Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, December 25, 2019

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: The Chosen novelist Potok => CHAIM
6 Across: Doofuses => SCHMOS
12 Across: Itinerary info => ETA
15 Across: Light weight => OUNCE
16 Across: Hullabaloo => HOOPLA
17 Across: Your Moment of __: The Daily Show bit => ZEN
18 Across: Pretrial proceeding to determine if the accused is released or held during trial => DETENTIONHEARING
21 Across: Family unit => CLAN
22 Across: Ties up => BINDS
23 Across: Tawdry => INPOORTASTE
30 Across: Get-up-and-go => ZEST
31 Across: Peddle => SELL
32 Across: Again, in Spanish => OTRAVEZ
34 Across: Having a low pH => ACIDIC
37 Across: Stop communicating => LOSETOUCH
41 Across: Master => ACE
42 Across: Easy throw => LOB
44 Across: Forget a date, e.g. => ERR
45 Across: Actress Vardalos => NIA
46 Across: Programmer's hint of a still bigger problem => CODESMELL
50 Across: Pines => YEARNS
52 Across: Plays at, with in => DABBLES
54 Across: Costa __ => RICA
55 Across: Source of chips => SPUD
58 Across: Soothsayer's ability => SECONDSIGHT
61 Across: Watering hole => OASIS
63 Across: Vicinity => AREA
64 Across: Wake up ... or what five long Across answers do? => COMETOYOURSENSES
72 Across: Chicken-king link => ALA
73 Across: Polar jacket => ANORAK
74 Across: Dishonorable fellow => KNAVE
75 Across: Chop off => LOP
76 Across: Big Apple area, with the => BOWERY
77 Across: Nasser's successor => SADAT

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Northern Pacific catch => COD
2 Down: Cranberry or cherry => HUE
3 Down: Bad picnic omen => ANT
4 Down: Like beer on a summer day, ideally => ICECOLD
5 Down: __ Park: Edison lab site => MENLO
6 Down: Japanese faith => SHINTO
7 Down: Dove's call => COO
8 Down: Dearie => HON
9 Down: Speed letters => MPH
10 Down: Cry repeated at soccer matches => OLE
11 Down: Defunct Swedish automaker => SAAB
12 Down: Web mag => EZINE
13 Down: Cares for => TENDS
14 Down: Insecure feeling => ANGST
19 Down: Old salt => TAR
20 Down: Channing's role in Grease => RIZZO
23 Down: Genesis father of twins => ISAAC
24 Down: Wafer brand => NECCO
25 Down: Practiced, as a trade => PLIED
26 Down: NBA's Hawks, on scoreboards => ATL
27 Down: B'way sellout sign => SRO
28 Down: Zap with a stun gun => TASE
29 Down: More than most => EVERY
33 Down: French 101 verb => ETRE
35 Down: Casablanca heroine => ILSA
36 Down: Tangle removers => COMBS
38 Down: Strip of gear, as a ship => UNRIG
39 Down: Sure thing => CINCH
40 Down: Attacks => HASAT
43 Down: I'm a Mess singer Rexha => BEBE
47 Down: __ Bauer => EDDIE
48 Down: Inc. kin => LLC
49 Down: Zodiac feline => LEO
51 Down: Online news pioneer Huffington => ARIANNA
53 Down: Snide => SNARKY
55 Down: Golden St. region => SOCAL
56 Down: Renaissance painter Veronese => PAOLO
57 Down: It usually shows AK and HI as insets => USMAP
59 Down: Ob-gyns, e.g. => DRS
60 Down: Personal ad verb => SEEKS
62 Down: Stick a fork in => STAB
65 Down: Plastic __ Band => ONO
66 Down: Pained outburst => YOW
67 Down: Wash. neighbor => ORE
68 Down: Old Mideast org. => UAR
69 Down: Pathetic => SAD
70 Down: Señora Perón => EVA
71 Down: Tennis match unit => SET

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This crossword has 34 across clues and 49 down clues. In total 83 clues are solved in the section above.
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