Crossword Answers For: Thursday, September 23, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: The Giving Tree author Silverstein => SHEL
5 Across: Gravelly voiced sort => RASPER
11 Across: Top (out) => MAX
14 Across: Ritzy => LUXE
15 Across: City on the Rio Grande => ELPASO
16 Across: Flamenco dancer's cry => OLE
17 Across: Org. mandating eyewash stations => OSHA
18 Across: Canvassing technique => DOORTODOOR
20 Across: Animals in a herd => HIPPOPOTAMUSES
22 Across: Face value => PAR
23 Across: Org. with 132 Pulitzer Prizes => NYTIMES
24 Across: Initiation rite => BAPTISM
28 Across: Tear up => WEEP
29 Across: Batter's stat => RBI
30 Across: One hanging around in the forest? => SLOTH
32 Across: Give and take => SWAP
36 Across: And fly, __ evil intercept thy flight: Milton => ERE
37 Across: Title teacher in a James Hilton novella => MRCHIPS
40 Across: Kipling's Follow Me __ => OME
41 Across: Insect dating from the Jurassic era => WASP
43 Across: Board, as a bus => HOPON
44 Across: Darling of baseball => RON
45 Across: Daughter of Cronus and Rhea => HERA
48 Across: Becomes clear => SOAKSIN
50 Across: Digs => SHOVELS
53 Across: Stadium shout => RAH
54 Across: Linked in a way illustrated by three pairs of puzzle answers => JOINEDATTHEHIP
58 Across: Hardwood with an edible seed => ALMONDTREE
59 Across: After => UPON
61 Across: '60s-'70s Pontiac => GTO
62 Across: Venetian Renaissance painter => TITIAN
63 Across: Mystery-solving Wolfe => NERO
64 Across: Virtual-city denizen => SIM
65 Across: Strips in the freezer => STEAKS
66 Across: Torah holders => ARKS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: __-mo => SLO
2 Down: Muzzle => HUSH
3 Down: What some Woodstock attendees eventually became => EXHIPPIES
4 Down: Seize eagerly => LEAPAT
5 Down: Go over again => REDO
6 Down: Cockeyed => ALOP
7 Down: Table setting item => SPOON
8 Down: House disciplinarians => PARTYWHIPS
9 Down: Impressive spread => ESTATE
10 Down: One sharing quarters => ROOMIE
11 Down: Bullwinkle's last name => MOOSE
12 Down: Sunburn applications => ALOES
13 Down: Boomers' kids => XERS
19 Down: Breaks up with => DUMPS
21 Down: Feature of some eyeglasses => PRISM
24 Down: Pub order => BREW
25 Down: Magician's opening => ABRA
26 Down: Camera type, briefly => SLR
27 Down: Espresso-based coffee concoction => MOCHALATTE
31 Down: However, in poetry => THO
33 Down: Churchgoer, e.g. => WORSHIPER
34 Down: Mine, in Amiens => AMOI
35 Down: Mystic River Oscar winner Sean => PENN
38 Down: Nanki-__ => POO
39 Down: Capture => SNARE
42 Down: Graph lead-in => PHONO
46 Down: Social functions => EVENTS
47 Down: The front page of the internet website => REDDIT
49 Down: Island big shot => KAHUNA
50 Down: Chicago Symphony conductor with 31 Grammys => SOLTI
51 Down: Mouthed stadium greeting => HIMOM
52 Down: Narrow groove => STRIA
54 Down: Benders => JAGS
55 Down: Shipbuilding wood => TEAK
56 Down: Toms' counterparts => HENS
57 Down: Questionable political spending => PORK
60 Down: Apt. IDs => NOS

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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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