Crossword Answers For: Monday, July 13, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: U of Chicago org. devoted to interdisciplinary research in the sciences, named after one of its Nobel winning laureates (abbr.) => EFI
4 Across: Something that most people consider just isn't on => OFF
7 Across: Shallowest sea in the world that gets no deeper than 45 ft 11 in => AZOV
8 Across: First name of the role George Hamilton played in a 1971 movie where he stated I am the last gladiator in the new Rome => EVEL
9 Across: Actress with a park named after her near Lee's Creek on Main Street in Cardston, Alberta, Canada => WRAY
10 Across: Small rodent that a 2016 study unexpectedly showed expressed empathy to mistreated kin => VOLE
11 Across: Town approx. 81 miles south of 17 Across that has the largest Lutheran church in New South Wales => WALLAWALLA
14 Across: Albania, Croatia or Honduras, to one sitting in the Kifissos Bus Station, probably => ETHNOS
15 Across: What you're supposed to remain when you're about to land at LAX => SEATED
17 Across: City 81 miles north of 11 Across that has been a sister city to Leavenworth, Kansas since 1962 => WAGGAWAGGA
21 Across: Color expressed as a hex triplet as C2B280 => ECRU
22 Across: Bread you could have with a Bhindi stir fry => NAAN
23 Across: Graphical representation of your descendance directly from Richard the Lionheart, say (yeah, sure...) => TREE
24 Across: Slangy term for one's castle, so to speak => DIGS
25 Across: What Jack Horner, Miss Muffet and Humpty Dumpty all did => SAT
26 Across: Evinrude, who in 1907 invented the first practical and commercial outboard motor => OLE

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Journalist Klein who co-founded Vox in 2014 => EZRA
2 Down: It's hard to believe that Big Jake, now weighing about 2600 lbs, started out as this at a mere 240 lbs in 2001 => FOAL
3 Down: Seven of the schools in this group were established prior to 1770 => IVYLEAGUE
4 Down: Type of molding above the heads of the Committee of Five shown on the Jefferson Memorial => OVOLO
5 Down: While hill walking is a common outdoor activity in England, in the Lake District, you're more likely to be walking one of these => FELLS
6 Down: Septicemic plague can be spread by being bitten by one of these => FLEA
7 Down: 2017 debut single of TikTok personality Baby Ariel => AWW
8 Down: Frontman for The Lemonheads who released their album Varshon 2 in February last year => EVANDANDO
12 Down: The Queen of Ant Island's daughter in the 1998 computer-animated comedy A Bug's Life => ATTA
13 Down: Word that corresponds to the emoji with a grinning face, beads of sweat and seems to be wiping its brow => WHEW
15 Down: Via ___, ancient Rome's main street that led from the top of the Capitoline Hill to the Colosseum => SACRA
16 Down: White herons, basically => EGRET
17 Down: Throws cold water on => WETS
18 Down: Actor who played Wojciehowicz who reported to Captain Miller => GAIL
19 Down: Phineas who developed a hole in his head by improbably surviving an iron bar going right through his head in Vermont in September 1848 => GAGE
20 Down: US org. that has promoted onomastics since 1951 => ANS

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This crossword has 16 across clues and 17 down clues. In total 33 clues are solved in the section above.
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