Crossword Answers For: Saturday, August 21, 2021

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Stamford-based humanitarian relief group => AMERICARES
11 Across: Model's makeup, maybe => CLAY
15 Across: Spot for a wistful stroll => MEMORYLANE
16 Across: Green target => HOLE
17 Across: Brilliance => PROMINENCE
18 Across: Tunnel diggers => ANTS
19 Across: Collect dust => SIT
20 Across: Tamboura kin => SITAR
21 Across: Buffy the Vampire Slayer spin-off => ANGEL
22 Across: Team apparel, informally => UNIS
24 Across: Covert ops outfit => CAMO
25 Across: One may be blank => STARE
26 Across: Mixes together => POOLS
28 Across: Not take well? => POACH
30 Across: Understand => GET
31 Across: Quick cuts => SNIPS
33 Across: Single-serving coffee units => KCUPPODS
35 Across: Curtains => DOOM
37 Across: Next in line => HEIR
38 Across: Decisive defeat => WATERLOO
42 Across: Condescend => STOOP
45 Across: Cooking student of Martha => INA
46 Across: Preserves, as beef => CORNS
48 Across: 1966 Literature Nobelist Nelly => SACHS
50 Across: Tenzing-Hillary Airport site => NEPAL
52 Across: Singer Lorde's given name => ELLA
54 Across: Rooney __, co-star of the 2015 film Carol => MARA
55 Across: Welcoming expression => SMILE
56 Across: Needle => TEASE
58 Across: Tandyr __: Central Asian flatbread => NAN
59 Across: Kick => BOOT
60 Across: It was fun! => WHATABLAST
62 Across: Subject of Huáscar => INCA
63 Across: Be totally stumped => HAVENOIDEA
64 Across: Part with teeth => GEAR
65 Across: Short-term bus purchase => ONEDAYPASS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Energizes => AMPSUP
2 Down: Sheep originating in Spain => MERINOS
3 Down: Joy, for one => EMOTION
4 Down: __-com => ROM
5 Down: Ring around a pupil => IRIS
6 Down: One whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be: Bierce => CYNIC
7 Down: Pub device => ALETAP
8 Down: Went wild => RANAMOK
9 Down: Cross a line one shouldn't cross => ENCROACH
10 Down: Take notice => SEE
11 Down: Lamasery music => CHANT
12 Down: Way back => LONGAGO
13 Down: Took in, say => ALTERED
14 Down: Sure, why not? => YESLETS
21 Down: Barbecue receptacles => ASHPITS
23 Down: What a coach's hands-down gesture may mean => SLIDE
27 Down: Trivia quiz site => SPORCLE
29 Down: Signals => CUES
32 Down: Flight school hurdle => SOLO
34 Down: Many a charity tournament => PROAM
36 Down: Over => MORETHAN
38 Down: Hits the jackpot => WINSBIG
39 Down: Buttercup cousin => ANEMONE
40 Down: Bubble tea ingredient => TAPIOCA
41 Down: Legally off base => ONLEAVE
43 Down: It precedes some puck drops => OCANADA
44 Down: Expresses appropriately => PHRASES
47 Down: Designated => SLATED
49 Down: Some mall hirees => SANTAS
51 Down: Site for a rite => ALTAR
53 Down: Corpse Pose, e.g. => ASANA
57 Down: Many a TikTok teen => EBOY
60 Down: Warm-hearted Seuss character => WHO
61 Down: __ out: hit the edge of the hole without going in, in golf => LIP

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This crossword has 36 across clues and 35 down clues. In total 71 clues are solved in the section above.
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