Crossword Answers For: Monday, November 20, 2017

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Gospel truth => FACT
5 Across: Previous time of life => PAST
9 Across: Broadway bombs => FLOPS
14 Across: Southwestern stewpot => OLLA
15 Across: Texter's modest I think ... => IMHO
16 Across: Choosing rhyme starter => EENIE
17 Across: Hand from the audience => ROUNDOFAPPLAUSE
20 Across: Actor __ Ivory Wayans => KEENEN
21 Across: Castle barrier => MOAT
22 Across: Con man's sucker => SAP
23 Across: Robert of The Sopranos => ILER
25 Across: Is the right size => FITS
27 Across: Group one likes to hang with => CIRCLEOFFRIENDS
34 Across: Prefix with logical => ECO
35 Across: Shrunken Asian sea => ARAL
36 Across: Braid => PLAIT
37 Across: Jump => LEAP
39 Across: Blue cartoon papa => SMURF
42 Across: Zip-__-Doo-Dah => ADEE
43 Across: Clear, as an argument => LUCID
45 Across: Holiday trees => FIRS
47 Across: Hometown Proud supermarket chain => IGA
48 Across: Area in which one has power => SPHEREOFCONTROL
52 Across: Royal sari wearer => RANI
53 Across: Indian nurse => AMAH
54 Across: Plugs for products => ADS
57 Across: Swallow hard => GULP
59 Across: Frightened, in dialect => AFEARD
63 Across: 1970 Temptations hit with the subtitle That's What the World Is Today => BALLOFCONFUSION
66 Across: Sing like Bing => CROON
67 Across: Actress Jessica => ALBA
68 Across: Creative spark => IDEA
69 Across: Frets => STEWS
70 Across: Close at hand => NEAR
71 Across: Droops like an old sofa => SAGS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Road split => FORK
2 Down: Skin soother => ALOE
3 Down: Game with suspects => CLUE
4 Down: Kind of acid in red wine => TANNIC
5 Down: First settlers => PIONEERS
6 Down: Big initials in bowling => AMF
7 Down: Bedding accessory => SHAM
8 Down: Fill to the brim => TOPOFF
9 Down: Soft penpoint => FELTTIP
10 Down: Pasture => LEA
11 Down: Responsibility => ONUS
12 Down: Italian tower town => PISA
13 Down: Ooze => SEEP
18 Down: Singer Reese => DELLA
19 Down: Two of a kind => PAIR
24 Down: Wander => ROAM
26 Down: Actress Ward => SELA
27 Down: Basic anatomy units => CELLS
28 Down: Freeze over => ICEUP
29 Down: Insect trapped in a motel => ROACH
30 Down: Pillow down, say => FLUFF
31 Down: Low point => NADIR
32 Down: San __ Padres => DIEGO
33 Down: Take illegally => STEAL
38 Down: Jetty => PIER
40 Down: Costa __ => RICA
41 Down: How the wise men came => FROMAFAR
44 Down: Fire-breathing beasts => DRAGONS
46 Down: Major mix-up => SNAFU
49 Down: Sufficient, in texts => ENUF
50 Down: Tin Man's need => OILCAN
51 Down: Grad student's paper => THESIS
54 Down: Grade school basics => ABCS
55 Down: Pointed pub flier => DART
56 Down: __ gin fizz => SLOE
58 Down: Flag holder => POLE
60 Down: Verdi title princess => AIDA
61 Down: Walkabout director Nicolas => ROEG
62 Down: Genetic carriers => DNAS
64 Down: Weather map L => LOW
65 Down: Org. with Lakers and Clippers => NBA

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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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