Contractor’s detail Crossword Clue

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Contractor’s detail Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. a detailed description of design criteria for a piece of work

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

CONTRACTOR (noun)
1. the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps
2. a bodily organ that contracts
DETAIL (noun)
1. a small part that can be considered separately from the whole
2. a temporary military unit
DETAIL (verb)
1. assign to a specific task
2. provide details for

Hint 3: Anagram

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23. “No Woman, No Cry” genre

24. Pros pretending to be amateurs, e.g.

25. *“Why so quiet?”

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29. Gem from Down Under

30. Muted hue

31. Hand on a hacienda?

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40. Hung in folds

42. Abuela’s abode

43. Sport with training stables called “heya”

44. Person of interest?

45. Brother in Genesis

47. AOL chats

50. Meditative practice

51. Kimono tie

52. Roman roadway

54. *Farewell tour

58. Lo-cal

60. Major Wall St. index

62. Disney boss until 2005

63. “Real mature, guys, real mature!”...and advice for making the starred answers make sense

71. Large-scale ousters

72. Conjugation target

73. First-rate

74. *Tribunals that are complete shams

78. French region bordering Germany and Switzerland

82. Traders’ place

83. Sounds of hesitancy

84. Org. that issues nine-digit IDs

85. "That's a bummer!"

87. Warm embraces

89. Guac and queso

91. Not rot

93. Person giving ick vibes

94. *“Chillax, dude!”

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101. Depends

102. Monet medium

104. Morse sounds

108. *Inhibition to talking

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115. Tires out completely

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117. Snappy remarks

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Down

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2. Strip for laughs

3. Loyalty that’s pledged, quaintly

4. Choral verse from Sophocles’ “Antigone”

5. Yokel

6. Reach across

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8. What a generous diner might pick up

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13. Journey's beginning

14. Sprang forward

15. Swallows

16. ''Zip-__-Doo-Dah''

17. P.G. Wodehouse title

18. Crop circle makers, supposedly

21. Writing that isn’t well versed?

26. Complimentary coverage, briefly

27. "There it is!"

32. Coding creations

33. Neither masc. nor fem.

35. Outstanding service?

36. Flaky mineral

37. Athens aperitif

38. 'So true!'

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49. Editor’s notation

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55. Checkup frequency, perhaps

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68. Excite

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