Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: TV drama whose title appeared on a California license plate => LALAW
6 Across: Beatrix Potter's The __ of Peter Rabbit => TALE
10 Across: Right away! letters => ASAP
14 Across: Yellow-and-white daisy => OXEYE
15 Across: Goat with recurved horns => IBEX
16 Across: Circle dance => HORA
17 Across: Gadget used on carrots => VEGETABLEPEELER
20 Across: Inventor Whitney => ELI
21 Across: No-win situation => TIE
22 Across: Expression of woe => LAMENT
23 Across: Seasonal sack toter => SANTA
26 Across: Whisperer's target => EAR
27 Across: Utter => SAY
28 Across: Deepwater Horizon catastrophe => GULFOILSPILL
32 Across: Slanted type => ITALIC
33 Across: Bronze component => TIN
34 Across: Baseball Tonight network => ESPN
38 Across: Swamp reptile => GATOR
39 Across: Lobbying gp. => PAC
40 Across: __ New Guinea => PAPUA
41 Across: Mets' home through 2008 => SHEA
42 Across: Roguish => SLY
43 Across: Arcade machine inserts => TOKENS
44 Across: Inhales => TAKESABREATH
47 Across: Key near Caps Lock => TAB
50 Across: Spy org. => CIA
51 Across: Time to chill, briefly => RANDR
52 Across: Dozing => ASLEEP
54 Across: CDX x V => MML
55 Across: Extinct New Zealand bird => MOA
58 Across: Activity one might see at a circus ... or in the Across answers containing circles? => SWORDSWALLOWING
62 Across: Sharp flavor => TANG
63 Across: Rummikub piece => TILE
64 Across: React to pain => WINCE
65 Across: Wraps up => ENDS
66 Across: Attacking the problem => ONIT
67 Across: Soft drink size => LITER

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Adore => LOVE
2 Down: Skater's leap => AXEL
3 Down: Make laws => LEGISLATE
4 Down: Shipboard affirmative => AYE
5 Down: Like an unfun blanket? => WET
6 Down: Related to the shinbone => TIBIAL
7 Down: Up to the task => ABLE
8 Down: Calm side => LEE
9 Down: Clarify => EXPLAIN
10 Down: If I may interject ... => AHEM
11 Down: Shoe undersides => SOLES
12 Down: Sports venue => ARENA
13 Down: New Year's Eve staple => PARTY
18 Down: High point of a home tour? => ATTIC
19 Down: British nobleman => EARL
24 Down: Bobbing on the waves => AFLOAT
25 Down: Gritty film genre => NOIR
26 Down: Iliad or Aeneid => EPIC
28 Down: Jobs for a band => GIGS
29 Down: The Beehive State => UTAH
30 Down: Corset stiffeners => STAYS
31 Down: Released without authorization => LEAKED
35 Down: Gum flavor => SPEARMINT
36 Down: Many a fourth-down play => PUNT
37 Down: Singer with Crosby and Stills => NASH
39 Down: Courtroom entry => PLEA
40 Down: Lewd literature => PORN
42 Down: Reaches without reading the intervening pages => SKIPSTO
43 Down: Pre-Little League game => TBALL
45 Down: Scored 100 on => ACED
46 Down: Sleeve band => ARMLET
47 Down: Sense of style => TASTE
48 Down: Egypt's __ High Dam => ASWAN
49 Down: Fair-haired => BLOND
53 Down: Work units => ERGS
54 Down: The Niger River flows through it => MALI
56 Down: __ upon a midnight dreary ... => ONCE
57 Down: Stress, so they say => AGER
59 Down: Come out on top => WIN
60 Down: Nocturnal hunter => OWL
61 Down: Nintendo console => WII

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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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