Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Place for wet cannonballs => POOL
5 Across: Volcanic rocks => LAVAS
10 Across: Move like a river => FLOW
14 Across: Vineyard unit => ACRE
15 Across: Plant used in tequila production => AGAVE
16 Across: Spencer of Good Morning America => LARA
17 Across: Really wiped out => BEAT
18 Across: Private's denial => NOSIR
19 Across: Like many resold items => USED
20 Across: *Teaching aid for learning foreign tongues => LANGUAGELAB
23 Across: Tot's piggy => TOE
24 Across: Like an accurate hockey shot => ONGOAL
25 Across: Arbor Day month => APRIL
27 Across: Brute => BEAST
30 Across: Tackled, as a task, with at => HADAGO
33 Across: With competence => ABLY
36 Across: Orderly => NEAT
38 Across: __ I lie to you? => WOULD
39 Across: Spy org. created under Truman => CIA
40 Across: Appetizer often served with duck sauce => EGGROLL
42 Across: Prefix with centric or caching => GEO
43 Across: Dermatologist's surgical tool => LASER
45 Across: __ girl! => ATTA
46 Across: Believe singer => CHER
47 Across: Theater guides => USHERS
49 Across: Sun-related => SOLAR
51 Across: Plunders => LOOTS
53 Across: Died down => ABATED
57 Across: Place to de-stress => SPA
59 Across: *Deep blue gemstone => LAPISLAZULI
62 Across: Angelic glow => AURA
64 Across: Dreadlocks wearer => RASTA
65 Across: __ la Douce => IRMA
66 Across: Essential point => CRUX
67 Across: Promotional connection => TIEIN
68 Across: Black, to a poet => EBON
69 Across: Ship's backbone => KEEL
70 Across: Mortimer on Bergen's knee => SNERD
71 Across: See 63-Down => ROSE

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Picasso who painted Gertrude Stein => PABLO
2 Down: Arctic or Indian => OCEAN
3 Down: Sumatran ape => ORANG
4 Down: Allow to pass => LETGOBY
5 Down: *Superboy's girlfriend => LANALANG
6 Down: Intensely excited => AGOG
7 Down: Ming museum piece => VASE
8 Down: Hometown of St. Teresa => AVILA
9 Down: High-ranking angel => SERAPH
10 Down: Winter ailment => FLU
11 Down: *Satisfaction after setbacks => LASTLAUGH
12 Down: Layered cookie => OREO
13 Down: Get one's tootsies wet => WADE
21 Down: Dubai's fed. => UAE
22 Down: Saloon slugfest => BRAWL
26 Down: Altar words => IDO
28 Down: Sonic the Hedgehog game company => SEGA
29 Down: Small fruit pies => TARTS
31 Down: Pure joy => GLEE
32 Down: What the nose knows => ODOR
33 Down: Civil rights gp. => ACLU
34 Down: Skewed view => BIAS
35 Down: *Cowboy star with a bullwhip => LASHLARUE
37 Down: Terrier on the Yellow Brick Road => TOTO
40 Down: Filmdom's Flynn => ERROL
41 Down: 2016 Best Picture (no, wait; it wasn't!) ... and a fitting place for the answers to starred clues? => LALALAND
44 Down: Fair-hiring letters => EEO
46 Down: Comparatively outlandish => CRAZIER
48 Down: Inaugurates => STARTS
50 Down: Case workers' org.? => ABA
52 Down: Iberian Peninsula country => SPAIN
54 Down: Supercharger => TURBO
55 Down: St. __ Fire => ELMOS
56 Down: Cheers waitress => DIANE
57 Down: Potato holder => SACK
58 Down: Like 24-karat gold => PURE
60 Down: __ skies of blue and clouds of white ... : What a Wonderful World => ISEE
61 Down: Recipe instruction => STIR
63 Down: With 71-Across, rocker whose first name anagrams a West Coast airport code => AXL

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This crossword has 39 across clues and 40 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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