Crossword Answers For: Friday, May 17, 2024

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Sources of green energy in politics, informally? => PACS
5 Across: Ensembles, in slang => FITS
9 Across: Many a cullen-skink eater => SCOT
10 Across: Protected, at 8-Down => ALEE
11 Across: Sch. for the Fields Medal–winning mathematician Terence Tao => UCLA
12 Across: ___ Butter Baby (song by 17-Down) => SHEA
13 Across: Early internet meme that depicts an animal whose real name was Nobiko (meaning stretch) => LONGCAT
15 Across: Big name in open-source electronic projects => ARDUINO
16 Across: Better entrust this to someone else => ICANNOT
17 Across: Classical figure known for taking a bow? => AMOR
18 Across: Grammy alternatives, for short => AMAS
20 Across: Onetime sketch-comedy impersonator of Mayor Adams => REDD
21 Across: Word in the English translation of Genji Monogatari => TALE
22 Across: Two days before the publication of this puzzle, e.g. => IDES
23 Across: Goidelic language from which we get slogan and plaid => ERSE

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Sch. close to Altoona => PSU
2 Down: Like a critical darling => ACCLAIMED
3 Down: Sort on a spectrum => COLORCODE
4 Down: Criteria => STANDARDS
5 Down: Spellbind => FASCINATE
6 Down: Deputy chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus => ILHANOMAR
7 Down: Dodges some shots, say? => TEETOTALS
8 Down: See 10-Across => SEA
14 Down: Word after water or air => GUN
17 Down: Age/Sex/Location artist Lennox => ARI
19 Down: Punctuating question in a gangster movie => SEE

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This crossword has 15 across clues and 12 down clues. In total 27 clues are solved in the section above.
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