Crossword Answers For: Saturday, August 7, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Belted out => SANG
5 Across: Beowulf, for example => EPIC
9 Across: Compete à la Team USA Olympian Simone Manuel => SWIM
13 Across: Guardians of the Galaxy hero => GROOT
15 Across: ___-eaten (old fashioned) => MOTH
16 Across: Himalayan legend => YETI
17 Across: ___ Tatin (upside-down French pastry) => TARTE
18 Across: Flat-topped hill => MESA
19 Across: Course selection? => MEAL
20 Across: Barney and Betty's son, in cartoondom => BAMMBAMMRUBBLE
23 Across: Earth Day mo. => APR
24 Across: Argument => SETTO
25 Across: Ivory Coast port city => ABIDJAN
29 Across: They may be dressed for dinner => SALADS
33 Across: Sponge (up), as gravy => SOP
34 Across: Humpty Dumpty body shape => OVOID
37 Across: Response after being tagged, perhaps => IMIT
38 Across: 2015 International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee whose given first name is Ray => BOOMBOOMMANCINI
42 Across: The West Wing actor Alan => ALDA
43 Across: Afro-Puerto Rican musical style => BOMBA
44 Across: Animated frame => CEL
45 Across: Wiped away, as one's hopes => DASHED
48 Across: Suffer humiliation => EATDIRT
50 Across: Falstaffian in appearance => OBESE
53 Across: California's Big ___ => SUR
54 Across: Fried seafood dish covered in Thai sweet chili sauce => BANGBANGSHRIMP
60 Across: Patent precursor => IDEA
61 Across: Muscles targeted by a dead bug (Wait ... what?!) => CORE
62 Across: Be of assistance to => AVAIL
64 Across: Not now => THEN
65 Across: Beehive State city that's an anagram of a world capital => OREM
66 Across: Pigeon's urban perch => LEDGE
67 Across: Swirling current => EDDY
68 Across: ___ pot (nasal cavity rinser) => NETI
69 Across: Platform for tweets? => NEST

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Boot camp VIP => SGT
2 Down: The A of UAE => ARAB
3 Down: Awkwafina Is ___ From Queens => NORA
4 Down: Became heated, in a sense => GOTMAD
5 Down: Oscar winner Stone or Thompson => EMMA
6 Down: Amanda Gorman works => POEMS
7 Down: Informal identification => ITSME
8 Down: Nautical maps => CHARTS
9 Down: Representative => SYMBOLIC
10 Down: ___ Ewbank, head coach of the Super Bowl III-winning New York Jets => WEEB
11 Down: Type for stressing (abbr.) => ITAL
12 Down: 1/500 of the Indianapolis 500 => MILE
14 Down: Gig from an employment agency => TEMPJOB
21 Down: Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen network => BRAVO
22 Down: The Jazz, on NBA scoreboards => UTA
25 Down: Equally crappy => ASBAD
26 Down: Yalie's cheer word => BOOLA
27 Down: Nano and Shuffle, for two => IPODS
28 Down: Gaming rookie => NOOB
30 Down: Italian's friends => AMICI
31 Down: Rob's Place, in the 1970s sitcom What's Happening!! => DINER
32 Down: Wilt the ___ (a nickname of NBA great Chamberlain) => STILT
35 Down: Text's If you ask me ... => IMO
36 Down: Let's continue this online convo in private => DMME
39 Down: Reddish-brown color => MAHOGANY
40 Down: Embarrass => ABASH
41 Down: Person with inborn talent => NATURAL
46 Down: Flow's tidal opposite => EBB
47 Down: Demon ___ (Wake Forest University athlete) => DEACON
49 Down: Motivated => DRIVEN
51 Down: One way to keep a mate awake in the bedroom => SNORE
52 Down: White-plumed wading bird => EGRET
54 Down: Vampire's attack => BITE
55 Down: Ritalin treats it (abbr.) => ADHD
56 Down: One may be crying => NEED
57 Down: What comes immediately after a quarter => SEMI
58 Down: Neat, like a bed => MADE
59 Down: Truffle finders => PIGS
63 Down: Tennis redo => LET

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This crossword has 35 across clues and 40 down clues. In total 75 clues are solved in the section above.
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