Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, April 8, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Continent with 11 time zones => ASIA
5 Across: Gift for a creative kid => ARTSET
11 Across: Slyly include in an email, for short => BCC
14 Across: Textile machine => LOOM
15 Across: Who __ thunk it? => WOULDA
16 Across: Significant time span => ERA
17 Across: Early stage of most tornados => FUNNELCLOUD
19 Across: Smallish batteries => AAS
20 Across: Knotted up => TIED
21 Across: Actress Basinger => KIM
22 Across: Former Clannad singer => ENYA
23 Across: Terrible twos, one hopes => PHASE
24 Across: Bikini Bottom fry cook => SPONGEBOB
27 Across: Pacific current => ELNINO
29 Across: Fan-cee! => OOLALA
30 Across: Curiosity org. => NASA
31 Across: Practitioner of total patient care => HOLIST
35 Across: Neon or Freon => GAS
36 Across: Common nickname for a redhead => CARROTTOP
39 Across: Oh, puh-leeze! => HAH
42 Across: Congregation leader => PASTOR
43 Across: Fail to include => OMIT
47 Across: Turkish inn => IMARET
49 Across: At full volume => ABLARE
51 Across: Hashtag symbol => POUNDSIGN
55 Across: Dog-__: folded at the corner => EARED
56 Across: Ward of Sisters => SELA
57 Across: SADD concern => DUI
58 Across: The Grouchy Ladybug writer Carle => ERIC
59 Across: Conan channel => TBS
60 Across: Easy-peasy ... or a hint to the start of 17-, 24-, 36- and 51-Across => PIECEOFCAKE
64 Across: Seine water => EAU
65 Across: Puts into law => ENACTS
66 Across: At once, in many poems => ANON
67 Across: Sales __ => REP
68 Across: Some digital watches => CASIOS
69 Across: Polliwog home => POND

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: ET from Melmac => ALF
2 Down: Watts Towers neighborhood, briefly => SOUTHLA
3 Down: Greek islanders of old => IONIANS
4 Down: Who am I? speaker, perhaps => AMNESIAC
5 Down: Leatherworking tool => AWL
6 Down: Is totally awesome => ROCKS
7 Down: Dutch flower => TULIP
8 Down: MLB replay aid => SLOMO
9 Down: College URL suffix => EDU
10 Down: Bit => TAD
11 Down: Pliable seat => BEANBAG
12 Down: Coloring name since 1903 => CRAYOLA
13 Down: Winter melons => CASABAS
18 Down: Paradise => EDEN
22 Down: Skinny swimmer => EEL
23 Down: Home near a barn => PEN
25 Down: Cosa __ => NOSTRA
26 Down: Show up for => GOTO
28 Down: Darn it all => OHRATS
32 Down: Surg. centers => ORS
33 Down: Used car site => LOT
34 Down: Who am __ judge? => ITO
37 Down: Pretended to be => APED
38 Down: Icy end-of-the-world region => POLARCAP
39 Down: Trendy type often parodied on Portlandia => HIPSTER
40 Down: Slide organisms => AMOEBAE
41 Down: Calls on the carpet => HAULSUP
44 Down: Rivera in Cooperstown => MARIANO
45 Down: Seems to me, in dialect => IRECKON
46 Down: Danson of The Good Place => TED
48 Down: Genetic messenger initials => RNA
50 Down: Most steaks => BEEF
52 Down: Notions => IDEAS
53 Down: Fashion brand identified by interlocking G's => GUCCI
54 Down: 2012-'18 Mexican president => NIETO
60 Down: Push-up target, for short => PEC
61 Down: __ bind: stuck => INA
62 Down: CIA forerunner => OSS
63 Down: Close => END

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This crossword has 37 across clues and 40 down clues. In total 77 clues are solved in the section above.
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