Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Attack vigorously => ASSAIL
7 Across: Insurance company's concern => RISK
11 Across: Now I get it! => AHA
14 Across: Dry-eyes solution => SALINE
15 Across: __ Picchu => MACHU
16 Across: Female GI in WWII => WAC
17 Across: With 61-Across, dubious tabloid image => UNIDENTIFIED
19 Across: Curved line => ARC
20 Across: '50s president, initially => DDE
21 Across: 20-Across nickname => IKE
22 Across: The Congo, formerly => ZAIRE
24 Across: Tycoon Onassis => ARI
25 Across: Call to a police hotline, possibly => ANONYMOUSTIP
29 Across: Hits the tarmac => LANDS
31 Across: Very long time => EON
32 Across: Attention-getting whisper => PSST
33 Across: Elect to office => VOTEIN
35 Across: Spouse => MATE
36 Across: 1972 chart-topper for the band America => AHORSEWITHNONAME
43 Across: Storyteller __ Christian Andersen => HANS
44 Across: Key of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony => DMINOR
45 Across: Relaxing venues => SPAS
49 Across: Train cos. => RRS
50 Across: Likely will, after is => APTTO
51 Across: Emmy-winning travel and cuisine show hosted by Anthony Bourdain => PARTSUNKNOWN
56 Across: Canon SLR camera => EOS
57 Across: Get the better of => OUTDO
58 Across: If you ask me, briefly => IMO
59 Across: Like this crossword ans. => ACR
60 Across: Hole in __ => ONE
61 Across: See 17-Across => FLYINGOBJECT
67 Across: ATM maker => NCR
68 Across: Poke fun at => TEASE
69 Across: Thingamabob => DOODAD
70 Across: Bashful => SHY
71 Across: Sleep in a tent, say => CAMP
72 Across: Dries out, with up => SOBERS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Sch. with a Tempe campus => ASU
2 Down: She plays Dr. Cristina Yang in Grey's Anatomy => SANDRAOH
3 Down: Stirred up a cloud of dust at, as a base => SLIDINTO
4 Down: Staff helper => AIDE
5 Down: Suffix with hero => INE
6 Down: Bolshevik leader => LENIN
7 Down: Battle of Britain fliers: Abbr. => RAF
8 Down: Here, to Henri => ICI
9 Down: Female pronoun => SHE
10 Down: Invasive Japanese vine => KUDZU
11 Down: Anticipates => AWAITS
12 Down: Poll founder Louis => HARRIS
13 Down: Receive willingly => ACCEPT
15 Down: Personal bearing => MIEN
18 Down: Ring ref's decision => TKO
23 Down: Snake that bit Cleopatra => ASP
24 Down: Thomas __ Edison => ALVA
25 Down: Tag sale words => ASIS
26 Down: Irish poet => YEATS
27 Down: Cloth-eating insect => MOTH
28 Down: Upright => ONEND
30 Down: German article => DER
34 Down: Jacket style named for an Indian leader => NEHRU
35 Down: Capital of Belarus => MINSK
37 Down: Say Watch it to => WARN
38 Down: Arabian Sea nation => OMAN
39 Down: Little bite => NIP
40 Down: Go before => ANTECEDE
41 Down: Auto, to a Brit => MOTORCAR
42 Down: Love god => EROS
45 Down: Cereal utensils => SPOONS
46 Down: Beer gut => PAUNCH
47 Down: Blood carrier => ARTERY
48 Down: Criterion: Abbr. => STD
52 Down: The third letter of 13-Down (but not the second) => SOFTC
53 Down: Work starting hour => NINE
54 Down: Texter's Crikey! => OMG
55 Down: Forest => WOODS
59 Down: This is __ for Superman! => AJOB
62 Down: Grassy expanse => LEA
63 Down: Candied veggie => YAM
64 Down: Web access co. => ISP
65 Down: Scarer's shout => BOO
66 Down: NFL scores => TDS

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This crossword has 37 across clues and 45 down clues. In total 82 clues are solved in the section above.
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