Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Cartographer's output => MAP
4 Across: Monica who won three straight '90s French Opens => SELES
9 Across: HVAC letters => BTU
12 Across: News agcy. => UPI
13 Across: Soft palate part => UVULA
14 Across: Campus housing => DORM
15 Across: Part of a biological hierarchy => TAXONOMICGROUP
18 Across: Window over a door => TRANSOM
19 Across: Zen garden tools => RAKES
20 Across: Joshua __ National Park => TREE
21 Across: Wound => OFFEND
24 Across: Influential soul label based in Memphis => STAXRECORDS
28 Across: Muslim sect => SHIISM
31 Across: Much __ About Nothing => ADO
32 Across: Big Ben trio => III
33 Across: Give a fine edge to => HONE
34 Across: Regarding => ASTO
36 Across: Like the president's office => OVAL
37 Across: Happy Days diner => ALS
38 Across: Sanjay Gupta's network => CNN
39 Across: Feel contrition => REPENT
41 Across: Waved for transportation => HAILEDATAXI
44 Across: How much to take => DOSAGE
45 Across: Jesters => WAGS
48 Across: Tuscan home of St. Catherine => SIENA
50 Across: Perfect example => EPITOME
53 Across: Rate-rising-with-amount levy that makes its way through four long answers starting at 15-Across => PROGRESSIVETAX
56 Across: Debtor's informal notes => IOUS
57 Across: Brownish gray => TAUPE
58 Across: Co. concerned with net neutrality => ISP
59 Across: AC/DC hit with the lyric Watch me explode! => TNT
60 Across: Makes do => COPES
61 Across: Howe'er => THO

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Mixed-breed dog => MUTT
2 Down: Here and there? => APART
3 Down: Coco studio => PIXAR
4 Down: Images in a beach vacation album => SUNSETS
5 Down: Salad dressing initialism, to Rachael Ray => EVOO
6 Down: Oaf => LUMMOX
7 Down: Director Roth => ELI
8 Down: Cul-de-__ => SAC
9 Down: Request to turn up the volume? => BOOKDRIVE
10 Down: T on a test => TRUE
11 Down: Foul callers => UMPS
14 Down: Liquid-Plumr rival => DRANO
16 Down: Layette buy => ONESIE
17 Down: __-Roman wrestling => GRECO
22 Down: Off-campus housing => FRAT
23 Down: Bogart's Casablanca hat => FEDORA
25 Down: Brockmire actress Peet => AMANDA
26 Down: Primatologist Fossey => DIAN
27 Down: Riverbed sediment => SILT
28 Down: Ruler deposed in 1979 => SHAH
29 Down: Spanish greeting => HOLA
30 Down: Like a hastily donned T-shirt, perhaps => INSIDEOUT
35 Down: Little problem => SNAG
36 Down: Drug derived from poppies => OPIATE
38 Down: Composer Franck => CESAR
40 Down: Some alimony recipients => EXWIVES
42 Down: Hungers => LONGS
43 Down: Starts a hole => TEESUP
46 Down: Capisce? => GOTIT
47 Down: Big shot on the tennis court => SMASH
48 Down: Narrow bit of land at a lagoon entrance, say => SPIT
49 Down: Par-3 club, usually => IRON
51 Down: Prop for Frosty => PIPE
52 Down: Trade show => EXPO
54 Down: And so forth: Abbr. => ETC
55 Down: Brazil map word => SAO

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This crossword has 33 across clues and 37 down clues. In total 70 clues are solved in the section above.
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