Crossword Answers For: Monday, August 10, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Something that all the other runners appear to do, when racing with Usain => TROT
5 Across: The ___ Tunnel, under-river New Jersey Transit project started in 2009 and canceled in 2010 by Gov. Chris Christie => THE
8 Across: Colonel ___ Klebb, Bond's nemesis in From Russia, with Love => ROSA
9 Across: Text abbr. to use when asking someone their point of view => IYO
10 Across: Bears' Jimmy Graham and the Buccaneers' Rob Gronkowski, for two => TIGHTENDS
12 Across: Something Kentucky's Edgar Cayce may have heard once in a while => RAP
13 Across: The off-again, on-again (currently off!), Sunda Strait Bridge would have a 3 mile first span between Java and this island => ULAR
14 Across: Community on Ten. State Rte. 229, 14 mi. NW of Centerville that's misnamed due to the community on Missouri Route O, 3.5 mi. SSE of Macks Creek => ONLY
16 Across: Early escape the room game developed in 2001 using Adobe Flash (abbr.) => MOTAS
18 Across: Fossett, who was the first person to fly around the world alone, in 1995, covering 20,482.26 miles => STEVE
20 Across: What the minor league Modesto Athletics changed their name to in 2005 => NUTS
21 Across: The type of plane that United's flight attendants of the '70s intended to leave on, according to the TV ads => AJET
22 Across: Anglican org. founded in NY in 1873 and currently led by Presiding Bishop, The Most Rev. Dr. Ray R. Sutton (abbr.) => REC
23 Across: Questionable cache of cash, probably most useful during spring thaw => SLUSHFUND
26 Across: Result of a recent addition => SUM
27 Across: Gizmo used today instead of the traditional stones, sea shells, bones and beaver teeth the Kwakwaka'wakw once used for carving => ADZE
28 Across: Physicist Andre-Marie (1775–1836), known as the father of electrodynamics who had this electricall unit named after him, for short => AMP
29 Across: Company that in 1975, debuted the Short Shorts advertising campaign which went on to win a Clio Award => NAIR

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Field event included in the first modern Olympics in 1896, although women were only allowed to start competing 100 years later => TRIPLEJUMP
2 Down: Asus' brand of smartphones billed as being specifically for gaming enthusiasts => ROG
3 Down: ___Kosh B'gosh children's apparel company, founded in Wisconsin in 1895 and now HQed in Atlanta => OSH
4 Down: O'Neal, who wrote 2004's A Paper Life => TATUM
5 Down: Person who played Aunty Entity, the ruthless ruler of Bartertown => TINATURNER
6 Down: Staying in this condition could well prevent your eventual unfortunate demise due to hypernatremia => HYDRATED
7 Down: Roman: Aurora; Greek: ___ => EOS
10 Down: What the center of Kazakhstan's bimetallic 500-tenge coin was made of, up to 2014 => TANTALUM
11 Down: Name of the muskox sculpture that sits outside Yellowknife City Hall in Canada's Northwest Territories => ELON
12 Down: Edmundo ___ who had his Rumba Band in the '40s and '50s and eventually became an Officer of the Order of the British Empire => ROS
15 Down: Smith who produces the Naked Capitalism blog on finance, economics, politics and power => YVES
17 Down: Thrust___, the vehicle that holds the 763 mph world land speed record => SSC
19 Down: Actor ___ Peck, who will play the young Spock on the upcoming Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on CBS All Access => ETHAN
23 Down: Govt. agcy. that releases the annual most common newborn baby name list just prior to Mother's Day => SSA
24 Down: Org. founded in 1884 that will help you maintain that smile on your daily jog down Miami's beach => FDA
25 Down: Gun in a briefcase the US Secret Service VIP section once used => UZI

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This crossword has 18 across clues and 17 down clues. In total 35 clues are solved in the section above.
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