Crossword Answers For: Friday, August 25, 2023

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: *Pipe alternative => CIGAR
6 Across: *You Were Meant for Me singer => JEWEL
11 Across: *Minor mistake => SLIP
15 Across: 2022 Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Tony => OLIVA
16 Across: Savory quality => UMAMI
17 Across: Soft food => MUSH
18 Across: Hybrid big cat => LIGER
19 Across: No __! => SIREE
20 Across: Spot's pal in Pixar's The Good Dinosaur => ARLO
21 Across: Most precious => DEAREST
23 Across: Like Frederick the Great's kingdom => PRUSSIAN
25 Across: Skin bump => WART
26 Across: Jedi played by Daisy Ridley => REY
27 Across: Unifying idea => THEME
28 Across: Boring situation => DRAG
30 Across: Tara of the Sharknado films => REID
32 Across: Novelist Santha Rama __ => RAU
33 Across: Bistros, e.g. => EATERIES
35 Across: Zombies, essentially => CORPSES
39 Across: Inebriated => LIT
40 Across: Situation that occurs under extreme conditions, and a description of the answer to each starred clue => EDGECASE
42 Across: __ kwon do => TAE
43 Across: Guts => INSIDES
45 Across: App's customers => USERBASE
47 Across: Rx writers => MDS
48 Across: Developer's map => PLAT
49 Across: Eagle-__ => EYED
50 Across: Title in a Dumas title => COMTE
53 Across: Sewer scamperer => RAT
54 Across: Some quinceañera attendees => TIAS
56 Across: Party bowlful => ONIONDIP
58 Across: British actor who played Bilbo Baggins => IANHOLM
61 Across: Gabrielle Union's alma mater => UCLA
62 Across: Do the trick => AVAIL
64 Across: Flood guard => LEVEE
65 Across: Wants to take back => RUES
66 Across: 2022 role for Pattinson => WAYNE
67 Across: __ rock => ARENA
68 Across: *Challenge => TEST
69 Across: *Tumbler => GLASS
70 Across: *Least satisfactory => WORST

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: *On a losing streak => COLD
2 Down: Would __ to you? => ILIE
3 Down: Power grid measures => GIGAWATTS
4 Down: Bowler's statistic => AVERAGE
5 Down: More valuable, perhaps => RARER
6 Down: Merely => JUST
7 Down: Classic record label => EMI
8 Down: Bent out of shape => WARPED
9 Down: Pedicure abrasive => EMERY
10 Down: Substitution word => LIEU
11 Down: Demolition derby collision => SMASHUP
12 Down: Foreign Affairs Pulitzer winner => LURIE
13 Down: Mullah's faith => ISLAM
14 Down: *Call => PHONE
22 Down: Walks purposefully => STRIDES
24 Down: Impolite observer => STARER
26 Down: Gentle hill => RISE
28 Down: *Sub supplier => DELI
29 Down: Reason for indoor recess => RAIN
31 Down: Brain tests, briefly => EEGS
32 Down: Stone discovery site => ROSETTA
34 Down: Blush => REDDEN
35 Down: Asunción abode => CASA
36 Down: Spends the night => STAYSOVER
37 Down: Relieve => EASE
38 Down: *Germ of an idea => SEED
41 Down: Rock's Blue Öyster __ => CULT
44 Down: My goose is cooked => IMTOAST
46 Down: Save the day => BEAHERO
48 Down: Smoothie fruit => PAPAYA
50 Down: *Server's spot? => COURT
51 Down: When expected => ONCUE
52 Down: Some credit card rewards => MILES
53 Down: Uber, to Lyft => RIVAL
55 Down: Holiday visitor => INLAW
57 Down: University of Georgia athlete, familiarly => DAWG
58 Down: Tahiti et Martinique => ILES
59 Down: Periscope part => LENS
60 Down: *Charcuterie fare => MEAT
63 Down: Progressive business: Abbr. => INS

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This crossword has 41 across clues and 41 down clues. In total 82 clues are solved in the section above.
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