Crossword Answers For: Thursday, May 18, 2023

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Possesses => HAS
4 Across: Participate in the gig economy, say => TEMP
8 Across: Hornet's defense => STING
13 Across: Moody genre => EMO
14 Across: Added to the staff => HIRED
16 Across: Youngest Kardashian sister => KHLOE
17 Across: Legged it => RAN
18 Across: *Pronoun for a spokesperson => EDITORIALWE
20 Across: Missouri's __ Mountains => OZARK
22 Across: Land by the sea => COAST
23 Across: *Decorative touch made with a small paintbrush, e.g. => DETAILWORK
26 Across: Text incessantly => SPAM
30 Across: Mexico's national flower => DAHLIA
31 Across: Upscale cosmetics chain => SEPHORA
33 Across: Boyos => LADS
35 Across: Time capsule object => RELIC
36 Across: *What we are living in, per a Madonna hit song => MATERIALWORLD
41 Across: Head-scratcher => POSER
42 Across: Polite title => MAAM
43 Across: You free? => GOTASEC
46 Across: Universal basic __ => INCOME
50 Across: Symbol on the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant cooling towers => ATOM
51 Across: *Wraps at a spa => HAIRTOWELS
54 Across: Skin and bones => GAUNT
56 Across: Not satisfied => UNMET
57 Across: Substances that never mix, except in the answers to the starred clues? => OILANDWATER
62 Across: Egg cells => OVA
63 Across: Word with number or time => PRIME
64 Across: Cats poet => ELIOT
65 Across: Cartoonist Sorensen who was the first woman to win the Herblock Prize => JEN
66 Across: Nothing gets past me => IKNEW
67 Across: Cravings => YENS
68 Across: Stuff in a pen => INK

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Judean king => HEROD
2 Down: Gobsmacked => AMAZED
3 Down: Handel bars? => SONATA
4 Down: Mr. Brightside band => THEKILLERS
5 Down: Holiday on which it's forbidden to fast, familiarly => EID
6 Down: Picture of health? => MRI
7 Down: Place to buy fish => PETCO
8 Down: Gear for Mikaela Shiffrin => SKIS
9 Down: She's the one! => THATSHER
10 Down: Not well => ILL
11 Down: And make it snappy => NOW
12 Down: Huh! => GEE
15 Down: Some portals => DOORS
19 Down: Lawn tool => RAKE
21 Down: Cheer syllable => RAH
24 Down: I don't believe you! => LIAR
25 Down: Silicon __: Israel's counterpart to California's Silicon Valley => WADI
27 Down: Opinion survey => POLL
28 Down: Parched => ARID
29 Down: Cheese partner => MAC
32 Down: Where teens are treated like royalty? => PROMCOURTS
34 Down: Richardson of The Afterparty => SAM
36 Down: Academic => MOOT
37 Down: Concerning => ASTO
38 Down: Bughouse chess, but not classic chess => TEAMGAME
39 Down: Hibernation spot => LAIR
40 Down: Crave => WANT
41 Down: Org. with carts and drivers => PGA
44 Down: Barak of Israel => EHUD
45 Down: Let us! => CANWE
47 Down: __ goal: bit of self-sabotage => OWN
48 Down: iOS personal avatar => MEMOJI
49 Down: Gridiron number => ELEVEN
52 Down: European boot? => ITALY
53 Down: Wasn't fresh, in a way => STANK
55 Down: Fresh => ANEW
57 Down: Nail polish brand => OPI
58 Down: Bug => IRK
59 Down: We Don't Talk About Bruno songwriter __-Manuel Miranda => LIN
60 Down: Connection => TIE
61 Down: Geological span => EON

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This crossword has 33 across clues and 42 down clues. In total 75 clues are solved in the section above.
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