Crossword Answers For: Monday, October 2, 2023

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Symbol on the Texas state flag => STAR
5 Across: Central point => GIST
9 Across: Sailboat poles => MASTS
14 Across: Muted, as colors => PALE
15 Across: Cuatro y cuatro => OCHO
16 Across: To no __: without success => AVAIL
17 Across: North Carolina university => ELON
18 Across: Clothing part that might split => SEAM
19 Across: As of late => NEWLY
20 Across: Talks things out to resolve tension => CLEARSTHEAIR
23 Across: Miss Piggy's favorite pronoun => MOI
24 Across: Spice amt. => TSP
25 Across: Post for an MBA, maybe => CFO
28 Across: Slumbers soundly => SLEEPSLIKEALOG
33 Across: Ecol. or geol. => SCI
34 Across: Catch a glimpse of => SEE
35 Across: Digital camera insert, briefly => SDCARD
36 Across: Good Lord! => OHGOD
39 Across: Food drive donation => CAN
41 Across: Familiar Who's there? reply => ITSME
42 Across: Arrived by air => FLEWIN
44 Across: Push-up bra feature => PAD
46 Across: __ Diego Padres => SAN
47 Across: Applies more pressure => TURNSUPTHEHEAT
51 Across: Paramount channel => CBS
52 Across: Paramount channel => TMC
53 Across: Web pioneer => AOL
54 Across: Jack London short story set in harsh winter conditions, and what the ends of 20-, 28-, and 47-Across can be used for => TOBUILDAFIRE
60 Across: Green energy category => SOLAR
63 Across: Tend the soup => STIR
64 Across: Big celebrity => IDOL
65 Across: Learn to fit in => ADAPT
66 Across: __, Brute? => ETTU
67 Across: Sizable bodies of water => SEAS
68 Across: Formally hands over => CEDES
69 Across: Amy of The Wire => RYAN
70 Across: Rabbit kin => HARE

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: On __: how much freelance work is done => SPEC
2 Down: Like many supermodels => TALL
3 Down: Sunburn soother => ALOE
4 Down: Change the title of => RENAME
5 Down: Deals in dirt => GOSSIPS
6 Down: Rapper who plays Fin on Law & Order: SVU => ICET
7 Down: Toppled Iranian leader => SHAH
8 Down: Black Lives Matter co-founder Ayo __ => TOMETI
9 Down: Nail treatment at a salon, informally => MANIPEDI
10 Down: State definitively => AVER
11 Down: Toothed tool => SAW
12 Down: Up to, briefly => TIL
13 Down: Underhanded => SLY
21 Down: Fish eggs => ROE
22 Down: Inquires => ASKS
25 Down: Top-grade => CLASSA
26 Down: Word processing menu heading => FORMAT
27 Down: Happiness is having a scratch for every itch poet Nash => OGDEN
28 Down: Disheveled clod => SCHLUB
29 Down: Crossbred big cats => LIGERS
30 Down: Brief time, briefly => SEC
31 Down: Cleared a hurdle => LEAPT
32 Down: Take steps => ACT
33 Down: Component of cider but not cola? => SOFTC
37 Down: Hold the deed to => OWN
38 Down: Twists, as data => DISTORTS
40 Down: Nope => NAH
43 Down: Pink Floyd's Comfortably __ => NUMB
45 Down: All-out sprint => DEADRUN
48 Down: Many a laptop owner => PCUSER
49 Down: Condo management gp. => HOA
50 Down: Mischievous => ELFISH
54 Down: Cassette => TAPE
55 Down: Teeny => ITTY
56 Down: Close My Eyes Forever singer Ford => LITA
57 Down: Brain wave => IDEA
58 Down: Stadium sound => ROAR
59 Down: Who __ knows? => ELSE
60 Down: Cul-de-__ => SAC
61 Down: Rhyming tribute => ODE
62 Down: Young fellow => LAD

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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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