Crossword Answers For: Friday, July 24, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Editorial cartoonist Thomas who first drew the Republican Party elephant => NAST
5 Across: Abbr. seen in the mthly. sales report, perhaps => YTD
8 Across: Valleyspeak words that often come after So or Um or even So, um => IMLIKE
11 Across: Preposition that comes in quite handy when constructing palindromes => ERE
12 Across: First three-time Cy Young winner in baseball history => KOUFAX
13 Across: Primary fed. agcy. supporting and conducting Alzheimer's disease research, located in Bethesda, MD => NIA
14 Across: Country that hosts the Maccabiah Games every four years, the next being next year (abbr.) => ISR
15 Across: This may indicate what clan you're from and there's an official registry to check it out => TARTAN
17 Across: Actress ___ Belle, star of last year's movie The Mad Whale => CAMILLA
18 Across: On a new Tesla, this period is still needed for the tires and gearbox => BREAKIN
21 Across: Mansaf — lamb in a dried yogurt sauce — is usually promoted as this county's national dish => JORDAN
22 Across: What NASA's Juno spacecraft performed on Sept. 14, 2012 (abbr.) => DSM
25 Across: The Treasure State's motto: ___ y Plata => ORO
26 Across: Namgyal Wangdi a.k.a. Tenzing Norgay, notably => NEPALI
28 Across: Largest natural lake within the state of Minnesota, known as Miskwaagamiiwi-zaaga'igan in Ojibway => RED
29 Across: Ocean with the least average depth at about 3953 feet => ARCTIC
30 Across: USDOD came into being on August 10, 1949, having been renamed from this (abbr.) => NME
31 Across: In Indonesia you can get this dish made from water buffalo and it's usually served with a coconut milk and palm sugar based sauce => SATE

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: 3-time F1 World Drivers' Champion Lauda, who survived a fiery 1976 Nurburgring crash => NIKI
2 Down: Cedric Diggory's quite immodest dad who works in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures in the Harry Potter series => AMOS
3 Down: Talk around a mouthful of Texas toast smothered with peanut butter, for example => SLUR
4 Down: Graphics format that I can email hi-res crossword images in => TIF
5 Down: Movie for which Barbra Streisand became the first ever woman to receive a Golden Globe as Best Director => YENTL
6 Down: This could be done by fire or by combat or even by ordeal => TRIAL
7 Down: Dean Martin's singing daughter => DEANA
9 Down: One of the Japanese collections of syllabic symbols most often used in transcribing foreign words into Japanese => KATAKANA
10 Down: Fictional medical postion of Dr. Melinda Warner of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit => EXAMINER
16 Down: Old Japanese coin taken out of circulation in 1953 that was equal to one twentieth of a cent in 1904 => RIN
17 Down: You'll probably need funds in this currency if you're going to wander around Forillon National Park for a few days (abbr.) => CAD
18 Down: One of the Bs in musical supergroup ABBA stands for Benny and the other B stands for this => BJORN
19 Down: Ned, who composed Air Music: Ten Etudes for Orchestra, first played in '75 and winner of the Pulitzer in '76 => ROREM
20 Down: What the Colorado River will continue to do to the canyon for a few more zillion years => ERODE
22 Down: Dahj and Soji Asha of Star Trek: Picard, twin androids and daughters of this android who died in Star Trek: Nemesis => DATA
23 Down: Eye of your cat when it's lying in the sun on the patio => SLIT
24 Down: Devices first referred to in Section II, Paragraph 2b4 of Computer-Aided Display Control by Bill English in 1965 => MICE
27 Down: Betelgeuse is approximately at a distance of 212 of these from the sun (abbr.) => PCS

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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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