Crossword Answers For: Thursday, December 8, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Courteous title => MAAM
5 Across: Make tracks! => SCRAM
10 Across: Be rife (with) => TEEM
14 Across: __ mater => ALMA
15 Across: Fragrance => AROMA
16 Across: Fairy-tale antagonist => OGRE
17 Across: Expanding Asian desert => GOBI
18 Across: Temporarily unavailable => NOTIN
19 Across: Work hard for => EARN
20 Across: Band saw? => UNITEDWESTAND
23 Across: Tuned to, as a radio dial => SETAT
24 Across: Genetic material in some vaccines => RNA
25 Across: Circular saw? => ITISWHATITIS
33 Across: Trail behind => LAG
36 Across: Photographer Leibovitz => ANNIE
37 Across: Incline => SLANT
38 Across: Concerning => INRE
40 Across: Zenith's opposite => NADIR
42 Across: Place to build => SITE
43 Across: Back up an apology, say => ATONE
45 Across: Pampering treatments for feet, informally => PEDIS
47 Across: Sad => LOW
48 Across: Power saw? => MIGHTISRIGHT
51 Across: Spot for a sleeve tattoo => ARM
52 Across: Abates => EASES
56 Across: Coping saw? => ONEDAYATATIME
61 Across: Stylish => CHIC
63 Across: City south of Gainesville => OCALA
64 Across: Image in the Timberland logo => TREE
65 Across: Proficient => ABLE
66 Across: More up-to-date => NEWER
67 Across: Allow to borrow => LEND
68 Across: Cheers bartender Woody => BOYD
69 Across: Accounting giant __ & Young => ERNST
70 Across: Finishes => ENDS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Wizard => MAGUS
2 Down: Unaccompanied => ALONE
3 Down: Sphere of influence => AMBIT
4 Down: Cocktail typically garnished with an orchid => MAITAI
5 Down: Surface for beach volleyball => SAND
6 Down: Imitate a rooster => CROW
7 Down: Mechanical learning method => ROTE
8 Down: Inside Story novelist Martin => AMIS
9 Down: Words of incantation => MANTRA
10 Down: Canvases for 45-Across => TOENAILS
11 Down: Zounds! => EGAD
12 Down: Make a blunder => ERR
13 Down: Chaps => MEN
21 Down: James who sang At Last => ETTA
22 Down: Inhabitants of a classroom farm => ANTS
26 Down: Travel guide listing => INN
27 Down: Round closers on a onesie => SNAPS
28 Down: Not as narrow => WIDER
29 Down: Former North Dakota senator Heitkamp => HEIDI
30 Down: Long part of a comet => TAIL
31 Down: Very much a fan of => INTO
32 Down: Crockpot dish => STEW
33 Down: Hemsworth of The Hunger Games => LIAM
34 Down: Opposed to => ANTI
35 Down: Rum-and-water quaff => GROG
39 Down: Made better => ENHANCED
41 Down: Drilling structure => RIG
44 Down: Raison d'__ => ETRE
46 Down: Home of the N.Y. Mets until 2008 => SHEA
49 Down: Stick a fork in me => IMDONE
50 Down: Spill the beans => TATTLE
53 Down: Tornado watch sound => SIREN
54 Down: Fix => EMEND
55 Down: Botanic beginnings => SEEDS
56 Down: Unctuous => OILY
57 Down: Aspire notebook maker => ACER
58 Down: Show fatigue => YAWN
59 Down: Many taps in a brewpub => ALES
60 Down: Fruit-filled dessert => TART
61 Down: Taxi => CAB
62 Down: Barry cable network => HBO

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This crossword has 35 across clues and 42 down clues. In total 77 clues are solved in the section above.
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