Crossword Answers For: Sunday, February 25, 2024

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Chiwere speakers => OTOES
6 Across: Confession from a consumer? => IATEIT
12 Across: Debriefed? => WENTCOMMANDO
14 Across: 2010s docu-reality comedy series whose star graduated from business school with really good grades => NATHANFORYOU
15 Across: Opening in a battlement through which arrows can be shot => CRENEL
16 Across: It's over! => PAST
17 Across: Action star? => DOER
18 Across: Bun spread, perhaps, informally => MAYO
20 Across: Org. founded in response to Barbary pirates => USN
21 Across: Protected from being knocked off => PATENTED
25 Across: Parking obstructions => HYDRANTS
27 Across: Nancy Grace's network => HLN
28 Across: ___ like that sometimes ... => ITBE
29 Across: Apple product perfect for a big party? => GALA
30 Across: It's typically fixed above the chancel entrance => ROOD
33 Across: Nipple ring? => AREOLA
35 Across: Viral load? => INTERNETFAME
38 Across: Works set in the 16-Across => PERIODDRAMAS
39 Across: His blood mixed with Aphrodite's tears created the anemone flower, in myth => ADONIS
40 Across: People also called the Nation du Chat => ERIES

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Have a right to => OWN
2 Down: Pot cover => TEACOSY
3 Down: In concert with what's fashionable => ONTREND
4 Down: Number of the 19th century? => ETHER
5 Down: Read quickly => SCAN
6 Down: You're too kind => IMFLATTERED
7 Down: I love, to Ovid => AMO
8 Down: Big-game fish => TARPON
9 Down: Composer for the BBC documentary series The Celts: Rich Traditions and Ancient Myths => ENYA
10 Down: Union exchange => IDOS
11 Down: Ballyhoo => TOUT
13 Down: Performers who do it all => ONEMANBANDS
17 Down: Obviously ... => DUH
19 Down: Three of the last seven words in Ulysses => YES
21 Down: Word that can appear on either side of down => PAT
22 Down: Brain parts that help regulate sleep => THALAMI
23 Down: Author/activist Johnson who attended President Obama's inauguration at age 105 => ELLAMAE
24 Down: Coded strand => DNA
26 Down: Arrive on horseback => RIDEIN
29 Down: Succeed big-time => GOFAR
30 Down: Onetime co-host of Consuelos => RIPA
31 Down: Not deep, in a way, briefly? => ONED
32 Down: Nada del ___ mundo (nothing special, in Spanish) => OTRO
34 Down: The first blank in Je Voudrais Déjà ___ ___ (The Lion King hit, in a French translation) => ETRE
36 Down: The second blank in Je Voudrais Déjà ___ ___ (The Lion King hit, in a French translation) => ROI
37 Down: Tee preceder => ESS

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This crossword has 20 across clues and 27 down clues. In total 47 clues are solved in the section above.
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