Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Letter from the IRS guaranteeing tax exempt status for the subordinate orgs. of your 501(c)(3) business (abbr.) => GEL
4 Across: Excellent addition to your flat => AIR
7 Across: Face-stuffing material handed out at your cousin's wedding, maybe => FARE
8 Across: Protective items that legionnaires once used that replaced the clipei they carried up to about 4 BC => SCUTA
11 Across: Widely known edible product that in 1983 was reformulated for use in Canada => HERSHEYBAR
13 Across: One who carried around a copy of the 1936 pamphlet Strategic Problems of China's Revolutionary War, for example => MAOIST
14 Across: Org. where filling out a Form 4868 can buy you some time => IRS
15 Across: What the $116 million shelled out in 2011 for Elizabeth Taylor's jewels got you => LOT
16 Across: Gives the nod to => OKS
17 Across: ___ Europe: provider of info, news and entertainment to US service personnel stationed in Europe since 1943 => AFN
18 Across: Items your pharmacist can provide that are just what the doctor ordered, for short => RXS
19 Across: Land border that was decided by the Korean Armistice Agreement and which is surrounded on either side by a buffer zone (abbr.) => MDL
20 Across: Film where Marion was shown flushing a toilet with its contents visible - a first in the US at the time => PSYCHO
23 Across: Brown girl or a guy who plays for the Tigers => IVYLEAGUER
25 Across: Mo's 42, but Al's only 13, for short => ATNOS
26 Across: Where (as of August 7) there is a 100 Acre Hemp & Hemp Seed license for sale for $5 million => EBAY
27 Across: Spirit, often a village guardian, worshiped in Myanmar Buddhism => NAT
28 Across: Karl, Herman, Joseph and Helen performed at Madison Square Garden in 1928 without this item that had been lost in transit => NET

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Greek primordial deity that was the ancestral mother of all life (var.) => GAEA
2 Down: Australian-born actor that Roman Polanski's 1986 film Pirates was intended to pay homage to => ERROLFLYNN
3 Down: Word derived from the Latin word for injury that my six year old might refer to as a boo-boo => LESION
4 Down: Egyptian goddess that the Greeks referred to as Isis, but the ancient Egyptians themselves referred to her as this => ASET
5 Down: The normal condition of Eisriesenwelt, located inside the Hochkogel mountain => ICY
6 Down: Very popular item that has 40,320 ways in which to arrange the corners => RUBIKSCUBE
7 Down: Men's magazine started in 1985 in the UK and reduced to a web only edition in 2015 => FHM
9 Down: Street car co. in Manhattan, the Bronx and lower Westchester County from 1852 until it was bought by the NYC Omnibus Corp. in '56 (abbr.) => TARS
10 Down: Bodyboarding trick that combines an El Rollo with a 360 spin while airborne (abbr.) => ARS
12 Down: Instrument that discovered Styx orbiting around Pluto in 2012 (abbr.) => HST
16 Down: Product of electrolysis as used on the ISS => OXYGEN
17 Down: Abbreviation frequently used by Madison Avenue types => ADVT
18 Down: Only African member of the G20 international forum, for short => RSA
19 Down: Better known name of LA's María de Lourdes Villiers Farrow who became a UNICEF International Ambassador in 2000 => MIA
20 Down: The Szechenyi Chain Bridge, constructed in 1849, went across the Danube to connect Buda with this city => PEST
21 Down: Saigon's first professional basketball team, founded in 2011 => HEAT
22 Down: Letters that might be on your luggage tag if you're headed for a vacation in Paris, maybe => ORY
24 Down: 270 mi. river that's the main watercourse in the Atacama Desert => LOA

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This crossword has 18 across clues and 19 down clues. In total 37 clues are solved in the section above.
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