Crossword Answers For: Saturday, December 9, 2023

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: All over the place => GLOBAL
7 Across: Period => TERM
11 Across: Chilled => COOLEDIT
13 Across: Absorb => SOPUP
14 Across: Features of Step by Step and Sister, Sister => BLENDEDFAMILIES
16 Across: Gets rid of => LOSES
17 Across: Chips away at => ERODES
18 Across: Fertility clinic cells => OVA
19 Across: Made shorter => SNIPPEDOFF
23 Across: Save it for the honeymoon! => GETAROOM
26 Across: Vietnamese garment => AODAI
27 Across: Small bucks and does => RABBITS
30 Across: Play a proper noun in Scrabble, say => ERR
31 Across: Declaration after a trial? => FORREALTHISTIME
36 Across: Honor for David Oyelowo: Abbr. => OBE
37 Across: Astonished cry => DEARGOD
38 Across: But to no __ => AVAIL
41 Across: Does as ordered? => TENDSBAR
45 Across: Craft goods that might be barrel-aged => MICROBREWS
48 Across: Classified letters => OBO
49 Across: Resident of Number One Observatory Circle since 2021 => HARRIS
50 Across: Enviable trait => ASSET
52 Across: You really don't want to go there => AVOIDATALLCOSTS
56 Across: No-goodnik => LOUSE
57 Across: Paper clips? => ARTICLES
58 Across: Precursor to a deal => ANTE
59 Across: Like some pop-up clinics => TENTED

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Tackles => GOESAT
2 Down: Single => LONE
3 Down: Grey Girl poet Sharon => OLDS
4 Down: Bumbling sort? => BEE
5 Down: Sum things up => ADD
6 Down: Anti-mimetic position held by Oscar Wilde => LIFEIMITATESART
7 Down: Largest Ohio city that doesn't start with C => TOLEDO
8 Down: Film with a boy named Anakin, familiarly => EPISODEI
9 Down: You'll __ the day! => RUE
10 Down: House of Commons reps => MPS
11 Down: Garam masala ingredient => CLOVE
12 Down: Grounds crew's roll => TARP
13 Down: Hit home? => SIDEA
14 Down: WordPress.com offering => BLOG
15 Down: Need after spilling the tea? => MOP
19 Down: Just wretched => SOBAD
20 Down: To the manor born => NOBLE
21 Down: Amass goods repetitively, in video games => FARM
22 Down: Dumpster __ => FIRE
24 Down: Talk Like a Pirate Day sound => ARR
25 Down: Hair Love voice actress => RAE
28 Down: Organized => THREW
29 Down: Traces => SIGNS
31 Down: __ roller => FOAM
32 Down: Curt Duh => OBVI
33 Down: Try to touch or get in touch => REACHOUT
34 Down: Grounds crew's roll => SOD
35 Down: Reasons for WRs to dance => TDS
39 Down: Aggressive response to a bluff => IRAISE
40 Down: Solar Power singer-songwriter => LORDE
42 Down: Ordered => BOSSED
43 Down: Plans a nice getaway? => ABETS
44 Down: Turns => ROTS
46 Down: Cosabella product => BRA
47 Down: Moreno in two West Side Story films => RITA
50 Down: No. on a bank statement => ACCT
51 Down: Single => SOLE
52 Down: __ provençale => ALA
53 Down: Artist Dutch whose name became a fashion brand => VON
54 Down: Cell service letters => LTE
55 Down: Former NBAer Jeremy => LIN

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This crossword has 27 across clues and 42 down clues. In total 69 clues are solved in the section above.
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