Crossword Answers For: Thursday, July 9, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Gp. whose C-130s delivered the first humanitarian supplies to Baghdad Airport in operation Iraqi Freedom => ANG
4 Across: US govt. body that in March 2019 finally issued the order to ground all US Boeing 737 MAX airplanes => FAA
7 Across: Letters that appeared on the Olympic scoreboard when Edwin Vasquez won the pistol event in 1948 => PER
8 Across: Cooper, whose call signal was Faith 7 when he flew into space on May 15, 1963 => GORDON
11 Across: Director DuVernay, 2017 Oscar nominee for 13th => AVA
12 Across: Like multi-dimensional universes, string theory and black holes, to most people => ARCANE
13 Across: Tennis player who won eight Grand Slam finals (1984-90), but never won Wimbledon => LENDL
15 Across: Possible response when you get a text from your roommate who's mistyped f for c that says u seen my fat? => LMAO
16 Across: Like the original Matchbox toys => DIECAST
18 Across: Rio de Janeiro neighborhood whose name comes from Tupi words translated as stinking lake or water worthless for human consumption => IPANEMA
19 Across: Best time of day to see the Mercury from Brest at the end of September => SOIR
20 Across: Record label founded by the Beatles in 1968 => APPLE
23 Across: Jeremy, who passed away in 2017, unfortunately turned the wrong way, unlike the millions of these relatives that turned the right way => SNAILS
25 Across: Production company Glass Eye ___, based in NYC, released the horror film Depraved in September 2019 => PIX
26 Across: Khrushchev's angry rant in December 1962, against filth, decadence and sexual deviations depicted in art, known as the ___ Affair => MANEGE
27 Across: Honorary degree Madeleine K. Albright received from Harvard in 1997 => LLD
28 Across: Monosaccharides are named according to a Greek prefix to indicate the number of carbon atoms followed by this suffix, meaning sugar => OSE
29 Across: Greek letter used as a symbol of viscosity by chemists and physicists => ETA

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Be ___ and just give me a hand here, will you? => APAL
2 Down: Young daughter of Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand's popular prime minister => NEVE
3 Down: Something Liberace had that was covered in rhinestones => GRANDPIANO
4 Down: Word that comes before Dummies in the titles of well over 300 books => FOR
5 Down: First practical electric light, invented by Sir Humphry Davy before 1810 => ARCLAMP
6 Down: If you're having a chondrolaryngoplasty, you're likely self conscious about this => ADAMSAPPLE
8 Down: Township in Wayne County, NY, chartered in 1812, traversed by the Erie Canal and named after an ancient Roman physician => GALEN
9 Down: You know, I think I forgot to turn the air conditioner ___ home. => ONAT
10 Down: The Airbus A320 option that's 15% to 20% more fuel efficient than older planes, designated by adding these three letters after the 320 => NEO
14 Down: Records that were kept by Nin, Jung and Frank => DIARIES
17 Down: Kyle, author of 2017's I Hope I Screw This Up => CEASE
18 Down: Isle in the Inner Hebrides where Mac Bethad mac Findlaích, aka. Macbeth, King of Scotland, is buried => IONA
19 Down: Honda concept rear wheel drive roadster shown at the 1995 Tokyo Motor Show and marketed from 1999-2009 as the Honda S2000 => SSM
21 Down: Coca-Cola brand sold in the UK that contains real pineapple and grapefruit juice for a totally tropical taste => LILT
22 Down: James Comey, Geoffrey Berman and Rudy Giuliani, for short => EXDA
24 Down: Big sweatshirt size, in quite a small manner => LGE

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This crossword has 18 across clues and 17 down clues. In total 35 clues are solved in the section above.
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