Crossword Answers For: Monday, January 17, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Hold tightly => GRIP
5 Across: Doctor of ___ (degree earned by Bernice King, daughter of MLK, from Emory University in 1990) => LAW
8 Across: Country visited by MLK and Coretta Scott King in 1957 => GHANA
9 Across: Three, in Italian => TRE
10 Across: The ___ Story (2002 film in which Dexter King, son of MLK, played his father) => ROSAPARKS
12 Across: Used to be => WAS
13 Across: Word in four U.S. state names => NEW
14 Across: Pretends => ACTS
16 Across: Showed again on TV => RERAN
20 Across: Approving replies => YESES
22 Across: Actress Moore => DEMI
23 Across: Greek letters => MUS
25 Across: Hamm of soccer => MIA
26 Across: Southern ___ Leadership Conference (organization that Martin Luther King III served as president of from 1997-2004; his father had been its first president, serving from 1957-68) => CHRISTIAN
30 Across: President Lincoln => ABE
31 Across: Oprah's production company => HARPO
32 Across: Holder of peas => POD
33 Across: Pen fluids => INKS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: ___ of Mississippi (1998 drama in which Yolanda King, daughter of MLK, played Reena Evers, daughter of Medgar Evers) => GHOSTS
2 Down: Dormitory overseers => RAS
3 Down: ___ instant (very quickly) => INAN
4 Down: It loses to scissors but beats rock => PAPER
5 Down: Envelop enclosure (abbr.) => LTR
6 Down: Noah's boat => ARK
7 Down: NBA great Unseld => WES
8 Down: Actress Jones of Boomerang => GRACE
11 Down: Truly impressed => AWED
12 Down: Path => WAY
15 Down: Prefix with circle or formal => SEMI
17 Down: Plots out again, as a route => REMAPS
18 Down: ___ acid => AMINO
19 Down: Candyman director DaCosta => NIA
21 Down: Raw dinner => SUSHI
24 Down: Ending for Kyrgyz or Kazakh => STAN
26 Down: Part of a baseball uniform => CAP
27 Down: Airer of the 2018 MLK documentary King in the Wilderness => HBO
28 Down: Color of Mars => RED
29 Down: Annoy => IRK

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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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