Crossword Answers For: Sunday, August 9, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Savvy => SHREWD
7 Across: Degrees for corp. execs => MBAS
11 Across: Grates on => GALLS
16 Across: Couples' refuge? => ARK
19 Across: Come to a boil => SEETHE
20 Across: __ of office => OATH
21 Across: They have Mystery and Birthday Cake varieties => OREOS
22 Across: It's tipped in a parlor => CUE
23 Across: Appreciative freeloaders? => GRATEFULDEADBEATS
26 Across: English cathedral town => ELY
27 Across: Early mobile home? => TEPEE
28 Across: Merged telecom co. => GTE
29 Across: Brie coverings => RINDS
30 Across: Poems that glorify => ODES
31 Across: Entrust, as authority => DELEGATE
35 Across: Little bitty bits => ATOMS
37 Across: World conference participants? => TALKINGHEADSOFSTATE
43 Across: Platte River valley native => PAWNEE
45 Across: Spherical opening? => HEMI
46 Across: Crews of America's Got Talent => TERRY
47 Across: __ something I said? => ISIT
48 Across: __ set => DESK
52 Across: Bad way to come on => STRONG
56 Across: Garfield's foil => ODIE
57 Across: 1993 Oscar nominee Rosie => PEREZ
59 Across: Longtime SeaWorld star => SHAMU
61 Across: Proof of ownership => DEED
63 Across: 'Neath opposite => OER
64 Across: Taco topping => SALSA
65 Across: There's snowplace like home or I only have ice for you? => COLDPLAYONWORDS
69 Across: FedEx alternative => UPS
71 Across: NFL's Gronk and others => TES
72 Across: Special __ => OPS
73 Across: Vietnam holiday => TET
74 Across: Writing that's both flowery and thoughtful? => DEEPPURPLEPROSE
80 Across: Sketch starter => ETCHA
84 Across: U.K. locale => EUR
85 Across: Tolstoy title name => ANNA
86 Across: Goofs around => IDLES
87 Across: B in chemistry => BORON
88 Across: Spare tire, perhaps => FLAB
90 Across: Nausea novelist => SARTRE
93 Across: Court cry => OYEZ
95 Across: Grade => MARK
96 Across: Sunset dirección => OESTE
98 Across: Fictional captain with the middle name Tiberius => KIRK
100 Across: Hebrew prophet => ISAIAH
102 Across: Time anticipated by environmentalists? => GREENDAYOFRECKONING
109 Across: Time-honored words => ADAGE
110 Across: It may be requested before a sentence => LENIENCE
111 Across: Much junk mail => SPAM
114 Across: WWI battle river => SOMME
116 Across: Time of preparation => EVE
117 Across: Take effect => SETIN
122 Across: Old Mideast alliance: Abbr. => UAR
123 Across: Bad dream about Cerberus? => THREEDOGNIGHTMARE
127 Across: USMA part, briefly => MIL
128 Across: Beloved 1981 bride => DIANA
129 Across: Memo letters => ATTN
130 Across: Silver State NFLer => RAIDER
131 Across: Sign of a hit => SRO
132 Across: Bier holder => STEIN
133 Across: Aussie hoppers => ROOS
134 Across: Dakota del Norte, por ejemplo => ESTADO

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Marines NCO => SSGT
2 Down: Over __! => HERE
3 Down: Gather => REAP
4 Down: Major suffix => ETTE
5 Down: Cajole => WHEEDLE
6 Down: Rapper Mos __ => DEF
7 Down: Like lava => MOLTEN
8 Down: Troublemaker => BADEGG
9 Down: Absorbed, as a cost => ATE
10 Down: Doo-wop syllable => SHA
11 Down: Silk Road desert => GOBI
12 Down: Big sporting spots => ARENAS
13 Down: Bring about => LEADTO
14 Down: Much => LOTSOF
15 Down: Sound from a flat => SSS
16 Down: Breezed through => ACED
17 Down: __ of thumb => RULE
18 Down: Florida attraction => KEYS
24 Down: Hybrid citrus => UGLI
25 Down: Fantasized => DREAMT
30 Down: Bony prefix => OSTEO
32 Down: Just managed, with out => EKED
33 Down: This is so relaxing! => AHH
34 Down: Gets ready to drive => TEESUP
36 Down: Winter setting in the Rockies: Abbr. => MST
37 Down: Show off a new outfit, say => TWIRL
38 Down: Pays to play => ANTESUP
39 Down: Film set VIP => DIR
40 Down: Passion => ARDOR
41 Down: Gave it a whirl => TRIED
42 Down: Watchful ones => EYERS
43 Down: Lollapaloozas => PIPS
44 Down: In the Black? => ASEA
49 Down: Top row keyboard key => ESC
50 Down: Had success on the links => SHOTPAR
51 Down: Clark Kent, on Krypton => KALEL
53 Down: Post-Trojan War epic => ODYSSEY
54 Down: Prefix with con => NEO
55 Down: Fellow => GENT
58 Down: Frank of avant-garde rock => ZAPPA
60 Down: Whse. inventory => MDSE
62 Down: Geeky sort => DWEEB
66 Down: Voldemort's title => LORD
67 Down: Skating gold medalist Ohno => APOLO
68 Down: Certain footrest => OTTOMAN
70 Down: Pacific Division NBA team => SUNS
74 Down: Clear, as a windshield => DEFOG
75 Down: Calculus pioneer => EULER
76 Down: Clear the board => ERASE
77 Down: Genetic material => RNA
78 Down: Curie or Cardin => PIERRE
79 Down: Houston-to-Miami dir. => ESE
81 Down: Restaurant critic Claiborne => CRAIG
82 Down: Raised-chair dance => HORA
83 Down: Sarcophagus symbol => ANKH
89 Down: Second-stringers => BTEAM
91 Down: Ring ref's decision => TKO
92 Down: Ransacked => RIFLED
94 Down: #30 on a table => ZINC
97 Down: Last word, say => END
99 Down: Author Kesey => KEN
101 Down: Tabasco time-outs => SIESTAS
103 Down: Brit's rats? => DASHIT
104 Down: Greek markets => AGORAE
105 Down: Mocha native => YEMENI
106 Down: Grado de examen perfecto => CIENTO
107 Down: Bacon and Smith => KEVINS
108 Down: 10 C-notes => ONEG
111 Down: Adding results => SUMS
112 Down: Couple => PAIR
113 Down: 1968 self-named folk album => ARLO
115 Down: Have in mind => MEAN
118 Down: Send out => EMIT
119 Down: Done! => TADA
120 Down: Ticked off => IRED
121 Down: Roman ruler of ill repute => NERO
123 Down: NFL scores => TDS
124 Down: Dinghy mover => OAR
125 Down: Muscle car in a '60s hit => GTO
126 Down: Where Charlemagne reigned: Abbr. => HRE

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This crossword has 64 across clues and 81 down clues. In total 145 clues are solved in the section above.
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