Crossword Answers For: Thursday, July 30, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Type of galaxy appearing greenish and of small size discovered by citizen scientists on the crowdsourced Galaxy Zoo project => PEA
4 Across: ___ Bates, first woman truck driver to receive a New York driver's license (1920) => LUELLA
7 Across: Dir. you're headed in if you're boating straight from Toledo to Buffalo => ENE
10 Across: Secretary of Education who three times tried (and failed) to cut Special Olympics funding from the department's budget => BETSYDEVOS
12 Across: Private person who's often quite expert at digging into other people's business => EYE
13 Across: John, blacksmith from Rutland, VA who developed the self-scouring steel plow in 1837 in Grand Detour, IL => DEERE
14 Across: The Michael Cohen raids of April 2018 were based upon this from special counsel Robert Mueller to the US District Court for the SDNY => REFERRAL
17 Across: Unlike counting backwards from 100 by sevens, for example => REALEASY
19 Across: Hammerin' Hank ___, first aviator in WWII to receive the Medal of Honor => ELROD
20 Across: Jack-in-the-box, originally made for a prince's fifth birthday by a German clockmaker named Claus, is an example of one of these => TOY
23 Across: According to Jacob's Creek, an Australian winemaker, a survey in 2007 found this to be 7:47pm in the UK => DINNERTIME
26 Across: Name of the Chinese saber, considered one of the four traditional weapons along with the gun, qiang and jian => DAO
27 Across: 2013 competition where Mitchie Brusco became the first person to land a 1080 at in the Big Air event => XGAMES
28 Across: Online magazine devoted to such things as flesh tunnels, Nefertiti piercings and articles about The Lizardman => BME

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: The New Yorker cartoonist who contributed 99 covers from 1925-69 and was once described as the magazine's first genius => PETERARNO
2 Down: 24 mile long river and tributary of the Streu in the Rhon Mountains, Bavaria => ELS
3 Down: Gymnast ___ Raisman, 2012 gold medal Olympian in the team and floor competitions => ALY
4 Down: Alloy of lead (44.5%) and bismuth (55.5%) that has a melting point of 255.3 °F and is used as a nuclear reactor coolant => LBE
5 Down: What you can hang if you want to go back the other way => UEY
6 Down: Honor received by the Hyatt Regency on Peachtree Street in 2012 (abbr.) => ADDEA
7 Down: Ariana Grande song from the album Sweetener, released in 2018, where she repetitively sings back to you => EVERYTIME
8 Down: Admiral ___ Tyson, now retired, who commanded the US Third Fleet 2015-17 => NORA
9 Down: Donkey dwelling in Darmstadt => ESEL
11 Down: Puppet, racket or sonnet suffixes => EERS
15 Down: Eastman Kodak's trade name for a popular photographic developer used (not very often, these days) in black & white photography => ELON
16 Down: Company started in 1971 by Frederick Smith that today has the corporate motto Helping you get back to business => FEDEX
17 Down: What salmon build to lay their roe => REDD
18 Down: ___ Goode Byington, joint proprietor, editor and manager of the Columbus Evening Ledger in the 1880s => ELIA
21 Down: Where Cockneys 'ead to after work => OME
22 Down: What Meg Ryan said 15 times in a row in When Harry Met Sally... => YES
24 Down: Color model widely used in the display of images in televisions and computers => RGB
25 Down: Abbreviated name of the medical equipment used on the cover of Nirvana's 1993 album In Utero => TAM

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This crossword has 14 across clues and 19 down clues. In total 33 clues are solved in the section above.
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