Crossword Answers For: Thursday, July 16, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Fraternal org. founded in 1883, now with over 740,000 members, that was to protect families after the death of a breadwinner. (abbr.) => MWA
4 Across: HHS, HUD or VA, e.g. => DEPT
8 Across: Defensive End Warren with 40 interceptions from 1950-59 and called a ball hawk on the Cleveland's list of Browns Legends => LAHR
9 Across: You maybe, regretting that you ever started doing these daily crosswords => RUER
10 Across: Lazare Ponticelli (1897-2008) is recognized by France as being the last of these soldiers from WWI => POILU
12 Across: Common disease that dates back earlier than Cleopatra (69–30 BCE) when it was treated with sulfur => ACNE
13 Across: If a Brazilian Dogo makes this sound, it's probably not the time to try to pet it => GRR
14 Across: One of the official languages of South Africa where it's spoken by about 4 million people => TSWANA
16 Across: Come down with dengue hemorrhagic fever, for instance => AIL
17 Across: Like Turkey's Sultan Kosen => TALL
18 Across: ___ Rocher, French cosmetics company (founded in 1959) with a global presence => YVES
20 Across: ___ HaZikaron, Israel's Memorial Day, commemorated next on April 15 => YOM
23 Across: Houston's ___ Industries that signed a contract with Saudi Aramco in 2016 to form SANAD, a joint venture => NABORS
25 Across: John Bolton announced the closure of this foreign mission in September 2018 due to it pushing to investigate Israel for war crimes => PLO
26 Across: Zatopek, runner known as the Czech Locomotive who won three gold medals at the 1952 Summer Olympics => EMIL
27 Across: Mysterious beasts (also known as a Mirka or Bun Manchi) that local legend claims people who see one will die or be killed => YETIS
29 Across: Guitar company that currently produces Marcus Miller signature bass guitars => SIRE
30 Across: Daft Punk and A Great Big World, for two => DUOS
31 Across: Dilbert's The Generic Guy and Mosby from How I Met Your Mother => TEDS
32 Across: Something that precedes Gerald R. Ford or John F. Kennedy, as far as the navy is concerned => USS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Language in which the Internal Revenue Department is known as Te Tari Taake => MAORI
2 Down: Roof installation that's just cool when it goes with the flow? => WHIRLYBIRD
3 Down: Adelphi, MD location where they investigate weapons and materials technologies, survivability and human engineering for land warfare service branch (abbr.) => ARL
4 Down: Something that Lucas Black and Reese Witherspoon have in common => DRAWL
5 Down: Tree that the US Forest Service warned of as long ago as 1907, saying The large quantity of (tree) litter... is extremely inflammable => EUCALYPTUS
6 Down: Quaker leader William who signed a document with Chief Tamanend under an elm tree at Shakamaxon in 1683 => PENN
7 Down: Shortstop Turner of the Nationals who hit for the cycle in both 2017 and 2019 => TREA
8 Down: Lorena Ochoa was the top-ranked woman in the world for 158 consecutive weeks, a record for members of this org. (abbr.) => LPGA
11 Down: Word meaning blurt out, and when you've blurted it, the same word could be followed by nonsense => UTTER
15 Down: Sarah Vaughan album released in 1956 with Hal Mooney and his orchestra => SASSY
19 Down: Little critters that are useful in archaeological dating because of their teeth! => VOLES
21 Down: Genus of huntsman spider that contains over 250 species including the giant crab spider of the southern US => OLIOS
22 Down: In WWI, this plant material was used in dressings due to the ability to absorb fluid faster than cotton wool => MOSS
23 Down: Something that Matryoshka dolls will do => NEST
24 Down: Best-selling sci-fi and fantasy author Kaufman, who penned the Elementals series (2018-20) => AMIE
28 Down: Berkeley, Purdue and Rice all had their web domains registered on April 24, 1985 with this top-level suffix => EDU

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This crossword has 20 across clues and 17 down clues. In total 37 clues are solved in the section above.
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