On the numerous articles that I read, it said that even though babies didn’t shed tears, that it wasn’t うそなき, it could be due to several reasons, but their crying is the only way they can communicate. I was led astray by science. 
34➝ きく 菊 as in chrysanthemum which is used as decoration in sashimi dishes.
Not the word I would use, but I guess.
Aww, I clearly can’t read. I’d literally just written the ヨ but somehow managed to read it back as オ.
Aye, that’s what I figured.
Comparatively.
28↓ かき 柿
Japan’s representative dried fruits is dried persimmon. The astringent fruit turns sweet after it’s dried.
Could I get a translation for 19➝ ? I don’t get it at all, too many kanji I don’t know. 
短距離走は秒速２メートルを越えると参考記録に
For sprints exceeding two metres per second, something something, reference record?
Suddenly thinking オイカゼ is the answer. Mostly because when I stuck “2m/s sprint” into Google, wind assistance was the number one result, and I remembered “tailwind” was one of the possible options for オ？？？. Plus, I was already thinking24-down would be イイツケ, and with your suggestion of カキ for 28-down…
I can get behind that.
Well, that was indeed quick, but challenging to find some of the words.
Is that a pun? 
On closer inspection of the Wikipedia page, I suspect I’ve misunderstood the clue. Wikipedia page says if the tailwind exceeds 2m/s, any times achieved won’t be counted with respect to judging event records, so I guess that’s what the clue is saying. Not completely clear how, though.
Anyway, answers at the back of the book concur. Do we need to see the completed grid? 
This is the jp title of that wiki page: 追い風参考記録, so yeah.
I already have my own handmade grid.
It helped with the words, but it would be nice to see it in its full glory.
I love how the words just fall into place, and that twice there hasn’t been a mistake at the end. Which would be unusual, but not impossible.
This is our ninth puzzle, and I don’t think we’ve ever had a mistake once we’ve finished. Aside from throwing in the towel on puzzle number 7.
And puzzle 10!
Some slightly weird clues starting to crop up, here. Like 1-down. I was kinda expecting there’d be a species of cicada known for going ミーンミーン, and there is. Unfortunately, it appears to be named ミンミンゼミ, which doesn’t fit.
I am, however, gonna go head and say 19-down is ルビー and 35-down is ツボ.
Nvm, I got it. 坪 
8-across ウィリー
14➝ アルマジロ
22↓ ハマチ 魬
20➝ ビチク 備蓄
26↓ ジクウ 時空
16➝ ワイン? works with 15↓
15↓ チワワ
23↓ アンダ 安打? 安打 / 打数 = 打率
12➝ カワクダリ 川下り?
28↓ リフト
1➝ セイウチ 海象
9↓ イキ 息?
1↓ セミシグレ 蝉時雨?
2➝ ミキ ¿? It was completed by chance, so I don’t know the specific word for this one.
3➝ グアバ
12↓ カバー
4➝ レコード
10↓ アコヤガイ 阿古屋貝
5➝ ダガシヤ 駄菓子屋
5↓ ダセキスウ 打席数
6➝ セイビ 整備
13↓ シビア
35➝ ツエ 杖
24➝ ストロボ
24↓ スモモ 李
33➝ ゾウ 象
32↓ ナゾ 謎
30↓ ザクロ 柘榴
25➝ モザイク
23 ➝ アマナツ 甘夏?
I, uh… I think that’s it from me.
Hope there are no mistakes.
Whoa. That’s a lot of answers. Did you just solve the whole crossword? A most impressive effort.
Actually, a few of them did jump out at me before I went to bed last night, but I thought I’d leave it until the morning to write them down. Let’s see if you spotted all the ones I spotted.
For some reason, every time I see that word I keep thinking “Is that, like, John Manjiro’s little brother, or something?” even though there’s no ン after the マ…
That… seems exceeding straightforward.
Why the uncertainty? I assume you’ve read this? Not that I’ve ever heard of it before, myself…
Aye, that’s what I figured, but I couldn’t seem to get it to fit. Maybe I was looking at the wrong space on the grid…
Probably the “backbone, base” meaning of 幹?
Took me far too long to figure out what Willy had to do with anything. Then I realised I could actually read every kanji in the clue…
My contributions:
27-across ウメボシ
36-down ツウシンボ
21-down イクジ (i.e. 意気地, though I feel like there’s a few words that’ll fit)
37-down クリガエシ
31-across クモリ
34-down トロロイモ
Thus 29-across フトン
18-across シャモ
17-down ドシャ (took me far to long to remember that ド？ャ was a possible pattern as well as ド？ヤ)
7-across スジ
Thus 11-down ジイ
And, uh… is that it?
Because it was one of the first words, and for the spaces, ブドウ and 赤い also fit.
It being just wine felt too easy.
Important part in a plan? .-.
It wasn’t exactly my plan, but once the letters start dropping, it’s pretty hard to stop solving.
I get the word, but I didn’t know it had anything to do with salmon and cod roe.
I noticed that that word fit in the place, but I don’t see how it has anything to do with あゆみ, thought it’d be something to do with 歩.
I thought it would have something to do with string instruments, since 張り is tension, and it says that it’d give a weak sound otherwise. Also, the fact that whatever letter goes there doesn’t matter, doesn’t help in making sure it’s the correct one when you’re solving this.
クリカエシ, but yeah.
I didn’t understand the clue completely, but figured it’d be a type of 天気.
Am I missing something here? Something used when going out?
Figured that’d be the word, but what’s it got to do with 地図?
Would’ve never gotten it.
Frigg.
Oh my god, is it hemorrhoids? Otherwise I don’t get what is the feeling that makes you want to leave your position.
I read that as being 酒. As in, tarako and umeboshi are both bar snacks.
Yeah, I know, but if it fits, it sits. Maybe it’s to do with the “progress” definition.
Possibly what you’re missing is that the first kanji is not 出 but 山.
No idea.
Clearly you gotta read up on your chicken breeds. (Honestly, I just searched Jisho for ？？も and scrolled until one sounded right.)
Uh, ew? It’s 辞意 - a feeling like you want to leave your position.
Frigg x2. I went for the two fish.
Frigg x3. You’re right.
Hey, that’s cheating! (I didn’t know you could do that 
)
Aaaaaaaaaah, my brain stopped working there, and thought it was ジィ, even though that makes no sense.
Can we get the finished product? 
I’ll, uh… I’ll also try not to finish it by myself next time.
Holy crap, I go away for a weekend and you guys knock out a full puzzle? The other one took months lol
Forgot to mention: super secret magic word is セキゾウ.
Go ahead if you want. We’re still only on page twenty-four, out of a hundred and twenty-four.
Many hands make light work. By which I probably mean that @Kazzeon is some kind of octopus.
