Expletive-free Crossword Clue

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Expletive-free Crossword Answer

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(verb)
1. make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from
2. clean one’s body or parts thereof, as by washing
(adjective)
1. free of restrictions or qualifications
2. free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed
(adverb)
1. completely; used as intensifiers
2. in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating
(noun)
1. a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

FREE (adjective)
1. not taken up by scheduled activities
2. not fixed in position
FREE (verb)
1. part with a possession or right
2. relieve from
FREE (noun)
1. people who are free
FREE (adverb)
1. without restraint
EXPLETIVE (noun)
1. profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger
2. a word or phrase conveying no independent meaning but added to fill out a sentence or metrical line

Hint 3: Anagram

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More Apple+ Crossword (2/23/2025) Answers

Across

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17. Best picture nominee about cross-cultural connections (2006) and a shepherding pig (1995)

18. Neckwear that sounds like a choker?

19. Pants, informally

20. Seasons with crystals

21. Best Picture nominee about an impact event (2021) and a floating house (2009)

24. Arrived at home head first

26. So far

27. Original content creator?

29. "What am ___ do?"

30. Rap battlers

32. Bob and weave business

34. Pad kee ___ (drunken noodles)

35. Movie metanarrative trope, and a hint to the answers with circled letters

39. Baton Rouge school

40. Locales

41. Code for the world's busiest airport

42. Keister

43. "Cat ___" (period when cats become rare in the fossil record)

44. Prefix for "honor" and "order"

46. Gyro bread

48. Best Picture nominee about a letter carrier (1994) and the publishing of the Pentagon Papers (2017)

54. Like pound cake

56. "Barbie ___" (Aqua hit)

57. Styled like

58. Best Picture nominee about a Minnesota kidnapping (1996) and a CIA exfiltration (2012)

59. Best Picture nominee about Eliza Doolittle (1938) and the search for an Indian birth family (2016)

61. Not-yet-weaned one

62. .png alternative

63. Central hub

64. Birds last seen in 1662

65. Pen overflowing with oink?

66. Número atómico del helio

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2. 'That's gotta hurt!'

3. ___mania ('60s frenzy)

4. Noise muffled by the crook of an elbow

5. Its only land border is with the Republic of Ireland

6. Fragrant tree

7. 🧋

8. Eurasian border range

9. Cap on government borrowing

10. Sings, dances, acts ... and more!

11. Couture initials

12. Order to vacate

15. "IDK but stay tuned"

16. Home-run hitter's gait

20. Do some parallel cuddling

22. "Much obliged," in a text

23. Fruits that sound worse than they taste

25. Slow, dirgelike heavy-metal subgenre

28. Subject of a makeup test?

30. Queen crowned in Boise

31. Like grouped data points

32. NBA star Curry

33. "I just don't get this crossword clue ... OHH!"

35. Tent entrance

36. Boxer's left-right motion?

37. Ready to blow

38. Observe Ramadan

44. School house?

45. Feature of some kitchens

47. Part of WASP

49. Country where the earliest known sundial was found

50. Moi by Miss ___ (perfume launched by the Jim Henson Company)

51. Downton Abbey cleaners

52. Ingredient in some BB creams

53. Grandma, in 5-Down

55. ___ up (soaks)

58. Subject line abbreviation

59. Jammies

60. John, in 5-Down

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