Crossword Answers For: Saturday, July 25, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

---

1 Across: Professional who makes decisions about a lot of returns, for short => CPA
4 Across: Dates on the Hijri calendar are based on this type of cycle => LUNAR
9 Across: Pete Clemenza and Sal Tessio from The Godfather, for example => CAPOS
14 Across: Olive, who was once engaged to lounge lizard Harold Hamgravy, a character played by Bill Irwin in a 1980 movie => OYL
15 Across: The Smashing Pumpkins certified platinum album released on June 2, 1998 => ADORE
16 Across: Play by Gertrude Stein from 1923 with seven characters, all of whose names begin with the letter M => ALIST
17 Across: Country abbr. appearing on the scoreboard when Katie Taylor won her country's only gold medal at the 2012 summer Olympics => IRL
18 Across: The guy at Buckingham Palace who's in charge of identifying visitors through speech recognition? => VOICEPRINCE
20 Across: Reason the bartender might refuse service to a young-looking 25 year old => NOID
22 Across: What Tennyson's six hundred did for half a league => RODE
23 Across: The AMA uses this abbr. with no period and if there are more than six authors, but only lists three of them in any case => ETAL
24 Across: Probable crowd reaction when Jules Leotard first performed in 1859 => GASP
27 Across: Vale S.A. and the Rio Tinto Group control the vast majority of the world's production of this resource => IRONORE
29 Across: Albacore that Ivan the Terrible smooched with? => TSARKISTTUNA
33 Across: You can dine this way and when you do, someone will dish your food this way, too => OUT
34 Across: He-Man and the Masters of the Universe character who is Skeletor's northern agent, can freeze people and turn himself into water => ICER
35 Across: Something that Crawford Williamson Long demonstrated in surgery to officials in Georgia in 1842 => ETHER
39 Across: String thing which might be named after Bachmann, Blake or Bourchier => KNOT
41 Across: Annie, Eddie or Obie => AWARD
44 Across: Currency sign which can be entered on most PCs by Alt+0128 => EURO
45 Across: Tabasco sauce heir Edward Avery McIlhenny established Bird City in Louisiana about 1895 to protect this then-endangered bird => EGRET
47 Across: Something Indira Gandhi wore on formal occasions => SARI
49 Across: ___ Persad, Ms. Tennessee 2017 and mathematician who also had her Carnegie Hall debut in April 2011 => RIA
50 Across: How the eight-time men's singles Wimbledon champion is known when he visits Kozhikode? => RAJAHFEDERER
54 Across: Where Eli battles the bikers (and wins, naturally!) in Carnegie's town in The Book of Eli => BARROOM
57 Across: Member of the Nath Siddha tradition of Hinduism and a practitioner of tantra => YOGI
58 Across: Vegas hotel and casino whose lobby contains a suspended 87 ft silver sculpture of the Colorado River called Silver River => ARIA
59 Across: Minnesota skier Lindsey who won a record 20 World Cup crystal globe titles in her career => VONN
62 Across: Jamaica's ___ Rios resort, once used to film Dr. No ('62) and again for Live and Let Die ('73) => OCHO
65 Across: US Masters Champion ('84 and '95) who's considered to be golf royalty in the middle east? => BENCRENSHAH
69 Across: Phrase popularized by Lt. Col. Shorty Powers when he worked for NASA in the sixties as the voice of Mercury Control => AOK
70 Across: Somewhere over the Marianas Trench, say => ATSEA
71 Across: What Hulu did with old Seinfeld episodes => RERAN
72 Across: Org. dedicated to safety and education for those interested in being in control of their own launch sequences => NAR
73 Across: Like the Actinidia deliciosa, for example => SEEDY
74 Across: Org. focusing on advancing competitiveness and sustainability in continental aviation (abbr.) => ACARE
75 Across: Bill reintroduced to Congress in 2017 by Utah's Sen. Hatch that would criminalize union threats and require secret ballots for union reps => ERA

Down Clues and Answers:

---

1 Down: 1 dirham, in Morocco => COIN
2 Down: Inflammatory role Aaron Stanford played in the film X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) => PYRO
3 Down: Large reptile that might be confused with one making many unjustified accusations? => ALLIGATOR
4 Down: ___-25: 8-wheeled amphibious carrier used by the USMC in both the Iraq War and the War in Afghanistan => LAV
5 Down: Islet popular with tourists, located 2 miles off the east coast of Jeju Island, South Korea => UDO
6 Down: One of your two color choices when you're playing roulette => NOIR
7 Down: Sacramento Kings arena where they set a Guinness World Record for loudest sports roar in reaching 126 decibels on November 15, 2013 => ARCO
8 Down: What you might have to do when you find your earth-shattering column on dandelions is 372 words too long for the space allowed => REEDIT
9 Down: 1922's Model D Doble, for example => CAR
10 Down: Really rub the wrong way => ALIENATE
11 Down: Car model that the NHTSA announced on August 11, 1977, had a defective fuel system => PINTO
12 Down: First name of the boxer who won 11 world titles in six weight classes in 1992-2008 => OSCAR
13 Down: Stone of Terpon, excavated near the seawall of Antibes, France, in 1866 is one of these => STELE
19 Down: Most distant source of the Amazon is located on the Cordillera Rumi Cruz in this country => PERU
21 Down: Singer/songwriter ___ Williams, whose song is always played during Bryn Mawr College's May Hole celebration => DAR
25 Down: In the movie A View to a Kill, Bond did this once his snowmobile was blown up => SKI
26 Down: Largest branch of the vertebral blood flow mechanism that in part supplies blood to your cerebellum (abbr.) => PICA
28 Down: Song by U2 released as a benefit single in 1992 with proceeds going toward AIDS research => ONE
29 Down: This is a real drag but Canadians do it frequently without any consequences => TOKE
30 Down: Chinese dynasty in which movable type printing was developed (var.) => SUNG
31 Down: In 1790, England's Thomas Saint devised and patented a machine, improved many times since then, that would help people do this => SEW
32 Down: Internet meme ___ Doves which essentially features a large-eyed purple pigeon in differing situations => TRASH
36 Down: The list of names for this type of meteorological feature will include Nana, Omar and Paulette this year => HURRICANE
37 Down: City whose downtown area is surrounded by Presque Isle State Park => ERIE
38 Down: What participants in curling apparently do, according to its nickname => ROAR
40 Down: Like many British soccer stadiums of the past => TERRACED
42 Down: Britain's Prince William worked his last shift for this employer in September 2013 => RAF
43 Down: Where to get a squirrel kit => DREY
46 Down: 62 mile Yellow River tributary that starts in the Xiqing Mountains => TAO
48 Down: Netflix reality series that started on July 1, 2020 starring Jeremiah Brent, Thai Nguyen and Gabriele Bertaccini => IDO
51 Down: Important Roman deity that used thunderbolts and had a sacred eagle (var.) => JOVE
52 Down: Deity who, in Egypt's New Kingdom, was the champion of the poor and troubled and attained the position of King of the Gods => AMONRA
53 Down: Film music composer ___ Plum of Nickelodeon's comedy television series SpongeBob SquarePants => EGO
54 Down: Rummy desserts introduced into 18th-century France by the exiled Stanislaus I of Poland => BABAS
55 Down: Arista de los Murcielagos, in the Spanish Pyrenees, is a popular one with climbers => ARETE
56 Down: Common dental directive => RINSE
60 Down: 10 of these is the half-life of lithium-12, for short => NSEC
61 Down: Org. founded in 1951 that is now the self-proclaimed world's largest motorsports sanctioning body => NHRA
63 Down: Vengeful deity of retribution, also known as The Doombringer in Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms => HOAR
64 Down: Mucilage from this vegetable of the Deep South is currently under development as a biodegradable food packaging => OKRA
66 Down: Kroc who made McDonald's what it is today and once owned the Padres baseball team => RAY
67 Down: 183 mile long Swiss river that rises in the Bernese Alps and has more than 40 hydroelectric plants along its length => AAR
68 Down: Conical Burmese shawm that has a sextuple reed made from toddy palm leaves => HNE

---

This crossword has 37 across clues and 44 down clues. In total 81 clues are solved in the section above.
You can find more crosswords on VOX website.

---