Crossword Answers For: Thursday, February 16, 2023

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Striped pet => TABBY
6 Across: __ chic! => TRES
10 Across: Gear tooth => COG
13 Across: Sprightly => AGILE
14 Across: Bridge predecessor => WHIST
15 Across: Back on a ship => AFT
16 Across: *Research without direct application => PURESCIENCE
18 Across: Spending power, for short => CFO
19 Across: No Ordinary Love singer => SADE
20 Across: Eleven digits? => ONES
21 Across: Treadmill setting => PACE
23 Across: *Czechoslovakian movement of 1968 => PRAGUESPRING
27 Across: Yuletide song => NOEL
28 Across: 33-Across years => DECADE
29 Across: Paper or plastic => NOUN
30 Across: Father of the Muses => ZEUS
33 Across: Score half => TEN
34 Across: *Helpline offering => CUSTOMERSUPPORT
38 Across: I see, at sea => AYE
39 Across: Noodle nugget => IDEA
40 Across: Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's __: Caldecott Medal winner by Verna Aardema => EARS
41 Across: Policy of some restaurants => NOTIPS
44 Across: An Caighdeán Oifigiúil language => ERSE
45 Across: *Commerce imbalance => TRADESURPLUS
49 Across: Recycle bin, e.g. => ICON
50 Across: Shades => HUES
51 Across: Becomes compost => ROTS
55 Across: Gross! => ICK
56 Across: *Spot for coins, and what five letters do in the answer to each starred clue? => CHANGEPURSE
59 Across: Baseball great Ripken => CAL
60 Across: Comes up against => ABUTS
61 Across: Isaac of Moon Knight => OSCAR
62 Across: U-turn from WSW => ENE
63 Across: Response heard during a pool game => POLO
64 Across: Pier => WHARF

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Spigots => TAPS
2 Down: Río flower => AGUA
3 Down: __ of paradise => BIRD
4 Down: Cover up, in a way => BLEEPOUT
5 Down: [Nod] => YES
6 Down: Org. with 27 member states => THEEU
7 Down: Salon procedure => RINSE
8 Down: Key to going back? => ESC
9 Down: Grassy expanse => STEPPE
10 Down: Word on an Italian menu that means hunter => CACCIATORE
11 Down: Those at fault => OFFENDERS
12 Down: Classic Pontiac muscle car => GTO
14 Down: Annex => WING
17 Down: Anthracite or lignite => COAL
22 Down: __ de Triomphe => ARC
24 Down: Nevada city about 100 miles from Burning Man => RENO
25 Down: The Aztecs of the NCAA's Mountain West Conf. => SDSU
26 Down: Bloke => GENT
27 Down: Center of a 3-4 football defense => NOSETACKLE
29 Down: Spanish dialect in the Big Apple => NUYORICAN
30 Down: Character debuted by Zadie Smith? => ZED
31 Down: Poetic preposition => ERE
32 Down: Can. neighbor => USA
34 Down: You __ be serious => CANT
35 Down: Leave out => MISS
36 Down: Home of many Quechua speakers => PERU
37 Down: Means to an end? => PASSRUSH
42 Down: Final words of an engagement => IDO
43 Down: Top removed before dashing off? => PENCAP
44 Down: Conditional programming word => ELSE
46 Down: Mover's rental => UHAUL
47 Down: Cost => RUNTO
48 Down: Identifies (as) => PEGS
52 Down: Largest member of the dolphin family => ORCA
53 Down: Leader in the Bulgarian Empire => TSAR
54 Down: Feudal laborer => SERF
55 Down: Diamonds, in slang => ICE
57 Down: Last Week Tonight network => HBO
58 Down: Bam! kin => POW

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This crossword has 35 across clues and 40 down clues. In total 75 clues are solved in the section above.
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