Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: If you were an ancient Mayan, you'd likely call on this deity before you get your ritual tattoo => ACAT
5 Across: Kind of 'do it's really tough to wear a beanie with => FRO
8 Across: Louis or Pieter Willem, South Africa's first or last Prime Ministers => BOTHA
10 Across: Alternate name for the chemical Daminozide, used as a pesticide on fruit until banned by the EPA in 1989 => ALAR
11 Across: Like the shows Here's Where I Belong in '68 and La Strada in '69, both of which lasted one night on Broadway => AWFUL
12 Across: Something the Giants did 11 times against the Ravens in Super Bowl XXXV => PUNT
13 Across: Chi ___, who played Captain Lou Grover on CBS' Hawaii Five-0 => MCBRIDE
15 Across: City founded in 1300 where you can now walk across The Zubizuri, opened in 1997 => BILBAO
18 Across: President Trump is the first president in over 100 years not to have one of these => DOG
19 Across: Number of national parks where you can still see the Javan rhinoceros => ONE
20 Across: One of the four fundamental states of matter => PLASMA
22 Across: Item, often made of obsidian, that was used in performing craniotomies in ancient Anatolia, about 4000 BC => SCALPEL
24 Across: One way to cook corn on the cob without fussing with the husk and silk, slangily => NUKE
25 Across: Usually triangular sign that lets you know that the other driver can go first => YIELD
29 Across: British all-terrain vehicle that comes complete or in kit form or customized to your specifications => IBEX
30 Across: Country currently under the leadership of Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli => NEPAL
31 Across: Helpful word that could be proceeded by Farm, Band or first => AID
32 Across: Nickname of Luís Carlos Almeida da Cunha, currently captain of Orlando City SC of MLS => NANI

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Semi-pro org. where the South Florida Gold, South Phoenix Knights and South Bend Monarchs all play (abbr.) => ABA
2 Down: Beast that according to the Mahabharata is to be treated with the same respect as one's mother => COW
3 Down: DOJ org. that was involved with Operation Fast and Furious and Operation Wide Receiver (abbr.) => ATF
4 Down: Something that's opposable for all of us => THUMB
5 Down: Remedies for a victim of dehydration => FLUIDS
6 Down: Village of ___ Lake, Sheboygan County, WI, which seems to have popped up in an entirely unpredictable way => RANDOM
7 Down: Alt. Highway name for Orange County's Rte 74 named after the Spanish explorer who led the scouts of the 1769 Portola expedition => ORTEGA
9 Down: Cartoonist that received the NCS' Reuben Award in 1947 and the Elzie Segar Award, posthumously in 1979 => ALCAPP
10 Down: This may be quite high for your new car buy, ever since you defaulted on that new large screen TV purchase => APR
14 Down: Anne, Elizabeth I's mom => BOLEYN
15 Down: Banja Luka, on the Vrbas River, is this area's second-largest city => BOSNIA
16 Down: Legendary evil spirits, at times imagined during periods of sleep paralysis and hypnagogia => INCUBI
17 Down: What the CIA's Joshua Adam Schulte did with documents he had access to in March 2016 => LEAKED
21 Down: The claimants in the 1955 Kelly-Hopkinsville encounter supposedly saw one of these around their farmhouse => ALIEN
23 Down: Name of the worm mascot of PopCap Games' Bookworm => LEX
26 Down: Org. that earned a D (67 out of a possible 100) on the 2015 Center for Effective Government analysis => EPA
27 Down: Measurement that in Poland used to be equal to 43.2 morgs if it was greater or only 30 morgs if it was lesser => LAN
28 Down: Subunit of the DOD that provides linguistic and cultural instruction to agencies and customers on a global basis (abbr.) => DLI

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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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