Crossword Answers For: Saturday, November 18, 2017

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Buy in quantity => STOCKUP
8 Across: Places of rapid growth => HOTBEDS
15 Across: Commiserate => CONDOLE
16 Across: One taking the prize => AWARDEE
17 Across: Evidential standard => REASONABLEDOUBT
19 Across: Old Egyptian symbol of royalty => ASP
20 Across: Former Defense secretary who wrote Worthy Fights => PANETTA
21 Across: __ scan => CAT
22 Across: Pronoun not heard as often as it should be => WHOM
24 Across: 2016 presidential candidate => RUBIO
25 Across: British art house => TATE
26 Across: Player over 21, perhaps => LOSER
28 Across: Common base => TEN
29 Across: __ Hebrides => OUTER
30 Across: Large beer mugs => SEIDELS
32 Across: Ones in their 40s, e.g. => GENXERS
34 Across: Crime scene barrier => TAPE
35 Across: Squeezed (out) => EKED
36 Across: Greet warmly => SMILEAT
39 Across: One convinced by a drive => PLEDGER
42 Across: Chekov's first name on Star Trek => PAVEL
43 Across: #4 at Boston Garden => ORR
45 Across: __ Got Mail => YOUVE
46 Across: Said yes to => OKED
47 Across: Monty Python product => SPOOF
49 Across: Trickle => SEEP
50 Across: Kricfalusi cartoon canine => REN
51 Across: Taking away => REMOVAL
53 Across: Sign at a popular play => SRO
54 Across: Foil-wrapped treats => CHOCOLATEKISSES
57 Across: Winner of the Breaking News Reporting Pulitzer for 2016, briefly => LATIMES
58 Across: Most loaded => RICHEST
59 Across: Exam involving reading letters => EYETEST
60 Across: Chicken requests => BREASTS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Hard-to-read words => SCRAWLS
2 Down: Ballerina's footwear => TOESHOE
3 Down: Happy way to end => ONAPOSITIVENOTE
4 Down: IRA options => CDS
5 Down: Surgeon general under Reagan => KOOP
6 Down: __ nerve => ULNAR
7 Down: A toy piano is often seen in it => PEANUTS
8 Down: Uncertain => HALTING
9 Down: Have because of => OWETO
10 Down: Cry with a flourish => TADA
11 Down: Main man => BRO
12 Down: More than just stabs => EDUCATEDGUESSES
13 Down: Con, half the time => DEBATER
14 Down: They may be Irish => SETTERS
18 Down: Neuwirth of Cheers => BEBE
23 Down: Got the gold, say => MEDALED
25 Down: Black-tie wear => TUXEDOS
27 Down: Turn back => REPEL
29 Down: In tune => ONKEY
31 Down: Pastoral expanse => LEA
33 Down: Sea scavenger => EEL
36 Down: Trivia quiz website => SPORCLE
37 Down: What some do while the sun shines? => MAKEHAY
38 Down: Rigging support => TOPMAST
39 Down: Words of wisdom => PROVERB
40 Down: Hillary's conquest => EVEREST
41 Down: Announces again, in a way => REPOSTS
44 Down: Heart => ROOT
47 Down: Two-time US Open winner => SELES
48 Down: Hindu ascetic => FAKIR
51 Down: Cooking apple named for an Ohio township => ROME
52 Down: Minute parasites => LICE
55 Down: Op. __ => CIT
56 Down: Doo-wop syllable => SHA

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This crossword has 34 across clues and 35 down clues. In total 69 clues are solved in the section above.
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