Crossword Answers For: Saturday, December 9, 2017

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Arctic Winter Games gear => SNOWSHOES
10 Across: Follows a cookbook direction => WHIPS
15 Across: Apparent => EASYTOSEE
16 Across: Red River city => HANOI
17 Across: Nomadic => ITINERANT
18 Across: Pertaining to => ASFOR
19 Across: Nucor and POSCO, industry-wise => STEELS
20 Across: Steak __ => TARTARE
22 Across: Fragrant shrubs => MYRTLES
24 Across: Stretches out => EXTENDS
25 Across: Try => TASTE
27 Across: Con game => MONTE
28 Across: Longtime foe of Rafael => ROGER
31 Across: Apparent => OSTENSIVE
34 Across: Commotion => ADO
35 Across: Rap sheet entry, perhaps => ARSON
36 Across: Jar head? => LID
37 Across: Available employment => JOBMARKET
40 Across: Songwriter Green => CEELO
42 Across: New Brunswick neighbor => MAINE
43 Across: Propellant in ion thrusters => XENON
45 Across: Patellar and Achilles => TENDONS
47 Across: Hired help => SERVANT
51 Across: Popular blend of seasoning => ITALIAN
52 Across: Small 1-Down => TREMOR
53 Across: Ulyanov's alias => LENIN
54 Across: Unyielding => OBSTINATE
57 Across: Player selection process => DRAFT
58 Across: Browbeats => BULLDOZES
59 Across: Long-eared critters => ASSES
60 Across: Party decorations => STREAMERS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Quake => SEISM
2 Down: Like some dressers => NATTY
3 Down: Flexible wood => OSIER
4 Down: 1998 Country Music Hall of Fame inductee => WYNETTE
5 Down: Finer than fine => STELLAR
6 Down: Fools (around) => HORSES
7 Down: Baja bear => OSA
8 Down: Poetic contraction => EEN
9 Down: Roman numeral => SETTE
10 Down: Penn's business school => WHARTON
11 Down: Moves quickly => HASTENS
12 Down: Childish => INFANTILE
13 Down: Unfortunate one => POORDEVIL
14 Down: Many retired Kentucky Derby winners => SIRES
21 Down: Forestry workers => AXMEN
23 Down: Flier that delivers? => STORK
26 Down: County in four Northeast states => ESSEX
28 Down: Indian filmmaker Kapoor => RAJ
29 Down: Devices used on trips => ODOMETERS
30 Down: Freak out => GOBANANAS
32 Down: Lugs => TOTES
33 Down: Old Tokyo => EDO
35 Down: Air Canada Centre, e.g. => ARENA
38 Down: __ crisis => MIDLIFE
39 Down: Consecrates, in a way => ANOINTS
40 Down: Bullfight => CORRIDA
41 Down: Did Hamlet so __ with his envy ... : Shakespeare => ENVENOM
44 Down: Aggravate => NETTLE
45 Down: Alternative nickname to Mattie, perhaps => TILDA
46 Down: Hardly humble sorts => SNOBS
48 Down: Knock over => AMAZE
49 Down: Observant one => NOTER
50 Down: Barrette target => TRESS
55 Down: __ I digress => BUT
56 Down: Type of camera, briefly => SLR

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This crossword has 31 across clues and 36 down clues. In total 67 clues are solved in the section above.
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