Crossword Answers For: Sunday, February 20, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: ___ Vegas Aces (WNBA team) => LAS
4 Across: That was a close call! => PHEW
8 Across: Fictional Hansen => EVAN
10 Across: Gullible => NAIVE
11 Across: Living room piece => SOFA
12 Across: Beginning => ONSET
13 Across: African scholars are aiming to make this a pan-African language, per a recent BBC News article; you already know the three asterisked words => SWAHILI
15 Across: Body part with a canal => EAR
16 Across: It's worth 5% of a dollar => NICKEL
20 Across: Page of Netflix's Tales of the City => ELIOTT
22 Across: Mahershala in movies => ALI
23 Across: *Annual winter festival, from the word for harvest => KWANZAA
25 Across: *Large in size, disputed but probably from the word for elephant => JUMBO
28 Across: People known for kachina dolls => HOPI
29 Across: Does as one is told => OBEYS
30 Across: The L in Just take the L => LOSS
31 Across: Wound from a snake => BITE
32 Across: Didn't I tell you that would happen? => SEE

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Tenant in a rental property, in legalese => LESSEE
2 Down: Acknowledgment => AVOWAL
3 Down: *Animal-watching trip, from the word for travel => SAFARI
4 Down: ___! At the Disco => PANIC
5 Down: Casual greetings => HIS
6 Down: Actress Hewson of Behind Her Eyes => EVE
7 Down: Like water-balloon fight combatants => WET
9 Down: I don't think so => NAH
10 Down: Neighborhood bordered by Chinatown and the Bowery => NOLITA
14 Down: Paired up with partners => INTWOS
17 Down: Easy-to-play instruments => KAZOOS
18 Down: Go by, as time => ELAPSE
19 Down: Establish a working relationship (with) => LIAISE
21 Down: See you later => OKBYE
24 Down: Org. with skating refs => NHL
25 Down: You're doing a great ___! => JOB
26 Down: Semper ___ sub ___ => UBI
27 Down: Got together => MET

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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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