Crossword Answers For: Friday, October 27, 2023

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Prayer wheel spinner => LAMA
5 Across: You know you want to! => CMON
9 Across: Half a pop quartet => MAMAS
14 Across: Like some defenses => ORAL
15 Across: Outsized promotion => HYPE
16 Across: San Antonio mission => ALAMO
17 Across: Fixes beforehand => RIGS
18 Across: Border on => ABUT
19 Across: Jurassic giants, for short => DINOS
20 Across: Phrase on a card in Desert Monopoly? => DONOTPASSGOBI
23 Across: Pelican State sch. => LSU
24 Across: Passé => OLD
25 Across: The Red Tent novelist Diamant => ANITA
27 Across: Sanaa citizen => YEMENI
29 Across: Stable environment? => BARN
31 Across: Clearasil shelfmate => OXY
33 Across: Doll with many advanced degrees? => GENIUSBARBIE
36 Across: Nevada city on I-80 => ELKO
39 Across: Calendar col. => FRI
40 Across: Hinged fastener => HASP
41 Across: Part of the year that's filled with possibility? => MONTHOFMAYBE
46 Across: Pirouette point => TOE
47 Across: Actress Taylor-Joy => ANYA
48 Across: Dismays => ALARMS
52 Across: Bamboo fencing? => KENDO
54 Across: Capote nickname => TRU
55 Across: Time capsule time => ERA
56 Across: Sport whose players wear furry hides? => BEARSKINRUGBY
60 Across: Bundle of wheat => SHEAF
62 Across: Apple variety => GALA
63 Across: Sweeties => BAES
64 Across: Soeur de la mère => TANTE
65 Across: No time to wade through this initialism => TLDR
66 Across: Sparkle => ELAN
67 Across: Provide backing for => ENDOW
68 Across: Word with box or car => SEAT
69 Across: Nevada city on I-80 => RENO

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Haughty => LORDLY
2 Down: Having a melody => ARIOSE
3 Down: With 7-Down, masterpiece => MAGNUM
4 Down: And don't forget ... => ALSO
5 Down: Star of the 1925 film The Gold Rush => CHAPLIN
6 Down: That's on me => MYBAD
7 Down: See 3-Down => OPUS
8 Down: Team that shares an arena with the Liberty => NETS
9 Down: Pietà figure => MADONNA
10 Down: Defense mechanism? => ALIBI
11 Down: Nunavut neighbor => MANITOBA
12 Down: Chilean's I love => AMO
13 Down: Brillo alternative => SOS
21 Down: Mood => TONE
22 Down: Threads => GARB
26 Down: x or y, on graphs => AXIS
28 Down: John Legend accomplishment, briefly => EGOT
29 Down: Myanmar, once => BURMA
30 Down: Java setting => ASIA
32 Down: No prob => YEP
34 Down: Highly questionable => IFFY
35 Down: Seehorn of Better Call Saul => RHEA
36 Down: Life-saving pro => EMT
37 Down: Glance => LOOK
38 Down: Element of a warrior pose => KNEEBEND
42 Down: Got tipsy => HADAFEW
43 Down: __ close to schedule => ONOR
44 Down: Craftivist's creation, at times => YARNART
45 Down: Fuzzy memory => BLUR
49 Down: Entertain sumptuously => REGALE
50 Down: Childlike Rowan Atkinson character => MRBEAN
51 Down: Sends regrets => SAYSNO
53 Down: Cool kin => NEATO
54 Down: Oscar winner Swinton => TILDA
57 Down: Some military figs. => SGTS
58 Down: Collard greens kin => KALE
59 Down: Superlative prefix => UBER
60 Down: Fr. holy title => STE
61 Down: Frenemy of Lando => HAN

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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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