Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Fictional archaeologist Croft => LARA
5 Across: Prep for fight night => SPAR
9 Across: Furry critters who helped disable the shield generator on Endor => EWOKS
14 Across: Major work => OPUS
15 Across: La Scala song => ARIA
16 Across: Mack the Knife singer => DARIN
17 Across: *Jewelry alloy => WHITEGOLD
19 Across: Pull together => UNITE
20 Across: Frenzy => MANIA
21 Across: Plumeria garlands => LEIS
23 Across: CIA relative => NSA
24 Across: __ recall ... => ASI
25 Across: *Genre that may be featured in the Eurovision Song Contest => SWEDISHROCK
29 Across: Serenade => SINGTO
31 Across: Good comeback => TOUCHE
32 Across: Palm starch => SAGO
33 Across: Julia Louis-Dreyfus comedy => VEEP
37 Across: London insurance pioneer => LLOYD
38 Across: *Sleight-of-hand scam => SHELLGAME
41 Across: Dispatch boat => AVISO
44 Across: Apple desktop => IMAC
45 Across: Former Virginia senator Charles => ROBB
49 Across: Sesame paste => TAHINI
51 Across: Daffy, for one => LISPER
53 Across: *Food brand whose products include Caribbean curry paste and Jamaican jerk seasoning => TROPICALSUN
57 Across: Lyft approx. => ETA
58 Across: Strike caller => UMP
59 Across: H.G. Wells race => ELOI
60 Across: Actor Pratt or Pine => CHRIS
62 Across: Flower girl, perhaps => NIECE
65 Across: 1978 novelty song with the line Eat them up! Yum! ... and what both parts of the answers to starred clues can be => FISHHEADS
67 Across: Come next => ENSUE
68 Across: Dies __ => IRAE
69 Across: Exactly, with to => ATEE
70 Across: Baby carrier? => STORK
71 Across: Sleek swimmers => EELS
72 Across: Gerritsen who created Rizzoli and Isles => TESS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Catholic service with minimal ceremony => LOWMASS
2 Down: Loss of speech => APHASIA
3 Down: Making a mess of => RUINING
4 Down: Bubbly city => ASTI
5 Down: Mattress problem => SAG
6 Down: Orwellian worker => PROLE
7 Down: Didn't feel well => AILED
8 Down: Diameter halves => RADII
9 Down: College URL ending => EDU
10 Down: Pallid => WAN
11 Down: Venezuelan river => ORINOCO
12 Down: Tacky => KITSCHY
13 Down: Moved furtively => SNEAKED
18 Down: NCAA's Big __ => EAST
22 Down: Mach 1 flier => SST
26 Down: Made on a loom => WOVE
27 Down: Ian who plays Bilbo Baggins => HOLM
28 Down: Things used for good measure? => RULERS
30 Down: Scuttlebutt => GOSSIP
34 Down: Nutmeg State Ivy Leaguer => ELI
35 Down: Shade tree => ELM
36 Down: Vardon Trophy org. => PGA
39 Down: Hägar the Horrible's daughter => HONI
40 Down: Civil rights gp. => ACLU
41 Down: Brings into harmony => ATTUNES
42 Down: Critter, in dialect => VARMINT
43 Down: Fingers crossed! => IHOPESO
46 Down: Perform surgery => OPERATE
47 Down: Happens to, quaintly => BETIDES
48 Down: Copper-zinc alloys => BRASSES
50 Down: Party host's bagful => ICE
52 Down: Snowfall measure => INCH
54 Down: 2004 Jude Law title role => ALFIE
55 Down: Orléans' river => LOIRE
56 Down: Rope fiber => SISAL
61 Down: __ index => HEAT
63 Down: Mongrel => CUR
64 Down: Startled cry => EEK
66 Down: __ Just Not That Into You: 2009 film => HES

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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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