Crossword Answers For: Saturday, August 1, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: George who was mayor of Peekskill and went on to higher positions => PATAKI
7 Across: Half a dozen to a lady in Timisoara => SASE
11 Across: Org. HQed in Chicago comprised of thousands of trained specialists all anxious to save your choppers (abbr.) => AAE
14 Across: The Latin word discus for the modern words disk, desk, dish and dais => ETYMON
15 Across: Lady Katharine ___, author of My Father, Bertrand Russell ('75) and founder of The Bertrand Russell Society => TAIT
16 Across: Rapper who had his phrase Oppan Gangnam style make the top ten list in the 2012 Yale Book of Quotations => PSY
17 Across: Gangs of wild, hoodlum gerbils? => DESERTBRATS
19 Across: Loch on the north west coast of Scotland that opens on to The Minch => EWE
20 Across: Dance that was first referred to in the 1590 witchcraft trial of Doctor Fian in Edenbrough, Scotland => REEL
21 Across: Tiny, common little critters that appear not to age and can regenerate => HYDRAS
23 Across: Geographic features that are vital to desert, nomadic people, particularly after heavy rains leading to seasonal vegetation => WADI
26 Across: Type of admiral Richard Byrd, discoverer of Antarctica's Mount Sidle in 1934, was => REAR
29 Across: Hue that has the ISCC-NBS color number of 89 => ECRU
30 Across: The annoying unevenness you always trip over when you're trying to steal from first, and the fourth official gets you every time => ASECONDBASEBUMP
34 Across: What my wife always demands that I do after using the toothpaste => RECAP
35 Across: Just over 14% of Jackie Joyner-Kersee's 1992 Olympic gold medal-winning performance => EVENT
36 Across: Subject of Jung Chang and Jon Halliday's 2005 biography subtitled The Unknown Story => MAO
37 Across: State, in short, which had as its first permanent capital the community of Cahaba, now a ghost town => ALA
40 Across: Stretch of time it takes to get to doomsday, to those with a poetical bent => EER
41 Across: Better known name of Jonathan King, Newark, Delaware's hip hop record producer who produced Mac Miller's Donald Trump in 2011 => SAP
44 Across: One of about 10,000 the NSF hands out every year => GRANT
46 Across: 276-mile-long Missouri river that the Harry S. Truman Reservoir and the Lake of the Ozarks sits on => OSAGE
48 Across: Move out where you can be easily seen, right in the middle of the infested potato field => GOINTOTHEBLIGHT
53 Across: ___ Purviance, Charlie Chaplin's frequent leading lady, played by Penelope Ann Miller in Chaplin ('92) => EDNA
54 Across: Cat with a Twitter account (with over 30,000 followers) that's the mascot of the Turkish Republican People's Party => SERO
55 Across: Giant avians that sound as if they'd be useful for lawn care duties => MOAS
56 Across: Tiny, minty thing which when reversed can be seen as a military maneuver => TICTAC
59 Across: Will and Katie's son, that was played by Alex Neustaedter, on USA Network's Colony => BRAM
61 Across: Avril Lavigne's 2002 single Sk8er ___ => BOI
62 Across: How Robert Hodgson and his compatriots got to New Amsterdam from England in 1657? => QUAKERBOATS
68 Across: Measurements that are commonly applied to vitamins (abbr.) => IUS
69 Across: Drink from Coca-Cola Norway, launched in 1996, that had a relaunch of 1.5L bottles after a massive consumer Facebook campaign => URGE
70 Across: What Yosemite Sam frequently used to describe Bugs Bunny as => ORNERY
71 Across: Only Asian security trading facility in the top four by market capitalization, for short => TSE
72 Across: Gulf through which India exports over $50 billion in goods and provides an ongoing warship escort => ADEN
73 Across: Carrie Underwood song that won Most Performed Song of the Year in the 2007 ASCAP Country Music Awards => WASTED

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Letters often preceding xing and accompanied by a silhouette of a person walking on a yellow background => PED
2 Down: Acronym that the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians used before 1940 => ATE
3 Down: Two-time Emmy-winners Burrell and Pennington => TYS
4 Down: Ferrera who played Betty Suarez in ABC's Ugly Betty => AMERICA
5 Down: Moon also known as Jupiter XLIX discovered by a team from the University of Hawaii in 2003 => KORE
6 Down: Something that German students completing their medical courses need not be in order to be an assistant doctor => INTERN
7 Down: One of two Formula One racing teams owned by Austrian beverage company Red Bull from 2006-17, for short => STR
8 Down: W. Hemisphere, 60 million strong gp. that the Royal Dutch Touring Club and Touring Club Suisse is affiliated with (abbr.) => AAA
9 Down: Order that's the arch-enemy of the Jedi Order => SITH
10 Down: Site that bills itself as a global marketplace for unique and creative goods and where vintage goods must be proven to be 20 years old plus => ETSY
11 Down: Clever or enlightening insight => APERCU
12 Down: Like bees on the rampage, in a quaint sort of way => ASWARM
13 Down: What the dog (somewhat overweight, I admit) almost always does to my steak => EYESUP
18 Down: What I always did to the car brakes after changing the fluid in those days when I was a DIY car guy (I no longer am!) => BLED
22 Down: Item that may cause you to file for Chapter 13 bankruptcy => DEBT
23 Down: Intl. foundation that is dedicated to war reporting, war art and war memory (abbr.) => WARM
24 Down: 300 miles straight west of Darwin, say => ASEA
25 Down: Style like the interior of Mexico City's Palacio de Bellas Artes, for example => DECO
27 Down: Old ___, name of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division's screaming eagle => ABE
28 Down: Babble on to anyone who listens about the alien plants that have taken over your bathroom => RAVE
31 Down: Like Victor Vasarely's 1975 acrylic on canvas painting Vonal-Stri => OPART
32 Down: Apple TV+ sci-fi drama where activities revolve around the twins Kofun and Haniwa, born with a surprising talent => SEE
33 Down: Join up for classes at London's English National Ballet => ENROL
38 Down: Language people usually converse in in Luang Prabang province and Loei province => LAO
39 Down: Tiny things that myrmecologists really get into => ANTS
41 Down: What papeda, one of the staple foods of Western New Guinea, is made of => SAGO
42 Down: Title a Kurdish tribal chieftain will usually be addressed with => AGHA
43 Down: US Public Law 109-308, signed by President George W. Bush on October 6, 2006, that concerned service and other animals (abbr.) => PETS
44 Down: G7es (T5) Zaunkonig torpedo, used by WWII U-boats, was nicknamed this by the Brits => GNAT
45 Down: Song with an explanatory subtitle by will.i.am with Mick Jagger and Jennifer Lopez, released on the iTunes Store in late 2011 => THE
47 Down: Professional surname of Chaim Witz, outlandish bassist, musician and TV personality => SIMMONS
48 Down: What's likely to happen to you if you choose amateur snake milking as a hobby => GETBIT
49 Down: Totally repugnant => ODIOUS
50 Down: What someone may do if you're undergoing scarification => INCISE
51 Down: Bonnie who created and hosts PBS' weekly news analysis program To the Contrary => ERBE
52 Down: What you do when you sign your mortgage agreement, basically => BORROW
57 Down: NASA satellite launched in Earth orbit on May 4, 2002 to study and measure radiance, reflectance and backscatter => AQUA
58 Down: Alternate term for the edible white part of a cauliflower => CURD
60 Down: 111 mile long river in the Philippines originating near Mount Data and flowing into the South China Sea => ABRA
63 Down: Whoever wins the November election will break some records in terms of this on inauguration day => AGE
64 Down: Filmmaker ___ Burns, Grand Marshal for the 2016 Pasadena Tournament of Roses' Rose Parade => KEN
65 Down: One of the abbreviations used for a paraprofessional educator, a foreign national working in a Japanese classroom => AET
66 Down: Ancient Cambodian trumpet, now recreated from carvings of Angkor Wat => TRE
67 Down: Single named singer who released her debut R&B album Fin in February 2017 => SYD

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This crossword has 36 across clues and 45 down clues. In total 81 clues are solved in the section above.
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