Crossword Answers For: Thursday, May 10, 2018

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Bookie's concern => ODDS
5 Across: Wedge-shaped bones => SACRA
10 Across: Elite Eight org. => NCAA
14 Across: Bygone depilatory brand => NEET
15 Across: Cantilevered window => ORIEL
16 Across: Panhandler's income => ALMS
17 Across: Start of a business journey => ENTRYLEVEL
19 Across: Watery defense, perhaps => MOAT
20 Across: Hustle => HIE
21 Across: First name in bike stunts => EVEL
23 Across: Phased-out Secret Service weapon => UZI
24 Across: Way to get from 17- to 39-Across => CORPORATELADDER
29 Across: Doce meses => ANO
30 Across: Roll of bills => WAD
31 Across: Woolly mammal => EWE
32 Across: Seasonal song ender => SYNE
34 Across: Proceed tediously => PLOD
37 Across: Like pals who go way back => OLD
39 Across: Pinnacle of the journey => EXECUTIVEOFFICE
44 Across: Three Gorges project => DAM
45 Across: Wail => BAWL
46 Across: Former autocrat => TSAR
47 Across: Stat for Miguel Cabrera => RBI
49 Across: Menu phrase => ALA
51 Across: Letter before omega => PSI
52 Across: Way to get from 39- to 63-Across => GOLDENPARACHUTE
58 Across: Bygone greeting => AVE
59 Across: Site with digging => RUIN
60 Across: Witty remark => MOT
61 Across: Word with work or play => BOOK
63 Across: End of the journey => RETIREMENT
68 Across: Field of work => LINE
69 Across: Food poisoning cause => ECOLI
70 Across: Times past => ERAS
71 Across: Place of bliss => EDEN
72 Across: Summer Triangle star => DENEB
73 Across: WWI battle river => YSER

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Top 40 title for Metallica or U2 => ONE
2 Down: Resting place => DEN
3 Down: Overthrew => DETHRONED
4 Down: Las Vegas feature => STRIP
5 Down: Peruvian currency => SOL
6 Down: Occur => ARE
7 Down: Catlike carnivore => CIVET
8 Down: Deathtrap actor => REEVE
9 Down: Gene variant => ALLELE
10 Down: '60s hot spot => NAM
11 Down: Data storage medium => CLOUD
12 Down: Render speechless => AMAZE
13 Down: On the move => ASTIR
18 Down: Cry of pain => YEOW
22 Down: __ gravity => LAWOF
24 Down: Wholesale quantity => CASE
25 Down: Figurine material => ONYX
26 Down: Mesmerized => RAPT
27 Down: Wing it => ADLIB
28 Down: Dutch earthenware city => DELFT
33 Down: High-tech greeting => ECARD
35 Down: Fertility clinic specimens => OVA
36 Down: Big name in whisky => DEWAR
38 Down: Naysayers => DISPUTERS
40 Down: Darker-than-ocher pigment => UMBER
41 Down: Cantina cooker => OLLA
42 Down: Threw => CAST
43 Down: Pelee Island's lake => ERIE
48 Down: Toughened => INURED
50 Down: Top of the heap => ACME
52 Down: Triangular part of a house => GABLE
53 Down: Roundish => OVOID
54 Down: Sierra __ => LEONE
55 Down: Pizza slice, say => PIECE
56 Down: Playwright Chekhov => ANTON
57 Down: Comfortably familiar => HOMEY
62 Down: Understanding => KEN
64 Down: Seine site => ILE
65 Down: Corduroy feature => RIB
66 Down: Dream on, laddie => NAE
67 Down: Original Dungeons & Dragons co. => TSR

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This crossword has 37 across clues and 42 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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