Crossword Answers For: Thursday, December 1, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: With 4-Across: artist with the most Spotify streams (over 18 billion) in 2022, per a list the company released this week => BAD
4 Across: See 1-Across => BUNNY
9 Across: ___ Twist, Scientist (Andrea Beaty book) => ADA
10 Across: Cartoon sailor played by Robin Williams in a 1980 movie => POPEYE
11 Across: Ending with south or west => ERN
12 Across: Flowering shrub => AZALEA
13 Across: Mythical half-man, half-horse => SATYR
15 Across: They rank above sergeants (abbr.) => LTS
16 Across: The ___ (singer who is #4 on Spotify's list) => WEEKND
19 Across: Swift who is #2 on Spotify's list => TAYLOR
22 Across: Oscar-winning 2018 short film named for a type of Chinese bun => BAO
25 Across: ___ Rich Pageant (1986 R.E.M. album) => LIFES
27 Across: Part of a play after intermission => ACTTWO
30 Across: Mind the ___ (warning on the London Underground) => GAP
31 Across: Brie in 2019's Just Mercy => LARSON
32 Across: Obamacare, in three letters => ACA
33 Across: Rapper who is #3 on Spotify's list => DRAKE
34 Across: Boy band who is #5 on Spotify's list => BTS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Besties => BAES
2 Down: Call it ___ (decide that nobody wins) => ADRAW
3 Down: Inferno poet => DANTE
4 Down: T-___ (TLC nickname) => BOZ
5 Down: Cook ___ storm (rock the kitchen) => UPA
6 Down: Carter of Gimme a Break! => NELL
7 Down: No, to Mikhail Baryshnikov => NYET
8 Down: Votes in favor => YEAS
10 Down: Hooded Inuit coat => PARKA
14 Down: Are we there ___? => YET
17 Down: Stocking material => NYLON
18 Down: 551, in Roman numerals => DLI
20 Down: The gift ___ (ability to speak engagingly) => OFGAB
21 Down: Laugh or cry, say => REACT
22 Down: Like Mr. Clean => BALD
23 Down: Rent-___ (business like Hertz or Enterprise) => ACAR
24 Down: Other, in Spanish => OTRA
26 Down: Places to get manicures and pedicures => SPAS
28 Down: You're so naughty! => TSK
29 Down: ___ is me! (self-pitying cry) => WOE

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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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