Crossword Answers For: Thursday, March 3, 2022

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: *Common delivery => PACKAGE
8 Across: *Bagel partner => SCHMEAR
15 Across: Rank => ECHELON
16 Across: West End attraction => THEATRE
17 Across: Old racing vehicle => CHARIOT
18 Across: Tell a tale => NARRATE
19 Across: Sight from the Eiffel Tower => SEINE
20 Across: Like the Tin Man, after meeting Dorothy => OILED
21 Across: *Rolled Mexican dish => ENCHILADA
27 Across: Tuba's flared end => BELL
30 Across: Reduced, with down => TONED
31 Across: To whom the rhinoceros was prepoceros => NASH
35 Across: Natural resource => ORE
36 Across: Made with skill => CRAFTED
38 Across: Gp. in a 1955 labor merger => CIO
39 Across: Erin go __! => BRAGH
41 Across: Grissom of NASA => GUS
42 Across: High landform => RIDGE
44 Across: *Skeet, e.g. => SHOOTINGMATCH
47 Across: Steinbeck's Tom Joad, e.g. => OKIE
48 Across: Sturdy trees => OAKS
49 Across: Bring bad news to => SADDEN
52 Across: Jumps back, say => REACTS
56 Across: Pace => CLIP
57 Across: *Object => THING
61 Across: Type of drive on the Enterprise => WARP
62 Across: Modify, as sails => RERIG
64 Across: Singer DiFranco => ANI
65 Across: Hawaii's Pineapple Island => LANAI
66 Across: Put up or straight up => ERECT
67 Across: Org. overseeing broadband => FCC
68 Across: Moving => ASTIR
69 Across: *Opera, literally => WORKS
70 Across: With 71-Across and each answer to a starred clue, all of it => THE
71 Across: See 70-Across => WHOLE

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Bench press targets => PECS
2 Down: Pine (for) => ACHE
3 Down: Trendy cupful => CHAI
4 Down: Bit of succotash => KERNEL
5 Down: Not from around here => ALIEN
6 Down: Viscous stuff => GOO
7 Down: MD treating rhinitis => ENT
8 Down: RR stop => STN
9 Down: When doubled, a dance => CHA
10 Down: King from whom Mary and Joseph fled => HEROD
11 Down: Contralto Anderson => MARIAN
12 Down: List abbr. used as a substitute => ETAL
13 Down: Prado contents => ARTE
14 Down: Clarinet, for one => REED
22 Down: WNBA position => CTR
23 Down: Philly's signature sandwich => HOAGIE
24 Down: Not at all serious => INFUN
25 Down: Don't dawdle, people! => LETSGO
26 Down: Drink ending => ADE
27 Down: Short cut => BOB
28 Down: Isn't right => ERRS
29 Down: Jacob's first wife => LEAH
32 Down: Band with an electrical symbol in their logo => ACDC
33 Down: [How unfortunate] => SIGH
34 Down: Long-handled tool => HOE
36 Down: Lose with a triple bogey, maybe => CHOKE
37 Down: Critter on a Ring Dings box => DRAKE
40 Down: You chose wisely => GOODPICK
43 Down: No winners, no losers => ITSAWASH
45 Down: Bit of color => TINT
46 Down: Helgenberger of CSI => MARG
49 Down: Phillips __ => SCREW
50 Down: Old Olds => ALERO
51 Down: More grim => DIRER
53 Down: The Divine Comedy division => CANTO
54 Down: Follow => TRAIL
55 Down: Cross site, often => SPIRE
58 Down: Axe part => HAFT
59 Down: Foot part => INCH
60 Down: Well done! => NICE
63 Down: Classic muscle cars => GTS
65 Down: The __ allows it, and the court awards it: The Merchant of Venice => LAW

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This crossword has 35 across clues and 43 down clues. In total 78 clues are solved in the section above.
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