Crossword Answers For: Friday, May 22, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Fashioned, somewhat poetically, into a sphere => ORBED
6 Across: Maryland slalom canoeist Ashley ___, who last year came 1st in the Extreme K1 world cup event => NEE
9 Across: The mathematics of this theory was one of the things Stephen Hawking was engrossed in => THEBIGBANG
12 Across: Original name of the indie band from Chino, California now known as Echosmith => READYSETGO
13 Across: Abbr. never seen at the beginning of a sentence => ETC
14 Across: Simon, notably => PAUL
15 Across: Beginning of the phrase ending in CAH-TOA which has been a blessing to many trig. students over the years => SOH
16 Across: TomKat's kid => SURI
17 Across: Greek letters that may represent air density, resistivity or some kind of meson => RHOS
20 Across: This bites, as far as Cleopatra's concerned => ASP
22 Across: Stellar interferometer built by 5 insts. (Smithsonian, Harvard, UMass, UW and MIT) in '93 and closed in '06 due to lack of funding => IOTA
23 Across: Monogram linked to JFK and JLR in 1963 => LHO
24 Across: Quite a charming way to look at things? => ACUTEANGLE
27 Across: Sight from both Australia's Point Hicks and Tasmania's Cape Portland => BASSSTRAIT
28 Across: Name of the Squirrelfish on FishCenter Live that sadly passed away in 2018 => ALE
29 Across: Three of these came over with the Mayflower in 1620 => MASTS

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: One of the beaches that attracts many tourists at Sihanoukville, Cambodia => OTRES
2 Down: Like a question that isn't really a question => RHETORICAL
3 Down: Timeshare digs where both halves can precede the word party => BEACHHOUSE
4 Down: Building construction process, often adopted by health care orgs., that relies on scientific research to get the best results (abbr.) => EBD
5 Down: Abbr. used by many people who have workshops in their basements => DIY
6 Down: Trinidad and Tobago resource that has led to it be one of the richest western countries per capita => NATURALGAS
7 Down: What actress Emma Watson majored in at Brown U. => ENGLISHLIT
8 Down: Supervillain played by Kurt Russell in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol, 2 => EGO
10 Down: Hunting dogs, for short, one of which (CJ) won the top honor at the 2016 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show => GSPS
11 Down: One of Lloyd's boys who starred in 2018's All About Nina => BEAU
18 Down: Cards once traded for Gehrigs or Musials, probably => OTTS
19 Down: What freelancers used to enclose if they really wanted the job, before the Internet age, of course (abbr.) => SAES
21 Down: Westminster Abbey's nod to the literary world: ___ Corner => POETS
24 Down: Org. HQed in Savage, Minnesota whose members play a winter game that's a hybrid of ice hockey, field hockey and soccer (abbr.) => ABA
25 Down: Device that doesn't work well until you stick a PIN in it => ATM
26 Down: Org. presently overseen by Carolyn D. Meadows => NRA

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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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