Crossword Answers For: Saturday, June 13, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Org. that always appears after the 5-star wanted level has been reached by Grand Theft Auto video game players => FBI
4 Across: Mexican winner of the 2018 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film => ROMA
8 Across: Key that most trumpets are pitched in => BFLAT
13 Across: Item from Mike Todd that Elizabeth Taylor referred to as her ice skating rink => RING
15 Across: Type of hydrocarbon with a hydroxyl group attached to one end of a double bonded carbon pair => ENOL
16 Across: Wrigley's caffeine gum, once withdrawn from the market (but now back) while the FDA investigated caffeinated foods => ALERT
17 Across: Vowel-rich name of the English word for a Greek vowel => IOTA
18 Across: Jamaican locale where it's hot, according to Aerosmith's Permanent Vacation => MONTEGOBAY
20 Across: Races they run in Jamaica, without the added weight? => SPORTOFKINGS
22 Across: Better known first name of Christopher Houston Carson, now resting in Taos, New Mexico => KIT
23 Across: 3-letter ID code for Virginia's Norfolk International Airport, which oddly, has no international flights => ORF
24 Across: Abel, Dutch seafarer and explorer who was the first European to reach Van Diemen's Land and Fiji => TASMAN
28 Across: Runs the bases like Yankee's shortstop Phil Rizzuto, maybe => SCOOTS
30 Across: Producer Berlanti who in the 2019-20 television season had 18 scripted TV series on networks and digital platforms => GREG
32 Across: Nation where many lean over backwards to kiss one of the stones at Blarney Castle (abbr.) => IRE
33 Across: Woman who looks after the church, after missing mass? => THEFAIRERSEX
36 Across: Inevitable result of global warming => HEAT
39 Across: Brief name of the location where James Bond and Jaws fought on top of a cable car in Moonraker => RIO
40 Across: What France's le Roi Soleil - the Sun King - is purportedly said to have equated himself to => ETAT
41 Across: Nighttime item for a private who developed a bladder problem after losing a ton of weight? => ABSORBENTCOT
46 Across: Big name in TV with a well-known logo that was originally a microphone surrounded by lightning bolts in 1943 => NBC
47 Across: What a trencherman does to excess => EATS
48 Across: Minuscule fresh-water organisms that can regenerate and do not appear to age => HYDRAS
52 Across: King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and King Norodom Sihamoni, for example => ASIANS
54 Across: What you should never say => DIE
55 Across: WWE ambassador and three-time Divas Champion Torres => EVE
56 Across: Vehicle that dissolves in the rain, after suddenly getting lighter? => CARDBOARDCAR
60 Across: Type of ships that USNS Spearhead and USNS Puerto Rico are => CATAMARANS
63 Across: Learning method used to memorize multiplication tables and the periodic table, often => ROTE
64 Across: 2008 Clark Gregg black comedy with Sam Rockwell and Anjelica Huston => CHOKE
65 Across: Chemical that can be bought in a block and used as a perfume-free antiperspirant => ALUM
66 Across: One New Taiwan dollar, formally known in Mandarin as this => YUAN
67 Across: Zeus, who was 44 inches from paw to shoulder and Freddy, who is now 40.7 inches, slangily => DANES
68 Across: Type of decay that causes strontium-90 to change into yttrium-90 => BETA
69 Across: Something that can come before side, late and face => PRE

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: What the TSA does if you don't want to go through the full body scan machine => FRISKS
2 Down: The Greatest ('77), for one, in which Ali played himself => BIOPIC
3 Down: Lock, stock and barrel - and the kitchen sink, too => INTOTO
4 Down: Feeling you might project when you're sorry you did what you did => REMORSE
5 Down: Choices you are faced with with your oven light => ONOFF
6 Down: Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso, for one => MONK
7 Down: Evil shaman of TV's Xena: Warrior Princess who sought revenge against the Siberian Amazon nation => ALTI
8 Down: Something that you can pick up from a carousel, hopefully! => BAGGAGE
9 Down: Using this is hugely beneficial according to the ADA, but still seems to be lacking actual scientific support => FLOSS
10 Down: This stat. for the Bronze Age is estimated at only 26 yrs., but is now about 83 yrs. in present day Japan => LEB
11 Down: 11 seasons known as the Era of ___ in which Notre Dame won two national titles => ARA
12 Down: Old newsroom machine, for short, much used in WWII => TTY
14 Down: Fraternal org. for US Civil War vets founded in 1866 and dissolved with the death of its last member in 1956 => GAR
19 Down: Something you usually hit at the end of every paragraph => ENTER
21 Down: The ___ Nunataks in Antarctica, named after Stephen, a glaciologist who worked at Byrd Station => TOTH
25 Down: Sigourney Weaver's Gorillas in the ___, nominated for five Oscars => MIST
26 Down: For an ellipse of semi-major axis a and semi-minor axis b, ?ab gives this quantity => AREA
27 Down: Michael Crichton's 2006 satirical techno-thriller novel => NEXT
29 Down: Finnish equivalent of the US STAR interbank network => OTTO
30 Down: What investors in candy companies hope to get that patrons of candy companies hope to avoid => GAINS
31 Down: Indie band Ra Ra ___, who released the album Superbloom in August 2019 => RIOT
34 Down: Something usually on your mandolin but never on your violin => FRET
35 Down: Like Gen. Frank J. Grass who served as Chief of the National Guard Bureau (2012-16) => RETD
36 Down: Czech supermodel Soukupova who has worked for Victoria’s Secret, Alexander McQueen, Zac Posen and others => HANA
37 Down: What sea level does to reveal the intertidal zone => EBBS
38 Down: Respected medical honor society, sometimes known as the Young Turks, constituted in 1908 (abbr.) => ASCI
42 Down: Supplies with a new handle? => RENAMES
43 Down: Present day port that the fictional Sinbad the Sailor embarked from on his third voyage => BASRA
44 Down: Point where an exchange of genetic material can occur between two chromatids => CHIASMA
45 Down: Court of ___ and Terminer, as created for the Salem witch trials in 1692 => OYER
49 Down: Win back your one-armed bandit losses, say => RECOUP
50 Down: Zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington movie of 2009, set in the 22nd century, that was released in traditional and 3-D formats => AVATAR
51 Down: His ___ Majesty Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein => SERENE
53 Down: It comes a bit after baker's man => ACAKE
54 Down: Word from an abbreviation used in the early 20th century by the company that made machines that created these common pastries => DONUT
57 Down: Word that took its lackluster name from a fabric made of undyed, homespun wool => DRAB
58 Down: Christian, who portrayed Dicky Eklund in The Fighter (2010), for which he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor => BALE
59 Down: Type of Martini with a far greater measure of gin than of vermouth => DRY
60 Down: One of 30 in the imaging camera of the Apache Point Observatory's SDSS telescope => CCD
61 Down: Dallas-based non-profit org. with a focus on cardiovascular health and stroke prevention (abbr.) => AHA
62 Down: Heavy weight that seems to be missing from this puzzle => TON

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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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