Crossword Answers For: Sunday, September 18, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Interpretation => SPIN
5 Across: Left on board? => PORT
9 Across: Smartphone array => APPS
13 Across: Church reading => PSALM
18 Across: Falafel bread => PITA
19 Across: Civil rights leader Medgar => EVERS
21 Across: Vault => LEAP
22 Across: Submit for judging => ENTER
23 Across: Bind with a cord => LASH
24 Across: Piece of history => RELIC
25 Across: Gumbo pod => OKRA
26 Across: Lines on GPS displays => ROADS
27 Across: Vague amount => ANY
28 Across: Prompt to a Twister player? => PUTYOURFOOTDOWN
31 Across: Over the speed limit => TOOFAST
33 Across: Glove material => LATEX
34 Across: Half-baked, as a plan => INSANE
37 Across: Impulse => URGE
38 Across: Bursts => POPS
40 Across: Former NBA star Ming => YAO
42 Across: Figs. => NOS
43 Across: Correspond => AGREE
45 Across: Encouragement to a Yahtzee player? => GETTHISSTRAIGHT
50 Across: One in a dory => ROWER
51 Across: Biblical preposition => UNTO
52 Across: Dory's companion => NEMO
53 Across: Mr. & Mrs. Smith co-star => JOLIE
54 Across: Psychology 101 subject => EGO
55 Across: Brief times, briefly => SECS
57 Across: Coarse => RUDE
59 Across: Heavenly octet => PLANETS
61 Across: Benchmark => NORM
63 Across: Salt Fat __ Heat: Samin Nosrat cookbook => ACID
65 Across: Mr. & Mrs. Smith co-star => PITT
67 Across: D'backs, on a sports ticker => ARI
68 Across: Actor Alan who hosts the Clear+Vivid podcast => ALDA
69 Across: Sad request to one's Hangman opponent? => GIVEMEAHAND
72 Across: Microwaves => ZAPS
76 Across: Summertime Sadness singer Lana __ Rey => DEL
78 Across: Equally matched => EVEN
79 Across: Climate change sci. => ECOL
80 Across: Entertainment industry grand slam, for short => EGOT
81 Across: Diminished => RECEDED
85 Across: Vegas calculation => ODDS
87 Across: Arborist's patient => TREE
89 Across: Atmosphere => AIR
90 Across: One way to think => ALOUD
91 Across: Prosecco kin => ASTI
93 Across: Trim, perhaps => EDIT
95 Across: Originate => ARISE
97 Across: Advice to a checkers player? => JUMPATTHECHANCE
100 Across: Connective tissue => SINEW
101 Across: Sports drink suffix => ADE
102 Across: Sculling need => OAR
103 Across: Botanist Gray and actor Butterfield => ASAS
104 Across: Crown array => GEMS
105 Across: __ opener => SEASON
108 Across: Like the River Shannon => IRISH
111 Across: Forced (on) => FOISTED
114 Across: Prayer for a chess player? => GODSAVETHEQUEEN
118 Across: Damage => MAR
119 Across: Geometry surface => PLANE
121 Across: A __ technicality! => MERE
122 Across: Real doozies => LULUS
123 Across: Globetrotter's need => VISA
124 Across: Knuckle or knee => JOINT
125 Across: Prune, before drying => PLUM
126 Across: Singer Ronstadt => LINDA
127 Across: Turn over __ leaf => ANEW
128 Across: Some TVs => SONYS
129 Across: Fed. IDs => SSNS
130 Across: Over => PAST
131 Across: Spill the beans => TELL

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Bug-hitting-the-windshield sound => SPLAT
2 Down: Yamaha with a bench seat => PIANO
3 Down: With 73-Down, assertion to one's Scrabble opponent? => ITSYOURWORD
4 Down: Not gonna happen => NAH
5 Down: Read => PERUSE
6 Down: 1980 Olympics track medalist Steve => OVETT
7 Down: Count (on) => RELY
8 Down: The Jonas Brothers, e.g. => TRIO
9 Down: In flight => ALOFT
10 Down: Black tea => PEKOE
11 Down: Sudden burst of emotion => PAROXYSM
12 Down: Quarrel => SPAT
13 Down: Woman on Argentina's 100 peso note => PERON
14 Down: Bamboozles => SNOWS
15 Down: Slanted => ATANANGLE
16 Down: Spearheaded => LED
17 Down: __ America: 2020 miniseries about the ERA movement => MRS
20 Down: Artist who works with a chisel => SCULPTOR
28 Down: On-call devices => PAGERS
29 Down: Impetuous => RASH
30 Down: French fashion giant => DIOR
32 Down: Priceless? => FREE
35 Down: Like two 2015 Max Scherzer games => NOHIT
36 Down: Will of Blue Bloods => ESTES
38 Down: Thoughtful => PENSIVE
39 Down: Classical pianist Alice Sara __ => OTT
41 Down: Resting on => ATOP
43 Down: Sports stadium => ARENA
44 Down: Nikolai who wrote The Overcoat => GOGOL
45 Down: Italian fashion giant => GUCCI
46 Down: __ pale ale => INDIA
47 Down: Do a slow burn => SEETHE
48 Down: Allowing access => AJAR
49 Down: Charge, in a way => IONIZE
56 Down: Philadelphia NFLer => EAGLE
58 Down: Overturn => UPEND
60 Down: Chili scoop => LADLE
62 Down: Fabricated => MADEUP
64 Down: Dedicate, as time => DEVOTE
66 Down: Strategic steps => TACTICS
70 Down: First-aid dispenser => MEDIC
71 Down: Opposite of sur => NORTE
73 Down: See 3-Down => AGAINSTMINE
74 Down: Grace under fire => POISE
75 Down: Spread around => STREW
77 Down: Medieval Icelandic collection => EDDA
81 Down: Hindu royalty => RAJAS
82 Down: Give the slip => ELUDE
83 Down: Huh? => COMEAGAIN
84 Down: Survey results, e.g. => DATA
86 Down: Beachcombing prize => SEASHELL
88 Down: Enter gingerly => EASEIN
92 Down: Dries up => SHRIVELS
94 Down: Strands in a lab => DNA
96 Down: Wheel parts => RIMS
98 Down: Lots and lots => TONS
99 Down: __ out: resolve => HASH
104 Down: Attacks => GOESAT
106 Down: Jazz saxophonist Rollins => SONNY
107 Down: Waiting for Lefty dramatist Clifford => ODETS
109 Down: TV Land fare => RERUN
110 Down: Agenda entries => ITEMS
111 Down: Extended conflicts => FEUDS
112 Down: Stand for something? => EASEL
113 Down: Southern twang => DRAWL
115 Down: Roadie's vanload => AMPS
116 Down: Witticism => QUIP
117 Down: Pinkie-side arm bone => ULNA
119 Down: Comfy loungewear => PJS
120 Down: Lav => LOO
123 Down: Napa Valley tub => VAT

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This crossword has 73 across clues and 72 down clues. In total 145 clues are solved in the section above.
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