Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Composer heard at graduations => ELGAR
6 Across: Exerciser's target => FLAB
10 Across: Rescue from trouble, with out => BAIL
14 Across: Actress Watts of the Divergent films => NAOMI
15 Across: Change the decor of => REDO
16 Across: ... __ and for all! => ONCE
17 Across: Medical prefix with -plasty => ANGIO
18 Across: Beverage from China's Wuyi Mountains => OOLONGTEA
20 Across: Insertion marks => CARETS
22 Across: World's longest river => NILE
23 Across: Accessory usually not worn on casual Fridays => TIE
24 Across: Bearded antelope => GNU
26 Across: Cast a spell on => BEWITCH
31 Across: From time immemorial => AGEOLD
34 Across: Eritrea's capital => ASMARA
35 Across: Opel model meaning stars in Latin => ASTRA
37 Across: Ears in the field => CORN
39 Across: Move wearily => PLOD
40 Across: On-call doctor's gadget => PAGER
41 Across: Flightless Aussie bird => EMU
42 Across: Ballpark figure => GUESS
43 Across: Lie adjacent to => ABUT
44 Across: Small songbird => WREN
45 Across: German artist Max => ERNST
46 Across: Movie theater => CINEMA
48 Across: Six-line sonnet section => SESTET
50 Across: Subjugate => ENSLAVE
52 Across: Salty expanse => SEA
53 Across: Nav. VIP => ADM
56 Across: Drought-stricken => SERE
58 Across: Torment => PLAGUE
60 Across: Attend a party uninvited ... and a literal hint to five sets of circled letters => GATECRASH
65 Across: Passport, e.g.: Abbr. => IDENT
66 Across: Like a thesis defense => ORAL
67 Across: James of jazz => ETTA
68 Across: Backyard border => FENCE
69 Across: Flamingo color => PINK
70 Across: Unhappy fate => DOOM
71 Across: Fragrant compound => ESTER

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Make official, as a law => ENACT
2 Down: Hawaiian island, or Hawaiian porch => LANAI
3 Down: Make terrific progress => GOGREATGUNS
4 Down: French sweetie => AMIE
5 Down: Protective vests, gas masks, etc. => RIOTGEAR
6 Down: To and __ => FRO
7 Down: Novelist Uris => LEON
8 Down: Improvise on stage => ADLIB
9 Down: Algebra type => BOOLEAN
10 Down: Marsh => BOG
11 Down: Pantry pest => ANT
12 Down: Cubes in a tray => ICE
13 Down: Grassy field => LEA
19 Down: The first N of CNN => NEWS
21 Down: __-cone => SNO
25 Down: Stomach woe => ULCER
27 Down: Contaminated => IMPURE
28 Down: Rep seeking promising performers => TALENTAGENT
29 Down: White symbol on Switzerland's flag => CROSS
30 Down: Owned, old-style => HADST
32 Down: Storybook sister who pushed the hag into the oven => GRETEL
33 Down: Semicircular roofs => DOMES
35 Down: Speedily => APACE
36 Down: Polio vaccine developer => SABIN
38 Down: Mystical letters => RUNES
42 Down: Stop sweating the small stuff! => GETALIFE
44 Down: Was indecisive => WAVERED
47 Down: Opposite of fem. => MASC
49 Down: Autumnal equinox mo. => SEP
51 Down: Muse for poets => ERATO
54 Down: Nincompoop => DUNCE
55 Down: Taxi calculator => METER
57 Down: This, in Spain => ESTO
59 Down: Summer refreshers => ADES
60 Down: Republican org. => GOP
61 Down: Shapiro of NPR => ARI
62 Down: Shade provided by the sun? => TAN
63 Down: Moose kin => ELK
64 Down: Popular Easter entrée => HAM

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This crossword has 39 across clues and 40 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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