Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Kindergarten basics => ABCS
5 Across: 1996 film that earned Frances McDormand her first Oscar => FARGO
10 Across: Tapped brew => BEER
14 Across: Ever so => VERY
15 Across: Cooked at home => ATEIN
16 Across: Church recess => APSE
17 Across: Business maj. => ECON
18 Across: Java joint => COFFEESHOP
20 Across: Snooze => NAP
21 Across: Cash dispensers => ATMS
22 Across: Beginnings => ONSETS
23 Across: Affixes in a scrapbook, say => GLUES
25 Across: Not too late => INTIME
26 Across: In-demand spot at a busy bistro => EMPTYTABLE
30 Across: Italian evening => SERA
32 Across: __ number: product ID => SERIAL
33 Across: Activate, as an alarm => TRIP
34 Across: Resistance unit => OHM
37 Across: Patio => TERRACE
40 Across: Deed => ACT
41 Across: Pedicure beneficiaries => TOES
43 Across: Improper treatment => MISUSE
45 Across: Ignore that suggested edit => STET
46 Across: Source of lumbar support => BACKPILLOW
50 Across: Muscle injury => STRAIN
52 Across: Oscar-winning song from Selma => GLORY
53 Across: With no markup => ATCOST
54 Across: How've you __? => BEEN
57 Across: His Dark Materials actor __-Manuel Miranda => LIN
58 Across: Deliberately ambiguous language, and an apt description of 18-, 26-, and 46-Across => DOUBLETALK
60 Across: Edinburgh resident => SCOT
61 Across: Poker pot starter => ANTE
62 Across: Code with dots and dashes => MORSE
63 Across: __ Alto, California => PALO
64 Across: Clarinet need => REED
65 Across: Concluded => ENDED
66 Across: ... with __-foot pole! => ATEN

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Get even for => AVENGE
2 Down: Don't freak out => BECALM
3 Down: Appear unexpectedly => CROPUP
4 Down: Thesaurus entry: Abbr. => SYN
5 Down: Indisputable point => FACT
6 Down: Elemental particle => ATOM
7 Down: Officials who may cry foul => REFS
8 Down: Animated pic => GIF
9 Down: Low-scoring tie => ONEONE
10 Down: Jazz band member => BASSIST
11 Down: Collectibles such as ticket stubs and matchbooks => EPHEMERA
12 Down: Understood by a select few => ESOTERIC
13 Down: Counts at a gym => REPS
19 Down: Sinusitis doc => ENT
21 Down: Until now => ASYET
24 Down: Sci-fi film extras, briefly => ETS
25 Down: Let me see if that's possible => ILLASK
27 Down: Italian three => TRE
28 Down: Low-ranking soldier on base => AIRMAN
29 Down: Relating to element 56 => BARIC
31 Down: Fitting => APT
34 Down: Bonus sports periods => OTS
35 Down: Warm element in some massages => HOTSTONE
36 Down: Rom-com encounter => MEETCUTE
38 Down: Many a sports trophy => CUP
39 Down: Endorse digitally => ESIGN
42 Down: Pulsed, as lights in a light show => STROBED
44 Down: Bracket shape => ELL
46 Down: Defiant retort => BITEME
47 Down: Meme feline => LOLCAT
48 Down: Baltimore MLB player => ORIOLE
49 Down: Jazz trumpeter Marsalis => WYNTON
51 Down: Syst. with hand gestures => ASL
53 Down: Hebrew month before Nisan => ADAR
54 Down: The __ of Avon => BARD
55 Down: Besides => ELSE
56 Down: __ out a living => EKED
59 Down: Immense weight => TON
60 Down: Galentine's Day destination, perhaps => SPA

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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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