Crossword Answers For: Thursday, August 5, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: 2006 #1 hit for 13-Across => SOS
4 Across: Critters that walk sideways => CRABS
9 Across: Yoko with 600k Instagram followers => ONO
10 Across: Slow ___ (kitchen device) => COOKER
11 Across: Towards the back, on a ship => AFT
12 Across: Giorgio of fashion => ARMANI
13 Across: Singer who Forbes officially named a billionaire this week, with a net worth of $1.7 billion => RIHANNA
15 Across: Put into office => ELECT
16 Across: Home for a hawk => NEST
20 Across: Fender-bender result => DENT
21 Across: Keaton or Von Furstenberg => DIANE
22 Across: With 30-Across, lingerie brand that accounts for much of 13-Across's wealth => SAVAGEX
24 Across: ___ Meat (plant-based foods company) => BEYOND
27 Across: Back muscle, for short => LAT
28 Across: Con artists => FRAUDS
29 Across: ___ out a living (barely get by) => EKE
30 Across: See 22-Across => FENTY
31 Across: Neighbor of Isr. => SYR

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Flew high in the sky => SOARED
2 Down: Stored, as information => ONFILE
3 Down: What happened next was... => SOTHEN
4 Down: ___ on the cob => CORN
5 Down: Country with a gold medal in Women's Rowing at the Tokyo Olympics => ROMANIA
6 Down: Letters before a pseudonym => AKA
7 Down: Affleck or Vereen => BEN
8 Down: ___ Lanka (country whose flag bearers at the Tokyo Olympics are gymnast Milka Gehani and judo star Chamara Dharmawaranda) => SRI
10 Down: I ___ Believe It's Not Butter (spread once pitched by Fabio) => CANT
14 Down: Misbehaves for attention => ACTSOUT
17 Down: They beat the Patriots in Super Bowl LII => EAGLES
18 Down: Underhanded => SNEAKY
19 Down: Person sending a message => TEXTER
21 Down: Successors to videotapes => DVDS
23 Down: Tennis star Murray => ANDY
24 Down: Close chum, in three letters => BFF
25 Down: Before, in poetry => ERE
26 Down: Longtime TV chef Martin ___ => YAN

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This crossword has 18 across clues and 19 down clues. In total 37 clues are solved in the section above.
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