Crossword Answers For: Monday, December 26, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Warning sound from a rattlesnake => HISS
5 Across: Electrical pioneer Nikola => TESLA
10 Across: Certain partner => WIFE
14 Across: Hello... hello... hello..., e.g. => ECHO
15 Across: To no __: without success => AVAIL
16 Across: Each, informally => APOP
17 Across: Sign gas => NEON
18 Across: Paper size longer than letter => LEGAL
19 Across: Cab => TAXI
20 Across: *Pink flower native to eastern North America => CAROLINAROSE
23 Across: Leftover => EXTRA
24 Across: Sound system => STEREO
27 Across: Eyes a bull's-eye, say => AIMS
30 Across: Chapel centerpiece => ALTAR
32 Across: U.K. lawmakers => MPS
35 Across: *Like a game that involves evasive subterfuge => CATANDMOUSE
39 Across: Oodles => ALOT
41 Across: Chutney fruit => MANGO
42 Across: Chief Valhalla god => ODIN
43 Across: *Migratory honker => CANADAGOOSE
46 Across: WNW's opposite => ESE
47 Across: Reptile in the Chinese zodiac => SNAKE
48 Across: __-esteem => SELF
50 Across: Pays for everyone => TREATS
53 Across: Reading lights => LAMPS
57 Across: Solve a mystery, and a hint to the answers to the starred clues => CRACKTHECASE
61 Across: Veep actress Chlumsky => ANNA
64 Across: Latest craze => MANIA
65 Across: Tehran's land => IRAN
66 Across: See 28-Down => BEAR
67 Across: Campaign button word => ELECT
68 Across: Guitarist Lofgren => NILS
69 Across: Deal (with) => COPE
70 Across: Searches for => SEEKS
71 Across: Checkers or chess => GAME

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: From this point forward => HENCE
2 Down: Climbing tool for frozen surfaces => ICEAX
3 Down: Low on funds => SHORT
4 Down: Mexican state bordering Arizona => SONORA
5 Down: Anklebones => TALI
6 Down: Level => EVEN
7 Down: Very long story => SAGA
8 Down: Perjurers => LIARS
9 Down: Parcel out => ALLOT
10 Down: ABBA hit with the line I was defeated, you won the war => WATERLOO
11 Down: Craft beer letters => IPA
12 Down: Sour grapes critter => FOX
13 Down: Prefix with -logue => EPI
21 Down: Not of the clergy => LAIC
22 Down: Tailor's line => SEAM
25 Down: Piano piece => ETUDE
26 Down: Welcome sight in the desert => OASIS
28 Down: With 66-Across, fairy-tale character whose bed was too soft => MAMA
29 Down: Male deer => STAG
31 Down: Actress Russo => RENE
32 Down: Apple computers => MACS
33 Down: Garden growth => PLANT
34 Down: Underwater detector => SONAR
36 Down: It's __-win situation => ANO
37 Down: Private aid gps. => NGOS
38 Down: Prescribed amount => DOSE
40 Down: Friendly send-off => TAKECARE
44 Down: Cherished => DEAR
45 Down: Fashion monthly => ELLE
49 Down: Not back-to-back with => FACING
51 Down: Makes less unruly => TAMES
52 Down: Bathroom accessory => SCALE
54 Down: Tennis star Sharapova => MARIA
55 Down: Sacred song => PSALM
56 Down: Smell, for one => SENSE
58 Down: Joint between the foot and the hip => KNEE
59 Down: Clock sound => TICK
60 Down: Bowlers and berets => HATS
61 Down: Start of the alphabet song => ABC
62 Down: The Matrix hero => NEO
63 Down: Quick snooze => NAP

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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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