Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Box-office disaster => FLOP
5 Across: Icky stuff => SLIME
10 Across: Like expensive coins and stamps => RARE
11 Across: Identified => NAMED
12 Across: Group of reddish animals at Portland's Oregon Zoo whose numbers increased by one last month with the birth of a baby girl => ORANGUTANS
14 Across: Branch of Buddhism => ZEN
15 Across: Stat for a Nat => RBI
16 Across: Poet Poe's first name => EDGAR
18 Across: California region where Wine Country is set => NAPA
22 Across: One of the Gallagher brothers => NOEL
23 Across: Kick out of school => EXPEL
24 Across: Sign for Barack Obama and Jennifer Lopez => LEO
26 Across: Opposite of post- => PRE
27 Across: The zoo has named the newborn Jolene after the Dolly Parton song, due to the lyric: Your beauty is beyond compare / With flaming locks of ___ => AUBURNHAIR
31 Across: The Phantom of the ___ => OPERA
32 Across: Tons and tons of => ALOT
33 Across: Phoebe in Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Gremlins => CATES
34 Across: Automobile brand until 2004 => OLDS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Movie with the song Do You Want to Build a Snowman? => FROZEN
2 Down: Texas city on the Rio Grande => LAREDO
3 Down: Part of OITNB => ORANGE
4 Down: Be the author of => PEN
5 Down: Refuse to shake hands with, e.g. => SNUB
6 Down: Hispanic => LATINX
7 Down: ___ survivor (Destiny's Child lyric) => IMA
8 Down: They're 82% of current U.S. governors => MEN
9 Down: Mag bosses => EDS
13 Down: I'm super-irritated by this... => GRR
17 Down: Rival of Marie Claire and InStyle => ALLURE
19 Down: Shock => APPALL
20 Down: End of discussion! => PERIOD
21 Down: Important notifications => ALERTS
23 Down: Billion-year time period => EON
25 Down: Historic times => ERAS
27 Down: Congresswoman who recently sparred with Elon Musk on Twitter, for short => AOC
28 Down: ___ creek (in trouble) => UPA
29 Down: Games People Play channel => BET
30 Down: Ni ___ (Mandarin greeting) => HAO

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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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