Crossword Answers For: Sunday, January 21, 2024

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Not at all random => STRATEGIC
10 Across: Haven't decided yet: abbr. => TBA
13 Across: Helped out on a school trip, say => CHAPERONED
15 Across: Burlesque star => CHER
16 Across: Clearance occasion => REDTAGSALE
17 Across: The cops, slangily => HEAT
18 Across: Distinctive stretch => ERA
19 Across: Studio locale => LOT
20 Across: Countdown start => TMINUS
22 Across: Streisand's The Way We ___ => WERE
24 Across: Get off my back! => NAGNAGNAG
27 Across: Search engine introduced after a photo of Jennifer Lopez went viral in 2000 => GOOGLEIMAGES
30 Across: Weather phenom => TSTORM
33 Across: Night hunter => OWL
34 Across: Volcanic fallout => ASH
35 Across: Ironic modern follow-up to Thanks => IHATEIT
37 Across: 1992 U.S. Open winner famed for his golf-course architecture => TOMKITE
40 Across: ___ story => SOB
41 Across: Smoke => CIG
43 Across: Overwhelmed from above => RAINED
44 Across: Greeting from Hannibal => HELLOCLARICE
48 Across: Nut-bearing growth => BEECHTREE
49 Across: Sanskrit scripture => VEDA
53 Across: Literally, strained => COLADA
54 Across: Live Well supplement co. => GNC
56 Across: 19th-century American loser, briefly => REB
57 Across: Animals featured on the classic game Oregon Trail => OXEN
58 Across: Like a baby => IMMATURELY
62 Across: Univs. award them => DEGS
63 Across: They're braced against the shoulder before shots => RIFLEBUTTS
64 Across: Knucklehead => ASS
65 Across: Pieces that may be adorned with marquetry => CREDENZAS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Head-turning bit? => SCREW
2 Down: That place => THERE
3 Down: Field of awareness => RADAR
4 Down: Appropriate => APT
5 Down: Relative of the swan and the goose => TEAL
6 Down: Source of comfort and support in the office => ERGONOMICCHAIR
7 Down: Attend alone => GOSTAG
8 Down: First name on The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook => INA
9 Down: Bit of animation => CEL
10 Down: Start of a counterargument => THENAGAIN
11 Down: Noble act => BEAUGESTE
12 Down: Culinary ___ => ARTS
14 Down: Fastidious => DETAILORIENTED
15 Down: Fine ___ => CHINA
21 Down: Maker of movies that always get off to a roaring start? => MGM
23 Down: Audrey Hepburn distinction, briefly => EGOT
25 Down: Shine, in commercials => GLO
26 Down: Prey for a garter snake => NEWT
28 Down: Mercury, e.g. => ORE
29 Down: Backyard build => SHED
30 Down: Character played by Catherine Zeta-Jones on Wednesday, briefly => TISH
31 Down: Vessels for mules, perhaps? => SHOEBOXES
32 Down: Top props? => TABLELEGS
36 Down: Slant => TILT
38 Down: Watching Movies With the Sound Off rapper Miller => MAC
39 Down: Chicken ___ (dish named after a world capital) => KIEV
42 Down: Long-bodied fish => GAR
45 Down: Is slanted => LEANS
46 Down: Adrian Monk's affliction, briefly => OCD
47 Down: Thoroughly entertain => REGALE
50 Down: Hebrew land => ERETZ
51 Down: Greek-inspired flier => DELTA
52 Down: Limitless nothingness => ABYSS
53 Down: 2022 Best Picture Oscar winner => CODA
55 Down: ^3 => CUBE
59 Down: It might be hot or open => MIC
60 Down: Production co.? => MFR
61 Down: Command in a horror movie => RUN

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This crossword has 32 across clues and 39 down clues. In total 71 clues are solved in the section above.
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