Crossword Answers For: Saturday, December 21, 2019

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Perfectly competent => ABLE
5 Across: Rollins who played Valerie on The Catch => ROSE
9 Across: Trujillo's IOC country code => PER
12 Across: Things where you might cook Mexican beans => OLLAS
13 Across: Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, for example => EMIR
14 Across: Magazine for which publisher Ralph Ginzburg went to jail in the '70s => EROS
16 Across: Important celebratory activities, which take place immediately following dinner => FEATSOFSTRENGTH
19 Across: Intermediate glassmaking compound => FRIT
20 Across: Penguin look-alike that's actually a guillemot's cousin => AUK
21 Across: Activity done often in the Klondike Gold Rush => ASSAY
22 Across: Cities are riddled with them => STREETS
24 Across: One type of decree => NISI
26 Across: Who this festival is for, according to Frank Costanza => THERESTOFUS
31 Across: Drink invented in Germany in 1940 and which today exhorts people to Be more than one flavor => FANTA
35 Across: Braille used one to create his alphabet => AWL
36 Across: Imminent, in a poetic way => NIGH
37 Across: How some like their fried eggs => OVER
38 Across: What many fast-spinning neutron stars do => PULSE
40 Across: Supermodel The Body Macpherson => ELLE
41 Across: Taylor's companion from Beneath the Planet of the Apes => NOVA
42 Across: Uber has a popular one for iPhones => APP
43 Across: Luv of Blade Runner 2049, basically => DROID
44 Across: December day to celebrate this puzzle's theme => TWENTYTHIRD
48 Across: Fair to middling => SOSO
49 Across: Seedless mandarin orange => SATSUMA
54 Across: It's just one link after another => CHAIN
57 Across: Fictional libertarian ___ Swanson (played by Nick Offerman) of NBC's Parks and Recreation => RON
58 Across: Fort south of Louisville, KY, operated by the USDT => KNOX
59 Across: Elaine meeting two off-track bookies for dinner, in Kramer's opinion => FESTIVUSMIRACLE
63 Across: Just grab without asking => TAKE
64 Across: Georgia's Krubera, for one => CAVE
65 Across: When You Say Nothing ___ was a hit song for Keith Whitley, Alison Krauss and Ronan Keating => ATALL
66 Across: Beatles' Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds topic, some said => LSD
67 Across: Dupl. copy => REPR
68 Across: Invigorates (with up) => PEPS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Gum that returned after a 4 year absence generated by an FDA investigation => ALERT
2 Down: Underwood who played the Deputy FBI Director on Quantico => BLAIR
3 Down: Starbucks seasonal pumpkin spice drink => LATTE
4 Down: There's one in Illinois but not in Indiana => ESS
5 Down: Just say no => REFUSE
6 Down: Russian city where Fyodor Dostoevsky spent four years in prison => OMSK
7 Down: Make use of a pew => SIT
8 Down: Show up on the wrong day, say => ERR
9 Down: Retiree, to a lady from Leeds => PENSIONER
10 Down: No one really knows what these energy units are, but they show up in crosswords a lot => ERGS
11 Down: Southernmost island in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands => ROTA
12 Down: Ices, so to speak => OFFS
15 Down: ___ Carter, co-writer of Speak To A Girl by Faith Hill and Tim McGraw => SHY
17 Down: President Trump's was administered by Chief Justice John Roberts => OATH
18 Down: The division the Braves topped this year => EAST
23 Down: Branch of the DOL that manages the National Farmworker Jobs Program and resources for worker dislocation programs => ETA
24 Down: Tom Brokaw's area => NEWS
25 Down: Landform in the center of GOT's God's Eye => ISLE
27 Down: Fashion's Lauren who collects rare cars => RALPH
28 Down: Billionaire David who co-founded Yahoo! => FILO
29 Down: Large, great-tasting citrus fruit that looks like it sounds => UGLI
30 Down: Drop hair all over the place => SHED
31 Down: Swiss Black Condensed or Palatino Medium => FONT
32 Down: Swear on a stack of Bibles => AVOW
33 Down: Actress Campbell of House of Cards => NEVE
34 Down: Traveled across, as Mercury did to the sun on November 11 => TRANSITED
38 Down: Honors an insurance claim => PAYS
39 Down: Last year's documentary ___ Snuff about soundtrack composer W.G. Snuffy Walden => UPTO
43 Down: Paul Muller received the Nobel prize in '48 for discovering the high efficiency of this now banned pesticide => DDT
45 Down: Tennille of Captain & Tennille => TONI
46 Down: Same formula, different properties => ISOMER
47 Down: Raja Ram Pratap Singh's wife, for example => RANI
50 Down: Use rollerblades => SKATE
51 Down: Open your Pepsodent => UNCAP
52 Down: Bugsy Siegel's Virginia Hill and Pretty Boy Floyd's Beulah Baird => MOLLS
53 Down: Turn and a half in your figure skating routine => AXEL
54 Down: The Marine's “Maneuver Under Fire” drill is part of it (abbr.) => CFT
55 Down: Recover, medically speaking => HEAL
56 Down: Uses the Wikipedia Teahouse => ASKS
57 Down: What a message from Replied App website may require => RSVP
60 Down: Home entertainment device last made by Funai Electric in July 2016 => VCR
61 Down: Seven member middle eastern federation currently ruled by Sheikh Khalifa => UAE
62 Down: Jay-Z's genre => RAP

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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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