Crossword Answers For: Saturday, December 23, 2017

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: With 1-Down, Gadzooks! => JUMPING
8 Across: The Pleiades of myth, e.g. => SISTERS
15 Across: Football's Boomer => ESIASON
16 Across: Oregon city named for a fur merchant => ASTORIA
17 Across: Couldn't offer any justification => HADNOGOODREASON
19 Across: Old Monterey Bay fort => ORD
20 Across: Lipstick marketing word => SMEARLESS
21 Across: Sizing letters => SML
22 Across: Lot => FATE
24 Across: Music for Airports producer => ENO
25 Across: Understood 39-Across => AYE
26 Across: Sacha Baron Cohen persona => ALIG
27 Across: Type of lizard found indoors? => LOUNGE
31 Across: Law enforcement support org. => PBA
32 Across: Livin' La Vida __ => LOCA
33 Across: Like grapefruit => SOUR
34 Across: Seeks a better deal => HAGGLES
36 Across: Usain Bolt, vis-à-vis virtually everyone => FLEETER
39 Across: Where to hear 25-Across => ASEA
40 Across: One might be convincing => LIAR
41 Across: Back again => FRO
42 Across: Eco-friendly wheels => TESLAS
45 Across: __ Major => URSA
46 Across: Hockey legend => ORR
47 Across: Blood test letters => LDL
48 Across: Subtle Listen up => PSST
49 Across: Stylish jeans feature => RIP
50 Across: Data restriction on Twitter usage => RATELIMIT
54 Across: Camera initials => SLR
55 Across: Mamet play featuring a rare nickel => AMERICANBUFFALO
59 Across: Piranhas, in Venezuela => CARIBES
60 Across: Part of the family group => INACLAN
61 Across: As a group => ENMASSE
62 Across: Bishop's purview => DIOCESE

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: See 1-Across => JEHOSAPHAT
2 Down: Fort Benning, e.g. => USARMYBASE
3 Down: Knight time => MIDDLEAGES
4 Down: Item wielded on Chopped => PAN
5 Down: Equal start? => ISO
6 Down: Rich beverage => NOG
7 Down: Ancient spiritual groups => GNOSTICS
8 Down: Soldier of Love Grammy winner => SADE
9 Down: Mediterranean land => ISRAEL
10 Down: Fuel in tins => STERNO
11 Down: Burns poem whose subject is ugly, creepin => TOALOUSE
12 Down: Gaelic tongue => ERSE
13 Down: Lago feeders => RIOS
14 Down: Lacking => SANS
18 Down: TAG Heuer competitor => OMEGA
22 Down: Critical subject in Roman history => FALL
23 Down: Natural emollient => ALOE
28 Down: Like much museum art => NOTFORSALE
29 Down: Small raiding bands => GUERRILLAS
30 Down: Unreliable, in a way => ERRORPRONE
35 Down: Shopping mecca => GALLERIA
36 Down: Auction action starter => FIRSTBID
37 Down: Bonny one => LASS
38 Down: Logician's E => ERAT
40 Down: Flowering plant in the legume family => LUPIN
43 Down: Improv staples => ADLIBS
44 Down: Examples of bad driving => SLICES
50 Down: Hurdles, for one => RACE
51 Down: I am __ / More sinn'd against than sinning: King Lear => AMAN
52 Down: School division => TERM
53 Down: Rapper with the albums Harlem World and Welcome Back => MASE
56 Down: Aussie college => UNI
57 Down: __ Schwarz => FAO
58 Down: TV monitor => FCC

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This crossword has 34 across clues and 35 down clues. In total 69 clues are solved in the section above.
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