Crossword Answers For: Monday, May 30, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Dart around like a hummingbird => FLIT
5 Across: Like 9-Across that has lost its fizz => FLAT
9 Across: Dark drink with fizz => COLA
13 Across: Easier to write neatly on, probably => LINED
15 Across: Like tinned sardines => OILY
16 Across: Las Vegas WNBA team => ACES
17 Across: Drive Happy car rental company => ALAMO
18 Across: Harvest => REAP
19 Across: School gps. => PTAS
20 Across: *Mahalia Jackson's genre => GOSPELMUSIC
23 Across: Poem of praise => ODE
24 Across: Passing actress Thompson => TESSA
25 Across: Friendly cartoon ghost => CASPER
27 Across: Abbr. between names => AKA
29 Across: *Colorful top with a tropical design => ALOHASHIRT
32 Across: Contributor with deep pockets => FATCAT
35 Across: Esteem => VALUE
36 Across: Layers on tall wedding cakes => TIERS
37 Across: Orchestra __ => PIT
38 Across: Greek storyteller who coined sour grapes => AESOP
42 Across: German steel city => ESSEN
44 Across: Current influence on the weather? => ELNINO
45 Across: *Trial figure who can give a firsthand account => EYEWITNESS
49 Across: __ Is a Woman: Ariana Grande song => GOD
50 Across: Hair gel alternative => MOUSSE
51 Across: Joyous song => PAEAN
54 Across: Wrinkly pup => PUG
55 Across: Nature lovers, and what the answers to the starred clues literally are => TREEHUGGERS
60 Across: Actor Guinness => ALEC
62 Across: Cathedral section => NAVE
63 Across: Passion => ARDOR
64 Across: Fork prong => TINE
65 Across: Mouse mover => USER
66 Across: Rational believer => DEIST
67 Across: Stiletto, for one => HEEL
68 Across: A __ formality => MERE
69 Across: One-named singer from County Donegal => ENYA

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Mark as important => FLAG
2 Down: __ & Stitch => LILO
3 Down: Too worked up to relax => INASTATE
4 Down: City between Phoenix and Mesa => TEMPE
5 Down: Like most proms => FORMAL
6 Down: In __ of => LIEU
7 Down: Word of sorrow => ALAS
8 Down: You're so predictable => TYPICAL
9 Down: Mushroom top => CAP
10 Down: Sea creatures with eight arms => OCTOPI
11 Down: Front-runner => LEADER
12 Down: Stand up for (oneself) => ASSERT
14 Down: Female deer => DOES
21 Down: Aspiring atty.'s exam => LSAT
22 Down: Unlike most proms => CASUAL
26 Down: High shine => SHEEN
27 Down: To the rear, at sea => AFT
28 Down: Cobra __: Netflix series based on The Karate Kid => KAI
30 Down: Just like ewe => OVINE
31 Down: Beret, e.g. => HAT
33 Down: Rowing teams => CREWS
34 Down: Pass that leads to a successful basket => ASSIST
37 Down: Signing-ceremony memento => PEN
39 Down: Entered a username, say => SIGNEDIN
40 Down: Singer Yoko => ONO
41 Down: Okra unit => POD
43 Down: Breastbone => STERNUM
44 Down: Biblical twin => ESAU
45 Down: One who feels another's pain => EMPATH
46 Down: That's not true! => YOULIE
47 Down: Oregon city on the Willamette => EUGENE
48 Down: Orb => SPHERE
52 Down: My stars! => EGAD
53 Down: Match, as subjects and verbs => AGREE
56 Down: Alleviate => EASE
57 Down: Don't you __ stop!? => EVER
58 Down: Pinkish => ROSY
59 Down: Spanish miss: Abbr. => SRTA
61 Down: Cartoon frame => CEL

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This crossword has 37 across clues and 40 down clues. In total 77 clues are solved in the section above.
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