Crossword Answers For: Saturday, April 1, 2017

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Shuttle facility => SPACELAB
9 Across: Auto shop purchase => RADIAL
15 Across: Slender smoke => PANATELA
16 Across: Thorny shrub => ACACIA
17 Across: Emotionally withdrawn => INASHELL
18 Across: Buries => INTERS
19 Across: Little laughter => TITTER
20 Across: In a pinch => IFNEEDBE
22 Across: Autumn shade => OCHER
23 Across: Many profs => PHDS
24 Across: Oktoberfest supply => BIER
25 Across: Transportation option => UBER
26 Across: Whopper inventor => LIAR
27 Across: Unites for a purpose => BANDS
28 Across: Jaunty topper => TAM
29 Across: __ golf => MINI
30 Across: Ja, across the border => OUI
31 Across: Beezus' little sister, in Cleary books => RAMONA
33 Across: Perfect => SPOTON
36 Across: Proper => APT
37 Across: Delight at the comedy club => SLAY
38 Across: Super __ => PAC
40 Across: Hitches => SNAGS
43 Across: Punxsutawney headliner => PHIL
44 Across: Default result => REPO
45 Across: Doughnuts, geometrically => TORI
46 Across: Growing Up in New Guinea author => MEAD
47 Across: Joint component => TENON
48 Across: Hatchling from a green egg => EMUCHICK
50 Across: Art incorporating architectural elements => MURALS
51 Across: Judge's declaration => NOBAIL
52 Across: Rule with many exceptions => IBEFOREE
54 Across: Software giant => ORACLE
55 Across: Yak, yak, yak => RATTLEON
56 Across: One way to break the news => GENTLY
57 Across: Like an escalator, and, aptly, like the six-letter word that begins where 40-Across ends => ATASLANT

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Say scornfully => SPITOUT
2 Down: Emergency exit device => PANICBAR
3 Down: Something detested => ANATHEMA
4 Down: Furniture mover => CASTER
5 Down: Heavens => ETHER
6 Down: Creepy look => LEER
7 Down: Entirely => ALL
8 Down: Its sung in the same act as Some Enchanted Evening => BALIHAI
9 Down: Comes down => RAINS
10 Down: Unpopular spots => ACNE
11 Down: Concert tix flashed at a singles bar, say => DATEBAIT
12 Down: Stuck at the ski lodge, maybe => ICEDIN
13 Down: Sack for company? => AIRBED
14 Down: Surgical tools => LASERS
21 Down: Wartime prez => FDR
23 Down: Fruity cocktail word => PINA
26 Down: Fuzz => LINT
27 Down: Lift => BUOY
29 Down: Challenging locks => MOPS
30 Down: Colorful ring tone producer? => OPAL
32 Down: It could involve a disappearance => MAGICACT
33 Down: Arrived home evasively => SLID
34 Down: Clearing => OPENAREA
35 Down: Layered dessert => NAPOLEON
37 Down: Colombian singer formerly a coach on The Voice => SHAKIRA
39 Down: Agree => CONSENT
40 Down: Hearing aid, briefly? => STENOG
41 Down: That's it for me => NOMORE
42 Down: Oranjestad native => ARUBAN
43 Down: Pumping target, for short => PEC
44 Down: Casino table do-over => REROLL
46 Down: Daughter of Billy Ray => MILEY
47 Down: Medford school with a Boston campus => TUFTS
49 Down: Tobogganing spot => HILL
50 Down: Prefix with carpal => META
53 Down: Swing in a box => BAT

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This crossword has 36 across clues and 37 down clues. In total 73 clues are solved in the section above.
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