Crossword Answers For: Thursday, July 16, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Some munchies => CHIPS
6 Across: Asks to be excused, with off => BEGS
10 Across: Latin initialism on a cross => IHS
13 Across: WWII riveter => ROSIE
14 Across: Relating to body structure => ANATOMIC
16 Across: A step up from a carport, perhaps => UNHEATEDGARAGE
18 Across: Come to terms => SETTLE
19 Across: Electronic dance music genre => TECHNO
21 Across: Org. that's not lax at LAX => TSA
22 Across: Interval => LAPSE
26 Across: Space => GAP
27 Across: German brewing surname => STROH
30 Across: Common Korean surname => LEE
31 Across: Extremely dry => SERE
32 Across: Limitation-of-freedom metaphor => BALLANDCHAIN
36 Across: Doubled, perhaps => GOTAHIT
39 Across: Corrida figures => TOREROS
40 Across: Ding-a-ling or ding-dong => ONOMATOPOEIA
42 Across: Zilch => NADA
43 Across: Greater N.Y. school => LIU
44 Across: Orchestra section => BRASS
48 Across: Chicago airport code => ORD
49 Across: Golden Boy playwright => ODETS
51 Across: Hotel amenity => SPA
52 Across: President of Princeton, then the U.S. => WILSON
55 Across: Stride affectedly => SASHAY
58 Across: Literary genre often associated with the writer concealed in 16-, 32- and 40-Across => DETECTIVESTORY
62 Across: One happy to have no class? => GRADUATE
63 Across: Arabian, for one => HORSE
64 Across: DE Dec. setting => EST
65 Across: What might take a while? => ERST
66 Across: Fencing blades => EPEES

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Pizza party leftovers => CRUSTS
2 Down: Really => HONEST
3 Down: Eponymous goddess of a 1987 film flop => ISHTAR
4 Down: Painter Mondrian => PIET
5 Down: Stop from leaking => SEAL
6 Down: Sweetie, in recent slang => BAE
7 Down: Stop => END
8 Down: Joke => GAG
9 Down: Hawaii, e.g. => STATE
10 Down: Apple desktop => IMAC
11 Down: A condition of maximum activity => HIGHGEAR
12 Down: Hypothetical account => SCENARIO
15 Down: Kate Brown is its gov. => ORE
17 Down: Business card no. => TEL
20 Down: Bids first => OPENS
23 Down: Considered in full => ALLTOLD
24 Down: Tiny soup base => PEA
25 Down: Mailed, as invites => SENTOUT
28 Down: The Audacity of Hope author => OBAMA
29 Down: I'm amused => HAHA
31 Down: Gather wool from => SHEAR
33 Down: Set ablaze => LIT
34 Down: Female ruminant => DOE
35 Down: Nursery item => CRIB
36 Down: First big song success for The Moody Blues => GONOW
37 Down: Positioned for ambush, as in many Westerns => ONARIDGE
38 Down: Two-year-olds, say => TODDLERS
41 Down: Dessert choice => PIE
45 Down: Like sailors on leave => ASHORE
46 Down: Spread out => SPARSE
47 Down: Agree => SAYYES
49 Down: At the proper moment => ONCUE
50 Down: Montreal-to-Boston dir. => SSE
53 Down: RBI or ERA => STAT
54 Down: Venerable ref. => OED
56 Down: Queens tennis venue honoree => ASHE
57 Down: Where to get off => STOP
59 Down: Paving stuff => TAR
60 Down: __ nothing new => ITS
61 Down: Nov. honoree => VET

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This crossword has 32 across clues and 41 down clues. In total 73 clues are solved in the section above.
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