Crossword Answers For: Monday, February 22, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Capitol Hill helper => AIDE
5 Across: The stockings were ___ by the chimney with care ... => HUNG
9 Across: Ice ___ (board game with sliding penguins) => COOL
10 Across: The Buckeye state => OHIO
11 Across: Happy hour special, maybe => TWOFORONE
13 Across: Ted's Cheers character => SAM
14 Across: One who greets and seats => USHER
15 Across: Rural postal abbr. => RTE
16 Across: Destroy, as documents => SHRED
19 Across: Dubious gift => ESP
22 Across: Famous No, No, Nanette number => TEAFORTWO
24 Across: Seriously suggest => URGE
25 Across: Eyes, in a certain Christmas song => COAL
26 Across: Gloomy => DOUR
27 Across: Rice whose characters have blood lust? => ANNE

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Doesn't just sit around and do nothing => ACTS
2 Down: The Music Man setting => IOWA
3 Down: First-person shooter that gives me a little motion sickness => DOOM
4 Down: Best Will Ferrell movie, don't @ me => ELF
5 Down: Certain Central Park employee => HORSE
6 Down: I've got a bad feeling about this ... => UHOH
7 Down: Musical based on Fellini's 8 1/2 => NINE
8 Down: Is your wife a ___? (line from a classic Monty Python skit) => GOER
12 Down: Get the better of => OUTDO
15 Down: ___ to (check, as a dictionary) => REFER
16 Down: Muffin top? => STUD
17 Down: Person with lots of life savings? => HERO
18 Down: Prego competitor => RAGU
19 Down: School across the Thames from Windsor => ETON
20 Down: Black ___ (Natalie Portman film) => SWAN
21 Down: Marie Curie, by birth => POLE
23 Down: Label that was a demonstrator at the 1939 World's Fair => RCA

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This crossword has 15 across clues and 18 down clues. In total 33 clues are solved in the section above.
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