Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Chess piece that's often the first to be played => PAWN
5 Across: [I'm shocked!] => GASP
9 Across: I'm Every Woman singer Chaka __ => KHAN
13 Across: Gobi locale => ASIA
14 Across: __ girl! => ATTA
15 Across: Sweet sandwich => SMORE
16 Across: Junior => THIRDYEAR
18 Across: No kidding! => THATSO
19 Across: Black and blue, say => BICOLOR
20 Across: Top => SHIRT
21 Across: Stomach => GUT
22 Across: Age of Attila's reign => FIFTHCENTURY
26 Across: Question that introduces doubt => ORISIT
28 Across: Writers McEwan and Fleming => IANS
29 Across: Pollen gatherer => BEE
30 Across: Bagless vacuum pioneer => DYSON
31 Across: Japanese box lunch => BENTO
33 Across: Warning with a URL => NSFW
34 Across: Like some Adventist Protestants => SEVENTHDAY
37 Across: Ticklish Muppet => ELMO
40 Across: Came to light => AROSE
41 Across: Changes direction => VEERS
45 Across: Campground inits. => KOA
46 Across: Mashed avocado, for short => GUAC
47 Across: Litter box user => PETCAT
48 Across: Almost too late => ELEVENTHHOUR
52 Across: Lucy of Charlie's Angels => LIU
53 Across: Squander => WASTE
54 Across: Fingertip-to-fingertip measurement => ARMSPAN
56 Across: Chooses => ELECTS
58 Across: Popular television programming block, and an apt title for this puzzle => PRIMETIME
60 Across: Mojave landforms => MESAS
61 Across: Fencing sword => EPEE
62 Across: North __ Sea: lake fed by the Syr Darya river => ARAL
63 Across: Like a cereal bar => OATY
64 Across: Opinion sampling => POLL
65 Across: Govt.-issued IDs => SSNS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Gentle touch => PAT
2 Down: San Francisco street crossing Haight => ASHBURY
3 Down: Arm pain from playing too much Nintendo => WIIITIS
4 Down: DEA agent => NARC
5 Down: Bookstore section with Jeanette Winterson and Andrew Sean Greer => GAYLIT
6 Down: Tasted, quaintly => ATEOF
7 Down: Get-go => START
8 Down: Average => PAR
9 Down: Target rival => KMART
10 Down: Jacuzzis => HOTTUBS
11 Down: Talk Like a Pirate Day sounds => ARS
12 Down: New prefix => NEO
15 Down: Lower legs => SHINS
17 Down: Get by => DOFINE
18 Down: Official approval => THENOD
20 Down: Rip into => SCATHE
21 Down: Mars, for one => GOD
23 Down: Clues => HINTS
24 Down: One who makes sure fighting between the Sharks and the Jets doesn't get out of hand? => REF
25 Down: Archery wood => YEW
27 Down: Average => SOSO
31 Down: Rip into => BERATE
32 Down: Cain's oldest son => ENOCH
33 Down: Russian no => NYET
35 Down: Crows about => VAUNTS
36 Down: Disinclined (to) => AVERSE
37 Down: __ out a living => EKE
38 Down: ur soooo funny! => LOL
39 Down: I'm No Angel star => MAEWEST
42 Down: Oblong pastries => ECLAIRS
43 Down: 1988 Best Picture => RAINMAN
44 Down: The Simpsons disco guy => STU
46 Down: Knight's tales => GESTS
47 Down: Wallop => PUMMEL
49 Down: Brief holiday? => VACAY
50 Down: Silent Marx brother => HARPO
51 Down: Bay window => ORIEL
55 Down: Education advocacy gps. => PTAS
56 Down: Punk subgenre => EMO
57 Down: Grassy expanse => LEA
58 Down: High spirits => PEP
59 Down: High trains => ELS

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This crossword has 37 across clues and 43 down clues. In total 80 clues are solved in the section above.
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