Crossword Answers For: Thursday, May 28, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Other name of Ransom Olds, after whom the Oldsmobile was named => ELI
4 Across: ___ mess, an dessert made of strawberries, meringue, and whipped cream that's served at a famous English school cricket match => ETON
8 Across: A lot of washers, refrigerators and toasters, for short => GES
9 Across: NY award-winning sculptor Pondick, who often uses animal/people hybrids or tree/people hybrids in her work => RONA
10 Across: Bobbi, who in 1966 became the first woman to run the entire Boston Marathon => GIBB
12 Across: Like the verbs wear, come, kneel and to be, for short => IRREG
13 Across: Billionaire Soare, known as the Eyebrow Queen => ANASTASIA
15 Across: Large Sumatran beasts that now are estimated to number less than 100 => RHINOS
16 Across: If you happen to score 163 on this, you're immediately qualified for a Mensa membership => IQTEST
18 Across: Physicist who received the Nobel Prize and the Max Planck Medal => PAULDIRAC
21 Across: What some duck hunters call pintails or widgeons => SMEES
22 Across: Scream one's head off => YELL
24 Across: What many people place on Super Bowl Sunday => ABET
25 Across: National non-profit conservation org. based in Arlington concerned with protecting coastal life => RAE
26 Across: One of the knobs you could adjust on those old clunky TVs of the sixties => TINT
27 Across: One of musician Sean Lennon's other names => ONO

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Big, dark green item that emus watch closely => EGG
2 Down: Padme Amidala's kid who was raised by Bail and Breha => LEIA
3 Down: 978-0439023528, for The Hunger Games => ISBN
4 Down: Old-fashioned adventurism as practiced by Don Quixote, for example => ERRANTRY
5 Down: Remnant of many an ancient statue that often has a chiseled appearance => TORSO
6 Down: When ___ detected, a thousand are suspected: Thomas Paine => ONEIS
7 Down: Ethnic group of NE India and NW Myanmar who play the tati and the theku => NAGA
11 Down: Author John who printed his first edition of quotations in 1855 => BARTLETT
12 Down: Really unhelpful Who's there? response => ITISI
14 Down: Removes a layer of skin, perhaps => SHEDS
16 Down: Usual quintet in any sonnet line => IAMBI
17 Down: Zewditu was the last of these in Ethiopia, until 1930 => QUEEN
18 Down: Test whose math portion has calculator and no calculator sections (abbr.) => PSAT
19 Down: Something that Rowntree's dreamed up in 1935, and it ended up being full of holes => AERO
20 Down: Group united by a totem or a tartan => CLAN
23 Down: John Spencer's Primetime Emmy Award in 2002 was for portraying ___ McGarry in The West Wing => LEO

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This crossword has 16 across clues and 17 down clues. In total 33 clues are solved in the section above.
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