Crossword Answers For: Friday, February 19, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Adopted gradually, with in => PHASED
7 Across: Sandpiper family birds => SNIPES
13 Across: One of two sound recommendations for a light sleeper? => EARPLUG
15 Across: Shunned one => PARIAH
16 Across: African Queen, for one => STEAMER
17 Across: Don't doubt my abilities! => ICANSO
18 Across: January temps, often => TEENS
19 Across: Do lunch? => CATER
21 Across: London's __ Gardens => KEW
22 Across: Longtime senator Thurmond => STROM
23 Across: Battery parts => ANODES
25 Across: History => PAST
26 Across: Short on manners => RUDE
27 Across: Fraternal order => ELKS
31 Across: Coil in a garden => HOSE
32 Across: Prepares for takeoff => TAXIES
34 Across: Extravagant => BAROQUE
38 Across: Lot => FORTUNE
39 Across: Buttonhole => ACCOST
40 Across: Function => WORK
41 Across: Campus figure => DEAN
42 Across: Storytelling singer Guthrie => ARLO
43 Across: Declared => SAID
47 Across: Like some ornate doorways => ARCHED
50 Across: Fixes tears => DARNS
51 Across: Firepit residue => ASH
54 Across: Speak publicly => ORATE
55 Across: Advice from colleagues, say => INPUT
56 Across: With 58-Across, savory base for a canapé ... and the function of a black square in four puzzle rows? => CHEESE
58 Across: See 56-Across => CRACKER
60 Across: Afternoon service => TEASET
61 Across: One held for ransom => HOSTAGE
62 Across: Force (upon) => IMPOSE
63 Across: Allowed paid use of => LEASED

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Pre-euro coin => PESETA
2 Down: Critics who can't be pleased => HATERS
3 Down: Childish denial => ARENOT
4 Down: Jerk, e.g. => SPASM
5 Down: West __: upscale store => ELM
6 Down: Sufficient grounds for action, in law => DUECAUSE
7 Down: Used bugs, perhaps => SPIED
8 Down: Shell material => NACRE
9 Down: Rollover acronym => IRA
10 Down: __ lady: gin and grenadine cocktail => PINK
11 Down: Fluency => EASE
12 Down: Make an appearance => SHOW
14 Down: Starbucks size => GRANDE
18 Down: Baking powder amt. => TSP
20 Down: Sock part => TOE
24 Down: Hot message => SEXT
26 Down: Beat decisively => ROUT
28 Down: Lucy of Kill Bill => LIU
29 Down: Tennis great Rosewall => KEN
30 Down: Orlando-to-Miami dir. => SSE
31 Down: Main bases: Abbr. => HQS
32 Down: Deere rival => TORO
33 Down: Ararat craft => ARK
34 Down: Shoddy => BAD
35 Down: Top player => ACE
36 Down: TV pioneer => RCA
37 Down: Actress Chaplin => OONA
38 Down: Utter nonsense => FOLDEROL
40 Down: Deplorable sort => WRETCH
42 Down: Eureka! => AHA
43 Down: Some decafs => SANKAS
44 Down: Lanvin scent since 1927 => ARPEGE
45 Down: Accustomed (to) => INURED
46 Down: Summer hrs. => DST
48 Down: Blush wines => ROSES
49 Down: Minos' kingdom => CRETE
50 Down: Formal decrees => DICTA
51 Down: When Lear disowns Cordelia => ACTI
52 Down: Young passenger on the 33-Down => SHEM
53 Down: Rattletrap => HEAP
57 Down: Spanish that => ESO
59 Down: Enzyme suffix => ASE

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This crossword has 34 across clues and 43 down clues. In total 77 clues are solved in the section above.
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