Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Flowerbox place => SILL
5 Across: Hubbub => STIR
9 Across: Use a 26-Down => SHAVE
14 Across: Nabisco cookie => OREO
15 Across: Gallant one => HERO
16 Across: Wonder Woman's rope => LASSO
17 Across: *Ray Winstone/Ben Kingsley crime drama => SEXYBEAST
19 Across: Touch of Evil director Welles => ORSON
20 Across: Some remote batteries => AAAS
21 Across: Bacon pieces => STRIPS
22 Across: *Period of anxiety that may be brought on by facing one's mortality => MIDLIFECRISIS
27 Across: Apartment, say => UNIT
28 Across: You __ to be there => HAD
29 Across: Put away => STOW
32 Across: Some DVD players => SONYS
34 Across: Assessed, with up => SIZED
36 Across: Actor Vigoda => ABE
37 Across: Vampire vaporizer => SUN
38 Across: Fashionable, or an apt description of the ends of the answers to the starred clues => ALAMODE
40 Across: Not gross => NET
41 Across: Examine critically => EYE
42 Across: Waffle => WAVER
43 Across: First few pages of many books => INTRO
45 Across: Feudal laborer => SERF
47 Across: Neither's partner => NOR
48 Across: Japanese noodle => UDON
49 Across: *Folded missile in a classroom => PAPERAIRPLANE
54 Across: Parking spots => SPACES
56 Across: Agreed! => DEAL
57 Across: Eagle's perch => AERIE
58 Across: *Spot to store valuables when traveling => HOTELSAFE
63 Across: Pertaining to birth => NATAL
64 Across: Disney snowman => OLAF
65 Across: __ go bragh! => ERIN
66 Across: Do up, as hair => STYLE
67 Across: Guitar tuners => PEGS
68 Across: Lean (toward) => TEND

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Help! letters => SOS
2 Down: Anger => IRE
3 Down: Supervillain Luthor who co-founded the Injustice League => LEX
4 Down: Faithfulness => LOYALTY
5 Down: Bundle of harvested grain => SHEAF
6 Down: Poke fun at => TEASE
7 Down: Org. with many auditors => IRS
8 Down: Spoil => ROT
9 Down: Casino machines => SLOTS
10 Down: Vice president Kamala => HARRIS
11 Down: Prosecutor's deputy, for short => ASSISTANTDA
12 Down: Initials on a brandy bottle => VSOP
13 Down: Ages upon ages => EONS
18 Down: Wow at first sip brand => BAI
21 Down: Allied (with) => SIDED
22 Down: Dishevels, as hair => MUSSES
23 Down: Senator for whom Honolulu's airport is named => INOUYE
24 Down: Occasion to use the good china => DINNERPARTY
25 Down: Fire-breathing Greek monster => CHIMERA
26 Down: Stubble remover => RAZOR
30 Down: A Midsummer Night's Dream king => OBERON
31 Down: Slobbery kiss => WETONE
33 Down: Watched => SAW
34 Down: Really relish => SAVOR
35 Down: Agnus __ => DEI
39 Down: Features of a bowling alley => LANES
44 Down: Mathematical void symbolized by { } => NULLSET
46 Down: Treatment that may involve a peel => FACIAL
50 Down: Nope writer/director Jordan => PEELE
51 Down: Luggage label => IDTAG
52 Down: Hangouts for some schools? => REEFS
53 Down: Friend => PAL
54 Down: Without => SANS
55 Down: Organic fuel => PEAT
58 Down: Short jump => HOP
59 Down: Copa Mundial cheer => OLE
60 Down: What will be will be => ARE
61 Down: Sign of a shark => FIN
62 Down: Goal => END

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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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