Crossword Answers For: Monday, August 22, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Ongoing drama => SAGA
5 Across: Sounds of revelation => AHAS
9 Across: __ bean => FAVA
13 Across: Cereal coveted by a silly rabbit => TRIX
14 Across: Garlic piece => CLOVE
15 Across: Baaing mamas => EWES
16 Across: *Playful semiaquatic mammal => RIVEROTTER
18 Across: Merit => EARN
19 Across: __ the Force, Luke => USE
20 Across: Looked over => EYED
21 Across: Green shade named for a fruit => OLIVE
22 Across: Electric car maker => TESLA
24 Across: *Seafood served on the half shell => RAWOYSTER
27 Across: Flower starter => BUD
28 Across: Thompson of Thor: Love and Thunder => TESSA
29 Across: Parcel of land => TRACT
31 Across: Mammal with elephant and leopard varieties => SEAL
32 Across: Chiding sounds => TSKS
36 Across: *Really get down to the music => ROCKOUT
38 Across: *Floral perfume ingredient => ROSEOIL
40 Across: Black as night => INKY
41 Across: Sail the seven __ => SEAS
43 Across: Spiteful, as gossip => CATTY
44 Across: Baseball Hall of Famer Stengel => CASEY
46 Across: Campfire residue => ASH
47 Across: *Request with a tight timeline => RUSHORDER
51 Across: Broadcast again => REAIR
54 Across: Incredible bargain => STEAL
55 Across: Verdi opera => AIDA
57 Across: Hotel at JFK named for a defunct airline => TWA
58 Across: Turn sharply => VEER
59 Across: *Only the Lonely singer => ROYORBISON
62 Across: Stiffly proper => PRIM
63 Across: Helps in a heist => ABETS
64 Across: Do you __? => MIND
65 Across: Moral lapses => SINS
66 Across: Fail to notice => MISS
67 Across: Miranda of Homeland => OTTO

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Walk like a peacock => STRUT
2 Down: Pop up => ARISE
3 Down: Volunteers in the community one grew up in, say => GIVESBACK
4 Down: Cord cutter? => AXE
5 Down: Take in or let out => ALTER
6 Down: Reason to get all gussied up => HOTDATE
7 Down: __ Maria => AVE
8 Down: Spanish verb similar to estar => SER
9 Down: Is completely comfortable => FEELSATEASE
10 Down: Anticipate => AWAIT
11 Down: Vivacity => VERVE
12 Down: Ed who played Lou Grant => ASNER
14 Down: Playfully shy => COY
17 Down: Share a bedtime story with => READTO
21 Down: Kvetching cries => OYS
23 Down: Magically delicious cereal => LUCKYCHARMS
25 Down: Has on => WEARS
26 Down: Norwegian city with a Viking Ship Museum => OSLO
29 Down: Prefix with athlete => TRI
30 Down: Apollo 13 director Howard => RON
31 Down: Fine equine => STEED
33 Down: Really? There's no more? => SOTHATSIT
34 Down: Tool set => KIT
35 Down: Wily => SLY
37 Down: Cold War initials => USSR
39 Down: Egyptian beetle => SCARAB
42 Down: Long-fingered lemurs of Madagascar => AYEAYES
45 Down: You've got mail ISP => AOL
47 Down: Politely declines, maybe => RSVPS
48 Down: Development sites => UTERI
49 Down: Greet and seat => SEEIN
50 Down: Very funny folks => RIOTS
52 Down: Terse refusal => IWONT
53 Down: Total stranger, or a three-word hint to the answers to the starred clues => RANDO
56 Down: Rx writers, often => DRS
59 Down: Animal logo on a Dodge truck => RAM
60 Down: __-Wan Kenobi => OBI
61 Down: Caveat in a text => IMO

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This crossword has 38 across clues and 39 down clues. In total 77 clues are solved in the section above.
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