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The Crossword Clues, Hints & Answers for January 24, 2022

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Monday, January 24, 2022

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This archive page covers the The Crossword from Monday, January 24, 2022. The daily crossword is the classic: a 15×15 grid on weekdays and a larger Sunday puzzle, with difficulty rising from a gentle Monday to a fiendish Saturday. Hints come first and the solution stays hidden until you ask for it.

76 clues · jump to Across or Down. Tap a tile for one letter, or Answer for the whole word.

Across clues & answers

1
Drains of strength
5
Top celebs
10
Witch
13
Jazzy Fitzgerald
14
Tongue sense
15
Contented cat's sound
16
It doesn't need time to rise before baking
18
Monster often seen wielding a club
19
Actress Thurman
20
Rarin' to go
21
Commence
22
Bed-and-breakfast, e.g.
23
Bill known as the "Science Guy"
24
"___ word is a lamp unto my feet ...": Psalms
26
Director DuVernay
27
The "N" in TNT
29
One of two "royal" sleeping options
31
U.K. award
33
Web address
34
"What ___ have you got?"
35
Social crafting event
38
Created yarn or tales
40
Industrial tub
41
Help
42
ATV with four tires
44
___ nodes
48
Coffee dispenser
49
"___ your head!"
50
"Chairman" of Chinese Communism
52
U.N. agcy. awarded the 1969 Nobel Peace Prize
53
Fall bloom that resembles a daisy
55
Big name in shapewear clothing
57
Apt rhyme for "grab"
58
Actor Guzmán of "Traffic"
59
Key member of a football team, in brief ... or a feature of 16-, 29-, 35- and 42-Across?
61
Elevate
62
Spooky
63
Chimney duct
64
Pig's wallowing spot
65
Rises and shines
66
Sediment in a wine barrel

Down clues & answers

1
Sparkly bit on a gala gown
2
College reunion attendees
3
Flexible
4
Cul-de-___
5
Kept in check
6
Size above medium
7
"Now it's clear"
8
Breakout movie role, say
9
CNN founder Turner
10
Cuddle-worthy
11
Shows up
12
Hand-held explosive
15
Author of "The Gold-Bug"
17
Obi-Wan ___ (Jedi master)
21
"See ya!"
25
Mate for Hägar the Horrible
28
Spherical
29
Extremely
30
Like a partner who can't spend a second apart from you
32
Grammy winner Costello
35
Put a number on
36
Enjoys a late-afternoon snack, as a Brit might
37
Mississippi city on the Gulf of Mexico
38
Sudden storms with whipping winds
39
Hobby
43
Prickly seedcase
45
Socialize at a party
46
Commemorative tablet
47
Calvin's tiger companion, in the comics
50
Curie who coined the term "radioactivity"
51
Pays for a hand
54
Superlative suffix
56
Playground place
59
Stitch
60
Super Bowl org.

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Sunday, January 23, 2022

across

1. Web site?: ATTIC
6. Browser window: TAB
9. Streaming service acquired by Fox in 2020: TUBI
13. Civil rights grp. once led by M.L.K.: SCLC
17. Fictional character who says "I will take the ring, though I do not know the way": FRODO
18. Scorpion, for one: ARACHNID
20. Wasn't overturned on appeal: STOOD
21. Artists sketching pectorals?: DRAWERSOFCHESTS
23. Stays out all night?: CAMPS
24. Glowing or shining: RADIANT
25. Work rotations: SHIFTS
26. French "I like": JAIME
27. "Right on!": AMEN
28. Spot at a casino: PIP
30. Either side of a beaming grin, in a phrase: EAR
31. Tony winner McDonald: AUDRA
32. Something to make after you wake: BED
33. Vow to remain mum about hotel guests' secrets?: HONOROFMAIDS
37. Hoops org.: WNBA
40. Possibility: OPTION
41. Scoffing sound: PFFT
42. Driver of film: ADAM
43. Nonbinary people, informally: ENBIES
47. Declined: SLID
49. Over-poetical?: OER
50. Modern-day "carpe diem": YOLO
51. Early times in verse: MORNS
52. Small distance covered by a naval armada?: FOOTOFFLEET
56. First sitting prez to fly in an airplane: FDR
57. Words after walk or cash: INON
58. Hyperbolic wait time: EON
59. Like climates where cacti thrive: ARID
60. Pointy part of a charger?: LANCE
62. Group of followers: RETINUE
64. Willem who played Jesus in "The Last Temptation of Christ": DAFOE
66. Some pianos and motorcycles: YAMAHAS
68. 2000s Fox teen drama: THEOC
69. Playwright Simon: NEIL
70. "Emotion in motion," per Mae West: SEX
71. Thomas ___, British general at Bunker Hill: GAGE
72. Sweetie: BAE
73. Boxer lacking a left hook?: MANOFRIGHTS
77. One of the boxing Alis: LAILA
78. Gumbo ingredient: OKRA
80. :-) alternative: LOL
81. Below par: POOR
82. Something unleashed in a denial-of-service attack: BOTNET
83. Destination for a return flight: NEST
84. Himalayan humanoid: YETI
86. ___ eyes: GOOGOO
88. "I'm a frayed ___" (punch line of a classic joke): KNOT
89. What brass band music has?: PLENTYOFHORN
92. Court: WOO
95. Groups of Greeks, informally: FRATS
97. Watcher of the skies, for short: FAA
98. Old ___ (motherland, affectionately): SOD
99. Announced: SAID
100. You can count on them: ABACI
101. Beat in a race: OUTRAN
104. Very productive: FERTILE
106. Not even a little off: EXACT
107. Tree feature in winter?: ABSENCEOFLEAVES
109. Quaint bathroom sign: GENTS
110. Galosh: OVERSHOE
111. Lumberjack's favorite kind of beer?: LAGER
112. "What are the ___?": ODDS
113. Audience for Cocomelon, the most-viewed YouTube channel in the U.S.: KIDS
114. Omega's place: END
115. Columns with angles: OPEDS

down

1. Home with a pointy roof: AFRAME
2. Worked on Wall Street: TRADED
3. Bring to a repair shop, say: TOWIN
4. Creative springboard: IDEA
5. Cereal once advertised by Woody Woodpecker: CORNPOPS
6. Subject for Laozi: TAO
7. Sounds from a lab: ARFS
8. "The Art of Fugue" composer: BACH
9. One's kin, casually: THEFAM
10. Loosen, in a way: UNSTRAP
11. Some zeros and ones: BITS
12. Bar necessities, at times: IDS
13. It has several steps: STAIRWAY
14. What a dog walker and a strong-willed pooch might vie for?: COMMANDOFCHAIN
15. Run easily: LOPE
16. Makeup of some music libraries: CDS
19. Main: CHIEF
20. Huge quantity: SCAD
21. Lacking color: DRAB
22. Brief period of work: STINT
26. "Easy ... everything's going to be OK": JUSTRELAX
29. Bottle marked with a skull and crossbones: POISON
31. Cost for a spot: ADFEE
33. Garden shed items: HOES
34. Caramel-filled candy: ROLO
35. "You can leave this to me": ONIT
36. Declaration by one who's done playing: IFOLD
38. Benjamin Franklin famously considered it "a rank coward" with "bad moral character": BALDEAGLE
39. "Te quiero" sentiment: AMOR
43. Mideast V.I.P.: EMIR
44. Response to "No offense": NONETAKEN
45. The Bee Gees' Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb?: BROTHERSOFBAND
46. It might gather lint: INNIE
48. Somersault: DOAFLIP
52. Adversary: FOE
53. To's opposite: FRO
54. Old-timey reproach: FIE
55. Scottish cap: TAM
58. Aromatic trees: EUCALYPTI
61. Really bother: NAGAT
63. Jacqueline or Jacques: NOM
64. For sure, for short: DEF
65. Something a snowboarder catches: AIR
66. Last word of "Ulysses": YES
67. Goal in musical chairs: SEAT
69. Nick of "48 Hrs.": NOLTE
70. Beer brand whose name spells an article of apparel backward: STROHS
72. Knock on the head: BONK
74. Carolers' repertoire: NOELS
75. ___ dancer: GOGO
76. Minotaur's foot: HOOF
77. Bird known in the U.K. as a diver: LOON
79. Draws: ATTRACTS
82. Red-light district establishment: BORDELLO
85. Like some vodkas: INFUSED
87. Fly into a rant: GOOFF
90. Spuds: TATERS
91. Tall tales: YARNS
92. Dispensed with: WAIVED
93. N.H.L. team with five championship-winning seasons in the 1980s: OILERS
94. Praising poetry: ODES
96. Ballet sections: ACTS
99. Play station?: STAGE
100. Got rid of: AXED
101. "Duh," in modern slang: OBVI
102. Pine: ACHE
103. Like the Radio City Music Hall sign: NEON
105. Harvest: REAP
106. Something swollen on a pro athlete?: EGO
107. Totally fine: AOK
108. Alternative to Webster's, in brief: OED

Hints and full breakdown for Jan 23

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Wednesday: a step up, often with a playful theme.
Thursday: the trick day, with rebus squares (several letters in one square) and answers that turn corners or skip squares.
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Sunday: a bigger 21×21 grid with a theme, about as hard as a Wednesday or Thursday.

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