Crossword Answers For: Thursday, December 28, 2017

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Sugar amt. => TBSP
5 Across: Swimmer's regimen => LAPS
9 Across: Margaret Atwood's __ Grace => ALIAS
14 Across: Cosmetic additive => ALOE
15 Across: Alternatively => ELSE
16 Across: Small drum or large antelope => BONGO
17 Across: Author Gertrude's Irish friend? => PALOSTEIN
19 Across: Prepared to tackle => RANAT
20 Across: Foul odor => STENCH
21 Across: Liquid-Plumr rival => DRANO
23 Across: Brewer's kiln => OAST
26 Across: Black Sea port => ODESSA
29 Across: Like some time-release pills => CAPSULAR
33 Across: Old Toyota subcompact => TERCEL
34 Across: Don't interrupt! studio sign => ONAIR
35 Across: Inflexibility => RIGOR
37 Across: Head lines, for short? => EEG
38 Across: Fail to attend => SKIP
39 Across: Checkout choice => PAPER
40 Across: Latin word on a cornerstone => ANNO
41 Across: Road goo => TAR
42 Across: Church law => CANON
43 Across: Buzzing => ASTIR
44 Across: Pleasant emanations => AROMAS
46 Across: Antipathy => DISTASTE
48 Across: Air traffic control devices => RADARS
49 Across: Assist, as a theater patron => SEAT
50 Across: Puts a dent in one's gas mileage => IDLES
52 Across: Herbal cough drop brand => RICOLA
57 Across: Carved piece of jewelry => CAMEO
59 Across: Irish physician? => MANOCURES
62 Across: Alaskan native => ALEUT
63 Across: Straddling => UPON
64 Across: Let me know if you're coming letters => RSVP
65 Across: Mud nest builders => WASPS
66 Across: Dinner summons at the manor house => GONG
67 Across: Young fellows => BOYS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Melody from a bugler => TAPS
2 Down: Sour note from a bugler => BLAT
3 Down: Dover flatfish => SOLE
4 Down: Menial employee => PEON
5 Down: Quite destructive => LETHAL
6 Down: Bass, e.g. => ALE
7 Down: Pressure meas. => PSI
8 Down: Dispatch => SEND
9 Down: Carpenter's rasp, for one => ABRADER
10 Down: Dealership vehicle => LOANER
11 Down: Irish hotel that offers perfumed pillows? => INNOSCENTS
12 Down: Turkish title => AGA
13 Down: Tosspot => SOT
18 Down: Search far and wide => SCOUR
22 Down: Common pump part => ROTOR
24 Down: Wrap for leftovers => SARAN
25 Down: Photography gear => TRIPODS
27 Down: Already caught that movie => SEENIT
28 Down: 1990s veep => ALGORE
29 Down: Share the marquee => COSTAR
30 Down: Capital ESE of Istanbul => ANKARA
31 Down: Change tossed into an Irish busker's hat? => PAIRODIMES
32 Down: Sample some soup => SIP
36 Down: Arabian Nights spirit => GENIE
39 Down: Behind the times => PASSE
40 Down: Actor Butterfield of Ender's Game => ASA
42 Down: Where lemons may be sold => CARLOTS
43 Down: Cobwebby place => ATTIC
45 Down: Fictionalized => MADEUP
47 Down: Polynesian garment => SARONG
51 Down: Self-righteous => SMUG
53 Down: HBO's __ Your Enthusiasm => CURB
54 Down: Guesstimate phrase => ORSO
55 Down: Tax => LEVY
56 Down: Nile serpents => ASPS
57 Down: Cornfield sound => CAW
58 Down: Menu phrase => ALA
60 Down: Mil. mail drop => APO
61 Down: Haitian negative => NON

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This crossword has 37 across clues and 40 down clues. In total 77 clues are solved in the section above.
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