Crossword Answers For: Sunday, December 24, 2017

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: 16th-century date => MDL
4 Across: Big name in shoes => MCAN
8 Across: Batted => WASUP
13 Across: See 2-Down => LINE
17 Across: Rail commonly found in water? => SORA
18 Across: Perry of fashion => ELLIS
20 Across: Kind of acid in proteins => AMINO
21 Across: Any minute, old-style => ANON
22 Across: *Criminal justice supervisor => PROBATIONOFFICER
25 Across: Saturn vehicles? => UFOS
26 Across: Placing side by side => APPOSING
27 Across: Cries of support => OLES
28 Across: Golf shot => STROKE
30 Across: Wrinkly dog => SHARPEI
31 Across: Common conjunction => NOR
32 Across: Hanker => ACHE
33 Across: *Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! poet => PERCYBYSSHESHELLEY
41 Across: __ Dictionary => URBAN
44 Across: Arles assents => OUIS
45 Across: Bury => INTER
46 Across: Amber __ => ALE
47 Across: Delhi wrap => SARI
48 Across: A little lower? => CALF
50 Across: Paper size: Abbr. => LTR
51 Across: Anime cousin => MANGA
53 Across: *Get worse, with no way to stop => SPINOUTOFCONTROL
59 Across: Do serious damage to => SCAR
60 Across: Hwy. => RTE
61 Across: My man! => BRO
62 Across: Notched, as a maple leaf => EROSE
63 Across: Back in the bay => ASTERN
65 Across: 1965 King arrest site => SELMA
67 Across: Shortened, as a dict. => ABR
68 Across: Ballade's final stanza => ENVOI
70 Across: Complete => ENTIRE
73 Across: Assume as fact => POSIT
75 Across: Assist => AID
76 Across: Eats or drinks => HAS
79 Across: Israel's Golda => MEIR
80 Across: *Nero Wolfe title that plays on the start of an old adage => WHERETHERESAWILL
85 Across: Looked like a wolf? => OGLED
87 Across: Oral health org. => ADA
88 Across: Dovetail => MESH
89 Across: In the Aegean => ASEA
90 Across: The Mary Tyler Moore Show newsman => TED
91 Across: Word coined by writer Capek => ROBOT
93 Across: Creek croaker => TOAD
95 Across: Tube, so to speak => TVSET
96 Across: *1985 #1 hit for Paul Young => EVERYTIMEYOUGOAWAY
101 Across: All the time => ALOT
102 Across: Bit of work => ERG
103 Across: Pretenses => FACADES
107 Across: Poetic foot => DACTYL
110 Across: __-up: hybrid musical piece => MASH
111 Across: Church contribution => OFFERING
112 Across: Wrinkly fruit => UGLI
113 Across: Maxim that applies to pairs hiding together in the answers to starred clues => OPPOSITESATTRACT
117 Across: Like Beethoven, late in life => DEAF
118 Across: Agree to => GRANT
119 Across: Composer of the short piano pieces Le Yachting and Le Golf => SATIE
120 Across: Hockey's Bobby et al. => ORRS
121 Across: Go around in circles => EDDY
122 Across: Goes up and down => YOYOS
123 Across: Once uncool sort who's now sort of cool => NERD
124 Across: Inquisitive-sounding letter => WYE

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Transmute => MORPH
2 Down: With 13-Across, write (to) => DROPA
3 Down: Sensation before a delivery => LABORPAIN
4 Down: Specialty => METIER
5 Down: Medical center => CLINIC
6 Down: Sleep like __ => ALOG
7 Down: Delta of Venus author => NIN
8 Down: Symbols of thinness => WAFERS
9 Down: Author Martin => AMIS
10 Down: [Not a typo] => SIC
11 Down: Arles article => UNE
12 Down: Company whose German pronunciation has two syllables => PORSCHE
13 Down: Victory symbol => LAUREL
14 Down: Dope => INFO
15 Down: Cozy corner => NOOK
16 Down: Massachusetts motto opener => ENSE
17 Down: Healthful retreats => SPAS
19 Down: André Previn's adopted daughter => SOONYI
23 Down: Quaker in the woods => ASPEN
24 Down: Dentist's directive => FLOSS
29 Down: Heat unit => THERM
32 Down: 2017 World Series champ => ASTRO
34 Down: Texter's seize the day => YOLO
35 Down: Devotee => BUFF
36 Down: Sword handles => HILTS
37 Down: It's usually just before dessert => ENTREE
38 Down: Tilter's tool => LANCE
39 Down: Knighted English composer => ELGAR
40 Down: Thirst (for) => YEARN
41 Down: Cold War initials => USSR
42 Down: Deeply engrossed => RAPT
43 Down: Cracker topper => BRIE
48 Down: Long-billed wader => CURLEW
49 Down: Elementary particle => ATOM
52 Down: Stop on the Turin-Genoa railway => ASTI
54 Down: Upper, in Ulm => OBER
55 Down: Break off => CEASE
56 Down: Comet's path => ORBIT
57 Down: Needle point? => NORTH
58 Down: Deluxe => LAVISH
64 Down: Pop => SODA
65 Down: Many a retired racehorse => SIRE
66 Down: Tarzan's realm => APEDOM
69 Down: Dundee disagreements => NAES
70 Down: Ham it up => EMOTE
71 Down: Israeli desert => NEGEV
72 Down: Piña colada garnish? => TILDE
74 Down: Declaim => ORATE
76 Down: Boo relative => HISS
77 Down: Sheltered in the Aegean => ALEE
78 Down: Bed board => SLAT
81 Down: Hard thing to kick => HABIT
82 Down: Slate or Salon => EMAG
83 Down: Change the decor of => REDO
84 Down: Winding-road sign image => WAVYARROW
86 Down: How Steven Wright jokes are spoken => DRYLY
92 Down: Ear specialist's science => OTOLOGY
93 Down: Trunks => TORSI
94 Down: Moral obligations => OUGHTS
95 Down: Be silent, in music => TACET
97 Down: Formally approve => RATIFY
98 Down: Baking supplies => YEASTS
99 Down: Fling => AFFAIR
100 Down: Drifted gently => WAFTED
104 Down: Book with a lock => DIARY
105 Down: Yves' ink => ENCRE
106 Down: PD ranks => SGTS
107 Down: My man! => DUDE
108 Down: Kept in barrels, maybe => AGED
109 Down: Decked out => CLAD
110 Down: Like early Elvis albums => MONO
111 Down: Bone head? => OSTE
114 Down: Adept => PRO
115 Down: Wages => PAY
116 Down: Suffix with Caesar => EAN

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This crossword has 65 across clues and 76 down clues. In total 141 clues are solved in the section above.
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