Crossword Answers For: Monday, August 3, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Baron ___ the Mad, who possessed the Infernal Machine, in the Greyhawk Campaign in Dungeons and Dragons => LUM
4 Across: Yukon, Terrain and Canyon => GMCS
8 Across: Cenk's co-host on the The Young Turks => ANA
9 Across: Geoffrey Holder described the lemon and lime he held in the 1970's 7 Up ads as these kind of nuts => UNCOLA
11 Across: US co., headed by Sosthenes and Hernand Behn, that became the sole telephone provider in Spain in 1924 (abbr.) => ITT
12 Across: What you likely did on your trip to Jaws on Maui, Hawaii => SURFED
13 Across: 1944 Nobel recipient Hahn who discovered the radioactive isotopes of radium, thorium and uranium => OTTO
15 Across: Fed. agency that Stephen Hahn was sworn in as Commissioner of on Dec. 17, 2019 => FDA
16 Across: Roman month when they made a sacrifice at the Temple of Saturn, for short => DEC
17 Across: Hotel on the NRHP database, built in 1854 and located at 123 E. Doty Street, Madison, WI => FESS
18 Across: ___ Sanchez, frequent drag impersonator of Beyonce and winner of the 2nd season of RuPaul's Drag Race => TYRA
20 Across: Type of refinery towed by the M-Class Lockmart CM 88B Bison starfreighter the USCSS Nostromo => ORE
21 Across: Back half of a 5 letter sequence that starts with AE => IOU
22 Across: Third album released by Billy Bob Thornton in September 2005 => HOBO
24 Across: Robert, writer who also published novels under the names Jonathan Ryder and Michael Shepherd => LUDLUM
27 Across: Bizarre film created by Andy Warhol in 1963 consisting of Robert Indiana consuming a mushroom for 45 minutes => EAT
29 Across: Friedrich, who joined with Karl in authoring The Holy Family in 1844 => ENGELS
30 Across: Native people of the Philippine islands of Boracay, Panay and Negros => ATI
31 Across: Tiny little thing that terrified Howard Hughes => GERM
32 Across: Org. to which the Governor General of Canada donated a trophy in the form of a silver rose bowl in 1892 => NHL

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: City in Chad on the Logone River where a bitter battle occurred between France and Germany on August 21, 1914 => LAI
2 Down: Word that's sometimes uttered before other => UNTO
3 Down: Personality who created a famous report and who Tucker Carlson recently said was firmly a man of the progressive left => MATTDRUDGE
4 Down: Something found on the African plains that sounds like it's just out of the box => GNU
5 Down: Band who reunited in LA on December 20, 2019 where over 5,000 tickets sold out in 4 minutes (abbr.) => MCR
6 Down: Globally used seed that usually comes in twos, but when there is only one inside the cherry, it's known as a peaberry => COFFEEBEAN
7 Down: The viking ship discovered at the Oseberg farm in Norway contained four of these => SLEDS
9 Down: The Amateur Sports Act of 1978 established this body, responsible for entering and overseeing teams in international competition => USOC
10 Down: Legal employees that might issue a subpoena, file charges or even plea bargain (abbr.) => ADAS
14 Down: Item that Kenya exported to the tune of over a billion pounds in 2019 => TEA
17 Down: Part of a swinging occasion, at least half the time => FRO
18 Down: Something they put on the wall of Darius the Great's palace at Susa, about 2500 years ago => TILE
19 Down: The Stingray Nebula has to be considered this, as far a nebulae go => YOUNG
20 Down: Small resistance units => OHMS
23 Down: In the statement required by those becoming US nationals, the phrase on ___ may be replaced by and solemnly affirm => OATH
25 Down: Dr. Seuss' Once-___, who was confronted by the Lorax in 1971 => LER
26 Down: Where Einstein, who conceived the General Theory of Relativity, was himself conceived => ULM
28 Down: ___ Death, sitcom which focused on the lives of Eddie and Joy Stark and could be seen on Fox from 2006-10 => TIL

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This crossword has 20 across clues and 19 down clues. In total 39 clues are solved in the section above.
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