Crossword Answers For: Saturday, January 4, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Vegas magician ___ King who once cut off the end off his thumb during his act => MAC
4 Across: USN rank equivalent to the Army's second lieutenant => ENSIGN
10 Across: What people might do on Yom Kippur => FAST
14 Across: ftp://ftp3.xwordnews.co.uk e.g. => URL
15 Across: Something in your soup, maybe => NOODLE
16 Across: FWIW relative, to a texter => IMHO
17 Across: S. American sister city of both Atlanta and Toronto, briefly => RIO
18 Across: Railed vehicles that are kind of out of place but they stop you from getting suckered in => STREETTRAMS
20 Across: Intoxicating Polynesian quaff => KAVA
22 Across: Nation where US interests are actually handled by Switzerland => IRAN
23 Across: Contractor's projects in many old homes, in brief => RENOS
24 Across: Reason out from the available data => EDUCE
26 Across: Type of shorts usually worn by Tour de France entrants => BIB
27 Across: Piece of unabashed self-promotion achieved by downing your brewskie all in one go? => SHAMELESSGULP
32 Across: Tackle Denali => CLIMB
33 Across: Something that created Lake Mead => DAM
34 Across: Monster that Utah adopted as a state symbol in 2019 => GILA
36 Across: Many will do this on February 2 this year => BET
37 Across: Some things that when seen in mirror are closer than they appear => OBJECTS
41 Across: Political affiliation of RMN and RWR => GOP
42 Across: Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, perhaps => SECT
44 Across: Ethan ___, surgeon for the Others, on Lost => ROM
45 Across: One variety of alcohol => ETHYL
47 Across: Proverbial backbreakers that ultimately caused the resignation of your dermatologist? => THEFINALWARTS
51 Across: Artist ___ Garza, Marvel Comics artist who worked on Deadpool and Robin & Supergirl => ALE
52 Across: Town where Van Gogh famously severed his ear => ARLES
53 Across: Earlier than in a poetic frame of mind => AFORE
56 Across: ___ Rabane cologne => PACO
58 Across: Sure sign you're bored out of your tree => YAWN
61 Across: Crisp, spicy cookie that always gives you enough pep to carry you over to the other side? => GINGERSPANS
64 Across: C.V., essentially => BIO
65 Across: A member of the Southern Resident population off Washington, for example => ORCA
66 Across: Turn a corner, in Monopoly => PASSGO
67 Across: What a Cockney sailor might 'ave to 'andle? => ELM
68 Across: About three of these is what astronauts have to put up with => GEES
69 Across: Two words after make or take => ITEASY
70 Across: Hide-out for Salinger's Catcher, maybe? => RYE

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Atmosphere that often sets the mood in horror films => MURK
2 Down: Quando me'n vo' from La Boheme, for one => ARIA
3 Down: Dylan McDermott's The ___ Killer (2018) => CLOVEHITCH
4 Down: About 45% of the ninth inning => ENS
5 Down: It may be given a month before leaving => NOTICE
6 Down: Chestnut colored horse => SORREL
7 Down: Something Edison had, frequently => IDEA
8 Down: Remote highland valley where the red deer lurk => GLEN
9 Down: Something volleyballers have to get over => NET
10 Down: One with a burning desire, perhaps => FIREBUG
11 Down: Percy Sledge: When ___ Loves a Woman => AMAN
12 Down: Schlemiel or schlemazl => SHMO
13 Down: You'll probably kick if you lose it => TOSS
19 Down: SOHCAHTOA is a mnemonic that might aid you in this => TRIG
21 Down: Driver who played Kylo Ren in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker => ADAM
25 Down: Central boss in the center of shield => UMBO
26 Down: Sometimes-finished rm. => BSMT
27 Down: Weather conditions that would generate a METAR code of RASN => SLEET
28 Down: Diuretics could treat it => EDEMA
29 Down: Pocketlike structure, botanically speaking => SAC
30 Down: Duels featuring this have appeared in every main Star Wars film installment => LIGHTSABER
31 Down: Wile E. Coyote has these often, always subject to failure, of course => PLOYS
32 Down: Viacom officially joined with this corporation (again) as of December 4, 2019 => CBS
35 Down: Johns Hopkins not-for-profit, research center in Howard County, MD => APL
38 Down: Region where Meaux is located that has a cheese named after it => BRIE
39 Down: November 2019's The Mandalorian, seen on Disney+ and created and written by ___ Favreau => JON
40 Down: Important part of the ISS airlock => SEAL
43 Down: Police in Hong Kong used this many times last year => TEARGAS
46 Down: Card that has its pips aligned in one row => TREY
48 Down: What Bonnie and Clyde did successfully until their ambush in 1934 in Louisiana => FLEE
49 Down: Part of the name of many a Spanish restaurant => LACASA
50 Down: Two don't make a right => WRONGS
53 Down: Excited beyond words => AGOG
54 Down: Brimstone's partner => FIRE
55 Down: Number of times Sir Laurence Olivier won a Best Actor Oscar => ONCE
56 Down: This is often discussed on Twitter despite participants agreeing not to discuss it (abbr.) => PSAT
57 Down: Area of St. Peter’s Basilica that surrounds Bernini's Chair of St. Peter => APSE
59 Down: Doctor Albert W. ___, mad scientist in the Mega Man video game series => WILY
60 Down: Ending place for a race that starts in March in Anchorage => NOME
62 Down: Upstate NY research university, for short => RPI
63 Down: Tofu base => SOY

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This crossword has 37 across clues and 42 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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