Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Gentle touches => PATS
5 Across: Raise, as morale => BOOST
10 Across: Harvest => REAP
14 Across: Baker's appliance => OVEN
15 Across: One of the Three Musketeers => ATHOS
16 Across: Penne __ vodka => ALLA
17 Across: Intimate conversation in bed => PILLOWTALK
19 Across: The Rabbit Hutch National Book Award winner Gunty => TESS
20 Across: Pizzeria owner in Do the Right Thing => SAL
21 Across: Prepare ahead of time => PLAN
22 Across: Make a quick policy change => PIVOT
23 Across: Coming in handy => UTILE
25 Across: Laundry apparatus used as a percussion instrument => WASHBOARD
28 Across: Funnel-shaped flower => PETUNIA
30 Across: Apple platform => IOS
31 Across: Greek letter before upsilon => TAU
32 Across: Fellows => MEN
33 Across: CPR pro => EMT
34 Across: Been there, __ that => DONE
35 Across: Aerosolized popcorn condiment => SPRAYBUTTER
38 Across: Yes votes => AYES
40 Across: Key __: car remote => FOB
41 Across: Bit of positivity? => ION
42 Across: Bad review => PAN
43 Across: Poivre partner => SEL
44 Across: Ideal => OPTIMUM
48 Across: Timepiece innards => CLOCKWORK
51 Across: Muscat resident => OMANI
52 Across: NCIS protagonist __ Jethro Gibbs => LEROY
53 Across: Lyft competitor => UBER
55 Across: Show hosts, for short => MCS
56 Across: Actress Shawkat => ALIA
57 Across: Actor's stand-in, or a hint to what can precede both parts of 17-, 25-, 35-, and 48-Across => BODYDOUBLE
60 Across: Exams for srs. => SATS
61 Across: Foe => ENEMY
62 Across: Wax alternative => NAIR
63 Across: Whack => SWAT
64 Across: Like grainy graphics => LORES
65 Across: Best Female Athlete, e.g. => ESPY

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Comes as a surprise, maybe => POPSUP
2 Down: Fly a plane => AVIATE
3 Down: Preach! => TELLIT
4 Down: NBC sketch show, familiarly => SNL
5 Down: Weep loudly => BAWL
6 Down: Capital of Canada => OTTAWA
7 Down: Hawaiian word for family => OHANA
8 Down: Pine-__: cleaning brand => SOL
9 Down: Disapproving sound => TSK
10 Down: Math comparison => RATIO
11 Down: Stairs alternative => ELEVATOR
12 Down: Concession speech giver => ALSORAN
13 Down: Late, as a library book => PASTDUE
18 Down: First game of the season => OPENER
22 Down: All Creatures Great and Small airer => PBS
24 Down: Sugar cubes => LUMPS
26 Down: Atlas actor Liu => SIMU
27 Down: Good intel => HOTTIP
29 Down: Shortly => INAFEW
33 Down: Flow out => EBB
34 Down: Jeans material => DENIM
35 Down: Miss, in Mexico => SENORITA
36 Down: Carpe diem acronym => YOLO
37 Down: My Neighbor __: 1988 Miyazaki film => TOTORO
38 Down: Sr.'s course for college credit => APCLASS
39 Down: Sonia Sotomayor's alma mater => YALELAW
43 Down: Pie in the __ => SKY
44 Down: I'm cool with that => OKBYME
45 Down: Deadly African snakes => MAMBAS
46 Down: Release, as a carabiner => UNCLIP
47 Down: __ loves company => MISERY
49 Down: Seashore => COAST
50 Down: More impolite => RUDER
54 Down: Dreyer's ice cream, east of the Rockies => EDYS
57 Down: The Fresh Prince of __-Air => BEL
58 Down: Artist Yoko => ONO
59 Down: French article => UNE

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This crossword has 39 across clues and 38 down clues. In total 77 clues are solved in the section above.
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