Crossword Answers For: Sunday, August 20, 2017

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Spiced rice => PILAF
6 Across: Idle in sketches => ERIC
10 Across: Popular tablet => IPAD
14 Across: Potential replacement sites => HIPS
18 Across: Mexican marinade => ADOBO
19 Across: Former Cubs slugger => SOSA
20 Across: __ cloud in the sky, Got the sun in my eyes ... : Carpenters lyric => NOTA
21 Across: '50s pol Stevenson => ADLAI
23 Across: Starting blocks user => RACER
24 Across: Rejects => TURNSDOWN
26 Across: Wikipedia policy => NOADS
27 Across: Chinese tea => CHA
28 Across: Author Harte => BRET
30 Across: Janus-inspired stringed instrument? => TWOFACEDLYRE
32 Across: Tiny colony defender => SOLDIER
34 Across: Safari sight => LION
35 Across: School interlude => RECESS
36 Across: Pkg. payment methods => CODS
37 Across: Used a dugout => CANOED
39 Across: Top note in a common triad => SOL
40 Across: Airer of old MGM films => TCM
43 Across: Task for roadies? => LOADTHEBASSES
46 Across: Cross => SORE
47 Across: Text ender? => UAL
48 Across: SEC Network owner => ESPN
49 Across: Employs => HIRES
51 Across: The Willis in Chicago, for one => TOWER
52 Across: Contempt => SCORN
54 Across: Discontinue => STOP
57 Across: Spirit of Saint-Louis? => ANGE
58 Across: Join => UNITE
59 Across: Deprived (of) => BEREFT
61 Across: One of the U.S.'s 435 => REP
63 Across: Radii, e.g. => ARMBONES
65 Across: Bit of criticism from Ravi Shankar? => CLOSEBUTNOSITAR
70 Across: Have faith in => RELYUPON
73 Across: Require treatment, perhaps => AIL
74 Across: Britain's Penny Black and Two Penny Blue => STAMPS
78 Across: Legislate => ENACT
79 Across: Voting coalition => BLOC
82 Across: Quarter of a bushel => PECK
85 Across: Red, yellow or white veggie => ONION
86 Across: Like certain gases => NOBLE
87 Across: Envisioned being => SAWAS
89 Across: Transient with a bindle => HOBO
91 Across: PC dial-up upgrade => DSL
92 Across: Skin product enhancement => ALOE
93 Across: Percussionist's answer to When do you practice?? => INMYSNARETIME
97 Across: __ gibbon: zoo animal => LAR
98 Across: A.L. East squad => TOR
101 Across: Delivery on deliverance => SERMON
102 Across: Now I get it! => AHSO
103 Across: Cold-weather wear => PARKAS
106 Across: Appearance => MIEN
107 Across: Tariffed goods => IMPORTS
110 Across: Hi-hat for high society? => STATUSCYMBAL
113 Across: She, in Capri => ESSA
114 Across: Science Guy Bill => NYE
115 Across: The King and I group => HAREM
116 Across: They have ideas => INVENTORS
118 Across: Cheese! consequence => SMILE
120 Across: Not bottled => ONTAP
121 Across: Dark genre => NOIR
122 Across: Biblical brother => ESAU
123 Across: In shape => TONED
124 Across: Places to get in shape => GYMS
125 Across: Polish, in a way => EDIT
126 Across: Gambit => RUSE
127 Across: Some MIT grads => ENGRS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: __ nationaux: French tourist attractions => PARCS
2 Down: Pocatello locale => IDAHO
3 Down: Regional asset => LOCALCOLOR
4 Down: Face on a fiver => ABE
5 Down: Instrument carved from the Tree of Knowledge? => FORBIDDENFLUTE
6 Down: Glyceride, for one => ESTER
7 Down: Force into ignominious retreat => ROUT
8 Down: Mideast nation: Abbr. => ISR
9 Down: Baja bar => CANTINA
10 Down: World's largest island country => INDONESIA
11 Down: [It's gone!] => POOF
12 Down: Clashing => ATWAR
13 Down: End zone celebrations => DANCES
14 Down: Water Music composer => HANDEL
15 Down: Hollywood faves => IDOLS
16 Down: Goes for the gold => PLAYSTOWIN
17 Down: __ City, Iraq => SADR
22 Down: Expert's conclusion? => ISE
25 Down: Just Do It logo => SWOOSH
29 Down: Breaks => RESTS
31 Down: Novelist Umberto => ECO
33 Down: Classic O'Brien 121-Across film => DOA
34 Down: Black or yellow pet => LAB
37 Down: Red coin? => CENT
38 Down: Laura of Jurassic Park => DERN
41 Down: Labyrinth site of myth => CRETE
42 Down: Parisian parents => MERES
43 Down: Tatting fabric => LACE
44 Down: PC options => HPS
45 Down: Genesis and Dreamcast => SEGAS
46 Down: Arizona desert => SONORAN
47 Down: Thumb drive port => USB
50 Down: Pak of the LPGA => SERI
51 Down: What Tubby brushes with? => TUBATOOTHPASTE
53 Down: Get more out of => RECYCLE
55 Down: Ball => ORB
56 Down: Little, in Lille => PEU
60 Down: Finest => TOP
62 Down: Harper Valley org. => PTA
64 Down: Cascade components: Abbr. => MTS
66 Down: Blubbers => SOBS
67 Down: Zhou __ => ENLAI
68 Down: Bit from a bottle => NIP
69 Down: Flamenco shout => OLE
70 Down: Concerning kidneys => RENAL
71 Down: __ Gay: WWII bomber => ENOLA
72 Down: Group once led by Meir and Rabin => LABORPARTY
75 Down: When some late risers get started => MIDMORNING
76 Down: Model act => POSE
77 Down: NBC skit show => SNL
80 Down: Admits, with up => OWNS
81 Down: Creamy French cheese => CAMEMBERT
83 Down: Actor/stuntman Jackie => CHAN
84 Down: MASH milieu: Abbr. => KOR
88 Down: Damascus denizen => SYRIAN
90 Down: Rays => BEAMS
94 Down: Ore refinery => SMELTER
95 Down: __ compos mentis => NON
96 Down: Bar opening? => ISO
98 Down: Outdoes => TRUMPS
99 Down: Approves => OKS
100 Down: Wisconsin city on Lake Michigan => RACINE
104 Down: Mr. T's troop => ATEAM
105 Down: Layer in ecclesiastical governance => SYNOD
107 Down: Give out => ISSUE
108 Down: Tenth American president => TYLER
109 Down: Planted pips => SEEDS
110 Down: I'm Dying Up Here airer, for short => SHO
111 Down: Sharpness => TANG
112 Down: XIX x LIII => MVII
113 Down: Ballpark figs. => ERAS
117 Down: The Beavers of the Pac-12 => OSU
119 Down: Calendar abbr. => MON

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This crossword has 69 across clues and 74 down clues. In total 143 clues are solved in the section above.
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