Crossword Answers For: Thursday, September 21, 2017

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Hopped out of bed => AROSE
6 Across: Challenge for Santa's dry-cleaner => SOOT
10 Across: Medicine __, Alberta => HAT
13 Across: OPEC, for one => CARTEL
15 Across: Radius neighbor => ULNA
16 Across: Sworn statement => IDO
17 Across: Measurement based on inflation and unemployment rates => MISERYINDEX
19 Across: X, at times => TEN
20 Across: Tesla Motors co-founder Musk => ELON
21 Across: Inside Politics channel => CNN
22 Across: Poet laureate, e.g. => TITLE
24 Across: Postcards From the Edge author => CARRIEFISHER
28 Across: Where Moses received the Ten Commandments, for short => MTSINAI
31 Across: Colorful fall tree => MAPLE
32 Across: Put together => BUILT
33 Across: Instagram upload, briefly => PIC
34 Across: Three-time A.L. MVP => AROD
37 Across: Is there more? => AND
38 Across: Smart comment? => ITHURTS
42 Across: Baja she-bear => OSA
43 Across: Understands => SEES
45 Across: Solar wind particle => ION
46 Across: Song of worship => PSALM
48 Across: Off-white color => PEARL
50 Across: It may be reckless => ABANDON
52 Across: Semipermeable biological barrier => CELLMEMBRANE
55 Across: Big glitch => SNAFU
56 Across: Inhospitable => ICY
57 Across: 2000s Chevy => AVEO
61 Across: Signature piece? => PEN
62 Across: Author born 9/21/1947 who penned the starts of 17-, 24-, 38- and 52-Across => STEPHENKING
66 Across: Biblical craft => ARK
67 Across: Roof edge => EAVE
68 Across: Mad About You co-star => REISER
69 Across: But, mom! evokers => NOS
70 Across: Zoomed => SPED
71 Across: Drumroll drum => SNARE

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Top => ACME
2 Down: Scenic overlook safety feature => RAIL
3 Down: Driving directions qualifier => ORSO
4 Down: Sign maker's aid => STENCIL
5 Down: Always, in sonnets => EER
6 Down: Denomination of most Iraqi Kurds => SUNNI
7 Down: Unlike spring chickens => OLD
8 Down: Person => ONE
9 Down: Advice for an e-filer => TAXTIP
10 Down: Get going => HITTHEROAD
11 Down: One-named All I Ask singer => ADELE
12 Down: Skin care product => TONER
14 Down: Sports bra fabric => LYCRA
18 Down: Cross characters => INRI
23 Down: Land surrounded by agua => ISLA
25 Down: Not pro => ANTI
26 Down: Bahrain bigwig => EMIR
27 Down: One of John Adams' stubborn things => FACT
28 Down: Corp. execs' degrees => MBAS
29 Down: Use a fork, perhaps => TUNE
30 Down: Exercises that strengthen obliques => SIDEPLANKS
33 Down: Sign language is pretty handy, e.g. => PUN
35 Down: Nobel Prize city => OSLO
36 Down: Butler's last word => DAMN
39 Down: Flag => TIRE
40 Down: Chariots of Fire Oscar nominee Ian => HOLM
41 Down: Time period => SPAN
44 Down: __-service => SELF
47 Down: Enter surreptitiously => SNEAKIN
49 Down: Makes giggle => AMUSES
50 Down: Cat's back shape, at times => ARCH
51 Down: Tylenol rival => BAYER
52 Down: Political channel => CSPAN
53 Down: Calendario month => ENERO
54 Down: Two-footer => BIPED
58 Down: Authorization to enter a country => VISA
59 Down: Fed. power dept. => ENER
60 Down: Barbarian => OGRE
63 Down: __ water => TAP
64 Down: Holiday threshold => EVE
65 Down: Nintendo's Super __ console => NES

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This crossword has 37 across clues and 42 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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