Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: What a runner will do to another when they're more than 400 m ahead in the 5,000 m => LAP
4 Across: Can. Prov. that is part of the traditional lands of the Mi'kmaq (abbr.) => PEI
7 Across: Hosp. area first established by Danish anesthetist Bjorn Aage Ibsen in Copenhagen in '53 => ICU
8 Across: Where The Weeknd's Blinding Lights is, vis-a-vis Heartless => BSIDE
10 Across: English river mentioned by Ptolemy and the site of a still-occupied castle dating from about 1096 => ALN
11 Across: Massive African herbivores whose nearest living relatives are whales and dolphins => HIPPOS
12 Across: One with an O-4 pay grade who carries an oak leaf around with them, in brief => MAJ
13 Across: 114, for Hester Ford and Iris Westman => AGE
14 Across: Some, but not all, fishy things that will eventually grow to become bigger fingerlings => SMALLFRY
17 Across: Women's fashion craze of the mid-19th century, named after Amelia, a women's rights advocate => BLOOMERS
20 Across: Empirical formula of silver oxide, once used in batteries in the Apollo service module that supplied Skylab => AGO
21 Across: Amount less than a pittance to Louis XVI => SOU
22 Across: Co. founded in 1883 that moved into the Lincoln Center in 1966 => THEMET
25 Across: Something many people can pick up when they're waiting to see the doc => MAG
26 Across: California's Sweet Earth Enlightened Foods will sell you delicious Ginger Scallion Sausages that are this => VEGAN
27 Across: Gryffin and Carly Rae Jepsen's 2019 release that hit #1 on the US Billboard Dance Club Songs chart in November => OMG
28 Across: End of GPS, for short => SYS
29 Across: Those found in the Qumran Caves are notable ones (abbr.) => MSS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Actors Hemsworth from The Hunger Games and Neeson of Men in Black: International => LIAMS
2 Down: A buck, in even slangier terms => ACLAM
3 Down: State that was divided between two countries after British rule ended in 1947 => PUNJAB
4 Down: Short way to refer to the route from NY's Orange County to the George Washington Bridge => PIP
5 Down: Bay where Admiral Perry took his four Black Ships in 1853 => EDO
6 Down: Stats., research and evaluation arm of Betsy DeVos' dept. => IES
8 Down: Creature played by both Andre the Giant and Ted Cassidy in The Six Million Dollar Man => BIGFOOT
9 Down: Whale which is the largest toothed predator in the world => SPERM
11 Down: Type of light bulb banned in the EU in 2018 => HALOGEN
15 Down: Apt abbreviation for the 39 ft optics antenna under construction at the Puna de Atacama desert in Argentina => LLAMA
16 Down: When you're ten and told to behave, most just stop, look sheepish and say ___ => YESMOM
18 Down: Lives like Daniel James Shellabarger also known as Suelo => ROAMS
19 Down: 1st-year LPGA Tour player with the highest points is awarded the Louise ___ Rolex Rookie of the Year Award => SUGGS
22 Down: Remote ctrl, targets, often => TVS
23 Down: So this is a really irritating way to start conversations to many people, along ... er ... So => HEY
24 Down: I'm happy to say that there are none of these in this puzzle's clues! => EGS

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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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