Crossword Answers For: Friday, May 7, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Fear the Walking Dead, e.g. => SPINOFF
8 Across: Fixed up => REDONE
14 Across: Legendary name in racing => MANOWAR
15 Across: Keeps away from => EVADES
16 Across: Tight deadlines may make an electrician's job __ => GODOWNTOTHEWIRE
18 Across: Reversal => UTURN
19 Across: Picked up => LEARNED
20 Across: Leaves for a drink => TEA
21 Across: How it looks, with the => OPTICS
24 Across: An electrician who is testing results may become a __ => SWITCHHITTER
30 Across: Schooner pole => MAST
33 Across: Where FDR was once governor => NYS
34 Across: Face with courage => BRAVE
35 Across: Counting everything => INTOTAL
37 Across: Poetic devices => SIMILES
39 Across: Link to another story? => STAIR
40 Across: Shameless network, briefly => SHO
41 Across: It may be raised at an outdoor wedding => TENT
42 Across: An electrician resolves legal matters at __ => CIRCUITCOURT
46 Across: Glum => MOROSE
47 Across: Old AT&T rival => MCI
50 Across: Let's begin, okay? => SHALLWE
54 Across: Doesn't hack it => FAILS
56 Across: A stressed electrician may need an __ => EMOTIONALOUTLET
59 Across: They may be going around => RUMORS
60 Across: Saskatchewan neighbor => MONTANA
61 Across: Patronize, as a motel => STOPAT
62 Across: Person well over 70, probably? => SPEEDER

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Executed, in Exodus => SMOTE
2 Down: City near Venice => PADUA
3 Down: Are you __ out? => INOR
4 Down: Don't take it so hard => NOWNOW
5 Down: Take responsibility for => OWN
6 Down: Butter component => FAT
7 Down: Kicks up one's heels => FROLICS
8 Down: Discuss ad nauseam => REHASH
9 Down: At any time => EVER
10 Down: Vampire's curfew => DAWN
11 Down: Comics dog that sounds like two letters => ODIE
12 Down: Bookish sort => NERD
13 Down: Wichita-to-Memphis dir. => ESE
16 Down: __ feeling => GUT
17 Down: Big field in Silicon Valley => TECH
22 Down: Cocktail word with a tilde => PINA
23 Down: Texter's Chat soon => TTYL
24 Down: Dispassionate type => STOIC
25 Down: UPC bar code developer => IBM
26 Down: Travis of country music => TRITT
27 Down: Account => TALE
28 Down: Square => EVEN
29 Down: Sit a spell => REST
30 Down: Catchall abbr. => MISC
31 Down: Contradictory prefix => ANTI
32 Down: Marquee figure => STAR
36 Down: Capote nickname => TRU
37 Down: Leave me alone! => SHOO
38 Down: Chits => IOUS
40 Down: Roller coaster sounds => SCREAMS
43 Down: Wait, what? => IMLOST
44 Down: Dot on a map => TOWN
45 Down: Disprove => REFUTE
47 Down: Creator of an iconic bear => MILNE
48 Down: Understood => CLEAR
49 Down: Musician's suffix => IST
50 Down: X-rated stuff => SMUT
51 Down: __ sapiens => HOMO
52 Down: Surmounting => ATOP
53 Down: Pre-euro currency => LIRA
55 Down: Slightly => ATAD
56 Down: Critical-care ctrs. => ERS
57 Down: Chop (off) => LOP
58 Down: Number of World Series wins for the Astros => ONE

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This crossword has 28 across clues and 45 down clues. In total 73 clues are solved in the section above.
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