Crossword Answers For: Sunday, March 5, 2023

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Performs an operation, in a way => ADDS
5 Across: One Kiss singer __ Lipa => DUA
8 Across: Southwestern building block => ADOBE
13 Across: Buzzing cloud => SWARM
18 Across: Sans-__: font style => SERIF
20 Across: Liberty Mutual's industry: Abbr. => INS
21 Across: Toyota's luxury division => LEXUS
22 Across: Common newspaper name => TIMES
23 Across: Saudi neighbor => OMANI
24 Across: Task for the caregivers of a Trojan War hero? => ACHILLESTENDING
27 Across: __ optics => FIBER
28 Across: Tolkien saga, briefly => LOTR
29 Across: Forbes rival => INC
30 Across: Vitamin C source => CITRUS
31 Across: Chicago business district => THELOOP
34 Across: Bootleg booze => HOOCH
36 Across: Method of preserving souvenir tops? => TSHIRTCANNING
42 Across: March on Washington fig. => MLK
43 Across: Split __ soup => PEA
46 Across: Most candid => OPENEST
47 Across: Iris covering => CORNEA
49 Across: Bring in => EARN
50 Across: Lead => GUIDE
51 Across: Activity in a Toronto pastry shop? => CANADIANBAKING
55 Across: Ethiopian capital => ADDISABABA
58 Across: Aliens, for short => ETS
59 Across: Certain lamp resident => GENIE
60 Across: Breathe Me singer => SIA
61 Across: Fuel-efficient bikes => MOPEDS
63 Across: Bertie played by Hugh Laurie => WOOSTER
65 Across: Tall tales about one's climbing experience? => MOUNTAINLYING
69 Across: Many an episode of This Is Us, e.g. => SOBFEST
73 Across: Kir __: French cocktail => ROYALE
74 Across: Naughty => BAD
77 Across: To no __: in vain => AVAIL
78 Across: Tallahassee sch. => FSU
81 Across: Some Like It Hot co-star => TONYCURTIS
84 Across: Greeting that may come with barks and licks? => WELCOMEWAGGING
88 Across: Dry Italian wine => SOAVE
89 Across: __ Major => URSA
90 Across: Let's go, amigos! => ANDALE
91 Across: Concession speech deliverer => ALSORAN
93 Across: School org. => PTA
94 Across: __ drop => MIC
95 Across: Rodent who's really angry he missed the migration? => BITTERLEMMING
99 Across: Rizzo of Midnight Cowboy => RATSO
101 Across: Horn of Africa nation => SOMALIA
102 Across: Tubman of Judy Blume's Fudge series => SHEILA
105 Across: SUV stat => MPG
108 Across: Taylor Swift's Look What You __ Me Do => MADE
109 Across: Genius Bar tablets => IPADS
114 Across: Good-natured fun leading up to an election? => CAMPAIGNRIBBING
117 Across: Gymnast Comaneci => NADIA
118 Across: On, as an alarm => ARMED
119 Across: Garlicky mayonnaise => AIOLI
120 Across: Da 5 Bloods director Spike => LEE
121 Across: Serengeti grazer => ELAND
122 Across: John Irving's A Prayer for Owen __ => MEANY
123 Across: Painter Picasso => PABLO
124 Across: AARP folks => SRS
125 Across: Hook's sidekick => SMEE

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Starting from => ASOF
2 Down: __-glace: rich sauce => DEMI
3 Down: Dull => DRAB
4 Down: Trigonometry function => SINE
5 Down: Cockney, e.g. => DIALECT
6 Down: 7UP nickname, with the => UNCOLA
7 Down: Kutcher of Jobs => ASHTON
8 Down: Tide alternative => ALL
9 Down: Sub station? => DELI
10 Down: Team members => OXEN
11 Down: Anheuser-__ => BUSCH
12 Down: Abbr. on some cornerstones => EST
13 Down: Christmas Eve visitor, familiarly => STNICK
14 Down: Shoe measurement => WIDTH
15 Down: Boy in The Kite Runner => AMIR
16 Down: Eye care brand => RENU
17 Down: Inbox fillers: Abbr. => MSGS
19 Down: Some evergreens => FIRTREES
25 Down: Pressing need? => IRON
26 Down: Big name in water purification => ECOLAB
32 Down: Growth chart nos. => HTS
33 Down: Printing measure => PICA
35 Down: Portent => OMEN
36 Down: Wardrobe item on HBO's Rome => TOGA
37 Down: Taters => SPUDS
38 Down: Klum of Making the Cut => HEIDI
39 Down: Setting of the 2022 film RRR => INDIA
40 Down: Lymph __ => NODE
41 Down: Fortitude => GRIT
43 Down: Smock stain => PAINT
44 Down: Bert's BFF => ERNIE
45 Down: Tick off => ANGER
48 Down: Illmatic rapper => NAS
49 Down: Just scrapes (by) => EKES
51 Down: Crunch's rank => CAPN
52 Down: Disable the security system for, say => ABET
53 Down: Zilch => NADA
54 Down: Eagerly expectant => AGOG
56 Down: Famous cookie-maker => AMOS
57 Down: Ring match => BOUT
62 Down: Polite address => SIR
63 Down: Artful => WILY
64 Down: Two Grants => ONEC
65 Down: Ten-time NBA All-Star Anthony, to fans => MELO
66 Down: Me? Never! => NOTI
67 Down: Fourvière locale => LYON
68 Down: Yin counterpart => YANG
69 Down: Escorted to the penthouse, say => SAWUP
70 Down: For all to see => OVERT
71 Down: Light wood => BALSA
72 Down: Pay stub abbr. => FICA
74 Down: Witch craft? => BROOM
75 Down: Arcade pioneer => ATARI
76 Down: Lounge piece => DIVAN
78 Down: Subject line abbr. => FWD
79 Down: Old car from Sweden => SAAB
80 Down: Fruit that's not so cute => UGLI
82 Down: Ship sunk in Havana Harbor in 1898 => USSMAINE
83 Down: Hong Kong's Hang __ Index => SENG
85 Down: Tiki bar drink => MAITAI
86 Down: RSVP cards, often => ENCS
87 Down: Sees => GETS
91 Down: Asserts without proof => ALLEGES
92 Down: Plumeria garland => LEI
94 Down: Illness => MALADY
96 Down: Lara Croft: __ Raider => TOMB
97 Down: Inbox fillers => EMAILS
98 Down: Original SNL cast member Gilda => RADNER
99 Down: Turn red, say => RIPEN
100 Down: __ vincit amor => OMNIA
102 Down: Car warranty call, usually => SCAM
103 Down: Fabled loser => HARE
104 Down: Watson of Little Women => EMMA
106 Down: No __: Piece of cake => PROB
107 Down: Fish organ => GILL
110 Down: BFFs => PALS
111 Down: Singer Lambert => ADAM
112 Down: Have a meal => DINE
113 Down: Soldier of Love singer => SADE
115 Down: Space => GAP
116 Down: About Me info => BIO

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This crossword has 61 across clues and 82 down clues. In total 143 clues are solved in the section above.
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