Crossword Answers For: Friday, July 17, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Nation that is the site of the Tarxien temple complex, built over 5000 years ago => MALTA
6 Across: Type of lifeform resulting from artificial insemination, IV fertilization, sperm banks and cloning according to the Encyclopedia Britannica in 1993 => GMO
9 Across: The French departments of Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin will merge on January 1 next year to become the European Collectivity of ___ => ALSACE
11 Across: Industry trade group whose members include Amtrak, CSX Transportation and Metra (abbr.) => AAR
12 Across: Field hockey field: 180 ft 5 in, Polo field: 600 ft, Rugby field: about 225 ft (because rugby players are sort of loosey goosey...) => WIDTHS
13 Across: Club whose staff are known as GOs (Gentils Organisateurs) and whose clients are referred to as GMs (Gentils Membres) => MED
14 Across: Like an ass or a unicorn, if you can find one => EQUINE
16 Across: Important parts of many flutes used at posh receptions => STEMS
20 Across: Artist Edward ___ (1812-88), after whom an endangered, all-blue macaw from Brazil's Bahia state is named => LEAR
21 Across: Brazilian state that the Munduruku indigenous people call home => PARA
22 Across: Cornerbacks Charvarius of the Chiefs and Denzel of the Browns => WARDS
23 Across: Walt Whitman referred to baseball as the ___ game of the republic! => HURRAH
25 Across: 2021 addition to the Russian segment of the ISS that will include two limbs, two grippers, two wrists and an elbow joint (abbr.) => ERA
26 Across: Actress Fletcher who played bitter old Rosie in 2017 on Netflix's Girlboss => LOUISE
31 Across: New head coach of the Washington, DC, football team, nicknamed Riverboat ___ => RON
32 Across: What a post horn does when the mail coach arrives => BLARES
33 Across: USNS Montford Point and USNS John Glenn are the first two US Navy ships of this classification (abbr.) => ESD
34 Across: The Mystics' Delle Donne who won 2019's WNBA Most Valuable Player Award => ELENA

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Paw's partner? => MAW
2 Down: ___ CMB Polarization Telescope, a Sino-US joint project in Tibet that is the highest cosmic microwave observatory in the world => ALI
3 Down: Infectious cattle complaint caused by the Neethling virus and characterized by nodules on the skin => LSD
4 Down: Something that you may have up your sleeve, under your shirt, or around your ankle, for short => TAT
5 Down: Some things to complain about after you've just played flag football for the first time in nine years => ACHES
6 Down: Like that nice piece of wolverine steak you're saving vis-a-vis the grade A T-bone in the fridge => GAMIER
7 Down: Priestess of the Cult of Dionysus which goes back to Mycenaean Greece => MAENAD
8 Down: What your drill sergeant may well bark at you => ORDERS
10 Down: The Nissan Juke, sold in China from 2014 as the Infiniti ___ => ESQ
15 Down: Type of Fijian throwing war club => ULA
16 Down: You can have an oblate one or one of influence => SPHERE
17 Down: Europe's ___ Program which is an international effort to breed cattle that resemble the extinct aurochs => TAUROS
18 Down: Whipping down to the mailbox to stick a letter in and stopping at the corner store for bread, for example => ERRAND
19 Down: Draw hopscotch rectangles on the sidewalk, for instance, although this is a pretty curmudgeonly viewpoint => MAR
22 Down: Still in one piece, which is a miracle if you drop your model of a flamingo carved in chocolate => WHOLE
24 Down: 32 mile Rhine tributary that flows through the Northern Black Forest and the city of Karlsruhe => ALB
27 Down: Large UK school with six constituent colleges that specialize in painting, design, fashion and performing, for short => UAL
28 Down: According to Chaucer the root of this sin is pride => IRE
29 Down: John Henry Eaton of Tennessee became the youngest ever one of these on November 16, 1818, for short => SEN
30 Down: One of the operators of the Galileo global navigation satellite system, live since 2016 (abbr.) => ESA

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This crossword has 18 across clues and 21 down clues. In total 39 clues are solved in the section above.
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