Crossword Answers For: Saturday, May 9, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: What the defense team frequently does => REBUT
6 Across: Pretoria's equivalent of Washington's well-known tax-collecting Treasury Dept. => SARS
10 Across: National org. where some employees have to carry the bag => USPS
14 Across: Musk of SpaceX and White of This Week in Blackness => ELONS
15 Across: Fed. housing grant prog. administered by HUD, for short => TCAP
16 Across: Like a 1913 Liberty Head V Nickel, for example => RARE
17 Across: Stadium in St. Louis where Fredbird can often be found wandering around => BUSCH
18 Across: For Elizabeth II, ___ Day is February 6 and is observed with a 21-gun salute => ACCESSION
20 Across: React to the boredom of trying to figure out how to reach the ceiling when the stairs haven't been installed => CLIMBTHEWALLS
22 Across: Shopper who frequents the souk, probably => ARAB
23 Across: State in Nigeria where Benin City, center of the rubber industry, is capital => EDO
24 Across: Program by a California university offering free online courses to students and educators (abbr.) => SEE
25 Across: What to do while the joists are being installed as you yatter on unendingly? => HOLDTHEFLOOR
30 Across: 1932's ___ War saw soldiers equipped with Lewis machine guns combat huge numbers of these birds (the birds won!) => EMU
31 Across: Character Elisabeth Shue played in Leaving Las Vegas => SERA
32 Across: Item that can be part of a turn-off or turn-on event => SPIGOT
36 Across: Something Peter Pan and Mary Poppins had in common in their movie appearances => WIRE
38 Across: Slangy How's things? => SUP
40 Across: Noted scientist who was conferred the Order of the Elephant by Denmark's King Frederick IX in 1947 => BOHR
41 Across: Results of some botched hit-and-run plays => STEALS
44 Across: Use a Juul, say => VAPE
47 Across: Rare, but not impossible, outcome of a Scrabble game => TIE
48 Across: Complain loudly and bitterly about the having to lift all those shingles? => RAISETHEROOF
51 Across: Devices that have speakers that can be heard by everybody, for short => PAS
54 Across: Anthony Tiffith's record label that released SiR's Chasing Summer album last year (abbr.) => TDE
55 Across: What you hope they'll do during your gig at the Montreal Comedy Festival => RIRE
56 Across: Got really upset while trying to frighten off whatever was scuffling around in the rafters? => HITTHECEILING
60 Across: First drink ever ordered by James Bond (in Casino Royale) => AMERICANO
61 Across: Best time to get up to see rabbits in your yard => EARLY
64 Across: What the sound a smashing gavel at Sotheby's might mean => SALE
65 Across: Type of entrance the Sutro Tunnel has at the Comstock Lode in Nevada, for example => ADIT
66 Across: One of 311 at the Monument to the Great Fire of London => STAIR
67 Across: Items that the Amtrak website will tell you, in brief => ETAS
68 Across: Unit defined as a dose causing 100 ergs of energy to be absorbed by one gram of matter => RADS
69 Across: Packs down your last bowl of Kentucky black, say => TAMPS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: One of Stonewall Jackson's men, briefly => REB
2 Down: ___ Thingol (died Y.S. 502), the tallest of all the Children of Iluvatar according to Tolkien => ELU
3 Down: Type of pear often seen in still life paintings => BOSC
4 Down: State you might be in at Florida's Haulover Beach => UNCLAD
5 Down: Attire that developed from miners' duds in the 19th century => TSHIRTS
6 Down: Back ___, hit studio album of the '70s by old-time soul group, The O'Jays => STABBERS
7 Down: Abbr. on your bank statement that you might have interest in => ACCT
8 Down: Bloom who played Rebecca in The CW comedy-drama series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend => RACHEL
9 Down: Swimwear it's difficult to spot at the beach => SPEEDOS
10 Down: Supervillain, misandrist and General Zod loyalist from Krypton who derives her power from Earth's yellow sun => URSA
11 Down: What Morgan Freeman does on his off time => SAILS
12 Down: Orwellian working stiff => PROLE
13 Down: Feel down in your bones => SENSE
19 Down: Big bird who appeared at the Super Bowl LII Victory Parade in 2018 => SWOOP
21 Down: Largest island of the Seychelles => MAHE
25 Down: Whacks with an ax => HEWS
26 Down: Insult in your Oscar acceptance thank speech, perhaps => OMIT
27 Down: A fly fisherman might tie one on => LURE
28 Down: Member, like Matisse or Braque, of an early 20th-century French art movement => FAUVE
29 Down: One the bones that a flak jacket will protect, hopefully => RIB
33 Down: Common command in Basic programming => GOTO
34 Down: State whose official fruit is the tomato => OHIO
35 Down: This isn't at all kosher => TREF
37 Down: Vincent van Gogh's 1889's Self-Portrait With Bandaged ___ and Pipe => EAR
39 Down: Where Sam Bam Cunningham played when he rang up 5,453 rushing yards => PATRIOTS
42 Down: Heavy, bamboo stick used as a baton by Indian riot police => LATHI
43 Down: Cognac, orange liqueur and lemon juice concoction => SIDECAR
45 Down: Pro poker's Hellmuth, owner of 15 World Series of Poker bracelets => PHIL
46 Down: How H.P. Lovecraft's works rank amongst other writers, to a lot of people => EERIEST
49 Down: Singer Jon ___, Latin Grammy Award winner of 2017 with To Beny More With Love => SECADA
50 Down: ___ Adler, who was a NYT film critic and reporter for the New Yorker => RENATA
51 Down: Stage one may have to go through => PHASE
52 Down: Put the bullseye in your bow-sight => AIMAT
53 Down: The Gwanggaeto memorial or the Mesha stone => STELA
57 Down: Number of huevos in el omelet, maybe => TRES
58 Down: ___ Coleslaw, impulsive and cynical lead character of Daniel Clowes' book Ghost World ('97) => ENID
59 Down: Weight of a metric raisin, roughly => GRAM
62 Down: Item of feminine concern that often gets glossed over => LIP
63 Down: What birthday candles on a cake represent, for short => YRS

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This crossword has 35 across clues and 40 down clues. In total 75 clues are solved in the section above.
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