Crossword Answers For: Saturday, May 21, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Support that's often rigged => MAST
5 Across: Role, metaphorically => HAT
8 Across: Pair sharing a => BFFS
12 Across: Instruments in some Gershwin works => ALTOSAXES
15 Across: I don't mind __ / Except as meals. / And the way they feels: Nash => EELS
16 Across: Tabula rasa => CLEANSLATE
18 Across: Joie de vivre => ELAN
19 Across: Susan who wrote, The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth => SONTAG
20 Across: Sources of fleeting joy? => YACHTS
22 Across: Wrong hand, silly => YOUROTHERRIGHT
26 Across: Active front? => RETRO
27 Across: Postulant => NOVICE
28 Across: Grace period? => AMEN
31 Across: Toodles! => TATA
33 Across: Tree on the Lebanese flag => CEDAR
34 Across: Latin law => LEX
35 Across: Place to get high and pass out? => TOPBUNK
37 Across: Rx writers, often => DRS
38 Across: Device that requires spin control => LATHE
40 Across: Inoculation fluids => SERA
41 Across: Literary alter ego => HYDE
42 Across: Self-consoling sigh => ITRIED
44 Across: Animal in Aboriginal cave paintings => DINGO
46 Across: Line on a handwriting test => NEATNESSCOUNTS
50 Across: One of two tarot card groups => ARCANA
51 Across: Went viral => BLEWUP
53 Across: State whose road signs feature 8-Downs => UTAH
54 Across: Academic term => SCHOOLYEAR
57 Across: Nice parent => MERE
58 Across: Dessert with a high point => SOFTSERVE
59 Across: Son of Hera => ARES
60 Across: GRE org. => ETS
61 Across: Like a fly ball to the warning track => DEEP

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Safari runners => MACS
2 Down: Heterogenous union => ALLOY
3 Down: One working with a dictator => STENO
4 Down: Perfectly => TOATURN
5 Down: Lacks options => HASGOTTO
6 Down: Rose up on stage => AXL
7 Down: Leaves in a pot => TEA
8 Down: Symbol of 53-Across => BEEHIVE
9 Down: Was awash in euphoria => FELTGIDDY
10 Down: Study aid => FLASHCARD
11 Down: Three-part fig. => SSN
13 Down: Bag => SNARE
14 Down: Eyelid issue => STYE
17 Down: Make dough or bread => EARN
21 Down: Earthenware vessel => CROCK
23 Down: Bags => TRAPS
24 Down: Breeding grounds => HOTBEDS
25 Down: Clipped => TERSE
28 Down: Wiped out => ALLIN
29 Down: One having a cow? => MEATEATER
30 Down: Not well-done in the least => EXTRARARE
32 Down: Derived from gold => AURIC
35 Down: Brandon __: Hilary Swank's Boys Don't Cry role => TEENA
36 Down: Tiny tech powering Iron Man and Black Panther's suits => NANOBOTS
39 Down: Tours of duty => HITCHES
41 Down: Sweet => HONEYED
43 Down: Fox holes => DENS
45 Down: Mine! Mine! Mine! criers in Finding Nemo => GULLS
47 Down: Small pouches => SACS
48 Down: Poetic contraction => TWERE
49 Down: Polished => SUAVE
52 Down: Get set => PREP
53 Down: Actress Thurman => UMA
55 Down: Rowing implement? => HOE
56 Down: Many times o'er => OFT

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This crossword has 33 across clues and 36 down clues. In total 69 clues are solved in the section above.
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