Crossword Answers For: Friday, December 8, 2023

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Short shots => PICS
5 Across: Shocks => JOLTS
10 Across: Gum balls? => WADS
14 Across: Shade in a neutral palette => ECRU
15 Across: Nebraska rail hub => OMAHA
16 Across: Actor Guinness => ALEC
17 Across: Odd remedy for an overhead crack? => CEILINGWAX
19 Across: Speak effusively => GUSH
20 Across: Shock => STUN
21 Across: Rejections => NOS
23 Across: You can't mean me!? => MOI
24 Across: Go downhill fast => SKI
25 Across: Pennies that are a dime a dozen? => COMMONCENTS
30 Across: Super __ => PAC
31 Across: Met favorites => ARIAS
32 Across: Truism => AXIOM
33 Across: Sundance Film Festival state => UTAH
35 Across: Club kin => BLT
36 Across: __ carte => ALA
37 Across: Percussion instrument for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir? => RELIGIOUSCYMBAL
43 Across: Hardly! => NOT
44 Across: Same old same old => RUT
45 Across: Rational => SANE
46 Across: CX-5 and CX-50 automaker => MAZDA
49 Across: Olympian and actress Sonja => HENIE
51 Across: Decline => SAG
52 Across: Sacrifice of some data storage space? => CLOUDCEDING
54 Across: Prefix with friendly => ECO
55 Across: Tanqueray product => GIN
56 Across: Tofu, basically => SOY
57 Across: Munch Museum city => OSLO
59 Across: Really distasteful => ICKY
61 Across: Jewelry in the shape of a swan? => CYGNETRING
66 Across: Committed perjury => LIED
67 Across: Gochujang origin => KOREA
68 Across: Red's friend in The Shawshank Redemption => ANDY
69 Across: Boys => LADS
70 Across: More confident => SURER
71 Across: Baseball gripping point => SEAM

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Delt neighbor => PEC
2 Down: Gear for 49-Across => ICESKATE
3 Down: Decisive => CRITICAL
4 Down: Chekov colleague => SULU
5 Down: Garfield's human => JON
6 Down: Daaaang! => OMG
7 Down: Kim Wexler's field on Better Call Saul => LAW
8 Down: Marvel villain who collected the Infinity Stones => THANOS
9 Down: Early invader of Great Britain => SAXON
10 Down: Jokester => WAG
11 Down: Many college donors => ALUMNI
12 Down: Bygone Chrysler => DESOTO
13 Down: Rupture in a church group => SCHISM
18 Down: Native of Peru's Urubamba Valley => INCA
22 Down: Like a bass or a boa => SCALY
24 Down: Urge (on) => SPUR
26 Down: Planetary path => ORBIT
27 Down: Ventimiglia of This Is Us => MILO
28 Down: Ripened => MATURED
29 Down: Chances to determine proficiency => EXAMS
34 Down: Holi celebrant => HINDU
36 Down: Get credit for? => ACTIN
38 Down: Urges on => GOADS
39 Down: Olympic gymnast Lee => SUNI
40 Down: Court boundary => BASELINE
41 Down: World's heaviest snake => ANACONDA
42 Down: Component of some small castles => LEGO
46 Down: Montreal university => MCGILL
47 Down: Garza who co-founded the Black Lives Matter movement => ALICIA
48 Down: Utterly exhausted => ZONKED
49 Down: Oh, hi! => HEYYOU
50 Down: Versatile celeb's achievement => EGOT
53 Down: Roosters => COCKS
58 Down: Some Mex. spouses => SRAS
60 Down: Quilting qty. => YDS
62 Down: Why, I oughta ... => GRR
63 Down: Name-clarifying word => NEE
64 Down: Otoscope target => EAR
65 Down: Workout spot => GYM

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This crossword has 39 across clues and 40 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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