Crossword Answers For: Sunday, September 26, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Blooms-to-be => BUDS
5 Across: Roles, metaphorically => HATS
9 Across: Cougars => PUMAS
14 Across: Name-drop, say? => OMIT
15 Across: Able to be halved without a remainder => EVEN
16 Across: Sweet Love singer Baker => ANITA
17 Across: *Street made famous by the Beatles => YNNEPLANE
19 Across: Space-blanket material => MYLAR
20 Across: Genre for the Ronettes and the Contours => DOOWOP
21 Across: ___ salt => SEA
23 Across: Gumbo ingredient => OKRA
24 Across: *Hearty rye bread => PUMPERLEKCIN
27 Across: Place for a cold run => SKIAREA
30 Across: Store that's said to be a test for romantic relationships => IKEA
31 Across: Teller's partner => PENN
32 Across: Exploratory space launch => PROBE
35 Across: Camp sights => RVS
38 Across: Olive who was created 10 years before Popeye => OYL
39 Across: *Abrupt way to stop => ONAEMID
41 Across: Top choice? => TEE
42 Across: Org. for gatekeepers? => TSA
43 Across: Bricklayer => MASON
44 Across: Tiny little bit => IOTA
45 Across: One Direction bandmate of Louis, Niall, Zayn, and Harry => LIAM
47 Across: This is too much for me => ICANNOT
50 Across: *Main place of business => HEADRETRAUQS
54 Across: Place for a farmer, in song => DELL
55 Across: Owed => DUE
56 Across: Spanish village => PUEBLO
60 Across: Way up a mountain, perhaps => TRAIL
62 Across: Decide by chance ... and a hint to the answers to the starred clues => FLIPACOIN
64 Across: Titular cousin played by Joe Pesci => VINNY
65 Across: Change for a pit crew => TIRE
66 Across: Tiger on a cereal box => TONY
67 Across: Grass in a bog => SEDGE
68 Across: Sch. on the Georgia coast => SCAD
69 Across: Glasses, briefly => SPEX

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Billy who played Pippin in the Lord of the Rings trilogy => BOYD
2 Down: Yeah, not happening => UMNO
3 Down: T. rex, for one => DINO
4 Down: Vessel for a ragout, perhaps => STEWPAN
5 Down: I need a hand => HELPME
6 Down: Filmmaker DuVernay => AVA
7 Down: Verb aspect that places a word in time => TENSE
8 Down: Crooked expression => SNEER
9 Down: She played Jackie in Jackie Brown => PAM
10 Down: Detatch, as oxen => UNYOKE
11 Down: Where to find a missing person? => MILKCARTON
12 Down: Breakout company => ATARI
13 Down: Film without color and sound => SARAN
18 Down: Rain hard => POUR
22 Down: Story to stick to => ALIBI
25 Down: Daddies' partners, sometimes => PAPAS
26 Down: Squeaked (out) => EKED
27 Down: Pick out visually => SPOT
28 Down: Musician Alicia ... or her instrument => KEYS
29 Down: Not tethered to reality => INLALALAND
33 Down: Car company started in 1905 and named for its founder's initials => REO
34 Down: Everything, in ancient Rome => OMNIA
36 Down: Kill bills? => VETO
37 Down: Someone may run for one => SEAT
39 Down: Character on The Wire played by Michael K. Williams => OMAR
40 Down: Christened => NAMED
44 Down: Flies, e.g. => INSECTS
46 Down: At a red light, perhaps => IDLING
48 Down: Like hands while drinking from a pond => CUPPED
49 Down: Marine lead-in => AQUA
50 Down: Sharp screens, briefly => HDTVS
51 Down: Like some campfire tales => EERIE
52 Down: Fluffy bits of hair => TUFTS
53 Down: Remain to be seen, perhaps? => RELIC
57 Down: Betty voiced by Margie Hines => BOOP
58 Down: Part of a drawing => LINE
59 Down: Dark rock => ONYX
61 Down: What lutefisk is pickled in => LYE
63 Down: Glass on the radio => IRA

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This crossword has 37 across clues and 40 down clues. In total 77 clues are solved in the section above.
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