Crossword Answers For: Saturday, April 17, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Technique providing percussion with a string note => SLAPBASS
9 Across: Character in The Iliad but not The Odyssey? => ALPHA
14 Across: Summer pick-me-up => ICEDLATTE
15 Across: Use as a bed => LIEON
16 Across: Spicy Mexican food => HOTTAMALE
17 Across: Extract metal from => SMELT
18 Across: Surg. sites => ORS
19 Across: Ivy near an Acela stop => YALE
20 Across: Ado => HOOPLA
21 Across: Big rings => PEALS
23 Across: NBA writer Zach => LOWE
25 Across: Question of method => HOW
26 Across: Durango, por ejemplo => ESTADO
28 Across: Crudely built city? => OILTOWN
31 Across: Many of today's pro athletes => MILLENNIALS
34 Across: Total area? => CEREALAISLE
35 Across: Result of an imagined draft => FANTASYTEAM
36 Across: Gum with Ice and Fire varieties => DENTYNE
37 Across: Riverbed deposit => SLUDGE
41 Across: B. A. Baracus portrayer => MRT
42 Across: Warning accompanying a link => NSFW
45 Across: Ideal spots => EDENS
46 Across: Doomed 16th-century force => ARMADA
49 Across: Criminal charges => RAPS
51 Across: Bon __ => MOT
52 Across: Pressly of Mom => JAIME
53 Across: Subdivision showcase => MODELHOME
55 Across: Jeanette's Macbeth (1948) co-star => ORSON
56 Across: Lenses => EYEPIECES
57 Across: Touch-and-go => RISKY
58 Across: Blessings => GODSENDS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Makes a point? => SCORES
2 Down: Unleashes on => LETSAT
3 Down: Big letters in security services => ADT
4 Down: Is far from a good sport => PLAYSDIRTY
5 Down: Perennial #1 NCAA football team since 2008 => BAMA
6 Down: Even slightly => ATALL
7 Down: Fifth-cen. pope called The Great => STLEO
8 Down: Monkey's do partner? => SEE
9 Down: As well => ALSO
10 Down: Long way to go? => LIMO
11 Down: Look here! => PEEPHOLE
12 Down: Depressions => HOLLOWS
13 Down: __ Jamison, one of two NBA players with 20,000+ points who's not in the Hall of Fame => ANTAWN
14 Down: From your mouth to God's ears => IHOPE
20 Down: Rears => HEINIES
22 Down: Feel bad about => LAMENT
24 Down: Succeeded in => WONAT
27 Down: 1992 Mamet drama => OLEANNA
29 Down: Three-time WNBA MVP => LISALESLIE
30 Down: Synagogue text => TALMUD
32 Down: Performs surgery on, in a way => LASES
33 Down: Cambridgeshire cathedral city => ELY
34 Down: Like a sure thing => CANTMISS
35 Down: Company founded in 1939 as Auto Avio Costruzioni => FERRARI
36 Down: Key of Beethoven's Violin Concerto => DMAJOR
38 Down: Submission to a radio station, briefly => DEMOCD
39 Down: Garden guardians => GNOMES
40 Down: Will of Blue Bloods => ESTES
43 Down: Ice cream alternative, casually => FROYO
44 Down: Moved between banks, maybe => WADED
47 Down: Berserk => AMOK
48 Down: Refuse => DENY
50 Down: Amps (up) => PEPS
53 Down: Once-big storage unit that's now quite small => MEG
54 Down: Farm female => HEN

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This crossword has 31 across clues and 36 down clues. In total 67 clues are solved in the section above.
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