Crossword Answers For: Friday, July 10, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Position Louis DeJoy took over on June 16, 2020, in brief => PMG
4 Across: What Gerardus Mercator created using rhumb lines in 1569 => MAP
7 Across: Selena Gomez hit song with Gucci Mane released on July 13, 2017 => FETISH
10 Across: Global org. that declares champions on their ability to come up with a Monkey Gland or a Clover Club (abbr.) => IBA
11 Across: How the Orlando Sentinal referred to two of the Spice Girls at the Royal Variety Performance in December 1998 => PREGGO
12 Across: Jeffrey Kuhlman for Barack Obama and Sean Conley for Donald Trump, for short => DRS
13 Across: ___ Romney, First Lady of Massachusetts, 2003-7 => ANN
14 Across: Where Tatiana Romanova lovingly (but falsely) came from under directions of SMERSH => RUSSIA
16 Across: School in Bethany, OK, that the Crimson Storm plays for in the GAC => SNU
18 Across: Constellation where Zosma, only 58 Lightyears away, can be seen => LEO
19 Across: Trade org. that includes Kenya, Burundi and since 2016, South Sudan => EAC
21 Across: One who's often at the hosp. and is well-versed in using paddles => EMT
23 Across: Psychologist Abraham who came up with his principle in 1966 that if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail => MASLOW
26 Across: Indonesia isle you can reach by landing at the Jos Orno Imsula Airport => MOA
28 Across: World number one ranked player of 1997, known in golfing circles as The Big Easy => ELS
29 Across: Islet in Hawaii off Kaupo Beach on Oahu that's a State Seabird Sanctuary and whose name means buoyant => MANANA
31 Across: Device that's quite useful for ball bearings => TEE
32 Across: Airline with a hub in Madrid that will fly you direct from there to Washington, DC => IBERIA
33 Across: Company that's the world's largest hardware retail cooperative, HQed in Oak Brook, Illinois => ACE
34 Across: In 1989 one of these from the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit was sold at Sotheby's for $50,600 => CEL

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: In the Philippines, if you're really lucky, you may catch sight of the Visayan warty variety of this => PIG
2 Down: Title of the late Georg Ratzinger, elder brother of Pope emeritus Benedict XVI, briefly => MSGR
3 Down: Demon-like resident of graveyards that was introduced to the West in the translation of One Thousand and One Nights in the early 1700s => GHOUL
4 Down: Film released in July 2019 staring Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor and William Jackson Harper => MIDSOMMAR
5 Down: Western Connecticut's leatherman caves, alternately => ABRI
6 Down: No ___ nada: There's nothing wrong => PASA
7 Down: Nom de plume of the writer of the poem Baseball's Sad Lexicon in 1910, a tribute to the Cubs double play of Tinker to Evers to Chance => FPA
8 Down: Alternate name for white tailed sea-eagles of the genus Haliaeetus, including the US national bird => ERNS
9 Down: State that includes among its official symbols both the lightning bug and the Barrett M82/M107 => TENNESSEE
15 Down: Paris-born Lisa ___, novelist who published The Island of Sea Women in March 2019 => SEE
17 Down: ICAO code for the transportation company HQed in Chicago's Willis Tower => UAL
20 Down: Word that can come before book or strip, or a nickname of WWI's Sopwith Camel biplane, or one who will merely stand-up => COMIC
22 Down: Morrison who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom => TONI
23 Down: Pole that marked the turning point when chariots were raced in the Circus Maximus => META
24 Down: The Gallup who co-managed the polling company after George Gallup's death in 1984 => ALEC
25 Down: Word in Jabberwocky that Lewis Carroll said meant the side of a hill (from its being soaked by rain) => WABE
27 Down: Rating given for the most creditworthy corporate or government bonds => AAA
30 Down: Dept. created in 1945 that directed Bathyscaphe Trieste on its 1960 dive of 35,000 feet plus into the Challenger Deep (abbr.) => NEL

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This crossword has 20 across clues and 19 down clues. In total 39 clues are solved in the section above.
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