Crossword Answers For: Saturday, June 27, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Type of Remy Martin bottling that's been sitting in casks for at least four years => VSOP
5 Across: What Bridgton, Maine gets covered with according the narrator of this 1980 Stephen King story => MIST
9 Across: The rock band Say Hi released albums Numbers & Mumbles in '04 and Impeccable Blahs in '06 with Ferocious ___ in between => MOPES
14 Across: Saint ___ Brady, first African American in the US to obtain a Ph.D. degree in chemistry (University of Illinois, 1916) => ELMO
15 Across: The Eric that minor planet 9620 is named after => IDLE
16 Across: Actress Julia ___ Stiles who plays Georgina in Riviera on the Ovation network => OHARA
17 Across: Exclusive automaker ___ Motor Group based in Scottsdale, that produces the Scorpion, a hybrid that goes from 0-60 in 3.5 seconds => RONN
18 Across: ___ East; term that was applied to the maximum extent of the old Ottoman Empire => NEAR
19 Across: Company in Needham, Massachusetts that produced the PDS-1 and PDS-4 in 1970, the first low-cost, graphical mini-computer => IMLAC
20 Across: Arabians with a very negative viewpoint that nevertheless have quite a stable household? => NEIGHSAYERS
23 Across: Low Earth artificial satellite that includes the Kibo and Rassvet modules (abbr.) => ISS
24 Across: Sound some people utter when spotting a cockroach in the bathroom => EEK
25 Across: Material that is used for some ballerina footwear and boxer shorts => SATIN
27 Across: Pinnacles of one's career => ACMES
30 Across: Expert mixologist who, when they get an order for a gimlet with a topping of grass, doesn't miss a bleat? => BAATENDER
34 Across: Item to include when you mail away your on-spec manuscript for consideration, if you want it back (abbr.) => SAE
35 Across: Area governed by the League of Nations for 15 years and returned to Germany in a 1935 plebiscite => SAAR
37 Across: What the mass multiplied by the square of the speed of light equals => ENERGY
38 Across: What one does when playing the harp, usually => SITS
40 Across: Actor Overstreet who played Sam Evans on Glee => CHORD
42 Across: Small rail that runs through marshes all over North America => SORA
43 Across: Circular area on the skin that's differently colored than its background, like the red area around a pimple, for example => AREOLA
45 Across: German social philosopher who opined that Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form => MARX
47 Across: Justices of the Supreme Court prior to September 1981 => MEN
48 Across: Guernsey or Jersey native that's a genius at milking bad woodwind solos for all they're worth, but really prefers the low register? => MOOSICIAN
50 Across: Archaic deductions once made in the costs paid for goods for dirt, waste, dust and impurities => TRETS
52 Across: Stuff you can rub on your weightlifting shoes, your cello strings or even on your bull rider's gloves => ROSIN
53 Across: MLS on-field arbiter Allen Chapman has received the top award from this org. in 2017 and 2019 => PRO
54 Across: Figure derived from your height and weight that helps determine whether you're underweight, overweight or just right (abbr.) => BMI
56 Across: Seemingly pleasant, non-threatening old duck that just dabbles around, but can open all sorts of closed doors? => SAFEQUACKER
62 Across: Perform better than your rivals => OUTDO
64 Across: Species of the plant alternately known as snakeshead, cuckoo pint, lords-and-ladies, jack in the pulpit and more than a dozen other names => ARUM
65 Across: Rocky Marciano never experiences one of these => KAYO
66 Across: Quinton Rampage Jackson played Bosco B. A. Baracus in this 2010 movie based on a popular 1980's TV series (with The) => ATEAM
67 Across: DOC agcy. where you can check online to see if the latest hurricane's going to hit you => NOAA
68 Across: Steve, amateur rocket builder, whose 1/10 scale Saturn V replica soared 4,441 feet and was successfully recovered in 2009 => EVES
69 Across: Haul into court again => RESUE
70 Across: Robin Williams, playing Leslie Zevo, stars in this fantasy comedy of 1992 => TOYS
71 Across: Prepares the schooner's hemp ropes => TARS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: U.S. Representative Buchanan of Florida, first elected in November 2006 => VERN
2 Down: Wood from the Prunus spinosa that the Irish have traditionally used to make shillelaghs => SLOE
3 Down: Hotel chain that owns Denver's Interlocken Hotel and Carlsbad's La Costa Resort and Spa => OMNI
4 Down: Light, waterproof fabric that your umbrella might well be made of, originally exported from China in the early 20th century => PONGEE
5 Down: Place Lee Harvey Oswald lived when he worked at the Gorizont Electronics Factory in 1960-62 => MINSK
6 Down: Picasso opined that this item is A point of departure and no more => IDEA
7 Down: What knights in shining armor are prepared to do to offending dragons => SLAY
8 Down: Tomlinson, first female mayor of Columbus (2011-19) and only mayor to win a contested re-election since 1971 => TERESA
9 Down: Throw cold water on? => MOISTEN
10 Down: Electrical unit that's also an electrical unit when spelled backwards => OHM
11 Down: What is never odd or even? => PALINDROME
12 Down: Periods of several hundred million years, usually, from a geological perspective => ERAS
13 Down: Facility where men are incarcerated in Folsom, California (abbr.) => SACS
21 Down: Taiwanese company, established in 1983, that provides 60,000 students with an education in English => HESS
22 Down: Like the majority of 2020 Academy Award Best Picture nominees => RATEDR
26 Down: To date, only the incidents at Chernobyl and Fukushima have earned a seven on this rating system (abbr.) => INES
27 Down: Indian state where the state flower is kopouful in the local language or foxtail orchids in English => ASSAM
28 Down: Where you can shop in the Khan el-Khalili, a going concern since the 1380s => CAIRO
29 Down: Tanzania's Mbozi, New York's Willamette and Greenland's Agpalilik => METEORITES
30 Down: Expletive heard often if you happen to be a member of the Cratchit family => BAH
31 Down: Something that might draw you to Frankie's Hot Dog Stand on the corner, maybe => AROMA
32 Down: Bird that became endangered in the 19th and early 20th century due to demands from hat makers => EGRET
33 Down: April, political analyst for CNN and director and actor Meg => RYANS
36 Down: Tree which is part of the initiation of Master Masons and to them represents the immortality of the soul => ACACIA
39 Down: Fair to middling => SOSO
41 Down: Tried to beat Usain Bolt (and failed miserably, no doubt) => RAN
44 Down: Like a lot of runway models and ballerinas => LISSOME
46 Down: Online magazine, published by Pink Triangle Press, that covers news and events of interest to the LGBTQ community => XTRA
49 Down: Something that often shows up at the end of Labor Day => INFANT
51 Down: 2018 album from Edie Brickell & New Bohemians => ROCKET
53 Down: Slangy name for your RS Computer shoes that contain an accelerometer and Bluetooth => PUMAS
54 Down: Beast that sounds uninteresting introduced in NH in 1890 that has become of real interest to conservationists => BOAR
55 Down: Type of swan that includes one specimen, weighed at over 50 pounds, that qualified as the largest weight ever verified for a flying bird => MUTE
57 Down: Switch extension? => EROO
58 Down: Minnie ___, the ghost that legend says walks the town and beaches of Forester, Michigan => QUAY
59 Down: Samoan drink used at important ceremonies and usually ritually served in a half coconut shell => KAVA
60 Down: Obvious, rubber-necking ogler => EYER
61 Down: Actor and adventurer ___ Thomas, 2020 Emmy winner in the category Talent-Program Host/Moderator/Reporter for NBC's California Live => ROSS
63 Down: John ___, one of the Lost Boys of Sudan, featured in God Grew Tired of Us that won a Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2006 => DAU

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This crossword has 39 across clues and 40 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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