Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Country singer McCann => LILA
5 Across: Chose => OPTED
10 Across: Imitates => APES
14 Across: Poet's in a trice => ANON
15 Across: Legendary crooner Mel => TORME
16 Across: Red inside => RARE
17 Across: *It often runs through the center of town => MAINSTREET
19 Across: H.S. math class => TRIG
20 Across: Year at the Sorbonne => ANNEE
21 Across: Spare in a boot => TYRE
22 Across: DIY furniture giant => IKEA
23 Across: Took five => RESTED
25 Across: Clutch => GRASP
27 Across: Stereo knob => TREBLE
30 Across: Corporate department => SALES
33 Across: Apartment overseer, informally => SUPE
36 Across: Homeland org. => CIA
37 Across: Fruit in a split => BANANA
38 Across: Japanese sash => OBI
39 Across: *Sleeveless shirt => TANKTOP
41 Across: NYSE listings => COS
42 Across: Undo legislatively => REPEAL
44 Across: Place for a ring => EAR
45 Across: Winter Song musician John => TESH
46 Across: Nottingham's river => TRENT
47 Across: Goofs => ERRORS
49 Across: Stuff, as a turkey => DRESS
51 Across: Zero chance => NOHOPE
55 Across: Root for a luau => TARO
57 Across: Supply-and-demand sci. => ECON
60 Across: Turkish coins => LIRAS
61 Across: Cheese couleur => BLEU
62 Across: Like oceanside resort property ... and what the starts to the answers to starred clues can have? => WATERFRONT
64 Across: Football's QB rating, for one => STAT
65 Across: Modeling adhesive => EPOXY
66 Across: Arrogance, in slang => TUDE
67 Across: Fleshy fruit => POME
68 Across: Tivoli's Villa __ => DESTE
69 Across: Headliner => STAR

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Rapper Kendrick => LAMAR
2 Down: Mindless => INANE
3 Down: Meat cuts => LOINS
4 Down: Being Julia co-star Bening => ANNETTE
5 Down: Old-time baseball slugger called Master Melvin => OTT
6 Down: Dessert wine => PORT
7 Down: It beats a deuce => TREY
8 Down: Come forth => EMERGE
9 Down: Put a damper on => DETER
10 Down: Craftsperson => ARTISAN
11 Down: *Monopoly property three squares before Go => PARKPLACE
12 Down: Toledo's lake => ERIE
13 Down: Big name in computer games => SEGA
18 Down: Fortuneteller => SEER
24 Down: Image-transfer item => DECAL
26 Down: Now! => ASAP
28 Down: Coal holder => BIN
29 Down: Staples Center player => LAKER
31 Down: Slaughter on the diamond => ENOS
32 Down: Pageant body band => SASH
33 Down: Database command => SORT
34 Down: Above, in Berlin => UBER
35 Down: *Bit of wishful thinking => PIPEDREAM
37 Down: B in chem class => BORON
39 Down: London art gallery => TATE
40 Down: Old salt => TAR
43 Down: On the way => ENROUTE
45 Down: Vacation souvenirs => TSHIRTS
47 Down: Break out => ESCAPE
48 Down: Massage therapeutically => ROLF
50 Down: Put in stitches => SEWED
52 Down: Are you in __? => OROUT
53 Down: Bamboo muncher => PANDA
54 Down: Aromatic compound => ESTER
55 Down: 1/2 fl. oz. => TBSP
56 Down: Choir part => ALTO
58 Down: Platte River people => OTOS
59 Down: Preceded in line by only one person => NEXT
63 Down: Bar staple => RYE

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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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