Crossword Answers For: Monday, June 21, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Scandal suffix => GATE
5 Across: Dog of unknown ancestry => MUTT
9 Across: One of the Musketeers => ATHOS
14 Across: Trojan War hero => AJAX
15 Across: Where the seven -stan countries are => ASIA
16 Across: San __, city SE of L.A. => DIEGO
17 Across: Bulldoze => RAZE
18 Across: Mannerly fellow => GENT
19 Across: La Scala offering => OPERA
20 Across: Hospital volunteer named for a feature of their uniform => CANDYSTRIPER
23 Across: Hindu honorific => SRI
26 Across: Huge fan => NUT
27 Across: Layer on the farm => HEN
28 Across: One of two on a post-wedding vacation => HONEYMOONER
32 Across: Health resort => SPA
35 Across: Dreadlocks wearer => RASTA
36 Across: Like thoughts you'd rather not share => PERSONAL
38 Across: Prepare for publication => EDIT
39 Across: Digging tool => SPADE
41 Across: Gangster's gal => MOLL
42 Across: Hurricane or tornado, often => DISASTER
44 Across: Panfry => SAUTE
45 Across: Solidify => SET
46 Across: Legal border-crossing spot => PORTOFENTRY
49 Across: Cocktail server => BAR
50 Across: Ewe's mate => RAM
51 Across: The S in CBS: Abbr. => SYS
52 Across: Jackie Gleason catchphrase, and a hint to the starts of 20-, 28- and 46-Across => HOWSWEETITIS
58 Across: Bolt who bolts => USAIN
59 Across: Footwear for snow => BOOT
60 Across: Oh dear! => ALAS
64 Across: Fly like a seagull => GLIDE
65 Across: Hay unit => BALE
66 Across: Prefix with gram => KILO
67 Across: Sank on the green => HOLED
68 Across: British WWII gun => STEN
69 Across: Adam's first home => EDEN

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Long-nosed fish => GAR
2 Down: 1977 Steely Dan album => AJA
3 Down: Toon devil => TAZ
4 Down: Suit in a corner office => EXEC
5 Down: Title P.I. played by Tom Selleck and Jay Hernandez => MAGNUM
6 Down: Did, but not anymore => USEDTO
7 Down: Wee => TINY
8 Down: Ink spots? => TATS
9 Down: Ardent fans => ADORERS
10 Down: Easy two-pointer => TIPIN
11 Down: Dickens villain Uriah => HEEP
12 Down: Shrek, e.g. => OGRE
13 Down: Fly at a great height => SOAR
21 Down: The Queen's Gambit star __ Taylor-Joy => ANYA
22 Down: I did it! => THERE
23 Down: Destroys, as docs => SHREDS
24 Down: Amp toter => ROADIE
25 Down: Demand => INSIST
29 Down: Jazz great James => ETTA
30 Down: Dizzying paintings => OPART
31 Down: Actor Beatty => NED
32 Down: Hog noses => SNOUTS
33 Down: Meager => PALTRY
34 Down: Narrow passages between buildings => ALLEYS
37 Down: Muscat is its capital => OMAN
39 Down: Put away for later => STORE
40 Down: According to => PER
43 Down: Gave birth to => SPAWNED
44 Down: Big rig => SEMI
47 Down: Manny Machado, before becoming a Padre => ORIOLE
48 Down: Make plump => FATTEN
49 Down: Reverse of a hit 45 => BSIDE
52 Down: Laurie of House => HUGH
53 Down: Norway's capital => OSLO
54 Down: Haunted house sound => WAIL
55 Down: Goes out, as the tide => EBBS
56 Down: Just right => TOAT
57 Down: Sushi bar drink => SAKE
61 Down: Pot top => LID
62 Down: Pale __ => ALE
63 Down: Relative in some business names => SON

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This crossword has 37 across clues and 42 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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