Crossword Answers For: Saturday, December 5, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Dye holders => VATS
5 Across: Possessed => HAD
8 Across: Peninsula once called al-Andalus => IBERIA
14 Across: It's my time to shine! => IMON
15 Across: Tokyo Story director Yasujiro ___ => OZU
16 Across: Lebanese trees => CEDARS
17 Across: Perfect match => SOULMATE
19 Across: Civil rights activist Cummings => ELIJAH
20 Across: Org. that helps enforce the ACA => IRS
21 Across: Fired => AXED
22 Across: Fraction of a byte => BIT
23 Across: Entertainment on the trip to Canterbury => TALES
25 Across: Haida vehicle => CANOE
27 Across: Bungler => OAF
30 Across: Gumshoe => SLEUTH
32 Across: Tactic that might involve a shelter => TAXDODGE
34 Across: ___ Madness (anti-cannabis movie) => REEFER
36 Across: Part of speech of the answer to this clue => NOUN
37 Across: Personally... => ASFORME
40 Across: Like some receptions => CATERED
43 Across: Do a follow-up job after sowing => REAP
44 Across: Grocery store pathways => AISLES
46 Across: Remiss => CARELESS
49 Across: Descriptor for Spenser's Queene => FAERIE
53 Across: Let me think... => HMM
54 Across: Winning => ONTOP
56 Across: Language whose Wikipedia was largely built by one contributor who isn't fluent in this language => SCOTS
57 Across: Sweet Dreams (___ Made of This) => ARE
58 Across: NPR Shop purchase => TOTE
60 Across: Venomous snake => ASP
61 Across: With 64 Across, Audre Lorde book... or a hint to this puzzle's circled letters => SISTER
64 Across: See 61 Across => OUTSIDER
66 Across: Waiting at a stoplight => IDLING
67 Across: Be too curious => PRY
68 Across: Reinhart of Riverdale and Hustlers => LILI
69 Across: Repetitive nickname for the singer Swift => TAYTAY
70 Across: Class that teaches SVO word order => ESL
71 Across: Tinder swipe direction => LEFT

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Drops in on => VISITS
2 Down: Indifferent to ethics => AMORAL
3 Down: Dishevel, as hair => TOUSLE
4 Down: Show announced by Darrell Hammond, briefly => SNL
5 Down: Elaborate deception => HOAX
6 Down: Tenochtitlan resident => AZTEC
7 Down: Labor day, maybe? => DUEDATE
8 Down: Place where you might save your plums for breakfast => ICEBOX
9 Down: Showed to be false => BELIED
10 Down: Fix a typo, e.g. => EDIT
11 Down: British rule in India => RAJ
12 Down: George Gershwin's brother => IRA
13 Down: Mount Vesuvius substance => ASH
18 Down: Learn absolutely perfectly => MASTER
24 Down: Home of Albania and Austria => EUROPE
26 Down: Rats out, with on => NARCS
27 Down: Something eaten by a shoe insert => ODOR
28 Down: Feverish fit => AGUE
29 Down: Ward (off) => FEND
31 Down: Clothing line => HEM
33 Down: Hold that thought => ONESEC
35 Down: Huge spread => FEAST
37 Down: Eyebrow shape => ARCH
38 Down: Clothing line => SEAM
39 Down: Kibbutz, often => FARM
41 Down: Sitcom alien who's back... in Pog form! on an episode of The Simpsons => ALF
42 Down: Flirts with, maybe => TEASES
45 Down: Carbon-13 or plutonium-238 => ISOTOPE
47 Down: Hickok who had a relationship with Eleanor Roosevelt => LORENA
48 Down: Vitality => ENERGY
50 Down: Tour employee => ROADIE
51 Down: It pays for ___! => ITSELF
52 Down: Quickness of wit => ESPRIT
55 Down: Does some barista work => POURS
57 Down: Squabbling => ATIT
59 Down: Until next time, in a text => TTYL
61 Down: Make yourself comfortable! => SIT
62 Down: Investigative journalist ___ B. Wells => IDA
63 Down: Foxlike => SLY
65 Down: Not feeling 100% => ILL

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This crossword has 38 across clues and 41 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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