Crossword Answers For: Saturday, May 16, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: 1913 birthplace of Leslie Lynch King Jr., who later changed his name to Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. => OMAHA
6 Across: Stand-in for a West Indian potato, perhaps => EDDO
10 Across: What you can do at Dubai, in an indoor, climate-controlled environment, of course => SKI
13 Across: Conrad's great-granddaughter who wrote Confessions of an Heiress => PARIS
14 Across: Mexican birthplace of Jeb Bush's wife => LEON
15 Across: More susceptible to sunburn, perhaps => FAIR
16 Across: S. American GM Chevy subcompact (2009-16) that can run on ethanol but which got zero stars for adult passenger safety => AGILE
17 Across: Like 24 karat gold => MALLEABLE
19 Across: Secretary of State who was the first to visit Burma since 1955 => HILLARYCLINTON
21 Across: White knight who probably rode up on 'is Cockney 'orse => ERO
22 Across: Newspaper syndication service that distributes The Born Loser comic strip, for short => NEA
23 Across: Secretary of State who suggested a nuclear warning shot in Europe would deter the Soviet Union => ALEXANDERHAIG
30 Across: Dance move that could result in a groin injury => SPLIT
32 Across: Where Rhincodon typus can be found => SEA
33 Across: Manufacturer of computer hardware and software acquired by Hewlett Packard in 2016 => SGI
34 Across: Finds absolutely intolerable => LOATHES
37 Across: Mitch McConnell's first name => ADDISON
40 Across: What The Terminator leaves behind at the end of The Terminator => ARM
41 Across: Amtrak's partner in running the Maple Leaf through Albany, Buffalo, and Niagara Falls => VIA
43 Across: High point of the Pyrenees (over 11,000 ft.) => ANETO
44 Across: Secretary of State who was in office when the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was signed with Mikhail Gorbachev => GEORGESCHULTZ
49 Across: Where to find a small labyrinth => EAR
50 Across: Nickname of Hirokazu Tanaka, Nintendo music composer for Tetris, Super Mario Land and Earthbound => HIP
51 Across: Secretary of State who was in office during Operation Condor => HENRYKISSINGER
59 Across: Just the essentials, without the frills => BAREBONES
60 Across: What Madonna, Dee Snider and Prince struck, to PMRC of the eighties => NERVE
61 Across: Squander, so to speak => BLOW
62 Across: Actress Campbell of the forthcoming Castle in the Ground, originally shown at TIFF last year => NEVE
63 Across: The ___, NIN track from their third album, The Fragile => FRAIL
64 Across: Carbonyl sulfide, in brief => COS
65 Across: Beasts that sound a little like Brooklynese => EWES
66 Across: How quirky people might behave => ODDLY

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Large, red-finned, Hawaiian catch => OPAH
2 Down: Language discovered in 2012 and spoken in Wanang village, Madang Province in Papua New Guinea => MAGI
3 Down: Edible pomegranate flesh that surrounds each seed, technically => ARIL
4 Down: Last name of Patty and Mildred of Kentucky, composers of the song Happy Birthday to You => HILL
5 Down: Like Edward Lear's owl and pussy-cat => ASEA
6 Down: Late ninety's animation and Steven Spielberg production, Pinky, ___ & the Brain => ELMYRA
7 Down: Wake Forest's athletic teams, for short => DEACONS
8 Down: One wearing little clothing? => DOLL
9 Down: Something spotted frequently on YouTube => ONLINEAD
10 Down: One-named, right-wing, L.A. guerilla street artist who declared I think leftism is a mental disorder => SABO
11 Down: Place that's a location of frequent firings => KILN
12 Down: Feeling that overtakes you when you want to strangle someone => IRE
15 Down: Mahmoud Abbas is the chairman of this group, formerly known as the Palestinian National Liberation Movement => FATAH
18 Down: ___-G: food brand offering gluten-free, dairy-free, and nut-free products => ENER
20 Down: Secretary of State Tillerson who served under President Trump for only 423 days => REX
23 Down: Car rental agency HQed in Clayton, Missouri => ALAMO
24 Down: Category in which Bob Dylan was awarded his Nobel Prize, for short => LIT
25 Down: Birthplace of Haile Selassie, regarded by many Rastas as Jah incarnate (abbr.) => ETH
26 Down: Agency that runs the museum with an exhibit about Harry Jacob Anslinger (abbr.) => DEA
27 Down: This is enough for Emmanuel Macron => ASSEZ
28 Down: ___ 5 on It, Luniz' platinum single from the Operation Stackola (1995) => IGOT
29 Down: ___ Torretta, who played quarterback for the University of Miami and won the Heisman Trophy in 1992 => GINO
30 Down: Something left over from the Bessemer process that could be used in fertilizer or as a cement additive => SLAG
31 Down: Tiny hole in a sweater? => PORE
35 Down: Tutti, on a choral score => EVERYONE
36 Down: Spanish ayes? => SIS
38 Down: Bill ___ Col, Potomac Communications Strategies CEO and George H. W. Bush presidential campaign veteran => DAL
39 Down: Undesirable result of trying to make a pass in working hours (abbr.) => INT
42 Down: Successfully carry out => ACHIEVE
45 Down: Extend one's Ancestry membership, say => RENEW
46 Down: Stuff you have on => GARB
47 Down: Odd noises from a moccasin => HISSES
48 Down: Delivery co. that used drones to reach customers in 2019 in North Carolina => UPS
51 Down: Video game franchise set in the 26th century => HALO
52 Down: Touchdown target of NASA'a NEAR Shoemaker probe in 2001 => EROS
53 Down: Counted among one's acquaintances => KNEW
54 Down: What you can get from Google and what Google's got from you => INFO
55 Down: Type of person Lewis was when he said We have news for the beautiful people. There's a lot more of us then there are of you. ('84) => NERD
56 Down: One drowning in student debt, probably => GRAD
57 Down: What the Shadow knows lurks in the hearts of men => EVIL
58 Down: Word borrowed from Old French that meant to fasten, attach, rally or oblige => RELY
59 Down: Eng. channel => BBC

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This crossword has 32 across clues and 43 down clues. In total 75 clues are solved in the section above.
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