Crossword Answers For: Sunday, September 24, 2023

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Beach community near Tourmaline Surfing Park => LAJOLLA
8 Across: Bear claw or beaver tail => PASTRY
14 Across: Hunk of granite => SLAB
18 Across: Seething => ATABOIL
19 Across: Former first lady, familiarly => JACKIEO
20 Across: Room => SPACE
21 Across: Big name in health insurance associations => BLUEXBLUESHIELD
23 Across: Foam art medium => LATTE
24 Across: Lacking => SANS
25 Across: Like many Etsy shops => ARTSY
26 Across: Don't change a thing! => IADOREIT
28 Across: Mirror fogger => STEAM
31 Across: Old Pontiac muscle car => GTO
32 Across: Long time => EON
34 Across: Tabloid twosome => ITEM
35 Across: Quaint emporium => FIVEANDXCENTSTORE
41 Across: The Voice coach Gwen => STEFANI
45 Across: Measles symptom => REDDOT
46 Across: Pop star => IDOL
47 Across: Preschool activity with crayons => COLORXNUMBER
51 Across: Bogus => NOTREAL
53 Across: Big exporter of saffron => IRAN
54 Across: Tart-tasting fruit => SLOE
55 Across: Firewood protector => TARP
58 Across: Nintendo princess => ZELDA
59 Across: Sheet type => FITTED
62 Across: Mmes., in Mérida => SRAS
64 Across: Electronic control mechanisms, briefly => SERVOS
66 Across: Base for some sashimi => ICE
67 Across: Go it alone => XOUTONONESOWN
70 Across: Actress Vardalos => NIA
73 Across: Squanders => WASTES
74 Across: Entwined => WOVE
75 Across: Line that intersects a circle in two places => SECANT
77 Across: Three-dimensional => CUBIC
80 Across: 61-Down follower => TRES
82 Across: Belgian surrealist Magritte => RENE
84 Across: Hold __ your hat! => ONTO
85 Across: Like pedi-showing shoes => OPENTOE
87 Across: Hopeful expression after two failures => THIRDXACHARM
91 Across: Lemon drinks => ADES
92 Across: European capital known as the City of a Hundred Spires => PRAGUE
95 Across: Melodic passages => ARIOSOS
96 Across: Tony Award-winning musical based on a Manuel Puig novel => XOFTHESPIDERWOMAN
101 Across: Like the Atacama Desert => ARID
102 Across: __ port in a storm => ANY
103 Across: Mork's planet => ORK
104 Across: Software test versions => BETAS
108 Across: __ Files: long-running true-crime series => FORENSIC
111 Across: Structural girder => IBEAM
113 Across: __ snuff => UPTO
115 Across: WWII sub => UBOAT
116 Across: Irving Stone novel about Michelangelo => THEAGONYANDTHEX
121 Across: Where Ducks and Penguins play? => RINKS
122 Across: Diehards => ZEALOTS
123 Across: Same old same old => ROUTINE
124 Across: Garlands of okika or pikake => LEIS
125 Across: Star-shaped bloomers => ASTERS
126 Across: Prodded => EGGEDON

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Culture centers? => LABS
2 Down: Book replaced by GPS => ATLAS
3 Down: Short excursion => JAUNT
4 Down: Like Nero Wolfe => OBESE
5 Down: Cured salmon => LOX
6 Down: Ad follower => LIB
7 Down: Penne __ vodka => ALLA
8 Down: Turn down => PASSON
9 Down: Heading for the whirlpool, say => ACHY
10 Down: Enjoy Stowe => SKI
11 Down: Knotted accessory => TIE
12 Down: Repaired, as car brakes => RELINED
13 Down: Jedi who said, Always in motion is the future => YODA
14 Down: Extras in trunks => SPARETIRES
15 Down: Newer, as an automobile => LATEMODEL
16 Down: When Alexander meets Eliza, in Hamilton => ACTI
17 Down: Borscht base => BEET
19 Down: Passat alternative => JETTA
20 Down: Roulette wheel components => SLOTS
22 Down: Craving => URGE
27 Down: Same for me! => DITTO
29 Down: Many miles off => AFAR
30 Down: Cable series about an erotic magazine for women => MINX
32 Down: Put forth, as energy => EXERT
33 Down: Med. condition portrayed on Monk => OCD
36 Down: French wines => VINS
37 Down: Beats by __ => DRE
38 Down: Amateur => NONPRO
39 Down: Map line => ROAD
40 Down: Spanish she => ELLA
41 Down: Hugo Award genre => SCIFI
42 Down: Cheerio-shaped => TORIC
43 Down: Make happy => ELATE
44 Down: Arial, for one => FONT
48 Down: Belfast's province => ULSTER
49 Down: Despondent => MOROSE
50 Down: Ivy and __: kid-lit series by Annie Barrows => BEAN
52 Down: Breakout area, to dermatologists => TZONE
56 Down: Yours alternative => ASEVER
57 Down: Deal with an email error message, maybe => RESEND
60 Down: On the money => EXACT
61 Down: 80-Across preceder => DOS
63 Down: Farm noun or verb => SOW
65 Down: 19-Down and others, briefly => VWS
68 Down: Speaks => UTTERS
69 Down: Onigiri wrapper => NORI
70 Down: Grannies => NANAS
71 Down: Prologue => INTRO
72 Down: Bohr model subjects => ATOMS
73 Down: Series of successes => WINSTREAKS
76 Down: Silver salmon => COHO
77 Down: Cable cable, familiarly => COAX
78 Down: Off-the-neck hairstyle => UPDO
79 Down: Chef Boyardee concoction => BEEFARONI
81 Down: Prepare for an 83-Down, say => STUDY
83 Down: Apt rhyme for cram => EXAM
86 Down: Slanted columns => OPEDS
88 Down: Laugh half => HEE
89 Down: Many a Saudi native => ARAB
90 Down: French film => CINE
93 Down: Southwestern people => APACHES
94 Down: Negroni need => GIN
97 Down: Help for those at sea => HINTS
98 Down: Many Westworld characters => ROBOTS
99 Down: Builders of dome-shaped nests => WRENS
100 Down: Works for me! => OKAY
105 Down: Mozart's Così fan __ => TUTTE
106 Down: Peony pest => APHID
107 Down: __ pad => STENO
108 Down: Roll up => FURL
109 Down: Stage honor => OBIE
110 Down: Chichén __: pyramid site => ITZA
111 Down: Grammy-winning album for Tyler, the Creator => IGOR
112 Down: Female horse => MARE
114 Down: Yoked bovines => OXEN
117 Down: Scarf down => EAT
118 Down: Hoppy quaff => ALE
119 Down: Eggy quaff => NOG
120 Down: Sought buried treasure, perhaps => DUG

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This crossword has 59 across clues and 80 down clues. In total 139 clues are solved in the section above.
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