Crossword Answers For: Thursday, November 18, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Apply softly => DAB
4 Across: Indy 500 leader => PACECAR
11 Across: About 40 gallons of it usually makes a gallon of syrup => SAP
14 Across: GPS calculation => ETA
15 Across: Mollusk with a nacreous shell => ABALONE
16 Across: Gp. for moms and dads => PTA
17 Across: Particles from far, far away => COSMICRADIATION
20 Across: Burger topping => ONION
21 Across: 23andMe subject => DNA
22 Across: Lena Dunham TV show => GIRLS
23 Across: Dog topping => RELISH
25 Across: To wit => NAMELY
26 Across: Wind-driven clouds => SCUD
28 Across: Hereditary unit => GENE
29 Across: Riddle end, maybe => WHATAMI
32 Across: 2001 NBA MVP Allen => IVERSON
36 Across: Goal => AIM
37 Across: Student, ideally => LEARNER
39 Across: Runner Down Under => EMU
40 Across: Zoom alternative => SKYPE
42 Across: Race part => LEG
43 Across: Over => AGAIN
45 Across: Brazilian soccer great => PELE
46 Across: Responds to a phone solicitation, perhaps => GIVES
48 Across: Improvs, e.g. => ACTS
49 Across: Eye-bending genre => OPART
51 Across: Fiennes of The Grand Budapest Hotel => RALPH
53 Across: Drops off before midday? => DEW
55 Across: Easy throw => LOB
56 Across: Later => BYE
57 Across: Words With Friends, for one => APP
60 Across: Post-teaching title for some => EMERITA
62 Across: Latvia neighbor => ESTONIA
64 Across: Fluorescent element? => SILENTC
65 Across: Like many a wedding planner => ENGAGED
66 Across: It's just a flesh wound => ILLBEOK
67 Across: Repair crew with tiles => ROOFERS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Interior designer's specialty => DECOR
2 Down: Make reparations => ATONE
3 Down: Margherita pizza herb => BASIL
4 Down: It tops out at ten in a doctor's office => PAINSCALE
5 Down: Mixed-ish airer => ABC
6 Down: Calling or playing follower => CARD
7 Down: Stylish vigor => ELAN
8 Down: Musical symbol resembling a set of crosshairs => CODA
9 Down: Young Darth => ANI
10 Down: When the Cold War ended => REAGANERA
11 Down: Pinnacle of religion? => SPIRE
12 Down: Coral island => ATOLL
13 Down: Violet hybrid => PANSY
18 Down: Like eyes starting to tear up => MOIST
19 Down: Dingy kitchen item? => TIMER
24 Down: A Treatise of Human Nature author => HUME
25 Down: Campbell of Scream films => NEVE
27 Down: Ease up => DIALITBACK
28 Down: Spiced brew => GINGERBEER
29 Down: Paper-nest builder => WASP
30 Down: Backpack, e.g. => HIKE
31 Down: 1926 Pulitzer-winning poet => AMYLOWELL
33 Down: Dramatic shift ... or what's literally found in each set of circles? => SEACHANGE
34 Down: Neglect to mention => OMIT
35 Down: Sisters in the 2017 film The Little Hours => NUNS
38 Down: Excite, with up => REV
41 Down: Exuberance => PEP
44 Down: Gender __ => GAP
46 Down: Underground recess => GROTTO
47 Down: Declines => SAYSNO
50 Down: Flared dress style => ALINE
52 Down: Released => LETGO
53 Down: Arnaz of early TV => DESI
54 Down: Painter Nolde => EMIL
58 Down: Place to drop a line => PIER
59 Down: Paw parts => PADS
61 Down: 1860s gray => REB
63 Down: Klutz => OAF

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This crossword has 37 across clues and 39 down clues. In total 76 clues are solved in the section above.
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