Crossword Answers For: Monday, March 27, 2017

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Ponzi scheme, e.g. => SCAM
5 Across: Impersonated => APED
9 Across: Your __ Highness => ROYAL
14 Across: Drilled bowling ball feature => HOLE
15 Across: Artist Magritte => RENE
16 Across: Shah of Iran, in 1979-'80 => EXILE
17 Across: Bahrain big shot => EMIR
18 Across: Writer's chief work (Latin) => MAGNUMOPUS
20 Across: Sphere of influence => AMBIT
22 Across: Drinking glass edges => RIMS
23 Across: Ambulance initials => EMS
24 Across: Done deal (French) => FAITACCOMPLI
28 Across: Farm country skyline highlights => SILOS
29 Across: Nissan model => SENTRA
33 Across: Take me for a walk! => ARF
36 Across: Expel from office => OUST
38 Across: Amazon's business => ETAIL
39 Across: With 42-Across, cars like BMWs and Audis ... or 18-, 24-, 53- and 63-Across => FOREIGN
42 Across: See 39-Across => IMPORTS
44 Across: Rhett's last words => ADAMN
45 Across: Siamese, now => THAI
47 Across: __ dye: food-coloring compound => AZO
48 Across: Live (in) => RESIDE
50 Across: Lover of Euridice, in a Gluck opera => ORFEO
53 Across: English, in many non-English speaking countries (Italian) => LINGUAFRANCA
58 Across: Word with health or day => SPA
61 Across: Oboist's need => REED
62 Across: Lagoon-enclosing isle => ATOLL
63 Across: Young sensation (German) => WUNDERKIND
67 Across: Sinister => EVIL
68 Across: Cortés subject => AZTEC
69 Across: Wrinkle, as a brow => KNIT
70 Across: San __, Italy => REMO
71 Across: Suppose for argument's sake => POSIT
72 Across: Many van Goghs => OILS
73 Across: Killed, as a dragon => SLEW

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Harvest bundle => SHEAF
2 Down: Grammar class subject => COMMA
3 Down: Legal defense mechanism? => ALIBI
4 Down: Advantages => MERITS
5 Down: Shortstop's asset => ARM
6 Down: Green soup veggie => PEA
7 Down: Thoroughly absorb => ENGROSS
8 Down: Jeans fabric => DENIM
9 Down: Dreaming phase => REMSLEEP
10 Down: Kitchenware brand => OXO
11 Down: Frightened exclamation => YIPE
12 Down: University fund-raising target => ALUM
13 Down: A smaller amount of => LESS
19 Down: Quartet assigned to bases => UMPS
21 Down: Mai __ => TAI
25 Down: Plumber's challenge => CLOG
26 Down: Dracula's title => COUNT
27 Down: Avid about => INTO
30 Down: Skater Lipinski => TARA
31 Down: Nabisco cracker => RITZ
32 Down: Wait, there's more ... => ALSO
33 Down: Miles away => AFAR
34 Down: Traveled by bike => RODE
35 Down: Abbey titles => FRAS
37 Down: Princess' headpiece => TIARA
40 Down: Oscar winner Jannings => EMIL
41 Down: Roundabout, as a route => INDIRECT
43 Down: Offend slightly => MIFF
46 Down: Entertainer who often got tied up in his work? => HOUDINI
49 Down: Part of DOE: Abbr. => ENER
51 Down: Historic period => ERA
52 Down: Many top-rated TV shows of the late '50s/early '60s => OATERS
54 Down: Gordon __, Wall Street antagonist => GEKKO
55 Down: James Joyce work => NOVEL
56 Down: Weather, in poems => CLIME
57 Down: Permit => ALLOW
58 Down: Tit for tat, e.g. => SWAP
59 Down: The Godfather novelist Mario => PUZO
60 Down: Teeny colonizers => ANTS
64 Down: Agnus __ => DEI
65 Down: Zip, in soccer => NIL
66 Down: Wino's woe => DTS

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This crossword has 36 across clues and 43 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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