Crossword Answers For: Friday, August 2, 2019

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Center of the Milky Way? => CARAMEL
8 Across: Calder creation => STABILE
15 Across: First state, in a way => ALABAMA
16 Across: Journey's end => ARRIVAL
17 Across: Cricket => GAMEWITHWICKETS
19 Across: Once, in olden days => ERST
20 Across: 2000 Bell Atlantic acquisition => GTE
21 Across: Slashed pronoun => HESHE
22 Across: Suspect => PRESUME
25 Across: Cricket => WIRELESSSERVICE
33 Across: Seed-to-be => OVULE
34 Across: LAX calculation => ETA
35 Across: Energy source => ATOM
36 Across: They might help you change your position => WANTADS
39 Across: Prepare for coating, as aluminum => ANODIZE
41 Across: Within: Pref. => ENTO
42 Across: Land of Freud: Abbr. => AUS
44 Across: Scrooge => MISER
45 Across: Cricket => DISNEYBUGJIMINY
49 Across: Beat by a hair => NOSEOUT
50 Across: Wheat species that's also a British past tense => SPELT
54 Across: Article in Bonn => DER
55 Across: Fraternity activity => RUSH
59 Across: [Crickets] => AUDIENCESILENCE
63 Across: Like answers that lower test scores => INERROR
64 Across: Pre-owned item => USEDCAR
65 Across: Top-rated TV show of 1984-'85 => DYNASTY
66 Across: WWII vessels => PTBOATS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Source of tweets ... or growls => CAGE
2 Down: Defunct fruit coating => ALAR
3 Down: Barrels into => RAMS
4 Down: Help the bad guys => ABET
5 Down: Big mouth => MAW
6 Down: Political refugee => EMIGRE
7 Down: Barista's output => LATTES
8 Down: Understood => SAW
9 Down: Start to cycle? => TRI
10 Down: Many a Middle-earth combatant => ARCHER
11 Down: Eco-friendly carrier => BIKE
12 Down: Composer Charles => IVES
13 Down: Plastering strip => LATH
14 Down: Other than this => ELSE
18 Down: 1946 Literature Nobelist => HESSE
22 Down: __ bargain => PLEA
23 Down: Sports gp. that originally had Lawn in its name => USTA
24 Down: Nasty => MEAN
25 Down: Knocked the socks off => WOWED
26 Down: Grand Prince of Moscow, 1328-'40 => IVANI
27 Down: Litters' littlest => RUNTS
28 Down: John of music => ELTON
29 Down: Barbarella director Roger => VADIM
30 Down: Formal identification => ITISI
31 Down: Deceive => COZEN
32 Down: Board at one's fingertips => EMERY
37 Down: How The Banana Boat Song begins => DAYO
38 Down: Fills in => SUBS
40 Down: Drop => OMIT
43 Down: Soft leather => SUEDE
46 Down: Takes the stage => ENTERS
47 Down: Becomes harder to afford => GOESUP
48 Down: Legal scholar => JURIST
50 Down: Came out with => SAID
51 Down: Inconsequential => PUNY
52 Down: Early banishment site => EDEN
53 Down: Pre-Euro currency => LIRA
55 Down: Start from scratch => REDO
56 Down: Donald, to Huey, Dewey and Louie => UNCA
57 Down: Get lost! => SCAT
58 Down: ... nor shall ever see that face of __ again: Lear => HERS
60 Down: Excluding => NOT
61 Down: Shout => CRY
62 Down: Syr. neighbor => LEB

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This crossword has 28 across clues and 45 down clues. In total 73 clues are solved in the section above.
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