Crossword Answers For: Thursday, August 31, 2017

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Draft day announcements => PICKS
6 Across: In-tents experience? => CAMP
10 Across: Like some dental floss => WAXY
14 Across: End of __ => ANERA
15 Across: Jai __ => ALAI
16 Across: Wrapped up => OVER
17 Across: Artifact => RELIC
18 Across: Board member? => KING
19 Across: Unites => WEDS
20 Across: Volleyball players in Dublin? => IRISHSETTERS
23 Across: New York's __ Island => STATEN
24 Across: Sturgeon delicacy => ROE
25 Across: Engineering sch. on the Hudson River => RPI
28 Across: Euros in Rome? => ITALIANBREAD
32 Across: Deadly snake => ASP
35 Across: White House signing ceremony memento => PEN
36 Across: __ Trinket, The Hunger Games chaperone played by Elizabeth Banks => EFFIE
37 Across: Airport inspectors in Beijing? => CHINESECHECKERS
42 Across: Cosmonaut Vladimir => TITOV
43 Across: Partner of abet => AID
44 Across: Most of Ariz. doesn't observe it => DST
45 Across: Dance lessons in Madrid? => SPANISHSTEPS
50 Across: CIA predecessor => OSS
51 Across: Drivers' org. => AAA
52 Across: Phillies' div. => NLEAST
56 Across: Number cruncher in New Delhi? => INDIANSUMMER
59 Across: SALT subject => ICBM
62 Across: Crab Key villain => DRNO
63 Across: Mazda MX-5, familiarly => MIATA
64 Across: Witty tweet, e.g. => QUIP
65 Across: Novelist O'Brien => EDNA
66 Across: Bunsen burner kin => ETNAS
67 Across: Small ticks? => SECS
68 Across: Travel aimlessly => ROAM
69 Across: One of Franklin's two certainties => DEATH

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Musée d'Orsay city => PARIS
2 Down: Still => INERT
3 Down: Salsa singer Cruz => CELIA
4 Down: Spring 2008 Dancing with the Stars champion Yamaguchi => KRISTI
5 Down: Potpourri pouch => SACHET
6 Down: Wedding reception sight => CAKE
7 Down: Hit the ground => ALIT
8 Down: Hindu incantation => MANTRA
9 Down: Word with carrier or passenger => PIGEON
10 Down: Floors => WOWS
11 Down: Abbr. in many addresses => AVE
12 Down: Crossed (out) => XED
13 Down: Jr. and sr. => YRS
21 Down: Loses it => SNAPS
22 Down: Lute-like instrument => REBEC
25 Down: Served seconds, say => REFED
26 Down: Figure skating event => PAIRS
27 Down: In other words, in other words => IDEST
29 Down: Novelist Harper => LEE
30 Down: Quechua speakers => INCAS
31 Down: He served as A.G. under his brother => RFK
32 Down: Don't __ innocent => ACTSO
33 Down: Port arrivals => SHIPS
34 Down: Pockets for falafel => PITAS
38 Down: Start to skid? => NON
39 Down: French spa => EVIAN
40 Down: Strike => HIT
41 Down: Utopias => EDENS
46 Down: More melancholy => SADDER
47 Down: Bob, for one => HAIRDO
48 Down: Like peacocks => PLUMED
49 Down: Many a Mideast native => SEMITE
53 Down: Appliance maker since 1934 => AMANA
54 Down: Attack => SETAT
55 Down: Vandalize => TRASH
56 Down: Rascals => IMPS
57 Down: Kendrick of Pitch Perfect => ANNA
58 Down: Syntactic Structures author Chomsky => NOAM
59 Down: Nos. averaging 100 => IQS
60 Down: What a shark strikes with => CUE
61 Down: Wite-Out maker => BIC

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This crossword has 35 across clues and 42 down clues. In total 77 clues are solved in the section above.
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