NewsDay Crossword Answers for 2017-08-26 – SATURDAY STUMPER

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All Across Clues and Answers:

1 Across – 2012 award for 6’4” Tina Charles
8 Across – Dominican dance style
15 Across – 1990s ”Princess of R&B”
16 Across – Vitamin D producer
17 Across – Passing remark
18 Across – Leaves home at home
19 Across – Ad __
20 Across – Part of an ’80s First Family
21 Across – Certain board member
22 Across – Beast on Michigan’s flag
23 Across – Team with a Conestoga wagon mascot
25 Across – Boasts
26 Across – What might hold back a dam
28 Across – Three-ingredient sandwich
29 Across – Bryant’s NBC successor (1997)
30 Across – ”Aww!”
32 Across – What Truman celebrated after three+ weeks as C.I.C.
34 Across – Emperor/poet/charioteer
35 Across – Ministered to
36 Across – __ coffee
39 Across – Do the twist
41 Across – Periodic payee
43 Across – ”Ex __ bona” (with honest intent)
46 Across – What many combs are made of
48 Across – Dr. King’s ”evil and dangerous force”
49 Across – Las Palmas, in L.A.
50 Across – Island named for Columbus’ brother
52 Across – Former title for 16 POTUSes
53 Across – Often-unhappy pedestrian
55 Across – Fearful feeling
56 Across – Long intro
57 Across – Bent out of shape
58 Across – Through all of history
60 Across – Teton Pass, e.g.
61 Across – Concertedly
62 Across – Renaissance pole weapon
63 Across – Outer layer of some rolls

All Down Clues and Answers:

1 Down – Rings in joints
2 Down – What Brits call ”vanilla slice”
3 Down – Hard-to-see transparent hazard
4 Down – Run the show
5 Down – Face on ”The Cat in the Hat” posters
6 Down – Word from the Spanish for ”let’s go”
7 Down – Remarkable rookie
8 Down – Tried to soften (up)
9 Down – Held securely
10 Down – Jeremy, in ”Reversal of Fortune”
11 Down – Fruit Punch, Grabbin’ Grape, etc.
12 Down – Crime writer’s award
13 Down – Negotiation tactic
14 Down – Speak to
24 Down – ”Of Mice and Men,” for example
27 Down – Practical __
29 Down – Perfume mentioned in Genesis
31 Down – Relocate from the road
33 Down – Oral Pathologist app seller
35 Down – Product of Navajo dough
37 Down – Not 100%
38 Down – Member of baseball’s All-Century Team
40 Down – Pointless statistic
41 Down – Coil
42 Down – At 100% again
43 Down – Opposite of ”gorge”
44 Down – Name atop the cover of ”Women Who Work” (2017)
45 Down – Redirect, as a conversation
47 Down – Spouts in a park, perhaps
50 Down – Allocation
51 Down – Also-ran to ”Birdman” for a 2014 Oscar
54 Down – . . . twins, __, lion . . .
59 Down – Part of a bar code?