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Crossword Answers For: Saturday, August 29, 2020


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Across Clues and Answers:
1 Across: FOX NFL reporter and senior correspondent ___ Oliver => PAM
4 Across: Annual law journal that covers the legal implications of decisions from the bench of the nation's top jurists (abbr.) => SCR
7 Across: Type of jump that Kenny Harrison did in 1996 => TRIPLE
13 Across: Formal name of the Black Monks, founded in the 6th century => OSB
14 Across: Google offering that has included speed trap information where possible, since early last year => MAPS
15 Across: Order your 12th century commander yells that means a laborious job concerning your trebuchet => RELOAD
16 Across: Alternative Big Apple newsweekly founded in 1955 that finally ceased publication in 2018 => THEVILLAGEVOICE
19 Across: Items a member of the American Vecturist Association is likely to have a lot of => TOKENS
20 Across: Pliny the Elder wrote that this food of a dark and sombre color is a poor food and only serves to avert starvation => RYE
21 Across: Kelly Loeffler of GA is the most recent one of these, in brief => SEN
22 Across: Something that sits atop Ulm Minster => SPIRE
23 Across: Personal name still used today that can mean both watchful and wild ass in Hebrew => IRA
25 Across: Volcano on the island of Kyushu which has erupted several times in the past decade => ASO
27 Across: Comedy writer and 6-time Emmy winner who was also head writer for the Oscars for 14 years => BRUCEVILANCH
32 Across: Next woman to serve on SCOTUS after SDO => RBG
35 Across: The Mangani of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan novels, for example => APEMEN
36 Across: ___ grass, colloquial name of Distichlis palmeri, once thought extinct but which now grows in the Sonoran desert of Mexico => NIPA
37 Across: Romanian kings that came to power in 1881 and 1930 => CAROLS
39 Across: SF's Chase Center and Milwaukee's Fiserv Forum, for two => ARENAS
41 Across: Janos ___, lawyer and President of Hungary since May 10, 2012 => ADER
42 Across: Like banana skins, especially if boiled, chopped and curried => EDIBLE
46 Across: Initials the Bears wear on the left sleeves of their jerseys since the 1984 season => GSH
47 Across: Where Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels, first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress, was born => FAYETTEVILLE
50 Across: Very ancient tool which these days could be Italian, Paxton or Dutch => HOE
51 Across: Name of five Armenian kings between 1198 and 1375 => LEO
52 Across: Bird believed in Roman and medieval times, to be able to look directly into the sun => EAGLE
56 Across: William ___, credited with inventing the stop sign and the one way street, despite not driving himself => ENO
58 Across: Nickname of the singer of Anti, released in 2016 => RIH
60 Across: The International Festival celebrating these is held between October 13 and 15 each year at Piedras Negras => NACHOS
61 Across: What many people went to see for a night out on the town in the 1920s => VAUDEVILLESHOWS
65 Across: Perpetually delves into stuff which is no concern of yours => ISNOSY
66 Across: How this crossword got to the Vox website => FILE
67 Across: Where all members of the genus Architeuthis roam => SEA
68 Across: Items you can use to pour hot metal or your Hogmanay toddy => LADLES
69 Across: Abbreviation for the global inshore yachting circuit that hopes to bring together almost 100,000 athletes in 2021 => SSL
70 Across: Something worth four points in the league but worth five if you're unionized => TRY

Down Clues and Answers:
1 Down: Annie who plays Connie Tucker, known as Meemaw to the grandkids on CBS' Young Sheldon => POTTS
2 Down: Next step up from selling blueberry pies out of your basement => ASHOP
3 Down: South African president who was instrumental in bringing the FIFA World Cup to Africa for the first time => MBEKI
4 Down: Comedians Vulcano of The Tenderloins and Iacono, who happens to be Jimmy Kimmel's cousin => SALS
5 Down: Online advertising pricing scheme where advertisers pay for contact info of an interested prospect (abbr.) => CPL
6 Down: New York talmudic yeshiva known informally as Chofetz Chaim (abbr.) => RSA
7 Down: One of almost 3,000 that Ray Allen downed during his career, slangily speaking => TREY
8 Down: What most magicians choose not to do when asked How the heck did you do that? => REVEAL
9 Down: Mrs. Wallace, US Second Lady and sponsor of the USS Iowa, launched on August 27, 1942 => ILO
10 Down: Suspected cause of Alexei Navalny's recent hospitalization => POISONING
11 Down: What Puerto Rico's Queen of Mundillo is renowned for creating => LACE
12 Down: Town you could stay in if you were skiing at Powder Mountain => EDEN
14 Down: Small village in Bureau Co., IL, apparently named because while there's lots of coal, the commodity it was named after is absent => MINERAL
17 Down: Name of the early 2000s campaign by the CDC to increase and maintain physical activity among tweens => VERB
18 Down: One of the approximately 35 items found at Morocco's Grotte des Pigeons, which are estimated to be over 14,000 years old => GRAVE
23 Down: Superyacht owned by Equatorial Guinea's VP Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue => ICE
24 Down: Sleep phase birds share with humans => REM
26 Down: Crossword constructors often generate doubt in claiming that they are this => SANE
28 Down: 1980's Miracle on Ice, for one => UPSET
29 Down: Considering everything, maybe even including the kitchen sink and Aunt Lil's fake chompers! => INALL
30 Down: Prof. designation of many number crunchers who often rise to company controllers, for short => CPAS
31 Down: Something you can buy at any time of day in Frank's Diner down on the corner => HASH
32 Down: King Norodom Sihamoni is the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of this org. HQed in Phnom Penh => RCAF
33 Down: ___ Bing!, the strip club run by Tony Soprano's aide-de-camp, Silvio Dante => BADA
34 Down: As a bison is a member of a herd, one of these animals is a member of a leash => GREYHOUND
38 Down: Name of the Android mobile operating system released to the public on August 21, 2017 => OREO
40 Down: Statement for the Fourth Estate => RELEASE
43 Down: Where Mughal Emperor Humayun's tomb is located => DELHI
44 Down: Busta Rhymes mixtape ___ Already Outshined Your Favorite Rapper => IVE
45 Down: Mine, in brief, includes cruciverbalist and mathematician for example => BIO
48 Down: Author Svoboda from Nebraska who penned this year's Great American Desert => TERESE
49 Down: Word that follows from and to in a well known 1875 Karl Marx slogan => EACH
53 Down: Rosa Carmichael, one of these, seems to hang out at the National Homestead at Gettysburg => GHOST
54 Down: The bunk it's lousy to sleep in if your bunkmate suffers from mal-de-mer => LOWER
55 Down: One of many works by Hitchens, Orwell or Emerson => ESSAY
56 Down: This is bad. Real bad. And it's lurking in the longest puzzle answers, too! => EVIL
57 Down: Gp. that plans to initiate Artemis 2 in 2023 => NASA
59 Down: Meeropol, who directed Indian Point and Winters who was Miss Congeniality on RuPaul's Drag Race => IVYS
60 Down: Inspector Fenwick's daughter, who seemed to have an ongoing affinity for railway tracks => NELL
62 Down: Federal govt. org. under the guidance of Eugene Scalia since September last year (abbr.) => DOL
63 Down: Racing simulator originally released in 2003 where you can drive the official BMW Sauber F1.06 if desired (abbr.) => LFS
64 Down: Plant symbolized three times on Quebec's coat of arms => LIS


This crossword has 36 across clues and 43 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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