Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Raises, calls, and bluffs => BETS
5 Across: Ke Huy Quan won one in March => OSCAR
10 Across: Barbie Girl band => AQUA
11 Across: Three-line poem => HAIKU
12 Across: Late singer whose daughter, Francis Bean, married 22-Across's son earlier this month, as first reported this week => KURTCOBAIN
14 Across: Blake of jazz fame => EUBIE
15 Across: ___ Thugs-n-Harmony (Tha Crossroads group) => BONE
16 Across: California county known for wine => SONOMA
18 Across: Book with Barbados and Burundi => ATLAS
22 Across: Skateboarder whose son, Riley, married 12-Across's daughter earlier this month, as first reported this week => TONYHAWK
25 Across: Sarcastic crying sound => BOOHOO
27 Across: Cobra ___ => KAI
28 Across: Why do I even ___? => BOTHER
29 Across: Do it wrong => ERR
30 Across: Ruins, as a movie's ending => SPOILS
31 Across: ___ It Off (1996 heist film starring Jada Pinkett and Queen Latifah) => SET

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Easy-___ Oven (classic toy) => BAKE
2 Down: Latin for horse => EQUUS
3 Down: ___-charged (having extra zip) => TURBO
4 Down: ___ sheets are very romantic (Madonna line) => SATIN
5 Down: Caught you red-handed! => OHO
6 Down: Black ___ (Ozzy Osbourne's band) => SABBATH
7 Down: Toodles! => CIAO
8 Down: Similar (to) => AKIN
9 Down: Danish tennis star Holger ___ => RUNE
13 Down: Big boss => CEO
17 Down: Bruce Harrell of Seattle and Eric Adams of New York, e.g. => MAYORS
19 Down: Superior and Michigan, say => LAKES
20 Down: I'm ___ of that! => AWARE
21 Down: Alternative to shorts => SKIRT
22 Down: Dog to whom Dorothy says Now I know we're not in Kansas => TOTO
23 Down: Didn't notice you there! => OHHI
24 Down: One of the Gallagher Brothers => NOEL
25 Down: Places to post messages, for short => BBS
26 Down: Alley-___ (dramatic hoops play) => OOP

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This crossword has 16 across clues and 20 down clues. In total 36 clues are solved in the section above.
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