Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Bits of trash often swept up with popcorn => STUBS
6 Across: Outdoor party rental => TENT
10 Across: Creek croaker => TOAD
14 Across: Like much beer => ONTAP
15 Across: Dude! => BRAH
16 Across: Nashville highlight => OPRY
17 Across: University offerings => FOURYEARDEGREES
20 Across: Open patio => ATRIUM
21 Across: Original angel on Charlie's Angels => SABRINA
22 Across: Driver's role in Star Wars sequels => REN
23 Across: Easiness exemplar => PIE
25 Across: Johns in Scotland => IANS
26 Across: Bob Dylan title lyrics that follow in my heart you'll always stay => FOREVERYOUNG
31 Across: Hopeless, as a situation => NOWIN
34 Across: Tears to shreds => RENDS
35 Across: Cause of some royal insomnia => PEA
36 Across: Leave out => OMIT
37 Across: Ties together => BINDS
38 Across: Go no further => STOP
39 Across: Hill worker => ANT
40 Across: Works in Silverstein's Where the Sidewalk Ends => POEMS
41 Across: Provided light => SHONE
42 Across: The Wrestler Oscar nominee => MICKEYROURKE
45 Across: Gets moving => HIES
46 Across: Luau finger food => POI
47 Across: Lead-in to a texter's afterthought => BTW
50 Across: Words said in disbelief => WHATTHE
53 Across: Canadian metropolis => OTTAWA
55 Across: Judge's words ... and a hint to this puzzle's circles => YOUREOUTOFORDER
57 Across: MM and MMXX, for two => ANNI
58 Across: Tire (out) => WEAR
59 Across: Beat, with out => WIPED
60 Across: Enzo's eight => OTTO
61 Across: Where Southwest Airlines is LUV => NYSE
62 Across: Puts in like piles => SORTS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Words often suggesting unmet goals => SOFAR
2 Down: Fed. security => TNOTE
3 Down: One-eighty => UTURN
4 Down: Port on Italy's heel => BARI
5 Down: Watch surreptitiously => SPYUPON
6 Down: Sched. uncertainty => TBA
7 Down: Shows one's humanity? => ERRS
8 Down: Zip => NADA
9 Down: Hitchcock thriller set in Bodega Bay => THEBIRDS
10 Down: Piemonte city => TORINO
11 Down: Confides in => OPENSUPTO
12 Down: Region => AREA
13 Down: Start to function? => DYS
18 Down: Bahrain bigwig => EMIR
19 Down: Charcoal pencil shades => GRAYS
24 Down: Like Halloween, and then some => EERIER
26 Down: In good shape => FIT
27 Down: Mobile payments app owned by PayPal => VENMO
28 Down: Finally arrives (at) => ENDSUP
29 Down: Second-lightest noble gas => NEON
30 Down: Stare slack-jawed => GAPE
31 Down: Linguist Chomsky => NOAM
32 Down: Luxury hotel name => OMNI
33 Down: Prejudiced investigation and harassment => WITCHHUNT
37 Down: Father Flanagan's orphanage => BOYSTOWN
38 Down: __ sells seashells ... => SHE
40 Down: Actress/author Holly Robinson __ => PEETE
41 Down: Mountain resort aids => SKITOWS
43 Down: South Korean subcompact => KIARIO
44 Down: Solar panel spot => ROOF
47 Down: Reason for spin, briefly => BADPR
48 Down: Limited message => TWEET
49 Down: Hospital sections => WARDS
50 Down: Refuses to => WONT
51 Down: Newsman Lewis? => HUEY
52 Down: LAX postings => ETAS
54 Down: Rock's Ben Folds Five, surprisingly => TRIO
55 Down: NBA great Ming => YAO
56 Down: Minecraft material => ORE

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This crossword has 35 across clues and 40 down clues. In total 75 clues are solved in the section above.
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