Crossword Answers For: Saturday, January 29, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Political corruption => GRAFT
6 Across: Say I'm busy that day, e.g. => RSVP
10 Across: Makes a choice => OPTS
14 Across: Bit of Russian money => RUBLE
15 Across: America's Cup trophy, e.g. => EWER
16 Across: Ripped => TORE
17 Across: Love, in Lyon => AMOUR
18 Across: The Power of the Dog director Campion => JANE
19 Across: Dino on the Jurassic Park poster => TREX
20 Across: Country with a centralized government / Exaggerate => SOVEREIGNSTATE
23 Across: Lead-in to fix => PRE
24 Across: Response to a shocking text => OMG
25 Across: Fix a stuffed animal that's falling apart, say => SEW
26 Across: Scare off / Immediately => FRIGHTENAWAY
32 Across: Facility => EASE
35 Across: Puts on TV again => REAIRS
36 Across: Smallest positive integer => ONE
37 Across: Fashion house with the Miu Miu brand => PRADA
39 Across: Numbered highway, for short => RTE
40 Across: Reaction on Twitch => EMOTE
42 Across: Yuck! => ICK
43 Across: Handles the helm => STEERS
46 Across: Work in Google Docs, maybe => EDIT
47 Across: Survived against all odds / Possible fate of the universe => CHEATEDDEATH
50 Across: Zilch => NIL
51 Across: In need of water => DRY
52 Across: Computer programmer Lovelace => ADA
55 Across: Places for victorious jockeys / What to pay attention to to make sense of the second halves of the two-part clues => WINNERSCIRCLES
60 Across: It might be written on a restaurant blackboard => MENU
61 Across: ___ Wars (Pepsi/Coke rivalry) => COLA
62 Across: Opera selections => ARIAS
63 Across: Electronic musician who has worked with Björk and FKA twigs => ARCA
64 Across: I get it already! => OKOK
65 Across: Zora ___ Hurston => NEALE
66 Across: Ring out like a bell => PEAL
67 Across: Silence in a Zoom call => MUTE
68 Across: Trial runs => TESTS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Manage to understand => GRASP
2 Down: Something heard through the grapevine => RUMOR
3 Down: Clichéd rhyme for love in poems => ABOVE
4 Down: Chimney passageway => FLUE
5 Down: Intense fear => TERROR
6 Down: Fiddled with => REJIGGERED
7 Down: Goodies in a goody bag => SWAG
8 Down: ___ diagram => VENN
9 Down: News conference, casually => PRESSER
10 Down: Where Justin Trudeau works => OTTAWA
11 Down: Left on a boat => PORT
12 Down: Place for a backyard house => TREE
13 Down: Rarity in children's movies => SEX
21 Down: Qatari leader => EMIR
22 Down: Past, present, or future => TENSE
26 Down: Put money in, as a parking meter => FED
27 Down: Despised => HATED
28 Down: Traditional wedding dessert => TIEREDCAKE
29 Down: Something to knock on => WOOD
30 Down: ___disestablishmentarianism => ANTI
31 Down: Throw with great force => YEET
32 Down: ___ bacon (epitome of early 2010s internet humor) => EPIC
33 Down: Triumphal monument => ARCH
34 Down: For Pete's ___! => SAKE
38 Down: Sean who played Sam Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings => ASTIN
41 Down: Not great, not terrible => MEH
44 Down: Biz with phones => TELECOM
45 Down: Dress draped over the shoulder => SARI
48 Down: Happening every year => ANNUAL
49 Down: Cruel ruler => TYRANT
52 Down: Something a hacker might use => ALIAS
53 Down: Handed out cards => DEALT
54 Down: Donkeys => ASSES
55 Down: Word before here and queer in a pride slogan => WERE
56 Down: Cusco-based empire => INCA
57 Down: Streaming device maker => ROKU
58 Down: Place for a coin => SLOT
59 Down: Language with a Plains dialect => CREE
60 Down: Here be dragons document => MAP

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This crossword has 37 across clues and 40 down clues. In total 77 clues are solved in the section above.
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