Crossword Answers For: Friday, October 15, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: More matter, with __ art: Hamlet => LESS
5 Across: Early music label => RCA
8 Across: Indulgent places => SPAS
12 Across: Playwright Chekhov => ANTON
14 Across: See 15-Across => OUT
15 Across: With 14-Across, deal-breaking words => IWANT
16 Across: Combined => INONE
17 Across: Play area => SET
18 Across: Partially, informally => SORTA
19 Across: Take off => RUNAWAY
21 Across: Gets an A+, say => NAILSIT
23 Across: Cut back, in a way => DIETED
24 Across: Spite => MALICE
25 Across: With 38-Across, what the highlighted squares suggest => AROUNDTHE
29 Across: Added things => SUMS
32 Across: Brief alarm => SOS
33 Across: Parents can relax during them => NAPS
37 Across: Enough! => TMI
38 Across: See 25-Across => WORLD
40 Across: Joanne of film => DRU
41 Across: Daytona Beach-based sports org. => NASCAR
44 Across: Bacon serving => RASHER
47 Across: With 49-Across, author of the novel suggested by this puzzle's theme; the movie debuted 10/17/1956 => JULES
49 Across: See 47-Across => VERNE
50 Across: Bullish? => TAURINE
52 Across: Validates => AFFIRMS
55 Across: Quaint store sign word => OLDE
56 Across: Tapir feature => SNOUT
58 Across: Campus figure => DEAN
59 Across: Try to expose => DIGAT
61 Across: Sick => ILL
62 Across: Prefix with meter => PENTA
63 Across: Dagger-shaped symbols => OBELI
64 Across: Bran type => OAT
65 Across: Vary => ALTER
66 Across: Sneak, maybe => SIDLE
67 Across: Natl. park sights => RVS
68 Across: Disinfectant brand => LYSOL

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Scottish estate holder => LAIRD
2 Down: Been-there-done-that feeling => ENNUI
3 Down: Pit => STONE
4 Down: Brahms piano trio => SONATAS
5 Down: Optimistic => ROSY
6 Down: Prompt => CUE
7 Down: Routing abbr. => ATTN
8 Down: In danger of flooding, as a river => SWOLLEN
9 Down: Indian follower of Zoroastrianism => PARSI
10 Down: Bit of silliness => ANTIC
11 Down: City-__ => STATE
13 Down: More of a surprise => NEWER
15 Down: NBA legend Thomas => ISIAH
20 Down: Disturbance => ADO
22 Down: Receipt fig. => AMT
26 Down: It offered soldiers Hope: Abbr. => USO
27 Down: Fish-fowl link => NOR
28 Down: Web transmission technology: Abbr. => DSL
29 Down: An express might skip yours: Abbr. => STN
30 Down: Thurman on screen => UMA
31 Down: Didn't read right => MISJUDGED
34 Down: Followers => ADHERENTS
35 Down: Face front? => PRE
36 Down: Face front? => SUR
38 Down: Small songbirds => WRENS
39 Down: P&G detergent brand => DREFT
42 Down: Snake oil, purportedly => CUREALL
43 Down: __ Ewoldt, first Asian-American to play Christine in Broadway's Phantom => ALI
45 Down: Boxer's speech? => ARF
46 Down: Dudley's toon foe => SNIDELY
48 Down: __ moment => SENIOR
49 Down: Events for Biles => VAULTS
50 Down: Chore list items => TODOS
51 Down: Criminal defense => ALIBI
53 Down: San __, Northern California city => MATEO
54 Down: Cur's warning => SNARL
57 Down: Name of five Norwegian kings => OLAV
60 Down: Secure (to) => TIE
62 Down: Sidekick => PAL

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This crossword has 38 across clues and 40 down clues. In total 78 clues are solved in the section above.
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