Crossword Answers For: Saturday, December 28, 2019

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Where Siberians live => ASIA
5 Across: Slithery reptile that freaked out Indiana Jones => ASP
8 Across: Right in the heart of => AMID
12 Across: Well-mannered bloke in a bowler => GENT
13 Across: Hot month in Marseilles => AOUT
15 Across: The NRA's Bianchi Cup has some competitors shooting in this position => PRONE
16 Across: Statement of loyalty to the mightiest tree in the forest? => OAKOFALLEGIANCE
19 Across: Viral Web phenomenon such as I Gotta Have More Cowbell => MEME
20 Across: Piece-loving org., for short => NRA
21 Across: The truck that sold almost 537,000 units in the USA in 2018 => RAM
22 Across: It always starts something => ESS
25 Across: Placed oneself into a horizontal position => LAIN
27 Across: Negatively charged particles => ANIONS
29 Across: Deciding factor in the choice for the leader of the tree world, maybe? => THEPOPLARVOTE
32 Across: Where King Abdullah II lives => AMMAN
33 Across: Tiny coin once produced in the Mumbai Mint => PAISA
34 Across: This is usually a bed of roses => SOIL
35 Across: Word appearing three times in a 2000 Roger Ebert title => HATED
37 Across: ___ Walesa, Polish dissident and union leader, 90's Polish president and '83 Nobel Prize laureate => LECH
41 Across: Haka dancer, maybe => MAORI
43 Across: Popular Chinese fruit (var.) => LICHI
44 Across: Is hit with charges regarding forestry mismanagement? => GETSIMBEECHED
47 Across: Subject of a famous Monty Python satire about poor customer service => PARROT
49 Across: Gross, so to speak => EARN
50 Across: Hopper car's load, often => ORE
51 Across: Inst. the Cavaliers play for => UVA
52 Across: Daya's release of 2017 => NEW
54 Across: Sound that comes before a couple of tats? => RATA
56 Across: What you have to do if you want to make a serious bid for king of the forest? => RAISELOADSOFASH
62 Across: You need this like you need a hole in the head => SINUS
63 Across: Instrument that makes the sound of the duck in Peter and the Wolf => OBOE
64 Across: More than just ruffle one's feathers => RILE
65 Across: Conditional word that might come after if in your JavaScript => ELSE
66 Across: Maxwell AFB educ. facility => OTS
67 Across: Margaret Atwood's ___ and Crake (2003) => ORYX

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: What it might be at a launch, weather permitting => AGO
2 Down: You can see this from Nome => SEA
3 Down: Cuttlefish use it => INK
4 Down: They'll split it for you at CERN => ATOM
5 Down: TripTik, notably => AAAMAP
6 Down: Cirque du ___, currently to be seen in Vegas => SOLEIL
7 Down: One hundredth of an afghani, once => PUL
8 Down: Coaching legend Parseghian of the Fighting Irish => ARA
9 Down: Silas Weir Mitchell played this character, a wieder blutbad and ally of Nick in NBC's Grimm => MONROE
10 Down: Like Machu Picchu architecture => INCAN
11 Down: Is judgmental => DEEMS
14 Down: Number of times you'll write L in the crossword, if you finish it! => TEN
15 Down: Grand instruments => PIANOS
17 Down: Thomas Silverstein's (1952-2019) criminal status => FELON
18 Down: Expecting, in an animalistic way => GRAVID
22 Down: Greek capitals that look like letter Hs => ETAS
23 Down: Obnoxious, unlikeable type => SHMO
24 Down: The Celtics' Ojeleye => SEMI
26 Down: An hour or two in the afternoon, maybe => NAPTIME
28 Down: Branch of the Indo-European language family => ITALIC
30 Down: Singer Amanda of The Dresden Dolls => PALMER
31 Down: Norma, the character Field won one of her Oscars for => RAE
35 Down: Backpacker's stopover, perhaps => HOSTEL
36 Down: JFK Jr.'s stepdad, briefly => ARI
38 Down: Nymph who Zeus' wife cursed so that she could only speak the last words spoken to her => ECHO
39 Down: Goddess of Pop who just performed her Here We Go Again Tour at Madison Square Garden on December 3 => CHER
40 Down: What John Wilkes Booth did to escape capture in 1865 => HIDE
42 Down: Observes Yom Kippur => ATONES
43 Down: Antithesis of presto => LENTO
44 Down: There are four in a jeweler's carat => GRAINS
45 Down: Brigitte, actor in 47 movies in 21 years, who retired at age 39 to be an animal rights activist => BARDOT
46 Down: What overwriting does to the old data => ERASES
47 Down: In the Boston Marathon this was over $830,500 => PURSE
48 Down: Take advantage of => AVAIL
53 Down: Aguilera's ___hoo (2010) => WOO
55 Down: Hair style that you need to pick carefully => AFRO
57 Down: Aikens of National Geographic Channel's Life Below Zero => SUE
58 Down: Actress Olivia d'___ who voiced Tak's Ship on this year's Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus from Netflix => ABO
59 Down: Everyone likes breathing this in => AIR
60 Down: Nickname of the portrayer of John J. Rambo => SLY
61 Down: This could be a case of bad spelling? => HEX

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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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