Crossword Answers For: Thursday, July 22, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Sprayed in defense => MACED
6 Across: Your point being? => AND
9 Across: With 65-Down, toon sister of Castor => OLIVE
14 Across: Biscayne Bay city => MIAMI
15 Across: Zen garden swimmer => KOI
16 Across: Richard Parker in Life of Pi, e.g. => TIGER
17 Across: Critical care MD => ERDOC
18 Across: Tall or dark: Abbr. => ADJ
19 Across: Composer who, as it happens, died in March (1932) => SOUSA
20 Across: Browser list => SITES
22 Across: Luke, to Anakin => SON
24 Across: Drops off => NAPS
25 Across: Short jackets worn open in front => BOLEROS
27 Across: Oscar night VIP => NOMINEE
29 Across: Actor Brynner => YUL
30 Across: Poor, as odds => SLIM
32 Across: Offer, as a guess => HAZARD
33 Across: And others, in Lat. => ETAL
35 Across: Broccoli rabe => RAPINI
37 Across: Place to find a date ... and any one of four in this puzzle (circled letters are hints) => CORNERSTONE
41 Across: Co-star of Meryl in Death Becomes Her => GOLDIE
42 Across: Raise, as crops => GROW
45 Across: Executor's charge => ESTATE
48 Across: __ said! => NUFF
51 Across: Sculpture medium => ICE
52 Across: Author Elmore __ => LEONARD
54 Across: Calls the shots => DIRECTS
56 Across: Brand at Petco => IAMS
57 Across: Clue suspect count => SIX
59 Across: Saint __, one of the only two sovereign nations named for women => LUCIA
60 Across: Intimidating look => STARE
62 Across: Civil War prez => ABE
64 Across: Heaven forbid! => GODNO
66 Across: Hopping mad => HETUP
67 Across: ASAP! => NOW
68 Across: Strike zone? => ALLEY
69 Across: Pasta product suffix => ARONI
70 Across: Pink-slip => AXE
71 Across: Eldest von Trapp child, in the musical => LIESL

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Tussaud title: Abbr. => MME
2 Down: Ventilates => AIRSOUT
3 Down: Detroit founder => CADILLAC
4 Down: Ham it up => EMOTE
5 Down: Chefs, at times => DICERS
6 Down: Alias letters => AKA
7 Down: Auction actions => NODS
8 Down: City where Grey Poupon originated => DIJON
9 Down: NHL tiebreakers => OTS
10 Down: Putting on a pedestal => LIONIZING
11 Down: Exotic pet => IGUANA
12 Down: Casino Royale Bond girl __ Lynd => VESPER
13 Down: Undid => ERASED
21 Down: Costa del __ => SOL
23 Down: Like seven Nolan Ryan games => NOHIT
25 Down: Tournament edge => BYE
26 Down: Fathered => SIRED
28 Down: Hand for Julio Iglesias? => MANO
31 Down: Bay Area county => MARIN
34 Down: 1976 Michael York/Jenny Agutter sci-fi film => LOGANSRUN
36 Down: Ersatz intellectual => PSEUD
38 Down: Membership list => ROTA
39 Down: Phils and Nats => NLERS
40 Down: Spamalot co-creator => ERICIDLE
43 Down: Pump numbers => OCTANES
44 Down: Jazz guitarist Montgomery => WES
45 Down: Inventor Otis => ELISHA
46 Down: Two-__ => SEATER
47 Down: Part of BLT => TOMATO
49 Down: Chick-__-A: fast-food chain => FIL
50 Down: Not at all spendthrifty => FRUGAL
53 Down: Greece : Artemis :: Rome : __ => DIANA
55 Down: Food recall trigger => ECOLI
58 Down: Console with a 360 second generation => XBOX
61 Down: Prefix with gram or graph => EPI
63 Down: Flock female => EWE
65 Down: See 9-Across => OYL

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This crossword has 39 across clues and 38 down clues. In total 77 clues are solved in the section above.
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