Crossword Answers For: Thursday, June 15, 2017

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Port initials => USB
4 Across: Fallon's predecessor => LENO
8 Across: Negative quality => MINUS
13 Across: Late July arrival => LEO
14 Across: No longer hung up on => OVER
15 Across: Composed => SERENE
16 Across: Going rate? => TAXIFARE
18 Across: Younger daughter of Hi and Lois, in comics => TRIXIE
19 Across: Admission of defeat => ILOST
20 Across: Petal pusher? => FLORIST
22 Across: Baseball's Wills and TV's Povich => MAURYS
24 Across: __ zone: shallowest oceanic region that sunlight doesn't reach => BATHYAL
27 Across: Co. once led by Baryshnikov => ABT
28 Across: Sap sucker => APHID
31 Across: Green prefix => ECO
32 Across: Suffix with Bieber => MANIA
34 Across: Like aged cheddar => SHARP
36 Across: With some unscrambling, the contents of each set of circles => PERFECTSQUARE
40 Across: Invoice word => REMIT
41 Across: Blow one's fuse => ERUPT
42 Across: Once-sacred snake => ASP
43 Across: Straight sides of a pizza slice, e.g. => RADII
45 Across: Relaxation destination => SPA
48 Across: Low-down prank? => HOTFOOT
51 Across: __ torpedo: Star Trek weapon => PHOTON
54 Across: Symbol of complementary principles => YINYANG
57 Across: Watching intently => EYING
58 Across: Bakery-café chain => PANERA
60 Across: Man of steel? => CARNEGIE
62 Across: Wild author Strayed => CHERYL
63 Across: Actor Baldwin => ALEC
64 Across: Tillis of country => MEL
65 Across: Sonatine Bureaucratique composer => SATIE
66 Across: Soothing succulent => ALOE
67 Across: Pitches during breaks => ADS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Word's last syllable => ULTIMA
2 Down: Aquanaut's base => SEALAB
3 Down: Block during rebounding, in basketball => BOXOUT
4 Down: Up in the air => LOFTY
5 Down: Actress Longoria => EVA
6 Down: Soft toy brand => NERF
7 Down: Russian city where Turgenev was born => OREL
8 Down: Positive quality => MERIT
9 Down: Fighting Indiana team => IRISH
10 Down: When some fans have to wait till => NEXTYEAR
11 Down: Solitary prefix => UNI
12 Down: Told you! => SEE
15 Down: Fine fiddle => STRAD
17 Down: Med. nation => ISR
21 Down: Sapporo sash => OBI
23 Down: Reasonable => SANE
25 Down: Zoning unit => ACRE
26 Down: Cut => LOP
29 Down: Shot => PIC
30 Down: Word repeated twice in a Roger Ebert title about bad movies => HATED
32 Down: Injured pro's test, perhaps => MRI
33 Down: Toward the stern => AFT
34 Down: What's doin'? => SUP
35 Down: Haberdasher's item => HAT
36 Down: Latin American capital => PESO
37 Down: Like some late-game hockey goals => EMPTYNET
38 Down: Hindu title => SRI
39 Down: Wisecrack => QUIP
40 Down: Fan sound => RAH
43 Down: __ blue => ROYAL
44 Down: Words with clip or crossroads => ATA
45 Down: Mark of shame => STIGMA
46 Down: Paid (up) => PONIED
47 Down: Cloud dwellers? => ANGELS
49 Down: Guy in the kitchen => FIERI
50 Down: Deli order => ONRYE
52 Down: For this reason => HENCE
53 Down: Listen up, to Luis => OYE
55 Down: Indiana-based sports org. => NCAA
56 Down: Chutzpah => GALL
58 Down: Best Buy buys => PCS
59 Down: That's it! => AHA
61 Down: Flying Cloud, for one => REO

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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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