Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Like a grand-scale tale or fail => EPIC
5 Across: Obligation => ONUS
9 Across: Activist Thunberg who is the youngest Time Person of the Year => GRETA
14 Across: Top-ranked => AONE
15 Across: Eggplant __: Italian entree, briefly => PARM
16 Across: Strung along => LEDON
17 Across: Civil rights icon Parks => ROSA
18 Across: Logician's therefore => ERGO
19 Across: Let me clarify ... => IMEAN
20 Across: Ability to keep cool under pressure => PRESENCEOFMIND
23 Across: __ la vie! => CEST
24 Across: Labor Day mo. => SEPT
25 Across: Small beards => SOULPATCHES
29 Across: Org. whose annual awards are presented at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena => CMA
32 Across: Spare in a trunk => TIRE
33 Across: Male pal => BRO
34 Across: Deadly => LETHAL
36 Across: Sought-after guests => ALIST
38 Across: Sr.'s nest egg acronym => IRA
40 Across: Paper unit => SHEET
41 Across: Laughs at the joke, say => GETSIT
43 Across: Roxy Music co-founder Brian => ENO
45 Across: Gutter spot => EAVE
46 Across: Surname in the freezer aisle => EDY
47 Across: Chile that's among the hottest in the world => GHOSTPEPPER
50 Across: Hip and stylish => CHIC
51 Across: Tangy => TART
52 Across: I like your attitude!, and what can be said about the starts of 20-, 25-, and 47-Across? => THATSTHESPIRIT
58 Across: Gaggle members => GEESE
59 Across: Greek aperitif => OUZO
60 Across: Good job => NICE
61 Across: Clear kitchen wrap => SARAN
62 Across: South American country with most of the world's alpacas => PERU
63 Across: Kept in the email loop => CCED
64 Across: Build up => AMASS
65 Across: __ on the roof / And kicked off the moss: lyrics in Elton John's Your Song => ISAT
66 Across: Squeezes (out) => EKES

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Wyatt of the Old West => EARP
2 Down: Below average => POOR
3 Down: State of self-doubt => INSECURITY
4 Down: Never-ending => CEASELESS
5 Down: Subwindow in a browser => OPENTAB
6 Down: Drug cop => NARC
7 Down: Insist => URGE
8 Down: Press into a small space => SMOOSH
9 Down: Brief looks => GLIMPSES
10 Down: Send money => REMIT
11 Down: Genesis garden => EDEN
12 Down: Frog kin => TOAD
13 Down: __ Taylor Loft => ANN
21 Down: Sixth sense letters => ESP
22 Down: Sense => FEEL
25 Down: Place for a play => STAGE
26 Down: Lubricated => OILED
27 Down: One more than bi- => TRI
28 Down: Pear centers => CORES
29 Down: Rock band known for the power ballad The Flame => CHEAPTRICK
30 Down: Novelist Binchy => MAEVE
31 Down: Change => ALTER
35 Down: Political treatise by Machiavelli => THEPRINCE
37 Down: Makes less loose, as screws => TIGHTENS
39 Down: Aardvark's morsel => ANT
42 Down: Watch __ space => THIS
44 Down: Decides to withdraw => OPTSOUT
48 Down: Squid kin => OCTOPI
49 Down: The Raven poet's monogram => EAP
50 Down: Homes in Havana => CASAS
52 Down: United group => TEAM
53 Down: Olympian queen who cursed Echo => HERA
54 Down: Tints => HUES
55 Down: Vampire Weekend lead singer Koenig => EZRA
56 Down: Drink brand with a polar bear in its logo => ICEE
57 Down: Bill & __ Excellent Adventure => TEDS
58 Down: Govt. property overseer => GSA

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This crossword has 37 across clues and 38 down clues. In total 75 clues are solved in the section above.
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