Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Major Ethiopian river of about 745 miles currently straddled by the Koka and Tendaho dams => AWASH
6 Across: Actress Susan ___, Broadway's original Belle from Beauty and the Beast in 1994 => EGAN
10 Across: Short name for the compound with the formula CeO2, used by glassmaking hobbyists for polishing => CERIA
11 Across: Tall humanoid with a blue striped skin that is indigenous to the fictional planet Pandora => NAVI
12 Across: What the old, blue, British police box, the TARDIS, owned by a doctor, can accomplish => TIMETRAVEL
14 Across: Dan ___, who created and produced Netflix's The Ranch that had its finale on January 24, 2020 => REO
15 Across: Places where things are often scoped out, or the cast is chosen or maybe even people are left in stitches (abbr.) => ERS
16 Across: What you have if you've determinedly persevered with the snail mail, the emails and now the texting and zooming, for short => LTR
18 Across: Couple of baseball's Ripkens => CALS
20 Across: 666 mile river that defines, in part, the border between Armenia and Turkey and also between Iran and Azerbaijan => ARAS
22 Across: Nasdaq ___, launched in 2000 and the first all-electronic trader in US equity options (abbr.) => ISE
23 Across: ___ Kepley, the first American woman to graduate from law school who could not practice because, ironically, the law would not allow it in 1870 => ADA
24 Across: ___ B or ___ C, both original Spice Girls => MEL
26 Across: Birthplace of Yarsan, Zoroastrianism and the Bahá'í Faith => MIDDLEEAST
31 Across: Type of pen one used to write on papyrus or to make cuneiform tablets => REED
32 Across: ___ Stanley, award-winning author of the Miranda Corbie mystery-thriller series => KELLI
33 Across: Alternate name for South Africa's large-eared Cape Fox => ASSE
34 Across: How a couple of 15 year-olds would get in to see an NC-17 movie => SNEAK

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Standardized college admission test that includes a distinct science section => ACT
2 Down: ___ Jingsheng, human rights activist now in the USA, who spent 18 years jailed as a Chinese political prisoner => WEI
3 Down: Location of your coracobrachialis muscle => ARM
4 Down: Well known club that photographer Ansel Adams was a director of for 37 years (1934-71) => SIERRA
5 Down: Death metal band ___ Eternal, formed in 1997 and released its album Upon Desolate Sands in October 2018 => HATE
6 Down: ___ Swansea, artistic wife of film critic Joel Siegel => ENA
7 Down: Items kept by the Senate in a mahogany box, one at least 230 years old and the other a mere 66 years old => GAVELS
8 Down: Not exactly falling over oneself to do something => AVERSE
9 Down: Lahr who co-founded Synergy Sports Technology which provides sports analytics to media and basketball leagues => NILS
13 Down: Popular cosmetic brand that provides a Retinol Correxion Deep Wrinkle Filler and a Multi Correxion 5 in 1 Restoring Night Cream => ROC
16 Down: Lee Fields' song that was featured in Gregory Jacobs' 2015 comedy-drama Magic Mike XXL => LADIES
17 Down: In the NBA, these are forbidden after the 16th Thursday of the season => TRADES
19 Down: Journalist Mehle, aka Suzy, over 50 years a society columnist syndicated to about 100 newspapers => AILEEN
21 Down: Where Yale U's Starr Reading Room is (abbr.) => SML
23 Down: Yellowish-green fruit of the yellow mombin tree, eaten with chili powder in Bangladesh => AMRA
25 Down: Squeals from a cartoon character standing on a chair, maybe => EEKS
27 Down: Measurement that indicates the amount of whole-body radiation and its effect on the body at a tissue depth of 1 cm (abbr.) => DDE
28 Down: Drink kids had for breakfast (and in the afternoon and before bed) in feudal England => ALE
29 Down: Gp. that kidnapped heiress Patricia Hearst on February 4, 1974 => SLA
30 Down: Early last year, think tank Peterson Institute for International Economics called this a Huawei-sized problem posing a national security threat => TIK

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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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