Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Tie named for an annual race venue => ASCOT
6 Across: Destroy, as one's hopes => DASH
10 Across: Spanish hero El __ => CID
13 Across: Land at the water's edge => SHORE
14 Across: Look at rudely => OGLE
15 Across: Genetic messenger => RNA
16 Across: *Ground-beef-and-gravy dish => SALISBURYSTEAK
19 Across: Out of sorts => ILL
20 Across: Ginormous => HUGE
21 Across: Actor Eckhart of Sully => AARON
23 Across: Hefty slice => SLAB
25 Across: *Penny-pincher => CHEAPSKATE
28 Across: Completely wrecks => TOTALS
30 Across: Pastry with a crust => PIE
31 Across: Long-jawed fish => GAR
32 Across: Shorthand crackerjack => STENO
33 Across: 2019 comedy __ It Romantic => ISNT
35 Across: Cuban coin => PESO
36 Across: *Ode to a Nightingale poet => JOHNKEATS
39 Across: Numbers game => KENO
42 Across: Where about one-third of Istanbul residents live => ASIA
43 Across: Yellowjackets, e.g. => WASPS
47 Across: George Harrison memoir __ Mine => IME
48 Across: Only partner? => ONE
49 Across: Border breed => COLLIE
50 Across: *Hung in the balance => WASATSTAKE
54 Across: Cat breed from an Irish Sea isle => MANX
55 Across: 101 course, typically => INTRO
56 Across: Commanded => BADE
58 Across: T'ai __ => CHI
59 Across: Different points of view ... and a hint to the ends of the answers to starred clues => ALTERNATETAKES
63 Across: NFL receivers => TES
64 Across: Crikey! is a mild one => OATH
65 Across: Soccer shoe => CLEAT
66 Across: Dreyer's partner in ice cream => EDY
67 Across: Miss Muffet fare => WHEY
68 Across: Flocks' relatives => HERDS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Basketball stats => ASSISTS
2 Down: Bulb in a vinaigrette => SHALLOT
3 Down: Collect and put in order, as document pages => COLLATE
4 Down: You do it, __ will! => ORI
5 Down: Radio host John => TESH
6 Down: Bread-to-be => DOUGH
7 Down: See eye to eye => AGREE
8 Down: Wily => SLY
9 Down: Fellows => HES
10 Down: Sound from an old staircase => CREAK
11 Down: Steamed up => INARAGE
12 Down: Montana neighbors, with the => DAKOTAS
17 Down: Tampa NFL team => BUCS
18 Down: Shock, as a perp => TASE
22 Down: Emperor after Claudius => NERO
24 Down: Steve Martin's instrument => BANJO
26 Down: Sleep clinic study => APNEA
27 Down: Falafel holder => PITA
29 Down: John in the Albert Hall => LOO
33 Down: Atlas enlargement => INSET
34 Down: Enjoy the slopes => SKI
35 Down: Song of praise => PSALM
37 Down: Oscar-winning composer Zimmer => HANS
38 Down: Weeks in a fortnight => TWO
39 Down: New Zealander => KIWI
40 Down: Flow (from) => EMANATE
41 Down: Cuddled up => NESTLED
44 Down: One shirking work => SLACKER
45 Down: Angels dancing site, in a theological question => PINHEAD
46 Down: Gender-biased sorts => SEXISTS
48 Down: Oklahoma tribe => OTOE
49 Down: Formally give up => CEDE
51 Down: Pretentious => ARTSY
52 Down: Let up, as a storm => ABATE
53 Down: My Life on the D-List comic Griffin => KATHY
57 Down: Carve in stone => ETCH
60 Down: Use oars => ROW
61 Down: Don't think so => NAH
62 Down: Microbrewery brew => ALE

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This crossword has 37 across clues and 40 down clues. In total 77 clues are solved in the section above.
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