Crossword Answers For: Saturday, March 18, 2023

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: L or XL, but not LX => SIZE
5 Across: ___ Moore, activist and four-time WNBA champion => MAYA
9 Across: Andean leaf chewed as a stimulant => COCA
13 Across: Substandard => POOR
14 Across: Sorcerer's spells => HEXES
15 Across: Arabic aristocrat (var.) => AMIR
16 Across: Playing surface that gives hockey players some extra juice? => ENERGYRINK
18 Across: Like seahorses that give birth => MALE
19 Across: Modus operandi => WAY
20 Across: Disney attraction in Florida => EPCOT
21 Across: African country once known as Dahomey => BENIN
22 Across: Title of a documentary highlighting the domestic exploits of Jemison or West? => MAEINAMERICA
24 Across: Expresses willingness => OFFERS
27 Across: Org. providing tows => AAA
28 Across: Actress Taylor of Six Feet Under => LILI
29 Across: Bulldog's cheeks => JOWLS
32 Across: However, shortly => THO
35 Across: Run-of-the-mill moratorium on cream or ivory? => AVERAGEWHITEBAN
39 Across: Not many => FEW
40 Across: It can be badly laundered => MONEY
41 Across: Suffix with soft or hard => WARE
42 Across: Plant seeds for growing => SOW
43 Across: They may be weathered => STORMS
45 Across: Curt instruction to all living beings hoping to be saved from the Flood? => WAITUNTILARK
51 Across: Mississippi, for one => RIVER
52 Across: Came up, as a topic of discussion => AROSE
53 Across: Double or triple alcoholic drink, initially => IPA
56 Across: John's Gaelic equivalent => EOIN
57 Across: Info on how to make three-pointers kept under wraps by two-time NBA All-Star Young? => TRAESECRET
59 Across: Dame ___ Laine, famed jazz singer => CLEO
60 Across: Pretentiously imaginative => ARTSY
61 Across: Open-faced pastry => TART
62 Across: PDA feature? => KISS
63 Across: Tournament advantages => BYES
64 Across: Blue-green shade => AQUA

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Release, as vitriol => SPEW
2 Down: New York university that squared off against UConn in the first round of 2023's March Madness => IONA
3 Down: Everybody Wants Some!! (2016) actress Deutch => ZOEY
4 Down: Screw something up => ERR
5 Down: French word of gratitude => MERCI
6 Down: Hypothetical subatomic particle, in physics => AXION
7 Down: Gossipy woman => YENTA
8 Down: Request => ASK
9 Down: Smartphone feature => CAMERA
10 Down: Muscat native => OMANI
11 Down: Marin ___, 2014 US Open tennis champion => CILIC
12 Down: Place of contention => ARENA
14 Down: Promotes to excess => HYPES
17 Down: Stick shift selection => GEAR
21 Down: Dr. Hank McCoy's X-Men sobriquet => BEAST
22 Down: Golda in Israeli history => MEIR
23 Down: Timbuktu's locale => MALI
24 Down: Frozen snowman => OLAF
25 Down: Pillars of Islam count => FIVE
26 Down: Passed quickly, as time => FLEW
29 Down: Former White House press secretary Psaki => JEN
30 Down: Be in the red => OWE
31 Down: Who's on First left fielder => WHY
32 Down: Letter-shaped ski lift => TBAR
33 Down: No ___, no foul => HARM
34 Down: Shook ___ (Part II) (Mobb Deep classic) => ONES
36 Down: Illicit love affair => AMOUR
37 Down: Graduation Day garment => GOWN
38 Down: Chief Chirpa, for one => EWOK
42 Down: Courtroom typists, briefly => STENOS
43 Down: Quick with a clapback, say => SASSY
44 Down: Genealogy diagram => TREE
45 Down: Destroy => WRECK
46 Down: Garlicky mayonnaise => AIOLI
47 Down: Group containing the Big Green and the Big Red => IVIES
48 Down: Loiter => TARRY
49 Down: In a fury => IRATE
50 Down: Wind-deposited sediment => LOESS
53 Down: Country forming most of ancient Mesopotamia => IRAQ
54 Down: Machu Picchu's home => PERU
55 Down: Indian wheat flour => ATTA
57 Down: Browser window unit => TAB
58 Down: Initials on a Windy City train => CTA

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This crossword has 35 across clues and 44 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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