Crossword Answers For: Saturday, January 18, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Kingda Ka and Snake River Falls => RIDES
6 Across: FS1's commentator Bayless => SKIP
10 Across: Amanda of Identity Thief => PEET
14 Across: US president who is distantly related to 6 other presidents and Winston Churchill, too => OBAMA
15 Across: Geiger, who co-invented the well-known counter => HANS
16 Across: Scientific agcy. that maintains the US HP/Agilent/Symmetricom 5071A-001 high performance cesium atomic clocks => USNO
17 Across: Thriller about a US government takeover led by a deviant who spends most of his time sitting in a bath full of dressing? => SEVENDAYSINMAYO
20 Across: One that's doing the firing => AXER
21 Across: 2001: A Space Odyssey used as its theme music the opening fanfare of ___ Sprach Zarathustra => ALSO
22 Across: Something the Inupiat use to go whaling => UMIAK
23 Across: Just vanished => GONE
25 Across: Ending of many shallow, English lakes => MERE
27 Across: Has a nasty accident trying to ski at 73, despite carrying one's lucky building block charm? => BREAKSONESLEGO
33 Across: One who's had trouble passing the bar? => DRUNK
34 Across: What this puzzle's data is kept in => FILE
35 Across: Arabic equivalent to Hebrew's vav => WAW
36 Across: Helen who was the Governor of North Carolina in Fox's Shots Fired (2017) => HUNT
37 Across: Cheeses which are stored in brine => FETAS
39 Across: Word in an urgent text from your broker, maybe => SELL
40 Across: Black, cuckoo family bird in southern Florida that builds a communal nest => ANI
41 Across: Electrically sensitive jacket that's used in fencing => LAME
42 Across: Repairs a cavity => FILLS
43 Across: How a guy who stole from the NY Symphony was forced to do time? => LOCKEDINACELLO
47 Across: Noted crime fighter who died virtually penniless in 1957 in Coudersport, PA => NESS
48 Across: Color that can be applied to Angels and Devils => BLUE
49 Across: Moral philosophy => ETHIC
52 Across: Ron Howard's 2018 space western => SOLO
54 Across: Correct way to drink excellent Scotch => NEAT
58 Across: Made a Presidential show of support by bribing an underworld boss? => BOUGHTAMAGACAPO
61 Across: Short story collection, for short => ANTH
62 Across: FOX News Channel’s chief political anchor Baier => BRET
63 Across: Martin Brodeur was one => DEVIL
64 Across: Matryoshka dolls can do it => NEST
65 Across: Tiny, but basic, unit of force in the CGS system => DYNE
66 Across: Something on your tire => TREAD

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Switzerland's highest alp: Monte ___ => ROSA
2 Down: Endangered Ethiopian wild goat => IBEX
3 Down: Brubeck who composed Blue Rondo a la Turk => DAVE
4 Down: Like newly developing technology => EMERGENT
5 Down: Poland's Lake Solina was created by damming this 285 mi. river => SAN
6 Down: Tom who won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his WaPo work => SHALES
7 Down: Strikeouts on ball game scorecards => KAYS
8 Down: People with this don't go out for very long => INSOMNIA
9 Down: Subcommittee originally called the Truman Committee which Rob Portman currently chairs (abbr.) => PSI
10 Down: Beat badly => PUMMEL
11 Down: Actor Morales who plays assassin Deathstroke in DC Universe's Titans => ESAI
12 Down: One-name Irish singer who sang May It Be for The Fellowship of the Ring => ENYA
13 Down: Grabbed a selfie => TOOK
18 Down: German-American cultural org., HQed in Lincoln Square, Chicago => DANK
19 Down: Mildred Ratched was one in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest => NURSE
24 Down: Tree revered by the Druids => OAK
26 Down: Important ingredients of Japanese unadon => EELS
27 Down: Singer Mars who sang Please Me with Cardi B in 2019 => BRUNO
28 Down: Like some old Norse characters => RUNIC
29 Down: Every couple of hours, say => OFTEN
30 Down: Kayla ___ who plays Victoria on YouTube Red's Me and My Grandma => EWELL
31 Down: Ernest or Julio of winemaking => GALLO
32 Down: Sports teams that have an ongoing rivalry with Houston's Cougars => OWLS
33 Down: Lentil concoction often eaten with roti or dosa => DHAL
37 Down: Pet rocks and Rubik's Cubes => FADS
38 Down: Messenger on a mission => EMISSARY
39 Down: Item that will stop a firearm report? => SILENCER
41 Down: Beast used in hirudotherapy => LEECH
42 Down: Pot-au-___: spiced meat and vegetable stew, basically => FEU
44 Down: Item often moved by Magnus Carlsen => KNIGHT
45 Down: Remove by a process of erosion => ABLATE
46 Down: Something that Drano might help with => CLOG
49 Down: Abba, Israel's '50s ambassador to the US who when complimented on his Oxford English replied, Cambridge actually... => EBAN
50 Down: This will help distinguish between many Chinese words => TONE
51 Down: Words that quarterbacks repetitively yell => HUTS
53 Down: Gamer's HP computer purchase, perhaps => OMEN
55 Down: It may go above and beyond, roofwise => EAVE
56 Down: Samoa's capital => APIA
57 Down: Let the cat out of the bag => TOLD
59 Down: ___ Records, US label for Radiohead's In Rainbows album => TBD
60 Down: Huge company name in alarm monitoring, based in Boca Raton, Florida => ADT

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This crossword has 35 across clues and 42 down clues. In total 77 clues are solved in the section above.
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