Crossword Answers For: Friday, December 22, 2017

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Plodded (through) => WADED
6 Across: Dies down => EBBS
10 Across: Not quite shut => AJAR
14 Across: Where something can be set for later => ASIDE
15 Across: Protected at sea => ALEE
16 Across: Queen of Heaven => HERA
17 Across: The terrible tsar has arrived, either way? => TISIVANONAVISIT
20 Across: Gambit => TACTIC
21 Across: __ Field: NYC stadium => CITI
22 Across: QB Peyton Manning has an NFL passing record 539 of them => TDS
23 Across: I could __ horse! => EATA
25 Across: Sommersby actor => GERE
27 Across: Disappointed reaction to the censored version of Fifty Shades of Grey, either way? => EGADNOBONDAGE
32 Across: Amused initialism => LOL
33 Across: Clumsy boats => TUBS
34 Across: Sweethearts => LOVES
37 Across: Eponymous virologist => SALK
39 Across: Part of NAFTA => TRADE
42 Across: 39-Across, perhaps => SELL
43 Across: Hawaiian greeting => ALOHA
45 Across: The Americans actress Russell => KERI
47 Across: Magic org.? => NBA
48 Across: Query about the Cheshire's grin, either way? => WASITACATISAW
52 Across: Chipmaker's prefix => NANO
53 Across: A, in many orgs. => ASSN
54 Across: __ who?! => SEZ
57 Across: DEA agent => NARC
59 Across: Slip away => ELAPSE
63 Across: Mrs. Claus' remark about what she did to keep Santa home, either way? => TOOBADIHIDABOOT
66 Across: __ Domini => ANNO
67 Across: Calendario units => ANOS
68 Across: Springsteen's Born __ => TORUN
69 Across: Tuts => TSKS
70 Across: Wail => YOWL
71 Across: __ innings => EXTRA

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Measure of power => WATT
2 Down: Tibet's place => ASIA
3 Down: __ jockey => DISC
4 Down: Polished words => EDITED
5 Down: Nowhere near the norm => DEVIANT
6 Down: Ending with Tyrol => EAN
7 Down: Common-interest group => BLOC
8 Down: Harmless => BENIGN
9 Down: Ready for the curtain to open => SEATED
10 Down: Sushi tuna => AHI
11 Down: Kid => JEST
12 Down: Moistureless => ARID
13 Down: Traitors => RATS
18 Down: Rebel, in a way => ACTOUT
19 Down: Like some memes => VIRAL
24 Down: ERA or RBI => ABBR
26 Down: Coaches' headaches => EGOS
27 Down: Big cat of film => ELSA
28 Down: Certain score => GOAL
29 Down: Give the okay => ALLOW
30 Down: City near Kobe => OSAKA
31 Down: Roulette bets => EVENS
35 Down: Actor Idris __ => ELBA
36 Down: Sandwich side => SLAW
38 Down: Medieval Tatar chief => KHAN
40 Down: Ten up front? => DECA
41 Down: Undid => ERASED
44 Down: Pose in yoga => ASANA
46 Down: Words just before leaving => ITSLATE
49 Down: How Rome wasn't built? => INADAY
50 Down: Piemonte city => TORINO
51 Down: Ready to be shipped => INABOX
54 Down: ERA or RBI => STAT
55 Down: An eternity => EONS
56 Down: Pass (out) => ZONK
58 Down: Food on the trail => CHOW
60 Down: Wine named for an Iberian city => PORT
61 Down: __ grapes => SOUR
62 Down: Sicilian mountain => ETNA
64 Down: Derek and Peep => BOS
65 Down: U.K. component => ISL

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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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