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Crossword clues, hints, and answers

Across

  1. 1. Going ___ — Answer: ATIT
  2. 5. Clarifying words — Answer: THATIS. Hint: These words are often used to restate something more plainly. 🧠
  3. 11. Student's concern, in brief — Answer: GPA
  4. 14. Girl in Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" — Answer: ALICE
  5. 15. Use a Sharpie on, perhaps — Answer: REDACT
  6. 16. Undefeated boxer Laila — Answer: ALI
  7. 17. Platinum-selling singer who co-starred in the films "Moonlight" and "Hidden Figures" — Answer: JANELLEMONAE
  8. 19. Family transport — Answer: VAN
  9. 20. Certain chain movie theaters — Answer: AMCS
  10. 21. Egyptian snake — Answer: ASP
  11. 22. Proof (or disproof) of paternity — Answer: DNATEST
  12. 24. Corkscrew-shaped pasta — Answer: ROTINI. Hint: Think of a spiral staircase, but in pasta form! 🍝
  13. 26. Lion's home — Answer: DETROIT
  14. 27. "Creature" that might "attack" a small child — Answer: TICKLEMONSTER
  15. 31. Shed tears — Answer: SOB
  16. 34. Like snow leopards and giant pandas — Answer: ASIAN
  17. 35. King of Norway and Sweden from 1844 to 1859 — Answer: OSCARI
  18. 36. Only known warm-blooded fish — Answer: OPAH
  19. 38. Not much — Answer: ATAD. Hint: Sometimes, it's just a little bit! 🌟
  20. 40. Like fine wine and cheese — Answer: AGED
  21. 41. The aughts, e.g. — Answer: DECADE
  22. 44. "Für ___" (Beethoven dedication) — Answer: ELISE
  23. 47. Wordsworth's "Intimations of Immortality," e.g. — Answer: ODE
  24. 48. Homing devices? — Answer: ANKLEMONITORS
  25. 51. Done without much care, informally — Answer: HALFASS
  26. 52. Something not to quit, they say — Answer: DAYJOB
  27. 56. Excels at school — Answer: GETSANA
  28. 57. Year in Rio — Answer: ANO
  29. 59. Cool, in slang — Answer: DOPE
  30. 60. Bit of light — Answer: RAY
  31. 61. What to do when life gives you the proverbial items hidden in 17-, 27- and 48-Across — Answer: MAKELEMONADE
  32. 64. Experiencing little to no amorous attraction, informally — Answer: ARO
  33. 65. List ender — Answer: ETALII
  34. 66. Kind of sax — Answer: TENOR
  35. 67. A/C measure — Answer: BTU
  36. 68. "Not so!," e.g. — Answer: DENIAL
  37. 69. Line up, in a way — Answer: SYNC

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  1. 1. Unforgettable place? — Answer: ALAMO
  2. 2. Bit of color — Answer: TINCT
  3. 3. Seals the deal, informally — Answer: ICESIT
  4. 4. Business card abbr. — Answer: TEL
  5. 5. "Chic" modifier — Answer: TRES
  6. 6. Rope fiber — Answer: HEMP
  7. 7. Fuss — Answer: ADO. Hint: A little unnecessary excitement over something minor 😅
  8. 8. Partners often work in this — Answer: TANDEM
  9. 9. "Oh yeah? Watch me!" — Answer: ICANTOO
  10. 10. The "S" of T.S. Eliot — Answer: STEARNS
  11. 11. Tried something new, perhaps — Answer: GAVEITAGO
  12. 12. Drunk out of one's mind — Answer: PLASTERED
  13. 13. Is not, informally — Answer: AINT
  14. 14. Cracked, as a door — Answer: AJAR
  15. 18. Pastor's flock — Answer: LAICS
  16. 23. Puccini opera — Answer: TOSCA
  17. 25. Actress Vardalos — Answer: NIA. Hint: She played Toula in the hit comedy My Big Fat Greek Wedding. 🎬
  18. 26. North American peak named by the Koyukon Athabascans — Answer: DENALI
  19. 28. Rio maker — Answer: KIA
  20. 29. Gets darker, say — Answer: LATENS
  21. 30. Carousel, e.g. — Answer: RIDE
  22. 31. Drink with a straw — Answer: SODA
  23. 32. Kind of surgery — Answer: OPENHEART
  24. 33. Remark that may immediately follow an insult or a compliment — Answer: BACKATYOU
  25. 37. They might be decked in December — Answer: HALLS
  26. 39. Morse bit — Answer: DIT
  27. 42. Maligned — Answer: DEFAMED
  28. 43. Send off — Answer: EMANATE
  29. 45. Twin city in the Bible — Answer: SODOM
  30. 46. Notable time period — Answer: ERA
  31. 49. Resident of Japan's third-largest city — Answer: OSAKAN
  32. 50. Host of the 2000 Olympics — Answer: SYDNEY
  33. 53. Two-syllable woman's name that becomes a one-syllable woman's name if you drop the last letter — Answer: JOANN
  34. 54. Film portmanteau, informally — Answer: OPDOC
  35. 55. "Divine medicine," per the Greek physician Paracelsus — Answer: BEER
  36. 56. Snatch — Answer: GRAB. Hint: Take something quickly and suddenly. 🫳
  37. 57. Actress Shawkat of "Arrested Development" — Answer: ALIA
  38. 58. Astrophysicist ___ deGrasse Tyson — Answer: NEIL
  39. 62. Certain Ivy Leaguer — Answer: ELI
  40. 63. Tense parts of sports matches, for short — Answer: OTS

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