Crossword Answers For: Friday, December 21, 2018

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Spite => VENOM
6 Across: Don't believe it => MYTH
10 Across: Lying lion in The Lion King => SCAR
14 Across: Colleague of Samuel and Sonia => ELENA
15 Across: Yorkshire river => OUSE
16 Across: In fine fettle => HALE
17 Across: Cartoon drawing of Rip Van Winkle? => SLEEPERCEL
19 Across: Camera part => IRIS
20 Across: Blackens => TARS
21 Across: We need to get a cat! => EEK
22 Across: Set off => IGNITE
24 Across: Decoration for a Tinseltown party gift? => HOLLYWOODBOW
27 Across: Seat for a shot => STOOL
30 Across: Piedmont province => ASTI
31 Across: Orchestral gong => TAMTAM
33 Across: Salem winter hrs. => PST
34 Across: Hat-removing event => GUST
38 Across: Be off base => ERR
39 Across: Dismiss a disobedient film computer? => FIREHAL
42 Across: Future fish => ROE
43 Across: Oliver Twist type => WAIF
45 Across: Farm mom => SOW
46 Across: It may be held or bitten => TONGUE
48 Across: Insecure Emmy nominee __ Rae => ISSA
50 Across: Bad looks => LEERS
51 Across: Dixie hospitality, e.g.? => SOUTHERNDRAW
57 Across: Dig => TUNNEL
58 Across: Macabre monogram => EAP
59 Across: Name of two of Henry VIII's wives => ANNE
63 Across: Massachusetts motto opener => ENSE
64 Across: Allowing use of, as a library does ... or, in three parts, a hint to four puzzle answers => LENDINGOUT
67 Across: First-rate => ACES
68 Across: Angry => IRED
69 Across: Busybody => YENTA
70 Across: Two-time World Series champs => METS
71 Across: Like falling off a log? => EASY
72 Across: Boorish => CRASS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Protective wear, often => VEST
2 Down: Self-titled 1969 jazz album => ELLA
3 Down: Poetic negative => NEER
4 Down: Not to be repeated => ONESHOT
5 Down: Blueprint => MAP
6 Down: Culinary mushroom => MOREL
7 Down: Foul => YUCKY
8 Down: Ash Wednesday poet's monogram => TSE
9 Down: Device that generates solar power => HELIOSTAT
10 Down: Bash => SHINDIG
11 Down: West Indies native => CARIB
12 Down: Colleague of Kagan and Kavanaugh => ALITO
13 Down: Alter with thread => RESEW
18 Down: Unagi, e.g. => EEL
23 Down: Nabbed => GOT
25 Down: Kiddie lit count => OLAF
26 Down: Clean with soap => WASH
27 Down: Brood => STEW
28 Down: Twelve Oaks neighbor => TARA
29 Down: Katz of Dallas => OMRI
32 Down: Mother of J.R. and Bobby => MISSELLIE
33 Down: Row of seats => PEW
35 Down: Advocate => URGE
36 Down: Whiskey __ => SOUR
37 Down: Cafepress.com offerings => TEES
40 Down: Big laugh => ROAR
41 Down: 1970 Kinks hit => LOLA
44 Down: Gym goal => FITNESS
47 Down: Hard-to-define spiritualist => NEWAGER
49 Down: Cow, for one => SHE
51 Down: Cook, as clams => STEAM
52 Down: Not a heavy weight => OUNCE
53 Down: Up in the air => UNSET
54 Down: Bogotá babies => NENES
55 Down: Family nickname => DADDY
56 Down: N.Y. engineering sch. => RPI
60 Down: Actress Gaye of Ali => NONA
61 Down: Bar freebies => NUTS
62 Down: Itinerary info => ETAS
65 Down: Victorian __ => ERA
66 Down: 9/11 Memorial site: Abbr. => NYC

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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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