Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Aussie birds with drumbeat-like mating calls => EMUS
5 Across: Get in a row => ALIGN
10 Across: Regarding => ASTO
14 Across: Lucy Lawless title role => XENA
15 Across: Take a look => GOSEE
16 Across: Hit the brakes => STOP
17 Across: Once-common childhood ailment => CHICKENPOX
19 Across: Nomadic quarters => TENT
20 Across: Giant whose #4 was retired => OTT
21 Across: Rock's Pop => IGGY
22 Across: Figures of speech => TROPES
24 Across: Saffron-flavored Spanish dish => PAELLA
26 Across: Embellish => ADORN
27 Across: Reporting live => INPERSON
30 Across: The eastern half of a frozen food brand => IDA
33 Across: Writers' workplaces => DESKS
36 Across: Move, in realty ads => RELO
37 Across: Anjou, e.g. => PEAR
38 Across: 24-Across ingredient => RICE
39 Across: Garson of Mrs. Miniver => GREER
40 Across: Summit => ACME
41 Across: A lot of time, in Spain => ANOS
42 Across: Wild party => RAVE
43 Across: Speculate => GUESS
44 Across: Corporate VIP => CEO
45 Across: Hereditary information for a species => GENEPOOL
47 Across: Having glass sections => PANED
49 Across: Incan wool sources => LLAMAS
53 Across: Race with no real losers => FUNRUN
55 Across: Cruising the Arctic, say => ASEA
57 Across: Fish served in poke => AHI
58 Across: Butter substitute => OLEO
59 Across: Five-pointed stars ... or, in two words, what the sets of circles represent? => PENTANGLES
62 Across: Family nicknames => UNCS
63 Across: Tribal leader => ELDER
64 Across: Maine, to Macron => ETAT
65 Across: The Dead Sea, actually => LAKE
66 Across: Cordial dealings => AMITY
67 Across: I did it! => TADA

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Many a bodyguard => EXCOP
2 Down: Maestro Zubin => MEHTA
3 Down: Make one out of many => UNITE
4 Down: __ fly: RBI producer => SAC
5 Down: What separates the men from the boys? => AGEGAP
6 Down: Like the mind's i => LONG
7 Down: Guessing game => ISPY
8 Down: Former Prizm maker => GEO
9 Down: Living very close by => NEXTDOOR
10 Down: Big name in furs => ASTOR
11 Down: Blended family relative => STEPNIECE
12 Down: Vocal quality => TONE
13 Down: Gets involved, with in => OPTS
18 Down: Potters' needs => KILNS
23 Down: Oscar-winning director Howard => RON
25 Down: YouTube clicks => LIKES
26 Down: Like Van Winkle, for 20 years => ASLEEP
28 Down: Trip to the market, say => ERRAND
29 Down: Still Me memoirist => REEVE
31 Down: Water containers? => DAMS
32 Down: Greek war god => ARES
33 Down: Storied bloodsucker, for short => DRAC
34 Down: Mozart's __ Kleine Nachtmusik => EINE
35 Down: Somewhat revealing T-shirt option => SCOOPNECK
37 Down: Journalist Zahn => PAULA
39 Down: Pot pie veggie => GREENPEA
43 Down: __ Heights: Mideast region => GOLAN
45 Down: Wildebeest => GNU
46 Down: Cate with a falsely accused cow => OLEARY
48 Down: Sprang up => AROSE
50 Down: Island near Sicily => MALTA
51 Down: Winning => AHEAD
52 Down: Slangy sibling => SISTA
53 Down: Ump's call => FOUL
54 Down: Forearm bone => ULNA
55 Down: The Beatles' __ Love Her => ANDI
56 Down: Editor's Let it be => STET
60 Down: Title tree in six horror films => ELM
61 Down: Understand => GET

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This crossword has 39 across clues and 40 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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