Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, January 4, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Keep ___ and Carry On => CALM
5 Across: Belt's place => WAIST
10 Across: Woodwind instrument => OBOE
11 Across: The Office accountant => OSCAR
12 Across: Comic Guy Branum recently tweeted about her: Dying three weeks before she turned 100 is the final act of a performer whose timing was always sharp, always unexpected...No one else could live to 99 and so perfectly leave us wanting more => BETTYWHITE
14 Across: ___-backwards (in a foolish way) => ASS
15 Across: Courteney of Friends => COX
16 Across: Whitney Houston's The Greatest Love ___ => OFALL
19 Across: Like sapphires and Smurfs => BLUE
20 Across: Senators and governors and such, for short => POLS
21 Across: Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett have recorded many of them together => DUETS
22 Across: Historic period => ERA
23 Across: Place for a piercing => EAR
24 Across: TV character from St. Olaf, Minnesota => ROSENYLUND
29 Across: Body part often sprained => ANKLE
30 Across: Continent that's home to most people => ASIA
31 Across: There are 108 on a baseball => SEAMS
32 Across: ___-reading (practice of predicting the future) => PALM

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Corn on the ___ => COB
2 Down: Prez Lincoln => ABE
3 Down: Salem's ___ (Stephen King novel being made into a 2022 movie starring Alfre Woodard) => LOT
4 Down: Gold, silver, and tungsten, for three => METALS
5 Down: Truly impresses => WOWS
6 Down: Blonde shade => ASH
7 Down: It may fall from a rooftop in winter => ICICLE
8 Down: Didn't participate in, as a dance => SATOUT
9 Down: Powerful dinosaurs => TREXES
13 Down: Initials of a famed French fashion designer => YSL
16 Down: La bohème and La traviata, for two => OPERAS
17 Down: As an example => FORONE
18 Down: State whose capital is Juneau => ALASKA
19 Down: Sturdy sack material => BURLAP
21 Down: Groundhog ___ => DAY
23 Down: Outspoken NBA star ___ Kanter Freedom => ENES
25 Down: Tree in a famous horror movie title => ELM
26 Down: Country with the most golds at the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo => USA
27 Down: Zero, to soccer fans => NIL
28 Down: What beavers build => DAM

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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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