Crossword Answers For: Saturday, October 22, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Address to a fella => BRO
4 Across: Lone star group? => PANS
8 Across: Green fruit => LIMES
13 Across: Marshmallow bird => PEEP
14 Across: Let Me Down Slowly singer-songwriter Benjamin => ALEC
15 Across: NAACP __ Awards => IMAGE
16 Across: One hanging out along the wall? => EAVE
17 Across: [Not again!] => SIGH
18 Across: Colorful bulb => TULIP
19 Across: Achebe novel whose title comes from a Yeats poem => THINGSFALLAPART
22 Across: Part of an opening line? => SESAME
23 Across: Rat tail? => TEE
24 Across: Sportswear brand => FILA
25 Across: Ain't equivalent? => ARENT
26 Across: Cosmetic invented for the movie industry in 1930 => LIPGLOSS
28 Across: Sondheim's Sweeney __ => TODD
29 Across: Address to a fella => GUV
30 Across: Suffix with gazillion => AIRE
31 Across: Masala chai, e.g. => SPICEDTEA
34 Across: __ Rub: anti-chafing product => CHUB
35 Across: Jazz intro? => NEO
36 Across: Procedural that spun off from JAG => NCIS
40 Across: Mollusk considered a living fossil => NAUTILUS
42 Across: Comedian Cenac => WYATT
43 Across: Feature of a fitted blouse => DART
44 Across: On the __ => LAM
45 Across: Cupcakes-to-be => BATTER
46 Across: Stadium cry => ICECOLDBEERHERE
49 Across: Dirty sort of person => CHEAT
50 Across: Himalayan cryptid => YETI
51 Across: Vehicles that may roll over => IRAS
52 Across: Trunks => TORSI
53 Across: __ queen => DRAG
54 Across: Makes => NETS
55 Across: Jennies, e.g. => ASSES
56 Across: Dot on a map => ISLE
57 Across: Hurdle for a future Ph.D. => GRE

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Come to the rescue => BEAHERO
2 Down: Amended => REVISED
3 Down: Court coup => OPENANDSHUTCASE
4 Down: Not retro yet => PASSE
5 Down: First letter of the Urdu alphabet => ALIF
6 Down: Figures whose squares are positive => NEGATIVENUMBERS
7 Down: Haul => SCHLEP
8 Down: Ford whose debut album was Out for Blood => LITA
9 Down: No, really, you decide! => IMUPFORANYTHING
10 Down: Lassitude => MALAISE
11 Down: Some zoomers with an emo aesthetic => EGIRLS
12 Down: Commuter syst. that crosses the Delaware => SEPTA
13 Down: Tended a lab? => PETSAT
20 Down: BBC clock setting => GMT
21 Down: Staccato opposite => LEGATO
26 Down: Star Trek captain Jean-__ Picard => LUC
27 Down: Tell tales => LIE
29 Down: Benefits act of 1944 => GIBILL
32 Down: Place => PUT
33 Down: Some French? => DES
34 Down: Vocations => CAREERS
37 Down: Hospitality professional => CATERER
38 Down: Go over again => ITERATE
39 Down: Go over again, say => STRESS
40 Down: Ballpark snack served in a helmet => NACHOS
41 Down: The People's Princess => LADYDI
42 Down: All the Light We Cannot See backdrop => WAR
43 Down: Judge-y remarks? => DICTA
45 Down: Neutral tone => BEIGE
47 Down: Redding who wrote Respect => OTIS
48 Down: Abbreviation for a name dropper? => ETAL

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This crossword has 37 across clues and 32 down clues. In total 69 clues are solved in the section above.
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