Crossword Answers For: Saturday, August 8, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: In Mygatt Moore Quarry, in Colorado, 29 percent of almost 2400 fossil bones unearthed since 1981 show evidence of these => BITES
6 Across: The IETF, issuer of April Fool's Day RFCs since 1978, issued this RFC on April 1, 2000 (abbr.) => IMPS
10 Across: Things which can get into you (enjoyable, often with toast) or you can get into them (unenjoyable, no toast) => JAMS
14 Across: Latin term which means to this that in modern times means for a specific purpose => ADHOC
15 Across: Designer Michael who provided Michelle Obama's dress for her official first term portrait => KORS
16 Across: Common architectural shape often seen in doors and windows of churches and mosques => OGEE
17 Across: Did some self promotion and tried to emulate Miles Davis' famous trumpet in the process? => BLUEONESOWNHORN
20 Across: Poet Robert Burns was born in 1759 in the suburbs of this Scottish city => AYR
21 Across: Type of presentation that many SNL skits have done to many presidents over the years => ROAST
22 Across: Crime fiction novelist Michael ___, a pseudonym for the Oxford professor who wrote Shakespeare's Lofty Scene => INNES
23 Across: Pastafarianism or The Temple of the Jedi Order, for example => SECT
25 Across: Scores from this exam might determine if you're allowed to study in a school specializing in eye abnormalities (abbr.) => OAT
27 Across: City that's home to the most sacred Shinto shrine in Japan => ISE
28 Across: Splashed beet juice all over the supper blender purchase agreement? => REDTHECONTRACT
33 Across: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ratified by the US in March 1848, saw Mexico ceding this territory to the US => UTAH
34 Across: Goddess of Power, associated with the color red, in the Legend of Zelda series of video games => DIN
35 Across: Abbr. for the code embedded on DVDs that will tell you the name of the disc manufacturer => MID
36 Across: What K'iche', spoken by over a million Guatemalans, is, essentially => MAYAN
38 Across: Shakira's 2009 hit ___ It Again => DID
40 Across: Heloise ___, originator of the syndicated column Hints from Heloise, now authored by her daughter Ponce => CRUSE
44 Across: Type of conservativism that Elliott Abrams or Paul Wolfowitz is into => NEO
46 Across: ___-eating, something you could be accused of if you've downed about 19 eggs for breakfast => OVA
48 Across: At least seven of these were used by the monks that created the Book of Kells => INKS
49 Across: Be stoical, yet determined, in an environmental kind of manner? => GREENANDBEARIT
53 Across: Something often coming after you, or even going in front of you, but it never comes after me => ARE
54 Across: Carson who you can hear on FSR’s National Sports Reports => DEB
55 Across: Award-winning TV producer Wood who co-created Teletubbies and Boohbah => ANNE
56 Across: What the High Priest Johanan got from Alexander the Great in the fourth century BC for sending Hebrew aid to help his campaign => MEDAL
58 Across: ___ Center Hanoi, which has 65 floors and has the Top of Hanoi observation deck at the 876 ft roof-top level => LOTTE
61 Across: Org. which was to have had its 43 annual convention in Ocean City in October (it probably had a lot of long-winded speakers, anyway) (abbr.) => AKA
64 Across: Act groovy, in a rhythmic, purplish sort of way? => MAUVETOTHEMUSIC
67 Across: Mycologists will likely have studied a lot of these sexual, spore-bearing cells => ASCI
68 Across: Speech by President Trump during which Nancy Pelosi stood and ripped up her copy (abbr.) => SOTU
69 Across: Wilderness survival reality series on the History Network since June 18, 2015 => ALONE
70 Across: Carrie Jones series of four young adult urban fantasy novels about Zara and malicious pixies (published 2008-12) => NEED
71 Across: Londoner's pea soup, back in the '60s => SMOG
72 Across: What Mr. Salieri did with his regards to Tommy Angelo, through Vito, in the video game Mafia => SENDS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Mountain range dominated by Foladi peak, south of the town of Bamyan in Afghanistan => BABA
2 Down: Just sitting there without having much of your brain in gear => IDLY
3 Down: Nostradamus said (in Century 1, Quatrain 50) there will be born a man from the 3 water signs who will celebrate this as his holiday => THURSDAY
4 Down: Letters sometimes used in company want ads => EOE
5 Down: Call sign of three-time NASA astronaut Charles O. Hobaugh => SCORCH
6 Down: Huge Swedish multinational retailer, started in 1943 and HQed in Delft, Netherlands => IKEA
7 Down: Frank, the last Democrat to represent Utah in the U.S. Senate (1959-77) => MOSS
8 Down: About 99.95% of the weight of a hydrogen atom => PROTON
9 Down: Dir. to head out of Long Beach's Terminal Island if you want to hit Santa Catalina's Avalon, for short => SSW
10 Down: In 1912, 24,587 new male babies in the US were given this first name => JOHN
11 Down: Line on the Earth's surface where the direction of magnetic north as shown on a compass is identical to true north => AGONIC
12 Down: Even the ___ gesture is holy if it is filled with faith.: Franz Kafka => MEREST
13 Down: What Orkian doesn't make, at least to me => SENSE
18 Down: Observed, recorded, added to the spreadsheet and saved! => NOTED
19 Down: Kind of acid used as one of the components of the BOMARC long-range missile used in the US Cold War defense system => NITRIC
24 Down: The only hydrocarbon simpler than this one is methane => ETHANE
26 Down: Something that most people use, but it's also not tough to go through a withdrawal => ATM
28 Down: Alcoholic essential for the sauce used to make Bananas Foster => RUM
29 Down: Orion's 10th brightest star, Saif al Jabbar, aka ___ Orionis => ETA
30 Down: The W16 2017 Bugatti Chiron has the largest production car engine (rated at 487.8) in terms of this (abbr.) => CID
31 Down: Common veggie capable of producing excellent brown and yellow dyes simply by boiling the skin => ONION
32 Down: Familiar word that I drew a blank on when it came to thinking up a clue! => ADRIAN
37 Down: Item prominently displayed in NYC that actually came from the reign of Pharaoh Thutmose III, 1400 years before Cleopatra => NEEDLE
39 Down: A single-sided, standard one of these can hold 4.7GB of data => DVD
41 Down: What some people think that believing in UFOs or zombies is based on => UNREASON
42 Down: Kjetil André Aamodt of Norway has eight Olympic medals, apparently because he can do this very, very well => SKI
43 Down: Part or all of 22 states in the US spend part of the year observing this (abbr.) => EST
45 Down: What kotahi means to a guy about to do a haka => ONE
47 Down: What torrential rain storms do, eventually => ABATE
49 Down: Something you might have to do to your cookie sheet prior to slinging your oatmeal-banana-raisin vegan cookies in the oven => GREASE
50 Down: What the enthusiastically environmentally conscious try to do with just about everything => REDUCE
51 Down: Rafflesia arnoldii produces one of these that is huge and rare and is a sight to behold, but it stinks! => ABLOOM
52 Down: Medical procedures invented by the god Thoth, according to Egyptian mythology => ENEMAS
53 Down: City where North Korea was crowned 2016 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup Champion => AMMAN
57 Down: Like those fans who camp out all night in ticket lines just to ensure they get one of the best seats => AVID
59 Down: Perelman's screenplay co-writer for 2003's House of Sand and Fog => OTTO
60 Down: Rapper Young ___, one of the musicians who won the 2019 Grammy Award for Song of the Year for This Is America => THUG
62 Down: Company founded in 2004 and HQed in NYC that sounds really nice and makes White Chocolate Cinnamon Almond Protein Bars => KIND
63 Down: Las Vegas team that competes in the Western Conference of the WNBA => ACES
65 Down: Nan C. Robertson won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing for her account of her struggle with this medical condition (abbr.) => TSS
66 Down: Type of glass used in the Hubble telescope (abbr.) => ULE

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This crossword has 37 across clues and 42 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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