Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Day on Mars => SOL
4 Across: Crunched numbers => DATA
8 Across: Shockingly vivid => LURID
13 Across: Clean water org. => EPA
14 Across: Inner selves => EGOS
15 Across: Wretchedness => MISERY
16 Across: Region of severe drought in the 1930s => DUSTBOWL
18 Across: Structures that provide shade => GAZEBOS
19 Across: At the ready => ALERT
20 Across: Massive => EPIC
22 Across: Craigslist abbr. => OBO
23 Across: Actress Polo => TERI
24 Across: Diner, e.g. => GREASYSPOON
28 Across: Head physician, briefly? => ENT
29 Across: Feeds the pigs => SLOPS
30 Across: Light units => WATTS
31 Across: Assume, as a responsibility => TAKEON
33 Across: Bank vaults => SAFES
36 Across: Rochester, New York, dish with meat, fries, and baked beans => GARBAGEPLATE
39 Across: Question type => YESNO
40 Across: SoFi Stadium pros => LARAMS
42 Across: Actor Hawke => ETHAN
45 Across: Runs up against? => ABUTS
47 Across: Light touch => PAT
49 Across: Hazard for bare feet in a beach parking lot => BROKENGLASS
52 Across: Cooked up => MADE
53 Across: Bluff, maybe => BET
54 Across: Force from power => OUST
55 Across: Gives for a while => LENDS
56 Across: Doesn't look good for me! => IMTOAST
59 Across: Army dining area, or a punny description of where to find 16-, 24-, 36-, and 49-Across => MESSHALL
62 Across: Apt name for someone born on Christmas => NOELLE
63 Across: Operatic solo => ARIA
64 Across: Narc's org. => DEA
65 Across: Class => GRADE
66 Across: Subsequently => NEXT
67 Across: Mule kin => ASS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Hardly rowdy => SEDATE
2 Down: Richly appointed => OPULENT
3 Down: Activity that involves taking a shot in the dark? => LASERTAG
4 Down: Subject of a congressional ceiling => DEBT
5 Down: Previously => AGO
6 Down: Pull along => TOW
7 Down: Like a limb that's all pins and needles => ASLEEP
8 Down: 30 Rock role for Tina => LIZ
9 Down: Employ => USE
10 Down: Start up again => REBOOT
11 Down: Asimov work with Three Laws => IROBOT
12 Down: Vacuums that have dual cyclone technology => DYSONS
15 Down: I Try singer Gray => MACY
17 Down: Prefix with -athlon => TRI
18 Down: Beneficiaries of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, for short => GIS
21 Down: Out of style => PASSE
24 Down: Gooey lumps => GLOBS
25 Down: Journalist Farrow => RONAN
26 Down: Pinky promises => SWEARS
27 Down: Carb-loader's pre-race meal => PASTA
29 Down: Like the vibes at a spa => SERENE
32 Down: Style of boat first used by the Aleut, Inuit, and Yupik peoples => KAYAK
34 Down: Overachiever's test score => APLUS
35 Down: Shoes that lack heels => FLATS
37 Down: Aspirational hashtag => GOALS
38 Down: Savory turnover => EMPANADA
41 Down: Seats for equestrians => SADDLES
42 Down: Receding => EBBING
43 Down: Earthquake => TREMOR
44 Down: Sore throat soother => HOTTEA
46 Down: The Caped Crusader => BATMAN
48 Down: Cars that charge slowly in the cold => TESLAS
50 Down: Honker => NOSE
51 Down: Word before microbiome => GUT
52 Down: It's fine => MEH
55 Down: DA-to-be's exam => LSAT
57 Down: Long in the tooth => OLD
58 Down: Tap pour => ALE
60 Down: Before, poetically => ERE
61 Down: __-pack abs => SIX

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This crossword has 37 across clues and 41 down clues. In total 78 clues are solved in the section above.
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