Crossword Answers For: Saturday, August 27, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: File => ARCHIVE
8 Across: Go as low as => STOOPTO
15 Across: Tightens, say => RELACES
16 Across: Observation when Porky leaves => PIGTAIL
17 Across: Ready => ONALERT
18 Across: I'll do it => ALLOWME
19 Across: Pass with a wave? => SAILBY
20 Across: Up to one's eyeballs => INDEEP
21 Across: Street Scene playwright Rice => ELMER
22 Across: Water line? => WAKE
23 Across: D.C. United's first home => RFK
26 Across: Obscures => BEDIMS
28 Across: Belinda Carlisle album with French songs and Irish musicians => VOILA
30 Across: Corkers => BEAUTS
31 Across: Pub freebie => BARNUT
32 Across: Confection that reportedly improves heart health => DARKCHOCOLATE
34 Across: Small tower => TURRET
35 Across: Lots => DOZENS
36 Across: Companion of Dionysus => SATYR
37 Across: Fit => BELONG
38 Across: TY preceder, maybe => PLS
39 Across: Never __ the comments => READ
40 Across: Scoring instructions => TEMPI
44 Across: Saved for later, in a way => TIVOED
47 Across: One of the Istari, in Middle-earth => WIZARD
48 Across: Tinkerer => AMATEUR
50 Across: Disinfectant distilled from needles => PINEOIL
51 Across: Humdinger => RAREGEM
52 Across: Feature of an assured fit => ONESIZE
53 Across: On point => GERMANE
54 Across: Scottish dogs => WESTIES

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Stopped lying? => AROSE
2 Down: __ artery => RENAL
3 Down: Maintain => CLAIM
4 Down: Bruised director => HALLEBERRY
5 Down: Party exercise => ICEBREAKER
6 Down: Rather => VERY
7 Down: Suffix for records => EST
8 Down: Defeats soundly, in sports slang => SPANKS
9 Down: Piñata feature => TILDE
10 Down: Look that causes discomfort => OGLE
11 Down: Member of the Siouan family => OTOE
12 Down: Images on Clemson Tigers merchandise => PAWPRINTS
13 Down: Cook with a lot of Apples? => TIM
14 Down: Shout of support => OLE
20 Down: My goose is cooked => IAMSODEAD
22 Down: Lead-in to draw or hold => WITH
24 Down: Furnace part => FLUE
25 Down: Dennings of 2 Broke Girls => KAT
27 Down: Tear __ => DUCT
28 Down: Midwinter honorees => VALENTINES
29 Down: Grated ingredient in cranberry relish, often => ORANGEZEST
30 Down: MVP of the first two Super Bowls => BARTSTARR
31 Down: Clown whose voice inspired Krusty of The Simpsons => BOZO
32 Down: Binary => DUAL
33 Down: Down __ => COLD
34 Down: One of six in a fl. oz. => TSP
37 Down: Toss a can my way => BEERME
39 Down: City on the Seine => ROUEN
41 Down: Don DeLillo title inspired by an Andy Warhol print series => MAOII
42 Down: Hold dear => PRIZE
43 Down: Runs without moving => IDLES
45 Down: Market unit => ITEM
46 Down: Singer-songwriter Suzanne => VEGA
47 Down: Sideways subject => WINE
48 Down: S.A. country bordering five others => ARG
49 Down: Novelist Rita __ Brown => MAE
50 Down: Sound of a sock => POW

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This crossword has 31 across clues and 38 down clues. In total 69 clues are solved in the section above.
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