Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: More hot under the collar => MADDER
7 Across: Topper with a tassel => FEZ
10 Across: Managed care gp. => HMO
13 Across: Repetitive World Cup cheer => OLEOLE
14 Across: Commuter vehicle => AUTO
15 Across: Alley __ => OOP
16 Across: Celebrate with abandon => LETOFFSTEAM
18 Across: Boring routine => RUT
19 Across: Teen sleuth Nancy => DREW
20 Across: Exchange for cash => SELL
21 Across: Deep opera voice => BASSO
23 Across: Razor sharpener => STROP
25 Across: Corn serving => EAR
26 Across: Uh-huh => ISEE
27 Across: Lift a few weights => PUMPSOMEIRON
31 Across: Wheel of Fortune purchase => ANI
34 Across: High-priority task => MUSTDO
35 Across: __ Jones' locker => DAVY
36 Across: Mob enforcer => HITMAN
38 Across: Girls in the family => NIECES
40 Across: Island off Tuscany => ELBA
41 Across: Arts and __: summer camp activity => CRAFTS
45 Across: Before, poetically => ERE
46 Across: Sunday NBC public affairs show => MEETTHEPRESS
49 Across: The Well-Tempered Clavier composer => BACH
50 Across: Long-armed primate => APE
51 Across: Bit of prevention => OUNCE
55 Across: Soak in the tub => BATHE
56 Across: Ignoring, with to => DEAF
58 Across: Parliament member => LORD
59 Across: Ride for Jesus on Palm Sunday => ASS
60 Across: Like a shirt condition suggested by the ends of 16-, 27- and 46-Across => WRINKLEFREE
63 Across: Edge of a glass => RIM
64 Across: One shaken to seal a deal => HAND
65 Across: Keen judgment => ACUMEN
66 Across: SSW's opposite => NNE
67 Across: Tweeter's Wow! => OMG
68 Across: Parable messages => MORALS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Jell-O shapers => MOLDS
2 Down: Warn => ALERT
3 Down: Ward off => DETER
4 Down: Grease music genre => DOOWOP
5 Down: Munchkin kin => ELF
6 Down: Gridiron zebras => REFS
7 Down: Nuclear reactor tube => FUELROD
8 Down: H-like Greek vowel => ETA
9 Down: Shaun of the Dead creature => ZOMBIE
10 Down: Kentucky Derby, e.g. => HORSERACE
11 Down: Position the cursor without clicking => MOUSEOVER
12 Down: Vision: Pref. => OPTO
14 Down: About time! => ATLAST
17 Down: Goes (through) slowly => SEEPS
22 Down: All kidding __ ... => ASIDE
24 Down: Saucony rival => PUMA
28 Down: Chew noisily => MUNCH
29 Down: Three-card game => MONTE
30 Down: Wall St.'s Big Board => NYSE
31 Down: Pardon me => AHEM
32 Down: River drainage region that covers 11 African countries => NILEBASIN
33 Down: I haven't a clue! => ITBEATSME
37 Down: Fire lighter => MATCH
39 Down: That __ awesome! => ISSO
42 Down: Poetry performance => READING
43 Down: Add as a supplement => APPEND
44 Down: Flip (out) => FREAK
47 Down: Pinball Wizard band => THEWHO
48 Down: Gunpowder element => SULFUR
52 Down: Bellini opera => NORMA
53 Down: Angler's basket => CREEL
54 Down: Utopian places => EDENS
55 Down: Place for a Deere, but not deer => BARN
57 Down: Hoax => FLAM
61 Down: Crash into => RAM
62 Down: Green prefix => ECO

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This crossword has 38 across clues and 37 down clues. In total 75 clues are solved in the section above.
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