Crossword Answers For: Monday, June 12, 2017

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Aesop's lazy grasshopper, for one => IDLER
6 Across: One of many in an ovation => CLAP
10 Across: Critter catcher => TRAP
14 Across: Stars and Stripes Forever composer => SOUSA
15 Across: __ Hashanah: Jewish New Year => ROSH
16 Across: Beatles meter maid => RITA
17 Across: Classic violin => AMATI
18 Across: Eight-armed mollusks => OCTOPUSES
20 Across: Challenging response to provocation => YOUANDWHOELSE
22 Across: Like many a villainous fictional scientist => MAD
23 Across: Baseball tool => BAT
24 Across: Strut on a runway => SASHAY
28 Across: Newsman Huntley => CHET
30 Across: Word with chick or split => PEA
33 Across: Ruthless strategy => TAKENOPRISONERS
36 Across: Operatic highlight => ARIA
37 Across: America's National Tree => OAK
38 Across: Fish-catching bird => ERNE
39 Across: Nestlé chocolate chip treat => TOLLHOUSECOOKIE
44 Across: George Carlin hosted the first one, briefly => SNL
45 Across: Yours and mine => OURS
46 Across: Warned, like a cornered cat => HISSED
47 Across: Appropriate => APT
48 Across: Actor Mineo => SAL
49 Across: Words on Lucy's Psychiatric Help - 5¢ sign ... and a hint to 20-, 33- and 39-Across => THEDOCTORISIN
56 Across: Always masked one's true self => LIVEDALIE
58 Across: Fuming => IRATE
59 Across: Cheese in a red wax coating => EDAM
60 Across: Cheerio => TATA
61 Across: Father-son senators from Tennessee => GORES
62 Across: Jupiter and Neptune, e.g. => GODS
63 Across: Like Mr. Hyde, e.g. => EVIL
64 Across: Phishing nets? => SCAMS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Words to an old chap => ISAY
2 Down: __ arigato: Japanese thanks a lot => DOMO
3 Down: Bash with tiki bars => LUAU
4 Down: This, to Juan => ESTA
5 Down: 1988 Hoffman title role => RAINMAN
6 Down: Ballpark filler => CROWD
7 Down: With 55-Down, monster's lake => LOCH
8 Down: Regarding => ASTO
9 Down: Ditzy Friends friend and singer Snow => PHOEBES
10 Down: Bond between friends => TRUST
11 Down: Stand up => RISE
12 Down: Chowed down => ATE
13 Down: Kent and Kettle => PAS
19 Down: Aristotle's teacher => PLATO
21 Down: The Banana Boat Song word => DAYO
24 Down: 755 HRs and 2297 RBIs for 25-Down, e.g. => STATS
25 Down: Slugger Hank => AARON
26 Down: Mastery => SKILL
27 Down: Recover from wounds => HEAL
28 Down: Tactless => CRASS
29 Down: Walk on a trail => HIKE
30 Down: Exec's extras => PERKS
31 Down: Bert's buddy => ERNIE
32 Down: Plant __: start something => ASEED
34 Down: Do the honors, at a winefest => POUR
35 Down: Modernists, briefly => NEOS
40 Down: Wished => HOPED
41 Down: Render obsolete => OUTDATE
42 Down: Transportation secretary Elaine => CHAO
43 Down: Drillers at sea => OILRIGS
47 Down: Throat-clearing sounds => AHEMS
48 Down: Take unlawfully => STEAL
49 Down: Plug on the small screen => TVAD
50 Down: Norse king => OLAV
51 Down: __ Field: Mets' stadium => CITI
52 Down: Camaro __-Z => IROC
53 Down: Poet Teasdale => SARA
54 Down: Tabloid couple => ITEM
55 Down: See 7-Down => NESS
56 Down: Chicken serving => LEG
57 Down: Altar vow => IDO

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This crossword has 33 across clues and 42 down clues. In total 75 clues are solved in the section above.
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