NewsDay Crossword Answers for 2018-12-08 – SATURDAY STUMPER

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All Across Clues and Answers:

1 Across – Latter-day entreaties
5 Across – Common daycare container
15 Across – 40 Across, to mathematicians
16 Across – Perfect game spoiler
17 Across – Not present or accounted for
18 Across – Much-lauded four-Emmy football film of ’71
19 Across – Lapse preventer
21 Across – Widens, as arteries
22 Across – Reader of the daily ”Hamshahri”
23 Across – The world, per ”Merry Wives” . . .
26 Across – Popular style on Zappos.com
28 Across – Something planted with plugs
31 Across – City of northern Spain
34 Across – Furtive
38 Across – Pollutant in engine exhaust
40 Across – Rings for dinner, perhaps
41 Across – Batted around
42 Across – Shape of some two-part desks
43 Across – Phased
45 Across – [Ouch!]
48 Across – Code that’s not encoded
52 Across – Diehard
55 Across – Many a public projection
57 Across – Service status
60 Across – Unsavory kitchen cluster
61 Across – Advocate-in-chief
62 Across – See 31 Down
63 Across – Eurasia, in ”Nineteen Eighty-Four”
64 Across – Symbol of attraction

All Down Clues and Answers:

1 Down – Onetime producer of plastic paddles
2 Down – Someone planting
3 Down – Scandinavian capital
4 Down – Setting ending in ”The Artist”
5 Down – Foursome on a 1983 Swedish stamp
6 Down – Bingo space
7 Down – About 13, for NFL interiors
8 Down – What clover might cover
9 Down – Name that means ”serious”
10 Down – Fair, to Pierre
11 Down – Name of at least eight track stars
12 Down – Close __
13 Down – Paltry pecuniary part
14 Down – One way to measure work
20 Down – ”A poem begins in delight and ends in __”: Frost
24 Down – Open wide
25 Down – Shot
27 Down – Feature of many a classical statue
28 Down – Improbably long
29 Down – Chaucerian descriptor
30 Down – Gone platinum, perhaps
31 Down – With 62 Across, rehearsal request
32 Down – Dropper holder
33 Down – ”__ keep”
35 Down – Vacuous
36 Down – Preferably
37 Down – Very
39 Down – Traditional home of the Byrnes
44 Down – Swans, in a December song
45 Down – Literary region
46 Down – One refusing to settle
47 Down – Cart count
49 Down – Pay when due
50 Down – 101, briefly
51 Down – Examples, for example
52 Down – Erases
53 Down – Popular shade for window blinds
54 Down – ”Here’s __ . . .”
56 Down – ”All my heart is yours, sir” speaker (1847)
58 Down – Diversify with small things
59 Down – Alma mater for RFK and Tina Fey