Crossword Answers For: Friday, April 20, 2018

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Place for a guard => SHIN
5 Across: American sports org. => USOC
9 Across: Walk or wind preceder => CROSS
14 Across: Suffix for the wealthy => AIRE
15 Across: Actor who's played a doctor and senator on TV => ALDA
16 Across: What captions can capture => AUDIO
17 Across: *Pay back => PRATTLEON
19 Across: Pay homage, in a way => KNEEL
20 Across: Basil sauce => PESTO
21 Across: Teed off => DROVE
23 Across: __ Fridays => TGI
24 Across: Hideout => LAIR
26 Across: Like some sale quantities => LIMITED
28 Across: *Step back => DOMESTICANIMALS
32 Across: She played Mia in Pulp Fiction => UMA
33 Across: I did it! => TADA
34 Across: Prefix with thermal => EXO
35 Across: Puss in Boots baddie => OGRE
37 Across: Brown in a Croce title => LEROY
39 Across: Houston suburb named for initials from the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad => KATY
43 Across: 2018 Super Bowl designation => LII
45 Across: Compared with => THAN
47 Across: Tilling tool => HOE
48 Across: *Snap back => GIVESABADREVIEW
53 Across: Buttercup family member => ANEMONE
54 Across: Beat at the buzzer => EDGE
55 Across: Benching units: Abbr. => LBS
56 Across: Big name in little trucks => TONKA
58 Across: Many a UAE resident => EXPAT
62 Across: Chain with a dog-and-cat logo => PETCO
64 Across: One way to drive ... and what the last word of each starred clue really means => INREVERSE
66 Across: Really dug => ATEUP
67 Across: Command to Rover => COME
68 Across: Mindless repetition => ROTE
69 Across: Gumbo server => LADLE
70 Across: Govt. branch => EXEC
71 Across: PR firm's forte => SPIN

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: '90s-'00s NFL Pro Bowler Warren => SAPP
2 Down: Take on => HIRE
3 Down: Accts. funded annually, perhaps => IRAS
4 Down: Prickly plant => NETTLE
5 Down: Chi.-based flier => UAL
6 Down: Downhill excursion => SLEDRIDE
7 Down: Bleach feature => ODOR
8 Down: Rapeseed oil => CANOLA
9 Down: Baking convenience => CAKEMIX
10 Down: Winning streak => RUN
11 Down: 2003 self-titled folk album => ODETTA
12 Down: Superman co-creator Jerry => SIEGEL
13 Down: Cones and cubes => SOLIDS
18 Down: Doomed, slangily => TOAST
22 Down: Resort near Cape Cod, with the => VINEYARD
25 Down: Napoli native => ITALIANO
27 Down: It's just a scratch => IMOK
28 Down: Outkast, for one => DUO
29 Down: Texter's Shocking! => OMG
30 Down: Damage => MAR
31 Down: Magna __ => CARTA
36 Down: I, O or U => ELEM
38 Down: My goodness! => OHDEARME
40 Down: Rarely served fish? => AHI
41 Down: Low digit => TOE
42 Down: Archery wood => YEW
44 Down: Uranium-238, e.g. => ISOTOPE
46 Down: Beersheba's locale => NEGEV
48 Down: Female bud => GALPAL
49 Down: Still being tested, as software => INBETA
50 Down: __ interest => VESTED
51 Down: Mind your manners => BENICE
52 Down: Irritations => VEXERS
57 Down: Polk's middle name => KNOX
59 Down: Support, with up => PROP
60 Down: Product of white Muscat grapes => ASTI
61 Down: New driver, usually => TEEN
63 Down: __-de-sac => CUL
65 Down: Continental trade gp. => EEC

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This crossword has 37 across clues and 40 down clues. In total 77 clues are solved in the section above.
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