Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Commerce pact to be replaced by USMCA when it's ratified => NAFTA
6 Across: __ circus => MEDIA
11 Across: Cook quickly => ZAP
14 Across: Fluffed-up dos => AFROS
15 Across: Apple music players => IPODS
16 Across: Actress Longoria => EVA
17 Across: *Top brass => HEADHONCHOS
19 Across: Outlaw => BAN
20 Across: Iraq War concern: Abbr. => WMD
21 Across: New beginning? => NEO
22 Across: Spine-tingling => EERIE
24 Across: Farm female => EWE
25 Across: *Response to wild applause => CURTAINCALL
28 Across: Almost on E => LOW
29 Across: Biblical mount => ASS
30 Across: Attend => GOTO
31 Across: The Art of Loving author Erich => FROMM
33 Across: Cubs' home => DEN
34 Across: Fort Collins sch. => CSU
37 Across: *Political metaphor about dealing with bureaucracy => DRAINTHESWAMP
41 Across: Wild blue yonder => SKY
42 Across: Unagi, e.g. => EEL
43 Across: Beyond angry => IRATE
45 Across: Membership fees => DUES
47 Across: Help! at sea => SOS
49 Across: P-like letter => RHO
50 Across: *Market-based pollution-control policy => CAPANDTRADE
54 Across: __ Explain Things to Me: 2014 Rebecca Solnit essay anthology => MEN
55 Across: Yellow-and-white daisy => OXEYE
56 Across: Otoh, what will you pay? => OBO
57 Across: Long of Empire => NIA
58 Across: A-lister => VIP
59 Across: Classic Psycho segment where one might see the starts of the answers to starred clues => SHOWERSCENE
64 Across: Canon SLR => EOS
65 Across: Programmer => CODER
66 Across: Certain Jamaican, religiously => RASTA
67 Across: Brief reaction to oversharing => TMI
68 Across: Newspaper essays => OPEDS
69 Across: Wild West movie => OATER

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Don't think so => NAH
2 Down: Brief thing to say => AFEWWORDS
3 Down: Basic structure => FRAMEWORK
4 Down: Lincoln in-law => TODD
5 Down: Shade of gray => ASH
6 Down: Ones who dig hard rock? => MINERS
7 Down: Florida theme park => EPCOT
8 Down: Play-__: kids' clay => DOH
9 Down: Wedding promise => IDO
10 Down: Agreement => ASSENT
11 Down: Striped equine => ZEBRA
12 Down: To no __: useless => AVAIL
13 Down: Group of judges => PANEL
18 Down: Weight on one's shoulders => ONUS
23 Down: Tesla Model X, for one => ECOCAR
24 Down: The Hobbit being => ELF
25 Down: Sleeveless top, for short => CAMI
26 Down: A Death in the Family author => AGEE
27 Down: + or - particles => IONS
32 Down: Help! at sea => MAYDAY
33 Down: UPS rival => DHL
35 Down: Most ingratiatingly earnest => SMARMIEST
36 Down: Get serious, gambler-style => UPTHEANTE
38 Down: Can't live without => NEED
39 Down: Push to the limit => TEST
40 Down: Sage => WISE
44 Down: Seemingly forever => EON
46 Down: World Heritage Site org. => UNESCO
47 Down: Civil War swords => SABERS
48 Down: Baking soda target => ODOR
50 Down: Tenth Commandment verb => COVET
51 Down: Universal principle => AXIOM
52 Down: One side in the cola wars => PEPSI
53 Down: Crewed in a shell => ROWED
57 Down: College Football Playoff org. => NCAA
60 Down: Sock __ => HOP
61 Down: Lyrical tribute => ODE
62 Down: No seats sign => SRO
63 Down: Cup handle => EAR

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This crossword has 39 across clues and 40 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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