Crossword Answers For: Monday, August 20, 2018

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Chowder bit => CLAM
5 Across: Conversation => TALK
9 Across: Chopped cabbage sides => SLAWS
14 Across: Tree with needles => PINE
15 Across: Mine, in Metz => AMOI
16 Across: Bounce off the wall => CAROM
17 Across: Online site for making a will => LEGALZOOM
19 Across: Wagner work => OPERA
20 Across: Not kidding => SERIOUS
21 Across: Wards (off) => FENDS
22 Across: System of connected PCs => LAN
23 Across: Ironic exclamation before an unsurprising announcement => NEWSFLASH
26 Across: __-di-dah: pretentious => LAH
28 Across: Suffix with violin => IST
30 Across: __ a Sin: Pet Shop Boys hit => ITS
31 Across: Fashion's Versace => GIANNI
33 Across: __-pitch => SLO
34 Across: Coif for the prom => UPDO
38 Across: Fills (someone) in about the latest developments => BRINGSUPTOSPEED
41 Across: Flat to change, in Chelsea => TYRE
42 Across: Attempt => TRY
43 Across: Profited => GAINED
44 Across: Some fridges => GES
45 Across: Coop layer => HEN
46 Across: Online chats, briefly => IMS
47 Across: All people, with the => HUMANRACE
52 Across: Airer of old quiz show reruns, for short => GSN
54 Across: San Antonio mission => ALAMO
55 Across: Placate => APPEASE
58 Across: Doodle on the guitar => STRUM
59 Across: Hollywood pre-award speculation => OSCARBUZZ
61 Across: Get up => ARISE
62 Across: Summer weather word => HEAT
63 Across: Muffin spread => OLEO
64 Across: Stuns in an arrest => TASES
65 Across: Legend => MYTH
66 Across: Hawaiian root => TARO

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: NCO below sgt. => CPL
2 Down: False statements => LIES
3 Down: Thin spaghetti => ANGELHAIR
4 Down: Anne who teamed with Stiller => MEARA
5 Down: Starbucks tea brand => TAZO
6 Down: Total up (to) => AMOUNT
7 Down: Running free => LOOSE
8 Down: Lil' rapper => KIM
9 Down: Pooh-poohs, with at => SCOFFS
10 Down: Boutonniere site => LAPEL
11 Down: Sports stadium => ARENA
12 Down: Lexicographer's love => WORDS
13 Down: Huge hit => SMASH
18 Down: Every cloud's silver feature? => LINING
24 Down: Go limp => WILT
25 Down: Moe or Curly, e.g. => STOOGE
26 Down: Rainbow flag letters => LGBT
27 Down: Well-ventilated => AIRY
29 Down: Anne Brontë, to Emily => SISTER
32 Down: Opposite of SSW => NNE
33 Down: One of many in TV's The Americans => SPY
34 Down: AP competitor => UPI
35 Down: Florida, mostly => PENINSULA
36 Down: Consider to be => DEEM
37 Down: Pre-Kentucky Derby postings => ODDS
39 Down: Heavenly bear => URSA
40 Down: Birth control activist Margaret => SANGER
44 Down: Pointy-hatted garden figures => GNOMES
45 Down: Jazz music fan => HEPCAT
47 Down: Attacks => HASAT
48 Down: Michelob diet beer => ULTRA
49 Down: He broke Ruth's home run record => MARIS
50 Down: Get a guffaw from => AMUSE
51 Down: ... mighty __ has struck out => CASEY
53 Down: Wooden shoe => SABOT
56 Down: Way in the woods => PATH
57 Down: Weizman of Israel => EZER
59 Down: Unit of resistance => OHM
60 Down: Animal house => ZOO

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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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