Crossword Answers For: Monday, July 29, 2019

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Polio vaccine pioneer => SABIN
6 Across: Bacteria in undercooked meat => ECOLI
11 Across: Blot gently => DAB
14 Across: Budget prefix => ECONO
15 Across: Gas in flashtubes => XENON
16 Across: Pitcher's stat => ERA
17 Across: *Music course for budding composers => THEORYCLASS
19 Across: Animation frame => CEL
20 Across: Mannheim mister => HERR
21 Across: Non-discrimination want-ad letters => EOE
22 Across: Rub out a pencil mark => ERASE
24 Across: *Meatless taqueria item => BEANBURRITO
28 Across: Castilian hero => ELCID
31 Across: Gate securer => LATCH
32 Across: Get lost! => BEATIT
34 Across: AT&T news channel => CNN
35 Across: Entrepreneur Musk => ELON
38 Across: Tire inflator => AIR
39 Across: *Closet accessory for neckwear => TIERACK
42 Across: Señora Perón => EVA
43 Across: Washington MLB team => NATS
45 Across: Bath tissue layer => PLY
46 Across: Like contentious discussions => HEATED
48 Across: Car music source => RADIO
50 Across: Kagan of the Supreme Court => ELENA
51 Across: *Marshall Islands site of nuclear testing => BIKINIATOLL
55 Across: The HD in HDTV, briefly => HIDEF
56 Across: Wayne's World catchword => NOT
57 Across: Director Kazan => ELIA
61 Across: Incubation target => EGG
62 Across: Like the starting team, and a hint to the answers to starred clues => FIRSTSTRING
66 Across: The Simpsons bartender => MOE
67 Across: Host onstage => EMCEE
68 Across: Banded marble => AGATE
69 Across: __ now or never => ITS
70 Across: Author Dahl => ROALD
71 Across: Sandwiches on pita => GYROS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Eve's third son => SETH
2 Down: Tooth pain => ACHE
3 Down: Dutch South African => BOER
4 Down: Circling the sun, as a planet => INORBIT
5 Down: Oslo's land: Abbr. => NOR
6 Down: Former inmate => EXCON
7 Down: Tabloid figure, for short => CELEB
8 Down: Words before whim or hunch => ONA
9 Down: __ Angeles => LOS
10 Down: Newspaper ad, often => INSERT
11 Down: Track-and-field competitor in 10 events => DECATHLETE
12 Down: Childish rebuttal => ARESO
13 Down: Cotton unit => BALE
18 Down: Vote for passage => YEA
23 Down: Uncle Ben's boxful => RICE
25 Down: Fix, as text => EDIT
26 Down: Wrist-to-elbow bone => ULNA
27 Down: Big spread with cattle, say => RANCH
28 Down: Abba of Israel => EBAN
29 Down: Star Wars heroine => LEIA
30 Down: Printer toner containers => CARTRIDGES
33 Down: Second-chance basket => TIPIN
34 Down: Shed tears => CRY
36 Down: Pizza parlor appliance => OVEN
37 Down: Spanish nothing => NADA
40 Down: H.G. Wells race => ELOI
41 Down: Fall (over) => KEEL
44 Down: For Pete's __! => SAKE
47 Down: Reaction to pollen, e.g. => ALLERGY
49 Down: I beg to __: I don't agree => DIFFER
51 Down: Archie Bunker type => BIGOT
52 Down: Adams with a camera => ANSEL
53 Down: Hauled => TOTED
54 Down: Extra NBA periods => OTS
55 Down: Prefix with sphere meaning half => HEMI
58 Down: Tall story teller => LIAR
59 Down: Whip __ shape => INTO
60 Down: For __ 3-5: toy box spec => AGES
63 Down: Texter's I think => IMO
64 Down: Color TV pioneer => RCA
65 Down: You're it! game => TAG

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This crossword has 37 across clues and 42 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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