Crossword Answers For: Thursday, September 14, 2023

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: She performed Bongos with Megan Thee Stallion at the MTV Video Music Awards on Tuesday => CARDIB
7 Across: ___ and haw (stall for time) => HEM
10 Across: What catnip does, if you're a cat => AROUSE
11 Across: Rita who presented the award for Best Collaboration at the MTV Video Music Awards on Tuesday (and her last name is hidden in Collaboration) => ORA
12 Across: She performed Last Time I Saw You at the MTV Video Music Awards on Tuesday => NICKIMINAJ
14 Across: Attempt at a movie scene => TAKE
15 Across: Yeah-hunh! => IDOSO
16 Across: Loud bedmate => SNORER
17 Across: Leave, as the premises => VACATE
21 Across: Love, to Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu => AMOUR
22 Across: Movin' ___ (theme song to The Jeffersons) => ONUP
26 Across: He performed The Show at the MTV Video Music Awards on Tuesday => DOUGEFRESH
28 Across: Make a mistake => ERR
29 Across: Like people when they watch Talk to Me or Malum => SCARED
30 Across: No longer playing in the NBA or NFL (abbr.) => RET
31 Across: Stray Kids song they performed at the MTV Video Music Awards on Tuesday => SCLASS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: The Weeknd's ___ Feel My Face => CANT
2 Down: Opera song, or a Vegas casino/resort => ARIA
3 Down: 30 ___ => ROCK
4 Down: Surfing great Kahanamoku => DUKE
5 Down: It ___! (dramatic thing to announce when entering a room) => ISI
6 Down: Valentine's Day candy words => BEMINE
7 Down: Oscar or Emmy, e.g. => HONOR
8 Down: Clear, as a blackboard => ERASE
9 Down: ___ League (1989 baseball comedy) => MAJOR
13 Down: 1997 Lisa Loeb hit => IDO
16 Down: Nervous tension => STRESS
17 Down: Darth ___ (role for James Earl Jones) => VADER
18 Down: Love, to Roberto Benigni => AMORE
19 Down: Naomi Osaka's workplace => COURT
20 Down: Birth mo. for Madonna and Halle Berry => AUG
22 Down: Like some history and contraceptives => ORAL
23 Down: Italian for black => NERA
24 Down: Manipulates => USES
25 Down: Most college profs have them => PHDS
27 Down: Govt. arm that oversees TV => FCC

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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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