Crossword Answers For: Saturday, July 18, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: What the tide always does after it floods => EBBS
5 Across: What someone must have done to produce the Peruvian Guitarrero Cave's more than 9000 year old textiles => WOVE
9 Across: One of the three main macronutrients, along with carbohydrates and proteins => FATS
13 Across: Google's alternative to Zoom => MEET
14 Across: ___ Crusaders, the 14th track on the soundtrack album of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) => APED
15 Across: What The Iron Throne did on May 19, 2019 => AIRED
17 Across: Fruit alternately called the Jamaican tangelo => UGLI
18 Across: 2017 Brendan Muldowney movie that takes place in 13th century Ireland => PILGRIMAGE
20 Across: Beast on the back of a Canadian quarter, to everyone who's not a North American => REINDEER
22 Across: New York's McSorley's or Missouri's O'Malley's, for example => PUB
23 Across: Reads Sleeping Beauty as a bedtime story, say (again and again, no doubt) => NARRATES
26 Across: Makes your hair stand on end => TEASES
28 Across: Rodents that can open Brazil nuts without nut crackers! => AGOUTIS
29 Across: The ___, Mike Pesca's daily evening show released on podcast and produced by Slate magazine => GIST
30 Across: Galen of Pergamon described these in the 2nd century and stated the best were Germanic with Gaulish ones second best => SOAPS
31 Across: Ina Garten's Food Network show, running since 2002, Barefoot ___ => CONTESSA
35 Across: Popeye is often called in Braccio Di Ferro in Italy, a term which also refers to this type of wrestling => ARM
36 Across: Collective term for the lifeforms in a distinct region => BIOTA
38 Across: Column on the back page of the first section of the Financial Times that first appeared on October 1, 1945 => LEX
39 Across: Clue is the one in this clue => LASTWORD
42 Across: Type of mix that will keep you going on your orientation course => TRAIL
44 Across: What the Ogle carburetor, invented in the 1970s, never really did => WORK
45 Across: Singly-named musician from Austin who released the album Drastic Measures in February 2019 => BAYONNE
47 Across: Common name of the giant nebula in Sagittarius that astronomer Charles Messier catalogued as Messier 8 => LAGOON
50 Across: Period often characterized as one of violence and backwardness, but in fact is a period of lack of records => DARKAGES
51 Across: ___ Street News, founded in 1992 by Tony Forder and Jack Babin to provide info about the world of beer => ALE
52 Across: Sicilian, Indian and French, to chess players => DEFENCES
54 Across: What I'm going to have after I've finished writing these clues and it's spelled out with the first two letters of five of the longest puzzle answers => PINACOLADA
56 Across: What you shouldn't fight, according to an old maxim, when you're thinking about trading against the financial trend => TAPE
60 Across: The Pyrenees' third highest peak, Mont ___, which ironically, is pretty easy to find => PERDU
61 Across: What Kufra, Libya, could be described as => ARID
62 Across: This deadly sin philosopher Bertrand Russell said was one of the most potent causes of unhappiness => ENVY
63 Across: King cobras get pretty upset if you disturb this => NEST
64 Across: Two nibbles, to computer aficionados => BYTE
65 Across: The next one of these will start in Paris on September 5th, 2021 and end (hopefully) on November 16th, 2021 at Dakar, Senegal => RACE

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: This bird's head is represented by the Coalsack Nebula according to the Aboriginal culture of Australia => EMU
2 Down: Letters on your baggage tag when you're destined for the Nikola Tesla Airport in Serbia => BEG
3 Down: Ancient temple in Palmyra, Syria, that was partly destroyed in August 2015 and is now under reconstruction => BEL
4 Down: Item which some scholars argue was directly responsible for the shift from infantry to cavalry in medieval armies => STIRRUP
5 Down: Name of the oldest US Forest Service ranger station used continuously since 1903 => WAPITI
6 Down: Tweets one's slant on things, say => OPINES
7 Down: Southern African regions that in Australia would be described as areas that are beyond the black stump => VELDS
8 Down: Where a Monument Valley mesa ends => EDGE
9 Down: 2006 novel by Gail Carson Levin set in the kingdom of Ayortha => FAIREST
10 Down: Donald Trump had to fire people many times between 2008 and 2015, but fortunately he never had to do this => AIM
11 Down: In greyhound racing, these starting essentials determine the color of the dog's racing jacket => TRAPS
12 Down: Subtly change the topic so that no one really notices => SEGUE
16 Down: Senator Fischer and Congresswoman Haaland => DEBS
19 Down: In birds, this light-sensitive layer of tissue is totally devoid of blood vessels => RETINA
21 Down: What Sonya “The Black Widow” Thomas does in her contests => EATS
23 Down: ___ helmet: the predominant form of head protection for the 12th century fighting man => NASAL
24 Down: Ancient Greek equivalent of the Mall of America => AGORA
25 Down: Uses your Verizon phone while you're in Karachi, say => ROAMS
27 Down: What India's Irom Chanu Sharmila finally and voluntarily did on August 9, 2016 => ATE
29 Down: Had a coin-dropping moment, in a way => GOT
31 Down: Small Hungarian village known in English as Sadu and known in Hungarian as this (which honestly sounds a little fishy) => COD
32 Down: Specialty of Urban Dictionary which was used in 2011 by a district court in an ATF complaint to document the meanings of murk => SLANG
33 Down: In Hugo's Les Miserables, the antagonist Janvert drowns himself on June 7, 1832 in this river => SEINE
34 Down: Ways to connect between some pretty big wheels => AXLES
36 Down: Where Birute Galdikas went to study primates => BORNEO
37 Down: Planet that Zim came from in Netflix's animated science-fiction comedy film Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus, released in August last year => IRK
40 Down: Number of words beginning with the letter f in this puzzle => TWO
41 Down: Type of artwork that Albrecht Durer's Knight, Death and the Devil is => WOODCUT
42 Down: The third WWII homing pigeon (along with White Vision and Winkie) that received the Dickin Medal for gallantry on December 2, 1943 => TYKE
43 Down: If you're really an organic coffee aficionado, you'll need this to make your green beans brown => ROASTER
45 Down: One of the pro box lacrosse players who plays out of the KeyBank Center in Buffalo, New York => BANDIT
46 Down: First enclosed shopping mall in the US, built in 1828 in Providence, RI (with The) => ARCADE
47 Down: Harvard U's CEO, Katherine ___ => LAPP
48 Down: Movie the space tug Nostromo features in => ALIEN
49 Down: Western, horror, romantic comedy or crime, filmwise => GENRE
50 Down: Author Terry ___, who in 1993 published the first titles (The Terrible Tudors and The Awesome Egyptians) in the Horrible Histories books => DEARY
53 Down: Middle age spread, basically (something with which I am all too familiar) => FLAB
55 Down: Some things Mad magazine cut out in 1957 and reinstated in 2001 => ADS
57 Down: California Santa that William Henry Spurgeon, known as Uncle Billy, is credited with founding => ANA
58 Down: Material accidentally made in 1872 that the B.F. Goodrich Company finally manged to plasticize and use commercially in 1926 (abbr.) => PVC
59 Down: Jessica Jo-Anne ___, flyweight UFC competitor who received MMA Junkie’s 2018 Comeback Fighter of the Year => EYE

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This crossword has 35 across clues and 42 down clues. In total 77 clues are solved in the section above.
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