Crossword Answers For: Friday, June 26, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: World Champion Freestyle BMX rider Mihelich, born in Ann Arbor and now head of Fairdale Bikes in Austin => TAJ
4 Across: Enlisted rank below Staff Sergeant in the USAF => SRA
7 Across: Herman, who got his first publisher's contract serving onboard the USS Southard and went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1952 => WOUK
9 Across: Something that crossword constructors working to deadlines are often in dire need of => SLEEP
11 Across: ___ Albers, first textile designer to have a solo exhibition at the MoMA in NYC (1949) => ANNI
12 Across: Japanese momiji is a species of this large group of plants => MAPLE
13 Across: Believe it or not, this shoe width is three below the widest width that's regularly made => EEE
14 Across: Structure in plants with seeds that contain the female reproductive cells => OVULE
15 Across: Dutch-speaking residents of Britain's Cape Colony, left the colony for the African interior starting in 1836 in a migration called The Great ___ => TREK
17 Across: Institution that in 2017 issued commemorative banknotes in remembrance of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej The Great (abbr.) => BOT
18 Across: Purdue stadium, the home of the Boilermakers, is named after Purdue alumni David E. Ross and writer and playwright George ___ => ADE
20 Across: 100 Brazilian centavos => REAL
22 Across: Rob Zombie's wife since 2002: ___ Moon Zombie => SHERI
24 Across: Target of much of the action in the Vatican's Basilica di San Pietro => DIO
26 Across: Older name for the city of Zhengzhou's province => HONAN
27 Across: High-rise window cleaner is not a job to apply for if you have this type of phobia => ACRO
29 Across: Endings for major, but not minor or for din, but not quiet => ETTES
30 Across: Talc might prevent it or in some people might even cause it => RASH
31 Across: Christogram popularized in the 15th century by Saint Bernardino of Siena => IHS
32 Across: 3, 19, 607 and 44,497 are all perfect examples of these, in brief => NOS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Co. that Howard Hughes got control of in 1937 when the Hughes Tool Company bought just over $800,000 worth of stock => TWA
2 Down: Basic spectral type of the main sequence star Sirius => AONE
3 Down: Last week's celebratory holiday also known as Emancipation Day => JUNETEENTH
4 Down: Member of the largest ethno-linguistic group in Europe => SLAV
5 Down: Member of France's center-right, Gaullist, conservative political party, for one => REPUBLICAN
6 Down: One of the Harpy sisters in Greek mythology whose name means storm-swift in ancient Greek => AELLO
8 Down: Actor Dullea who played Dave Bowman in 1984's 2010: The Year We Make Contact => KIER
9 Down: If it's white at the Vatican it's a mixture of potassium chlorate, lactose and Greek pitch => SMOKE
10 Down: Jules James, the owner of the Morristown Frackers on the comedy series Brockmire, was played by Amanda ___ => PEET
16 Down: TV reporter and correspondent Moriarty and CNN News anchor and host Burnett => ERINS
18 Down: Tennis great who posthumously was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom => ASHE
19 Down: Attire that Mahatma Gandhi began to wear after his return to India => DHOTI
21 Down: Moses is reputed to have been born and to have died on the seventh day of this month => ADAR
23 Down: Carson who wrote the Fire and Thorns Trilogy, a NYT best-seller, and poet Armantrout who penned Versed, a Pulitzer winner => RAES
25 Down: Two words that usually mean approximately => ORSO
28 Down: Cereal that originally came in Crunchy Graham and Honey Nut varieties => OHS

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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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