Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: __ signs => VITAL
6 Across: Feminine pronoun => SHE
9 Across: World Cup chant => USA
12 Across: With money at stake => ONABET
14 Across: Guinness of Doctor Zhivago => ALEC
15 Across: Task on a suburban summer to-do list => MOW
16 Across: Woke => CAMETO
17 Across: *Not so great => BELOWPAR
19 Across: Singer DiFranco => ANI
20 Across: Put away => STORED
22 Across: Road trip game => ISPY
23 Across: *Roe delicacy => BELUGACAVIAR
26 Across: Blog entry => POST
27 Across: Surround => ENVELOP
31 Across: Drag show accessories => BOAS
34 Across: Q's neighbor => TAB
36 Across: Fixes a crossword, say => EDITS
37 Across: Oblique neighbors => ABS
38 Across: *Laboratory vessel => BELLJAR
41 Across: __ but a scratch => TIS
42 Across: Part of a bath set gift basket => LOOFA
44 Across: Sea-__ airport => TAC
45 Across: Rat's home => NEST
46 Across: I'm going before you! => MEFIRST
49 Across: Prepare, as potatoes => MASH
51 Across: *Currency in San Ignacio => BELIZEDOLLAR
56 Across: London's __ Park => HYDE
59 Across: Gimme a minute => ONESEC
60 Across: Abbreviation with a suggested price => OBO
61 Across: Tight embraces, and what the answers to the starred clues literally have? => BEARHUGS
63 Across: Beatles hairstyle => MOPTOP
65 Across: Formula 1 need => CAR
66 Across: Rhyme Syndicate founder => ICET
67 Across: Hey, bro => YODUDE
68 Across: Coffee receptacle => URN
69 Across: Advanced deg. => PHD
70 Across: Uses a surgical beam => LASES

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Lesson that may involve a thesaurus, for short => VOCAB
2 Down: Silly => INANE
3 Down: Language in Sri Lanka => TAMIL
4 Down: Pres. in a stovepipe hat => ABE
5 Down: We're leaving now! => LETSGO
6 Down: Oreo cookie packaging => SLEEVE
7 Down: Bottled up, as emotions => HELDIN
8 Down: Earth Day prefix => ECO
9 Down: Work-from-home types => UMPS
10 Down: Irish Spring, e.g. => SOAP
11 Down: Slightly off => AWRY
13 Down: Cookbook phrase => TOTASTE
14 Down: Pokémon species that evolves into Kadabra and Alakazam => ABRA
18 Down: Full of energy => WIRED
21 Down: Eight-related => OCTAL
24 Down: Company with brown trucks => UPS
25 Down: State boldly => AVER
28 Down: Diet branding word => LITE
29 Down: Try a Little Tenderness singer Redding => OTIS
30 Down: Hushed summons => PSST
31 Down: Lip Smacker product => BALM
32 Down: Clarinet kin => OBOE
33 Down: Starting from => ASOF
35 Down: Club alternative => BLT
38 Down: Unadorned => BARE
39 Down: Lily of Downton Abbey => JAMES
40 Down: Starfleet school => ACADEMY
43 Down: Bran benefit => FIBER
45 Down: Org. for Oilers => NHL
47 Down: Abandon good posture => SLOUCH
48 Down: Lightly shaded => TINGED
50 Down: Awesome! => SOCOOL
52 Down: Citrus bits => ZEST
53 Down: Sacred flower => LOTUS
54 Down: Quarters => ABODE
55 Down: Lures (in) => ROPES
56 Down: Morehouse, for one: Abbr. => HBCU
57 Down: 12 months => YEAR
58 Down: Fiddlesticks => DARN
62 Down: In => HIP
64 Down: Get a room! elicitor, for short => PDA

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This crossword has 37 across clues and 42 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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