Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Prepare to get up from one's plane seat => UNBELT
7 Across: Sucker for a flame => MOTH
11 Across: Camera letters => SLR
14 Across: Hoi __ => POLLOI
15 Across: Mine, in Montreal => AMOI
16 Across: Rival => VIE
17 Across: Mole, perhaps => DOUBLEAGENT
19 Across: Señora Perón => EVA
20 Across: Palindromic woman's name => ANNA
21 Across: Either Bush 43 daughter => TWINSISTER
23 Across: Bit of body ink => TAT
24 Across: The Black Cat author => POE
25 Across: Locker room powders => TALCS
26 Across: Belgian expressionist James => ENSOR
28 Across: Stun => DAZE
32 Across: Diamond Head locale => OAHU
33 Across: 1974 musical based on a 1900 novel, with The => WIZ
35 Across: eBay offers => BIDS
37 Across: Drop off for a bit => NAP
38 Across: Amen! ... or a hint to the start of four other long answers => ILLSECONDTHAT
42 Across: Meter preceder => ODO
43 Across: Lake formed by the Hoover Dam => MEAD
44 Across: Told __! => YOU
45 Across: Lox variety => NOVA
47 Across: Burst forth => SPEW
49 Across: Language in which w and y are considered vowels => WELSH
53 Across: 2010 Barack appointee => ELENA
55 Across: Parrot => APE
57 Across: Bothered a lot, with at => ATE
58 Across: Braille is one => BINARYCODE
62 Across: Sooner State city => ENID
63 Across: Vivid dye => AZO
64 Across: Olympic event featuring death spirals => PAIRSKATING
66 Across: Volleyball scoring unit => SET
67 Across: Small advantage => EDGE
68 Across: With 56-Down, type of black tea with another color in its name => ORANGE
69 Across: Journal's end? => ESE
70 Across: Gaelic gal => LASS
71 Across: Persuasive pieces => ESSAYS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Reason for a restart => UPDATE
2 Down: Political pundit Peggy => NOONAN
3 Down: Numbs => BLUNTS
4 Down: Idris of Luther => ELBA
5 Down: Kidding! letters => LOL
6 Down: Associate with => TIETO
7 Down: Ancient trio => MAGI
8 Down: Black cat, to some => OMEN
9 Down: Quite a lot => TONS
10 Down: Start the music! => HITIT
11 Down: __ Savitskaya, first woman to perform a spacewalk => SVETLANA
12 Down: Modern customer support option => LIVECHAT
13 Down: Reacts in fear, as a horse => REARSUP
18 Down: Wonderstruck => AWED
22 Down: __ Tomé and Príncipe => SAO
24 Down: Spectrum maker => PRISM
27 Down: Potterverse courier => OWL
29 Down: Cabin or castle => ABODE
30 Down: Chard alternative => ZIN
31 Down: Water whirled => EDDY
34 Down: Pizza pieces? => ZEES
36 Down: Dred novelist => STOWE
38 Down: Reveres => IDOLIZES
39 Down: Heart-y message? => LOVENOTE
40 Down: Upper limit => CAP
41 Down: Color => HUE
42 Down: __ hit: baseball single => ONEBASE
46 Down: Carrier to Tokyo => ANA
48 Down: Rolls of money => WADS
50 Down: Pacific weather phenomenon => LANINA
51 Down: Cheap => STINGY
52 Down: Risk-offsetting investments => HEDGES
54 Down: Cosmetician Adrien => ARPEL
56 Down: See 68-Across => PEKOE
59 Down: When tripled, et cetera => YADA
60 Down: Smokes, briefly => CIGS
61 Down: Crude metals => ORES
62 Down: JFK board data => ETAS
65 Down: Cue followers => ARS

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This crossword has 39 across clues and 40 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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