Crossword Answers For: Monday, October 30, 2023

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Fancy alternative to a classic necktie => ASCOT
6 Across: Time sheet abbr. => HRS
9 Across: Meat salad from Laos => LARB
13 Across: Shop => STORE
14 Across: Informal assent => YEP
15 Across: Third-longest African river => NIGER
16 Across: Push It hip-hop trio => SALTNPEPA
18 Across: Verdi work => OPERA
19 Across: Am __ picky? => ITOO
20 Across: Mattel game based on Crazy Eights => UNO
21 Across: Spoke monotonously => DRONED
22 Across: Omen => SIGN
23 Across: Mardi Gras => FATTUESDAY
25 Across: Traveler's stopover => INN
26 Across: Hypotheticals => IFS
27 Across: Crumb-carrying critter => ANT
28 Across: App annoyances => ADS
29 Across: Microbe => GERM
31 Across: Freeze over => ICEUP
33 Across: Chef and cookbook writer whose four elements of cooking are the first words of the answers to 16-, 23-, 48-, and 56-Across => SAMINNOSRAT
37 Across: Extinct birds => DODOS
38 Across: Russian denial => NYET
40 Across: Foldable bed => COT
43 Across: 2016 Summer Olympics city => RIO
44 Across: Meditation sounds => OMS
46 Across: Period of history => ERA
48 Across: Inclination to use biting sarcasm => ACIDTONGUE
51 Across: Quick cut => SNIP
52 Across: Say again => REPEAT
53 Across: GPS suggestion => RTE
54 Across: Support staff member => AIDE
55 Across: Artist's stand => EASEL
56 Across: Feels like figure that combines temperature and humidity => HEATINDEX
58 Across: Foul moods => SNITS
59 Across: I __ your pardon? => BEG
60 Across: Basic Instinct actress Sharon => STONE
61 Across: IRS IDs => SSNS
62 Across: Poem of praise => ODE
63 Across: Puts a stop to => HALTS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Birthplace of St. Francis => ASSISI
2 Down: Announcing => STATING
3 Down: Choices at perfume counters => COLOGNES
4 Down: WWE champion Randy who had a long rivalry with John Cena => ORTON
5 Down: Low card in a royal flush => TEN
6 Down: African scavengers whose cries sound like laughter => HYENAS
7 Down: Transplant in the greenhouse => REPOT
8 Down: Relaxation station => SPA
9 Down: Slimming surgeries, informally => LIPOS
10 Down: Meeting outline => AGENDA
11 Down: Go over again, as a contract => REREAD
12 Down: Blended sitcom family of classic TV => BRADYS
15 Down: All sales are final => NORETURNS
17 Down: Bit of smoke => PUFF
21 Down: Sand formations => DUNES
24 Down: Snack in a shell => TACO
26 Down: Mount Olympus dwellers, e.g. => IMMORTALS
30 Down: Awesome! => RAD
31 Down: Allstate's industry: Abbr. => INS
32 Down: Foot the bill => PAY
34 Down: American __: rock musical based on a Green Day album => IDIOT
35 Down: Twelve sharp => NOON
36 Down: Many a Disney Channel star => TEENIDOL
39 Down: Poseidon's staff => TRIDENT
40 Down: Gentle touch => CARESS
41 Down: Quite a lot => OCEANS
42 Down: Deflects through a basketball rim => TIPSIN
44 Down: Electrical interruption => OUTAGE
45 Down: Run into => MEET
47 Down: Pinnacles => APEXES
49 Down: Info, slangily => DEETS
50 Down: Avarice => GREED
51 Down: Father Christmas => SANTA
56 Down: Barry cable network => HBO
57 Down: Or so suffix => ISH

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This crossword has 39 across clues and 36 down clues. In total 75 clues are solved in the section above.
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