Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: *Dough (and start of a word ladder) => BREAD
6 Across: __ it ain't so! => SAY
9 Across: Pop's bros => UNCS
13 Across: Insurance giant => AETNA
14 Across: Paul Bunyan tool => AXE
15 Across: *Bit of luck => BREAK
16 Across: *Dismal => BLEAK
17 Across: Itinerary word => VIA
18 Across: Poetic feet => IAMBI
19 Across: __ Lingus => AER
20 Across: Horse-and-buggy sect => AMISH
22 Across: *Sheepish remark? => BLEAT
23 Across: Interoffice PC connection => LAN
24 Across: Carnival city => RIO
25 Across: You bet! => YES
27 Across: Seats all taken sign => SRO
28 Across: Abbr. on a B-52 => USAF
30 Across: Not nice at all => CRUEL
32 Across: Hillside home asset => VIEW
33 Across: Author Wiesel => ELIE
35 Across: Blood work and such => LABTESTS
37 Across: Apt description of the sequence suggested by the answers to starred clues? => FOODCHAIN
40 Across: Partygoer, say => ATTENDEE
43 Across: Target's target, say => LOGO
46 Across: Some August babies => LEOS
47 Across: Third of eight => EARTH
50 Across: Intertwine => MESH
52 Across: Under the weather => ILL
53 Across: Also say => ADD
54 Across: What a suspect tries to beat, with the => RAP
56 Across: That's more than I need to know => TMI
57 Across: *Made holy => BLEST
59 Across: Musical set in Argentina => EVITA
61 Across: Family guy => SON
62 Across: Me too! => ASDOI
63 Across: Bigwig => VIP
64 Across: *Fabulous time => BLAST
66 Across: *Dispense with modesty => BOAST
67 Across: Uncommon sense => ESP
68 Across: Justice Sotomayor => SONIA
69 Across: A.D. part => ANNO
70 Across: Vote against => NAY
71 Across: *Doomed, slangily (and end of the ladder) => TOAST

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Ricky's signature song on I Love Lucy => BABALU
2 Down: Word after news or press => RELEASE
3 Down: Everlasting => ETERNAL
4 Down: Santa __ winds => ANA
5 Down: Senegal's capital => DAKAR
6 Down: Rescuer => SAVIOR
7 Down: x or y, on graphs => AXIS
8 Down: Sure, sure => YEAHYEAH
9 Down: Eurasian border river => URAL
10 Down: Usually successful opponent => NEMESIS
11 Down: Musical set at the Kit Kat Klub => CABARET
12 Down: Winter lifts => SKITOWS
15 Down: Tots' spill catchers => BIBS
21 Down: Karaoke singer's tool => MIC
26 Down: Isle of Napoleon's exile => ELBA
29 Down: Piccolo relatives => FIFES
31 Down: Gastric woe => ULCER
32 Down: Cobra's weapon => VENOM
34 Down: Long, long time => EON
36 Down: Open __ 9 p.m.: store sign => TIL
38 Down: Pigged out (on), briefly => ODED
39 Down: All square => DEADEVEN
40 Down: Storied cave opener => ALIBABA
41 Down: Exposes => TELLSON
42 Down: Holy city resident? => TOLEDAN
44 Down: Nails the test => GETSANA
45 Down: Absorption process => OSMOSIS
48 Down: Psychedelic => TRIPPY
49 Down: Fez or fedora => HAT
51 Down: Suggest => HINTAT
53 Down: Go __: fight => ATIT
55 Down: Brewery that co-distributes Not Your Father's Root Beer => PABST
58 Down: Just passable => SOSO
60 Down: Mastercard rival => VISA
65 Down: WC => LOO

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This crossword has 43 across clues and 36 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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