Crossword Answers For: Saturday, September 4, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Yours truly alternative => BEST
5 Across: Impulsively => HALFCOCKED
15 Across: They may not want to run into each other => EXES
16 Across: It's 60 in the current Congress => AVERAGEAGE
17 Across: What Sicilians call Muncibeddu => ETNA
18 Across: Flaunted one's wealth, perhaps => LIVEDLARGE
19 Across: __ Angelico: Renaissance artist => FRA
20 Across: Karaoke selection => OLDIE
21 Across: Tango composer __ Piazzolla => ASTOR
22 Across: The Ig Nobel Prize, e.g. => SATIRE
24 Across: Time for cuts => SALE
26 Across: NBA's Nikola Jokic, e.g. => SERB
27 Across: Parting of the Pacific => ALOHA
29 Across: Spitz toy, briefly => POM
32 Across: __ say ... => DAREI
33 Across: Lovett with Grammys => LYLE
34 Across: One-liner => JAPE
35 Across: It calculates using qubits => QUANTUMCOMPUTER
38 Across: Latin behold => ECCE
39 Across: Sweat spot => PORE
40 Across: Array with two guards, in football lingo => OLINE
41 Across: Dead end? => DEE
42 Across: Oh, no! => SOSAD
43 Across: Loving touch => KISS
44 Across: Suggestion => HINT
45 Across: Coming attraction, say => TEASER
47 Across: Voiced => ALOUD
50 Across: Tries out => DEMOS
53 Across: L.A. to Palm Springs dir. => ESE
54 Across: Resulted in fighting => BOILEDOVER
56 Across: Have on the run => GRAB
57 Across: One using a lot of hot air => BALLOONIST
58 Across: Freezing fog consequence => RIME
59 Across: Request for more input => ANYONEELSE
60 Across: Stagger => REEL

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Grievances => BEEFS
2 Down: Pizzeria request => EXTRASAUCE
3 Down: Biannual political event => SENATERACE
4 Down: Agts. outside gates => TSA
5 Down: Berry with awards => HALLE
6 Down: Way more than casual => AVID
7 Down: The Periodic Table author Primo __ => LEVI
8 Down: Climbed without ropes or harness => FREESOLOED
9 Down: Despicable one => CAD
10 Down: Lakota tribe => OGLALA
11 Down: Stop => CEASE
12 Down: Small racer => KART
13 Down: Kellogg's brand that can be spelled from Kellogg's => EGGO
14 Down: Fawning parents? => DEER
20 Down: Realm of influence => ORBIT
23 Down: She outwitted Sherlock => IRENE
25 Down: I'm standing right here => AHEM
27 Down: Close to getting through => ALMOSTDONE
28 Down: Material for Katie Ledecky => LYCRA
29 Down: 45-Down seller => PATISSERIE
30 Down: Kool & the Gang hit with the repeated line, Get down with the genie => OPENSESAME
31 Down: Trifling => MERE
32 Down: Barred from further rounds, briefly => DQED
34 Down: Child cooking => JULIA
36 Down: Part of some riverside toponyms => UPON
37 Down: Facebook attention-getters => POKES
42 Down: Not face-to-face, in a way => SIDEON
44 Down: Brit's greeting => HULLO
45 Down: Fancy cake => TORTE
46 Down: Defy authority => REBEL
47 Down: 1974 Eurovision champion => ABBA
48 Down: Library offering => LOAN
49 Down: Full of smarm => OILY
51 Down: No good => EVIL
52 Down: Private dining room => MESS
55 Down: Female rabbit => DOE
56 Down: I'm losing it! => GRR

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This crossword has 35 across clues and 38 down clues. In total 73 clues are solved in the section above.
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