Crossword Answers For: Monday, August 14, 2017

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Rifle range rounds => AMMO
5 Across: Rainfall measure => INCH
9 Across: Transitional state => LIMBO
14 Across: Bread buy => LOAF
15 Across: NYC area above Houston Street => NOHO
16 Across: Hunter constellation => ORION
17 Across: *Half a percussion pair => BONGODRUM
19 Across: __ bleu! => SACRE
20 Across: From India, say => ASIAN
21 Across: Civil uprising => RIOT
23 Across: Account exec => REP
24 Across: *Fill-in-the-blanks agreement, e.g. => BUSINESSFORM
28 Across: Post-WWII feminine flier => WAF
31 Across: Small swallow => SIP
32 Across: __ bubbles => SOAP
33 Across: Bigheadedness => EGO
34 Across: *Cake soaked in alcoholic syrup => BABAAURHUM
39 Across: Cake pan trademark => BUNDT
42 Across: Zilch => NIL
43 Across: Africa's Sierra __ => LEONE
44 Across: *Brand for bubble blowers => BAZOOKAGUM
47 Across: Trivial point => NIT
48 Across: Yet again => ANEW
49 Across: High-arcing tennis shot => LOB
51 Across: Purported UFO fliers => ETS
52 Across: *Security device that may be silent => BURGLARALARM
57 Across: Opposite of WNW => ESE
58 Across: __ about: roughly => ONOR
59 Across: Soothed => EASED
63 Across: Golf analyst Nick => FALDO
65 Across: Wander aimlessly ... and a hint to a divided word in the answers to starred clues => BUMAROUND
68 Across: Get ready to compete, bodybuilder-style => OILUP
69 Across: Parting words? => OBIT
70 Across: Actress Hayworth => RITA
71 Across: Crisscross frameworks => GRIDS
72 Across: London gallery => TATE
73 Across: __-bitsy => ITSY

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Actress Jessica => ALBA
2 Down: Cattle chorus => MOOS
3 Down: Salon service with a pedi => MANI
4 Down: Gift __: chattiness => OFGAB
5 Down: Hoosier St. => IND
6 Down: Here-there link => NOR
7 Down: Butter-making device => CHURN
8 Down: Bro => HOMIE
9 Down: One in need of spiritual guidance => LOSTSOUL
10 Down: Gershwin brother => IRA
11 Down: Emcee's need => MICROPHONE
12 Down: Destructive insect => BORER
13 Down: Hr. after noon => ONEPM
18 Down: Burden => ONUS
22 Down: Mount of Greek myth => OSSA
25 Down: Bro, to a sis => SIB
26 Down: Brusha, brusha, brusha toothpaste => IPANA
27 Down: Cab ride price => FARE
28 Down: Jack of Dragnet => WEBB
29 Down: Water, to Juan => AGUA
30 Down: Full last name of a Happy Days cool dude => FONZARELLI
35 Down: Gargantuan => BIG
36 Down: __ in the conversation => ALULL
37 Down: Self-storage compartment => UNIT
38 Down: Citi Field team => METS
40 Down: Doorbell sound => DONG
41 Down: Figure skating jumps => TOELOOPS
45 Down: Nine-time U.S. skating champ Michelle => KWAN
46 Down: Extinct emu-like bird => MOA
50 Down: Uncle Remus rabbit's title => BRER
52 Down: Confuse => BEFOG
53 Down: TWA competitor => USAIR
54 Down: Many a modern assembly-line worker => ROBOT
55 Down: Caribbean resort isle => ARUBA
56 Down: New Zealand settler => MAORI
60 Down: Hearts or clubs => SUIT
61 Down: Sinus docs => ENTS
62 Down: WWII turning point => DDAY
64 Down: Defective firecracker => DUD
66 Down: Cambridge univ. => MIT
67 Down: Munched on => ATE

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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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