Crossword Answers For: Sunday, December 26, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: The Economist's Country of the Year for 2021, due in part to its handling of the Coronavirus => ITALY
6 Across: Lose, as a snake does its skin => SHED
10 Across: Sandwich shops => DELIS
11 Across: Festival that falls on March 18th this year => HOLI
12 Across: Counting everything => INALL
13 Across: When you wish ___ a star... => UPON
14 Across: Neither fish ___ fowl (hard to categorize) => NOR
15 Across: Sending a note to, on Twitter => DMING
16 Across: The Economist's Country of the Year for 2018, after street protests led to a change of government => ARMENIA
19 Across: The Economist's Country of the Year for 2014, for embracing democratic reforms => TUNISIA
23 Across: Easy to carry => LIGHT
26 Across: Three-point line's shape => ARC
27 Across: Vegetable in Cajun cuisine => OKRA
28 Across: Silver or gold, say => COLOR
30 Across: I've ___ thinking... => BEEN
31 Across: Used for illumination, as a flashlight => SHONE
32 Across: Tools with teeth => SAWS
33 Across: Moulin Rouge! won 10 in September => TONYS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Menzel whose name was butchered by John Travolta at the Oscars in 2014 => IDINA
2 Down: Andrea Bocelli, e.g. => TENOR
3 Down: There's no cause for ___ => ALARM
4 Down: ___ Nas X => LIL
5 Down: Fashion initials => YSL
6 Down: Dim sum dumplings => SHUMAI
7 Down: ___ Cultural Center (Arizona educational facility and museum) => HOPI
8 Down: Mr. Musk => ELON
9 Down: Slight negative mark => DING
15 Down: Ruckus => DIN
17 Down: Hawke and Suplee, for two => ETHANS
18 Down: Pistachio, e.g. => NUT
20 Down: Online magazine since 1995 => SALON
21 Down: Much-debated literary device => IRONY
22 Down: Units of land measurement => ACRES
23 Down: Shots over a player at the net => LOBS
24 Down: Store started in Sweden => IKEA
25 Down: Got bigger => GREW
28 Down: Chicago clock setting (abbr.) => CST
29 Down: So that's what's going on here! => OHO

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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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