Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: What Sulu used to handle on the Enterprise => HELM
5 Across: North Korea's Kim Jong-un's grandfather and 1st Supreme Leader Kim Il-____ => SUNG
9 Across: What U2 told you how to dismantle in their 2004 studio album, briefly => ABOMB
11 Across: Director ___ Egoyan of 2009's erotic thriller Chloe => ATOM
12 Across: Pope John XXIII's 1961 encyclical on the topic of Christianity and social progress: ___ et magistra => MATER
13 Across: Globally-known Greek singer Mouskouri, who has released over 200 albums in at least 12 different languages => NANA
14 Across: Ethylene oxide, C2H4O (abbr.) => ETO
15 Across: German city known to the French as Aix-la-Chapelle and now a technology hub => AACHEN
17 Across: Bernie Sanders when compared to Donald Trump => LEFTIST
19 Across: Peter, 2-time Oscar winner (Spartacus and Topkapi) and fluent speaker of English, French, Spanish, Italian, German and Russian => USTINOV
23 Across: High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, more commonly => HUMVEE
26 Across: Unlike astronauts Mark and Scott Kelly, most twins require two of these => OVA
27 Across: Wernicke's ___ is part of the brain involved in the comprehension of written and spoken language => AREA
28 Across: Composer Maurice of Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D major written for one-armed pianist Paul Wittgenstein => RAVEL
30 Across: Letters that Sen. William Roth, who sponsored the Roth IRA legislation, had after his name => RDEL
31 Across: What a slash means on your bowling score sheet => SPARE
32 Across: Desmond of South Africa, who received the Martin Luther King, Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize in Atlanta in 1986 => TUTU
33 Across: Pain in the neck, or maybe somewhere lower => PEST

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Actress who played Public Defender Davenport on Hill Street Blues => HAMEL
2 Down: Something you can get by shopping on-line through Rakuten => EBATE
3 Down: Kenny Chesney's A ___ Things Different from his 2002 album No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems => LOTOF
4 Down: Title for Constance Bonacieux who d'Artagnan rescues from the Cardinal's guard in The Three Musketeers => MME
5 Down: City of ___ Spiritus: location of the Parroquial Mayor, Cuba's oldest church => SANCTI
6 Down: Where Leland Stanford who cofounded Stanford University, drove the Last Spike in May 1869 => UTAH
7 Down: Fourth little piggy's lot - unlike the third - clearly choosing to avoid the backlash of possible bovine-porcine retaliation => NONE
8 Down: Nickname of Gordon Liddy, chief operative of The White House Plumbers, on his radio show (1992-2012) => GMAN
10 Down: Cook like a Swiss steak => BRAISE
16 Down: Flowers that are named after the Greek word for star => ASTERS
18 Down: Country, and the 189th member of the UN, with Funafuti as its capital => TUVALU
20 Down: Large Roman legionnaire's fortress, now excavated and open to the public, located on the Danube in N. Bulgaria => NOVAE
21 Down: Cricket periods consisting of 6 thrown balls => OVERS
22 Down: One working for a fancy restaurant who's almost never in the restaurant => VALET
23 Down: Big US ski manufacturer based in Ogden, Utah => HART
24 Down: One of the two official languages used in Quetta, Balochistan => URDU
25 Down: Competition where there are shot putters and discus throwers => MEET
29 Down: Program opened with a fingertip, maybe => APP

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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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