Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Barbaric cry in Whitman's Song of Myself => YAWP
5 Across: Departed => LEFT
9 Across: Stockpile => AMASS
14 Across: Actress Falco => EDIE
15 Across: Thin batteries => AAAS
16 Across: Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! host Peter => SAGAL
17 Across: *Busy stretch at a sandwich shop => LUNCHRUSH
19 Across: Dish => PLATE
20 Across: Snuck a look => PEEKED
21 Across: Clock readout => TIME
23 Across: Shoe front => TOE
24 Across: Verbalize => SAY
25 Across: *Crumple, as notepaper filled with bad ideas => SCRUNCHUP
27 Across: Lets off steam => VENTS
29 Across: Lightbulb unit => WATT
30 Across: Fiddlesticks! => RATS
31 Across: Brief If you ask me => IMO
32 Across: Letter-shaped support => IBAR
34 Across: Provençal pal => AMI
36 Across: *Fare that pairs well with beer => PUBGRUB
38 Across: *Ticket marketplace with a FanProtect Guarantee => STUBHUB
42 Across: Farmyard oinker => PIG
43 Across: Worrisome grades => DEES
44 Across: Actress de Armas => ANA
45 Across: __ facto => IPSO
48 Across: __ sesame! => OPEN
50 Across: Otherwise => IFNOT
52 Across: *Source of bribe money, perhaps => SLUSHFUND
54 Across: Scoundrel => CAD
55 Across: Used to be => WAS
56 Across: Natural hairstyle => AFRO
57 Across: Infomercial disclaimer => PAIDAD
60 Across: College application part => ESSAY
62 Across: I'm handing this off now, and a phonetic description of the answers to the starred clues => ITSALLYOU
64 Across: Revise => AMEND
65 Across: __ as a pin => NEAT
66 Across: Watch over, as sheep => TEND
67 Across: Odorless gas => RADON
68 Across: Tacks on => ADDS
69 Across: Poems of praise => ODES

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: [You stepped on my paw!] => YELP
2 Down: For two voices, in music => ADUE
3 Down: Connoisseur who likely scoffs at boxed Merlot => WINESNOB
4 Down: Eat like a bird => PECKAT
5 Down: Baker's fat => LARD
6 Down: __ de toilette => EAU
7 Down: Tracy Chapman hit with the line Won't have to drive too far => FASTCAR
8 Down: Summer top => TSHIRT
9 Down: Colorado ski resort => ASPEN
10 Down: Prefix with practice => MAL
11 Down: Death on the Nile novelist Christie => AGATHA
12 Down: Stayed on the sidelines => SATOUT
13 Down: Snoozes => SLEEPS
18 Down: Activation phrase for Apple's digital assistant => HEYSIRI
22 Down: Change genetically => MUTATE
25 Down: DNA test kit item => SWAB
26 Down: High-sided bed => CRIB
27 Down: Big shot, briefly => VIP
28 Down: Ostrich kin => EMU
33 Down: Scram! => BUGOFF
35 Down: Broadway offering => MUSICAL
37 Down: Main mail ctrs. => GPOS
38 Down: Put in the mail => SEND
39 Down: Like some small-batch textiles => HANDDYED
40 Down: Card game with an American Girl version => UNO
41 Down: Belfry critter => BAT
43 Down: Stood for => DENOTED
45 Down: Cross my heart! => ISWEAR
46 Down: Blood component => PLASMA
47 Down: Figured (out) => SUSSED
49 Down: Fancy Feast maker => PURINA
51 Down: I __ see the humor here => FAILTO
53 Down: Composer known as the Father of the Symphony => HAYDN
57 Down: Butter portions => PATS
58 Down: Top of the line => AONE
59 Down: Disappointing fireworks => DUDS
61 Down: It's __-win situation => ANO
63 Down: Glum => SAD

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This crossword has 40 across clues and 39 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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