Crossword Answers For: Saturday, April 8, 2017

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Mirthful sounds => HAS
4 Across: Largest galaxy in the Local Group => ANDROMEDA
13 Across: Stop => AVERT
16 Across: Strains at the balcony => SERENADES
17 Across: Birth of the Cool trumpeter => DAVIS
18 Across: Protesters, in '60s slang => PEACENIKS
19 Across: Talmud letters => ALEPHS
21 Across: Cheerleaders may raise it => MORALE
22 Across: Crashing and burning => TANKING
24 Across: Urban legends website => SNOPES
25 Across: Lobby, often => ANTEROOM
27 Across: Saturn SUV => VUE
28 Across: Trail for a hound => SCENT
29 Across: Zaps => TASES
31 Across: Ne'ertheless => THO
34 Across: With 35- and 36-Across, second-largest galaxy in the Local Group => THE
35 Across: See 34-Across => MILKY
36 Across: See 34-Across => WAY
37 Across: Poetic twilight => EEN
38 Across: Japanese box lunch => BENTO
39 Across: Elemental makeup => ATOMS
41 Across: With 14-Down, Iron Man of sports => CAL
42 Across: Is demanding => ASKSALOT
44 Across: Friday revelation? => IMACOP
47 Across: Had some impact => HITHOME
48 Across: Treat with scorn => DERIDE
49 Across: Something hit on a range => DRIVER
50 Across: News dispatch lead-ins => DATELINES
53 Across: Deli qty. => ONELB
54 Across: Test => CHALLENGE
55 Across: Intensifying exclamation ending => SIREE
56 Across: By some calculations, projected fate of 4-Across and 34-/35-/36-Across in three to four billion years => COLLISION
57 Across: SOP part: Abbr. => STD

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Sampled some => HADATASTE
2 Down: Serious downfall => AVALANCHE
3 Down: Whitney Houston appeared on its cover in 1981 => SEVENTEEN
4 Down: Critter in Egyptian art => ASP
5 Down: Born identity intro => NEE
6 Down: Wee nips => DRAMS
7 Down: Carry on? => RECONVEY
8 Down: Weighty => ONEROUS
9 Down: Marvel Comics hybrid supervillain => MANAPE
10 Down: Roman magistrate => EDILE
11 Down: Fakes on the ice => DEKES
12 Down: Pack animal => ASS
14 Down: See 41-Across => RIPKEN
15 Down: Brando wore one in Streetcar => TSHIRT
20 Down: __-cone => SNO
23 Down: Finally became a member => GOTIN
26 Down: Valletta is its capital => MALTA
30 Down: Trifling amount => SKOSH
31 Down: 2008 Phoenix/Paltrow romantic drama => TWOLOVERS
32 Down: Brunch order => HAMOMELET
33 Down: Precious gem source => OYSTERBED
35 Down: Earworms, say => MELODIES
38 Down: Rod-shaped bacteria => BACILLI
39 Down: Minute Maid Park team => ASTROS
40 Down: Sesame seed paste => TAHINI
41 Down: The Office star => CARELL
43 Down: Rib => KID
44 Down: State with a 45-mile Canadian border => IDAHO
45 Down: Calcium, e.g. => METAL
46 Down: Former Finnish coin => PENNI
50 Down: XX x XXXV => DCC
51 Down: Id controller => EGO
52 Down: Sanders or Cruz: Abbr. => SEN

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This crossword has 33 across clues and 34 down clues. In total 67 clues are solved in the section above.
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