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Crossword puzzle answers: August 16, 2017 – Metro US

Crossword puzzle answers: August 16, 2017

Crossword puzzle answers: August 16, 2017

Here are the answers to the crossword puzzle from our newspaper published on August 16, 2017.

 

ACROSS

1 Going into overtime
 5 Sailor
 8 Ferocious bear
 14 Livy's year
 15 Fish-to-be
 16 Get even for
 17 New York nine
 18 Oz. or tsp.
 19 Sinew
 20 Effronteries
 23 Small landing field
 24 Princess Leia's love
 25 Car model
 29 Mag. staffers
 31 Slalom gear
 33 "Fancy" singer
 34 "Knot" craft
 38 Run slowly
 40 Tainted
 41 Pal in Paris
 42 Sardine holder
 43 Dog days in Dijon
 44 Colorado tribe
 45 Container
 46 Go wrong
 47 Pretty songbird
 49 Online auction
 51 "-- -Tiki"
 53 Carbondale sch.
 54 More unusual
 56 Grassy expanse
 58 Knight's attire
 62 Extraordinary event
 65 Insulation meas. (hyph.)
 68 Tachometer abbrev.
 69 Chess piece
 70 Anthology cousin
 71 Pixie
 72 "Zara" composer
 73 Garden tools
 74 "Everybody Hurts" group
 75 Kind of pearl
DOWN 
  1 Packs firmly
 2 Dormant
 3 Put in a log
 4 Spy's file
 5 Lab weight
 6 Pep
 7 Brightly colored aquarium fish
 8 The Green Hornet's valet
 9 Pizzerias' needs
 10 Thicker, as fog
 11 Gary's st.
 12 Give it -- --
 13 Howard or Berry
 21 Rework
 22 Type of printer
 26 Troubleshoot
 27 Die down
 28 D.C. consumer advocate
 30 Leer
 32 Smidgens
 34 Inventor
 35 It divides to multiply (var.)
 36 Tobacco product
 37 Matriculate
 39 Friendly
 48 Arctic light shows
 50 Bellowed
 52 Closer at hand
 55 Awaken
 57 Orchard tree
 59 Lone Ranger portrayer
 60 Protective layer
 61 Did a lawn chore
 63 Rents
 64 Kind of radio
 65 Hwys.
 66 Dignitary
 67 Turkish honorific