Crossword Answers For: Sunday, March 4, 2018

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Pond organism => ALGA
5 Across: Traffic sound => BEEP
9 Across: Spin, for one => CYCLE
14 Across: Niger neighbor => MALI
18 Across: Slight mitigation? => NOOFFENSE
20 Across: One dressed for dinner? => CAESARSALAD
22 Across: I didn't mean that => NOTREALLY
23 Across: Defense opponent, briefly => ASSISTANTDA
24 Across: Preliminary negotiations => INFORMA
25 Across: - => TALKS
27 Across: Bivouac structure => TENT
28 Across: Sportage automaker => KIA
29 Across: Olympic skater Ito => MIDORI
31 Across: Mag. edition => ISS
33 Across: Obliterate => ERASE
37 Across: Blow bubbles into => AERATE
40 Across: Canberra school => UNI
41 Across: Benjamin of Private Practice => BRATT
43 Across: Italian peaks => ALPS
44 Across: Seriously? => YOUDO
46 Across: Teachers' org. => NEA
48 Across: Former Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale component => VERB
50 Across: - => LIQ
51 Across: Fluorescent bulb element => KRYPT
52 Across: - => NGAS
53 Across: Functions => OPERATES
55 Across: Ring holders => TOES
56 Across: Fish eggs => ROE
58 Across: Toffee candy bar => SKOR
60 Across: Alloys, e.g. => MIXES
61 Across: Corner office execs => CEOS
62 Across: Word spoken con affetto => CARA
63 Across: Fine-grained wood => YEW
64 Across: Sleep it off => SOBERUP
66 Across: Shame! => TSK
67 Across: On the Good Ship Lollipop performer => SHIRLE
69 Across: - => TEMPLE
71 Across: Tach figure => RPM
72 Across: Youth support group => ALATEEN
74 Across: Antique => OLD
76 Across: Storage facility sometimes found underground => SILO
77 Across: New Mexico's __ Ski Valley => TAOS
78 Across: What __: Ho-hum => ABORE
79 Across: Scoop => INFO
80 Across: Part of TNT => TRI
81 Across: Show some teeth => GRIN
82 Across: Washington soccer team => DCUNITED
84 Across: Lesser clergy member => MINO
86 Across: - => CANON
88 Across: Confirmed => BOR
89 Across: - => EOUT
90 Across: Balaam's mount => ASS
91 Across: Vade __: handbook => MECUM
92 Across: Old Vatican bread => LIRE
94 Across: Port of __: Trinidad and Tobago's capital => SPAIN
96 Across: Fashion initials => YSL
98 Across: Hundreds, slangily => CSPOTS
102 Across: Plane wing parts => SLATS
104 Across: Driver's lic. figure => HGT
105 Across: Lacking what it takes => UNABLE
107 Across: Mauna __ => LOA
108 Across: Blood prefix => HEMO
110 Across: Check out a wreck, perhaps => GOSCU
112 Across: - => ADIVING
115 Across: Babysitters' woes => HOLYTERRORS
119 Across: Romcom, perhaps => DATEMOVIE
121 Across: Piton user => MOUNTAINEER
122 Across: How titles may be written => INITALICS
123 Across: Sludge => OOZE
124 Across: Wonder Woman's __ of Truth => LASSO
125 Across: Chinese: Pref. => SINO
126 Across: From Denver to Topeka => EAST

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Golfer Sorenstam => ANNIKA
2 Down: Canadian coin => LOONIE
3 Down: Had success => GOTFAR
4 Down: Picked hairdo => AFRO
5 Down: Classic Star Trek order => BEAMMEUP
6 Down: China's Zhou __ => ENLAI
7 Down: Night school subj. => ESL
8 Down: Manning in Nationwide ads => PEYTON
9 Down: Amontillado holder => CASK
10 Down: Base reply? => YESSIR
11 Down: __: Miami => CSI
12 Down: Final part of a task => LASTSTEP
13 Down: Art Deco artist => ERTE
14 Down: Watchword => MANTRA
15 Down: PC space bar neighbor => ALT
16 Down: Bloke => LAD
17 Down: Early civil rights activist __ B. Wells => IDA
19 Down: Pro, country-style => FER
20 Down: Colombian city => CALI
21 Down: Clear-minded => SANE
26 Down: Single Ladies (Put __ on It): Beyoncé hit => ARING
30 Down: Pair => DUO
32 Down: Relish => SAVOR
34 Down: ATV part => ALLTERRAIN
35 Down: Watches secretly => SPIESUPON
36 Down: Legal titles: Abbr. => ESQS
38 Down: Actor Lew => AYRES
39 Down: Some action figures => TOYS
41 Down: Successful shot => BASKET
42 Down: Vocal effect => TREMOLO
45 Down: Subway line with a Yankee Stadium stop => DTRAIN
47 Down: Whoa! => EASY
49 Down: Payoff => BRIBE
51 Down: Laughing Australian bird => KOOKABURRA
52 Down: SNL alum Kevin => NEALON
54 Down: Paul Bunyan tool => AXE
55 Down: Chicago Museum of Science and Industry showpiece => TESLACOIL
57 Down: Bobby on the ice => ORR
59 Down: Has a loan from => OWESTO
61 Down: Windy City transp. org. => CTA
62 Down: Frito-Lay product with a spokes-feline named Chester => CHEETOS
64 Down: Put together, as film => SPLICE
65 Down: U.K. heads => PMS
67 Down: __ A: Italian soccer league => SERIE
68 Down: The Simpsons Theme composer Danny => ELFMAN
70 Down: 105-Down launch => MIR
73 Down: Slew => TON
75 Down: ... the worst thing you can __ nothing: Teddy Roosevelt => DOIS
77 Down: Clobber => TROMP
79 Down: Attaché attachment => IDTAG
81 Down: African bovines => GNUS
82 Down: Two-baggers: Abbr. => DBLS
83 Down: High => EUPHORIA
85 Down: Timberlake's former band => NSYNC
87 Down: Approve => ACCEDETO
91 Down: Commissioner's Trophy org. => MLB
93 Down: Welding fuel => ETHYNE
95 Down: And So __: Billy Joel song => ITGOES
97 Down: Riyadh residents => SAUDIS
99 Down: Kid-lit pig => OLIVIA
100 Down: Elixirs => TONICS
101 Down: Like the best wisdom => SAGEST
103 Down: Paving stone => SETT
105 Down: 70-Down launcher => USSR
106 Down: Classic language => LATIN
109 Down: Dinner, for one => MEAL
111 Down: It has a Double Stuf variety => OREO
113 Down: The Beatles' __ Loser => IMA
114 Down: Burrowing rodent => VOLE
115 Down: Aetna offering => HMO
116 Down: Tic-tac-toe win => OOO
117 Down: Spanish light => LUZ
118 Down: ER workers => RNS
120 Down: Young Skywalker's nickname => ANI

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This crossword has 72 across clues and 75 down clues. In total 147 clues are solved in the section above.
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