Crossword Answers For: Thursday, January 23, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Spunky => SCRAPPY
8 Across: Longest-serving Japanese prime minister => ABE
11 Across: Ave. crossers => STS
14 Across: Steel foundry input => IRONORE
15 Across: Traction-improving => NONSLIP
17 Across: Try some! => TASTEIT
18 Across: Lamaze class attendee => DADTOBE
19 Across: Expectant time => EVE
20 Across: One of the family => SIS
22 Across: About 24% of the U.S. Congress => WOMEN
23 Across: Stations => DEPOTS
26 Across: Place for choppers => HELIPORT
29 Across: Not quite right => AWRY
30 Across: Oodles => ALOT
31 Across: Broadway song that begins, The most beautiful sound I ever heard => MARIA
33 Across: Brief encounter => BRUSH
34 Across: Flag thrower => REF
37 Across: Co-tsar with Peter I => IVANV
38 Across: Saucepan cover => LID
39 Across: Missile Command game company => ATARI
41 Across: Place to stay => LODGE
42 Across: Newcastle Brown __ => ALE
43 Across: Starts bubbling, maybe => BOILS
44 Across: Fleecy one => EWE
45 Across: Loafs => LAZES
47 Across: Strong suit => ASSET
48 Across: Lost, as a big lead => BLEW
49 Across: Way back when => ONCE
50 Across: Rum drink => DAIQUIRI
54 Across: Competition that includes snowboarding => XGAMES
57 Across: Pianist Rubinstein => ARTUR
58 Across: California's __ Gabriel Mountains => SAN
60 Across: Egg cells => OVA
61 Across: Like the most busy busybody => NOSIEST
64 Across: Mid-Michigan city => SAGINAW
67 Across: Uganda's capital => KAMPALA
68 Across: Accessory for an Aquaman costume => TRIDENT
69 Across: Before, in poems => ERE
70 Across: Coffee hour sight => URN
71 Across: Sounds right to me => IDSAYSO

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Positioned => SITED
2 Down: Really want => CRAVE
3 Down: New Year's Day event in Pasadena => ROSEPARADE
4 Down: Tiny toiler => ANT
5 Down: Name in eerie fiction => POE
6 Down: Proper to a fault => PRISSY
7 Down: Himalayan legend => YETI
8 Down: Furthermore ... => AND
9 Down: Fluffy wrap => BOA
10 Down: Finish impressively => ENDWITHABANG
11 Down: Sportscast technique => SLOMO
12 Down: River near Vatican City => TIBER
13 Down: Exhausted => SPENT
16 Down: Hold it! => STOP
21 Down: Lamb Chop puppeteer => SHARILEWIS
24 Down: Short, in a way => OWING
25 Down: It helps you go places => TRAVELBUREAU
27 Down: Gives the slip => ELUDES
28 Down: Part of LAPD => LOS
31 Down: Pedometer unit => MILE
32 Down: Swear => AVOW
33 Down: Sport coat => BLAZER
34 Down: Get support, in a way ... and what the puzzle circles do => RAISEMONEY
35 Down: Writer Gardner => ERLE
36 Down: Rock that, oddly, loses to paper => FIST
40 Down: Puccini opera => TOSCA
46 Down: Boxer Laila => ALI
49 Down: Ventura County city => OXNARD
50 Down: German word of gratitude => DANKE
51 Down: Wildly cheering => AROAR
52 Down: Knocker's words => ITSME
53 Down: Zinger => QUIP
55 Down: Chris of Captain America => EVANS
56 Down: Handled => SAWTO
59 Down: Wine made from Muscat grapes => ASTI
62 Down: Camera type, for short => SLR
63 Down: You basked for it => TAN
65 Down: USO show audience => GIS
66 Down: Wyo. neighbor => IDA

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This crossword has 40 across clues and 40 down clues. In total 80 clues are solved in the section above.
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