Crossword Answers For: Monday, February 24, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

---

1 Across: On a peg, as a golf ball => TEED
5 Across: Panda Express kitchen items => WOKS
9 Across: Aerospace giant __ & Whitney => PRATT
14 Across: Pre-deal payment => ANTE
15 Across: Rapper/actor with a cool name? => ICET
16 Across: Talk show host in the National Women's Hall of Fame => OPRAH
17 Across: Keyboard chamber work => PIANOTRIO
19 Across: Pending state => LIMBO
20 Across: Go off-script => ADLIB
21 Across: Indian royal => RAJA
23 Across: Very long time => EON
24 Across: Shih Tzu or Chihuahua => MINIATUREDOG
28 Across: Wet just a bit => MOISTEN
31 Across: Airer of old films => TCM
32 Across: Kindle download => APP
33 Across: Norse royal name => OLAV
36 Across: Was shown on TV => AIRED
40 Across: Authorize someone to represent you at the shareholder meeting => DESIGNATEAPROXY
44 Across: Tea biscuit => SCONE
45 Across: Sank, with down => WENT
46 Across: Fellows => MEN
47 Across: Pontiac muscle car => GTO
49 Across: Financed like many fleet cars => ONLEASE
52 Across: Personal unrest => INNERTURMOIL
57 Across: __ Paulo => SAO
58 Across: Bruins star Phil, to fans => ESPO
59 Across: Eye surgery acronym => LASIK
63 Across: Singer Ronstadt => LINDA
65 Across: Command to bypass a recap of prior episodes ... and what the puzzle circles do => SKIPINTRO
68 Across: Make sure not to see => AVOID
69 Across: Electric fish => EELS
70 Across: Product preview => DEMO
71 Across: Like a bad breakup => MESSY
72 Across: Deuce topper => TREY
73 Across: Smoochy love letter letters => SWAK

Down Clues and Answers:

---

1 Down: Cantina snack => TAPA
2 Down: Oklahoma city => ENID
3 Down: And others: Abbr. => ETAL
4 Down: Jeans => DENIMS
5 Down: Quipster => WIT
6 Down: Text digitization meth. => OCR
7 Down: Knightley of Love, Actually => KEIRA
8 Down: Brown ermine => STOAT
9 Down: Frigid zone ice formation => POLARCAP
10 Down: N.Y. tech school => RPI
11 Down: Carrying a weapon => ARMED
12 Down: It's forbidden => TABOO
13 Down: Skimpy swimsuit => THONG
18 Down: Column that aptly includes the letters BIO => OBIT
22 Down: Stick (out) => JUT
25 Down: Sign gas => NEON
26 Down: Relative via marriage => INLAW
27 Down: Mideast bigwig => EMIR
28 Down: Magazines with Alfred E. Neuman => MADS
29 Down: Intl. oil group => OPEC
30 Down: __ facto => IPSO
34 Down: Had lunch => ATE
35 Down: Snake's poison => VENOM
37 Down: Capital of Italia => ROMA
38 Down: They aren't together anymore => EXES
39 Down: Unit of force => DYNE
41 Down: Picnic dramatist => INGE
42 Down: Prepare (for) => GETREADY
43 Down: __ extra cost => ATNO
48 Down: Tense NBA periods => OTS
50 Down: Taylor of Mystic Pizza => LILI
51 Down: Largest living antelopes => ELANDS
52 Down: Muslim religion => ISLAM
53 Down: Hardly worldly => NAIVE
54 Down: They're forbidden => NONOS
55 Down: Unexpected win => UPSET
56 Down: Today weather anchor => ROKER
60 Down: Crock-Pot dinner => STEW
61 Down: Hogwarts librarian __ Pince => IRMA
62 Down: Screwball => KOOK
64 Down: Prefix with card or count => DIS
66 Down: Land in l'eau => ILE
67 Down: Future therapist's maj. => PSY

---

This crossword has 35 across clues and 44 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
You can find more crosswords on Washington Post website.

---