Crossword Answers For: Thursday, March 31, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Easter candy whose makers promoted a fake Cauliflower-flavored variety as an April 1st joke last year => PEEPS
6 Across: One of many on a dalmatian => SPOT
10 Across: Building for bowling => ALLEY
11 Across: Shout heard less in the Uber era => TAXI
12 Across: Automaker who, as a 2021 April 1st joke, claimed they were officially changing the fourth letter in their name from a K to a T to promote their new electric cars => VOLKSWAGEN
14 Across: Olympic sword => EPEE
15 Across: Animal played by Whoopi Goldberg in The Lion King => HYENA
16 Across: Home office => DEN
17 Across: This ___ to stop => HAS
18 Across: Sch. near Harvard => MIT
19 Across: Just putting this out there, when texting => FYI
22 Across: Reliable => SOLID
25 Across: Twelve, half the time => NOON
26 Across: Grocery chain that, for a 2016 April 1st joke, claimed they'd developed an in-store dating app where you could swipe left or right depending on how well you liked another shopper's purchases => WHOLEFOODS
28 Across: Ancient Peruvian => INCA
29 Across: Arm of the sea => INLET
30 Across: Goodnight ___ (classic children's book) => MOON
31 Across: Automaker whose CEO tweeted out that his company had gone bankrupt on April 1st, 2018; in the accompanying photo he was passed out, supposedly from drinking bottles of tequila => TESLA

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Unlike dirt roads => PAVED
2 Down: Get married without groomsmen, maybe => ELOPE
3 Down: DeGeneres or Barkin => ELLEN
4 Down: Long-haired dog from China, casually => PEKE
5 Down: Part of DOS or iOS => SYS
6 Down: Sticks around => STAYS
7 Down: Elliot of The Umbrella Academy => PAGE
8 Down: Animals that plow => OXEN
9 Down: Llama in Napoleon Dynamite => TINA
13 Down: Huh? => WHAT
17 Down: ___-and-seek => HIDE
18 Down: Italian city that will co-host the 2026 Winter Olympics => MILAN
19 Down: April 1st types, if they fall for tricks => FOOLS
20 Down: Sing from the mountaintops => YODEL
21 Down: Site where Will Smith posted an apology on Monday, for short => INSTA
22 Down: What Lia Thomas does => SWIM
23 Down: That's awful news! => OHNO
24 Down: Wild and wacky, in Spanish => LOCO
25 Down: ___ of the above => NONE
27 Down: Honda model => FIT

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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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