Crossword Answers For: Saturday, August 22, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Puerto Rico's Wanda Vazquez Garced or Guam's Lourdes Aflague Leon Guerrero, for short => GOV
4 Across: Ancient monument known as a peulvan in Breton, from words meaning stakeand stone => MENHIR
10 Across: Probable destiny of the Crown Prince of Fujairah => EMIR
14 Across: Doc. who does your physical and gives the OK for your pilot's license (abbr.) => AME
15 Across: Puffy shirt that Jerry wore to the Today Show in 1993, basically => BLOUSE
16 Across: ___ Believe, the third single from the album The Evolution of Robin Thicke (2006) => CANU
17 Across: What the patissiere did for the wedding reception - which was ultimately canceled but she got paid anyway? => MADEALOTOFDOUGH
20 Across: Human rights leader ___ Jenkins whose panels from his VW bus that read Love is Progress, Hate is Expensive are in the NMAAHC => ESAU
21 Across: 1922 discovery that made Howard Carter famous => TUT
22 Across: What the Pleistocene Epoch was compared to the Holocene => ICIER
23 Across: Huge creature that went on a rampage in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones and was killed by the marksmanship of Jango Fett => REEK
26 Across: ___ Chaplin who played Talisa Maegyr in Game of Thrones => OONA
28 Across: Occupation where you're involved in cleaning up a lot of pictures of Benjamin Franklin? => MONEYLAUNDERING
35 Across: Stirs up memories, like old photos do, at times => EVOKES
36 Across: Like Browning's piper who disappeared into the mountainside => PIED
37 Across: ___ Sanchez, a fifth-degree black belt in taekwondo who also won Miss USA in 2014 => NIA
38 Across: Popular drop off spot for Wile E. Coyote => MESA
39 Across: Religious org. of Rev. Cameron Partridge, first openly transgender priest to preach at Washington's Natl. Cathedral (2014) => TEC
40 Across: 110 mile long German river where it's been popular to pan for gold since 1308 => EDER
41 Across: Harvard's improv comedy group since 1984 (abbr.) => OTI
42 Across: ___-Tek Oh who played the sadistic Colonel Yin in Missing in Action 2: The Beginning => SOON
44 Across: What they do often down around Head of Passes => DESILT
46 Across: Something that you've placed over your shoulder in the hope that it will somehow drag you out of the hole? => STRAPPEDFORCASH
49 Across: Actor Billy who voices the Red M&M and Bugs Bunny => WEST
50 Across: Company that replaced Ferrari as Brand Finance's world's most powerful brand in 2015 => LEGO
51 Across: Brand of mineral water owned by Danone that you can get in bottles designed like Toy Story 4 characters => EVIAN
54 Across: Be constantly on the lookout for Sledgehammer Jimmy ever since you borrowed the grand from Easy-going Frank => OWE
56 Across: In 8th century Baghdad, tar obtained from local oil fields was often used in making one of these => ROAD
60 Across: Failed movie that involved a hunting trip to bag a deer using a modified plutonium-powered DeLorean? => BUCKTOTHEFUTURE
64 Across: Curvy little word that may have roots in the Latin word for a support or prop and the word to increase, strengthen => OGEE
65 Across: 1969's Twin Mill or Splittin' Image, for example => TOYCAR
66 Across: Subject of the trilogy penned by Rachel Carson before she wrote Silent Spring => SEA
67 Across: Debut (and decidedly sibilant) album released in March 2012 by the duo VCMG => SSSS
68 Across: Come out of the closet, in a way => BESEEN
69 Across: 2008 opera The Bonesetter's Daughter by Stewart Wallace was an adaption of the book by this author Amy ___ => TAN

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds or Apex Legends, for example => GAME
2 Down: Your German parents' parents => OMAS
3 Down: Boston-born actress Borg, who played the wife of Jocko Robertson in The Alamo ('60) => VEDA
4 Down: Degree that Ina Garten, host of the Barefoot Contessa, is cooking with (abbr.) => MBA
5 Down: Abbr. used by Rubik's speedcubers that refers to solving the edge pieces without disturbing the corner pieces => ELL
6 Down: Island next to Canada's Vancouver Island that's named after a Nuu-chah-nulth language word meaning go around, go around => NOOTKA
7 Down: Vast majority of Burundians => HUTU
8 Down: Word applied to sports drinks that have similar concentrations of salt and sugar as the human body => ISOTONIC
9 Down: Jerry Seinfeld NBC TV production of 2010-11: The Marriage ___ => REF
10 Down: ___: The NeXt Challenge, 3-year collegiate vehicle technology engineering competition by the DOE and GM in 2008-11 => ECOCAR
11 Down: 17th largest island in the US which was originally named Ihikapalaumaewa => MAUI
12 Down: William who won an Oscar in '61 for Best Screenplay for Splendor in the Grass => INGE
13 Down: Area where Germany's Gelsenkirchen is located => RUHR
18 Down: Name of Dorothy's cat in The Wizard of Oz, originally found by Uncle Henry => EUREKA
19 Down: Went to Galatoire’s or Arnaud’s, for example => DINED
24 Down: Short story collection by Frank Herbert ('85) which includes The Road to Dune, a guidebook for pilgrims to the planet Arrakis => EYE
25 Down: Type of cotton also known as Pima cotton whose fibers are greater than 13/8 in => ELS
27 Down: Gerald Finzi's Op. 29, Intimations of Immortality, for one => ODE
28 Down: Post-it Note reminders, often, that you're more likely to receive as a Post-it text, these days => MEMOS
29 Down: British Middle-distance runner Steve ___, who in 1987 had bronze statue erected in Brighton, UK that was stolen 20 years later => OVETT
30 Down: One possible response to general questions? => NOSIR
31 Down: Throw all your predictions out the window => UPEND
32 Down: Where Arnold George Dorsey, also known as Engelbert Humperdinck, was born => INDIA
33 Down: Lego Group's CEO since 2017, ___ Christiansen => NIELS
34 Down: Brooks, the only artist to release 9 diamond albums in the US => GARTH
39 Down: Movie that was the film debut ('09) of Sonequa Martin-Green, who starred in the web television series Star Trek: Discovery => TOETOTOE
40 Down: Ford model that was the direct replacement of the Pinto in 1981 and became the best selling car in the US => ESCORT
42 Down: How you might feel if you ever finish this puzzle => SPENT
43 Down: Roman fertility goddess, often viewed as seated with a scepter => OPS
44 Down: Fed. Govt. agency that came in being in 1977 under the initial leadership of James Schlesinger => DOE
45 Down: Morocco's Chigaga or Chebbi or Algeria's Chech => ERG
47 Down: Snaps out of the trance that you went into when the last thing you heard was You are feeling sleeepy... => AWAKES
48 Down: Golden item that originally belonged to Chrysomallos from ancient Colchis => FLEECE
51 Down: Alternate old name for the people native to southeastern Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea => EBOS
52 Down: Small crystal lined cavities found in rocks whose name comes from the old Cornish for cave => VUGS
53 Down: Just shoots the puck untouched down the rink in any NHL game => ICES
55 Down: Common words at the start of a lot of sentences that my four year old comes out with => WHYS
57 Down: What the president did to Mick Mulvaney in March of this year => OUST
58 Down: 1,376.1 sq. mi. in the case of Long Island => AREA
59 Down: Position of the role that John Vernon played in Animal House => DEAN
61 Down: Italian parent company of fashion brands Diesel, Maison Margiela, Viktor & Rolf and Amiri => OTB
62 Down: Baby who was the first infant subject of a xenotransplant procedure in 1984 => FAE
63 Down: Item that a wealthy Roman might have in their mausoleum => URN

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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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