Crossword Answers For: Saturday, July 18, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Early finisher's luxury => TIMETOSPARE
12 Across: Word heard before a hike => HUT
15 Across: Paper Mate introduced one in 1979 => ERASABLEPEN
16 Across: Hearth debris => ASH
17 Across: Mock question of literacy => CANTYOUREAD
18 Across: Poe's __ Morgue => RUE
19 Across: Casual greeting => HEY
20 Across: Struggle with one's sins? => LISP
21 Across: Vicuña cousins => LLAMAS
23 Across: __ pit => MOSH
24 Across: Trap => PIEHOLE
25 Across: Set out => DEPART
28 Across: Relay => PASSON
29 Across: Some memory triggers => ODORS
30 Across: Polite gesture from Alice => CURTSYING
33 Across: Malicious gossip => DIRT
34 Across: Actions to avoid => DONTS
35 Across: The Hound of the Baskervilles setting => MOOR
36 Across: Trial results => DECISIONS
38 Across: Nobody Listens to __ Poundstone: comedy podcast => PAULA
39 Across: Not on the ball => UNWARY
40 Across: Spacely Space Sprockets employee => JETSON
41 Across: Some pending cases => APPEALS
43 Across: French bean? => TETE
44 Across: Twist in pain => WRITHE
45 Across: Play the sycophant to, with over => FAWN
46 Across: Ms. Pac-Man ghost => SUE
49 Across: Hedonist's goal => FUN
50 Across: Boss's unsettling request => IDLIKEAWORD
53 Across: A, to Amélie => UNE
54 Across: Barcelona star => LIONELMESSI
55 Across: __ Miz => LES
56 Across: Thurible go-with => INCENSEBOAT

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Modern fixer => TECH
2 Down: Hymn singer's wrath? => IRAE
3 Down: Loads => MANY
4 Down: Part of i.e. => EST
5 Down: Musical family including James and Livingston => TAYLORS
6 Down: One behind a violist, maybe => OBOIST
7 Down: Wintry nuisance => SLUSH
8 Down: BOLO target => PERP
9 Down: Clint's Clyde, in a 1978 movie => APE
10 Down: Dreamers' opposites => REALISTS
11 Down: Circular, in a way => ENDLESS
12 Down: Like Pentatonix numbers => HARMONIOUS
13 Down: Expected => USUAL
14 Down: What we have here => THESE
22 Down: Sailor's shout => AHOYMATE
23 Down: Strict disciplinarian => MARTINET
24 Down: Play things => PARTS
25 Down: __-Frank: 2010 financial reform bill => DODD
26 Down: Singer Brickell => EDIE
27 Down: Natural-born quillers? => PORCUPINES
28 Down: Like Nash poetry => PUNNY
30 Down: Brewery in Golden, Colorado => COORS
31 Down: Short court plea => NOLO
32 Down: Pop's ma => GRAN
34 Down: Focused => DIALEDIN
37 Down: One of Kenya's official languages => SWAHILI
38 Down: Honey or sugar => PETNAME
40 Down: The Dresden Green and The Graff Pink => JEWELS
41 Down: Not good at all => AWFUL
42 Down: Cut back => PRUNE
43 Down: Occupied => TAKEN
45 Down: Okay => FINE
46 Down: Just okay => SOSO
47 Down: Space bear => URSA
48 Down: Change the narrative? => EDIT
51 Down: Funky Cold Medina rapper Tone __ => LOC
52 Down: Pathological liar's creation => WEB

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This crossword has 33 across clues and 38 down clues. In total 71 clues are solved in the section above.
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