Crossword Answers For: Monday, October 2, 2017

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Ophthalmic sore => STYE
5 Across: Season-ending college football game => BOWL
9 Across: Stories spanning decades => SAGAS
14 Across: __ hygiene => ORAL
15 Across: Bounce off a wall => ECHO
16 Across: Chopin piece => ETUDE
17 Across: Evening show with headlines and stories => NEWSATTEN
19 Across: Flabbergast => AMAZE
20 Across: Swiss convention city => GENEVA
21 Across: Fist-pump cry => YEAH
23 Across: Sales force member => REP
24 Across: '60s protest org. => SDS
25 Across: Periods that may decide 5-Acrosses, briefly => OTS
27 Across: Andean animal => LLAMA
29 Across: Like perceptive hindsight => TWENTYTWENTY
33 Across: Promise before testimony => OATH
36 Across: Take to court => SUE
37 Across: Journalist Couric => KATIE
38 Across: German coal valley => RUHR
39 Across: Lifts on slopes => TBARS
42 Across: Gotten a glimpse of => SEEN
43 Across: Uncomfortably pricey => STEEP
45 Across: One collaring a perp => COP
46 Across: Watch displays, briefly => LEDS
47 Across: Generic pre-sunrise hour => OHDARKTHIRTY
51 Across: Prefix for Rome's country => ITALO
52 Across: Use a shovel => DIG
53 Across: Pound sound => ARF
56 Across: __ Palmas: Canary Islands city => LAS
58 Across: No damage done => IMOK
60 Across: Five cents => NICKEL
62 Across: Yellowish brown => OCHER
64 Across: Farm's remote acreage => BACKFORTY
66 Across: French sweetie => CHERI
67 Across: Inland Asian sea => ARAL
68 Across: Eve's opposite => MORN
69 Across: Frankfurt's state => HESSE
70 Across: Lowdown => DOPE
71 Across: Soon, to a bard => ANON

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Billy Joel creations => SONGS
2 Down: Trapped on a branch => TREED
3 Down: Signs of boredom => YAWNS
4 Down: Is there something __? => ELSE
5 Down: Software trial => BETATEST
6 Down: Halloween mo. => OCT
7 Down: Food for Miss Muffet => WHEY
8 Down: Needing company => LONELY
9 Down: Seattle athlete => SEAHAWK
10 Down: Fast-cash spot, for short => ATM
11 Down: Money-back assurance, perhaps => GUARANTEE
12 Down: Carving tool => ADZE
13 Down: Ooze => SEEP
18 Down: Swear to be true => AVOW
22 Down: Bottom-row PC key => ALT
26 Down: Dismiss with disdain => SNUB
28 Down: Insultingly small, as a payment => MEASLY
29 Down: ... or else! remark => THREAT
30 Down: Instruct => TEACH
31 Down: Even on the scoreboard => TIED
32 Down: Strong desires => YENS
33 Down: Not exactly => ORSO
34 Down: Writer: Abbr. => AUTH
35 Down: Things to wash after dinner => THEDISHES
40 Down: __ rage: PED user's aggression => ROID
41 Down: Very light rain => SPRINKLE
44 Down: Grassland => PRAIRIE
48 Down: Netherlands airline => KLM
49 Down: That's a shame => TOOBAD
50 Down: Jubilant end-of-week cry => TGIF
53 Down: Ohio rubber city => AKRON
54 Down: Back in style => RETRO
55 Down: Swashbuckling Errol => FLYNN
56 Down: __ Ness monster => LOCH
57 Down: Steady pain => ACHE
59 Down: Corn syrup brand => KARO
61 Down: Unconscious state => COMA
63 Down: Ambulance destinations: Abbr. => ERS
65 Down: Golfer's hat => CAP

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This crossword has 39 across clues and 40 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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