Crossword Answers For: Saturday, May 23, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Tuber also known as a New Zealand yam => OCA
4 Across: Singer Lane, who has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame => ABBE
8 Across: Tool song off Lateralus => SCHISM
14 Across: Silvery white metal that will melt on a hot day, but not if it's raining => RUBIDIUM
16 Across: Common repair shop courtesy => LOANER
17 Across: Olympic heroes that now stand on the mantel next to your old alloy-covered baby shoes? => BRONZEMEDALISTS
19 Across: Look of a rake on the make => LEER
20 Across: Lady who was raised on the banks of the Jubba River, probably => SOMALI
21 Across: It can be spiked or set but never served => HAIR
23 Across: Come down with whatever's going around => AIL
24 Across: Zadora, whose first movie was as Girmar in Santa Claus Conquers the Martians ('64) => PIA
27 Across: Variation on Elton John's '83 song that pays homage to the alloy workers of the world? => IMSTEELSTANDING
33 Across: Word that punctuates Billie Eilish's Bad Guy => DUH
34 Across: Andrew Lloyd Webber's organization that produces and promotes his and other's shows (abbr.) => RUG
35 Across: Guy with the black hat, stereotypically => BADDIE
36 Across: Type of pork pie with a hard boiled egg in the center => GALA
37 Across: Slowly vanish away to nothing => FADE
38 Across: Drill sergeant's Relax! And that's an order! => ATEASE
41 Across: Primary constituent of Saturn's rings => ICE
42 Across: Guy who flips the coin at the Super Bowl => REF
45 Across: Periodical magazine by the mercenaries of the alloy bonding business? => SOLDEROFFORTUNE
49 Across: End of many corporate addresses => COM
50 Across: Poe's orangutan-featuring The Murders in the ___ Morgue => RUE
51 Across: Wood ___, outlaw and cousin to Frank and Jesse James => HITE
52 Across: Something Wernher von Braun was apparently quite good at calculating => THRUST
56 Across: Normandy city where William the Conqueror is buried => CAEN
58 Across: VIPs that always scream at you even though they appear to be official alloys of GA, FL, MS and AL? => LARGEMOUTHBRASS
63 Across: Louisiana birthplace of baseball great Mel Ott => GRETNA
64 Across: Game that was rigged in Casablanca => ROULETTE
65 Across: Case who co-founded AOL and Jobs who co-founded Apple => STEVES
66 Across: Like your tie at breakfast if you're a messy eater => EGGY
67 Across: Thing on top of the pyramid on the back of a $1 bill => EYE

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Beziers' 84 mile long river that flows into the Mediterranean at Valras-Plage => ORB
2 Down: It ain't nothin' but a pound dog? => CUR
3 Down: Get rid of, like capital punishment in the Dominican Republic in 1969 => ABOLISH
4 Down: Something an old Tlingit boat builder might have used => ADZE
5 Down: Something that the Ghanaian dancing pallbearers don't use => BIER
6 Down: Stetson-wearing ___ Phillips, the winningest coach in Houston Oilers history => BUM
7 Down: Something those with mal de mer are subject to doing at sea, technically speaking => EMESIS
8 Down: It's almost impossible to get revolving doors to do this => SLAM
9 Down: One way to check news and events in Richland and Lexington counties in South Carolina is in the ___ Daily => COLA
10 Down: Hard water? => HAIL
11 Down: Pretty well tasteless => INSIPID
12 Down: Egyptian deity that was responsible for deserts, storms, violence, and foreigners => SET
13 Down: Title for Debbi Fields' company that makes cookies => MRS
15 Down: Like Xenon, which is unlikely to have a bonding experience => INERT
18 Down: Like Lloyd Christmas or Harry Dunne in Dumb and Dumber => DOLT
21 Down: Prepared for the guest of honor's surprise party, maybe => HID
22 Down: ___ Darya River that flows underneath Afghanistan-Uzbekistan Friendship Bridge => AMU
23 Down: Photosynthesizing aquarium lifeform => ALGA
25 Down: Singer Kamoze with the '94 hit Here Comes the Hotstepper => INI
26 Down: Donald Trump was indeed the greatest president in terms of this on Inauguration Day => AGE
28 Down: Use the Men in Black neuralyzer device => ERASE
29 Down: Swiss math great who solved the Konigsberg bridge problem => EULER
30 Down: Northern Bahamian Islands that include Man-O-War Cay and Castaway Cay => ABACO
31 Down: Subject of the 2006 documentary An Unreasonable Man => NADER
32 Down: President who started the Space Race, initially => DDE
36 Down: West Virginia community that disappeared under the waters of Summersville Lake when a river was dammed in the sixties => GAD
37 Down: Instrument played by some members of The Old Guard, stationed at Fort Myer, Virginia => FIFE
38 Down: Movie camera operator's certification, for short => ASC
39 Down: I'm ___ Sexy by Right Said Fred ('91) => TOO
40 Down: White House item that came down in a storm in 2006 => ELMTREE
42 Down: To completely destroy => RUINATE
43 Down: Tolkien's Fangorn, Finglas, Fladrif, Beechbone, Bregalad, or Fimbrethil => ENT
44 Down: First of four giant syllables => FEE
46 Down: In the ballpark equivalent => ORSO
47 Down: Rapper Nayvadius DeMun Wilburn, better known by this name => FUTURE
48 Down: Something you might say repetitively when consoling someone => THERE
53 Down: Cable channel where you can watch Flip or Flop, hosted by Tarek El Moussa and Christina Anstead => HGTV
54 Down: Philosopher Descartes who fled France in 1628 to stay out of the clutches of the Inquisition => RENE
55 Down: Fringe-toed lizards of North American deserts => UMAS
56 Down: Imbibe like the toga-clad residents of Animal House => CHUG
57 Down: Done in a manner as though one knows exactly what one is doing => ABLY
58 Down: A lot of Korean-made smartphones and TVs => LGS
59 Down: What washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life, according to Pablo Picasso => ART
60 Down: Unit of thermal resistance, defined as 0.1 m2K/W, used in the textile trade that might indicate how good your duvet is => TOG
61 Down: Where piglets are often produced => STY
62 Down: Fifth word of the national anthem => SEE

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This crossword has 32 across clues and 47 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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