Crossword Answers For: Thursday, September 16, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Disappearing sounds => POOFS
6 Across: Bridge support => TRUSS
11 Across: __ rule => ASA
14 Across: Principle => TENET
15 Across: Arrived at a dock, perhaps, with to => SWAMUP
16 Across: Bars often scanned, for short => UPC
17 Across: Alternative medicine treatment => AROMATHERAPY
19 Across: Masters figure => PAR
20 Across: Where are you? response, perhaps => INHERE
21 Across: Staple of African food => TARO
22 Across: Poet Gorman who read at President Biden's inauguration => AMANDA
25 Across: Publicity packages => PRESSKITS
29 Across: Puts up a fight => RESISTS
31 Across: Tijuana titles => SENORAS
32 Across: FEMA supplies => COTS
33 Across: High-end Apple line => MACPRO
36 Across: Night on Bald Mountain inspiration => WITCHESSABBATH
42 Across: Arrive, as clouds => ROLLIN
43 Across: Take in a heist => LOOT
45 Across: Market in advance => PRESELL
49 Across: Stuffy => AIRLESS
52 Across: Perspicacious => EAGLEEYED
55 Across: ¿Cuánto __?: How much is it? => CUESTA
56 Across: More than listen => OBEY
57 Across: Lengthy account => LITANY
59 Across: Washington Week airer => PBS
60 Across: Order served with toothpicks ... and what each of the other four longest answers is? => CLUBSANDWICH
66 Across: English __ => LIT
67 Across: Phillips 66 brand => CONOCO
68 Across: Former first daughter => MALIA
69 Across: Exobiology subj. => ETS
70 Across: Holds up => SLOWS
71 Across: Battlestar Galactica enemy => CYLON

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: School support gp. => PTA
2 Down: Poetic adverb => OER
3 Down: Tokyo's Yoko => ONO
4 Down: Like The Handmaid's Tale, to many critics (but not to the author) => FEMINIST
5 Down: Arena section => STANDS
6 Down: Squirt => TWERP
7 Down: Less cooked => RARER
8 Down: Thurman of Batman & Robin => UMA
9 Down: Yo, what's new? => SUP
10 Down: Word with glass or ware => SPY
11 Down: Worker with a host family => AUPAIR
12 Down: Helen's homeland => SPARTA
13 Down: To the opposite side of => ACROSS
15 Down: Pop duo __ & Him => SHE
18 Down: Unnamed object => THAT
21 Down: Ring ref's decision => TKO
22 Down: Hoops three-point line, e.g. => ARC
23 Down: Where's my Fancy Feast? => MEOW
24 Down: Bubbly brand => ASTI
26 Down: Land bordering los Pirineos => ESPANA
27 Down: Belgrade native => SERB
28 Down: Classist type => SNOB
30 Down: Foul => SMELLY
34 Down: Silent speech syst. => ASL
35 Down: CBS series with multiple spin-offs => CSI
37 Down: First Nations tribe => CREE
38 Down: Doughnut __ => HOLE
39 Down: Common dumpster spot => ALLEYWAY
40 Down: Ring sites => TOES
41 Down: Entertain => HOST
44 Down: Airport safety org. => TSA
45 Down: Folks => PEOPLE
46 Down: Peter or Jessica => RABBIT
47 Down: Expels => EGESTS
48 Down: Calculating => SLY
50 Down: Leave it to me => ICAN
51 Down: '80s hip-hop pioneers => RUNDMC
53 Down: Macaroni type => ELBOW
54 Down: Brake parts => DISCS
58 Down: Yin/yang principle => TAO
60 Down: Loops in, briefly => CCS
61 Down: Texter's chuckle => LOL
62 Down: One in Mexico => UNO
63 Down: Far less than 100% => ILL
64 Down: AFL partner => CIO
65 Down: Solo of Star Wars => HAN

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This crossword has 33 across clues and 47 down clues. In total 80 clues are solved in the section above.
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