Crossword Answers For: Saturday, March 14, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Comedy Central's Lights Out with David ___ => SPADE
6 Across: Word of destruction that sounds like its antonym => RAZE
10 Across: Much more subtle alternative to Yo! => PSST
14 Across: Rye fungus Claviceps purpurea's more common name => ERGOT
15 Across: What Tibetan nuns are called, as Catholic nuns are called sisters => ANIS
16 Across: One type of IRA => ROTH
17 Across: What the mountain lion did with the whitetail stuck in its throat? => COUGHEDUPTHEDOE
20 Across: Blueprint detail, briefly => SPEC
21 Across: Part of a date that could lead to more dates => PIT
22 Across: Thoreau's Civil Disobedience, e.g. => ESSAY
23 Across: Places to mail GIs => APOS
25 Across: What email filters should help you do => SORT
27 Across: Unwanted party attendee who'll eventually put you to sleep, and he's a real pig, too => ACRASHINGBOAR
32 Across: Florida Senator Rick ___ => SCOTT
33 Across: Lofgren of the E Street Band => NILS
34 Across: One who calls Brooms up! in quidditch, briefly => REF
36 Across: Uses one's crosshairs => AIMS
37 Across: Horny plate, like a tortoise shell => SCUTE
39 Across: Caterpillar's successor => PUPA
40 Across: C6H2(NO2)3CH3, for short => TNT
41 Across: Beef tenderloin cooking direction, often => SEAR
42 Across: Nebraska's civic holiday on April 24, this year: ___ Day => ARBOR
43 Across: Vessel from Hamburg designed to save the county's sheep from rising oceans? => GERMANEWEBOAT
47 Across: What Ogden Nash did mind as meals => EELS
48 Across: Fine breed of steed that's built for speed => ARAB
49 Across: Finnish word that's quite well-known in English => SAUNA
52 Across: One of the band members playing on the 2016 EP Goddamn Death Dedication => ERG
53 Across: Org. affiliated with the Odd Fellows and with a close association with the Ladies of the Orient => AMOS
57 Across: Knowledgeable leader of the herd? => INSTRUCTIONBUCK
61 Across: The patella's position => KNEE
62 Across: Young one in a stable environment => FOAL
63 Across: Like a synchronized answer from the ship's crew? => ALLAY
64 Across: Way up there on the Mohs scale => HARD
65 Across: Nine Inch Nails #1 alternative hit of 2005 => ONLY
66 Across: Beasts that will often take a gander => GEESE

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: The week's 604,800, for short => SECS
2 Down: Spinner on a Cessna, in brief => PROP
3 Down: Antiquated term for a sweating shivering fit => AGUE
4 Down: Small, horse-drawn vehicles with a spot for your retriever => DOGCARTS
5 Down: Obsolete English letter that looked like a crossed d => ETH
6 Down: Veggie traditionally served with beer at Munich's Oktoberfest => RADISH
7 Down: What everybody loves according to Johnny Cash in the sixties => ANUT
8 Down: It's 20500 for the White House => ZIP
9 Down: Sunup's dir., from l'Arc de Triomphe => EST
10 Down: Step up from allegro => PRESTO
11 Down: Eastern West Virginia's Wilderness Area, Dolly ___ => SODS
12 Down: Ancient Athenian meeting place => STOA
13 Down: American Dialect Society's word of the year for 2015 => THEY
18 Down: Long poem with a heroic narrative => EPOS
19 Down: Rosemary and basil => HERBS
24 Down: On the back at work: good; on the backside at work: bad => PAT
25 Down: Beginning of a towering rage, maybe => SNIT
26 Down: Take a long time checking out => OGLE
27 Down: Hitting a point of no return? => ACING
28 Down: Dumas' Le ___ de Monte-Cristo => COMTE
29 Down: Get used to ongoing difficulties => INURE
30 Down: Curacao's western neighbor => ARUBA
31 Down: Transplant sprouting seedlings => REPOT
32 Down: Protested during the national anthem, say => SAT
35 Down: Queen's I'm naked and I'm ___ from home => FAR
37 Down: The United States has a Great one => SEAL
38 Down: Lot of items in a food drive bin, usually => CANS
39 Down: Having pretty good odds => PROBABLE
41 Down: Sling mud at, in a way => SMEAR
42 Down: Old org. where the Indiana Pacers appeared in the finals five times => ABA
44 Down: Like most prom night tuxedos => RENTED
45 Down: How to approach a feeding polar bear => WARILY
46 Down: Second word from Descartes => ERGO
49 Down: One who worships at a gurdwara => SIKH
50 Down: First recipient of successful pulmonary bypass surgery was this dog, operated on in 1943 => ANNA
51 Down: Self-serving opportunist, perhaps => USER
52 Down: Rest of the research team, for short => ETAL
54 Down: Backless slipper => MULE
55 Down: Purchases from a Peruvian produce section, perhaps => OCAS
56 Down: Scottish isle dominated by the rocky Cuillin => SKYE
58 Down: Subj. of many theories about Area 51 => UFO
59 Down: Phisher's scheme => CON
60 Down: Something that will beat a dead horse, but nothing else => NAG

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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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