Crossword Answers For: Friday, September 1, 2017

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Branch => LIMB
5 Across: Advisory group => BOARD
10 Across: Big name in luxury retailing => SAKS
14 Across: About 30% of Earth's land area => ASIA
15 Across: More fitting => APTER
16 Across: Thing with rings => TREE
17 Across: Really bad béchamel? => SORRYSAUCE
19 Across: Letters facilitating sorting => ATTN
20 Across: Unpaid stack for scofflaw Aaron? => BURRSTICKETS
22 Across: Something to stretch out on => YOGAMAT
25 Across: Comedian dubbed Mr. Television => BERLE
26 Across: Mitchell protagonist => OHARA
27 Across: Bone holders => PAWS
30 Across: With 61-Across, Yer darn tootin'! => YES
31 Across: Seaweed for sushi => NORI
32 Across: Puts down => ALIGHTS
35 Across: What happens at the end of a Manilow concert? => BARRYLEAVES
38 Across: Most closely related => NEAREST
39 Across: Educational period => TERM
42 Across: Letters with Arizona or Maine => USS
45 Across: Made tracks => FLED
46 Across: One of composer John Williams' five => OSCAR
47 Across: Harlem Renaissance writer Zora __ Hurston => NEALE
49 Across: Does some lawn maintenance => AERATES
51 Across: Furry creature that isn't cool? => SQUAREFERRET
55 Across: Bee in Mayberry, e.g. => AUNT
56 Across: Convicted hastily and unfairly ... or, in a way, like the four other longest puzzle answers? => RAILROADED
60 Across: It requires some effort => FEAT
61 Across: See 30-Across => SIREE
62 Across: Confucius, by reputation => SAGE
63 Across: See 29-Down => ELSE
64 Across: Fashionista's concern => TREND
65 Across: __-how => KNOW

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: __ Cruces => LAS
2 Down: Prefix with metric => ISO
3 Down: Defunct space station => MIR
4 Down: Conan, for one => BARBARIAN
5 Down: Iraqi port => BASRA
6 Down: Dazzling style => OPART
7 Down: Vince Gill's Look __ => ATUS
8 Down: Certain quadrilateral: Abbr. => RECT
9 Down: Half of sechs => DREI
10 Down: Simple sign holder => STAKE
11 Down: Major thoroughfare => ARTERY
12 Down: Mother's whistler? => KETTLE
13 Down: Familiar fivesome => SENSES
18 Down: City about 150 miles east of San Diego => YUMA
21 Down: NCIS airer => CBSTV
22 Down: It's other than hither => YON
23 Down: So that's your game! => OHO
24 Down: Apparel => GARB
27 Down: Accumulated, with up => PILED
28 Down: Many years => AGES
29 Down: With 63-Across, Is there more? => WHAT
32 Down: Decimated sea => ARAL
33 Down: Erato's instrument => LYRE
34 Down: Assigns work (for), as students => SETSATASK
36 Down: Cite, with to => REFER
37 Down: Religious subgroup => SECT
40 Down: Norma __ => RAE
41 Down: Union title? => MRS
42 Down: Risky => UNSAFE
43 Down: The Bourne Supremacy, e.g. => SEQUEL
44 Down: Hot spots => SAUNAS
46 Down: Dunked snack => OREO
48 Down: Barista's offering => LATTE
49 Down: Over the Rainbow composer => ARLEN
50 Down: Misspoke, say => ERRED
52 Down: While lead-in => ERST
53 Down: Cloudless => FAIR
54 Down: The Auld Sod => EIRE
57 Down: SNL castmate of Gilda and Chevy => DAN
58 Down: Swellhead's problem => EGO
59 Down: Wet blanket => DEW

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This crossword has 33 across clues and 42 down clues. In total 75 clues are solved in the section above.
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