Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Co. formed in April 1909 under the leadership of Lord Strathcona that became BP in 1954 (abbr.) => APOC
5 Across: Something that you can see at Flushing Meadows => SET
8 Across: Swimmer Torres who amassed 4 gold, 4 silver and 4 bronze Olympic medals in 5 Olympic games => DARA
9 Across: High Priest of Amun, buried in Thebes, when Ramesses II died => ROMA
10 Across: What the group composed of Otis Williams, Al Bryant, Melvin Franklin, Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams were good at singing => SOULMUSIC
12 Across: What SMS, MMS and data access, now core services for cell phones, were considered a decade ago (abbr.) => VAS
13 Across: Items which could be rational, complex, real and even negative, for short => NOS
15 Across: Something that cruciverbalists experience every time a print deadline is looming => STRESS
18 Across: Only bird that has calf muscles => EMU
19 Across: Where the Basilica of Bom Jesus is located => GOA
20 Across: The Canadian Navy caused an uproar last month in announcing that this rank would be renamed to be more gender neutral => SEAMAN
22 Across: Either the 514 mile long tributary of the Ob, or the 269 mile long tributary of the Zeya => TOM
23 Across: ___ Be Gone in the Dark true crime documentary series that premiered on June 28, 2020, on HBO => ILL
24 Across: This September will mark the 400th anniversary of the departure of this ship on its hazardous ten week journey => MAYFLOWER
29 Across: Gordon, ESPN and Globe former reporter covering the Boston Red Sox and now official Red Sox historian => EDES
30 Across: How your three year old might describe the spot you slapped a Paw Patrol Band-Aid on after pulling out the sliver => OWIE
31 Across: Mountains to the north of the North China Plain in the province of Hebei => YAN
32 Across: 7 scrolls in jars in the cave above Khirbet Qumran, to an unidentified Bedouin shepherd 1947 => FIND

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Acronym for the non-lethal, directed-energy weapon developed by the U.S. military also known informally as the heat ray => ADS
2 Down: DOD person who preps info for release, manages internal publications, works with media reps and maybe even Hollywood => PAO
3 Down: ISS component that can easily be swapped out in an EVA when the old unit fails => ORU
4 Down: Break off a chunk of the Lamplugh Glacier, for example => CALVE
5 Down: 2006 Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping song by Rihanna => SOS
6 Down: Marshall Bruce Mathers III, also known as Slim Shady and better known by this name => EMINEM
7 Down: Toyota truck whose 2020 facelift saw Apple CarPlay, Android Auto and Amazon Alexa capability added => TACOMA
9 Down: Salt Lake City's ___ Nelson, current president of the LDS Church => RUSSELL
11 Down: Antarctica's Vinson and Craddock, for two => MASSIFS
14 Down: Luna 1, launched in 1959, missed its target (the moon) and instead ended up in orbit around this => SUN
15 Down: Robert Rudolph Remus, WWE Hall of Famer, should be addressed, in his wrestling persona, by this military title (abbr.) => SGT
16 Down: Pat, currently the US Senator from Pennsylvania => TOOMEY
17 Down: Spanish name for an open porch, often roofed with branches, after which a hotel chain that started in Arizona, was named => RAMADA
21 Down: Alien race that controls the galactic core in the 2008 sci-fi novel Incandescence => ALOOF
25 Down: Solid aluminum coin, less than one inch wide, with a young tree on the obverse side => YEN
26 Down: The $4.4 billion Britain owed the US in 1934, finally paid off in 2015, was incurred because of this (abbr.) => WWI
27 Down: Israel's ___ Gedi Spa, which despite the smell of sulphur in the air, still attracts large crowds => EIN
28 Down: James Spader's ___ Reddington on NBC's The Blacklist => RED

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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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