Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: With 14-Across, some random 20-year-old construction worker from Kentucky who nobody's ever heard of => NOAH
5 Across: Group of eight musicians => OCTET
10 Across: State where you'd find Youngstown and Zanesville => OHIO
11 Across: Peter in The Maltese Falcon and The Man Who Knew Too Much => LORRE
12 Across: That's all wrong! => NONO
13 Across: ___ kidding, right? => YOURE
14 Across: See 1-Across => THOMPSON
16 Across: Download our free ___! => APP
17 Across: Put in some effort => TRY
18 Across: Suffix with mini or web => CAM
21 Across: ___-Tac-Dough (old game show) => TIC
23 Across: With 33-Across, what 1-Across became on Sunday with his performance of I'm On Fire => AMERICAN
26 Across: Gin & ___ (classic cocktail) => TONIC
27 Across: Animal lover's org. => PETA
30 Across: Actress Durance of Smallville => ERICA
31 Across: The R of RHONY => REAL
32 Across: Kidney-related => RENAL
33 Across: See 23-Across => IDOL

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Lead-in to sequitur or binary => NON
2 Down: Caught you red-handed! => OHO
3 Down: ___ Too Proud to Beg (Temptations song) => AINT
4 Down: Ruckus => HOOHA
5 Down: ___ Games (they'll be held next in Paris in 2024) => OLYMPIC
6 Down: Farmer's group, often => COOP
7 Down: I don't ___ anything you say! => TRUST
8 Down: Baseball blunder => ERROR
9 Down: Itty-bitty => TEENY
15 Down: ___ illusion (it fools the eye) => OPTICAL
18 Down: Bring the food to a party => CATER
19 Down: Italian for love => AMORE
20 Down: Part of MIB => MENIN
22 Down: ___ pants (calf-length trousers) => CAPRI
24 Down: Costa ___ (neighbor of Nicaragua) => RICA
25 Down: I ___ to speak with you => NEED
28 Down: Natural order of the universe => TAO
29 Down: 100% => ALL

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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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