Crossword Answers For: Saturday, August 22, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: NASCAR stat => MPH
4 Across: Afternoon entertainment staples => SOAPOPERAS
14 Across: Asia's __-Kum Desert => KARA
15 Across: Certain junkie's stimulus => ADRENALINE
16 Across: Slaughter on the diamond => ENOS
17 Across: One sharing a pedigree => LITTERMATE
18 Across: Frittata base => EGGS
19 Across: Inexperienced => UNSEASONED
20 Across: Combined => POOLED
22 Across: Belgian or brown => ALE
23 Across: Canonized pope known as The Great => STLEO
24 Across: Sea-__ => TAC
26 Across: Longtime New Yorker cartoonist Roz => CHAST
31 Across: Starbucks selection => CAFFEMOCHA
34 Across: Pi, for a circle with a radius of one => AREA
35 Across: Where the action in Chicago's County General Hospital took place => ONER
36 Across: Peripheral => OUTER
37 Across: Phooey! => RATS
38 Across: Folklore fiend => OGRE
39 Across: Folklore trickster => BRERRABBIT
41 Across: Gets rid of => LOSES
43 Across: Recognizes => IDS
44 Across: The Red House Mystery author => MILNE
45 Across: Delivery pros => OBS
47 Across: Truly! => HONEST
48 Across: Truly! => ICANNOTLIE
54 Across: Stadium ticket info => GATE
55 Across: Some white research subjects => ALBINOMICE
56 Across: Freudian subjects => EGOS
57 Across: Cosmetic coating => NAILENAMEL
58 Across: Little pig, maybe => RUNT
59 Across: Great places to make contact => SWEETSPOTS
60 Across: Match with chips => SEE

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Rhyming cocktail => MANGOTANGO
2 Down: Ones working on the links => PROGOLFERS
3 Down: Easy to use => HASSLEFREE
4 Down: Mexican toast => SALUD
5 Down: God played by Anthony Hopkins in Thor => ODIN
6 Down: Fine __ => ARTS
7 Down: H.S. instructors who show you the ropes? => PETEACHERS
8 Down: Inside the NBA analyst => ONEAL
9 Down: About 3.26 light-years => PARSEC
10 Down: Muppet who refers to himself in the third person => ELMO
11 Down: Knives Out writer/director Johnson => RIAN
12 Down: Required wager => ANTE
13 Down: Tournament position => SEED
14 Down: Doesn't freak out => KEEPSCOOL
21 Down: Fair-hiring letters => EOE
24 Down: Hotel handout => TOURISTMAP
25 Down: Didn't do nothing => ACTED
27 Down: Precursors => HARBINGERS
28 Down: Group that suspended Syria in 2011 => ARABLEAGUE
29 Down: Permanent => SETINSTONE
30 Down: Challenge often undertaken while blindfolded => TASTETEST
32 Down: Unruly group => MOB
33 Down: Talk Like a Pirate Day syllable => ARR
40 Down: Te __: Rihanna song => AMO
42 Down: Emma Lazarus' The New Colossus, e.g. => SONNET
46 Down: Godsends => BOONS
47 Down: Tips to one side => HEELS
48 Down: Olympic swimmers Crocker and Thorpe => IANS
49 Down: Arcade game grabber => CLAW
50 Down: Irish Rose's beau => ABIE
51 Down: Juba's river => NILE
52 Down: Long way to go? => LIMO
53 Down: Rapper-turned-actor => ICET

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This crossword has 33 across clues and 34 down clues. In total 67 clues are solved in the section above.
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