Crossword Answers For: Friday, February 1, 2019

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: They may be scraped off in bars => FOAMS
6 Across: Hamlet's A little more than kin, and less than kind, e.g. => ASIDE
11 Across: Cut short => BOB
14 Across: Atlas box => INSET
15 Across: Got a lode of => MINED
16 Across: Half a pair => ONE
17 Across: Up-tempo music lover's aversion? => BALLADINFLUENCE
20 Across: Tune => AIR
21 Across: Pond fish => KOI
22 Across: Sticks in => ADDS
23 Across: Meeting organizers => AGENDAS
27 Across: Belg. neighbor => GER
29 Across: Oil-yielding Asian tree => TUNG
30 Across: Large garlic relative? => BIGSHALLOT
36 Across: Striped animal => TIGER
38 Across: South side? => GRITS
39 Across: Time to mark => ERA
40 Across: Employed => INUSE
41 Across: Negative prefix => NON
42 Across: Amazon business => ETAIL
44 Across: Disney Store collectible => CEL
45 Across: Weakling's lack => BRAWN
47 Across: Performed well enough => DIDOK
48 Across: Classical dance minus the lifting, throwing, and such? => SAFEBALLET
51 Across: Sign of elimination => DELE
52 Across: Wise __ => MEN
53 Across: Matured => RIPENED
55 Across: Siamese, nowadays => THAI
58 Across: One seen on most 46-Down => COW
61 Across: Bar valve => TAP
62 Across: Genetic determinants of Southern linguistic variations? => YALLCHROMOSOMES
68 Across: Vietnamese soup => PHO
69 Across: Irritant => PEEVE
70 Across: Drudges => TOILS
71 Across: Polish off => EAT
72 Across: Good thing to have => ASSET
73 Across: Totally committed, and a hint to four puzzle answers => ALLIN

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: It's petty but misleading => FIB
2 Down: Brahms' Variations __ Theme of Paganini => ONA
3 Down: Comm. system with hand motions => ASL
4 Down: Mixtures => MELANGES
5 Down: Serious => STAID
6 Down: Moi? => AMI
7 Down: Set, as the sun => SINK
8 Down: Collection of spies? => INFO
9 Down: Make happy => DELIGHT
10 Down: Email suffix => EDU
11 Down: Investor's alternative => BOND
12 Down: Like most '80s-'90s commercial music => ONCD
13 Down: Winged collectors => BEES
18 Down: Uninteresting => DRAB
19 Down: Countess' spouse, perhaps => EARL
23 Down: Storage areas => ATTICS
24 Down: Old U.K. coin worth 21 shillings => GUINEA
25 Down: Swallow up => ENGULF
26 Down: Lighthouse output => SIGNAL
28 Down: Facilitated => EASED
31 Down: Unhappy utterance => GROWL
32 Down: Everyone, to some believers => SINNER
33 Down: Oppressively heavy => LEADEN
34 Down: Colorful songbird => ORIOLE
35 Down: Rapped => TALKED
37 Down: Hasidic teacher => REBBE
43 Down: Quahog's quarters => TIDEPOOL
46 Down: 58-Across homes => RANCHES
49 Down: Oscar winner Jannings => EMIL
50 Down: Puente of mambo fame => TITO
54 Down: Noodles => PASTA
55 Down: Class => TYPE
56 Down: Yeah, that's funny => HAHA
57 Down: Tons => ALOT
59 Down: Tram loads => ORES
60 Down: Masterminded, as a complex plan => WOVE
63 Down: Many an IRS employee => CPA
64 Down: Made the acquaintance of => MET
65 Down: Thickness measure => MIL
66 Down: __ Gold, Alan Cumming's The Good Wife role => ELI
67 Down: U.S. ID => SSN

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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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