Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Excites, with up => AMPS
5 Across: Programs opened with a fingertip => APPS
9 Across: Furtive attention-getters => PSSTS
14 Across: When doubled, a fish => MAHI
15 Across: Computer folder item => FILE
16 Across: Musical eightsome => OCTET
17 Across: *Air Force topper => FLIGHTCAP
19 Across: Go halfsies => SHARE
20 Across: Creator of the Hundred Acre Wood => MILNE
21 Across: Onetime comm. giant => ITT
23 Across: Concerning => INRE
24 Across: *Subconscious revelation => FREUDIANSLIP
28 Across: Unethical => IMMORAL
31 Across: __ brûlée: custard dessert => CREME
32 Across: Wild hog => BOAR
33 Across: Excite, with up => REV
35 Across: Up to now => ASYET
38 Across: Pipe shape => ELL
39 Across: *Solution for an itchy Spot? => FLEADIP
42 Across: __-Magnon => CRO
43 Across: Honking birds => GEESE
45 Across: Cookie container => TIN
46 Across: Woman in a family tree => AUNT
47 Across: Armada => FLEET
50 Across: Eurasian grasslands => STEPPES
52 Across: *Escapes => FLIESTHECOOP
55 Across: Beat really fast => RACE
56 Across: Gimme a __ => SEC
57 Across: Cacophony => NOISE
61 Across: Not up to the task => INEPT
63 Across: Opposites, and what the answers to starred clues literally contain => FLIPSIDES
66 Across: Ford replaced him as VP => AGNEW
67 Across: Folded Tex-Mex treat => TACO
68 Across: Daily paper material => NEWS
69 Across: Back in style => RETRO
70 Across: Underworld river => STYX
71 Across: Stun with a police gun => TASE

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Radio switch => AMFM
2 Down: Landlocked African country => MALI
3 Down: Three-time Masters champ Mickelson => PHIL
4 Down: Formally accept, as a delivery => SIGNFOR
5 Down: Toward the stern => AFT
6 Down: Camera shot => PIC
7 Down: Kilt pattern => PLAID
8 Down: __ tank => SEPTIC
9 Down: Neg. opposite => POS
10 Down: Deep divides => SCHISMS
11 Down: Hockey trophy => STANLEYCUP
12 Down: Purple-haired twin on The Simpsons => TERRI
13 Down: Brew => STEEP
18 Down: German gent => HERR
22 Down: Shingle sealant => TAR
25 Down: Royal wedding guest, perhaps => EARL
26 Down: Peter Fonda's beekeeper => ULEE
27 Down: Tide type => NEAP
28 Down: __ your pardon => IBEG
29 Down: Spy story staple => MOLE
30 Down: Like evildoers => MALEFICENT
34 Down: Laundry tub => VAT
36 Down: Shore bird => ERNE
37 Down: Youngsters => TOTS
39 Down: Charges for members => FEES
40 Down: Part of DJ => DISC
41 Down: Really enjoying, as a hobby => INTO
44 Down: Unexpected hit => SLEEPER
46 Down: Name officially, as to a position => APPOINT
48 Down: Sci-fi invaders => ETS
49 Down: Robberies => THEFTS
51 Down: Seemingly forever => EONS
52 Down: Monastery figure => FRIAR
53 Down: Jessica of American Horror Story => LANGE
54 Down: Panache => ECLAT
58 Down: Thought => IDEA
59 Down: Hems, but doesn't haw => SEWS
60 Down: To be, to Brutus => ESSE
62 Down: Word before time or piece => TWO
64 Down: Like an if looks could kill look => ICY
65 Down: Quaint curse => POX

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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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