Crossword Answers For: Saturday, October 8, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Closing pieces => CLASPS
7 Across: Trademarked sandwich => MCRIB
12 Across: Long, thin fish also called a grenadier => RATTAIL
14 Across: Worth giving up on => DOOMED
16 Across: Fla-Vor-Ice rival => OTTERPOP
18 Across: Settle early => PREPAY
19 Across: Hot items at a bakery => OVENS
20 Across: Mario Party dinosaur => YOSHI
22 Across: Slip-__ => ONS
23 Across: Duérmete __: Spanish lullaby => NINO
24 Across: Cut => SAWED
25 Across: Destiny's Child, e.g. => TRIO
26 Across: Melancholy => SAD
27 Across: One making a bundle on a farm => BALER
28 Across: __ Morgen! => GUTEN
29 Across: Adds => CONTRIBUTES
31 Across: Easy to swallow => CANDYCOATED
32 Across: High tied activity? => ROPESCOURSE
33 Across: Charlie and Lola => NAMES
34 Across: Passionate => LUSTY
35 Across: The Magicians novelist Grossman => LEV
38 Across: Ars Amatoria poet => OVID
39 Across: Fools => DUPES
40 Across: Dove home => COTE
41 Across: __ drop => MIC
42 Across: Speaks in Spanish => HABLA
43 Across: Temaki or futomaki => SUSHI
44 Across: Becky Sauerbrunn's sport => SOCCER
46 Across: Gossamer => ETHEREAL
48 Across: Far-reaching => GLOBAL
49 Across: Fish in stargazy pie => SARDINE
50 Across: Place to share stories, for short => INSTA
51 Across: Had => TASTED

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Sings a lullaby, say => CROONS
2 Down: Baltic state with a maroon and white flag => LATVIA
3 Down: Go => ATTEND
4 Down: Legal brief writer? => STENO
5 Down: Links data => PARS
6 Down: Bit of a draft? => SIP
7 Down: Letters for a research scientist => MDPHD
8 Down: Bush who is part of The Squad in Congress => CORI
9 Down: Ingredient that makes she-crab soup orange => ROE
10 Down: Brought in => IMPORTED
11 Down: Skullcaps => BEANIES
13 Down: Program that rewards super users => LOYALTYCLUB
15 Down: Maker of the Corrale straightener => DYSON
17 Down: Popular item => POWERCOUPLE
21 Down: Blog with The Food Lab columns written by J. Kenji López-Alt => SERIOUSEATS
24 Down: Historic Vegas hotel => SANDS
25 Down: Private pupil => TUTEE
27 Down: Series starring Emily Deschanel as a forensic anthropologist => BONES
28 Down: Daring => GUTSY
29 Down: Like some 31-Down attendees => CAPED
30 Down: St. __: Caribbean island => BARTS
31 Down: Event where folks may be super dressed up? => COMICCON
32 Down: Filling dish? => RAVIOLI
33 Down: Chinese take-out order? => NOMSG
35 Down: Finally crack => LOSEIT
36 Down: Colorless gas => ETHANE
37 Down: The __ Virgin: Strazza statue in Newfoundland => VEILED
39 Down: Youngest girl in the Shazam Family => DARLA
40 Down: Poutine topper => CURDS
42 Down: Qualifying race => HEAT
43 Down: Buona __! => SERA
45 Down: Paramount+ network => CBS
47 Down: Feature of some uniforms => HAT

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This crossword has 33 across clues and 34 down clues. In total 67 clues are solved in the section above.
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