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Crossword clues, hints, and answers

Across

  1. 1. That's gotta hurt — Answer: ACHE
  2. 5. Certain voice-overs — Answer: DUBS
  3. 9. Neutrogena dandruff shampoo — Answer: TGEL
  4. 13. Make less distinct — Answer: BLUR
  5. 14. "A cunning hunter, a man of the field," in Genesis — Answer: ESAU
  6. 15. Find more value from — Answer: REUSE
  7. 16. Brought into being — Answer: BORN
  8. 17. Like one with renewed beliefs — Answer: BORN
  9. 18. Word from on high — Answer: EDICT
  10. 19. H.S. exam for which 5 is the highest score — Answer: APTEST
  11. 21. Seller of Poäng and Ekenäset chairs — Answer: IKEA
  12. 23. School play? — Answer: TAG
  13. 24. Look to pick things up — Answer: SHOP
  14. 26. Onetime leader of the Sinaloa Cartel — Answer: ELCHAPO
  15. 28. The great outdoors — Answer: NATURE
  16. 30. Tying one's shoes, e.g., for most people — Answer: NATURE
  17. 31. Tops at golf clubs — Answer: POLOS
  18. 32. Absorbed — Answer: RAPT. Hint: Think of being so engrossed that the outside world disappears 🧠
  19. 34. 48 of them make a cup: Abbr. — Answer: TSPS
  20. 36. Untidy room, metaphorically — Answer: STY
  21. 37. Pains — Answer: HASSLES
  22. 40. Portuguese greeting — Answer: OLA
  23. 41. Reid of "Urban Legend" — Answer: TARA
  24. 43. Indian crepe served with chutney — Answer: DOSA
  25. 44. Meat designation on a food cart — Answer: HALAL
  26. 46. Graphite, essentially — Answer: CARBON
  27. 48. Exact replica — Answer: CARBON
  28. 50. Fire breather of myth — Answer: CHIMERA
  29. 51. At all — Answer: EVER
  30. 52. Dorm enforcers, for short — Answer: RAS
  31. 53. Betray, with "out" — Answer: SELL
  32. 55. Discarded tech devices — Answer: EWASTE
  33. 59. Not satisfied — Answer: UNMET
  34. 61. Swallow — Answer: DOWN
  35. 63. Strengthen one's commitment — Answer: DOWN
  36. 64. Scrutinizes — Answer: SCANS
  37. 65. Eager — Answer: AGOG
  38. 66. Send out — Answer: EMIT
  39. 67. Have an inclination — Answer: TEND
  40. 68. Hitch together — Answer: YOKE
  41. 69. Digs for bears — Answer: DENS

Down

  1. 1. "Waterloo" band — Answer: ABBA
  2. 2. Sound on a bridle path — Answer: CLOP
  3. 3. Offended — Answer: HURT
  4. 4. Given name of Che Guevara — Answer: ERNESTO
  5. 5. One with obligations — Answer: DEBTOR
  6. 6. Troupe for troops, in brief — Answer: USO
  7. 7. Adriatic port city — Answer: BARI
  8. 8. Dissociative void, as in the film "Get Out" — Answer: SUNKENPLACE
  9. 9. ___ Talks — Answer: TED
  10. 10. Highlight of many a Jimi Hendrix concert — Answer: GUITARSOLO
  11. 11. What might lead to a breakout success? — Answer: ESCAPEPLAN
  12. 12. "Unhand me!" — Answer: LETGO
  13. 15. Gape or gasp, say — Answer: REACT
  14. 20. [I'm trying to listen!] — Answer: SHUSH
  15. 22. Send — Answer: ELATE
  16. 25. Little time off — Answer: PERSONALDAY
  17. 27. QB's call — Answer: HUT
  18. 28. "No way, nohow!" — Answer: NOTACHANCE
  19. 29. Gymnastics star of the 2012 and 2016 Olympics — Answer: ALYRAISMAN
  20. 31. Winter hours in L.A. — Answer: PST
  21. 33. Intensifying suffix, in modern slang — Answer: ASS
  22. 35. Comedian ___ Vulcano — Answer: SAL
  23. 38. Really dig — Answer: ADORE
  24. 39. Mouselike mammal — Answer: SHREW
  25. 42. One of eight on a cuttlefish — Answer: ARM
  26. 45. Worn away — Answer: ABRADED
  27. 47. Top scores, e.g. — Answer: BESTS
  28. 49. Settle a score for — Answer: AVENGE
  29. 50. Part of a pizza — Answer: CRUST
  30. 54. Snapchat's ghost, e.g. — Answer: LOGO
  31. 56. Indeterminate amount — Answer: SOME
  32. 57. Look-alike — Answer: TWIN
  33. 58. Specialty M.D.s — Answer: ENTS
  34. 60. Extremity — Answer: END
  35. 62. Vessel with a round bottom — Answer: WOK

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