Crossword Answers For: Sunday, August 27, 2017

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Crisscross pattern => GRID
5 Across: Whole alternative => SKIM
9 Across: Religion that may involve a moon goddess => WICCA
14 Across: Tolerate => ABIDE
19 Across: Sticks figure => RUBE
20 Across: Common conifer => PINE
21 Across: Many a South Pacific isle => ATOLL
22 Across: Kosher => LEGIT
23 Across: __ in the Pod: maternity brand => APEA
24 Across: It won't fly on the Sabbath => ELAL
25 Across: Get rid of => SCRAP
26 Across: Freetown currency => LEONE
27 Across: Like soup cans to Andy Warhol? => PERFECTFORTHEPOPART
31 Across: New York natives => ERIES
32 Across: Traditional meal => SEDER
33 Across: Join => ATTACH
36 Across: Position => STANCE
38 Across: More extensive => WIDER
40 Across: Mid sixth-century date => DLI
42 Across: For two, in music => ADUE
43 Across: The rules __ the rules => ARE
45 Across: The musical 1776 reworked with arias? => COLONIALOPERA
48 Across: Courtesy to parents of a child flying alone => GATEPASS
53 Across: Refuses => WONT
54 Across: Carrier renamed in 1997 => USAIR
55 Across: Astaire/Rogers 1935 boast? => IMADETOPHAT
59 Across: Their areas are arias => DIVAS
61 Across: Auction unit => LOT
62 Across: Taunt => GIBE
63 Across: Ballerinas' supply => ROSIN
65 Across: Saltpeter => NITER
67 Across: Pace of a runaway horse? => UNMITIGATEDGALLOP
73 Across: Traffic stopper, perhaps => SIREN
74 Across: Capital SW of Brussels => PARIS
75 Across: Sculptors' degs. => BFAS
78 Across: Lou Grant production co. => MTM
81 Across: Like some strays => MANGY
83 Across: Why the kennel closed? => NOPETPROFIT
87 Across: Flew into __ => ARAGE
89 Across: Mexican dirección => ESTE
91 Across: Engine regulator => THROTTLE
92 Across: Vespa newbies? => MOPEDSTUDENTS
97 Across: Verizon subsidiary => AOL
98 Across: Two-balled weapon => BOLA
99 Across: Dangerous African biter => ASP
100 Across: News story sources => LEAKS
102 Across: Absorb, as with toweling => BLOTUP
107 Across: Brief outline => APERCU
109 Across: Produce chapter and verse? => WRITE
111 Across: Development areas => UTERI
112 Across: #1 rodeo competitor? => THELORDOFTHEROPINGS
118 Across: 1995 Cecil B. DeMille Award-winning actress => LOREN
120 Across: Marilyn's birth name => NORMA
121 Across: Swear => AVOW
122 Across: Gp. that includes Venezuela => OPEC
123 Across: Golf shoe feature => CLEAT
124 Across: Like some construction sight markers => CONIC
125 Across: Current => TIDE
126 Across: Geometry function => SINE
127 Across: Accomplishments => DEEDS
128 Across: Act with passion => EMOTE
129 Across: Acorn, essentially => SEED
130 Across: Laryngitis docs => ENTS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Ones pressed for drinks => GRAPES
2 Down: Grint who plays Ron in Harry Potter films => RUPERT
3 Down: Portugal's region => IBERIA
4 Down: Overwhelm with noise => DEAFEN
5 Down: What manuscripts may be submitted on => SPEC
6 Down: Caber toss garb => KILTS
7 Down: Shortly, casually => INAFEW
8 Down: Songlike => MELODIC
9 Down: Scrooge's opposite => WASTREL
10 Down: Craving => ITCH
11 Down: Crux => CORE
12 Down: Show appreciation, in a way => CLAP
13 Down: Boxer's brand? => ALPO
14 Down: With 113-Down, precipitously => ALLAT
15 Down: Draft providers => BEERTAPS
16 Down: Savvy shopper's cry => IGOTADEAL
17 Down: Ruckus => DIN
18 Down: 74-Across season => ETE
28 Down: Fire __ => ESCAPE
29 Down: Makeover => REDO
30 Down: Swabby's need => PAIL
34 Down: Collector's item => CURIO
35 Down: Compassion => HEART
37 Down: Part of Q.E.D. => ERAT
39 Down: Ticket word => ROW
40 Down: Home furnishing purchase => DININGSET
41 Down: Estonia neighbor => LATVIA
44 Down: Paul Anka's __ Beso => ESO
46 Down: Silent affirmation => NOD
47 Down: Montana's __ Falls => OUSEL
48 Down: Band performance => GIG
49 Down: __ dreaming? => AMI
50 Down: Forbidden perfume => TABU
51 Down: Ideal places => EDENS
52 Down: Appears suddenly => SPRINGSUP
56 Down: Harley, e.g. => HOG
57 Down: Make it quick! => ASAP
58 Down: Industry VIP => TITAN
60 Down: Bermuda's ocean: Abbr. => ATL
64 Down: Successor to Claudius => NERO
66 Down: High-tech worker => ROBOT
68 Down: Emulated a street performer => MIMED
69 Down: Investment acronym => IRA
70 Down: Guiding principles => TENETS
71 Down: Decline => DIP
72 Down: [It disappeared!] => PFFT
76 Down: Require meds, maybe => AIL
77 Down: Sault __ Marie => STE
78 Down: Dangerous African biter => MAMBA
79 Down: Military unit => TROOP
80 Down: It might be tapped => MAPLETREE
82 Down: Since Jan. 1, in P&L reports => YTD
84 Down: Article in rap titles => THA
85 Down: No __!: Easy-peasy! => PROB
86 Down: Prepare to store, as a blueprint => ROLLUP
88 Down: Under-the-hood type => GEARHEAD
90 Down: Slim swimmer => EEL
93 Down: Novelist Bellow => SAUL
94 Down: Church greeter's target => NEWFACE
95 Down: Like small star fruit => TART
96 Down: Slope apparel => SKIHATS
101 Down: Wonder on stage => STEVIE
103 Down: Lazy => OTIOSE
104 Down: Half of bowling's worst split => TENPIN
105 Down: Of immediate concern => URGENT
106 Down: Compassionate, creative, submissive sort, it's said => PISCES
108 Down: Small change => CENTS
110 Down: Undercut => ERODE
113 Down: See 14-Down => ONCE
114 Down: Den, for one => ROOM
115 Down: Bond adventure with Honey Ryder => DRNO
116 Down: Drop => OMIT
117 Down: Was in the red => OWED
118 Down: Clock readout abbr. => LCD
119 Down: Good one, matador! => OLE

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This crossword has 63 across clues and 76 down clues. In total 139 clues are solved in the section above.
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