Crossword Answers For: Saturday, October 6, 2018

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Soap-drop indicator => PLOP
5 Across: Prepared for pie, in a way => CORED
10 Across: Trunk extension => LIMB
14 Across: Buddhist priest => LAMA
15 Across: The A in the Tokyo studio AIC => ANIME
16 Across: Stargazing subject? => IDOL
17 Across: Rural stopovers => INNS
18 Across: Retro filter choice => SEPIA
19 Across: Importunate solicitor => TOUT
20 Across: Spin-off with a bluesy theme song by John Lee Hooker => NCISNEWORLEANS
23 Across: 2000s political slogan => YESWECAN
24 Across: Initial payments => ANTES
26 Across: European hub => ORLY
27 Across: Industrious type => BUSYBEE
29 Across: Nut => WEIRDO
32 Across: Ritual heap => PYRE
33 Across: Rapper will.__ => IAM
34 Across: Half a piano duo? => HAND
35 Across: Chaparral plant => SHRUB
37 Across: Longfellow's The Bell of __ => ATRI
38 Across: Iwo Jima flag-raiser Hayes => IRA
39 Across: Half a classic cowboy nickname => KEMO
40 Across: Top of the order? => ABBESS
42 Across: DNA units => STRANDS
44 Across: 1990s game console release, initially => SNES
45 Across: Strong feeling => THROE
46 Across: '60s-'70s singer born Ellen Cohen => MAMACASS
50 Across: Catcall? => HEREKITTYKITTY
53 Across: Circumstances, idiomatically => BOAT
54 Across: Hilarious => ARIOT
55 Across: Look for => SEEK
56 Across: Certain something => AURA
57 Across: Obviously! => NODUH
58 Across: Put away => SAVE
59 Across: Highland language => ERSE
60 Across: Irritations found in clouds => GNATS
61 Across: Iowa Department of Transportation city => AMES

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Naturalis Historia author => PLINY
2 Down: Poker for knights? => LANCE
3 Down: Old Dodges => OMNIS
4 Down: It often looks like gibberish => PASSWORD
5 Down: No more discussion => CASECLOSED
6 Down: Like turnpike ramps => ONEWAY
7 Down: Wisconsin college => RIPON
8 Down: Abu Dhabi bigwig => EMIR
9 Down: Shaking event => DEAL
10 Down: Prolonged list, as of complaints => LITANY
11 Down: It's safe to sit next to me => IDONTBITE
12 Down: Onetime accessory for Britney Spears and Keri Russell => MOUSEEARS
13 Down: Nonkosher sandwich, usually => BLT
21 Down: Techie stereotype => NERD
22 Down: Hakuna Matata lifestyle => EASE
25 Down: Ones in it for the long haul => SEMIS
27 Down: Mitt Romney's alma mater: Abbr. => BYU
28 Down: Modern folklore => URBANMYTHS
29 Down: Card game played by Phileas Fogg => WHIST
30 Down: Annual observance celebrating commitment to the planet => EARTHHOUR
31 Down: Behind => INARREARS
32 Down: __ tem => PRO
36 Down: Darwin's __ Beagle => HMS
37 Down: Graph point's x-coordinate => ABSCISSA
39 Down: Low joint => KNEE
41 Down: Turtle's mouth => BEAK
43 Down: Vital vessels => AORTAE
44 Down: Didn't play => SATOUT
46 Down: Crete's highest elev. => MTIDA
47 Down: Top squad => ATEAM
48 Down: Martin or Miller => STEVE
49 Down: I'ma Be Me stand-up comic Wanda => SYKES
51 Down: Kodos' alien cohort on The Simpsons => KANG
52 Down: It can be pumped => IRON
53 Down: Honey, in slang => BAE

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This crossword has 37 across clues and 36 down clues. In total 73 clues are solved in the section above.
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