Crossword Answers For: Monday, October 23, 2017

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Eydie who sang with Steve Lawrence => GORME
6 Across: Began a typical triathlon => SWAM
10 Across: Went lickety-split => SPED
14 Across: Construction girder => IBEAM
15 Across: Prefix with legal => PARA
16 Across: Epitaph starter => HERE
17 Across: Six-inch putt, say, in golf lingo => GIMME
18 Across: Distinctive flair => ELAN
19 Across: Eye part => IRIS
20 Across: *A little bit at a time, to a mason => BRICKBYBRICK
23 Across: Heavy favorites => SHOOINS
26 Across: Those women, in Spain => ELLAS
27 Across: Shabby homes => HOVELS
28 Across: Huge => LARGE
31 Across: Surprise police action => RAID
32 Across: *Next step up after a crib, for some toddlers => BIGBOYBED
36 Across: Grecian vessel of verse => URN
37 Across: What is yet to come, in a Sinatra classic => THEBEST
39 Across: Shogun stronghold => EDO
40 Across: *Hit by *NSYNC about the end of a relationship => BYEBYEBYE
42 Across: When repeated, a Samoan city => PAGO
43 Across: Sleep clinic study => APNEA
44 Across: Got via hard work => EARNED
46 Across: Chicago airport => OHARE
49 Across: Diplomatic office => EMBASSY
50 Across: *Iconic refrain from the Trammps' 1976 hit Disco Inferno => BURNBABYBURN
54 Across: Playground retort => AMSO
55 Across: Shapeless mass => BLOB
56 Across: Biting => ACERB
60 Across: Space Race destination => MOON
61 Across: Theater level => LOGE
62 Across: Cygnus' brightest star => DENEB
63 Across: Rule, Britannia composer => ARNE
64 Across: Goodness gracious! => EGAD
65 Across: Founded: Abbr. => ESTAB

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Jazzman's job => GIG
2 Down: Japanese sash => OBI
3 Down: Sleep stage => REM
4 Down: Did a Cuban dance => MAMBOED
5 Down: TV chef Lagasse => EMERIL
6 Down: Contractor's details => SPECS
7 Down: Base on balls => WALK
8 Down: Spirited horse => ARAB
9 Down: Scads of => MANY
10 Down: Child star Temple => SHIRLEY
11 Down: Danger => PERIL
12 Down: All My Children vixen => ERICA
13 Down: Newsroom fixtures => DESKS
21 Down: Helpful connections => INS
22 Down: Fathered, biblically => BEGOT
23 Down: Landscaper's planting => SHRUB
24 Down: White with age => HOARY
25 Down: Sheeplike => OVINE
28 Down: Tripoli's country => LIBYA
29 Down: 1958 Pulitzer-winning author James => AGEE
30 Down: Football carriers: Abbr. => RBS
32 Down: Cheers actress Neuwirth => BEBE
33 Down: Spilled the __: told all => BEANS
34 Down: Barely beats => EDGES
35 Down: Puppet Howdy __ => DOODY
37 Down: Easygoing sort => TYPEB
38 Down: Egg layer => HEN
41 Down: Without exception => BARNONE
42 Down: Struts like a horse => PRANCES
44 Down: Australian runner => EMU
45 Down: Use sandpaper on => ABRADE
46 Down: Trump predecessor => OBAMA
47 Down: Funny stuff => HUMOR
48 Down: Felonious flames => ARSON
49 Down: Subsided => EBBED
51 Down: Ready, willing and __ => ABLE
52 Down: Modern diary => BLOG
53 Down: Discipline with mats => YOGA
57 Down: Tolkien tree creature => ENT
58 Down: Stephen of The Crying Game => REA
59 Down: Consumer protection org., and a hint to the answers to starred clues => BBB

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This crossword has 35 across clues and 42 down clues. In total 77 clues are solved in the section above.
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