Crossword Answers For: Saturday, May 2, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Get one's mitts on => OBTAIN
7 Across: Often a cat and perhaps a rat, but probably not a bat => PET
10 Across: Common name for haliaeetus albicilla that can have a wingspan of up to 8 ft. => ERNE
14 Across: Type of doll that Singh tries to kill Indy with in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom => VOODOO
15 Across: Impressively large diamond => ACE
16 Across: Megaproject proposed as a solution to rising ocean levels in the English Channel and the North Sea (abbr.) => NEED
17 Across: JFK's first Secretary of Labor, one with a strong heavy metal connection => ARTHURJGOLDBERG
20 Across: Zap lightly? => LASE
21 Across: Composer Robert who scored Mr. Jealousy and Hiroshima Maiden => EEN
22 Across: Mix of heavy metal, perhaps => ALLOY
23 Across: Area between the shoulders => ROAD
26 Across: State that has been the birthplace of seven US presidents => OHIO
28 Across: Better-known name of Farrokh Bulsara, who had both royal and heavy metal affiliations throughout the '70s and '80s => FREDDIEMERCURY
34 Across: Type of expression that shows your discomfort => PAINED
35 Across: Eeny, meeny, ___... => MINY
36 Across: Sloth's pride, perhaps, although some sloths have more than others => TOE
37 Across: Something to watch for on your prized '57 Chevy, perhaps => RUST
38 Across: Type of fly that caused the Red Sox to beat the Giants in the 1912 World Series => SAC
39 Across: You'll need one of these if you're going to Lome => VISA
40 Across: Number of popes named Francis => ONE
41 Across: Language of indigenous Amazonian people => TUPI
43 Across: Periods between hostilities => PEACES
45 Across: Humorous and heavy metal component of Hulu's late-night talk show that ran in 2017-18 => SARAHSILVERMAN
48 Across: Something of concern in a gas pipeline => LEAK
49 Across: Name that might pop up during a breakfast conversation => EGGO
50 Across: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock writer, who later received the Nobel Prize => ELIOT
53 Across: Prior to, to Prior => ERE
55 Across: Leave off, like the last two words of => OMIT
59 Across: Metalic heavy who plays General Hugh Ashdown, leader of the Resistance, in 2009's Terminator Salvation => MICHAELIRONSIDE
63 Across: Using a CFL bulb to represent one of these instead of an incandescent bulb might be a great one in itself! => IDEA
64 Across: Have the light bulb suddenly turn on, in a way => GET
65 Across: Well-___, like the Waltons => HEELED
66 Across: Some things in your eyes => RODS
67 Across: Elwood ___ who has held more university presidencies (7 at 5 institutions) than any other American => GEE
68 Across: Gizmos that worked at 56 kbit/s when I started cluing crosswords => MODEMS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Shape of the White House's Blue Room => OVAL
2 Down: When doubled, one of the idyllic Society Islands near Tahiti => BORA
3 Down: Much of the audience watching any Muppets show => TOTS
4 Down: Like wool socks when thrown on a rough brick wall => ADHERENT
5 Down: Note left after drinking your roommate's beer, e.g. => IOU
6 Down: Country that won most medals at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games (abbr.) => NOR
7 Down: Young person running for the Senate? => PAGE
8 Down: Like much of the discussion that took place on Nightly Business Report => ECONOMIC
9 Down: No. that most people don't memorize, these days => TEL
10 Down: As a cohesive group => ENBLOC
11 Down: Dance that Rhett and Scarlett did before they waltzed => REEL
12 Down: He was declared a public enemy by the Senate => NERO
13 Down: What much of George Carlin's comedy was => EDGY
18 Down: One who uses the power of midi-chlorians => JEDI
19 Down: Jersey's or Guernsey's environs => DAIRY
24 Down: International honor society in the field of economics => ODE
25 Down: Word toward the bottom of a dipstick => ADD
27 Down: Lobster with thousands of eggs all over its pleopods => HEN
28 Down: Attraction of some preserves => FAUNA
29 Down: Young celebrity who's on the way up => RISER
30 Down: Way to apply for many jobs, these days => EMAIL
31 Down: New York city where the first Woolworth's Great Five Cent Store opened in 1879 => UTICA
32 Down: Journalist James who asked Nancy Pelosi if she hates president Trump in December => ROSEN
33 Down: Sounds that may be heard in passing? => YEAS
34 Down: All US Open golf champions, at least since 1934 => PROS
38 Down: Founder of 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks => SPIKELEE
39 Down: Got the hell out of there => VAMOOSED
41 Down: Type of brain wave that researchers can easily see in the hippocampus of rats => THETA
42 Down: Country that won all three tug of war medals at the 1904 Olympic Games held in St. Louis => USA
43 Down: Shot of booze, at a bar in Bangalore => PEG
44 Down: Area of the desert that's wind-swept with no vegetation and exists on Venus, Mars and Titan => ERG
46 Down: Words that are often heard both coming and going => ALOHAS
47 Down: What you'll have to do when the load of watermelons spills out of the truck traveling in front of you => VEER
50 Down: Ruler of Afghanistan's title, prior to 1926 => EMIR
51 Down: Vegas show that ran for over 30 years at the Stardust Resort and Casino => LIDO
52 Down: Sewed up, in a way => ICED
54 Down: Shaking hands, basically => RITE
56 Down: 80% of the distance that Country House ran last year on a very sloppy track => MILE
57 Down: Bibliographical word meaning the same as previously mentioned => IDEM
58 Down: Danson, Knight and Kennedy => TEDS
60 Down: Home for an echidna's puggle, initially => EGG
61 Down: Small measure of resistance that sounds as though it is part of a meditative chant => OHM
62 Down: This is new in prefixes => NEO

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This crossword has 35 across clues and 44 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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