Crossword Answers For: Friday, December 23, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Common foundation => SLAB
5 Across: Singer depicted in the biopic Walk the Line => CASH
9 Across: 1980s cloning target => IBMPC
14 Across: Coil in a garden => HOSE
15 Across: The __ for home lives in all of us: Angelou => ACHE
16 Across: Half a comedy duo => MEARA
17 Across: *Begin to chase, with off => TAKEAFTER
19 Across: Your table's ready buzzer => PAGER
20 Across: Illuminates => EDIFIES
21 Across: Seductive quality => ALLURE
23 Across: One ensuring accuracy on a grand scale? => TUNER
24 Across: *Try to delay, with for => PLAYTIME
26 Across: Vare Trophy org. => LPGA
27 Across: Praises => LAUDS
29 Across: Up to, briefly => TIL
30 Across: Start of an adage about humanity => TOERR
32 Across: Solar __ => SYSTEM
35 Across: Pivotal element, and what each word in quotes in the starred clues literally is to its answer? => CENTERPIECE
37 Across: Emergency signals => FLARES
39 Across: WWII Polish resistance hero Sendler => IRENA
40 Across: Illuminated => LIT
41 Across: Country roads => LANES
43 Across: Coarse file => RASP
47 Across: *Gaining prominence, with and => UPCOMING
50 Across: Revere alternative => BYSEA
51 Across: Rumbled, as thunder => ROLLED
52 Across: Less tender => TOUGHER
54 Across: McCartney of Wings => LINDA
55 Across: *Do some creative accounting, with the => COOKBOOKS
57 Across: Broke off => ENDED
58 Across: Exhort => URGE
59 Across: Layered cookie => OREO
60 Across: Torment => AGONY
61 Across: Walked (on) => TROD
62 Across: Laura of Big Little Lies => DERN

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Type of village in Isaac Bashevis Singer stories => SHTETL
2 Down: Pack, as a moving van => LOADUP
3 Down: __ price => ASKING
4 Down: Tower of London figure => BEEFEATER
5 Down: Cozy eatery => CAFE
6 Down: Show parts => ACTS
7 Down: Pop duo __ & Him => SHE
8 Down: Announce grandly => HERALD
9 Down: Intimate => IMPLY
10 Down: Corker => BEAUT
11 Down: The Treachery of Images painter => MAGRITTE
12 Down: Early delivery => PREEMIE
13 Down: Wheels => CAR
18 Down: Cause of inflation => AIR
22 Down: Scottish girls => LASSIES
24 Down: Good vibrations? => PURRING
25 Down: Dartboard wood => ELM
27 Down: Leaves be => LETSLIE
28 Down: All bets __ off => ARE
31 Down: Common Scrabble tile value => ONE
33 Down: Nikkei index currency => YEN
34 Down: Impressive and then some => SCARYGOOD
35 Down: Tower for a pet who likes to climb and hide => CATCONDO
36 Down: Not post- => PRE
37 Down: Target of an annual vaccine => FLU
38 Down: Facial piercing => LIPRING
42 Down: Scene-ending phrase => ANDCUT
44 Down: Washed up, maybe => ASHORE
45 Down: One on a quest => SEEKER
46 Down: Marrying sort? => PARSON
48 Down: Of yore => OLDEN
49 Down: Word said with a curtsy => MLADY
50 Down: Buster => BUB
52 Down: Like drive-thru orders => TOGO
53 Down: Authorized => OKED
54 Down: Place to ruminate => LEA
56 Down: Catch-22 pilot who crashes repeatedly => ORR

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This crossword has 35 across clues and 38 down clues. In total 73 clues are solved in the section above.
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