Crossword Answers For: Friday, November 19, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Takes over => COOPTS
7 Across: Set => PREPARED
15 Across: Mendeleev's homeland => RUSSIA
16 Across: Nobel Prize presentation, say => CEREMONY
17 Across: Fix => ATTACH
18 Across: Vader's choice => DARKSIDE
19 Across: Like one hiding contraband on his person? => FRISKAVERSE
21 Across: Dropped drug => LSD
22 Across: Texas __: oil => TEA
23 Across: Notable times => ERAS
24 Across: First-time hot-dog griller? => FRANKAMATEUR
32 Across: Aqua relative => TEAL
35 Across: Flutes, for example => STEMWARE
36 Across: Notepad option => UNLINED
40 Across: Gridiron maneuver => LATERAL
41 Across: Like some allergy sufferers => REDNOSED
43 Across: __ Stone, co-star of the Jacques Brel musicals => ELLY
44 Across: Like designers of Halloween costumes? => FRIGHTMINDED
48 Across: Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird, e.g. => GIRL
49 Across: Peninsular U.S. st. => FLA
52 Across: Org. with briefs => ABA
55 Across: Campus anti-hazing policy, basically? => FRATCONTROL
59 Across: Lab neatener => DOGBRUSH
61 Across: Face => VISAGE
62 Across: Ninth-century pope => ADRIANII
63 Across: Fill with love => ENAMOR
64 Across: Bully's trait => MEANNESS
65 Across: Supremely irked => SOREST

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Boats => CRAFT
2 Down: Quite odd => OUTRE
3 Down: Harbor city of ancient Rome => OSTIA
4 Down: Useful TV spots: Abbr. => PSAS
5 Down: Wall Street crawl => TICKER
6 Down: Much of Algeria => SAHARA
7 Down: Modern office furniture => PCDESKS
8 Down: With 13-Down, has a fender bender with => REAR
9 Down: Isn't correct => ERRS
10 Down: Toy since ancient times => PEKE
11 Down: KLM hub letters => AMS
12 Down: Agitate => ROIL
13 Down: See 8-Down => ENDS
14 Down: Like gumdrops => DYED
20 Down: Ute relative => VAN
24 Down: It often includes trysts => FLING
25 Down: Falcons' home: Abbr. => ATL
26 Down: Give __ break! => MEA
27 Down: Qty. => AMT
28 Down: Wool fabric => TWEED
29 Down: Downton Abbey title => EARL
30 Down: Long border range => URAL
31 Down: Bank (on) => RELY
32 Down: Gang land => TURF
33 Down: Dept. formed under Carter => ENER
34 Down: German family-owned discount market => ALDI
37 Down: Kabuki relative => NOH
38 Down: Nov. NJ setting => EST
39 Down: Rep. foe => DEM
42 Down: Oh, man, check it out! => DIGTHIS
45 Down: Actor Cage, casually => NIC
46 Down: Large numbers => DROVES
47 Down: Climate-disrupting phenomenon => ELNINO
49 Down: Home-building stage => FRAME
50 Down: Colonel Sanders' head, and its ilk => LOGOS
51 Down: Watchful => ALERT
52 Down: Driver with lines => ADAM
53 Down: This was my dream. What it doth __, God knows: Henry VI, Part 2 => BODE
54 Down: India tourist city => AGRA
55 Down: Writer Lebowitz => FRAN
56 Down: Early writing symbol => RUNE
57 Down: Sale condition => ASIS
58 Down: Past 15-Across leader => TSAR
60 Down: Receptacle => BIN

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This crossword has 28 across clues and 45 down clues. In total 73 clues are solved in the section above.
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