Crossword Answers For: Saturday, May 14, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Improve one's class? => SKIPAGRADE
11 Across: Quick => RAPID
16 Across: Alcopop kin => WINECOOLER
17 Across: Bring out => EDUCE
18 Across: Single, but way too flawed => UNDATEABLE
19 Across: Giant => TITAN
20 Across: Polish site => NAIL
21 Across: Git! => SCAT
22 Across: Nucleotide triplet => CODON
23 Across: Test for some srs. => GRE
24 Across: Cena of Peacemaker => JOHN
25 Across: Mariah Carey holiday hit => OHSANTA
27 Across: Resort town named for a native tree => ASPEN
29 Across: Mixed __ => BLESSING
30 Across: Full of nervous energy => RESTLESS
33 Across: The Rotters' Club novelist Jonathan => COE
34 Across: Current events TikTok segment that V Spehar broadcasts from their office floor => UNDERTHEDESKNEWS
39 Across: Milne hopper => ROO
40 Across: Famished => RAVENOUS
41 Across: Holiness => SANCTITY
44 Across: Étouffée option => PRAWN
47 Across: Arctic wear => ANORAKS
48 Across: 1856 Stowe novel => DRED
50 Across: Umbrella spoke => RIB
52 Across: Word in British placenames => SHIRE
53 Across: Natural satellite => MOON
54 Across: Have it your way => FINE
55 Across: Dong-hyuk who created Squid Game => HWANG
56 Across: Can I have a bit more time? => TENMINUTES
58 Across: Make one => MERGE
59 Across: Wheelie bike feature => BANANASEAT
60 Across: Mascot whose weight is listed as Top Heavy => MRMET
61 Across: Challenges for a translator, perhaps => SLANGTERMS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Chased a pitch => SWUNG
2 Down: Kwanzaa candelabra => KINARA
3 Down: West __ => INDIES
4 Down: Toll => PEAL
5 Down: Do one's part? => ACT
6 Down: Walks out, say => GOESONSTRIKE
7 Down: Laurel and Hardy producer => ROACH
8 Down: First British martyr => ALBAN
9 Down: Scapula neighbor, for short => DELT
10 Down: Long start, once => ERE
11 Down: Throw again => RETOSS
12 Down: Brand whose website has a 3 Stripe Life section => ADIDAS
13 Down: Table => PUTONICE
14 Down: Maybe later => ICANTNOW
15 Down: Cozy spot => DEN
22 Down: Queen's gambit, for one => CHESSOPENING
24 Down: Raspberry => JEER
25 Down: Elizabeth who plays Scarlet Witch in the MCU => OLSEN
26 Down: Improves, maybe => AGES
28 Down: Tense beginning? => PRE
29 Down: Eliot title hero => BEDE
31 Down: __ how I roll => THATS
32 Down: Tax => LEVY
34 Down: Bear up? => URSA
35 Down: It went straight to voice mail => NOANSWER
36 Down: 2014 memoir subtitled Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery => DONOHARM
37 Down: Western Asia native => KURD
38 Down: Govt. cybersecurity monitor => NSA
42 Down: [I'm so uncomfortable right now] => CRINGE
43 Down: Retailer with a RedCard credit card => TARGET
45 Down: Bell hooks, for one => WRITER
46 Down: Time slot with talk shows => NINEAM
48 Down: Part of DKNY => DONNA
49 Down: Succession sibling => ROMAN
51 Down: Tops => BESTS
53 Down: Happy __ => MEAL
54 Down: Make one => FUSE
55 Down: Let me think ... => HMM
56 Down: Full Frontal network => TBS
57 Down: D.C. player => NAT

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This crossword has 33 across clues and 41 down clues. In total 74 clues are solved in the section above.
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