Crossword Answers For: Sunday, December 31, 2017

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Turn in the box => ATBAT
6 Across: Pour out forcefully => SPEW
10 Across: Sailing => ASEA
14 Across: Dip providing potassium, for short => GUAC
18 Across: Drink with an umbrella => MAITAI
20 Across: Scat legend, familiarly => ELLA
21 Across: Diamond slip-up => BALK
22 Across: Austen classic => EMMA
23 Across: *Menace to society => PUBLICENEMY
25 Across: *Old-school letters => SNAILMAIL
27 Across: A or Angel => ALER
28 Across: Immediately, if not sooner! => ASAP
30 Across: Jeweler's assortment => RINGS
31 Across: Doc's orders => MEDS
34 Across: Ryan in a 1998 film, e.g.: Abbr. => PVT
36 Across: Macho guys => HEMEN
38 Across: Party animals? => STAGS
42 Across: BWI posting => ETA
43 Across: Word on a wanted poster => ALIAS
45 Across: Canine protection => ENAMEL
47 Across: Prefix with polis => ACRO
48 Across: Kind of milk or sauce => SOY
49 Across: *Tropical cocktail => MANGOTANGO
51 Across: Pledged, in a way => TITHED
53 Across: Common FM radio fare => HITSONG
55 Across: Hands over => CEDES
56 Across: Sign off on => AGREETO
57 Across: Bring out => ELICIT
58 Across: Can I have a __ of your drink? => SIP
59 Across: That was close! => PHEW
60 Across: Coll. term => SEM
61 Across: Trial version => DEMO
62 Across: Look forward to => AWAIT
64 Across: Coolly dispassionate => CLINICAL
66 Across: MLB stat => ERA
68 Across: *Neckwear for which Mr. T was once famous (but no longer wears) => GOLDCHAIN
70 Across: Issue opener? => NON
71 Across: They're sold as is => USEDCARS
73 Across: Choral composition => MOTET
74 Across: Former Laker star Lamar => ODOM
77 Across: Manhattan suffix => ITE
78 Across: Partner => MATE
79 Across: Pine __ => TAR
80 Across: Spot on a horse => DAPPLE
82 Across: Not insist on payment of, as a debt => FORGIVE
84 Across: Weasel-like animal also called a honey badger => RATEL
87 Across: Pirate's ship => CORSAIR
88 Across: Hydrocodone, e.g. => OPIATE
89 Across: *Hobby shop purchase => MODELPLANE
91 Across: __ Got a Secret: old game show => IVE
92 Across: Hemsworth of The Hunger Games => LIAM
93 Across: Justice replaced by Gorsuch => SCALIA
95 Across: Major artery => AORTA
96 Across: Zilch => NIL
97 Across: Broad valleys => DALES
99 Across: Divvy up => ALLOT
100 Across: Part of Q and A: Abbr. => ANS
101 Across: By Jove! => ISAY
102 Across: Gone With the Wind family name => OHARA
104 Across: Nothing to write home about => SOSO
107 Across: Loads => ATON
109 Across: *Deluge => HEAVYRAIN
113 Across: Remote region ... and what literally ends each answer to a starred clue => WILDCOUNTRY
118 Across: Wheel connector => AXLE
119 Across: In that case ... => IFSO
120 Across: Leg up => EDGE
121 Across: Body shop application => PRIMER
122 Across: Close by => NEAR
123 Across: Legal document => DEED
124 Across: What Jack Sprat's wife couldn't eat => LEAN
125 Across: Factions => SECTS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Power-increasing gadget => AMP
2 Down: 19th Greek letter => TAU
3 Down: Lobster eater's accessory => BIB
4 Down: Aid in planning a trip => ATLAS
5 Down: Follow => TAIL
6 Down: One percent of a D.C. group--or the group itself => SEN
7 Down: Earnest request => PLEA
8 Down: O'Neill's Desire Under the __ => ELMS
9 Down: Winning by a mile => WAYAHEAD
10 Down: Six-pack set => ABS
11 Down: Italian Riviera resort => SANREMO
12 Down: Friend of Jerry, George and Cosmo => ELAINE
13 Down: Comparable => AKIN
14 Down: Idaho nickname => GEMSTATE
15 Down: Actress Thurman => UMA
16 Down: Brest friend => AMI
17 Down: Silent __: White House nickname => CAL
19 Down: Factory with frozen assets => ICEPLANT
24 Down: Dr. with MVP awards => ERVING
26 Down: Some smartphones => LGS
29 Down: Rigatoni alternative => PENNE
31 Down: Fit together => MESHED
32 Down: French star => ETOILE
33 Down: *Soap, often => DAYTIMESERIAL
35 Down: Playground game => TAG
37 Down: Fancy wheels => MAGS
39 Down: *Flu symptoms => ACHESANDPAINS
40 Down: Storybook sister => GRETEL
41 Down: Doomed biblical city => SODOM
43 Down: Mine, in Metz => AMOI
44 Down: Church gatherings => SOCIALS
46 Down: Three-star mil. officer => LTGEN
50 Down: Hardly gung-ho => TEPID
52 Down: Crocodile Hunter Steve __ => IRWIN
54 Down: Brahms creation => SCORE
56 Down: Ooh! I know this! Gimme __ => AHINT
58 Down: Promised => SWORE
59 Down: Tradesperson => PLIER
62 Down: Type type => AGATE
63 Down: Channel for film buffs => TCM
64 Down: Tree with long beanlike pods => CATALPA
65 Down: Houses with layers => COOPS
67 Down: Fess up => ADMIT
69 Down: Monopoly piece => HOTEL
71 Down: Word from the Greek for not a place => UTOPIA
72 Down: Succumbs to pressure => CAVES
75 Down: Singer Newton-John => OLIVIA
76 Down: Just => MERELY
77 Down: Music to a bluffer's ears => IFOLD
80 Down: Keep going! => DONTSTOP
81 Down: Square measurement => AREA
83 Down: Words a pinball wizard hates to see => GAMEOVER
84 Down: Hot streak => ROLL
85 Down: So long, José => ADIOS
86 Down: Kitchen cloth => TEATOWEL
87 Down: The Tonight Show character with a turban => CARNAC
89 Down: Vague unease => MALAISE
90 Down: Mauna __ => LOA
94 Down: Wine choice => CARAFE
98 Down: Short => SHY
101 Down: Navel type => INNIE
103 Down: Extremely dry => ARID
105 Down: Debate team, for example => SIDE
106 Down: Gymnast Korbut => OLGA
108 Down: Yours and mine => OURS
109 Down: Solo in Star Wars => HAN
110 Down: PC file suffix => EXE
111 Down: SEC powerhouse => ALA
112 Down: Drop off => NOD
114 Down: Man cave setting => DEN
115 Down: HBO competitor => TMC
116 Down: Collecting Soc. Sec. => RET
117 Down: What birthday candles represent: Abbr. => YRS

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This crossword has 71 across clues and 74 down clues. In total 145 clues are solved in the section above.
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