Crossword Answers For: Thursday, March 21, 2024

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Puzzle (out) => SUSS
5 Across: Synonymous => SAME
9 Across: Software glitches => BUGS
13 Across: Leg joint => KNEE
14 Across: Slacks, slangily => TROU
15 Across: Fall birthstone => OPAL
16 Across: Thing => ITEM
17 Across: Wag => JOKER
18 Across: Like an unswept hearth => ASHY
19 Across: Watering hole where servers may wear leis => TIKIBAR
21 Across: Animal Planet's Crikey! It's the Irwins co-star => TERRI
23 Across: Dead __ Scrolls => SEA
24 Across: The Memory of Trees singer => ENYA
26 Across: Youngsters => KIDDOS
29 Across: Quote => CITE
31 Across: Linguist Chomsky => NOAM
33 Across: Org. concerned with forever chemicals => EPA
34 Across: Language related to Czech => SLOVAK
36 Across: SHO subsidiary => TMC
37 Across: Yemeni port => ADEN
38 Across: Residence => HOME
39 Across: Pal => AMIGO
41 Across: F-150 maker => FORD
42 Across: Catch => ESPY
43 Across: Spy-fi org. => CIA
44 Across: Breathing room => LEEWAY
46 Across: Unceasingly, in poetry => EER
47 Across: Policy pro => CZAR
48 Across: Home turf? => LAWN
49 Across: President __ => PROTEM
51 Across: Pedicure targets => TOES
53 Across: Saturn or Mercury => CAR
56 Across: Asia's __ Peninsula => MALAY
58 Across: Verification tool for online alcohol retailers, e.g. => AGEGATE
60 Across: Not that => THIS
62 Across: Way to go => ROUTE
64 Across: Furniture retailer that sells FIXA tool kits => IKEA
65 Across: Remove from power => OUST
66 Across: Lip => EDGE
67 Across: Clockwork part => GEAR
68 Across: __ of life => TREE
69 Across: Clue actress Madeline => KAHN
70 Across: Systems of principles => ISMS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Funny sketches => SKITS
2 Down: Loosen, as a bow => UNTIE
3 Down: *Act the mediator => SEEKACOMPROMISE
4 Down: Interstate rig => SEMI
5 Down: Tale => STORY
6 Down: Craft for the first couples cruise? => ARK
7 Down: Chandon's partner => MOET
8 Down: *Illinois alma mater of Ronald Reagan => EUREKACOLLEGE
9 Down: Scrabble surface => BOARD
10 Down: Desserts flipped after baking, and what can be found in the answers to the starred clues => UPSIDEDOWNCAKES
11 Down: Exasperated cry => GAH
12 Down: Underhanded => SLY
17 Down: *Malcolm in the Middle actress => JANEKACZMAREK
20 Down: __ test => BETA
22 Down: Lip => RIM
25 Down: Like the Dada movement => ANTIART
27 Down: Judith Weir composition => OPERA
28 Down: Blondish => SANDY
30 Down: Tony winner Judith => IVEY
32 Down: Astonished letters => OMG
34 Down: Subject of a late-night countdown => SHEEP
35 Down: Also-ran => LOSER
37 Down: Three or four => AFEW
40 Down: Soccer star Hamm => MIA
45 Down: Let (up) => EASE
47 Down: Cartoon frame => CEL
50 Down: Officiate at a cook-off, say => TASTE
52 Down: Like some granola => OATEN
54 Down: First-stringers => ATEAM
55 Down: Brings up => REARS
57 Down: Jedi with an unusual speech pattern => YODA
59 Down: Supermodel Hadid => GIGI
60 Down: Small fry => TOT
61 Down: Ben-__ => HUR
63 Down: Exasperated cry => UGH

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This crossword has 43 across clues and 36 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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