Crossword Answers For: Saturday, September 12, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Canadian outfit that bought Saks Fifth Avenue in 2013 (abbr.) => HBC
4 Across: Something that banshees and sirens do and either way, you're in trouble => WAIL
8 Across: Something that can go with take or spin, or pay or play => OFFS
12 Across: Municipality surrounded by the Hilabangan River and named after the Tagalog word for river in the Philippines => ILOG
14 Across: Alger ___, U.S. State Department official accused of spying in 1948 and convicted of perjury in 1950 => HISS
15 Across: One of the things that a mereologist might study, providing they know the whole story, of course => PART
16 Across: Has a real serious discussion with your salad representative about the terms of surrender? => PARLEYSPARSLEY
19 Across: Complaints that might be brought on by clogged follicles but the majority of the time, it's your genes => ACNES
20 Across: Oldest and largest engineering school in Myanmar, located in the county's largest city (abbr.) => YTU
21 Across: Better known nickname of Celtics' forward Jesusemilore Talodabijesu Ojeleye => SEMI
23 Across: Org. that finally recognized Redbone and Bluetick Coonhounds in 2009 and the Treeing Walker in 2012 => AKC
24 Across: The HP PageWide Pro 552dw color inkjet is rated at 70 of these, in brief => PPM
27 Across: How the landscape appears when the gray bats pour out of Alabama's Hambrick Cave => TWILIT
29 Across: How the targets of the black-attired ninja of old Iga Province know when they're stealing through the garden at midnight? => THEYSEETHEEYES
33 Across: Weekly newsmagazine founded by marxist-leaning Lyndon LaRouche in 1974 (abbr.) => EIR
34 Across: Something to could nibble on while you enjoy a Sattu Banana Shake or Vegan Cutting Chai => SAMOSA
35 Across: Pooch whose name may be from the Tibetan for goatee or billy goat or bark-guard => APSO
37 Across: Physician and geneticist Francis Collins has been directing this org. since 2009 => NIH
38 Across: What your American Saddlebred might do when you stick the rowels in too hard => REAR
42 Across: Label that usually means wrinkle resistant => NOIRON
45 Across: Org, launched by Google Ideas in 2011 and managed by ISD, that aims to push back again radical and terrorist attitudes (abbr.) => AVE
46 Across: Most flexible and limber of all the fairy kin? => SPRIESTSPRITES
51 Across: Percy Bolsonaro's kid eventually left the military as a captain and now looks after this => BRAZIL
52 Across: Company, now defunct, once run by World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker until 1963 (abbr.) => EAL
53 Across: Rapper and philanthropist ___ James, who released The Love Was Never Hidden earlier this year => NOA
55 Across: Opponent of the Michigan Dept. of State Police in the SCOTUS case determining if sobriety checkpoints are constitutional (1990) => SITZ
56 Across: Smith, running back known as The Judge, playing now for the Atlanta Falcons => ITO
59 Across: Unit of length that became obsolete in the 18th century, but is still used by French and Swiss watchmakers => LIGNE
61 Across: What was done to the back deck this time after the fiasco a few years ago with the paint and the raccoon? => STAINEDINSTEAD
65 Across: Reporting mark used by the shortline outfit that services Pureland Industrial Park in Bridgeport, NJ => SLRS
66 Across: Largest city on the Zambezi River => TETE
67 Across: Fourth largest lough in Ireland, actually two interconnected lakes, with the town of Enniskillen sitting between them => ERNE
68 Across: Romanized name of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate of the period 1603 to 1868 => YEDO
69 Across: Essential chemical present in all living cells that carries out protein synthesis (abbr.) => RRNA
70 Across: Condition defined by physical and emotional exhaustion resulting in inability to feel compassion, sometimes abbreviated as this => STS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Legislation affecting medical care often named after Ted Kennedy and Nancy Kassebaum, signed by Pres. Clinton in '96 => HIPAA
2 Down: Congou, Lapsang souchong or Yingdehong => BLACKTEA
3 Down: Fragment of the American Southwest's Frito pie => CORNCHIP
4 Down: Question I often ask myself when working on puzzles at three in the morning => WHY
5 Down: Measurement scheme introduced in 2000 that might determine if you have a sleep disorder (abbr.) => AIS
6 Down: Dec. 2016 song by rapper Kyle with vocals from Lil Yachty => ISPY
7 Down: US joint service program initiated in 2004 aimed at reducing the weight of weaponry and ammunition (abbr.) => LSAT
8 Down: Suffix used in taxonomy when naming species that means face, from the ancient Greek => OPS
9 Down: Item used by many Victorian women, quaintly known as a bosom pad => FALSIE
10 Down: John ___, father of journalist Maureen and author of travel and history books about Eastern Europe and the Ottoman Empire => FREELY
11 Down: Golf green problem prior to 1938 when one player's ball is blocking the path of the other player's route to the hole => STYMIE
13 Down: Mercedes-Benz class of mid-size luxury SUVs => GLE
17 Down: Gene ___, second person to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail (1951) => ESPY
18 Down: Bernie Madoff's wife and sex therapist Westheimer => RUTHS
22 Down: ___ Complicated: Streep/Baldwin movie of 2009 => ITS
25 Down: Necessary part of any airline made up of reservation, inventory and departure control modules (abbr.) => PSS
26 Down: Single by Lauv, released in Nov. 2019 and the 10th track on the album How I'm Feeling => MEANIT
28 Down: Put on your jacket or slowly get that shiny look on it => WEAR
30 Down: NY theater ensemble founded in 1991 that sounds as though it's really had its ups and downs (abbr.) => ERS
31 Down: Title of Nigeria's Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, at least until he was dethroned in March of this year by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje => EMIRS
32 Down: Dave Brubeck's 1996 live album: ___! A Celebration, a recording of a performance of the Catholic mass => TOHOPE
36 Down: Childhood name of Komatsuhime, famous Japanese female warrior of the 16th and 17th centuries => ONEI
39 Down: Something you really have to do if you want to live to a ripe old age => EAT
40 Down: LA's Arena Football League team that lasted from 2000 to 2009 => AVENGERS
41 Down: Like the sound of Notre-Dame de Paris' Emmanuel, for example => RESONANT
43 Down: Country music singer/songwriter Kay Toinette ___, known as K.T., who sang 1987's 80's Ladies => OSLIN
44 Down: Moosalamoo or White Rocks, both located in the Green Mountain National Forest (abbr.) => NRA
46 Down: Abbr. for the phenomenon when nonspecific symptoms are reported by many people in new homes and offices => SBS
47 Down: Hen which is often pursued by Foghorn Leghorn => PRISSY
48 Down: Trinidadian chac-chac, basically => RATTLE
49 Down: Comedian Eddie ___, who this year ran 29 marathons in 29 different countries in 29 days => IZZARD
50 Down: Poverty, climate change, viruses, crossword fatigue, etc. => ILLS
54 Down: Mosquito genus whose name comes from the Greek for unpleasant or odious, some species of which transmit Zika or dengue => AEDES
57 Down: Beginning of many four-sided solids or that crazy tile-matching game by Alexey Pajitnov => TETR
58 Down: 520 mile river that connects to the Gliwice Canal at Koz le => ODER
60 Down: Type of hearing device that will fit in your concha (abbr.) => ITE
62 Down: Abbr. that you might see often in the newspaper personals section => ISO
63 Down: News provider and programmer for one of BBC TV's greatest rivals => ITN
64 Down: Regional carrier based at Westerly that provides scheduled service to Block Island (abbr.) => NEA

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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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