Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Resorts with body wraps => SPAS
5 Across: Hook-shaped ski lift => JBAR
9 Across: Canon setting => FSTOP
14 Across: Formal agreement => PACT
15 Across: Deep sea predator => ORCA
16 Across: PEN/Faulkner, for one => AWARD
17 Across: Wastes away => ATROPHIES
19 Across: Beantown team => CELTS
20 Across: 2010 Best Picture Oscar winner => THEKINGSSPEECH
22 Across: Env. insert => ENC
23 Across: Former Mississippi senator Trent => LOTT
24 Across: Post-J.D. degree => LLM
27 Across: Become born-again, perhaps => GETRELIGION
33 Across: Ready for a kick, with up => TEED
35 Across: Society page word => NEE
36 Across: City bonds, for short => MUNIS
37 Across: United Nations gathering => GENERALASSEMBLY
41 Across: Layer with a hole => OZONE
42 Across: Pocatello sch. => ISU
43 Across: The Da Vinci Code priory => SION
44 Across: Self-publishing option => VANITYPRESS
48 Across: Health products chain => GNC
49 Across: One who may converse in Erse => GAEL
50 Across: Top bond rating => AAA
52 Across: Source of the freedoms found at the ends of this puzzle's four other longest answers => FIRSTAMENDMENT
59 Across: Argue with => JAWAT
60 Across: One selling wheels => CARDEALER
61 Across: Online party notice => EVITE
62 Across: Pelee Island's lake => ERIE
63 Across: Zilch => ZERO
64 Across: Decreases in strength => WANES
65 Across: Phone-answering asst. => SECY
66 Across: Social sci. major => ECON

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Cross words => SPAT
2 Down: Way to go => PATH
3 Down: Farm fraction => ACRE
4 Down: Feed with fuel => STOKE
5 Down: WWE wrestler in the film Trainwreck => JOHNCENA
6 Down: Naval lockup => BRIG
7 Down: Pocket rockets, at the poker table => ACES
8 Down: Fight, in the sticks => RASSLE
9 Down: Video chat option => FACETIME
10 Down: Trees with fragrant sap => SWEETGUMS
11 Down: Gymnast's powder => TALC
12 Down: Straight: Pref. => ORTH
13 Down: Troopers' gps. => PDS
18 Down: Troubling engine sound => PING
21 Down: D.C. figure => POL
24 Down: No. 2 at the statehouse => LTGOV
25 Down: Talk show host who won The Celebrity Apprentice in 2015, familiarly => LEEZA
26 Down: Runners occupying bases => MENON
28 Down: No. in a contacts list => TEL
29 Down: Broadcast again => REAIR
30 Down: With a lot at stake => INBIG
31 Down: Rub __: lubricate => OILON
32 Down: Bye Bye Bye boy band => NSYNC
34 Down: Bad-mouth => DENIGRATE
38 Down: Samples again, during cooking => RETASTES
39 Down: Memphis-to-Mobile dir. => SSE
40 Down: The Partridge Family actress => SUSANDEY
45 Down: To date => YET
46 Down: Pre-curtain call => PLACES
47 Down: Smooth Operator singer => SADE
51 Down: Floor => AMAZE
52 Down: Broad bean => FAVA
53 Down: Triumphant shout => IWIN
54 Down: Stable mother => MARE
55 Down: Old Norse explorer => ERIC
56 Down: Util. bill => ELEC
57 Down: Detective Wolfe => NERO
58 Down: 1982 sci-fi film with a 2010 sequel => TRON
59 Down: Passover observer => JEW

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This crossword has 33 across clues and 40 down clues. In total 73 clues are solved in the section above.
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