Crossword Answers For: Sunday, November 12, 2023

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Best African ___ Performance (one of three new categories at the 2024 Grammy Awards, as announced over this weekend) => MUSIC
6 Across: 1990 MC Hammer hit that samples Prince => PRAY
10 Across: President who won a Grammy for Best Spoken Word album in 2006 and 2008 => OBAMA
11 Across: ___ Lama Ding Dong => RAMA
12 Across: Popeye the Sailor creator E.C. ___ => SEGAR
13 Across: Idi who Forest Whitaker won an Oscar for portraying => AMIN
14 Across: Best Pop Dance ___ (one of three new categories at next year's Grammy awards) => RECORDING
16 Across: It's the ___ I can do! => LEAST
17 Across: Adorable bear of Australia => KOALA
20 Across: Best Alternative ___ (one of three new categories at next year's Grammy Awards) => JAZZALBUM
24 Across: So much => ALOT
25 Across: Part of SATB => TENOR
27 Across: Hawaii's state bird => NENE
28 Across: Martini garnish => OLIVE
29 Across: Part of GE, for short => ELEC
30 Across: Word before G, PG, PG-13, or R => RATED

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: ___ Def (Mathematics rapper) => MOS
2 Down: One option for a ride home => UBER
3 Down: Herb mentioned in Simon & Garfunkel's Scarborough Fair/Canticle => SAGE
4 Down: Apple option => IMAC
5 Down: The Adam ___ Show (big podcast) => CAROLLA
6 Down: The Devil Wears ___ => PRADA
7 Down: Caddyshack and Groundhog Day director Harold => RAMIS
8 Down: Make ___ (hit it big) => AMINT
9 Down: Yin's counterpart => YANG
15 Down: House seller => REALTOR
17 Down: Superman's given name, pre-Clark Kent => KALEL
18 Down: ___ layer => OZONE
19 Down: Builder of Tenochtitlan => AZTEC
20 Down: ___ the Virgin (Gina Rodriguez show) => JANE
21 Down: Lugosi of horror fame => BELA
22 Down: Apartment or condo, e.g. => UNIT
23 Down: It's Your ___ (1980s Jason Bateman sitcom) => MOVE
26 Down: The Hunt for ___ October => RED

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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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