Crossword Answers For: Monday, August 8, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Chocolate dogs => LABS
5 Across: Culinary plants => HERBS
10 Across: Ready for my cat treat! => MEOW
14 Across: Zone => AREA
15 Across: Prefix with -phobia => AGORA
16 Across: Surfer's swell => WAVE
17 Across: The Great Pottery Throw Down material => CLAY
18 Across: Tag player's cry => NOTIT
19 Across: State firmly => AVER
20 Across: *I can't capture how amazing that was! => YOUHADTOBETHERE
23 Across: Form 1040 org. => IRS
24 Across: Smell awful => REEK
25 Across: Museum-funding org. => NEA
28 Across: College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa => COE
30 Across: Doze => NODOFF
35 Across: *Fallible in very ordinary ways => ONLYHUMAN
39 Across: Enjoy with relish => SAVOR
40 Across: Country star McEntire => REBA
41 Across: Divided island of Southeast Asia => TIMOR
43 Across: Actress Hatcher => TERI
44 Across: With sincerity => TRULY
46 Across: *Spend extravagantly => LIVELARGE
48 Across: Household skills class, for short => HOMEEC
50 Across: That's __-brainer! => ANO
51 Across: Kristen's The Good Place co-star => TED
52 Across: Mean Girls screenwriter Fey => TINA
55 Across: Egg cells => OVA
57 Across: *Very rarely => ONCEINABLUEMOON
65 Across: Winter fabric => WOOL
66 Across: Water from France => EVIAN
67 Across: What fun! => WHEE
68 Across: Periods of time => ERAS
69 Across: First responder => MEDIC
70 Across: Lively, in mus. => ANIM
71 Across: URL destination => SITE
72 Across: Coeur d'__, Idaho => ALENE
73 Across: Carpe diem acronym spelled out by the starts of the answers to the starred clues => YOLO

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Full of frills => LACY
2 Down: Alice's Restaurant singer Guthrie => ARLO
3 Down: Sweetheart => BEAU
4 Down: Greet casually, with to => SAYHI
5 Down: Distributes, as flyers => HANDSOUT
6 Down: Grand slam earned by Jennifer Hudson, for short => EGOT
7 Down: Piece in a LEGO helicopter set => ROTOR
8 Down: Illegal payoff => BRIBE
9 Down: Shiny fabric => SATEEN
10 Down: Kisses, dahling => MWAH
11 Down: Gutter locale => EAVE
12 Down: Eggs __ easy => OVER
13 Down: Used to be => WERE
21 Down: Curved part of a foot => ARCH
22 Down: Boxing ref's calls => TKOS
25 Down: Toward the Arctic Circle => NORTH
26 Down: Month before febrero => ENERO
27 Down: Photo book => ALBUM
29 Down: Czech track legend Zátopek => EMIL
31 Down: Spreadsheet input => DATA
32 Down: Out in the open => OVERT
33 Down: Make a fake of => FORGE
34 Down: Like tempura => FRIED
36 Down: Ivy League school in Connecticut => YALE
37 Down: __ dreaming? => AMI
38 Down: __ Scotia => NOVA
42 Down: Give up formally => RENOUNCE
45 Down: Himalayan Bigfoot => YETI
47 Down: Rom-com subject => LOVE
49 Down: Movie house => CINEMA
53 Down: __ orange => NAVEL
54 Down: Put up with => ABIDE
56 Down: Multilevel marketing giant => AMWAY
57 Down: Has bills to pay => OWES
58 Down: Edible seaweed => NORI
59 Down: Parka, e.g. => COAT
60 Down: Alternatively => ELSE
61 Down: Reclined => LAIN
62 Down: Dismayed cry => OHNO
63 Down: Trompe l'__: optical illusion => OEIL
64 Down: Missing fish in a Pixar film => NEMO

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This crossword has 37 across clues and 42 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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