Crossword Answers For: Thursday, July 4, 2024

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: With 5-Across: actor in 1996's Independence Day with the line Didn't I promise you fireworks? => WILL
5 Across: See 1-Across => SMITH
10 Across: Actress Bhatt or Shawkat => ALIA
11 Across: Figure skating great Sonja ___ => HENIE
12 Across: Actress with the Independence Day line: Not even a four-pointer. Go back to sleep. => VIVICAAFOX
14 Across: Roberta Flack's The First Time ___ Saw Your Face => EVERI
15 Across: Mrs., in Mexico => DONA
16 Across: ___ Kommissar (1982 hit) => DER
17 Across: Prof. helpers => TAS
19 Across: Layer of eggs => HEN
20 Across: 95-year-old Creole-speaking accordion great Queen ___ => IDA
23 Across: Sailing, poetically => ASEA
26 Across: Gin's partner, often => TONIC
28 Across: Actor with the Independence Day line: You punched the president? => JUDDHIRSCH
30 Across: Ball ___ (where the Denver Nuggets play) => ARENA
31 Across: Suffix with Smurf or kitchen => ETTE
32 Across: One of the inert gases => XENON
33 Across: Talk back to => SASS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Greeted someone from afar => WAVED
2 Down: Natalie Cole's ___ for Your Love => ILIVE
3 Down: I ate his ___ with some fava beans and a nice Chianti (The Silence of the Lambs line) => LIVER
4 Down: Home to a dragon => LAIR
5 Down: ___ Na Na => SHA
6 Down: Renaissance Faire drinks => MEADS
7 Down: 411 => INFO
8 Down: Suffix with emo or devo => TION
9 Down: Prefix meaning six => HEXA
13 Down: Name as a reference => CITE
18 Down: Not pro => ANTI
19 Down: I ___ idea! => HADNO
20 Down: Site where Selena Gomez has 426 million (!) followers, briefly => INSTA
21 Down: Books with definitions (abbr.) => DICTS
22 Down: Feels it after the gym => ACHES
23 Down: Cleaner brand => AJAX
24 Down: ___, Jan => SURE
25 Down: 92-year-old Barbara who starred in I Dream of Jeannie => EDEN
27 Down: Underground finds => ORES
29 Down: ___ Solo => HAN

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This crossword has 18 across clues and 21 down clues. In total 39 clues are solved in the section above.
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