Crossword Answers For: Monday, September 20, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Simon __: kids' game => SAYS
5 Across: Not for kids, moviewise => RATEDR
11 Across: Small amount => DAB
14 Across: Shopper's memory aid => LIST
15 Across: Aviator Earhart => AMELIA
16 Across: Skating surface => ICE
17 Across: I had no __! => IDEA
18 Across: It follows 35-Down => SPRING
19 Across: Milk grain => OAT
20 Across: Imitative bird => PARROT
22 Across: Pioneering game consoles => ATARIS
24 Across: Reaction to a strange object => WHATSTHAT
28 Across: Lengthy tales => SAGAS
31 Across: e__: online instructional guide => HOW
32 Across: Shoot well under par, in golf lingo => GOLOW
36 Across: App purchaser => USER
37 Across: Serious criminal => FELON
39 Across: Actress Anderson => LONI
40 Across: Everest and K2: Abbr. => MTNS
41 Across: Out of practice => RUSTY
42 Across: Lender's claim => LIEN
43 Across: Stick-in-the-__ => MUD
44 Across: Make like new, as old furniture => RESTORE
46 Across: Tater __: deep-fried potato morsel => TOT
47 Across: Parisian season => ETE
48 Across: Semiannual occurrence that begins 18- and 66-Across => EQUINOX
49 Across: Opposite of WSW => ENE
50 Across: Showed again => RERAN
52 Across: Bandage brand => ACE
53 Across: Less adulterated => PURER
55 Across: Summoned, as the fiddlers three => CALLEDFOR
58 Across: Comfy shoe pad => INSOLE
61 Across: With milk, as café => AULAIT
65 Across: Crystal ball gazer => SEER
66 Across: In 2021, it begins September 22nd => AUTUMN
70 Across: Place to de-stress => SPA
71 Across: Turkey neighbor => IRAN
72 Across: In twos, like socks => PAIRED
73 Across: Nosh => EAT
74 Across: Fathers' boys => SONS
75 Across: Gets hot on Twitter => TRENDS
76 Across: Many pop-ups => ADS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Lose one's footing => SLIP
2 Down: Musical based on an opera => AIDA
3 Down: Belgian river => YSER
4 Down: Movie with R2-D2 => STARWARS
5 Down: Dreads sporter => RASTA
6 Down: Excite, with up => AMP
7 Down: Thrice, in Rx's => TER
8 Down: New Haven alum => ELI
9 Down: Kitchen dweller of song => DINAH
10 Down: Motley => RAGTAG
11 Down: Designer Christian => DIOR
12 Down: Smoothie berry dubbed a superfood => ACAI
13 Down: Wagers => BETS
21 Down: I see words => OHS
23 Down: Ring-shaped reef => ATOLL
25 Down: Same drink as always => THEUSUAL
26 Down: Semi-annual occurrence that begins 28- and 35-Down => SOLSTICE
27 Down: Black-and-white, e.g. => TWOTONED
28 Down: It precedes 66-Across => SUMMER
29 Down: Sharp-witted => ASTUTE
30 Down: Word with role or identity => GENDER
33 Down: Hang around => LOITER
34 Down: Common soccer deadlock => ONEONE
35 Down: It follows 66-Across => WINTER
37 Down: MHz measure => FREQ
38 Down: Eli's Coming songwriter Laura => NYRO
44 Down: Kidney-related => RENAL
45 Down: Describes in detail => EXPOUNDS
51 Down: Squirrel's haul => ACORNS
54 Down: Web address letters => URL
56 Down: Jumped => LEAPT
57 Down: Widely known => FAMED
58 Down: Wife of Osiris => ISIS
59 Down: Fiddling emperor => NERO
60 Down: Actor Connery => SEAN
62 Down: Away from port => ASEA
63 Down: Apple tablet => IPAD
64 Down: Body art, casually => TATS
67 Down: Former Mideast org. => UAR
68 Down: Deadlock => TIE
69 Down: Keats' Ode on a Grecian __ => URN

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This crossword has 42 across clues and 42 down clues. In total 84 clues are solved in the section above.
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