Crossword Answers For: Friday, December 15, 2017

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Meat of which Australia is among the largest producers => LAMB
5 Across: Down-and-out inn => FLEABAG
12 Across: Apt brew for a golfer? => TEA
15 Across: Healing salve => ALOE
16 Across: Oral soporific? => LULLABY
17 Across: Solo with memorable lines => HAN
18 Across: Unfinished Puccini work a.k.a. Homage to a Dairy? => MADAMABUTTER
20 Across: Fertilization target => EGG
21 Across: Cashed, as a forged check => KITED
22 Across: Hoosegow => SLAMMER
24 Across: Completely filled => SATED
27 Across: Singers do it => SEW
29 Across: Moist-eyed => TEARY
30 Across: Argo setting => TEHRAN
32 Across: It may make you 29-Across => SADSONG
35 Across: All bets __ off => ARE
36 Across: Soak (up), as gravy => SOP
38 Across: They may be raw => RECRUITS
41 Across: Whistle-blower => REF
42 Across: Unfinished Beethoven work a.k.a. Salute to Manning? => FURELI
44 Across: Cabin bed => COT
45 Across: Proceeded cautiously => TOOKCARE
48 Across: Arcing shot => LOB
50 Across: Side dish piece => FRY
51 Across: Stuck => UPATREE
53 Across: What the puzzled have => NOCLUE
55 Across: Baseball commission? => ERROR
57 Across: Mex. distances => KMS
59 Across: Tie for cooking => TRUSS
60 Across: Dictators => DESPOTS
63 Across: Track bet => PLACE
65 Across: View => SEE
66 Across: Unfinished Beethoven work a.k.a. Dracula's Boy? => MOONLIGHTSON
71 Across: Actress Gabor => EVA
72 Across: M*A*S*H unit? => EPISODE
73 Across: M*A*S*H actor => ALDA
74 Across: Guitarist Paul => LES
75 Across: Held up => DELAYED
76 Across: Putin's refusal => NYET

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Hasty flight => LAM
2 Down: In the style of => ALA
3 Down: Stylish, '60s-style => MOD
4 Down: Lab container => BEAKER
5 Down: Like day-old seltzer => FLAT
6 Down: Garage services => LUBES
7 Down: Dodges => ELUDES
8 Down: Key usually pressed and held => ALT
9 Down: Takes cuts in a box => BATS
10 Down: Slain brother => ABEL
11 Down: Belly dancer, e.g. => GYRATOR
12 Down: Unfinished Mozart work a.k.a. A Sorcerer's Bug? => THEMAGICFLU
13 Down: Gung-ho => EAGER
14 Down: Steamed => ANGRY
19 Down: Gilt-ridden king? => MIDAS
23 Down: List of options => MENU
24 Down: Square one => START
25 Down: Word on Spanish mail => AEREO
26 Down: Unfinished Vivaldi work a.k.a. Water Music for the Mathematically Challenged? => THEFOURSEAS
28 Down: Soft finish? => WARE
31 Down: Dietary watchwords => NOFAT
33 Down: Farmer's habitat? => DELL
34 Down: Boxy Toyota => SCION
37 Down: Persian murmur => PURR
39 Down: Bagel shape => TORUS
40 Down: Eye sores => STYES
43 Down: Smell to high heaven => REEK
46 Down: Gangnam Style genre, for short => KPOP
47 Down: Ricocheted => CAROMED
49 Down: Make a mess of => BOTCH
52 Down: Use => EMPLOY
54 Down: Ancient Knossos denizen => CRETAN
55 Down: Collectible lemon => EDSEL
56 Down: Still Me memoirist => REEVE
58 Down: One way to come home => SLIDE
61 Down: Hit the sauce => TOPE
62 Down: Get dirty => SOIL
64 Down: Like port, usually => AGED
67 Down: DOD division => NSA
68 Down: Underhanded => SLY
69 Down: Keats forte => ODE
70 Down: 2017 NLDS player => NAT

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This crossword has 39 across clues and 43 down clues. In total 82 clues are solved in the section above.
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