Crossword Answers For: Thursday, January 28, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: ___-help (bookstore section) => SELF
5 Across: Pasta, bread, etc. => CARBS
10 Across: In the ___ (close by) => AREA
11 Across: Keep from happening => AVERT
12 Across: Samuel L. Jackson was one at Morehouse College => DRAMAMAJOR
14 Across: Surface for the Buffalo Sabres => ICE
15 Across: ___-of-a-kind (irreplaceable) => ONE
16 Across: Walk casually => AMBLE
19 Across: Baptism or bat mitzvah, e.g. => RITE
20 Across: Differ depending on circumstances => VARY
21 Across: Édouard who painted A Bar at the Folies-Bergère => MANET
22 Across: ___ plancha (Spanish for grilled) => ALA
23 Across: Prefix for construe or gender => MIS
24 Across: Confidently and impressively => LIKEACHAMP
29 Across: Follows orders => OBEYS
30 Across: That ___ well (sarcastic comment) => AGED
31 Across: Paintings of the unclothed => NUDES
32 Across: Jill and Joe Biden moved their pair of these into the White House earlier this week; you can find their names as the last word of the two theme entries => DOGS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Pathetic => SAD
2 Down: To ___ is human => ERR
3 Down: Broadway actress Salonga => LEA
4 Down: Madea's Big Happy ___ (2011 Tyler Perry comedy) => FAMILY
5 Down: Showed up => CAME
6 Down: She directed Oprah in A Wrinkle in Time => AVA
7 Down: Get back into, as a Zoom meeting => REJOIN
8 Down: Last name of literary sisters => BRONTE
9 Down: Sesame ___ => STREET
13 Down: One of four in a deck => ACE
16 Down: Toyota named for a legendary island => AVALON
17 Down: California city where Halle Berry has a house => MALIBU
18 Down: Slowed the car down => BRAKED
19 Down: Ahmad or Phylicia => RASHAD
21 Down: Drop the ___ (emphasize a sick burn) => MIC
23 Down: Word before media or transit => MASS
25 Down: CBS's logo, e.g. => EYE
26 Down: Not long ___ (recently) => AGO
27 Down: White on drums => MEG
28 Down: Hockey game divisions (abbr.) => PDS

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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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