Crossword Answers For: Sunday, October 21, 2018

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Dropped-jaw stare => GAWP
5 Across: Like loving caresses => SENSUAL
12 Across: Audio units: Abbr. => DBS
15 Across: The Americans agcy. => FBI
18 Across: First name in erotica => ANAIS
20 Across: Place for a bootee => TOOTSIE
21 Across: Seedy motel, say => RATTRAP
23 Across: Painting of an annoying bricklayer at work? => MORTARANDPEST
25 Across: Japan's emperor => AKIHITO
26 Across: Like many forest roads => UNPAVED
27 Across: Suffer => AIL
28 Across: Least obfuscated => OPENEST
29 Across: Football laterals, e.g. => TOSSES
30 Across: 15th-century food-stained collectible? => GUTENBERGSBIB
33 Across: Beachcomber's pace => STROLL
36 Across: Breezy and open => AIRY
37 Across: Glance => PEEK
38 Across: Chaotic mess => SNAFU
42 Across: Bot head? => ECO
43 Across: Harbor protector => JETTY
45 Across: Dutch South Africans => BOERS
46 Across: Fabulist's Cheer alternative? => AESOPSFAB
48 Across: Exodus author => URIS
49 Across: Chickadee kin => TIT
50 Across: Undocumented Nepali? => YETI
51 Across: Peak in Thessaly => OSSA
52 Across: Big D cager => MAV
53 Across: Annoy => IRK
54 Across: PC linkup => LAN
57 Across: Mexican mama bears => OSAS
59 Across: Slip away => ELAPSE
61 Across: Popular Oahu beach => WAIKIKI
63 Across: Dollar for a shot? => BELTBUCK
66 Across: Hmm => GEE
67 Across: Dollars for shots? => ROUNDTAB
68 Across: Piles up => AMASSES
69 Across: Captain Hook's creator J.M. __ => BARRIE
71 Across: Eight furlongs => MILE
72 Across: Caught => GOT
73 Across: Erstwhile U.K. recording giant => EMI
74 Across: Kind of trading, briefly => OTC
75 Across: Sweet Sixteen org. => NCAA
77 Across: With the bow, in music => ARCO
80 Across: Of __ mind => ONE
81 Across: Qatar's capital => DOHA
82 Across: Snow White witch's download? => POISONAPP
84 Across: Refine, as ore => SMELT
87 Across: Stick on the grill => KEBAB
88 Across: Beat it => LAM
89 Across: Jamaican hybrid fruits => UGLIS
90 Across: Fine-tune => HONE
91 Across: China-related prefix => SINO
92 Across: Irritates => EATSAT
94 Across: Mud, slop, pig, etc.? => ELEMENTSOFSTY
98 Across: Mist and such => VAPORS
103 Across: Show great respect for, perhaps => IMITATE
104 Across: Mythical flapper => ROC
105 Across: Gulf of Guinea country => NIGERIA
106 Across: Easy time => LEISURE
107 Across: Sailing maneuver to avoid a pirate's threat? => DEFENSIVETACK
110 Across: City on the Elbe => DRESDEN
111 Across: Morning paper, e.g. => EDITION
112 Across: Gymnopédies composer => SATIE
113 Across: French article whose singular form is disconnected from nine puzzle answers => LES
114 Across: Newsroom VIPs => EDS
115 Across: Boot protectors => TOECAPS
116 Across: Smartphone component => LENS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Full range => GAMUT
2 Down: That's __! => ANONO
3 Down: Twists => WARPS
4 Down: Their pockets aren't deep => PITAS
5 Down: Dutch town => STAD
6 Down: Geological period => EON
7 Down: Movement at a boring concert? => NOD
8 Down: Twin-but-not-Twins' city => STPAUL
9 Down: Half a fitness motto => USEIT
10 Down: Freezer __ => AISLE
11 Down: Allow => LET
12 Down: Window hanging => DRAPERY
13 Down: Where brownies come together => BAKERY
14 Down: Wasp's weapon => STING
15 Down: Disc golf ball => FRISBEE
16 Down: More eccentric => BATTIER
17 Down: WSJ news bit => IPO
19 Down: Sets money aside => SAVESUP
22 Down: What an X may mark => THESPOT
24 Down: Arm or chin follower => REST
28 Down: Bios unread by their honorees => OBITS
30 Down: Universal => GLOBAL
31 Down: Endemic => NATIVE
32 Down: Neh. and Esth. => BKS
34 Down: Penalty callers => REFS
35 Down: Ric of The Cars => OCASEK
38 Down: Opinion => SAY
39 Down: French word in bios => NEE
40 Down: Home of Elaine, in Arthurian legend => ASTOLAT
41 Down: Forces fraudulently (upon) => FOISTS
43 Down: Vehicle hired to carry steeplechase horses? => JUMPERCAB
44 Down: Tip for changing your answer? => ERASER
45 Down: 61-Across wear => BIKINI
47 Down: Cavalier My bad => SOSUEME
49 Down: Emotional wounds => TRAUMAS
53 Down: Iconic WWII island, briefly => IWO
54 Down: Unlike idioms => LITERAL
55 Down: Going by, for short => AKA
56 Down: Tip for solving in ink? => NIB
58 Down: Not in class => ABSENT
60 Down: Mystery award => AGATHA
62 Down: Constant Craving singer => KDLANG
63 Down: Carousel item => BAG
64 Down: Broody rock genre => EMO
65 Down: Long-running forensic series => CSI
67 Down: Put more varnish on => RECOAT
69 Down: Owie => BOOBOO
70 Down: Not out-of-bounds, as a ball => INPLAY
76 Down: Goals => AIMS
78 Down: Cost-of-living no. => CPI
79 Down: Photo possibilities => OPS
80 Down: Bama rival => OLEMISS
81 Down: Tightly packed => DENSE
83 Down: Some leave you powerless => OUTAGES
84 Down: Miss, say => SHE
85 Down: Tartuffe dramatist => MOLIERE
86 Down: Foes => ENEMIES
87 Down: Cute calendar subjects => KITTENS
91 Down: Caught => SNARED
92 Down: Blah, blah, blah, briefly => ETCETC
93 Down: Tel __ => AVIV
95 Down: Liszt work => ETUDE
96 Down: Middle Corleone brother => FREDO
97 Down: Mezzo-soprano Anne __ von Otter => SOFIE
99 Down: Part of a flower => PETAL
100 Down: Speak => ORATE
101 Down: Breaking Bad toxin => RICIN
102 Down: Benefits => SAKES
105 Down: 18-Across and family => NINS
106 Down: Cholesterol letters => LDL
107 Down: Tigers' home: Abbr. => DET
108 Down: Vardalos of film => NIA
109 Down: Bread, for stew => SOP

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This crossword has 67 across clues and 74 down clues. In total 141 clues are solved in the section above.
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