Crossword Answers For: Sunday, September 19, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Part of a sea urchin's diet => KELP
5 Across: Rest of the afternoon => SIESTA
11 Across: Beat it! => SCAT
15 Across: Big first for babies => STEP
19 Across: Wellsian race => ELOI
20 Across: Life of Pi director => ANGLEE
21 Across: Boo'd Up singer __ Mai => ELLA
22 Across: Mani mate => PEDI
23 Across: *Hotel convenience => PARKINGARAG
25 Across: Manicurist's assortment => NAILFILES
27 Across: Beholden => INDEBTED
28 Across: George who plays Stokes on CSI => EADS
30 Across: Minneapolis' Target Center, e.g. => ARENA
31 Across: Roger of Cheers => REES
32 Across: Stand => BEAR
34 Across: Hotel offerings => SUITES
37 Across: Cat's attention-getter, maybe => PAW
40 Across: *Address essential details => GETDOWNTOARBTACKS
45 Across: Caspian feeder => URAL
47 Across: Novelist Rita __ Brown => MAE
48 Across: Pitcher John on three different MLB championship teams => LACKEY
49 Across: Bonanza find => ORE
50 Across: Scholars => LITERATI
54 Across: Roofing support => RAFTER
55 Across: Really cool => EPIC
56 Across: *Wannabe lawyer's milestone => PASSINGTHEAB
59 Across: Most clever => SLICKEST
61 Across: Brian of rock => ENO
62 Across: Evening affairs => SOIREES
63 Across: NYC congresswoman, in headlines => AOC
64 Across: Saint-Saëns's __ Macabre => DANSE
66 Across: Paid informer => FINK
67 Across: EPA-banned chemicals => PCBS
71 Across: Swing site => PORCH
75 Across: RN workplaces => ERS
77 Across: Nantucket arrivals => FERRIES
79 Across: ... __ he drove out of sight: Moore => ERE
80 Across: Board game bonus => FREESPIN
85 Across: *Keep one's identity secret, say => STAYUNDERVOC
87 Across: Big name in chips => LAYS
88 Across: Enmity => ANIMUS
90 Across: Place for an anchor => NEWSCAST
91 Across: Denver-to-Omaha dir. => ENE
92 Across: Eyepiece => OCULAR
93 Across: Reverence => AWE
95 Across: Kid's retort => AMSO
96 Across: *Prepare emotionally for, as something unpleasant => ETSONESELFAGAINST
102 Across: What / may mean => PER
103 Across: Prepared for cooking, as corn => HUSKED
104 Across: Consort of Psyche => EROS
105 Across: Yours, to Yvette => ATOI
107 Across: Carry away => ELATE
109 Across: Biblical scribe => EZRA
111 Across: Exhibits unease, maybe => STAMMERS
115 Across: Harbormaster's chart => TIDETABLE
118 Across: Miami Sound Machine and others, and a hint to this puzzle's circled letters => BACKUPBANDS
121 Across: On deck, perhaps => ASEA
122 Across: High-tech workers => BOTS
123 Across: Words from behind a door, maybe => INHERE
124 Across: Blue hue => CYAN
125 Across: Go on => LAST
126 Across: Acronym on a protective vest => SWAT
127 Across: Battery terminals => ANODES
128 Across: Back talk => SASS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Visored French cap => KEPI
2 Down: Brio => ELAN
3 Down: Byron's title => LORD
4 Down: Stingy sort => PIKER
5 Down: Important coastal drainage river in South Carolina => SANTEE
6 Down: Swallow => INGEST
7 Down: Good grief! => EGAD
8 Down: 35mm camera type => SLR
9 Down: Leaves in a cup => TEA
10 Down: Sea at one end of the Dardanelles => AEGEAN
11 Down: Texter's button => SEND
12 Down: Stand-up types => CLASSACTS
13 Down: Aladdin prince => ALI
14 Down: 1960s chess champ Mikhail => TAL
15 Down: Ornamental shrub => SPIREA
16 Down: Astronomer's tool => TELESCOPE
17 Down: Fall place => EDEN
18 Down: Galileo's birthplace => PISA
24 Down: __ your pardon => IBEG
26 Down: Like many rich foods => FATTY
29 Down: School room encouraging creativity => ARTLAB
32 Down: Fancy neckwear => BOA
33 Down: Dolly, for one => EWE
35 Down: Family Matters nerd => URKEL
36 Down: Spain's peninsula => IBERIA
37 Down: Mashed, as oranges => PULPED
38 Down: Grande dame of pop => ARIANA
39 Down: Doyle's narrator => WATSON
41 Down: Composer Shostakovich => DMITRI
42 Down: Big galoot => OAF
43 Down: Singer Kristofferson => KRIS
44 Down: Breakaway group => SECT
46 Down: Arles article => LES
51 Down: Choir supports => RISERS
52 Down: Mayo is in it => ANO
53 Down: Hooray, the weekend! => TGIF
54 Down: Dorm figs. => RAS
55 Down: Big name in kitchenware => EKCO
57 Down: Chick magnet? => HEN
58 Down: Distressed cry => EEK
60 Down: Thickets => COPSES
65 Down: Goes out with => SEES
67 Down: One in a pod => PEA
68 Down: Call out => CRY
69 Down: Asian sultanate => BRUNEI
70 Down: Cosecant's reciprocal => SINE
72 Down: Overhaul => REVAMP
73 Down: Game stick with a net => CROSSE
74 Down: Jamie of Bosch => HECTOR
76 Down: In the Bedroom Oscar nominee => SPACEK
77 Down: Some mil. bases => FTS
78 Down: One of eight Eng. kings => EDW
80 Down: Beat it => FLEE
81 Down: Carry on => RANT
82 Down: Antiglare wear => EYESHADES
83 Down: Occupied => INUSE
84 Down: Alexandria's area => NILEDELTA
85 Down: One often seen in curls => SURFER
86 Down: TV pioneer => RCA
89 Down: __ de mer => MAL
92 Down: Attack => ONSET
93 Down: Back => AGO
94 Down: Is no longer => WAS
97 Down: Best at putting things away? => OUTEAT
98 Down: World's largest peninsula => ARABIA
99 Down: Mother of note => NATURE
100 Down: Middle ear bone => STAPES
101 Down: Archaeological find => TOMB
106 Down: Apple varieties => IMACS
107 Down: List-ending abbr. => ETAL
108 Down: Three-time WNBA MVP __ Leslie => LISA
110 Down: Gusto => ZEST
111 Down: List of appts. => SKED
112 Down: Only Time songwriter => ENYA
113 Down: Old food label nos. => RDAS
114 Down: IRS IDs => SSNS
116 Down: Sit-up targets => ABS
117 Down: Fiddle stick => BOW
119 Down: Taylor of fashion => ANN
120 Down: Sulu portrayer John => CHO

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This crossword has 64 across clues and 81 down clues. In total 145 clues are solved in the section above.
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