Crossword Answers For: Saturday, October 16, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Term of address in old Westerns => KEMOSABE
9 Across: Survives, maybe => ADAPTS
15 Across: Freaking out => INAPANIC
16 Across: DNA sample source => SALIVA
17 Across: Writer's challenge => DRYSPELL
18 Across: Ascent, for one => SUBARU
19 Across: Crowd around => MOB
20 Across: Show confidence in, with by => SWEAR
22 Across: Seinfeld surname => BENES
23 Across: Touch => ABUT
25 Across: Short piece => STUB
27 Across: 2018 film for which Alfonso Cuarón won Best Director => ROMA
28 Across: Beersheba's region => NEGEV
30 Across: Organic fuel source => PEATBOG
32 Across: The Color of Money game => NINEBALL
36 Across: Enjoyed, with up => ATE
37 Across: Controversial phenomenon in response to controversial actions => CANCELCULTURE
40 Across: Disheveled do => MOP
41 Across: Capisce? => AMICLEAR
42 Across: They make a lot of calls => UMPIRES
44 Across: Inflexible => RIGID
48 Across: Kids' song locale => DELL
49 Across: Cries of success => AHAS
52 Across: Tireless assistant => SIRI
53 Across: Puppy => WHELP
55 Across: L.A.'s __ Museum of the American West => AUTRY
58 Across: Outlaw => BAN
59 Across: Fix => REPAIR
61 Across: Anything's possible => DREAMBIG
63 Across: Alicia Keys label => ARISTA
64 Across: Got off the leash => RANLOOSE
65 Across: View secretly => PEEKAT
66 Across: Penciled-in item => EYELINER

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Oscar winner as Woolf in 2002 => KIDMAN
2 Down: Dress for court, maybe => ENROBE
3 Down: Common name for a cockchafer => MAYBUG
4 Down: Covert __ => OPS
5 Down: Drains => SAPS
6 Down: One way to begin => ANEW
7 Down: Gymnast who won four golds in Rio => BILES
8 Down: Brilliance => ECLAT
9 Down: Biblical mount => ASS
10 Down: Slap (on) => DAUB
11 Down: Renaissance painter Dürer => ALBERT
12 Down: Setting for a Billy Joel classic => PIANOBAR
13 Down: One hiding in the cushions? => TVREMOTE
14 Down: Breakfast link => SAUSAGE
21 Down: Drag Race host => RUPAUL
24 Down: Ark. neighbor => TENN
26 Down: Ball charmer => BELLE
29 Down: Church official => VICAR
31 Down: Union setting => ALTAR
33 Down: Site of Hercules' first labor => NEMEA
34 Down: 24 actress Cuthbert => ELISHA
35 Down: Discreetly send a dupe to => BCC
37 Down: Curt summons => COMEHERE
38 Down: Slice of Americana? => APPLEPIE
39 Down: Trinity novelist => URIS
40 Down: Spa treatment whose effects are temporary, per the FDA => MUDWRAP
43 Down: Lemme check => ILLASK
45 Down: Small Asian ape => GIBBON
46 Down: Announcement that suggests strength => IRAISE
47 Down: Homer or jack => DINGER
50 Down: Feminist poet Lorde => AUDRE
51 Down: Many a pound adoptee => STRAY
54 Down: It's a wrap => PITA
56 Down: Surrealist Magritte => RENE
57 Down: Dixie bunch? => YALL
60 Down: Snitch => RAT
62 Down: You can't mean me! => MOI

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This crossword has 33 across clues and 38 down clues. In total 71 clues are solved in the section above.
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