Crossword Answers For: Friday, July 3, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Abate => EBB
4 Across: Brit. detective's rank => INSP
8 Across: Gastropod associated with traditional mail => SNAIL
13 Across: It may result in an RBI => DBL
14 Across: Staircase post => NEWEL
16 Across: Lead-in for jet or Tax => TURBO
17 Across: Horse sense? => EQUINEAWARENESS
20 Across: Tiny fraction of a min. => NSEC
21 Across: Gas pump choice => DIESEL
22 Across: Witness => SEE
23 Across: Cattle call? => BOVINESUMMONS
26 Across: Act part => SCENE
28 Across: Piper's son of rhyme => TOM
29 Across: Afflicted => ILL
30 Across: Force oneself (on) => IMPOSE
35 Across: Gds. => MDSE
39 Across: Cat's paw? => FELINEEXTREMITY
42 Across: Lob => TOSS
43 Across: Least strict => LAXEST
44 Across: Bread grain => RYE
45 Across: Actress Thurman => UMA
47 Across: ¿Cómo está __? => USTED
49 Across: Fox hole? => VULPINECAVITY
56 Across: Lincoln, familiarly => ABE
57 Across: Inventor Tesla => NIKOLA
58 Across: Austen's aspiring matchmaker => EMMA
61 Across: Hog wash? => PORCINEABLUTION
64 Across: Online financial services pioneer => ELOAN
65 Across: Nature's soft nurse, to Shakespeare => SLEEP
66 Across: You're __ me => NOT
67 Across: Wasp's assault => STING
68 Across: Collections => SETS
69 Across: MASH staff => DRS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Paradise => EDEN
2 Down: Backyard parties, briefly => BBQS
3 Down: Flowers named for their color => BLUEBELLS
4 Down: Place to stay => INN
5 Down: Then live, Macduff; what __ fear of thee?: Macbeth => NEEDI
6 Down: Suffix with boat or cox => SWAIN
7 Down: Small bird with a small-sounding name => PEWEE
8 Down: Sailor's guardian => STELMO
9 Down: Cloistered female => NUN
10 Down: Riposte to Am not! => ARESO
11 Down: A Doll's House dramatist => IBSEN
12 Down: Doesn't prevail => LOSES
15 Down: Highlands miss => LASS
18 Down: Wikipedia's globe, say => ICON
19 Down: News service since 1851 => REUTERS
24 Down: Blood carrier => VEIN
25 Down: Campbell jingle letters => MMMM
26 Down: Go (through) carefully => SIFT
27 Down: Egyptian queen, familiarly => CLEO
31 Down: Skin pigment => MELANIN
32 Down: Spherical legume => PEA
33 Down: Tic-tac-toe loser => OXX
34 Down: Jeanne d'Arc, e.g.: Abbr. => STE
36 Down: Lascivious mental state => DIRTYMIND
37 Down: Ophthalmologist's concern => STYE
38 Down: Looked at carefully => EYED
40 Down: Has arisen => ISUP
41 Down: Needle case => ETUI
46 Down: One of the 3M Company's M's, originally => MINING
48 Down: Editorial reconsideration word => STET
49 Down: Absorbs nicotine smokelessly => VAPES
50 Down: Letter-shaped fastener => UBOLT
51 Down: Vive __! => LEROI
52 Down: Manages to attain, with out => EKES
53 Down: Briquettes => COALS
54 Down: Edward who wrote Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? => ALBEE
55 Down: Parking lot employee => VALET
59 Down: Secure in a harbor => MOOR
60 Down: Hill-building insects => ANTS
62 Down: Soup holder => CAN
63 Down: Increases => UPS

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This crossword has 33 across clues and 42 down clues. In total 75 clues are solved in the section above.
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