Crossword Answers For: Saturday, August 26, 2023

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Make a father, in a way => ORDAIN
7 Across: Selections from a server => MENU
11 Across: Based ___ true story => ONA
14 Across: Close at hand => NEARBY
15 Across: ___ idiot! (Silly me!) => IMAN
16 Across: Ten Commandments word => NOT
17 Across: Popular seafood appetizer => SHRIMP{COCK}TAIL
19 Across: Letters on exploding crates, in Angry Birds => TNT
20 Across: Only three-letter element => TIN
21 Across: Reach by reasoning => DERIVE
22 Across: Term of endearment, for short => HON
23 Across: Vicinities => AREAS
26 Across: Paper signed before skydiving => RELEASE
28 Across: The Shining chant => REDRUM
30 Across: Origami birds, often => SWANS
33 Across: Disney's Cinderella fella => PRINCECH{ARM}ING
38 Across: Part of a flight plan, for short => ETA
41 Across: Fancy evening wrap => STOLE
42 Across: On Soc. Sec., often => RET
43 Across: Does some selective sorting => PICK{SAND}CHOOSES
48 Across: Top story, at times => ATTIC
49 Across: Bad weather, briefly => TSTORM
53 Across: 1984 Jeff Bridges movie about a UFO crash => STARMAN
58 Across: Sleeping affliction => APNEA
59 Across: Bug that may knock you out => FLU
61 Across: Manatee, for one => SEACOW
63 Across: Capital of Senegal? => ESS
64 Across: Hack off, as a branch => LOP
65 Across: Japanese weapons called shuriken => THROWINGS{TAR}S
68 Across: Target of a massage, maybe => EGO
69 Across: Spot for hibernation => LAIR
70 Across: Subject to limitations => FINITE
71 Across: Incredibly long time => EON
72 Across: Black, poetically => EBON
73 Across: More than enough => EXCESS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: GM navigation system => ONSTAR
2 Down: Bring back on staff => REHIRE
3 Down: Did some mending => DARNED
4 Down: Vince's agent on Entourage => ARI
5 Down: One of the 30 Dow Jones industrials => IBM
6 Down: Times Sq. squad => NYPD
7 Down: Archbishop of Canterbury's hat => MITRE
8 Down: Potential virus carrier => EMAIL
9 Down: Not seasoned => NAIVE
10 Down: Let loose => UNLEASH
11 Down: Broadcasting => ONTHEAIR
12 Down: Forbidden activity => NONO
13 Down: Routing notation => ATTN
18 Down: With a Little Help From My Friends singer Joe => {COCK}ER
24 Down: Jean of Dadaism => ARP
25 Down: South, in Spanish => SUR
27 Down: Mass of bees => SW{ARM}
29 Down: Catchall abbr. => MISC
31 Down: SSW's reverse => NNE
32 Down: Pepper on a platter => SGT
34 Down: Unspecified degree => NTH
35 Down: Imitate a dove => COO
36 Down: Do Ya band, briefly => ELO
37 Down: ___ Magnifique (Cole Porter tune) => CEST
38 Down: Fed. conservation org. => EPA
39 Down: Cousin of a chickadee => TIT
40 Down: Influences => ACTSUPON
44 Down: Set of drums or first aid supplies => KIT
45 Down: Building with a waterfront view => {SAND}CASTLE
46 Down: Spanish for that => ESA
47 Down: Auto additive brand => STP
50 Down: Tot's bodysuit => ONESIE
51 Down: Begins again => RES{TAR}TS
52 Down: Catholic Church services => MASSES
54 Down: Building restoration, for short => REHAB
55 Down: Donkey Kong hero => MARIO
56 Down: Future oak tree => ACORN
57 Down: Last word spoken by Mr. Boddy in Clue => NOW
59 Down: Scamper away => FLEE
60 Down: Firm trademark => LOGO
62 Down: The Farmer's ___ (Hitchcock film) => WIFE
66 Down: Vote down => NIX
67 Down: Protein powder peddler => GNC

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This crossword has 35 across clues and 44 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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