Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: State with conviction => ASSERT
7 Across: Adventurous => BOLD
11 Across: Hit the slopes => SKI
14 Across: Less abundant => SPARER
15 Across: Purple berry from Brazilian palms => ACAI
16 Across: Midmorning hour => TEN
17 Across: State that's an archipelago => HAWAII
18 Across: Went on and on => YAMMERED
20 Across: Teatime treat topped with shaved ice? => SNOCONESCONE
22 Across: Bistro => CAFE
25 Across: Spanish article => UNA
26 Across: Wind quintet wind => OBOE
27 Across: Pub order => ALE
28 Across: Played the part of => ACTEDAS
32 Across: Put a stop to => END
33 Across: Feature of King Arthur's court? => NOTABLETABLE
36 Across: Buffet fuel => STERNO
37 Across: Farfalle shape => BOWTIE
41 Across: Gaggle native to northern Italy? => GENOESEGEESE
45 Across: Augment with superfluous verbiage => PAD
48 Across: Runs again => REPLAYS
49 Across: It's __ good => ALL
50 Across: Biblical land west of Nod => EDEN
52 Across: Part of t.i.d., on an Rx => TER
53 Across: Lover of Aphrodite => ARES
54 Across: Trainee's bad habits? => NOVICESVICES
59 Across: Microscope blobs => PROTOZOA
60 Across: Excuses => ALIBIS
64 Across: Folk singer DiFranco => ANI
65 Across: Champagne designation => BRUT
66 Across: That's it for me! => IMDONE
67 Across: Drug in Michael Pollan's How to Change Your Mind => LSD
68 Across: Feed adequately => SATE
69 Across: Find another way out sign and a feature of four answers in this puzzle => NOEXIT

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Tennis star Barty who announced her retirement in 2022, familiarly => ASH
2 Down: Day __ => SPA
3 Down: Adage => SAW
4 Down: Wipe out => ERASE
5 Down: Halter attachment => REIN
6 Down: Half a sextet => TRIO
7 Down: Rifle attachment => BAYONET
8 Down: Anthem with the line The True North strong and free => OCANADA
9 Down: Fabric with metallic threads => LAME
10 Down: Turns down => DIMS
11 Down: Flashing light => STROBE
12 Down: Heavily into => KEENON
13 Down: No doubt => INDEED
19 Down: Prefix with friendly => ECO
21 Down: Adorable => CUTE
22 Down: Some recyclables => CANS
23 Down: Much => ALOT
24 Down: Big party => FETE
28 Down: Doubleday incorrectly credited with inventing baseball => ABNER
29 Down: Knockoff => CLONE
30 Down: Westminster landmark => ABBEY
31 Down: Tedious journeys => SLOGS
34 Down: Bol. neighbor => ARG
35 Down: Short-horned bighorn => EWE
38 Down: Hot streak => TEAR
39 Down: Land in the water => ISLE
40 Down: Slithery fish => EELS
42 Down: Chooses not to participate => OPTSOUT
43 Down: Raise => ELEVATE
44 Down: South Asian garb => SARI
45 Down: Epistolary friend => PENPAL
46 Down: Festoons => ADORNS
47 Down: Without, with of => DEVOID
51 Down: Minor issue => NIT
53 Down: Out of the way => ASIDE
55 Down: Picnic discards => COBS
56 Down: The Snowy Day Caldecott winner __ Jack Keats => EZRA
57 Down: Adam's eldest => CAIN
58 Down: Red Muppet with a pet goldfish named Dorothy => ELMO
61 Down: Amazon.com delivery => BOX
62 Down: Suffix on some pasta names => INI
63 Down: Good to go => SET

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This crossword has 34 across clues and 43 down clues. In total 77 clues are solved in the section above.
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