Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Yuma: Yours, Toulouse: a ___ => TOI
4 Across: Mast, yard, boom or gaff => SPAR
8 Across: One of 15 prior to perestroika (abbr.) => SSR
9 Across: Got off the fence, so to speak => CHOSE
10 Across: Judi Dench, '98 Oscar winner for Shakespeare in Love, had also received one of these in '70 (abbr.) => OBE
11 Across: How to start a Hungarian czardas => SLOWLY
12 Across: What the world's heaviest ever pumpkin, grown in Belgium in 2016, weighed far in excess of => TON
13 Across: Method of covering a surface with very closely set gemstones => PAVE
14 Across: Monetary unit you're likely to deal in if you're talking in Seychellois Creole (abbr.) => SRE
15 Across: Stravinsky's Mavra and The Rake's Progress, for two => OPERAS
18 Across: Usual way to drink coffee although you can eat ice cream this way if you choose => INACUP
20 Across: Abbr. used often in reporting the results of the 2016 presidential election => PCT
21 Across: Ciara's September 2018 release that was also performed at the 2018 American Music Awards => DOSE
22 Across: Ethnic group that Barack Obama's dad belonged to => LUO
23 Across: Tommy ___, Austin Abrams' role in 2019's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark => MILNER
25 Across: NSF building at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station => ARO
26 Across: Weapons that have their electrified tips usually held in place by two small grub screws => EPEES
27 Across: Say, Please take out the trash, over and over again => NAG
28 Across: Word that runs a one into none, often heard in the Ozarks or Appalachia => NARY
29 Across: Monogram of the author of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) => TSE

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Oscar-winning foreign film of 2005 about a street thug from a slum in Johannesburg => TSOTSI
2 Down: Ohio town relocated in 1921 due to the construction of the Huffman Dam => OSBORN
3 Down: Holmes character created by Arthur Conan Doyle who may be modeled after Lillie Langtry or Lola Montez => IRENEADLER
4 Down: Soccer move that might cause the ref to hunt for a yellow card => SHOVE
5 Down: Where Homer Simpson works in sector 7-G => POWERPLANT
6 Down: Speech system in which 6 and W are the same, for short => ASL
7 Down: ___ Skywalker, played by Daisy Ridley in the The Star Wars sequel film trilogy => REY
9 Down: Something that can ring your bell => CLAPPER
11 Down: Zsa Zsa Gabor managed to accumulate nine of them => SPOUSES
16 Down: ZDX, MDX and RDX of the auto world => ACURAS
17 Down: Any of a classic, pie in the face, slapstick trio => STOOGE
19 Down: Island where Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest takes place => CONEY
23 Down: What Minnesota didn't elect to the Senate in 2018 => MEN
24 Down: Quite a bitter beer invented during the British colonial period, for short => IPA

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This crossword has 20 across clues and 15 down clues. In total 35 clues are solved in the section above.
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