Crossword Answers For: Sunday, September 27, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Piece of covert communication => CODEWORD
9 Across: Easy-to-apply tie => CLIPON
15 Across: The Phantom Menace, in the Star Wars series => EPISODEI
16 Across: Entertain with tales => REGALE
17 Across: Lower-body exercise on a machine => LEGPRESS
18 Across: Words on an Election Day sticker => IVOTED
19 Across: Hosp. areas => ERS
20 Across: Approx. => EST
21 Across: In memoriam notice => OBIT
22 Across: Activity with a rubber ducky, perhaps => BATH
24 Across: Me day retreats => SPAS
26 Across: Face-___ (confrontations) => OFFS
30 Across: Bogarts => HOGS
33 Across: Volcanic residue => ASH
34 Across: With 28-Down, mani-pedi tools => NAIL
35 Across: Modest sound protection from a noisy downstairs neighbor, say => CARPET
37 Across: Word pluralized by adding a c between its final two letters => DIE
38 Across: Fashion mag with a French name => ELLE
39 Across: Word after ages or a long time => AGO
40 Across: Can't-miss => MUSTSEE
43 Across: Harper who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird => LEE
44 Across: General takeover? => COUP
46 Across: Homer Simpson's Dang! => DOH
47 Across: Worker who's on key? => TYPIST
49 Across: Best Picture winner set in Iran => ARGO
50 Across: Flatow or Glass on the airwaves => IRA
51 Across: Nicolas's The Rock co-star => SEAN
52 Across: Island with four interstates (H-1, H-2, H-3, and H-201) => OAHU
53 Across: Kanye West/Jay-Z single inspired by a classic soul singer => OTIS
55 Across: Community whose rights against workplace discrimination were recently affirmed by SCOTUS => LGBT
58 Across: Pedi targets => TOES
60 Across: Activity that might prompt someone to say, Get a room => PDA
63 Across: Do for Angela Davis => FRO
64 Across: Big figure in Giza => SPHINX
67 Across: Extralegal dealings => FOULPLAY
69 Across: Sit on it? => HEINIE
70 Across: Escalation between nations => ARMSRACE
71 Across: Yada yada yada => ETCETC
72 Across: Brought back, as a film or TV series => REBOOTED

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: A-lister => CELEB
2 Down: Met work => OPERA
3 Down: *Scours, as a pile of clothing => DIGSTHROUGH
4 Down: Ability debunked by parapsychological experiments, for short => ESP
5 Down: Sported => WORE
6 Down: Many Neruda poems => ODES
7 Down: Takes five => RESTS
8 Down: Negating prefix => DIS
9 Down: *Unauthorized test aids => CRIBSHEETS
10 Down: Zachary who played Chuck => LEVI
11 Down: My turn to tell a joke => IGOTONE
12 Down: Modest butter portion => PAT
13 Down: Chant after a goal, perhaps => OLE
14 Down: ___ Schneebly (School of Rock character) => NED
21 Down: Sweet sight in a desert => OASIS
23 Down: Move like a kangaroo => HOP
25 Down: *Entree with bean sprouts => PADTHAI
27 Down: Failing utterly ... or a British hint to the starts of the answers to the starred clues? => FALLINGFLAT
28 Down: See 34-Across => FILES
29 Down: Wintry precipitation => SLEET
31 Down: Hidden ___ (insight from a local) => GEM
32 Down: *Bigwig in Tinseltown => STUDIOEXEC
35 Down: Chocolate source => CACAO
36 Down: Ancient market => AGORA
41 Down: Alphabetizes, perhaps => SORTS
42 Down: Giant feature of a giant squid => EYE
45 Down: Gravy-topped Canadian dish => POUTINE
48 Down: Buddy => PAL
54 Down: Fungal particle => SPORE
56 Down: Get ready for a shock => BRACE
57 Down: Fiddled (with) => TOYED
59 Down: Consider that task done! => ONIT
61 Down: Inane => DUMB
62 Down: Furthermore => ALSO
64 Down: ___/her => SHE
65 Down: Family member that's not related by birth => PET
66 Down: Fruit drink with a hyphenated name => HIC
67 Down: Distant => FAR
68 Down: Intending to vote yea => PRO

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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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