Crossword Answers For: Friday, January 24, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Draft category => ONEA
5 Across: Crisply played, in mus. => STAC
9 Across: Qatar's capital => DOHA
13 Across: Inflammation treatment => CORTISONE
15 Across: Apple product => IPOD
16 Across: Blamed for personal advantage => THROWNUNDERTHEB
19 Across: More mean => NASTIER
20 Across: Sci-fi helmsman => SULU
21 Across: Burdened => LADEN
24 Across: Portable chair => SEDAN
26 Across: Uno __: cantina request => MAS
27 Across: Fundraising targets => ALUMNI
29 Across: Boar's mate => SOW
31 Across: Punch with force, maybe => GIVEAFATL
35 Across: Greatly beloved ones => GEMS
38 Across: He reunited with his fictional ex on Valentine's Day in 2011 => KEN
39 Across: Ibuprofen brand => ADVIL
41 Across: Backboard attachment => RIM
42 Across: Place Sundance liked to see => ETTA
44 Across: Chanoyu ceremony essential => JAPANESET
47 Across: Kazakhstan, once: Abbr. => SSR
49 Across: Waste time => DAWDLE
50 Across: __ store => APP
53 Across: Many an Indian => HINDU
57 Across: Green => MOOLA
58 Across: Game with two secret passages => CLUE
60 Across: Advice => COUNSEL
62 Across: Hotel amenity, and a hint to three puzzle answers => TURNDOWNSERVICE
67 Across: They can make you better, briefly => MEDS
68 Across: Basically => INESSENCE
69 Across: Annoyance => PEST
70 Across: Do, for example => NOTE
71 Across: Cutty __ => SARK

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Fall mo. => OCT
2 Down: Kabuki kin => NOH
3 Down: Give the wrong change, say => ERR
4 Down: Acts of reparation => ATONEMENTS
5 Down: IRS IDs => SSNS
6 Down: Talks up => TOUTS
7 Down: Musical in which FDR is a character => ANNIE
8 Down: Gave up => CEDED
9 Down: Board mem. => DIR
10 Down: Expresses a preference (for) => OPTS
11 Down: Blah => HOHUM
12 Down: A Passage to India heroine => ADELA
14 Down: Lemme! => IWANNA
17 Down: Age relatives => ERAS
18 Down: Clear => BUS
21 Down: Delay => LAG
22 Down: Not quite identical => ALIKE
23 Down: Comforter => DUVET
25 Down: It's often served with nutmeg => NOG
28 Down: ... __ woodchuck could chuck wood? => IFA
30 Down: Subjects of European trials during the Renaissance => WEREWOLVES
32 Down: Wd. ending in -less => ADJ
33 Down: FDR power plan => TVA
34 Down: Backtalk => LIP
36 Down: Botch => MISDO
37 Down: Common sense? => SMELL
40 Down: Bloke => LAD
43 Down: It may be tapped into a tray => ASH
45 Down: Parents, usually => NAMERS
46 Down: High __ => TEA
48 Down: P.R. part => RICO
50 Down: Appear => ACT
51 Down: Fluff, as pillows => PLUMP
52 Down: Blender button => PUREE
54 Down: Hopeless => NOWIN
55 Down: Beats me! => DUNNO
56 Down: Up in the air => UNSET
59 Down: Aims => ENDS
61 Down: Zaire's Mobutu __ Seko => SESE
63 Down: It ends shortly after 1-Down => DST
64 Down: __ moment => INA
65 Down: Bad Moon Rising band, briefly => CCR
66 Down: A rat! => EEK

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This crossword has 33 across clues and 44 down clues. In total 77 clues are solved in the section above.
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