Crossword Answers For: Monday, October 5, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Grocery store sack => BAG
4 Across: Outdoor dining spot => PATIO
9 Across: Sauce fruit => APPLE
14 Across: Secluded plight on a desert island, say => ISOLATION
16 Across: Stacked => PILED
17 Across: Big Ten school with eight national football titles => OHIOSTATE
18 Across: Stretched out like a sharpshooter => PRONE
19 Across: Good thing for a film's audio and video to be in => SYNC
20 Across: Presidential period, say => ERA
21 Across: Dueler's choice => WEAPON
22 Across: Tolstoy's Karenina => ANNA
24 Across: Enjoy dinner => EAT
25 Across: Contacted on a cellphone => CALLED
28 Across: AP's Co-driver of the Century Mario => ANDRETTI
33 Across: Burn-soothing creams => ALOES
34 Across: Socket insert => PLUG
35 Across: Small amount => DRIB
36 Across: Fix, as a fight => RIG
37 Across: Mickey, to Rocky => TRAINER
40 Across: Pair in London? => ENS
41 Across: Somber news item => OBIT
43 Across: Mining finds => ORES
44 Across: Water bill basis => USAGE
46 Across: Rival of 17-Across => MICHIGAN
48 Across: Defeated => BEATEN
49 Across: Before, in poetry => ERE
50 Across: Santa's naughty-and-nice record, e.g. => LIST
51 Across: Illicit romance => AFFAIR
54 Across: Psych! => NOT
55 Across: Protein-rich egg part => YOLK
59 Across: Ransacks => LOOTS
60 Across: Rival of 12-Down => LETTERMAN
62 Across: French school => LYCEE
63 Across: Far-reaching => EXTENSIVE
64 Across: Displeases James Bond, at the bar? => STIRS
65 Across: When the mouse ran down => ATONE
66 Across: Fancy marble => TAW

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Playbill listings => BIOS
2 Down: Like an unswept fireplace => ASHY
3 Down: Enter => GOIN
4 Down: Partners for mas => PAS
5 Down: Show up at => ATTEND
6 Down: Headpiece at the Miss America website => TIARA
7 Down: Greek i => IOTA
8 Down: Free throw value => ONE
9 Down: Show up => APPEAR
10 Down: Robbed at sea => PIRATED
11 Down: Alka-Seltzer sound => PLOP
12 Down: Car-collecting comic Jay => LENO
13 Down: Garden with a taboo 9-Across => EDEN
15 Down: Site => LOCALE
21 Down: Lettuce serving => WEDGE
23 Down: Egg-laying spot => NEST
25 Down: Billiards bounce => CAROM
26 Down: Suspect's story => ALIBI
27 Down: Science that involves reasoning => LOGIC
28 Down: Out of this world => ALIEN
29 Down: Finale Ultimo chorus in The Sound of Music => NUNS
30 Down: Word that excites a dog => TREAT
31 Down: Trace of color => TINGE
32 Down: Peer Gynt playwright Henrik => IBSEN
34 Down: Prefix with trooper or legal => PARA
38 Down: Federer of tennis => ROGER
39 Down: Regrets => RUES
42 Down: Broadway destination => THEATER
45 Down: Lecherous man-goats => SATYRS
47 Down: Flowers in a van Gogh masterpiece => IRISES
48 Down: Like a mosquito victim => BITTEN
50 Down: Powerball, e.g. => LOTTO
51 Down: __ well that ends well => ALLS
52 Down: Rival of 28-Across => FOYT
53 Down: Central points => FOCI
54 Down: Ariana Grande album thank u, __ => NEXT
56 Down: Fail to put in => OMIT
57 Down: Volcanic output => LAVA
58 Down: Had down pat => KNEW
60 Down: Pasture => LEA
61 Down: Opposite of WSW => ENE

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This crossword has 37 across clues and 42 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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