Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Chinese sauce additive => MSG
4 Across: Olympic swimming star Ledecky => KATIE
9 Across: L.L.Bean competitor => JCREW
14 Across: Listening organ => EAR
15 Across: Stereotypical Pi Day celebrants => NERDS
16 Across: Drab color => OLIVE
17 Across: Handel's Messiah et al. => ORATORIOS
19 Across: Creepy film motel => BATES
20 Across: *Fruity adult beverage => WINECOOLER
22 Across: Put in the mail => SENT
23 Across: Cowboys QB Prescott => DAK
24 Across: Well-worn pencils => NUBS
26 Across: Keystone police => KOPS
28 Across: *Black-spotted orange flower => TIGERLILY
33 Across: Prefix with center => EPI
34 Across: __ Valley: Reagan Library site => SIMI
35 Across: Strand at a ski lodge, say => ICEIN
37 Across: Pitcher's stat => ERA
38 Across: *Toy pistols used on stage => CAPGUNS
41 Across: Prefix with natal => NEO
42 Across: Asian food breadcrumbs => PANKO
44 Across: Novelist Leon => URIS
45 Across: They, to Thierry => ILS
46 Across: *Toy car brand => HOTWHEELS
49 Across: Artist Warhol => ANDY
50 Across: The Good Earth mother => OLAN
51 Across: Some SAT takers => SRS
52 Across: Olympian bigwig => ZEUS
55 Across: Canoeing challenge whose first word can precede the start and whose second word can precede the end of the answers to starred clues => WHITEWATER
61 Across: Safe places? => WALLS
63 Across: Talus => ANKLEBONE
64 Across: Orange Muppet => ERNIE
65 Across: Not tight enough => LOOSE
66 Across: ER VIPs => MDS
67 Across: Cockamamie => INANE
68 Across: Beginning => ONSET
69 Across: Automated spam creator => BOT

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Cat's cry => MEOW
2 Down: Indian cover-up => SARI
3 Down: Concert keyboard => GRANDPIANO
4 Down: Rap on the door => KNOCK
5 Down: Sleek, in car talk => AERO
6 Down: 75% of a quartet => TRIO
7 Down: Pop star => IDOL
8 Down: Ancient mystic => ESSENE
9 Down: Position at work => JOB
10 Down: Enduring work => CLASSIC
11 Down: Baptism or bris => RITE
12 Down: Like Olympic years, numerically => EVEN
13 Down: Wild 1800s region => WEST
18 Down: Oolong and pekoe => TEAS
21 Down: 1921 play that introduced the word robot => RUR
25 Down: Euphoria => BLISS
26 Down: Stay fresh in the fridge => KEEP
27 Down: Celeb with her OWN network => OPRAH
28 Down: Andalusian aunt => TIA
29 Down: Little rascal => IMP
30 Down: Lively baroque dance => GIGUE
31 Down: Red Square shrine => LENINSTOMB
32 Down: Give in => YIELD
34 Down: Grouchy look => SCOWL
36 Down: Prone to prying => NOSY
39 Down: Often-bookmarked address, briefly => URL
40 Down: Grafton's __ for Noose => NIS
43 Down: 80's Ladies country singer => KTOSLIN
47 Down: Yee-__! => HAW
48 Down: Surround, as with a saintly glow => ENHALO
49 Down: Graceful steed => ARAB
51 Down: Ni-i-ice! => SWEET
52 Down: Cube root of acht => ZWEI
53 Down: Merit => EARN
54 Down: Forearm bone => ULNA
56 Down: Part of, plotwise => INON
57 Down: Boxing ref's calls => TKOS
58 Down: Anything __? => ELSE
59 Down: Opposite of exo- => ENDO
60 Down: Don't play music staff symbol => REST
62 Down: Date regularly => SEE

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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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