Crossword Answers For: Sunday, July 18, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Wretched => ABJECT
7 Across: Mount Rainier gateway => TACOMA
13 Across: Hoops statistic => ASSIST
19 Across: Taste => FLAVOR
20 Across: In favor of Mideast unity => PANARAB
21 Across: Arty => CHICHI
22 Across: The drive-through diner scene that was cut became a __ => TAKEOUTOUTTAKE
24 Across: Right after this => HEREON
25 Across: Fall garden? => EDEN
26 Across: Riverbank residue => SILT
27 Across: Parisian season => ETE
28 Across: Vote of support => AYE
29 Across: What Jill has that Jack doesn't? => DOT
30 Across: Break => REST
31 Across: Stab => TRY
32 Across: 1956 title film monster => RODAN
34 Across: Smart => NATTY
36 Across: The girls who spent the night prioritized chat time at the __ => SLEEPOVEROVERSLEEP
41 Across: LP's 33 1/3 => RPM
44 Across: Browsing annoyances => ADS
45 Across: Wordless agreement => NOD
46 Across: Sugary ending => OSE
47 Across: Reduce => PARE
48 Across: Long => YEARN
50 Across: Shot __: competitive event => PUT
51 Across: Privileged people => ELITE
53 Across: When the dog got loose, some house plants __ => ENDEDUPUPENDED
57 Across: False front => FACADE
63 Across: Get into => DON
64 Across: What a stationary orrery part may represent => SUN
65 Across: Clarifying Latin words => IDEST
67 Across: Grew dimmer => WANED
68 Across: Sweetens, as yams => CANDIES
70 Across: Iraqi currency => DINAR
72 Across: Modified for the better => AMENDED
74 Across: Private => INNER
75 Across: Barely sufficient => SCANT
77 Across: Stroke that makes a rally irrelevant => ACE
78 Across: Surrealist German-French painter => ARP
79 Across: Gazes fixedly => STARES
81 Across: The casual quarterback made an __ => OFFHANDHANDOFF
86 Across: Expand => ADDTO
88 Across: Bossy utterance => MOO
89 Across: African capital on the 30th parallel => CAIRO
90 Across: It is a __ told by an idiot: Macbeth => TALE
94 Across: What chatty tongues do? => WAG
95 Across: Poke fun at => KID
96 Across: Mrs., in Madrid => SRA
98 Across: Apply a new hue to => DYE
99 Across: A navel ring is a piercing one may __ => WEARUNDERUNDERWEAR
105 Across: It has pipes and keys => ORGAN
106 Across: Source of some overhead footage => DRONE
107 Across: Apple operating system => IOS
108 Across: Hadrian's defense => WALL
112 Across: Follow (along) closely => TAG
113 Across: It totally happened! => WAY
115 Across: Memorable first name in soccer => MIA
116 Across: Small racer => KART
117 Across: Sailing => ASEA
118 Across: Indicating stress => ITALIC
120 Across: The fast-learning police cadet had the __ => PATDOWNDOWNPAT
123 Across: Most trifling => MEREST
124 Across: Fail to take seriously => SNEERAT
125 Across: Red-skinned root => RADISH
126 Across: Current events? => EDDIES
127 Across: Soaked through => SODDEN
128 Across: Demands and gets => EXACTS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Following => AFTER
2 Down: Business end of an ax => BLADE
3 Down: North and South trilogy author John __ => JAKES
4 Down: Track contests => EVENTS
5 Down: Bill's partner => COO
6 Down: Confided in => TRUSTED
7 Down: Showing strain => TAUT
8 Down: One lining up for food? => ANT
9 Down: Took care of the food => CATERED
10 Down: Strong speaker => ORATOR
11 Down: Be resourceful => MAKEDO
12 Down: Prez on a penny => ABE
13 Down: Feeling it after a workout => ACHY
14 Down: Lusters => SHEENS
15 Down: Honorary title => SIR
16 Down: Picnic pitcherful => ICEDTEA
17 Down: NBA's Steph Curry, frequently => SHOOTER
18 Down: Early photograph => TINTYPE
20 Down: Sea anemone, e.g. => POLYP
23 Down: Gives out => TIRES
28 Down: __ of robins ... : Kilmer => ANEST
33 Down: Refrains from => AVOIDS
35 Down: The Eiger, for one => ALP
37 Down: Secure, as a job or a role => LAND
38 Down: Get __: James Brown biopic => ONUP
39 Down: Choose at the polls => VOTE
40 Down: Shipping hazard => REEF
41 Down: Bread-making grain => RYE
42 Down: Locket, for one => PENDANT
43 Down: Singer/actress known as the Queen of Pop => MADONNA
49 Down: Cause to become => RENDER
50 Down: Mae West's I used to be Snow White, but I drifted, e.g. => PUN
51 Down: Icelandic literary work => EDDA
52 Down: Sidelong glance => LEER
54 Down: Consume => USE
55 Down: Kitty => PUSS
56 Down: Beethoven's __ => NINTH
58 Down: Response to the sublime => AWE
59 Down: Largest English-speaking country => CANADA
60 Down: Google operating system => ANDROID
61 Down: Cook, as much county fair fare => DEEPFRY
62 Down: Announcer Hall => EDD
66 Down: Gauge on the dash => TACH
68 Down: Opposite of trans => CIS
69 Down: Hot temper => IRE
70 Down: Inane => DAFT
71 Down: Lowdown => INFO
73 Down: Give __ minute => MEA
76 Down: Often old eccentric => CODGER
77 Down: Big deal => ADO
80 Down: Like fireplace logs => SAWN
82 Down: Within => AMID
83 Down: Plant stem joint => NODE
84 Down: Final Four org. => NCAA
85 Down: Moriarty, to Holmes => FOE
87 Down: __ longlegs => DADDY
90 Down: Cheat on one's sweet, say => TWOTIME
91 Down: Freshened up, in a way => AERATED
92 Down: Slowpoke => LAGGARD
93 Down: Often titled stretch => ERA
95 Down: Massaged => KNEADED
96 Down: Excalibur, e.g. => SWORD
97 Down: Put back as it was => RESTORE
100 Down: Not sensible => UNWISE
101 Down: Pecorino __ cheese => ROMANO
102 Down: __ Kingdom => UNITED
103 Down: Laughing => RIANT
104 Down: Its capital is Kigali => RWANDA
109 Down: Gelatin garnish => ASPIC
110 Down: Not in the __ => LEAST
111 Down: Framework strips => LATHS
114 Down: Book after John => ACTS
116 Down: Nine-time U.S. skating champ Michelle => KWAN
119 Down: Gift with an aloha => LEI
120 Down: Brief afterthoughts => PSS
121 Down: Metal source => ORE
122 Down: Become more intense, as the moon => WAX

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This crossword has 67 across clues and 78 down clues. In total 145 clues are solved in the section above.
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