Crossword Answers For: Sunday, August 11, 2024

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Opposite of bottom => TOP
4 Across: Burnable music tech that came between tapes and streaming => CDS
7 Across: Shakespeare's Much ___ About Nothing => ADO
8 Across: Uncooked => RAW
9 Across: Adjective at the beginning of four American-state names => NEW
10 Across: Revolutionary Love singer DiFranco => ANI
11 Across: Tales that take a while to tell => EPICS
13 Across: Illusions in the desert => MIRAGES
15 Across: Being broadcast => ONTV
16 Across: Get up to speed => BRIEF
18 Across: Sowing machine => SEEDER
20 Across: More than just mist up => WEEP
22 Across: Femme-to-be => FILLE
23 Across: Step-counting wearable => FITBIT
24 Across: She replaced Fallon on Weekend Update => POEHLER
25 Across: Magic city, briefly => ORL
26 Across: Craft in many conspiracies, briefly => UFO
27 Across: Perched-on projections => LEDGES
29 Across: Auditory reflection => ECHO
30 Across: Haul in a sack, perhaps? => LOOT
32 Across: Toponymic Dutch wheels => GOUDAS
34 Across: Statistic for good passers => ASSISTS
36 Across: Flight phase before touchdown => REENTRY
37 Across: Stereotypical bedroom-door slammer => TEEN
38 Across: Norwegian flatbread traditionally eaten on Christmas => LEFSE
39 Across: Documents that help create order? => MENUS
40 Across: Plant with caps => BOTTLER
42 Across: Bush-era meeting site, briefly? => MTSINAI
43 Across: Sour => GOSOUTH
44 Across: Makes piece with? => RENDS
45 Across: End of many language names => ESE

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Hue you might become by lying in the sun => TAN
2 Down: Poem of praise => ODE
3 Down: Neckwear for an alpha => POWERTIE
4 Down: Daniel who played James Bond after Pierce => CRAIG
5 Down: Do the cha-cha or the Cha-Cha Slide => DANCE
6 Down: Like some holey cheese and classic watches => SWISS
12 Down: With 28-Down, like this answer, if it were a road => PAVEDWITH
13 Down: Unruly groups => MOBS
14 Down: Phrase before the subject of a memo, maybe => INRE
17 Down: Experience sadness => FEELBLUE
19 Down: Depictions made by carving into a surface => RELIEFS
21 Down: Fossil-fuel prefix => PETRO
22 Down: Indoor sports arena => FIELDHOUSE
23 Down: Take back a title, in a way => FORECLOSE
24 Down: Tool for skiing or fishing => POLE
28 Down: See 12-Down => GOODINTENTIONS
31 Down: Image that's elegantly unadorned? => TASTEFULNUDE
32 Down: Alligator ___ (fish that can weigh more than 300 pounds) => GAR
33 Down: Becomes a pressure cooker, perhaps? => STRESSEATS
35 Down: Last word of the year, to many => SYNE
38 Down: Now, what could the answer to this clue be ... => LETSSEE
39 Down: Power-train component => MOTOR
40 Down: Sony acquisition of 2008, briefly => BMG
41 Down: Fenty nickname => RIH

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This crossword has 31 across clues and 25 down clues. In total 56 clues are solved in the section above.
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