Crossword Answers For: Thursday, June 18, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Beethoven's birthplace, at Bonngasse 20 in December 1770 => BONN
5 Across: Brand that markets Twistables Dog Treats => ALPO
9 Across: Mary Cunningham ___, founder and CEO of The Nurturing Network => AGEE
10 Across: Writer Paretsky who created female private investigator V.I. Warshawski, protagonist in at least 20 novels => SARA
11 Across: Lead-tin alloy often used to coat stainless steel roofing => TERNE
13 Across: Tech-oriented website owned by CBS Interactive, with News, Reviews and How-to sections => CNET
14 Across: Jewish ritual feast where it's customary to drink four cups of wine => SEDER
15 Across: Many words that end in ly, for short => ADVS
16 Across: Exclamation often heard just as your glass slips out of your hand => OOPS
18 Across: Wonder's ___-Bee-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day of 1968, his first release where he played the clavinet => SHOO
20 Across: Biological item on earthworms that stop them from backsliding when they move => SETA
22 Across: Type of mussel that was partly the cause of water shortages in the Dallas area due to pipelines having to be shut down => ZEBRA
27 Across: Element that's the reason that Mars looks red => IRON
28 Across: Fred Snodgrass' claim to fame in the Red Sox winning the 1912 World Series => ERROR
29 Across: Hobbit Peregrin ___, aka. Pippin, friend to his cousin Merry Brandybuck and to Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings => TOOK
30 Across: Native of the North Germanic tribes, mentioned in Beowulf, in what is now Sweden => GEAT
31 Across: Org. that now lets you print and pay for your own labels with tracking right from home => USPS
32 Across: Numbers that might express the likelihood of your becoming a brain surgeon => ODDS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: The fringe-lipped varieties of these central and south American critters are really good at catching frogs => BATS
2 Down: Type of weight-driven clock originating in the 1830s featuring a wooden case with S-shaped outer edges => OGEE
3 Down: Sheldon Cooper of the Big Bang Theory, for example => NERD
4 Down: Rolls-Royce powerful turbojet engine of the 1940s, named after a river rather than a goose => NENE
5 Down: Non-profit performance-rights org. HQed in NYC, through which Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones licensed their work => ASCAP
6 Down: Finalizes a huge and likely very profitable deal, say => LANDS
7 Down: Beforehand (abbr.) => PREV
8 Down: Grain crop some hold in quite high esteem around Dunfermline or Dundee => OATS
12 Down: Something that can end off a buck or a sock => EROO
17 Down: Primordial material that some time ago we all apparently came out of => OOZE
18 Down: Place to sit while you watch the kids play down the street, maybe => STOOP
19 Down: Azaria, one the voices on The Simpsons and Ketcham who created Dennis the Menace => HANKS
20 Down: What something you find but don't touch remains in => SITU
21 Down: Quarterly publication that was central to the prosecution of Ralph Ginzberg in the early '60s on obscenity charges => EROS
23 Down: Central part of Descartes' oft-repeated phrase that appeared in his Principles of Philosophy (1644) => ERGO
24 Down: Successfully operated a stock farm => BRED
25 Down: The Beatles had a long one of these on their last number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 => ROAD
26 Down: Creative endeavors like dancing and cooking and sculpting and making crosswords => ARTS

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This crossword has 18 across clues and 19 down clues. In total 37 clues are solved in the section above.
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