Crossword Answers For: Friday, March 9, 2018

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: In need of mopping => SPILT
6 Across: Apple app mostly replaced by Messages => ICHAT
11 Across: Clock std. => GST
14 Across: Some plankton => ALGAE
15 Across: Iconic Vivien Leigh role => OHARA
16 Across: 2014 World Cup Final host => RIO
17 Across: Bungles => GOOFS
18 Across: Stable moms => MARES
19 Across: What is THAT? => EEK
20 Across: What Darwin did aboard the Beagle? => WRITEOFPASSAGE
23 Across: Far from fresh => TRITE
24 Across: Reduced to crumbs, perhaps => EATEN
25 Across: London supermarket sections? => BRITISHAISLES
30 Across: Behaved like a lovestruck heart => RACED
31 Across: Lakeside temperature gauge? => TOE
32 Across: End => STOP
35 Across: Love interest for WALL-E => EVE
36 Across: Word that may follow a president's name => ERA
39 Across: Carrier merged with Delta since 2010 => NWA
41 Across: Game with Reverse cards => UNO
42 Across: '50s sitcom name => DESI
44 Across: Something to wrestle with => ARM
46 Across: Figure out => INFER
48 Across: Tie shoes professionally? => KNOTFORPROFIT
52 Across: Walking aid => STAFF
54 Across: Distributed => DEALT
55 Across: Lacking a critical watch-making supply? => OUTOFHOURHANDS
60 Across: Hitter's stat => RBI
61 Across: Sometimes plucked instrument => CELLO
62 Across: Dorothy, to Em => NIECE
64 Across: Common base => TEN
65 Across: Impulses => URGES
66 Across: Showman's talent => ECLAT
67 Across: Braz. neighbor => ARG
68 Across: Flirt => TEASE
69 Across: Voting Rights Trail terminus => SELMA

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Sink => SAG
2 Down: Slam (into) => PLOW
3 Down: Movie lab helper => IGOR
4 Down: Battle of New Orleans pirate => LAFITTE
5 Down: Short Golf drive? => TESTRIDE
6 Down: Insect with eyespots on its wings => IOMOTH
7 Down: Be irritated by => CHAFEAT
8 Down: Plucked instrument => HARP
9 Down: Region => AREA
10 Down: Academic hanger => TASSEL
11 Down: Nice work! => GREATSTUFF
12 Down: Onslaught => SIEGE
13 Down: Symbolic yet insubstantial => TOKEN
21 Down: München cubes => EIS
22 Down: RSVP holders => SAES
25 Down: Word after well or ill => BRED
26 Down: Techno club event => RAVE
27 Down: Winter recreation => ICESKATING
28 Down: Solar wind particle => ION
29 Down: Use a needle => SEW
33 Down: R.E.M.'s The __ Love => ONEI
34 Down: Cargo pickup site => PORT
37 Down: Ubiquitous rodent => RAT
38 Down: Warning sound, perhaps => ARF
40 Down: Southwest routes => AIRLANES
43 Down: Recon target => INFO
45 Down: Interchangeable components => MODULES
47 Down: Mean => NOTNICE
49 Down: Lumber remnant, in Liverpool => OFFCUT
50 Down: Ascended again => REROSE
51 Down: Blast it! => PAH
52 Down: Wavering word => SORTA
53 Down: Potato or yam => TUBER
56 Down: Try this => HERE
57 Down: Contemporary of Nadia => OLGA
58 Down: Computer giant => DELL
59 Down: In retrospect, it may have sounded too good to be true => SCAM
63 Down: SFO posting => ETA

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This crossword has 36 across clues and 39 down clues. In total 75 clues are solved in the section above.
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