Crossword Answers For: Saturday, February 3, 2018

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Bundles together, as wheat => SHEAFS
7 Across: EPA concern => AQI
10 Across: Cab alternative => UBER
14 Across: Field meeting => HUDDLE
15 Across: Choral extreme => BASSNOTE
17 Across: Predestine => ORDAIN
18 Across: Countermeasure => ANTIDOTE
19 Across: Jesse Owens, e.g. => OLYMPICATHLETE
21 Across: Advance => SPOT
22 Across: Part of NAFTA: Abbr. => AMER
23 Across: Rats along the Rhine? => ACH
26 Across: Rage => IRE
27 Across: Where snowbirds flock in winter? => SUNBELT
31 Across: Feller's tool? => CHAINSAW
34 Across: Cheap smoke => STOGIE
35 Across: Stick => CLING
36 Across: Hamm from Alabama => MIA
38 Across: Windows predecessor => MSDOS
39 Across: Five-book collections => TORAHS
41 Across: Serious betrayals => TREASONS
43 Across: Henry VIII's third => SEYMOUR
45 Across: Kunal Nayyar's role in The Big Bang Theory => RAJ
46 Across: Ultra-secret org. => NSA
47 Across: River to the Seine => AUBE
48 Across: Winged figure of myth => EROS
50 Across: Canine epithet => MANSBESTFRIEND
56 Across: Monthly subtitled The Magazine of Maine => DOWNEAST
57 Across: Portugal's capital, locally => LISBOA
58 Across: Having an accent => STRESSED
59 Across: Speedily => ATARUN
60 Across: Astronomical dist. => LTYR
61 Across: Slight opening? => ESS
62 Across: End zone quartet => PYLONS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Wave off => SHOO
2 Down: Fling => HURL
3 Down: Result of pulling the plug? => EDDY
4 Down: __ apple => ADAMS
5 Down: Real estate investment strategy => FLIPPINGHOUSES
6 Down: Year-ending ceremony participants => SENIORS
7 Down: Quatrain rhyme scheme => ABAA
8 Down: Airline with a kangaroo on its logo => QANTAS
9 Down: Common canal site => ISTHMUS
10 Down: Position near the top of some organizational structures => UNDERBOSS
11 Down: Spare tyre site => BOOT
12 Down: Kitchen finish? => ETTE
13 Down: Pioneer Woman cookbook writer Drummond => REE
16 Down: Voting bloc term used by Nixon and Trump => SILENTMAJORITY
20 Down: Backups' backups => CTEAM
23 Down: Bank nos. => ACCTS
24 Down: Techie on 24 => CHLOE
25 Down: Hirsute => HAIRY
28 Down: __ Heath: Thomas Hardy setting => EGDON
29 Down: They have their pride => LIONS
30 Down: Championship ice dancer __ Virtue => TESSA
32 Down: So to speak => INAMANNER
33 Down: Verbal deftness => WIT
37 Down: Rue stop? => ARRET
40 Down: Naval fortification => SUBBASE
42 Down: Winter cap feature => EARFLAP
44 Down: Piece maker => REESES
49 Down: Twine fiber => SISAL
50 Down: Suffragist who co-founded Swarthmore => MOTT
51 Down: Off the mark => AWRY
52 Down: EPA issuances => STDS
53 Down: Iberian river => EBRO
54 Down: Truth or consequences, e.g. => NOUN
55 Down: Aykroyd and Patrick => DANS
56 Down: Broadband choice, briefly => DSL

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This crossword has 33 across clues and 36 down clues. In total 69 clues are solved in the section above.
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