Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Manicurist's tool => FILE
5 Across: Windex target => PANE
9 Across: Blackjack stack => CHIPS
14 Across: Black Card co. => AMEX
15 Across: Hey, sailor! => AHOY
16 Across: Largest city on the Red River => HANOI
17 Across: *Small Hershey's treats => CHOCOLATEKISSES
20 Across: Some pore minimizers => TONERS
21 Across: Chowder head? => CLAM
22 Across: Outlander cable network => STARZ
23 Across: *Cabbagelike ornamental plant => WHITEKALE
28 Across: Sit for a portrait => POSE
30 Across: More iffy => DODGIER
31 Across: Pool toy => RAFT
34 Across: Orecchiette shape => EAR
36 Across: Henrik whose last play was When We Dead Awaken => IBSEN
37 Across: Tetris shape => ELL
38 Across: *Baker's pan => CAKETIN
41 Across: Mormons, initially => LDS
42 Across: Prom queen topper => TIARA
44 Across: Links standard => PAR
45 Across: Left on a map => WEST
46 Across: Reason for a makeup test => ABSENCE
49 Across: Transmission selection => GEAR
51 Across: *Pedicabs => BIKETAXIS
53 Across: Sacramento team => KINGS
57 Across: Apropos of => ASTO
58 Across: Stuff one's face => PIGOUT
59 Across: Misinterpret, or what is hidden in each of the answers to the starred clues? => TAKETHEWRONGWAY
64 Across: String quartet instrument => VIOLA
65 Across: Get just right => NAIL
66 Across: Old Italian bread? => LIRE
67 Across: Poetry fests => SLAMS
68 Across: General __ chicken => TSOS
69 Across: Pulls the plug on => ENDS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Trivia quiz fodder => FACTS
2 Down: Can we turn on the ceiling fan? => IMHOT
3 Down: Glassheart singer Lewis => LEONA
4 Down: Passage quoted in a book review, say => EXCERPT
5 Down: Buds => PALS
6 Down: That's it! => AHA
7 Down: Top-__ => NOTCH
8 Down: Lens cover => EYELID
9 Down: Added one's opinion => CHIMEDIN
10 Down: Experiences => HAS
11 Down: Some connections => INS
12 Down: Baltimore Ravens mascot named for a writer => POE
13 Down: Mom, to Auntie => SIS
18 Down: Ricelike pasta => ORZO
19 Down: Green Hornet sidekick => KATO
23 Down: Watered-down => WEAK
24 Down: USSR secret service => KGB
25 Down: Flight path? => AISLE
26 Down: City near Manchester => LEEDS
27 Down: Accounting giant __ & Young => ERNST
29 Down: __ salt => SEA
31 Down: Adjust a paragraph setting => RETAB
32 Down: Defensive line? => ALIBI
33 Down: Lab container => FLASK
35 Down: Iron-pumping unit => REP
38 Down: Some Bach creations => CANTATAS
39 Down: Puts a glove on, in a way => TAGS
40 Down: Wrath => IRE
43 Down: Food writer Drummond => REE
45 Down: Squirm => WRIGGLE
47 Down: Ring of Fire singer => CASH
48 Down: Scope => EXTENT
50 Down: Comparable (to) => AKIN
52 Down: Siouan speakers => IOWAS
54 Down: Lose-lose => NOWIN
55 Down: Keep safe => GUARD
56 Down: Ocular woes => STYES
58 Down: D.C. veterans => POLS
59 Down: Sets in a bar => TVS
60 Down: Feel poorly => AIL
61 Down: RVer's stopover => KOA
62 Down: Common name for a tree-lined street => ELM
63 Down: Ipanema's city => RIO

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This crossword has 35 across clues and 44 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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