Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Starbucks orders, casually => JAVAS
6 Across: Carnival staples => RIDES
11 Across: Chance => SHOT
15 Across: Perform better than => OUTDO
16 Across: Scandal-plagued energy company => ENRON
17 Across: Witness' promise => OATH
18 Across: #1 hit for Jerry Lee Lewis => GREATBALLSOFFIRE
21 Across: Squealed on the bad guys => SANG
22 Across: Oscar winner Kazan => ELIA
23 Across: Lemonlike fruit => CITRON
24 Across: Grocery chain with a red-and-white logo => IGA
26 Across: Like the Ninja Turtles => MUTANT
28 Across: #1 hit for the Beach Boys => GOODVIBRATIONS
33 Across: Vornado product => FAN
34 Across: Landscaping tree => PINOAK
35 Across: Peter was the first one => POPE
37 Across: Application => USE
38 Across: Federal retirement org. => SSA
39 Across: Couple of million? => ELS
42 Across: Farm food => HAY
43 Across: Justice __ Bader Ginsburg => RUTH
45 Across: Get going => BESTIR
48 Across: Have bills => OWE
49 Across: #1 hit for Johnny Rivers => POORSIDEOFTOWN
53 Across: Let's get together => MEETME
54 Across: Best-liked, briefly => FAV
55 Across: Kite carrier => BREEZE
58 Across: Italy's Villa d'__ => ESTE
60 Across: One of 12 on a die => EDGE
64 Across: #1 hit for Jim Croce => BADBADLEROYBROWN
67 Across: Brit's kitchen floor => LINO
68 Across: Abates => EASES
69 Across: Threw in => ADDED
70 Across: Dispatch, as a dragon => SLAY
71 Across: Oboist's supply => REEDS
72 Across: Hired thugs => GOONS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Easy runs => JOGS
2 Down: General feeling => AURA
3 Down: Dodge Viper engine => VTEN
4 Down: Slowly, in music => ADAGIO
5 Down: Drunkard => SOT
6 Down: Genuine => REAL
7 Down: Undecided => INLIMBO
8 Down: Advice giver on SiriusXM Radio => DRLAURA
9 Down: Canon camera named for a dawn goddess => EOS
10 Down: Winter vehicle on treads => SNOCAT
11 Down: Convertible type => SOFTTOP
12 Down: Tiny margin of victory => HAIR
13 Down: Another, in España => OTRO
14 Down: __ what? => THEN
19 Down: One of a pair of cartoon slackers => BEAVIS
20 Down: It's over in France => FINI
25 Down: National econ. stats => GDPS
27 Down: Grow fond of => TAKETO
28 Down: Go from E to F? => GASUP
29 Down: __ a customer => ONETO
30 Down: Soon => INABIT
31 Down: Emphatic word of refusal => NOHOW
32 Down: What salmon do upstream => SPAWN
33 Down: Stole from a coat store? => FUR
36 Down: __ contact => EYE
40 Down: River through Dublin => LIFFEY
41 Down: Span. miss => SRTA
44 Down: Neighborhood pal, in slang => HOMEBOY
46 Down: Attorney general under Ronald Reagan => EDMEESE
47 Down: Blows one's stack => SEESRED
50 Down: Mohammad __ Pahlavi: last shah of Iran => REZA
51 Down: Farm contraption => SEEDER
52 Down: Engage in to excess => OVERDO
55 Down: OPEC units => BBLS
56 Down: Mass transit option => RAIL
57 Down: Barry Humphries alter ego Dame __ => EDNA
59 Down: Mix, as salad => TOSS
61 Down: Extinct bird => DODO
62 Down: __ Stacy: Spider-Man love interest => GWEN
63 Down: They might be loose or tight => ENDS
65 Down: Ka __: southernmost Big Island point => LAE
66 Down: Purse => BAG

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This crossword has 36 across clues and 43 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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