Crossword Answers For: Thursday, May 23, 2019

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Analyze critically => PARSE
6 Across: Counting gadgets => ABACI
11 Across: Business address abbr. => STE
14 Across: Michener novel with astronauts => SPACE
15 Across: Answer an insult with an insult, say => REACT
16 Across: Short flight => HOP
17 Across: U.S. gaming release of 1989 => SEGAGENESIS
19 Across: It often follows you => ARE
20 Across: Ivan or Nicholas => TSAR
21 Across: Actor Chaney => LON
22 Across: Windy home, probably => AERIE
24 Across: Chiffon-like materials => VOILEFABRICS
28 Across: Left the country? => SECEDED
31 Across: Piccadilly Circus statue => EROS
32 Across: Plain text => PROSE
33 Across: Future first lady wed in 1842 => MARYTODD
37 Across: It's all around us => AIR
38 Across: Hangs on a line? => WAITS
40 Across: Word from a bull => BUY
41 Across: Foam toy => NERFBALL
44 Across: Line to the audience => ASIDE
46 Across: Took the bus => RODE
47 Across: Becomes a burden => IMPOSES
49 Across: Rocky Mountains nickname => MILEHIGHCITY
53 Across: Give a speech => ORATE
54 Across: Longing => YEN
55 Across: Cheese with an edible rind => BRIE
59 Across: Beans or baloney => ROT
60 Across: Simple salad ... and what the starts of the five other longest answers are? => MIXEDGREENS
64 Across: Aardvark snack => ANT
65 Across: European woman's name meaning peace => IRENA
66 Across: Safe places? => BANKS
67 Across: Caustic chemical => LYE
68 Across: State of northeast India => ASSAM
69 Across: Temporarily unavailable => INUSE

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Hey! => PSST
2 Down: Gibbons, e.g. => APES
3 Down: Music featuring sitars => RAGA
4 Down: Often colorful accessories => SCARVES
5 Down: Neurologist's printout, briefly => EEG
6 Down: Dover Beach poet => ARNOLD
7 Down: __ Bag: eponymous '70s designer label => BEENE
8 Down: Remote batteries => AAS
9 Down: Third-century date => CCI
10 Down: Delivery announcement => ITSABOY
11 Down: Puppeteer Lewis => SHARI
12 Down: Tire-shaped => TORIC
13 Down: They're heavier than foils => EPEES
18 Down: Nobelist Wiesel => ELIE
23 Down: Once, old-style => ERST
25 Down: Poem of homage => ODE
26 Down: Skillful deed => FEAT
27 Down: SFO postings => ARRS
28 Down: Time period => SPAN
29 Down: Buffalo's county => ERIE
30 Down: Irish pop group family name => CORR
33 Down: End of a corporal's URL => MIL
34 Down: Sapporo sashes => OBIS
35 Down: Seriously, man! => DUDE
36 Down: Adds highlights to, perhaps => DYES
38 Down: Arabian arroyo => WADI
39 Down: Words after shake or break => ALEG
42 Down: Worry => FRET
43 Down: Czech Republic region => BOHEMIA
44 Down: Likely => APT
45 Down: Nutrient-rich legume => SOYBEAN
47 Down: Winter eave buildup => ICEDAM
48 Down: Merciless Flash Gordon foe => MING
49 Down: Story lesson => MORAL
50 Down: Device common on Seinfeld => IRONY
51 Down: Starbucks order => LATTE
52 Down: Spotted African predator => HYENA
56 Down: OPTI-FREE rival => RENU
57 Down: Contents of many cartridges => INKS
58 Down: To be, to Brutus => ESSE
61 Down: Apr. addressee => IRS
62 Down: Crosses (out) => XES
63 Down: Slugger's stat => RBI

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This crossword has 35 across clues and 44 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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