Crossword Answers For: Friday, September 29, 2023

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Some twitches => TICS
5 Across: Cicada predators => WASPS
10 Across: Challenges for nannies => IMPS
14 Across: Compatriot => ALLY
15 Across: Bracelet spot => ANKLE
16 Across: Smashing! => NEAT
17 Across: Official portraitist for a Mongolian leader? => KHANARTIST
19 Across: Water for Elephants novelist Gruen => SARA
20 Across: Sinus infection woes => EARACHES
21 Across: Sheer => UTTER
22 Across: Suddenly become alert => SNAPTO
23 Across: Tone down => EASE
25 Across: Condiment for an Ottoman leader? => SULTANPEPPER
31 Across: __ curls => BICEP
34 Across: Tends to a draft => EDITS
35 Across: Paris street => RUE
36 Across: R&B singer Redding => OTIS
37 Across: Hitches => SNAGS
38 Across: Cartoon girl who often says Swiper, no swiping to a masked fox => DORA
39 Across: Web => NET
40 Across: Afternoon hr. => ONEPM
41 Across: Creator of a cocky hare => AESOP
42 Across: Paltry stipend for a Middle Eastern leader? => EMIRPITTANCE
45 Across: Scoreboard count => OUTS
46 Across: Effect => IMPACT
50 Across: Thrones => SEATS
53 Across: Alcoves => RECESSES
55 Across: Stretched to the max => TAUT
56 Across: Humble abode for an Arab leader? => SHEIKSHACK
58 Across: Hobby farm measure => ACRE
59 Across: Horror or mystery => GENRE
60 Across: Haitian friend => AMIE
61 Across: Comparison word => THAN
62 Across: Jacket wool => TWEED
63 Across: Coat with gold leaf => GILD

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Points of view => TAKES
2 Down: Omar of Congress => ILHAN
3 Down: Civil War nurse Barton => CLARA
4 Down: Automatic transmission parts? => SYNAPSES
5 Down: Pop art icon played by Bowie in Basquiat => WARHOL
6 Down: Chip in a new pot => ANTE
7 Down: Goes downhill fast => SKIS
8 Down: __ fix thx! => PLS
9 Down: Complete group => SET
10 Down: Keeping up (with) => INSTEP
11 Down: Impossible Burger's lack => MEAT
12 Down: Peel => PARE
13 Down: Lead => STAR
18 Down: Cause trouble => ACTUP
21 Down: Exploits => USES
23 Down: The Imitation Game encryption machine => ENIGMA
24 Down: Some 2BR listings => APTS
26 Down: Creeds => TENETS
27 Down: Go with the flow => ADAPT
28 Down: Aces => PROS
29 Down: Italian bread? => EURO
30 Down: Use a scythe on => REAP
31 Down: Hip hop's __ Thugs-n-Harmony => BONE
32 Down: Thing => ITEM
33 Down: Big name in credit cards => CITI
37 Down: Huffy state => SNIT
38 Down: High-pile carpet style => DEEPSHAG
40 Down: Numbered piece => OPUS
41 Down: High spots => ACMES
43 Down: Raising a stink? => ROTTEN
44 Down: Barely cut => NICKED
47 Down: Ditto, more formally => ASAMI
48 Down: Poet Day-Lewis who wrote the Nigel Strangeways detective novels as Nicholas Blake => CECIL
49 Down: Expressed disapproval => TSKED
50 Down: RBI or ERA => STAT
51 Down: A pop => EACH
52 Down: Vibe picked up by a psychic, supposedly => AURA
53 Down: Russo who plays Frigga in Marvel's Thor films => RENE
54 Down: Dún Laoghaire's land => EIRE
56 Down: Rank above cpl. => SGT
57 Down: Fell => HEW

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This crossword has 35 across clues and 42 down clues. In total 77 clues are solved in the section above.
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