Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Personal records, as for a 5k or marathon => BESTS
6 Across: Curtain holders => RODS
10 Across: Patronize, as a restaurant => EATAT
11 Across: Baghdad's country => IRAQ
12 Across: Singer who apologized to Michelle and Barack Obama on Twitter last week for posting a video of the former president's recent 60th birthday party on Martha's Vineyard: Please forgive me 4 being the 'terrible guest' => ERYKAHBADU
14 Across: Home to the iris and cornea => EYE
15 Across: Org. for the 76ers and the Jazz => NBA
16 Across: Garment made from one piece of cloth => SARI
19 Across: Intellectual thoroughness => RIGOR
21 Across: Pizzeria appliances => OVENS
23 Across: Give up, as territory => CEDE
24 Across: Job for a musician => GIG
25 Across: Spike who directed Da 5 Bloods => LEE
27 Across: Actor who says he was relieved at being disinvited from Obama's birthday party after the guest list was pared down due to Covid concerns; after receiving the call, he says: I hung up the phone, poured myself a drink and finished my crossword puzzle => LARRYDAVID
32 Across: So much => ATON
33 Across: Can ___ you a little advice? => IGIVE
34 Across: Morning moistures => DEWS
35 Across: 2020 film it took Christopher Nolan five years to write => TENET

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Speller's competition => BEE
2 Down: Body part with a canal => EAR
3 Down: Piglet's birthplace, often => STY
4 Down: Earn => TAKEIN
5 Down: Remain, as in one's lane => STAY
6 Down: One of 24 on most humans => RIB
7 Down: Fruit basket item => ORANGE
8 Down: Physique that features a handy baby-carrying seat in the front => DADBOD
9 Down: Crossword grid part => SQUARE
13 Down: Pronoun that often follows she => HER
16 Down: Truly thrilled => SOGLAD
17 Down: Soar with the eagles => AVIATE
18 Down: Bring back, as one's mustache or beard => REGROW
20 Down: Very long cold spell => ICEAGE
22 Down: Admirably sneaky => SLY
26 Down: Make changes to an article => EDIT
28 Down: Many health clinic workers, briefly => RNS
29 Down: Diesel who plays Groot in movies => VIN
30 Down: ___ had enough! => IVE
31 Down: The Pistons or Lions, on scoreboards => DET

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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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