Crossword Answers For: Friday, October 6, 2023

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Rum mixer => COKE
5 Across: Tarot suit => CUPS
9 Across: Destructive bug => BORER
14 Across: Receptive => OPEN
15 Across: Draft choice => ONEA
16 Across: New car option => LEASE
17 Across: *Litter collection vehicles? => PUPTRUCKS
19 Across: Laudatory poet => ODIST
20 Across: First baseball team to play in a dome => ASTROS
21 Across: Birthplace of Aviation => OHIO
23 Across: __ salt => SEA
24 Across: *Malcolm's status at the end of Macbeth? => ALIVEANDKING
27 Across: Writer who populated the Hundred Acre Wood => AAMILNE
30 Across: Shade in four-color printing => CYAN
31 Across: Actor Reeves => KEANU
32 Across: Mission control org. => NASA
35 Across: Scale abbr. => LBS
37 Across: Fish sticks fish => COD
38 Across: *Arf or meow? => PETLINE
41 Across: Tubular! => RAD
43 Across: Trawling need => NET
45 Across: Future atty.'s exam => LSAT
46 Across: Quick-as-lightning Bolt => USAIN
48 Across: City near the heel of Italy's boot => BARI
50 Across: Supplementary items => ADDENDA
52 Across: *Source of friction when a messy person lives with a neatnik? => STYSITUATION
56 Across: __-di-dah => LAH
57 Across: See 26-Down => PENN
58 Across: Regret not wearing a coat, say => FREEZE
62 Across: Degrade => ABASE
64 Across: Measure of grossness avoided in the answers to the starred clues? => ICKFACTOR
66 Across: Forbidden things => NONOS
67 Across: America the Beautiful pronoun => THEE
68 Across: Frozen princess => ANNA
69 Across: Beckett title character who is not in the cast => GODOT
70 Across: Rise sky-high => SOAR
71 Across: Fifth Avenue retailer => SAKS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: __ Mundial de Fútbol => COPA
2 Down: Major work => OPUS
3 Down: Maintained => KEPT
4 Down: Board, in a way => ENTRAIN
5 Down: Reunion attendee => COUSIN
6 Down: 5-Down's dad, for short => UNC
7 Down: Tea type => PEKOE
8 Down: Obama daughter => SASHA
9 Down: __ Mary => BLOODY
10 Down: Wordsmith's ref. => OED
11 Down: Post production? => RAISINBRAN
12 Down: Steel city north of Cologne => ESSEN
13 Down: Put on sale, say => RETAG
18 Down: Arrive, as in a limo => ROLLUP
22 Down: Like some ancient Peruvian pottery => INCAN
25 Down: Air ducts => VENTS
26 Down: With 57-Across, co-star in the Harold & Kumar film series => KAL
27 Down: Pedigree registry since 1884: Abbr. => AKC
28 Down: Long, long time => AEON
29 Down: Like all ancient Peruvian pottery => MADEBYHAND
33 Down: In the style of => ALA
34 Down: Occupy, as a desk => SITAT
36 Down: __ no one ever => SAID
39 Down: Top-tier => ELITE
40 Down: Author Welty => EUDORA
42 Down: Crime lab material => DNA
44 Down: Some Ph.D. students => TAS
47 Down: Native New Yorkers => SENECAS
49 Down: Best for picking => RIPEST
51 Down: I beg to __ => DIFFER
52 Down: Word on the street? => SLANG
53 Down: Like 66-Across => TABOO
54 Down: Liters and meters => UNITS
55 Down: Dried Mexican chile => ANCHO
59 Down: Sicilian mount => ETNA
60 Down: Fall fast asleep, with out => ZONK
61 Down: Eventful times => ERAS
63 Down: Phillipa of Hamilton => SOO
65 Down: Hawaii's Mauna __ => KEA

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This crossword has 37 across clues and 40 down clues. In total 77 clues are solved in the section above.
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