Crossword Answers For: Sunday, August 16, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Prepare for sushi, in a way => CHOP
5 Across: Experienced => OLD
8 Across: Milk's Favorite Cookie => OREO
12 Across: __ light => IDIOT
17 Across: Nevada casino city => RENO
18 Across: Taro paste => POI
19 Across: La. or Dak., once => TERR
20 Across: Parodies => SENDUPS
23 Across: The ad said seasonal work ... and we got an __! => EXECUTIVECHEF
26 Across: Island wine => MADEIRA
27 Across: Ewoks' forest moon => ENDOR
28 Across: Asian New Year => TET
29 Across: Did very well in => ACED
31 Across: Fan => ROOTER
32 Across: Turned up ground => DUG
33 Across: One of two presidents between a James and an Andrew => ABE
35 Across: ... flexible hours ... and we got a __! => CONTORTIONIST
38 Across: Team that's won six Super Bowls => STEELERS
41 Across: NFL linemen => RGS
42 Across: Open court hearing, in law => OYER
43 Across: __ the ramparts ... => OER
44 Across: Cape Town's home: Abbr. => RSA
45 Across: Songwriter Redding => OTIS
47 Across: Rescue plea => SOS
48 Across: Start to build a pot => ANTE
49 Across: Prohibition => BAN
51 Across: Programming classroom => PCLAB
53 Across: Tuneful => MELODIC
56 Across: ... fast-paced environment ... and we got a __! => RACECARDRIVER
59 Across: Fitting tightly => NESTING
63 Across: Boomerang's path => ARC
64 Across: Natural soother => ALOE
65 Across: Bearded flower => IRIS
67 Across: Tootsy protector => BOOTEE
68 Across: Haphazard application => SMEAR
70 Across: ... good driving record ... and we got a __! => PROGOLFER
74 Across: Bodybuilder's asset => BRAWN
75 Across: In single file => TANDEM
77 Across: Wind catcher => SAIL
78 Across: Very small amount => IOTA
80 Across: Protective shelter => LEE
81 Across: Horns usually shed once a year => ANTLERS
83 Across: ... high-energy position ... and we got a __! => TRAPEZEARTIST
87 Across: Covered, in a way => INSURED
89 Across: Caper film subject => HEIST
90 Across: Eat Better, Eat Together mo. => OCT
91 Across: Door support => JAMB
94 Across: One living an orderly life? => NUN
95 Across: Poetic period => MORN
96 Across: Hard pull => TUG
98 Across: Opposite of WSW => ENE
99 Across: Carp family fish => CHUB
101 Across: Fifth-century invader => HUN
102 Across: Smoke dispensers, at times => GRENADES
107 Across: ... service-minded attitude ... and we got a __! => WORSHIPLEADER
111 Across: Be mistaken => ERR
112 Across: __ Been Thinking About You: 1991 #1 hit => IVE
113 Across: Copy __ => EDITOR
114 Across: Author Bagnold => ENID
115 Across: Long-bodied fish => EEL
117 Across: A channel may lead to one => INLET
119 Across: Shaving cream additive => LANOLIN
121 Across: ... strong verbal skills and we got a __! => DRILLSERGEANT
124 Across: Ljubljana language => SLOVENE
125 Across: Honoring verses => ODES
126 Across: Word between two cards? => ANY
127 Across: Germany's von Bismarck => OTTO
128 Across: Coat material => SERGE
129 Across: Microsoft product => WORD
130 Across: Versatile truck, informally => UTE
131 Across: Loch with a legend => NESS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Statements of faith => CREEDS
2 Down: Six-sided fastener => HEXNUT
3 Down: Keyed up => ONEDGE
4 Down: Musical modifier => POCO
5 Down: Make a choice => OPT
6 Down: Linger idly => LOITER
7 Down: __ bar => DIVE
8 Down: Non-Rx => OTC
9 Down: Puts back up => REHANGS
10 Down: Sets upright => ERECTS
11 Down: Gluck's __ ed Euridice => ORFEO
12 Down: Belief system => ISM
13 Down: Sweetheart => DEARIE
14 Down: Like some sports => INDOOR
15 Down: Ancient music hall => ODEON
16 Down: School income source => TUITION
21 Down: Program in advance => PRESET
22 Down: Hell is other people French dramatist => SARTRE
24 Down: Eurasian range => URALS
25 Down: Yada, yada, yada letters => ETC
30 Down: Visibly anticipate, with over => DROOL
34 Down: Little help here, bud? => BEAPAL
36 Down: African antelope => ORIBI
37 Down: Iron Mike in the ring => TYSON
39 Down: Coastal bird => ERNE
40 Down: Does a metalworking job => SOLDERS
46 Down: Sailor => TAR
47 Down: Letter embellishment => SERIF
48 Down: One given the part => ACTOR
49 Down: Drink mixer, in Manchester => BARMAN
50 Down: Stress => ACCENT
52 Down: Farm product => CROP
53 Down: Reagle of Wordplay => MERL
54 Down: Nebraska senator Fischer => DEB
55 Down: Weather map line => ISOBAR
56 Down: Bob Marley, e.g. => RASTA
57 Down: Sway on a curve => CAREEN
58 Down: Common quartet instrument => VIOLA
60 Down: Emphatic type => ITALIC
61 Down: Late to the max => NEWEST
62 Down: The Balcony playwright => GENET
66 Down: Taking with force => SEIZING
69 Down: Deliver spontaneously => ADLIB
71 Down: Like granola bars => OATEN
72 Down: Surround => GIRD
73 Down: Small deer => ROES
76 Down: __ Puff: SpongeBob's driving teacher => MRS
79 Down: Shred => TATTER
82 Down: Something to crow about? => SUNUP
84 Down: Cell, nowadays => PHONE
85 Down: Always, to a poet => EER
86 Down: Cover-up in Nero's time => TOGA
88 Down: Russian note => RUBLE
91 Down: Royal ornaments => JEWELS
92 Down: Of a battery terminal => ANODAL
93 Down: Sources of fine wool => MERINOS
95 Down: Less clear => MUDDIER
97 Down: Strip of equipment => UNRIG
99 Down: Anger => CHOLER
100 Down: Putting on the payroll => HIRING
101 Down: Job for a stylist => HAIRDO
103 Down: Let up => RELENT
104 Down: Pupils do it in the dark => DILATE
105 Down: They happen => EVENTS
106 Down: Brief scuffles => SETTOS
108 Down: Franklin's burned wood => STOVE
109 Down: Provide with funding => ENDOW
110 Down: Member of the fam. => REL
116 Down: Name possibly derived from the Arabic for hairy => ESAU
118 Down: Colorless gas for colorful signs => NEON
120 Down: Born, in Brest => NEE
122 Down: Acid => LSD
123 Down: Pumpernickel grain => RYE

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This crossword has 71 across clues and 74 down clues. In total 145 clues are solved in the section above.
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