Crossword Answers For: Thursday, February 27, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Ottoman bigwigs => AGAS
5 Across: Wildly => AMOK
9 Across: Peaks => ACMES
14 Across: At hand => NIGH
15 Across: Animated explorer => DORA
16 Across: Patterned fabric => TOILE
17 Across: Authentic piece of a holy relic? => TRUETHORN
19 Across: Comedian Izzard => EDDIE
20 Across: Sound investments? => STEREOS
21 Across: Like some deliveries => SAMEDAY
23 Across: Indy guide => PACECAR
25 Across: She walked into Rick's gin joint => ILSA
26 Across: Disastrous => FATAL
29 Across: Comedian Garofalo => JANEANE
31 Across: Folk legend Phil => OCHS
32 Across: __ Jose => SAN
33 Across: Connects with => TIESTO
36 Across: Arles article => UNE
37 Across: __ West Records: Nashville label => NEW
38 Across: Rosy-fingered goddess who rises in the east => EOS
39 Across: AirPod spot => EAR
40 Across: Get back in business => REOPEN
42 Across: Product prefix that evokes winter => SNO
43 Across: Die down => WANE
44 Across: Herbie, in Disney films => LOVEBUG
46 Across: Outset => GETGO
47 Across: They don't last => FADS
49 Across: Part of Curaçao => CEDILLA
51 Across: Rather => INSTEAD
53 Across: Apparel brand with a spinnaker logo => NAUTICA
57 Across: Mesh => FITIN
58 Across: Biblical pronouns read by James Earl Jones? => DEEPTHOUS
60 Across: Red-pencil => EMEND
61 Across: December 24 and 31 => EVES
62 Across: At Last singer James => ETTA
63 Across: Georgia team, in sports headlines => DAWGS
64 Across: Take a chance => DARE
65 Across: Hoarse laugh => RASP

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Tiny colonists => ANTS
2 Down: Structural engineering piece => GIRT
3 Down: Chills and fever => AGUE
4 Down: Tibetan leaders => SHERPAS
5 Down: Specially formed => ADHOC
6 Down: Saskatchewan city with a 34-foot animal statue named Mac at its tourist info center => MOOSEJAW
7 Down: NHL great Bobby => ORR
8 Down: Dodge City native => KANSAN
9 Down: Up and __! => ATEM
10 Down: Cough medicine ingredient => CODEINE
11 Down: Place reserved for one reconciling a dispute? => MIDDLESEAT
12 Down: Inventor Howe => ELIAS
13 Down: Peace out => SEEYA
18 Down: Marsh duck => TEAL
22 Down: Schoolyard retort => ARETOO
24 Down: U.S. neighbor to the north => CAN
26 Down: One of two in Hank Aaron's uniform number => FOUR
27 Down: Proactiv+ target => ACNE
28 Down: Unwelcome leftovers? => THEOLDSTEW
30 Down: First words in an alphabet book => AIS
32 Down: Largest of New York's Finger Lakes => SENECA
34 Down: Tart taste => TANG
35 Down: Mega Stuf cookie => OREO
37 Down: Great Basin st. => NEV
38 Down: One may be civil => ENGINEER
41 Down: Message board item => POSTING
42 Down: South, in Avignon => SUD
43 Down: Local news segment => WEATHER
45 Down: Settled in for the night, with down => BEDDED
46 Down: Surfeit => GLUT
47 Down: Fluted on the march => FIFED
48 Down: Jungian inner self => ANIMA
50 Down: Momentary error => LAPSE
52 Down: Fades to black => ENDS
54 Down: Bit => IOTA
55 Down: Stops shooting => CUTS
56 Down: Stat! => ASAP
59 Down: Gabor of Green Acres => EVA

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This crossword has 38 across clues and 39 down clues. In total 77 clues are solved in the section above.
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