Crossword Answers For: Thursday, April 16, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Turning point => PIVOT
6 Across: Pagoda instruments => GONGS
11 Across: Outdo => TOP
14 Across: Big game setting => ARENA
15 Across: No-frills type => ARIAL
16 Across: Yo, Hadrian! => AVE
17 Across: Where the farmer relaxed to update the books? => POSTINGBALE
19 Across: Cooper's creation => KEG
20 Across: Not behind => ANTI
21 Across: Long-term digs in orbit: Abbr. => ISS
22 Across: Landscaping stones => PAVERS
24 Across: Three-time Cy Young Award winner Scherzer => MAX
26 Across: Visibility reducers => HAZES
27 Across: Story of how the spider monkey climbed the tree? => PREHENSILETALE
33 Across: Asian language => LAO
34 Across: Takes up => ADOPTS
35 Across: Cookware brand => TFAL
36 Across: Dethrones => OUSTS
38 Across: Low digit => TOE
39 Across: Tries => HEARS
40 Across: One with a password => USER
41 Across: Notably different, with a => FARCRY
43 Across: JFK alternative => LGA
44 Across: Obstetrician's job, sometimes? => DELIVERTHEMALE
47 Across: Manicurist's tool => EMERY
48 Across: NBC skit show => SNL
49 Across: Sad-eyed hound => BASSET
51 Across: Moody rock genre => EMO
53 Across: Not too many => AFEW
57 Across: Hundred Acre Wood know-it-all => OWL
58 Across: Put the fix in on Black Friday? => RIGGEDASALE
61 Across: Med. scan => MRI
62 Across: Middlemarch novelist => ELIOT
63 Across: Mastery => SKILL
64 Across: Competition pass => BYE
65 Across: Nicks => DENTS
66 Across: Cut back => PARED

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Nickname for Haydn => PAPA
2 Down: Press => IRON
3 Down: Cummerbund alternative => VEST
4 Down: As scheduled => ONTIME
5 Down: __ sushi: Japanese sea bream => TAI
6 Down: April 1 array => GAGS
7 Down: Swingers on a perpetual-motion desk toy => ORBS
8 Down: NCIS: Los Angeles actress Long => NIA
9 Down: Laverne and Shirley, e.g. => GALPALS
10 Down: Vulgar content => SLEAZE
11 Down: Is arrested, in slang => TAKESAFALL
12 Down: Exceeding => OVER
13 Down: Cello parts => PEGS
18 Down: Put the kibosh on => NIXED
23 Down: Sporty Chevy => VETTE
25 Down: Sounds of realization => AHAS
26 Down: Sophisticated, in a way, briefly => HITECH
27 Down: Take a minute => PAUSE
28 Down: Ygritte portrayer on Game of Thrones => ROSELESLIE
29 Down: __ public => NOTARY
30 Down: Cricket, for one => SPORT
31 Down: Tee size => LARGE
32 Down: Idina's Frozen role => ELSA
33 Down: Vibrant, as colors => LOUD
37 Down: Cuts back => TRIMS
39 Down: His Eye Is on the Sparrow, e.g. => HYMN
41 Down: Good for growing => FERTILE
42 Down: Do a lawn job => RESOD
45 Down: Went off course => VEERED
46 Down: Yukon neighbor => ALASKA
49 Down: Have a rough night at the comedy club => BOMB
50 Down: Not as planned => AWRY
51 Down: Four-award acronym => EGOT
52 Down: 1969 MLB upstarts => METS
54 Down: Midway event => FAIR
55 Down: Redbook rival => ELLE
56 Down: Fuse => WELD
59 Down: Sling spirits => GIN
60 Down: Deadly biter => ASP

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This crossword has 37 across clues and 40 down clues. In total 77 clues are solved in the section above.
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