Crossword Answers For: Saturday, July 4, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

---

1 Across: Underwater detection system that started being produced in England in 1922 => ASDIC
6 Across: 2018 psychological thriller directed by Oscar-winning Neil Jordan => GRETA
11 Across: Degree that Steve Bannon earned from Harvard in 1985 => MBA
14 Across: Physicist Enrico who was honored by having a length unit of 10–15 meters named after him => FERMI
15 Across: Wendy, who was executive producer of General Hospital and its spinoff Port Charles => RICHE
16 Across: Something Dylan used publicly for the first time on July 25, 1965 => AMP
17 Across: Layman's term for the gizmo they used to confirm the existence of the Higgs Boson in 2012 => ATOMSMASHER
19 Across: Political gp. founded 1854 by opponents of the Kansas–Nebraska Act, for short => GOP
20 Across: Project funded in part by the Gates Foundation that aims to boost agricultural production to help reduce global hunger => RIPE
21 Across: This is a thoughtful prefix => IDEO
22 Across: What Kelly and Ryan's show is => LIVE
23 Across: Really, really abundant, like the tundra around Utqiagvik, Alaska is with mosquitoes => RIFE
25 Across: Tree which yields gum arabic, used as a thickening agent and stabilizer in the food industry => ACACIA
27 Across: Whoa there! Just hold your horses. => NOTSOFASTBUSTER
32 Across: Extraterrestrial species from the Star Trek franchise that Thot Gor and Thot Pran belonged to => BREEN
33 Across: Piece of backless attire whose name comes from the Germanic for that by which anything is held => HALTER
34 Across: Vietnamese ethic group from the south central coast region whose male members almost all have the family name of Ho => COR
35 Across: Online daily magazine with a Wild Things section that in Nov. 2015 wrote about turtles that breathe through their butts => SLATE
37 Across: North Dakota National Wildlife Refuge near Dunn Center that's centered on this lake => ILO
40 Across: Real first name of the Iowa actor who was known as the Duke => MARION
43 Across: Monsignor Guido Marini's position regarding Pontifical liturgies => EMCEE
45 Across: Is subject to an overload, perhaps => TRIPSTHEBREAKER
49 Across: City that usually hosts the Alaska Folk Festival => JUNEAU
50 Across: Last part of the three step fire safety routine often taught to kids => ROLL
51 Across: Journalist Murray ___ who on Nov. 9, 2018, reported in Vox that Matthew Whitaker was counseling the White House on investigating Clinton => WAAS
52 Across: Princess from the planet Alderaan => LEIA
54 Across: Alternate way of saying am not, is not, are not, has not, or have not => AINT
58 Across: Myrmecologist's favorite critter => ANT
59 Across: William J Mann's 1998 book ___: The Life and Times of William Haines, Hollywood's First Openly Gay Star => WISECRACKER
62 Across: Native file format used by Xerox's print on demand systems => RDO
63 Across: Person the Joker tried to push into a chemical vat in TV's The Batman, despite the fact that he was the Joker's sidekick => PRANK
64 Across: 2017 album by Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser, popularly known as 2Cellos => SCORE
65 Across: Stuntman Robinson who once made a 700-foot free-fall from the CN Tower in the 1982 film Highpoint => DAR
66 Across: Some folk who you really hope will get on your case (abbr.) => ATTYS
67 Across: Little Orphan Annie's dog => SANDY

Down Clues and Answers:

---

1 Down: Award-winning magazine HQed in San Francisco and launched in 2009 that focuses on experiential travel => AFAR
2 Down: Pharaoh of the New Kingdom Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt and the son of Ramesses I, whose tomb was discovered in 1817 => SETI
3 Down: Moles could well use a dead one => DROP
4 Down: Annual 3 day conference for Christian/Gospel Music Creatives held in Nashville, Tennessee => IMMERSE
5 Down: Beginning of Cookie Monster's favorite song => CIS
6 Down: Hip hop album released in limited edition in 2004 by Aceyalone, aka. Edwin Maximilian Eddie Hayes, Jr. => GRADEA
7 Down: Get ready for the national anthem => RISE
8 Down: Non-existent bandmate of The Bunnymen who's part of the band only because the name was just as stupid as the other suggestions => ECHO
9 Down: Word that may come right after English monarchs Edward, Edgar or Alfred or Russia's Simeon, Vasily or Ivan => THE
10 Down: Nonprofit financial assistance org. HQed in Arlington that helps US Army soldiers and dependents in the form of grants or loans (abbr.) => AER
11 Down: The Zig Zag Girl illusion or Andre Kole's The Drill of Death, basically => MAGICTRICK
12 Down: Presentation which was the bottom half of the old double feature matinee, sixty years ago => BMOVIE
13 Down: In the US, the last word in the phrase legally required to be on curved passenger's side mirrors => APPEAR
18 Down: 10-day summer get-together in Waterville's Railroad Square Cinema and the Waterville Opera House (abbr.) => MIFF
22 Down: Perform surgery using a carbon dioxide, argon or yttrium aluminum garnet instrument => LASE
24 Down: Attractive, or repulsive, little thing => ION
25 Down: Scoot McNairy's co-star Samantha ___, from the sci-fi horror film Monsters (2010) => ABLE
26 Down: Duffy's ___, notorious section of railroad tracks 30 miles west of Philadelphia, originally built in 1832 => CUT
27 Down: Network where Festivus dinner was first seen celebrated => NBC
28 Down: Colorado city, now a ghost town near the Arkansas River, where gold was discovered in 1860 => ORO
29 Down: Shorter name for the Cyberdyne Systems Model 101, apparently still operating after 35 years => TERMINATOR
30 Down: Filmmaker Acker, creator of the 2005 multi-award-winning computer animated short 9 => SHANE
31 Down: Beast that Tweety tought he taw => TAT
35 Down: Condition that archeologists and Egyptologists usually find things in => SITU
36 Down: Sandra Tsing ___, author of the just released The Madwoman and the Roomba => LOH
38 Down: Hogwarts' Quidditch commentator ___ Jordan, aka. River on the radio station Potterwatch => LEE
39 Down: Word sung quite often after the phrase perilous fight => OER
41 Down: Members of the family Hylobatidae and of the family Hominidae, which sounds kind of familiar... => APES
42 Down: US org. that researches the ancient art of persuasion (abbr.) => RSA
43 Down: Creature that may travel to the Sargasso Sea to spawn and lay eggs => EEL
44 Down: 550 mile strait between the Malay Peninsula and the isle of Sumatra => MALACCA
45 Down: Safety drafted by the Browns in 2010 who played for the Broncos in 2014-17 and is god-brother to Maurice Jones-Drew => TJWARD
46 Down: Central Africa's ___-Urundi, ruled by Belgium from 1922-62, now broken up into two separate nations => RUANDA
47 Down: Items that have been produced by the billions by this Danish National Toy Hall of Fame member => BRICKS
48 Down: Online magazine founded as a blog in 2010 that is now a self-declared activist-run journal of the radical imagination => ROAR
52 Down: Future attorney's exam that tests both analytical and logical reasoning (abbr.) => LSAT
53 Down: Common kid's word for really small but you can't use it in Scrabble => EENY
55 Down: Huge Pennsylvania-based provider of copiers and document management systems purchased by Ricoh for $1.62 billion in 2008 => IKON
56 Down: Device that is not Internet capable that enables submarine personnel to access the department's library (abbr.) => NERD
57 Down: ___ Gowdy, who chaired the House Oversight Committee from 2017 to 2019 => TREY
59 Down: Oldest advocacy group for females in the US (since 1845) focusing on New York State and criminal justice issues (abbr.) => WPA
60 Down: NYC Subway operator from 1904 to 1940 => IRT
61 Down: What Conrade calls Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing => ASS

---

This crossword has 35 across clues and 44 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
You can find more crosswords on VOX website.

---