Crossword Answers For: Saturday, August 15, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: School Jimmy Kimmel attended before transferring to Arizona State (abbr.) => UNLV
5 Across: Astronomer Trujillo, who co-discovered the dwarf planet Eris in 2005 => CHAD
9 Across: Traditional residence that in many ways is the Navajo version of the Mongolian yurt => HOGAN
14 Across: 7th avatar of the God Vishnu, to Hindus => RAMA
15 Across: ___ Gesserit, superhuman-powered sisterhood of Herbert's Dune universe => BENE
16 Across: Organism that generated a recall of 45 million pounds of flour by General Mills in 2016 => ECOLI
17 Across: Desperately searches for help from anyone in interpreting Richard's Horn Concerto No. 2? => GRASPSATSTRAUSS
20 Across: Looking like a leaf that's been lunch for a Dusky Birch Sawfly, maybe => EROSE
21 Across: Type of tea designated as orange because of its association with royalty, even though it's actually colored black => PEKOE
22 Across: The 12% extra you'll pay on top of your LA County Airbnb rental, in brief => TOT
23 Across: Org. founded in 1999 that campaigned against a 2006 Detroit Pistons calendar that generated funds for charity (abbr.) => ADA
25 Across: Letters that might precede nine presidential names affiliated with aircraft carriers => USS
27 Across: What an exhausted, but enthusiastic, tattooist might do if asked to go and get supplies in a variety of colors? => GRABFORTYINKS
34 Across: The feeling generated (along with the willies, maybe) when you get brave and go out on the skywalk at Eagle Point => AWE
36 Across: Key that got its first post office in 1870 => LARGO
37 Across: Number of US presidents that have been born in Maine => NONE
38 Across: Actresses Nia of NCIS: Los Angeles and Shelley of Cheers => LONGS
40 Across: HTML attribute that enables you to see text when you hover over images => ALT
41 Across: What they did on the Kola Peninsula for roughly 20 years => BORED
42 Across: La donna e mobile from Verdi’s Rigoletto, for example => ARIA
43 Across: Quality that would be welcomed in some barbecued fare, but one which vegans would frown upon => MEATY
45 Across: Milkfish, known to Hawaiians as this => AWA
46 Across: Chef's recommended course of action when the lady replies No to the suggestion Lettuce leave a tip? => SEIZEHERSALAD
50 Across: Atoll in the Maldives and location of the island of Thoddoo, largest producer of watermelon in the Maldives => ARI
51 Across: This was changed to Juliette in 1956 when the NATO Phonetic Alphabet was adopted by the US => JIG
52 Across: One-time medical student associate of Fidel and Raul => CHE
55 Across: ISS cosmonaut Kononenko and Soyuz cosmonaut Atkov => OLEGS
59 Across: Often redacted items when you get the results of the FOIA requests => NAMES
63 Across: Standing directive to your legal staff when you dash to the office because you see your civil case flying out the window? => HOLDDOWNTHETORT
66 Across: ___ A Place, album released last November by indie folk musician Bonnie Prince Billy => IMADE
67 Across: Baltimore stick-up man ___ Little from HBO's The Wire, who often whistles A-Hunting We Will Go when stalking prey => OMAR
68 Across: Work right on the edge => HONE
69 Across: How Giorgia Boscolo of Venice has moved around a lot of her time in the past ten years => POLED
70 Across: ___ Seelye, VP for Arts, Culture, and Communications at the MEI => KATE
71 Across: Like now! => ASAP

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Item that may be almost impossible to resist => URGE
2 Down: Lord of Evil and god of Darkness in Joe Dever's Lone Wolf book series => NARR
3 Down: Letters indicating that you're in hysterics often preceded by ROF => LMAO
4 Down: Minor planet named by Maud Worcester Makemson after the school she taught at and the observatory she directed => VASSAR
5 Down: Network that had a logo of a spotlight illuminating letters, but changed in '51 to one inspired by a Pennsylvania Dutch hex sign => CBS
6 Down: Retired Ravens' tight end and still all-time touchdown receiver Todd ___ => HEAP
7 Down: Los Angeles FC assistant coach ___ Razov who is the all-time leading goal scorer for Chicago Fire FC => ANTE
8 Down: Item you could buy for your residence if you happen to be a crossword creator => DESK
9 Down: What Salman Rushdie was accused of by Iran when it issued its 1989 fatwa => HERESY
10 Down: Religious org. under the leadership of Metropolitan Tikhon Mollard, that has over 450 parishes in the US (abbr.) => OCA
11 Down: Common present day complaint that Hippocrates commented on about 400 BC, noting that it didn't occur in eunuchs => GOUT
12 Down: Word commonly used when you're adding something => ALSO
13 Down: DOC agcy. that promotes industrial competitiveness and includes standardization of material and physical measurement (abbr.) => NIST
18 Down: What Denise Mueller-Korenek does very well, specially at over 180 mph => PEDALS
19 Down: What an Aussie spruiker does, usually annoyingly => TOUT
24 Down: Island in the White Nile in Sudan that is the base for the moderate Islamic and centrist Umma Party in Sudan => ABA
26 Down: Latin Grammy-winning sixth studio album by Cafe Tacuba, released in October 2007 => SINO
27 Down: The conjurors' magazine, HQed in DC and magically produced since 1936 => GENII
28 Down: Something that will only end when everything's disappeared into the pockets => FRAME
29 Down: Person that looks without much subtlety => OGLER
30 Down: Revolving gizmos by which strictly cloistered clergy maintain their only communication with the outside world => ROTAS
31 Down: US and Canadian combined org., HQed at Peterson AFB, near Colorado Springs, that provides protection against incoming attack => NORAD
32 Down: Henry James novel of 1897 about the daughter of divorced, narcissistic parents: What Maisie ___ => KNEW
33 Down: Actor Jon, who starred as Chief Investigator Antonio Dawson in NBC's short lived Chicago Justice (2017) => SEDA
34 Down: Formula for aluminum arsenide, which is a semiconductor, but is unfortunately (pun intended) quite bad to inhale => ALAS
35 Down: Took a mental toll, in a way => WORE
39 Down: Area that was part of the Ottoman Empire after 1918, subsequently occupied by the UK, Egypt and Israel => GAZA
41 Down: Something that you rarely see associated with an article in The Economist => BYLINE
44 Down: ___ Express, which is very useful if you like the 7 1/2 hour rail journey from New Delhi to Jhansi => TAJ
47 Down: What the Appalachian Mountains have done since about 480 million years ago => ERODED
48 Down: ___ soil, the official state soil of the state of Hawaii => HILO
49 Down: Award that Ann Cleeves won for her 2019 novel The Long Call => AGATHA
52 Down: Lead character who's a self-help guru in Netflix's Flaked => CHIP
53 Down: Name of the quarterly peer-reviewed journal that covers the subject of comparative human biology => HOMO
54 Down: Employer that Sara Ben-Artzi, now Mrs. Netanyahu, worked for decades ago => ELAL
56 Down: Type of creature that Wicket, Teebo, Paploo or Chief Chirpa is => EWOK
57 Down: Ginnie Mae's long name, for short => GNMA
58 Down: ERA, RBI or SB => STAT
60 Down: Black Forest mountain range with the Siedigkopf as its highest point (with The) => MOOS
61 Down: Mythological figure who bore 11 sons to her husband Jarl, who became the ancestors of the Norse class of warriors => ERNA
62 Down: Something that should help you move upwards in this world => STEP
64 Down: Inits. of the president whose ancestors were Pennsylvania Dutch and whose surname came from the German for iron hewer => DDE
65 Down: European superpower for 1000 years where Charles II, the Bald (875-77) was followed by Charles III, the Fat (881-88) (abbr.) => HRE

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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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