Crossword Answers For: Saturday, June 20, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Country with a flag emblazoned with a Khanjar and two crossed swords => OMAN
5 Across: Todd McFarlane creation that makes an appearance as a guest character in Mortal Kombat 11 => SPAWN
10 Across: The US Census Bureau offers these informational messages in 13 languages on their website => PSAS
14 Across: What a production company's daily call sheet will specify => ROLE
15 Across: Where the eagle has landed... and keeps landing, too => AERIE
16 Across: Essential ingredient of Sicilian arancini => RISO
17 Across: J. D. Salinger's previous (and totally unsuccessful) attempt at writing when he was enthralled with blackthorn berries? => CATCHERINTHEGIN
20 Across: What people had to do to keep the Mauretania running => STOKE
21 Across: River that California's Matthews Dam straddles => MAD
22 Across: Buster, host of ESPN's Baseball Tonight => OLNEY
23 Across: The year known at the time as the Year of the Consulship of Messala and Dagalaiphus, to Latin speakers => DVI
25 Across: ___ Awards: presented by the marketing and retail industry to honor excellent merchandising displays => OMA
26 Across: Margaret Mitchell's little known work about the part magicians played in Georgia in the American Civil War? => GONEWITHTHEWAND
35 Across: What the rapper who released his third studio album, Artist 2.0, this year apparently wears => HOODIE
36 Across: What cyclists are supposed to use, but often don't, when they hang a left => ARM
37 Across: Type of game that Sindome is which is an example of a precursor to the MMORPGs of today => MOO
38 Across: Type of gasket in common use today originally patented in 1937 by 72-year-old Niels Christensen => ORING
39 Across: Song Avril Lavigne performed at the opening ceremony of Special Olympics 2015 => FLY
40 Across: Subject of many paintings made by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh in 1886 => SEINE
42 Across: Org. that advocated for women's gun rights in opposition to the Million Mom March in DC in 2000 => SAS
43 Across: Alaska's Mike Dunleavy, e.g. (abbr.) => GOV
44 Across: Spessartine or pyrope and examples of this general type of gemstone => GARNET
45 Across: John Steinbeck's musings about his wine-making hobby and how it will grow after his retirement? => THEGRAPESOFROTH
49 Across: Sue Grafton's 1998 Alphabet series mystery ___ for Noose => NIS
50 Across: Bobbie Gentry sings one about Billy Joe MacAllister => ODE
51 Across: Good supporter of the arts => EASEL
54 Across: Maritime org. that the Isandlwana belongs to (abbr.) => SAN
56 Across: Places many occasionally fall asleep when watching the late night movie => SOFAS
61 Across: Harper Lee's story that gelled during her Cape Town trip, but it was shelved in favor of a different title? => TOKILLANOSTRICH
64 Across: Splitboards, essentially nonexistent prior to the nineties, can be separated into these two items => SKIS
65 Across: Appearing really eccentric even to people who are already eccentric => OUTRE
66 Across: Adam, from New Haven, currently playing left wing for the Red Wings => ERNE
67 Across: Slangy term for that condition caused by nervousness when you're about to down that match-winning putt (with the) => YIPS
68 Across: One feature of the outfits that the Clanadonians wear in their gigs => PLEAT
69 Across: Silene stenophylla produced the oldest - at about 32,000 years - one of these ever to have been successfully grown => SEED

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Grishnákh, from Mordor, claimed the Isengard group of his species eat these => ORCS
2 Down: Matsumoto Castle's surroundings => MOAT
3 Down: Saxophone associated with John Handy and Paul Desmond => ALTO
4 Down: Neighborhood, when referring to the woods => NECK
5 Down: Oil container letters that might appear before 5W-20 => SAE
6 Down: Document often issued to builders by the city zoning authority, maybe => PERMIT
7 Down: Toreador Song from Bizet's Carmen, for one => ARIA
8 Down: Sirocco or tramontane => WIND
9 Down: Broadcast network from 1962 to 1970, supported by the Ford Foundation and now known as PBS => NET
10 Down: Course recommendation for one planning on standing in William Barr's shoes one day => PRELAW
11 Down: How you might communicate with Leah Katz-Hernandez, Rotus under President Obama => SIGN
12 Down: Le continent avec la plus grande population => ASIE
13 Down: Tech giant that originally got its name from a combination of the Latin word for sound and a slang term for a young boy => SONY
18 Down: Gift that Harry Potter received from Rubeus Hagrid for his 11th birthday => HEDWIG
19 Down: Key that's usually to the left of the Page Up key => HOME
24 Down: Edith Piaf's signature song, La ___ en rose => VIE
25 Down: Word in a mantra that meditating electricians might chant? => OHM
26 Down: 1990 movie that showed an iconic pottery wheel scene between characters Sam Wheat and Molly Jensen => GHOST
27 Down: Marines' battle cry that legend says migrated from the sound of a sub's diving klaxon => OORAH
28 Down: Despite being inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year, Radiohead still produces this, to many people => NOISE
29 Down: Newspaper's early run or late run (abbr.) => EDN
30 Down: ___ Maen: Henry Hudson's ship that entered NY Harbor in 1609 => HALVE
31 Down: Something to do with a little help from your friends => TRY
32 Down: French chemists Vauquelin and Robiquet isolated this type of acid, which they named asparagine, in 1806 => AMINO
33 Down: Name for one of the 3x3 regions in a Sudoku grid => NONET
34 Down: Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand ___ => DOETH
39 Down: The extremely rare Stoneman disease, in brief => FOP
40 Down: In 2019, the German state-owned development bank KfW was the world's this, according to Global Finance magazine. => SAFEST
41 Down: Assume that pi is exactly 22/7, for example => ERR
43 Down: Boston's Haymarket Square had its first of this type of lamp installed in 1828 => GAS
44 Down: Ralph Richardson ('81), Charlton Heston ('56) and Morgan Freeman ('03) all played this character => GOD
46 Down: Bedrock type of most of Scotland's Outer Hebrides => GNEISS
47 Down: Very shallow erosion channel cut into a hill by flowing water => RILL
48 Down: Something that comes between Baja California and Chihuahua => SONORA
51 Down: Huge e-commerce site whose Toys & Entertainment section has a Slime & Foam subsection! => ETSY
52 Down: World Golf Hall of Famer who headed the Japan Golf Tour money list five times from 1976 to 1981 => AOKI
53 Down: What pebble throwers on the river bank often try to make the stones do => SKIP
54 Down: 1997 Pulitzer co-winner for Explanatory Journalism, April ___ => SAUL
55 Down: This usually comes before a lousy deal, but not always => ANTE
57 Down: Most of the samples an assayer will look at => ORES
58 Down: What President Trump did frequently on TV in the years 2004-15 => FIRE
59 Down: Isotretinoin is most often used to treat this common complaint => ACNE
60 Down: What you can do with some light, to some subjects => SHED
62 Down: The ___ Desert, also known as the Sea of Death is one of the last domains of the Wild Bactrian camel => LOP
63 Down: Area that the Coen brothers often worked on => SET

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This crossword has 35 across clues and 46 down clues. In total 81 clues are solved in the section above.
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