Crossword Answers For: Monday, April 17, 2023

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Hornets and yellow jackets => WASPS
6 Across: Meghan Trainor's All __ That Bass => ABOUT
11 Across: Poorly lit => DIM
14 Across: Change => ALTER
15 Across: Italian grandma => NONNA
16 Across: Earth-friendly prefix => ECO
17 Across: *Don't be a stranger! => KEEPINTOUCH
19 Across: Word with baseball or bottle => CAP
20 Across: Former flames => EXES
21 Across: Mischievous types => IMPS
22 Across: Screen symbols => ICONS
24 Across: Save Your Tears singer Grande => ARIANA
26 Across: Begin => START
27 Across: *Vision in the mind's eye => MENTALIMAGE
31 Across: Celeb's entourage => POSSE
35 Across: Many moons __ => AGO
36 Across: Resting on => ATOP
37 Across: Poker buy-ins => ANTES
38 Across: Prez on a fiver => ABE
39 Across: Military unit => TROOP
40 Across: Watch your __! => STEP
41 Across: Kerfuffle => ADO
42 Across: Trumpets and tubas => HORNS
43 Across: *Enthusiastic compliment in the fitting room => THATISSOYOU
47 Across: Utopias => EDENS
48 Across: Familiar saying => OLDSAW
52 Across: Soul singer Baker => ANITA
53 Across: Creations from la cocina brand => GOYA
55 Across: Ninny => TWIT
57 Across: Weeding tool => HOE
58 Across: Completely wrong, and what the answers to the starred clues literally are? => FULLOFBEANS
61 Across: Curvy letter => ESS
62 Across: August: __ County: Meryl Streep film => OSAGE
63 Across: Novelist Jong => ERICA
64 Across: Intersected => MET
65 Across: Lose it => GOMAD
66 Across: Sign on many doors => ENTER

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Rouse from sleep => WAKE
2 Down: Apple : Siri :: Amazon : __ => ALEXA
3 Down: Take the helm => STEER
4 Down: One side in the cola wars => PEPSI
5 Down: __ Lanka => SRI
6 Down: Insect-sized superhero played by Paul Rudd => ANTMAN
7 Down: Jazz Age cartoon Betty __ => BOOP
8 Down: Heavy burden => ONUS
9 Down: Duke's ACC rival => UNC
10 Down: Island in French Polynesia => TAHITI
11 Down: Interior designer => DECORATOR
12 Down: Melodramatic cry of exhaustion => ICANTGOON
13 Down: Unkempt dos => MOPS
18 Down: Number of innings in most baseball games => NINE
23 Down: Chevy muscle car => CAMARO
25 Down: Iowa city north of Des Moines => AMES
26 Down: __-mo => SLO
28 Down: Definite no-no => TABOO
29 Down: Mature => AGE
30 Down: Love & Basketball actor Omar => EPPS
31 Down: Yesteryear => PAST
32 Down: Precisely => ONTHENOSE
33 Down: Most reliable, in a way => STEADIEST
34 Down: Days of the week, e.g. => SEPTET
38 Down: Pop-ups in many free apps => ADS
39 Down: Dull impact sound => THUD
41 Down: Braying quadruped => ASS
44 Down: Rather out of it => INAFOG
45 Down: Fluctuated wildly => YOYOED
46 Down: Elsa and Anna's snowman pal => OLAF
49 Down: Back of a boat => STERN
50 Down: Eagerly expect => AWAIT
51 Down: Show a bit of pain => WINCE
52 Down: I can hear you, you know => AHEM
53 Down: Glitzy genre => GLAM
54 Down: Gymnast Korbut => OLGA
56 Down: Bygone Russian ruler => TSAR
59 Down: GI entertainers => USO
60 Down: Honey-making pollinator => BEE

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This crossword has 37 across clues and 40 down clues. In total 77 clues are solved in the section above.
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