Tall decorative addition around some cakes => COLLAR
13 Down: Spring for lunch => TREAT
14 Down: Swamp plant => SEDGE
18 Down: Ain't gonna happen => NOHOW
23 Down: Was philanthropic => DONATED
25 Down: Leslie of The Naked Gun films => NIELSEN
26 Down: Long lunch? => HERO
27 Down: DOJ branch => ATF
28 Down: Sale rack abbr. => IRR
29 Down: Pumpernickel grain => RYE
30 Down: Animal house => DEN
31 Down: Actor Efron who voices Fred in Scoob! => ZAC
36 Down: Site to do one's bidding => EBAY
37 Down: Letter From Birmingham Jail initials => MLK
38 Down: __ de Triomphe => ARC
39 Down: TV network with pledge drives => PBS
40 Down: Certainement! => OUI
41 Down: Adobe file format => PDF
43 Down: Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing singer Chris => ISAAK
45 Down: Grown-up => MATURE
46 Down: Sting's real last name => SUMNER
47 Down: Zip, nada, zilch => NOTONE
48 Down: Group of traveling performers => TROUPE
49 Down: Appliance that seems to eat socks => DRYER
50 Down: Lorna of literature => DOONE
55 Down: Ship leader: Abbr. => CAPT
57 Down: For sure! => ITIS
58 Down: See 51-Across => LIPA
59 Down: Pedometer unit => STEP
61 Down: Heavy weight => TON
62 Down: Shack => HUT
63 Down: Mineral suffix => ITE
64 Down: Watering hole => BAR

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This crossword has 32 across clues and 45 down clues. In total 77 clues are solved in the section above.
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