Crossword Answers For: Friday, December 1, 2017

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Qualifier for a hall entry? => FAME
5 Across: Excuse descriptor => LAME
9 Across: Med. recordings => EKGS
13 Across: Over, in much Twain dialogue => AGIN
14 Across: __ my way => IMON
15 Across: Relatives of windsocks => VANES
17 Across: Hugo character memorably portrayed by Charles Laughton => QUASIMODO
19 Across: Fuming => IRATE
20 Across: Uncle __ => SAM
21 Across: Risk pieces => DICE
22 Across: Type of large TV => PLASMA
23 Across: With 36- and 44-Across, what 17-Across might have said when his job became too repetitious? => IFITOLLEDTHEM
26 Across: Sitarist Shankar => RAVI
28 Across: Metal sources => ORES
29 Across: Important part of a whale's diet => KRILL
31 Across: Feigned => FALSE
33 Across: Many an IRS employee => CPA
36 Across: See 23-Across => ONCEITOLLEDTHEM
39 Across: Got it now? => SEE
40 Across: Parts of Walmart work uniforms => VESTS
41 Across: Frodo's home, with the => SHIRE
42 Across: Gentlemen => SIRS
43 Across: Actor Omar => EPPS
44 Across: See 23-Across => AHUNDREDTIMES
51 Across: Lengthy account => LITANY
52 Across: Participate in a race, maybe => RIDE
53 Across: Fluoride-touting org. => ADA
56 Across: Blazing => AFIRE
57 Across: 17-Across' workplace => BELLTOWER
59 Across: Problems electric razors should prevent => NICKS
60 Across: Avoid getting into deep water? => WADE
61 Across: Lobster Telephone artist => DALI
62 Across: __ who? => SAYS
63 Across: Monthly Roman calendar occurrences => IDES
64 Across: Turned yellow, perhaps => DYED

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Customer info sources => FAQS
2 Down: Lago contents => AGUA
3 Down: '80s cop show featuring Ferraris => MIAMIVICE
4 Down: USN rank => ENS
5 Down: Keep in check => LIMIT
6 Down: Merged gas company => AMOCO
7 Down: Auto datum => MODEL
8 Down: Brian of music => ENO
9 Down: What superheroes seek to thwart => EVILDEEDS
10 Down: Gold fineness units => KARATS
11 Down: Grind => GNASH
12 Down: They __ up!: scapegoat's cry => SETME
16 Down: Alteration target => SEAM
18 Down: Infamous Amin => IDI
22 Down: Intrinsically => PERSE
24 Down: Rank partner => FILE
25 Down: Doesn't do much => LOLLS
26 Down: Classic movie theaters => RKOS
27 Down: Alfred composer => ARNE
30 Down: Red state? => LIVIDNESS
31 Down: Broadway choreographer for Chicago => FOSSE
32 Down: PC key => ALT
33 Down: Cuts into, with at => CHIPSAWAY
34 Down: Cop's collar => PERP
35 Down: Iowa college town => AMES
37 Down: Jones or Gilliam of Monty Python => TERRY
38 Down: Passé pronoun => THEE
42 Down: Impertinent in tone => SNARKY
44 Down: PBS Mystery! host Cumming => ALAN
45 Down: LP players => HIFIS
46 Down: Erie Canal city => UTICA
47 Down: More than fear => DREAD
48 Down: Circumflex cousin => TILDE
49 Down: Doesn't do much => IDLES
50 Down: Satisfied => MET
54 Down: Editor's mark => DELE
55 Down: Like much of New Mexico => ARID
57 Down: Md. airport serving D.C. => BWI
58 Down: Not quite right => ODD

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This crossword has 35 across clues and 40 down clues. In total 75 clues are solved in the section above.
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