Crossword Answers For: Thursday, July 23, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Tiny little thing which is sometimes subject to decay => ATOM
5 Across: Like your hogs, maybe, or like the funds for Ketchikan's Gravina Island Bridge in the early 2000s => EARMARKED
10 Across: King short story where Richie Grenadine mutates into a blob that detests light and craves warm beer => GRAYMATTER
12 Across: ___ Images, Inc., huge supplier of stock images founded in '95 and HQed in Seattle => GETTY
13 Across: City in Pontotoc County where you can get a cultural center audio tour and may have to stop at a stop sign, both in Chickasaw => ADA
14 Across: Something golfer Payne Stewart used to wear with his knickerbockers => ARGYLES
17 Across: Item sitting on Mount Lee that overlooks many people => BIGNAME
20 Across: Direction known as Levante-Scirocco among the mariners of the 14th and 15th centuries (abbr.) => ESE
21 Across: Word that could describe most of Rubens' nudes, or might describe Mae West, too => AMPLE
25 Across: Ex-Yankee who's now CEO of the Marlins => DEREKJETER
28 Across: State where someone wearing a cheesehead hat likely comes from => WISCONSIN
29 Across: Types of hunting and herding dogs of the southern US including the Treeing Tennessee Brindle and the Catahoula Leopard dog => CURS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Author of Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir (HarperCollins Publishers, 2017) => AMYTAN
2 Down: World champion freestyle wrester ___ Mensah who qualified to represent the US in the next Olympics => TAMYRA
3 Down: Local name given by Komodo Islanders to the ecosystem's dominant life form => ORA
4 Down: Colombia, MO's ___ Nature and Fitness Trail, running for 9 miles on a former railroad right-of-way => MKT
5 Down: ___ Project, begun at Princeton in 1998: an ongoing experiment to try to detect global consciousness => EGG
6 Down: Oak Ridge National Laboratory's investigation of 1954 into using nuclear power to fly supersonic planes (abbr.) => ARE
7 Down: Rodent demonstrated to have empathy to others of its species => RAT
8 Down: Village in Northumberland, England, that retains the only surviving thatched roof pub (The Black Bull) in the county => ETAL
9 Down: Nickname of wide receiver Decrick De'Shawn Westbrook of the Jaguars => DEDE
11 Down: Acronym for the behavior shown when using the phrases ATM machine, PIN number and PDF format => RAS
15 Down: Key that Mozart's Symphony No. 10 is written in => GMAJOR
16 Down: Nations designated South, bordering the Gulf of Aden and North, bordering Red Sea, from 1970-90 => YEMENS
17 Down: Something the meticulous make every morning => BED
18 Down: Indicator intended to replace the GDP that considers items such as income distribution and costs of pollution (abbr.) => ISEW
19 Down: Comedian and actress ___ Jewell who played Jewel Caulfield on HBO's Deadwood and in 2019's Deadwood: The Movie => GERI
22 Down: Letters appearing on the 5 key on old Spanish typewriters, intended as an abbreviated symbol for the currency of Spain => PTS
23 Down: Clothing brand owned by Jones Apparel Group, carried by Walmart and targeted at teenage girls and young women => LEI
24 Down: Abbreviation for the currency used in Asmara since 1997 => ERN
26 Down: Left topmost key on your PC keyboard, usually => ESC
27 Down: Small school in Grayson that the Knights and Lady Knights play out of, for short => KCU

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This crossword has 12 across clues and 21 down clues. In total 33 clues are solved in the section above.
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