Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Crosses by wading => FORDS
6 Across: Bag-checking org. => TSA
9 Across: Juice buy => QUART
14 Across: Spreads used instead of butter => OLEOS
15 Across: Bar passer, briefly => ATT
16 Across: Latin bears => URSAE
17 Across: Crude carrier => OILTANKER
19 Across: De La Garza of FBI => ALANA
20 Across: Stop stalling! => DOIT
21 Across: Like a stunt pilot's maneuvers => AERIAL
23 Across: Disfigure => MAR
24 Across: Part of an act => SCENE
26 Across: Notable biblical birth => NATIVITY
28 Across: Inferno poet => DANTE
30 Across: Tour de France saison => ETE
31 Across: Gem set by itself => SOLITAIRE
35 Across: She loves you followers, in song => YEAHS
39 Across: What may be before now? => ERE
40 Across: Old nuclear agcy. => AEC
41 Across: Chicago winter hrs. => CST
43 Across: Statesman with an eponymous jacket => MAO
44 Across: Court case => TRIAL
46 Across: It's useless to argue with one => KNOWITALL
49 Across: Predicament => FIX
51 Across: Speed Racer genre => ANIME
52 Across: Hikers' flasks => CANTEENS
56 Across: Serena's sister => VENUS
59 Across: Time to remember => ERA
60 Across: Twist in pain => WRITHE
62 Across: Barbershop sound => SNIP
64 Across: Kaka'ako crooner => DONHO
66 Across: Dramatic descents, and a hint to each set of circles => TAILSPINS
68 Across: Prenatal test, informally => AMNIO
69 Across: Circus closing? => ESS
70 Across: Pigeon shelters => COTES
71 Across: Like starfish => RAYED
72 Across: Legal thing => RES
73 Across: It's quite a blast => HTEST

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: __ chain => FOOD
2 Down: Hodgepodges => OLIOS
3 Down: Bit of antiquity => RELIC
4 Down: Punctuational symbol of completeness => DOTTEDI
5 Down: U.S. ID issuer => SSA
6 Down: Word before heart or heed => TAKE
7 Down: Less lax => STERNER
8 Down: Skylit courts => ATRIA
9 Down: Good thing to spend with one's kids => QUALITYTIME
10 Down: Internet acronym => URL
11 Down: Ditto => ASAMI
12 Down: Approached aggressively => RANAT
13 Down: Lachrymose => TEARY
18 Down: Swaying hip-hop dance => NAENAE
22 Down: Downed => ATE
25 Down: Rebel Without a Cause co-star => NATALIEWOOD
27 Down: Sign of success => VEE
29 Down: Clock sound => TICK
31 Down: Collector's goal => SET
32 Down: Yossarian's Catch-22 tentmate => ORR
33 Down: Island garland => LEI
34 Down: Janet Yellen's field: Abbr. => ECON
36 Down: Physicians' org. => AMA
37 Down: Scary 2001 computer => HAL
38 Down: Fifth of a musical series => SOL
42 Down: Desk chair feature => SWIVEL
45 Down: Admiral's rear => AFT
47 Down: '70s tennis star Ilie => NASTASE
48 Down: Two fins => TENSPOT
50 Down: Gen-__ => XER
52 Down: Aromatic closet-lining wood => CEDAR
53 Down: Barbecue draw => AROMA
54 Down: Child minder => NANNY
55 Down: Fertilizer compound => NITER
57 Down: Act in concert => UNITE
58 Down: Angle calculations => SINES
61 Down: Escaping-steam sound => HISS
63 Down: Verbal nudge => PSST
65 Down: Step on it, quaintly => HIE
67 Down: BYU or NYU => SCH

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This crossword has 38 across clues and 41 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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