Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Quotable Yankee, familiarly => YOGI
5 Across: Yikes! => JEEZ
9 Across: Fencing blades => EPEES
14 Across: Tarzan raisers => APES
15 Across: Cher and Sade, vocally => ALTI
16 Across: 16th-century English queen => MARYI
17 Across: With 63-Across, musician born 12/16/1770 => LUDWIGVAN
19 Across: North Sea county => ESSEX
20 Across: German steel city => ESSEN
21 Across: Offered an arm to => ESCORTED
23 Across: Basics => ABCS
25 Across: Ming most look up to => YAO
26 Across: Nickname for a 63-Across 39-Down => CHORAL
29 Across: Literate => WELLREAD
34 Across: __ Vegas => LAS
35 Across: Marks for removal => DELES
37 Across: Inferno poet => DANTE
38 Across: Story lines => ARCS
40 Across: Numerically, 63-Across' C-minor 39-Down => FIFTH
42 Across: Tolkien trilogy, to fans => LOTR
43 Across: Remains => STAYS
45 Across: It's usually not a hit => SIDEB
47 Across: Toon crime fighter __ Possible => KIM
48 Across: Spread throughout => PERMEATE
50 Across: Nickname for a 63-Across 39-Down => EROICA
52 Across: Pipe plastic => PVC
53 Across: Like cotton candy => SPUN
54 Across: Sticky stuff => ADHESIVE
58 Across: Facebook action => SHARE
62 Across: Unverified word => RUMOR
63 Across: See 17-Across => BEETHOVEN
65 Across: Tony winner Menzel => IDINA
66 Across: The M in BLT? => MAYO
67 Across: Artist's quarters => LOFT
68 Across: Record material => VINYL
69 Across: Chopped side dish => SLAW
70 Across: Some traffic court cases: Abbr. => DWIS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: New Haven school => YALE
2 Down: Musical work => OPUS
3 Down: H.S. proficiency tests => GEDS
4 Down: Oath beginning => ISWEAR
5 Down: XK-E, for short => JAG
6 Down: Seasonal aides => ELVES
7 Down: Greek vowels => ETAS
8 Down: It makes cents => ZINC
9 Down: Important gem in Oz => EMERALD
10 Down: Nickname for a 63-Across 39-Down => PASTORAL
11 Down: Gaelic language => ERSE
12 Down: Watched closely => EYED
13 Down: Touchdown points => SIX
18 Down: __ humor: grumpy => INBAD
22 Down: Bony Olive => OYL
24 Down: Musical symbol => CLEF
26 Down: Bracelet fastener => CLASP
27 Down: Gold rush storyteller => HARTE
28 Down: The Odd Couple roommate => OSCAR
29 Down: Group self-pic, in slang => WEFIE
30 Down: Started, as a co. => ESTD
31 Down: Japanese mushroom => ENOKI
32 Down: Web site => ATTIC
33 Down: Stuffed Jewish dish also called kishke => DERMA
36 Down: Itemize => LIST
39 Down: 63-Across work => SYMPHONY
41 Down: Dickens sycophant => HEEP
44 Down: A few => SEVERAL
46 Down: Salon item => BRUSH
49 Down: Summer coolers, briefly => ACS
51 Down: Indefinitely suspended => ONHOLD
53 Down: Later! => SEEYA
54 Down: Autobahn auto => AUDI
55 Down: Key of the 26-Across 39-Down: Abbr. => DMIN
56 Down: System/360s, e.g. => IBMS
57 Down: Piccata meat => VEAL
59 Down: Openly declare => AVOW
60 Down: Mortgagee's option, for short => REFI
61 Down: Laryngitis docs => ENTS
62 Down: Ohio or Mississippi: Abbr. => RIV
64 Down: Auto club service => TOW

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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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