Crossword Answers For: Monday, September 16, 2019

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Really big hit => SMASH
6 Across: Numero uno, with the => BEST
10 Across: One always ready with quick comebacks => WIT
13 Across: W.C. Fields persona => SOUSE
14 Across: Strand during a sleet storm, say => ICEIN
16 Across: Green prefix => ECO
17 Across: Football non-passing offense => RUNNINGGAME
19 Across: Fish eggs => ROE
20 Across: __ the table: arrange silverware and such => SET
21 Across: MBA or MFA: Abbr. => DEG
22 Across: Behind, or hit from behind => REAREND
24 Across: Farm song refrain => EIEIO
26 Across: Hasenpfeffer, e.g. => STEW
27 Across: Open-and-__ case => SHUT
30 Across: Get one more card for twice the bet, in blackjack => DOUBLEDOWN
34 Across: 36-Across skunk Pepé => LEPEW
36 Across: Warner Bros. creation => TOON
37 Across: Author Tolstoy => LEO
38 Across: European peak => ALP
39 Across: Gosh, look at the time => ITSLATE
42 Across: Sundial seven => VII
43 Across: You, to Goethe => SIE
44 Across: Peter Pan dog => NANA
45 Across: Sediment => DREGS
47 Across: Car engine measure => HORSEPOWER
51 Across: Arthur of tennis => ASHE
52 Across: Unforgettable singer => COLE
53 Across: Peter, Paul or Mary => SAINT
55 Across: Philosophy school with no classes? => MARXISM
58 Across: Biol. or geol. => SCI
59 Across: Bingo! => AHA
62 Across: Australian bird => EMU
63 Across: Opening kickoff, say, and what both parts of 17-, 30- and 47-Across can be => STARTOFPLAY
66 Across: Sailor's Help! => SOS
67 Across: Woodsy path => TRAIL
68 Across: Deed => TITLE
69 Across: Gallery hangings => ART
70 Across: Bldg. with a pool => YMCA
71 Across: I Am of Ireland poet => YEATS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Lat. and Est., once => SSRS
2 Down: Grimace => MOUE
3 Down: Em, to Dorothy => AUNT
4 Down: Nine-digit ID => SSN
5 Down: Alpine heroine => HEIDI
6 Down: Astros Hall of Famer Craig __ => BIGGIO
7 Down: Cardio readout => ECG
8 Down: Blacken => SEAR
9 Down: Schedule opening => TIMESLOT
10 Down: Human/canine shape-shifters => WEREWOLVES
11 Down: Screen symbol to click on => ICON
12 Down: Open-__ shoes => TOED
15 Down: Tidied, as a room => NEATENED
18 Down: Require => NEED
23 Down: Cabernet color => RED
24 Down: Summer in Lyon => ETE
25 Down: Western bad guys => OUTLAWS
27 Down: Cut drastically, as prices => SLASH
28 Down: Prefix for sun => HELIO
29 Down: Elite group => UPPERCRUST
31 Down: Fancy neckwear => BOA
32 Down: Mull over => WEIGH
33 Down: Bam, bang or boom => NOISE
35 Down: Sommelier's menu => WINELIST
40 Down: Complex woven textile => TAPESTRY
41 Down: __-Caps: candy => SNO
46 Down: Backstabber => RAT
48 Down: Fenway team, familiarly => SOX
49 Down: SoCal Latinx neighborhood => EASTLA
50 Down: Puerto __ => RICO
54 Down: Really cool => NIFTY
55 Down: Big butte => MESA
56 Down: Love, in Lima => AMOR
57 Down: Hat-tipper's word of address => MAAM
59 Down: Opposite of baja => ALTA
60 Down: Stop right there! => HALT
61 Down: Shipboard yeses => AYES
64 Down: Rocker Ocasek => RIC
65 Down: Dessert pastry => PIE

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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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