Crossword Answers For: Sunday, June 26, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Old-school comic book employee => INKER
6 Across: I ___ Longer Here (2019 Mexican drama directed by Fernando Frías) => AMNO
10 Across: Holmes's creator => DOYLE
11 Across: Lunch or brunch, say => MEAL
12 Across: Get out of bed => ARISE
13 Across: Lord of the Rings baddies => ORCS
14 Across: Dangerous natural phenomenon; or, Colorado team that's playing tonight to win the Stanley Cup => AVALANCHE
16 Across: Goads into misbehavior => EGGSON
17 Across: Lorraine of Goodfellas => BRACCO
21 Across: Dangerous natural phenomenon; or, Tampa Bay team that's playing tonight to stay in the Stanley Cup => LIGHTNING
25 Across: ___ and lanolin (pair in lotions) => ALOE
26 Across: Cool as a cucumber or Pot, meet kettle => IDIOM
28 Across: Jeong and Jennings, for two => KENS
29 Across: Last page in a children's alphabet book, often => ZEBRA
30 Across: Rival of Talenti => EDYS
31 Across: Relaxed, as rules => EASED

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: ___ B. Wells (NAACP co-founder) => IDA
2 Down: Sleepless in Seattle director Ephron => NORA
3 Down: Ukraine's capital => KYIV
4 Down: Idina voiced her => ELSA
5 Down: Put back into office => REELECT
6 Down: ___ Us (party game) => AMONG
7 Down: Soldiers for hire => MERCS
8 Down: ___ Cheesier! (Doritos flavor) => NACHO
9 Down: Twins surname => OLSEN
15 Down: ___ over (struggle with, as a decision) => AGONIZE
17 Down: Lively who directed the video to Taylor Swift's I Bet You Think About Me => BLAKE
18 Down: Agitated => RILED
19 Down: Opposite of ecstasy => AGONY
20 Down: Game for Hikaru Nakamura and Judith Polgar => CHESS
22 Down: What's the big ___? => IDEA
23 Down: Pen tips => NIBS
24 Down: Veep until 2001 => GORE
27 Down: Alfred E. Neuman's magazine => MAD

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This crossword has 16 across clues and 19 down clues. In total 35 clues are solved in the section above.
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