Crossword Answers For: Saturday, October 17, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: They clean up => JANITORS
9 Across: Menu category including shells => PASTA
14 Across: Park, for one => OPENAREA
15 Across: Monopoly player? => CARTEL
16 Across: Sign in many restaurant windows => UBEREATS
17 Across: Emblem on a dollar bill => USSEAL
18 Across: For or against => SIDE
19 Across: Parisian street food => CREPES
21 Across: CPR group => EMS
22 Across: __ Story => TOY
23 Across: Reasons for sighs => CLOSECALLS
25 Across: Female rabbit => DOE
26 Across: Like Home Alone => RATEDPG
28 Across: City NNW of Park City => OGDEN
31 Across: Many glasses are sold as one => PAIR
33 Across: Queen dowager of Jordan => NOOR
34 Across: Browning but not cooking => POET
35 Across: Have the ability to => COULD
36 Across: Ripped => TORE
37 Across: Barbecue tool feature => TINE
38 Across: Fireside sight => LOGS
39 Across: Like some tricks => DIRTY
40 Across: Showed scorn => SNORTED
42 Across: Erie Canal mule => SAL
43 Across: App update messages, say => PUSHALERTS
46 Across: Award show VIPs => MCS
49 Across: Egg dropper => HEN
50 Across: Plane, for one => EVENER
51 Across: What can I help you with? speaker => SIRI
52 Across: Clear out => VACATE
54 Across: It often includes a colon => EMOTICON
56 Across: Amtrak speedsters => ACELAS
57 Across: Retreat from, as a previous statement => WALKBACK
58 Across: Gives up => CEDES
59 Across: Clomps (through), as a puddle => SPLOSHES

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Renaissance faire contest => JOUST
2 Down: Challenging H.S. science class => APBIO
3 Down: Clingy, say => NEEDY
4 Down: Memo intro => INRE
5 Down: Menlo Park, N.J., notable => TAE
6 Down: Pythia of the Temple of Apollo, for one => ORACLE
7 Down: Vintage => RETRO
8 Down: MS enclosures => SASES
9 Down: Volkswagen sedan => PASSAT
10 Down: MGM motto word => ARS
11 Down: Safe room barrier => STEELDOOR
12 Down: Baseball or soccer => TEAMSPORT
13 Down: Start of a Shakespeare title => ALLS
15 Down: Its lines have lines => CUECARD
20 Down: Hazards => PERILS
23 Down: Sting => CON
24 Down: Ingredient in the Indian dish dal => LENTIL
25 Down: Discourages => DETERS
27 Down: Like a cloudy London day => GREY
28 Down: Goes (for) => OPTS
29 Down: Gentle parting sentiment => GOINPEACE
30 Down: Criticized publicly => DENOUNCED
31 Down: Charley, in Steinbeck's Travels With Charley => POODLE
32 Down: National Mustard Day mo. => AUG
35 Down: Adheres ... or separates => CLEAVES
39 Down: __ Kapital => DAS
41 Down: Angle symbols => THETAS
42 Down: Boardwalk activity => STROLL
44 Down: Online show offering Hollywood info => ENEWS
45 Down: Update after a new survey, maybe => REMAP
46 Down: Biblical prophet => MICAH
47 Down: Time in a Bottle singer => CROCE
48 Down: Some islands have them => SINKS
49 Down: Temperature control syst. => HVAC
51 Down: They're often rivals => SIBS
53 Down: Ginger __ => ALE
55 Down: Ring decision, briefly => TKO

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This crossword has 35 across clues and 38 down clues. In total 73 clues are solved in the section above.
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