Crossword Answers For: Sunday, March 24, 2024

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Without an assignment => ONSPEC
7 Across: Fellow => CHAP
11 Across: Subscription platform for content creators => PATREON
13 Across: The Kid ___ (late-night co-host born Joel Martinez) => MERO
14 Across: Underboiled, in a way => ALDENTE
15 Across: In need of some time in the 17-Across => SORE
16 Across: Hinge-profile part? => HASP
17 Across: Super soaker? => TUB
19 Across: Pack ___ => RAT
20 Across: Shred a wake, say => WATERSKI
22 Across: Classic slacktivism post => INFOGRAPHIC
25 Across: Villainous race in Yellow Submarine => BLUEMEANIES
26 Across: Some season-ending injuries => TORNACLS
27 Across: Either of the two leads in Seven Samurai? => ESS
28 Across: Ladleful at a holiday party, perhaps => NOG
29 Across: NASA telescope launched in 2021 => WEBB
33 Across: Up and ___! => ATEM
35 Across: Grammy-winning artist behind the 2018 album El Mal Querer => ROSALIA
37 Across: It's so mucked up! => MIRE
38 Across: Internet source for celebrity gossip => EONLINE
39 Across: Homer's dread river of oath => STYX
40 Across: You're coming off as desperate => DOLESS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Flat swimmer with vermilion fins => OPAH
2 Down: Character who tells Simba that Scar let the hyenas take over the Pride Lands => NALA
3 Down: Subjects of some screenings, briefly => STDS
4 Down: Get set => PREP
5 Down: Dark time, if you're being 10-Down => EEN
6 Down: Internet aesthetic that might describe bread baking, big knit sweaters, or a country garden => COTTAGECORE
7 Down: Ruler divs. => CMS
8 Down: Binary gender option => HEORSHE
9 Down: Fictional source of the spice => ARRAKIS
10 Down: See 5-Down => POETIC
12 Down: Alignment for gnomes, in Dungeons and Dragons => NEUTRALGOOD
18 Down: One of the Three Sisters => BEANS
20 Down: Amazon, e.g. => WOMAN
21 Down: Alma mater for the engrs. of the Ferris Wheel and the Brooklyn Bridge => RPI
22 Down: Sorry about getting so mad back there ... => ILOSTIT
23 Down: Changing room? => NURSERY
24 Down: It's also really mucked up! => FEN
25 Down: For starters, these aren't the squads => BTEAMS
29 Down: Foursome in a room => WALL
30 Down: Nobel Peace Prize winner before Óscar => ELIE
31 Down: Hoppers => BINS
32 Down: Ones you might post about on V-Day => BAES
34 Down: It's between Guat. and the U.S. => MEX
36 Down: ___ Balls => SNO

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This crossword has 22 across clues and 25 down clues. In total 47 clues are solved in the section above.
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