Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Half a poverty-to-wealth metaphor => RAGS
5 Across: Shows affection, dog-style => LICKS
10 Across: Amt. rarely paid by a car buyer => MSRP
14 Across: Came down => ALIT
15 Across: Puget Sound, e.g. => INLET
16 Across: Elevator name => OTIS
17 Across: Building emergency exit => FIREESCAPE
19 Across: Takes too much for oneself => HOGS
20 Across: Natural skill => TALENT
21 Across: Ark landing site: Abbr. => MTARARAT
23 Across: P&L part => LOSS
25 Across: Injure badly => MAIM
26 Across: Pay => WAGES
29 Across: Letters at the end of a proof => QED
32 Across: Fish with a net => TRAWL
35 Across: German gent => HERR
36 Across: Stalin-era prisons => GULAGS
38 Across: Green acres => LEA
39 Across: Some nest egg components => IRAS
40 Across: Only monosyllabic U.S. state => MAINE
41 Across: Weighty Brit. references => OEDS
42 Across: Tease => RIB
43 Across: Ars Poetica poet => HORACE
44 Across: Craving => URGE
45 Across: Time off => LEAVE
47 Across: From S.F. to Vegas => ESE
48 Across: Aquarium cutie => OTTER
49 Across: Math subj. => CALC
51 Across: Palm starch => SAGO
53 Across: Spring Symphony composer => SCHUMANN
57 Across: Be released => GOFREE
61 Across: West Virginia resource => COAL
62 Across: They're holstered in old Westerns => LOADEDGUNS
64 Across: Forget to include => OMIT
65 Across: Connoisseur => MAVEN
66 Across: Provide the bank blueprints for, say => ABET
67 Across: Even civil ones aren't friendly => WARS
68 Across: Bedding component => SHEET
69 Across: Flu fighters => SERA

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Finn conveyance => RAFT
2 Down: Et __: and others => ALIA
3 Down: Atta __! => GIRL
4 Down: Heinz Field NFL team => STEELERS
5 Down: Grocery shoppers' aids => LISTS
6 Down: Ltd. relative => INC
7 Down: Refuse to talk, with up => CLAM
8 Down: Didn't give away => KEPT
9 Down: Iron output => STEAM
10 Down: Angora goat fabric => MOHAIR
11 Down: Severe weather warning => STORMALERT
12 Down: Latvian capital => RIGA
13 Down: Sibilant Hey! => PSST
18 Down: First chimp in orbit => ENOS
22 Down: Peanuts word of frustration => RATS
24 Down: With 31-Down, hoedown activities, and a hint to the circled letters => SQUARE
26 Down: Pirouette => WHIRL
27 Down: Elevated dwelling => AERIE
28 Down: Sit, sit => GRABACHAIR
30 Down: Sports bureau co-founder Al or Walter => ELIAS
31 Down: See 24-Down => DANCES
33 Down: Golfer's pitching club => WEDGE
34 Down: Surgical cutter => LASER
36 Down: Controversial crop alteration, for short => GMO
37 Down: Golly! => GEE
41 Down: Too tired to go further => OUTOFGAS
43 Down: Big wheel on a ship => HELM
46 Down: Gymnast's jumps => VAULTS
48 Down: Prayer opener => OGOD
50 Down: Settles => CALMS
52 Down: Contract negotiator => AGENT
53 Down: Flat-bottomed garbage hauler => SCOW
54 Down: Deep sleep => COMA
55 Down: Builder who lived to be 950 => NOAH
56 Down: Central church part => NAVE
58 Down: Cartoonist Goldberg => RUBE
59 Down: The E in DOE: Abbr. => ENER
60 Down: Spanish pronoun => ESTA
63 Down: Actress Wallace of E.T. => DEE

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This crossword has 39 across clues and 40 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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