Crossword Answers For: Thursday, October 22, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Radio toggle => AMFM
5 Across: A minor, for one => CHORD
10 Across: Animal shelter sight => CAGE
14 Across: Big do => GALA
15 Across: Place where fast bucks are made => RODEO
16 Across: Team that pulls for its driver => OXEN
17 Across: Delivery made by mouth => ORALREPORT
19 Across: Tear apart => REND
20 Across: Showing shock => AGASP
21 Across: Squalid quarters => RATHOLE
23 Across: Surrealist Tanguy => YVES
25 Across: Color in four-color printing => CYAN
26 Across: Open, in a way => UNCAP
29 Across: Fraternal order member since 1868 => ELK
31 Across: Blocks that lock => LEGOS
35 Across: Like a pendulum's motion => TOANDFRO
37 Across: Light at some roller rinks => STROBE
38 Across: Critical hosp. area => ICU
39 Across: Going up in smoke => AFIRE
41 Across: Ref. whose first edition took decades to complete => OED
42 Across: One of the Magi => CASPAR
45 Across: Sidewall-sharing abode => ROWHOUSE
48 Across: Warn => ALERT
49 Across: Business VIP => CEO
50 Across: Engrave? => INTER
51 Across: Scintilla => IOTA
53 Across: Carry-on item => TOTE
55 Across: With 58-Across, cardio exercise ... and what's hidden in three puzzle rows? => JUMPING
58 Across: See 55-Across => JACKS
61 Across: Court loser, maybe => PERP
62 Across: You had your chance => TOOLATENOW
65 Across: What a slight favorite has => EDGE
66 Across: Satchel Paige's first name => LEROY
67 Across: The Big Easy, informally => NOLA
68 Across: Motley => PIED
69 Across: Shangri-las => EDENS
70 Across: Pairs => TWOS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: In the past => AGO
2 Down: Mary Magdalene star Rooney __ => MARA
3 Down: Symbol on a pole => FLAG
4 Down: Kuala Lumpur native => MALAYAN
5 Down: Thin pancake => CREPE
6 Down: Old school dance => HOP
7 Down: Sign of some gas leaks => ODOR
8 Down: Set up again, as pool balls => RERACK
9 Down: Slightly touched => DOTTY
10 Down: Forensic team member => CORONER
11 Down: Feat on ice => AXEL
12 Down: Code carrier => GENE
13 Down: Close => END
18 Down: Got back to, in a way => RSVPD
22 Down: Stop => HALT
24 Down: Feudal laborer => SERF
26 Down: Erie Canal city => UTICA
27 Down: Diet drink spec => NOCAL
28 Down: Something to believe in => CAUSE
30 Down: Longest river in France => LOIRE
32 Down: Date, with with => GOOUT
33 Down: More than a little plump => OBESE
34 Down: Meal with matzo => SEDER
36 Down: A long way => FAR
37 Down: Verb that becomes its homophone by changing its vowel => SEW
40 Down: Trunk supporter => ROOT
43 Down: Groomed oneself fastidiously => PRIMPED
44 Down: At the pinnacle of => ATOP
46 Down: Try to belt => HITAT
47 Down: Words engraved under the Lincoln Memorial? => ONECENT
49 Down: Paddled, perhaps => CANOED
52 Down: Book list listing => TITLE
54 Down: Love Train singers, with The => OJAYS
55 Down: Sci-fi good guys => JEDI
56 Down: Encourage => URGE
57 Down: It's My Party singer Lesley => GORE
59 Down: Recognize => KNOW
60 Down: Without help => SOLO
61 Down: Word with rally or talk => PEP
63 Down: Actor Chaney => LON
64 Down: Where __ I? => WAS

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This crossword has 37 across clues and 42 down clues. In total 79 clues are solved in the section above.
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