Crossword Answers For: Monday, May 23, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Pieces of gossip => RUMORS
7 Across: ___ and away (by a wide margin) => FAR
10 Across: Aardvark or zebra, say => ANIMAL
11 Across: Mendes of 2 Fast 2 Furious => EVA
12 Across: The Vampire Diaries actress (who's been dating 26-Across for the past two years) => NINADOBREV
14 Across: Recipe instruction => STIR
15 Across: A+ or B-, for example => GRADE
16 Across: Gibbs and Sokoloff, for two => MARLAS
17 Across: Really, really unpleasant => SOMEAN
21 Across: I feel the same way! => ASAMI
22 Across: You can say that again! => AMEN
26 Across: He's won three Olympic gold medals in snowboarding => SHAUNWHITE
28 Across: ___ and haw (not know what to say) => HEM
29 Across: ___-be (not quite yet) => SOONTO
30 Across: Small batteries => AAS
31 Across: ___: Maverick (movie whose London premiere 12-Across and 26-Across attended on Thursday, walking the red carpet for the first time together) => TOPGUN

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Also-___ (electoral losers) => RANS
2 Down: Apartment => UNIT
3 Down: Kellogg's Frosted ___-Wheats => MINI
4 Down: Epps or Apollo => OMAR
5 Down: Super-cool, to surfers => RAD
6 Down: Catchphrase => SLOGAN
7 Down: Wild, like an animal => FERAL
8 Down: Spa brand => AVEDA
9 Down: Highly positive reviews => RAVES
13 Down: It's cold out today! => BRR
16 Down: Longest rd. in many towns => MAINST
17 Down: Sister of Malia Obama => SASHA
18 Down: ___ Jackson Sr. (Ice Cube's real name) => OSHEA
19 Down: Sirs' counterparts => MAAMS
20 Down: Australian bird that can't fly => EMU
22 Down: On ___ (how a ground ball may be played) => AHOP
23 Down: Chinese dynasty known for its vases => MING
24 Down: Latin words to a traitor => ETTU
25 Down: Gas used for signs in Las Vegas => NEON
27 Down: John who directed Face/Off and Mission: Impossible 2 => WOO

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This crossword has 16 across clues and 21 down clues. In total 37 clues are solved in the section above.
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