Crossword Answers For: Saturday, October 3, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Checkout counter option => DEBIT
6 Across: Movie where Will Ferrell played Buddy => ELF
9 Across: Pear named after a professor of the Paris Jardin des plantes in the early 19th century => BOSC
13 Across: The Senate had one on April 4 and April 5, 2017 => ALLNIGHTER
16 Across: Arachnid-appropriate prefix => OCTO
17 Across: Something fished out of the Long Island Sound that might cause you to say Aw, shucks! => BLUEPOINTOYSTER
19 Across: Chalcedony, alternately => SARD
20 Across: Fed. agency that destroyed almost 469 tons of material received on its Take Back Day => DEA
21 Across: Administer extreme unction to, in medieval times => ANELE
22 Across: Agency that GitHub recently and contentiously renewed its 2016 contract with => ICE
24 Across: Fool's gold => PYRITES
26 Across: Harrison, New Jersey home of New York's Major League Soccer team => REDBULLARENA
31 Across: Where to find a good French teacher => ECOLE
32 Across: Something on your desktop => ICON
33 Across: Digital exchange, briefly => EFT
36 Across: Real loafer => SHOE
37 Across: Some things to drop coins into, maybe => SLOTS
38 Across: Like a relief pitcher in a no-hitter => IDLE
39 Across: Tough old turkey => TOM
40 Across: Greenhorn (var.) => TIRO
41 Across: Island less then two miles north of Alcatraz => ANGEL
42 Across: Legislation originally sponsored by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey => GREENNEWDEAL
45 Across: Wikileaks leaks, at one time => SECRETS
48 Across: Flight pattern of Branta canadensis, for example => VEE
49 Across: Items that your medium might see => AURAE
50 Across: Chemical (abbr.) still registered as a trademark of Bayer for at least 120 years => ASA
52 Across: Account => TALE
56 Across: Pit worker who keeps all their cards in their shoe => BLACKJACKDEALER
60 Across: Actor Auberjonois who played Paul Lewiston in Boston Legal => RENE
61 Across: TV's fictional Master Sergeant who worked in Fort Baxter, KS from 1955 to July 1958 => ERNIEBILKO
62 Across: ___ Management Corp. co-founded by Atlanta Hawks principal owner Tony Ressler => ARES
63 Across: This should help you drive => TEE
64 Across: Sprinkle with holy water, perhaps => BLESS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Applies with a cotton ball => DABS
2 Down: The Queen of Jazz who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from George H.W. Bush => ELLA
3 Down: Result of a shaking hand when taking a selfie => BLUR
4 Down: Like osage oranges, plastic and death cap mushrooms => INEDIBLE
5 Down: Whispered political bombshell, maybe => TIP
6 Down: Cause of many earthquakes in Catania => ETNA
7 Down: Reason for a badminton restart of service => LET
8 Down: Pendulum's direction, half the time => FRO
9 Down: Herzegovina's partner => BOSNIA
10 Down: 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns and 2 bassoons, for example => OCTET
11 Down: Stone slab with an ancient epitaph => STELE
12 Down: Nuclear reactor centers => CORES
14 Down: Kurt, mathematician famous for his incompleteness theorems => GODEL
15 Down: Floor it, in a quaint sort of way => HIE
18 Down: Afghan constitution? => YARN
23 Down: Something special you use for your pool break => CUE
24 Down: Two up quarks and one down quark => PROTON
25 Down: Aluminum Japanese coins => YENS
26 Down: Take ten => REST
27 Down: Very first passive communications satellite (launched '60) => ECHO
28 Down: Video game that takes place at Union Aerospace Corporation on Mars => DOOM
29 Down: North Carolina's state flowers => LILIES
30 Down: Future oak => ACORN
33 Down: Important part of your knife => EDGE
34 Down: Tiny little thing that spreads the Black Death => FLEA
35 Down: David ___, previously Reagan speechwriter and journalist, now of the Hudson Institute => TELL
37 Down: Proofreader's notation in response to the editor's goofs => STET
38 Down: Without making a long story short => INDETAIL
41 Down: What some view solar eclipses with => AWE
42 Down: Aglaea, Euphrosyne and Thalia => GRACES
43 Down: What old stogies do => REEK
44 Down: Dance around, in a way => EVADE
45 Down: Chocolate-orange flavored Israeli liqueur => SABRA
46 Down: Mathematician Leonard of the 18th century who first wrote f(x) to denote a function => EULER
47 Down: Necessary equipment used for the Burj Khalifa => CRANE
50 Down: Breakout that's a disaster on prom night => ACNE
51 Down: Take a trail in Vail => SKI
53 Down: What Germans call the Lyna River => ALLE
54 Down: Male display competitions for birds-of-paradise => LEKS
55 Down: What most think the famous Piccadilly Circus statue is in London (it isn't) => EROS
57 Down: The Lippisch Ente was the first one of these to fly, in 1928 => JET
58 Down: You will often appear to the left of this => ARE
59 Down: Tidal motion that may reveal many golf balls at Pebble beach => EBB

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This crossword has 33 across clues and 44 down clues. In total 77 clues are solved in the section above.
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