Code Letter Crossword Answers April 01, 2023

Crossword: by Anna Stiga

Across

Clues and Answers

Better than just OK	HALE
Rats, for instance	MINCEDOATH
Tip	APEX
Its emblem reads, “EX LUNA, SCIENTIA”	APOLLOXIII
Word from Middle English for “scrape”	RASP
It’s best left sealed	CANOFWORMS
Tips	ACMES
Outback etching	VIN
Parte del calendario	MES
Grant went there in 1862	SHILOH
Name on pints of Milk & Cookies	BEN
Turkish tapas	MEZE
Declares, so to speak	SEZ
Many a sauna, essentially	CEDAR
Stirs	TODOS
Blasts	SLAMS
Big name in pop since 2013	ARIANA
Fête nationale	QUATORZEJUILLET
Ferment	UNREST
“Downton Abbey” recreation	HUNTS
What vegan eggs are made with	ALGAE
Say again	DITTO
Blast	RAP
Reader using batteries	NOOK
Betting setting	PIT
Alphabetically last of a small septet	SNEEZY
Almond, e.g.	TAN
Two-digit signal	VEE
Antonym of “censure”	EXTOL
Big Sky Conference member	IDAHOSTATE
Winner of two Pulitzers for profiling powerful people	CARO
“Be seated,” frequently	COURTORDER
Without an appointment	OPEN
Present	ONTHESCENE
Monster’s murky milieu	NESS

Press too much	HARASS
Arizona county bordering Navajo	APACHE
Paris premiere of 1980	LESMIZ
Disgorge	EXPEL
Device that “can practically shake hands,” per its earliest ads (1984)	MAC
Heady Topper or Sip of Sunshine	IPA
Start to stick	NON
Metaphor for much money	CLOVER
Not big and troublemaking	ELFIN
Pipe __	DOWN
Precision Batter Dispenser maker	OXO
Achievement in Chuck Yeager’s bio	AIRMEDAL
One of a Canadian sextet	TIMEZONE
Blasts	HISSESAT
Commiseration for a miss	SOCLOSE
Mettle	HEART
Get on with it	BASEHIT
Drudges	MOILS
Postwar establishment	DMZ
F to B, in music	TRITONE
Round for a course	STEAK
Some kin	AUNTS
Small town surrounded by soldiers	QUANTICO
Blast	UNLOADON
Castor or Pollux	ARGONAUT
Become prominent	JUT
Soda with Splenda	DIETRC
Adjust, as hair extensions	RETAPE
Group benefitting from the Gulf Stream	AZORES
Towers of power	PYLONS
South American capital	PESOS
Freeman, at “Shawshank”‘s end	EXCON
One may be popular	VOTE
__ The Princess Royal	HRH
Block extension	ADE
Partial score	TEN
“Into the brain __ one can think”: Keats	ERE

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