Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Conservatives' foes, briefly => LIBS
5 Across: Word with run or drive => TEST
9 Across: More than nudge => SHOVE
14 Across: Inactive => IDLE
15 Across: Muppet who doesn't use the pronoun I => ELMO
16 Across: One faking it => POSER
17 Across: Frame of mind => MOOD
18 Across: Landed => ALIT
19 Across: Student's measuring stick => RULER
20 Across: *Island known for its bars? => ALCATRAZ
22 Across: Windshield shades => VISORS
23 Across: Homer's neighbor => NED
24 Across: Thrill => ELATE
26 Across: Part of a play => ACT
29 Across: __ de plume => NOM
31 Across: Polar masses => ICECAPS
35 Across: *Tom Sawyer's creator => MARKTWAIN
38 Across: In a wistful way => SADLY
39 Across: Soft French cheese => BRIE
40 Across: Dunks, Blazers and Jordans => NIKES
42 Across: Corned beef specification => LEAN
43 Across: Happening => EVENT
45 Across: *Highest peak in the Alps => MONTBLANC
47 Across: Bureaucratic sticking points => REDTAPE
49 Across: Sign of a sellout => SRO
50 Across: __ Vegas => LAS
51 Across: Slides uncontrollably => SKIDS
53 Across: Not online, for short => IRL
55 Across: Best of the hits => TOPTEN
58 Across: What the answers to starred clues are, in different ways => PENNAMES
63 Across: Opera solos => ARIAS
64 Across: Steep rugged cliff => CRAG
65 Across: Indianapolis NFLer => COLT
66 Across: Linguistic group that includes Zulu => BANTU
67 Across: Bee home => HIVE
68 Across: Green smoothie green, perhaps => KALE
69 Across: Somnology study => SLEEP
70 Across: Mellowed in a cask => AGED
71 Across: Winter fall => SNOW

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Peruvian capital => LIMA
2 Down: Adored singer, say => IDOL
3 Down: Voting unit => BLOC
4 Down: Family car => SEDAN
5 Down: Remove, as the wall in Reagan's demand to Gorbachev => TEARDOWN
6 Down: Jazzy Fitzgerald => ELLA
7 Down: Tyra Banks portmanteau for happy peepers => SMIZE
8 Down: Little one => TOT
9 Down: Little ones => SPRITES
10 Down: Obsolescent doctor visit => HOUSECALL
11 Down: Viking trading post now a world capital => OSLO
12 Down: Zig or zag => VEER
13 Down: Boots the ball => ERRS
21 Down: Camper's quarters => TENT
22 Down: Little sucker? => VAC
25 Down: Bedding => LINENS
26 Down: Waves of grain color => AMBER
27 Down: Slice the turkey => CARVE
28 Down: True partner => TRIED
30 Down: Badly injured => MAIMED
32 Down: It's __!: Sold! => ADEAL
33 Down: Opening strategy => PLANA
34 Down: Lip-__: mouths the words => SYNCS
36 Down: Campus setting for Neil Young's Ohio => KENTSTATE
37 Down: When repeated, classic New Orleans refrain => IKO
41 Down: Like guitars and sitars => STRINGED
44 Down: Starts to learn, as a hobby => TAKESUP
46 Down: Delivered => BORN
48 Down: ATM user's need => PIN
52 Down: Parsley piece => SPRIG
54 Down: Doesn't have => LACKS
55 Down: Bar bills => TABS
56 Down: Spoken => ORAL
57 Down: Tree with cones => PINE
59 Down: House overhang => EAVE
60 Down: Gripe => MOAN
61 Down: Cockney greeting => ELLO
62 Down: Ragout or goulash => STEW
64 Down: Half a Latin dance => CHA

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This crossword has 39 across clues and 40 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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