Crossword Answers For: Saturday, December 23, 2023

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Leather accessory => CHAPS
6 Across: Sandbox game items? => PAILS
11 Across: Rangers home, familiarly => MSG
14 Across: Cocoon fillers => PUPAE
15 Across: Actress MacDowell => ANDIE
16 Across: Took a course? => ATE
17 Across: Ancient Greek market => AGORA
18 Across: Fed. security => TNOTE
19 Across: MSNBC's "Inside With __ Psaki" => JEN
20 Across: James Webb, for one => SPACETELESCOPE
23 Across: Really feel the heat => BAKE
24 Across: Introduces an MGM film? => ROARS
25 Across: Hosted => HADOVER
28 Across: Arrests => HAULSIN
30 Across: __ Polytechnique => ECOLE
31 Across: "Severance" actor => SCOTT
33 Across: Source of local produce, for short => CSA
34 Across: __ regia: gold-dissolving substance => AQUA
35 Across: Puffy deep-fried bread => POORI
36 Across: Muscles worked in pull-ups and pull-downs => LATS
37 Across: Spice blend => RUB
38 Across: "Black Skin, White Masks" writer Frantz => FANON
39 Across: __ mignon => FILET
40 Across: Inclined => TILTING
42 Across: Spelling practice? => SORCERY
44 Across: Receiving line? => HEIRS
45 Across: Layered snack => OREO
46 Across: Silent nemesis in "Peanuts" => KITEEATINGTREE
51 Across: Is for many => ARE
52 Across: Smoothie option => GUAVA
53 Across: Daniel who writes the Gabriel Allon spy novels => SILVA
55 Across: Luthor in the Legion of Doom => LEX
56 Across: Row of pawns, e.g. => OCTET
57 Across: Needed Advil, say => ACHED
58 Across: Superlative suffix => EST
59 Across: One-named rapper in the hip-hop collective Doomtree => DESSA
60 Across: "The Constant Gardener" Oscar winner => WEISZ

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Pro concerned with returns => CPA
2 Down: Brings it in, in a way => HUGS
3 Down: Each => APOP
4 Down: y=2x² plot, e.g. => PARABOLA
5 Down: Coastal formation => SEACAVE
6 Down: Gilbert and Sullivan staple => PATTERSONG
7 Down: Rice, for one => ANNE
8 Down: K-pop star, say => IDOL
9 Down: Book club? => LITERATI
10 Down: Shows the door => SEESOUT
11 Down: Pitches delivered in sequence? => MAJORSCALE
12 Down: Member of a blended family => STEPSISTER
13 Down: Tiny inheritance? => GENE
21 Down: __ out => EKE
22 Down: Berkeley, familiarly => CAL
25 Down: "Barracuda" band => HEART
26 Down: Purchases a company to obtain talented employees => ACQUIHIRES
27 Down: Follow up too soon, perhaps => DOUBLETEXT
28 Down: Beethoven composition for brass virtuoso Giovanni Punto => HORNSONATA
29 Down: Repugnant => NASTY
32 Down: Imitate a dove => COO
35 Down: Many a reduction => PANSAUCE
36 Down: Good & Plenty flavor => LICORICE
38 Down: Vulcan or Agni => FIREGOD
39 Down: Tool for intricate cutting => FRETSAW
41 Down: Draw => TIE
43 Down: Part of some email addresses => ORG
46 Down: Vegetable baked for chips => KALE
47 Down: Parts of a sleeve => TATS
48 Down: Lithographer James Merritt => IVES
49 Down: Precollege yrs. => ELHI
50 Down: The before times? => EVES
54 Down: Wood shaper => ADZ

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This crossword has 37 across clues and 34 down clues. In total 71 clues are solved in the section above.
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