Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: First single from Jay-Z and Kanye West's album Watch the Throne (2011) => HAM
4 Across: Drink created in New Bern, NC, by Caleb Bradham in 1893 which he named Brad's Drink => PEPSI
9 Across: Org. that supports Homeland Security and FEMA by improving competency of officials involved in US disaster response (abbr.) => EMI
10 Across: What the Blue Jays did to the Phillies in their World Series game 4 win in 1993 => OUTHIT
11 Across: NASA's Apollo Program was the largest single consumer of these in the early 1960s => MICROCHIPS
13 Across: ConservAmerica's former name from 1995 to 2012 (abbr.) => REP
14 Across: Instrument currently under construction with a planned 130 ft. primary mirror located on top of Cerro Armazones in the Atacama Desert (abbr.) => ELT
15 Across: Technical name for colloids made of microscopic particles, like paint, mud or blood => SOLS
16 Across: Concern when playing out of the rough => LIE
17 Across: Artist displayed in the Guggenheim, that named a Mark Kostabi painting Use Your Illusion, which became the name for GNR albums => ENA
18 Across: ___NET, Dept. of Defense wide area packet-switching scheme begun in 1966 that eventually became the Internet => ARPA
19 Across: Where you can see The Death of Socrates and The Denial of Saint Peter, for short => MET
20 Across: Letters that can be followed by plunk, fuffle or flooey => KER
21 Across: Diana Ross song of 1980 listed number 77 on Billboard's Greatest Hot 100 Songs of All Time => UPSIDEDOWN
25 Across: Dan Brown's conspiracy novel of 2003 investigated the mysterious and fraternal organization ___ of Sion => PRIORY
26 Across: Digitigrade animals walk on these (like cats) whereas we plantigrades don't => TOE
27 Across: Actors Astin who played Samwise Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings trilogy and Thomas who played Temple Page in TV's The District => SEANS
28 Across: Wiki___, that will show you how to correctly wear you medical mask => HOW

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Sound of hesitation, often uttered by crossword constructors pondering clues => HEM
2 Down: Not for profit org. HQed in Pittsburgh that supports a proposal for a tax deduction of up to $250 a year for facial hair grooming (abbr.) => AMI
3 Down: Region of the western Pacific Ocean where the endangered Mortlock flying fox makes its home => MICRONESIA
4 Down: Meeting normally held every four years to discuss issues affecting international mail services (abbr.) => PUC
5 Down: English king (978-1016) who came to the throne at the age of about 12 and had the unfortunate epithet of the unready => ETHELRED
6 Down: Pulitzer-winning author of 1997's American Pastoral => PHILIPROTH
7 Down: Cure that my English grandmother - a devotee of Twinings - prescribed for just about anything that ailed you => SIPTEA
8 Down: Honor society for high school and middle school theatre students that includes Tom Hanks, Kathy Bates and Faye Dunaway (abbr.) => ITS
10 Down: 2000 studio album from Britney Spears: ___!... I Did It Again => OOPS
12 Down: Your second cousin, three times removed, for one => RELATION
15 Down: US Marine Corps motto ___ fidelis => SEMPRE
18 Down: Patience is ___ element of success. - Bill Gates => AKEY
21 Down: School in Tacoma, Washington where Grizz the Logger roots on their football team => UPS
22 Down: Dre and Who, for two, in brief => DRS
23 Down: Philip Moon played this Jackie Treehorn Productions' thug in The Big Lebowski => WOO
24 Down: Destroyer USS ___, laid down in '45, but transferred to South Korea in '77 and served as ROKS Taejon until 2001 => NEW

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This crossword has 18 across clues and 17 down clues. In total 35 clues are solved in the section above.
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