Crossword Answers For: Sunday, March 17, 2024

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Stiletto, e.g. => DAGGER
7 Across: Consolation => SOLACE
13 Across: Blunders in a text => ERRATA
14 Across: Not very much => MINIMAL
15 Across: Miller's Weekend Update successor => NEALON
16 Across: Comedian who frequently appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show as the astronaut José Jiménez => BILLDANA
17 Across: Full of passionate intensity => HOTANDHEAVY
19 Across: Bad mark in high school? => ZIT
20 Across: Free Solo climber Honnold => ALEX
21 Across: Moisten with juices => BASTE
22 Across: Not around => GONE
23 Across: First name of the most nominated performer in Academy Awards history => MERYL
25 Across: Early co-host of The View => STARJONES
27 Across: Ceases trying => QUITS
29 Across: Synths utilized by Wendy Carlos => MOOGS
30 Across: Figure in an intentional crash => DUMMY
31 Across: Lassi ingredient => MANGO
32 Across: Does some homework or kitchen work, casually => PREPS
33 Across: Bribable => VENAL
34 Across: Hand-switching dribbling technique => CROSSOVER
36 Across: Fisher with an extending neck => HERON
40 Across: When to catch the big game? => HUNT
41 Across: Eponym of New York University's arts school => TISCH
43 Across: I Saw the TV Glow director Schoenbrun => JANE
44 Across: Praiseful words => ODE
45 Across: Psychedelically painted Volkswagens, e.g. => HIPPIEBUSES
47 Across: Mustangs might stop running here => RESTAREA
49 Across: Draw out => ELICIT
50 Across: More jesterly => DROLLER
51 Across: It's where it's at => LOCALE
52 Across: Paired up => SYNCED
53 Across: Belgian beer brand, informally => STELLA

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Carl ___ (Jack Black's King Kong role) => DENHAM
2 Down: Bump on a cactus => AREOLE
3 Down: Shredding aid => GRATER
4 Down: 1999 comedy set on the starship NSEA Protector => GALAXYQUEST
5 Down: School with societies instead of organisations => ETON
6 Down: Prince's domain? => RANDB
7 Down: Comic who wrote the memoir The Bedwetter => SILVERMAN
8 Down: Sole => ONLY
9 Down: Topping for some hot beverages? => LID
10 Down: Cashierless store with a flagship in Seattle => AMAZONGO
11 Down: They got that dog in them! => CANINES
12 Down: Fills with joy => ELATES
14 Down: Classic roadster => MIATA
16 Down: Top scores => BESTS
18 Down: Quick => HASTY
22 Down: Prominence in a certain search-engine algorithm => GOOGLEJUICE
24 Down: Punishment, so to speak => LUMPS
26 Down: Hollywood Hill? => JONAH
28 Down: My pillow is singing me a sweet, sweet song ... => IMSOTIRED
30 Down: Talks and talks and talks and talks and talks ... => DRONESON
31 Down: Nice way to say thanks? => MERCI
32 Down: Extreme moralism => PRUDERY
33 Down: Transportation whose name means wasp in Italian => VESPA
34 Down: The majors or the minors? => CHORDS
35 Down: Lethal-injection source => VIPER
37 Down: Scaramouch => RASCAL
38 Down: The Hairy Ape playwright => ONEILL
39 Down: Drink brand with three leaves in its logo => NESTEA
42 Down: Flats alternative => HEELS
45 Down: In the pink => HALE
46 Down: Smutch => BLOT
48 Down: Special attention, briefly => TLC

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This crossword has 32 across clues and 33 down clues. In total 65 clues are solved in the section above.
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