Crossword Answers For: Saturday, February 22, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Muggers' deterrent => MACE
5 Across: Cosa Nostra's nostra => OUR
8 Across: Norway's King Harald's dad => OLAV
12 Across: Springfield, Missouri's ___ Ben Adhem Shrine Mosque where you can see Tech N9ne on April 2 => ABOU
13 Across: Azithromycin can treat it => PNEUMONIA
16 Across: Pilot grad night for Orville and Wilbur, maybe? => WRIGHTOFPASSAGE
19 Across: Brooklyn-born jazz songstress ___ Lee, recipient of the Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award and the Order of Canada => RANEE
20 Across: IV starters, often => RNS
21 Across: Anderson Cooper 360 broadcaster => CNN
22 Across: Language used by many code talkers (var.) => NAVAHO
26 Across: Not at all like Wabash College => COED
27 Across: Traditional ceremony that takes place when you get your first Winchester? => RITETOBEARARMS
32 Across: One of the two three-letter constellations => ARA
33 Across: Feature of a lot of Inca gardens => TERRACE
34 Across: Breed known as the Royal Dog of Egypt => SALUKI
37 Across: Bounty hunter's motivation => REWARD
41 Across: Tell secrets to (with in) => CONFIDE
45 Across: Dobbs who suggested that the US should start a war with China => LOU
46 Across: Lengthy, conservative and joint opinion piece from the rabbi, the imam and the pastor? => RELIGIOUSWRITE
50 Across: Actress Hart of the commercial where she gives her Levi's to a dog => OONA
51 Across: Crocheted footwear, often => BOOTEE
52 Across: What some talkative people like to chew (with the) => FAT
53 Across: Theme for Cirque du Soleil's O => EAU
55 Across: Slowly accumulate => AMASS
59 Across: NY's Guggenheim Museum's architect who apparently never put a foot wrong? => FRANKLLOYDRIGHT
64 Across: One behind the scenes with a huge amount of political pull => KINGMAKER
65 Across: Epic where Brad Pitt plays Achilles => TROY
66 Across: What misers love to spend => LESS
67 Across: Clinton blew it => SAX
68 Across: Stuff to the gills => SATE

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Pennsylvania's Bryn ___ => MAWR
2 Down: Psychic ___ Stone of Stephen King's Doctor Sleep => ABRA
3 Down: Item collected by a numismatist => COIN
4 Down: Oregon location where the 2021 World Athletics Championships will be held => EUGENE
5 Down: Make a decision => OPT
6 Down: Family card game with a 108-card deck => UNO
7 Down: One who maintains order on the court => REF
8 Down: Mideast nation with its Portuguese colonial fortress still standing since the Portuguese left in 1650 => OMAN
9 Down: Tesla's 2019 financial result => LOSS
10 Down: Y or N, maybe => ANS
11 Down: MTV's parent => VIACOM
14 Down: Far more than a mere ripple of discontent => UPROAR
15 Down: Real first name of Miss Peppermint of Broadway's Head Over Heels (2018) => AGNES
17 Down: One the teams that joined the Hornets in 1988's expansion => HEAT
18 Down: What Mobius strips don't do => END
23 Down: What we're all looking forward to doing on November 3 => VOTING
24 Down: Leader of Japan's Jiyu-Minshuto party => ABE
25 Down: 2013 movie by Spike Jonze where one of the major players is never seen => HER
26 Down: ISS' Oleg, Jessica and Drew, right now => CREW
27 Down: Dorm deputies, for short => RAS
28 Down: Glass from This American Life => IRA
29 Down: Mikhail, world chess champion of the sixties => TAL
30 Down: Like AB-negative, as far as blood types go => RAREST
31 Down: American Idol runner-up Young who's married to American Idol runner-up DeGarmo => ACE
35 Down: Sch. where Bruin Walk is, complete with a statue of the Bruin bear => UCLA
36 Down: Members of some colorful Japanese schools => KOI
38 Down: Aluminum monoiodide, to chemists => ALI
39 Down: Cause of a big stink, perhaps => ROT
40 Down: Payable now => DUE
42 Down: Relatively slender leg bone => FIBULA
43 Down: The view of the panel... in a text message => IOO
44 Down: Penn and Teller, for example => DUO
46 Down: Howard ___, Rand's heroic architect in The Fountainhead => ROARK
47 Down: Necessitate => ENTAIL
48 Down: Display on the runway => WEAR
49 Down: Sends an EFT, maybe => REMITS
50 Down: This is just not on => OFF
53 Down: Charts in your cardiologist's files, for short => EKGS
54 Down: Baksheesh, to a Bahawalpur beggar => ALMS
56 Down: Where Shah Jahan once lived => AGRA
57 Down: Totally beyond repair => SHOT
58 Down: This could keep you from closing the lid => STYE
60 Down: Philadelphia-Albany dir. => NNE
61 Down: Gives the go-ahead to => OKS
62 Down: Passing remark? => YEA
63 Down: Action Man's TV archenemy => DRX

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This crossword has 30 across clues and 47 down clues. In total 77 clues are solved in the section above.
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