Crossword Answers For: Sunday, February 19, 2023

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Ends of pens => NIBS
5 Across: Approval from a Lab => WAG
8 Across: Like chocolate ganache => RICH
12 Across: Swindles => SCAMS
17 Across: Sound at a barbershop => SNIP
18 Across: Poetic salutes => ODES
20 Across: Pain => ACHE
21 Across: Stuck out one's tongue as requested => SAIDAH
22 Across: Coffee shop loyalty card reward => FREEDRINK
24 Across: Get close to => NEAR
25 Across: Japanese fish preparation => TATAKI
26 Across: Noisy outbursts that are greatly appreciated? => WELCOMERACKETS
28 Across: Not very much => ABITOF
29 Across: Give, as a driver's license => ISSUETO
30 Across: Brown quickly => SEAR
32 Across: Lemon scraping => ZEST
33 Across: Toot => SPREE
36 Across: __ A: Italian soccer league => SERIE
39 Across: Loot => LUCRE
41 Across: Strikes (out) => CROSSES
44 Across: Bird voted Most Likely to Succeed? => BESTOFTHENEST
49 Across: Like crudités => RAW
50 Across: Fix, as a pet => SPAY
52 Across: __-di-dah => LAH
53 Across: Watch closely => EYE
54 Across: Fabrication => LIE
55 Across: Signed up => ENLISTED
58 Across: Beach town west of Santa Monica => MALIBU
60 Across: AED administrators => EMTS
61 Across: Messages hidden in some brunch fare? => WAFFLECODES
63 Across: Made sense of => SORTEDOUT
66 Across: Atop, poetically => OER
67 Across: Court divider => NET
68 Across: Disgusted syllable => FEH
69 Across: Wallach of The Magnificent Seven => ELI
70 Across: Tot's perch on a bike => CHILDSEAT
74 Across: Bit of middle-school fashion? => TWEENJACKET
79 Across: Grasped => HELD
80 Across: Used a rotary phone => DIALED
82 Across: When the dinner bell rings => MEALTIME
83 Across: Not online, online => IRL
84 Across: Truck's tankful => GAS
86 Across: Rollaway, e.g. => COT
87 Across: Crack a book => READ
88 Across: Actor Chaney => LON
89 Across: Halloween rental fee? => COSTUMECHARGE
93 Across: Connect with => TAPINTO
96 Across: Writer Calvino => ITALO
97 Across: Like ta moko and the haka => MAORI
99 Across: Indy 500 family name => UNSER
100 Across: Chutzpah => GALL
103 Across: Govt.-issued IDs => SSNS
105 Across: Oft-removed throat tissues => TONSILS
108 Across: Delights => ELATES
110 Across: Bad news at an Atlanta pie shop? => JUSTOUTOFPEACH
116 Across: Garb => ATTIRE
117 Across: App buyer => USER
118 Across: Fishy scoopful at a deli => TUNASALAD
119 Across: Large-horned mammals => RHINOS
120 Across: Agitate => RILE
121 Across: __ Brockovich => ERIN
122 Across: Teacher from the old school? => MARM
123 Across: Yesterday and Tomorrow => SONGS
124 Across: Long fish => EELS
125 Across: Vote against => NAY
126 Across: Apple Watch assistant => SIRI

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Blue tag? => NSFW
2 Down: Pertaining to => INRE
3 Down: Jessica of TV's The Sinner => BIEL
4 Down: Genus subdivision => SPECIES
5 Down: Some gummy animals => WORMS
6 Down: Parting mot => ADIEU
7 Down: Art classes? => GENRES
8 Down: Corporal or private => RANK
9 Down: Potential cause of brain freeze => ICEE
10 Down: Exchanges => CHATS
11 Down: Reflexive pronoun => HERSELF
12 Down: Onetime Volvo rival => SAAB
13 Down: Inhabitant => CITIZEN
14 Down: It's __! => ADATE
15 Down: Predatory sharks => MAKOS
16 Down: With 100-Down, change one's approach, and a hint to the circled letters => SHIFT
19 Down: Accomplish a lot with little effort => SKATEBY
21 Down: Like potatoes => STARCHY
23 Down: Some tablets => DOSES
27 Down: Situp's target => CORE
31 Down: Filmmaker with a unique style => AUTEUR
33 Down: Bit of hardware => SCREW
34 Down: One of yoga's five vital forces => PRANA
35 Down: Piano-playing dog on The Muppet Show => ROWLF
37 Down: Puerto Rico y Mallorca => ISLAS
38 Down: Abbr. in a research paper => ETAL
40 Down: The Pioneer Woman host Drummond => REE
42 Down: Fragrant compounds => ESTERS
43 Down: Small detail? => SPEC
45 Down: Makes sense now => OHISEE
46 Down: Muppet with a puppy named Tango => ELMO
47 Down: In __: as found => SITU
48 Down: Course obstacle => TEST
51 Down: God, in Hebrew => ADONAI
56 Down: You win this hand => IFOLD
57 Down: Luge, e.g. => SLED
58 Down: Convened => MET
59 Down: Puccini's La __ => BOHEME
60 Down: Fiat => EDICT
62 Down: Uncouple => DETACH
64 Down: 2002 American League MVP Miguel => TEJADA
65 Down: Transport to Tel Aviv => ELAL
68 Down: Abbr. in an email subject line => FWD
70 Down: Quite smart => CHIC
71 Down: Big sandwich => HERO
72 Down: Woes => ILLS
73 Down: Cars named for Henry Ford's son => EDSELS
74 Down: Neon fish => TETRA
75 Down: Cool! => NEAT
76 Down: Pottery ovens => KILNS
77 Down: Overact => EMOTE
78 Down: Mid-range voice => TENOR
81 Down: Fertile soil => LOAM
84 Down: Demolish => GUT
85 Down: Accumulates => AMASSES
87 Down: Change direction => REROUTE
90 Down: Activity at windmills and pinball machines => TILTING
91 Down: Create out of thin air => CONJURE
92 Down: Show up for => GOTO
94 Down: Destroys, as books => PULPS
95 Down: Pants measurements => INSEAMS
98 Down: One after another => INTURN
100 Down: See 16-Down => GEARS
101 Down: Howe'er => ALTHO
102 Down: Lux et veritas language => LATIN
104 Down: Fat Is a Feminist Issue writer Orbach => SUSIE
106 Down: Sotomayor who said, You cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true => SONIA
107 Down: Unless there are none => IFANY
109 Down: Greek matchmaker? => EROS
111 Down: Peddle => SELL
112 Down: Número de leches en un postre específico => TRES
113 Down: Jai __ => ALAI
114 Down: NFL quarterback Derek => CARR
115 Down: Port on some TVs => HDMI

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This crossword has 66 across clues and 75 down clues. In total 141 clues are solved in the section above.
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