Crossword Answers For: Saturday, September 17, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Soccer great Hamm => MIA
4 Across: Fails to mention => OMITS
9 Across: Regressed from a peak => EBBED
14 Across: Theater, for one => ART
15 Across: College baseball hub => OMAHA
16 Across: Showing an inability to hold water => LEAKY
17 Across: *Hammer-wielding folk hero => JOHNHENRY
19 Across: Bumper sticker material => ADAGE
20 Across: Instruments used to tune orchestras => OBOES
21 Across: Arable area in a desert => OASIS
23 Across: Popular saucing tomato => ROMA
24 Across: *Seeking employment => JOBHUNTING
29 Across: Blended family patriarch, familiarly => STEPDAD
31 Across: Southeastern river whose name sounds like two letters => PEEDEE
32 Across: Brown and others => IVIES
35 Across: Succession co-star Ruck => ALAN
36 Across: Type of fire truck ... or a description of the initials of the starred clues' answers? => HOOKANDLADDER
41 Across: Big name in antacids => TUMS
42 Across: Keep a close watch over => GUARD
43 Across: British Columbia borderer => ALASKA
46 Across: Raleigh university, for short => NCSTATE
51 Across: *Middle school equivalent => JUNIORHIGH
54 Across: ___ fresca (Mexican soft drink) => AGUA
55 Across: Muslim ascetic => FAKIR
56 Across: Heart surgeon's insertion => STENT
57 Across: Prove useful => AVAIL
60 Across: *Palms out, fingers wiggling dance maneuver => JAZZHANDS
63 Across: Olay competitor => NIVEA
64 Across: Completely befuddled => ATSEA
65 Across: Wine term for vineyard => CRU
66 Across: Bare essentials => NEEDS
67 Across: Small and spherical => BEADY
68 Across: Kisser => YAP

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Studying concentrations => MAJORS
2 Down: Sci-fi classic of 1950 => IROBOT
3 Down: Not on the town => ATHOME
4 Down: ___ and aahs => OOHS
5 Down: Address to a French woman (abbr.) => MME
6 Down: The Cult frontman Astbury => IAN
7 Down: Beat => THROB
8 Down: Instruction in a doctor's office => SAYAH
9 Down: Seinfeld character who co-owned a muffin top shop => ELAINE
10 Down: Framework for a mattress => BEDSTEAD
11 Down: Sheepish reply? => BAA
12 Down: Test that records atrial activity (abbr.) => EKG
13 Down: Beard-transforming additive => DYE
18 Down: Bimonthly tide => NEAP
22 Down: How're things? => SUP
24 Down: Island home to the Prambanan Temple => JAVA
25 Down: In need of Naloxone, say => ODING
26 Down: Off => IDLE
27 Down: Close by => NEAR
28 Down: X, Y, or Z preceder => GEN
30 Down: Cartoonist Browne => DIK
33 Down: Part of a school's address => EDU
34 Down: Challenge for a language learner => SLANG
36 Down: Only Murders in the Building airer => HULU
37 Down: Country with a red, white, and green flag => OMAN
38 Down: Turned to bone => OSSIFIED
39 Down: Curved part of the foot => ARCH
40 Down: Degree for an oral surgeon (abbr.) => DDS
41 Down: ___ Mahal => TAJ
44 Down: Animals incorrectly called bears => KOALAS
45 Down: Place of safety => ARK
47 Down: Fare thee well! => TATA
48 Down: Individual's ability to act => AGENCY
49 Down: Region with frozen ground => TUNDRA
50 Down: Thoroughly enjoys => EATSUP
52 Down: Head covering whose name starts with three consecutive letters of the alphabet => HIJAB
53 Down: Boiling mad => IRATE
56 Down: Mitchell of Pretty Little Liars => SHAY
57 Down: Mystery novelist Cleeves => ANN
58 Down: Compete => VIE
59 Down: Many a St. crosser => AVE
61 Down: When repeated, a Gabor sister => ZSA
62 Down: Last letter, in Leeds => ZED

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This crossword has 33 across clues and 44 down clues. In total 77 clues are solved in the section above.
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