Crossword Answers For: Monday, July 4, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Remind repeatedly => NAG
4 Across: Girl __ Cookies => SCOUT
9 Across: Journalist Swisher => KARA
13 Across: My man! => BRO
14 Across: Alpha __ Alpha sorority => KAPPA
15 Across: Lubricated => OILED
16 Across: Half-__: rhyming coffee order => CAF
17 Across: Closing line after presenting an argument => IRESTMYCASE
19 Across: Elsie the Cow's dairy brand => BORDEN
21 Across: Questions welcome => ASKME
22 Across: Ireland, to the Irish => EIRE
23 Across: The Dancing Class painter Edgar => DEGAS
26 Across: Cedar Rapids state => IOWA
28 Across: Nebula Award genre => SCIFI
30 Across: One way to get caught => REDHANDED
32 Across: Silky fabrics => SATINS
34 Across: Island home of the Hana Highway => MAUI
35 Across: Magazine VIPs => EDS
36 Across: Pinches pennies => SCRIMPS
38 Across: Now I get it! => AHA
41 Across: Holier-__-thou => THAN
42 Across: Scheduled => SLATED
47 Across: North American evergreen => BALSAMFIR
50 Across: Say I do without the ado => ELOPE
51 Across: Quaint once => ERST
52 Across: Lets up => EASES
54 Across: __ and proper => PRIM
55 Across: Fatherly nickname => POPPA
57 Across: Hide-and-seek hideout => CLOSET
59 Across: Fourth of July noisemaker ... and the function of the black squares in lines 3, 6, and 10 => FIRECRACKER
62 Across: That hurt! => OOF
64 Across: Future DAs' exams => LSATS
65 Across: Member-owned grocery stores => COOPS
66 Across: Actress Thurman => UMA
67 Across: Eclectic online digest => UTNE
68 Across: Arizona's __ National Forest => TONTO
69 Across: __-Mex cuisine => TEX

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: This Is Us TV network => NBC
2 Down: Coffee bean variety => ARABICA
3 Down: Pursue your dream! => GOFORIT
4 Down: Slide on an icy road => SKID
5 Down: Was concerned => CARED
6 Down: First game of the season => OPENER
7 Down: Emotional highs => UPS
8 Down: Body ink, for short => TAT
9 Down: Begin to take effect, as medicine => KICKIN
10 Down: Dessert menu phrase => ALAMODE
11 Down: Mended for a second time => RESEWED
12 Down: Citrus drink suffix => ADE
15 Down: Yiddish laments => OYS
18 Down: Songs made by mixing two songs => MASHUPS
20 Down: Mortgage adjustment, for short => REFI
22 Down: Twisty letter => ESS
24 Down: Some spring babies => GEMINIS
25 Down: Driver at the Oscars => ADAM
27 Down: Commercials => ADS
29 Down: Lead-in to gram in social media => INSTA
31 Down: Ideological gap in Congress => AISLE
33 Down: Bagel spread => SCHMEAR
37 Down: Nadal of tennis, familiarly => RAFA
38 Down: Actor Vigoda => ABE
39 Down: Plucky member of an orchestra? => HARPIST
40 Down: Losing candidate => ALSORAN
43 Down: European peaks => ALPS
44 Down: Left in a big hurry => TOREOUT
45 Down: Perfect example => EPITOME
46 Down: Rep.'s opponent => DEM
48 Down: Tampa Bay city, familiarly => STPETE
49 Down: __ with: take into consideration => RECKON
53 Down: Was out => SLEPT
56 Down: Some HP products => PCS
58 Down: In that neighborhood phrase => ORSO
59 Down: Wintertime bug => FLU
60 Down: Do something => ACT
61 Down: Dove sound => COO
63 Down: Number on older business cards => FAX

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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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