Crossword Answers For: Friday, December 17, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Follower of Jefferson => MADISON
8 Across: Turn on => START
13 Across: Polluter's crime => ECOCIDE
14 Across: Mountaintop home => AERIE
15 Across: Outfits for a climber? => HIGHGEAR
17 Across: Refuse => TRASH
18 Across: His-and-her outfits? => BINARYNUMBERS
21 Across: The first A in A.A. Milne => ALAN
23 Across: Fictional 1847 autobiographer => EYRE
24 Across: __ Paulo => SAO
25 Across: Typographical ornament => DINGBAT
29 Across: Evasive tactics => ENDRUNS
31 Across: Spot => SEE
32 Across: Infuriates => IRES
34 Across: Polynesian capital => APIA
35 Across: Outfits for tourist town natives? => LOCALRAGS
39 Across: Jessica of Dark Angel => ALBA
42 Across: Long-gone time => YORE
43 Across: Tiger, e.g. => CAT
46 Across: Belafonte #1 album on which Day-O was the first track => CALYPSO
50 Across: Turns on => BETRAYS
52 Across: Corp. alias letters => DBA
53 Across: Subway fare? => HERO
55 Across: Sword with a three-sided blade => EPEE
56 Across: Outfits for the masses? => COMMONTHREADS
61 Across: They hold your horses => REINS
62 Across: Outfits for dairy farmers? => MILKDUDS
65 Across: Deejay, at times => EMCEE
66 Across: Swung wildly => FLAILED
67 Across: Transfers, as a house => DEEDS
68 Across: Secures => FASTENS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Not so hot => MEH
2 Down: Handel's __, Galatea e Polifemo => ACI
3 Down: Poisonous plant reputed to repel canines => DOGBANE
4 Down: Chinese book of divination => ICHING
5 Down: Register, with up => SIGN
6 Down: Music halls of old => ODEA
7 Down: Close => NEAR
8 Down: Ring bearer? => SATURN
9 Down: Called => TERMED
10 Down: Many an Omani => ARAB
11 Down: Revolts => RISESUP
12 Down: Like many Argo militants => TEHRANI
16 Down: White alternative => RYE
19 Down: Emmy-winning scientist => NYE
20 Down: '90s-'00s Cubs star => SOSA
21 Down: GEICO highlights => ADS
22 Down: Tell tales, maybe => LIE
26 Down: Book jacket text, often => BIO
27 Down: Semicircle, say => ARC
28 Down: Leaves for a spot => TEA
30 Down: Student housing VIPs => RAS
33 Down: Wily => SLY
35 Down: Set down => LAY
36 Down: Take badly? => ROB
37 Down: __ you done? => ARE
38 Down: Perceive => GET
39 Down: Like some appliances => ACDC
40 Down: Worked => LABORED
41 Down: Words of confession => BLAMEME
43 Down: Tablet alternative => CAPSULE
44 Down: Supportive response => AYE
45 Down: The Waste Land monogram => TSE
47 Down: Called => PHONED
48 Down: It's sometimes necessary to come to them => SENSES
49 Down: Food bit => ORT
51 Down: Website with Ask Me Anything interviews => REDDIT
54 Down: Unit of resistance => OHM
57 Down: Laptop navigation aids => MICE
58 Down: Jazz phrase => RIFF
59 Down: Enchanted movie girl => ELLA
60 Down: Aliases => AKAS
63 Down: Thieves' place => DEN
64 Down: Radical '60s org. => SDS

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This crossword has 31 across clues and 44 down clues. In total 75 clues are solved in the section above.
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