Crossword Answers For: Saturday, May 20, 2023

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Staying safe, in a way => MASKINGUP
10 Across: Best effort => AGAME
15 Across: Request for multifactor authentication? => ASKANYONE
16 Across: Gurira who plays Okoye in the MCU => DANAI
17 Across: Collective noun? => PHILATELY
18 Across: Choose to join => OPTIN
19 Across: Hook, in journalism lingo => LEDE
20 Across: Quench => SATE
22 Across: Deadly septet => SINS
23 Across: Chicane shape, on some racetracks => ESS
24 Across: Well played => GOODONE
27 Across: Violent figure of Egyptian mythology => SET
28 Across: Explorer's code, hopefully => LEAVENOTRACE
30 Across: Twisted => WRITHED
32 Across: Birthplace and subject of writer Vu Trong Phung => HANOI
33 Across: Mais oui => BIENSUR
34 Across: Seneca Falls Convention figure => STANTON
36 Across: Alpaca habitat => ANDES
37 Across: Tutsi or Hutu => RWANDAN
38 Across: Childish taunt => NEENERNEENER
41 Across: Chats privately, briefly => DMS
42 Across: Like some yoga socks => TOELESS
43 Across: FD employee => EMT
46 Across: Fortunately, the Milk writer Gaiman => NEIL
48 Across: Permafrost concern => MELT
49 Across: BBQ side => SLAW
50 Across: Scottish cattle => ANGUS
52 Across: Immeasurable regions of the universe => DEEPSPACE
55 Across: Nosh => MUNCH
56 Across: Hall addition => ENSHRINEE
57 Across: Composition => ESSAY
58 Across: Waiting periods? => DOTDOTDOT

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Tall, sappy type => MAPLE
2 Down: Clambake debris => ASHES
3 Down: Starts to slip => SKIDS
4 Down: Curly cruciferous commodity => KALE
5 Down: Garten of earthly delights => INA
6 Down: She Said paper, briefly => NYT
7 Down: Runs past => GOESOVER
8 Down: Took off => UNLADED
9 Down: Doogie Kamealoha, M.D. star __ Elizabeth Lee => PEYTON
10 Down: Stir => ADO
11 Down: Breaks => GAPS
12 Down: Evil Christmas figure such as Krampus => ANTISANTA
13 Down: State cat in New England => MAINECOON
14 Down: On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies author => EINSTEIN
21 Down: Brian who said ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting => ENO
24 Down: Prepares => GETSSET
25 Down: Island with a state capital => OAHU
26 Down: Some fracking byproducts => ETHANES
28 Down: Summer material => LINEN
29 Down: Chilling episode? => RANDR
30 Down: Vintage collections => WINEMENUS
31 Down: Logo overhauls, e.g. => REDESIGNS
33 Down: Label for some musicians? => BANDNAME
34 Down: Most satisfying, as a victory => SWEETEST
35 Down: They may be fake => TANS
37 Down: Chile __: stuffed dish => RELLENO
39 Down: Bucharest's nat. => ROM
40 Down: Cried out for => NEEDED
43 Down: Runner in ancient African cave art => ELAND
44 Down: Funk saxophonist Parker => MACEO
45 Down: Chirp => TWEET
47 Down: 2021 Pixar film that premiered at the Aquarium of Genoa => LUCA
49 Down: Rotisserie part => SPIT
51 Down: Protected by an icy exterior, perhaps => SHY
53 Down: Degree of difficulty? => PHD
54 Down: B'way sign => SRO

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This crossword has 32 across clues and 37 down clues. In total 69 clues are solved in the section above.
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