Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Georgia school where the Savannah Bees athletic teams hang-out (abbr.) => SCAD
5 Across: Rosie who plays Det. Renee Montoya in this year's Birds of Prey => PEREZ
10 Across: World's largest manufacturer of building materials, based in Billund => LEGO
11 Across: Russell ___, who with Clarence Greene received the Academy Award for writing for Pillow Talk (1959) => ROUSE
12 Across: Ancient deity who's often caught taking a bow => EROS
13 Across: The planets, now that Pluto has been downgraded to an ice-covered dwarf planet => OCTAD
14 Across: Bird which became extinct in Tasmania in the mid-19th century => EMU
15 Across: You (or me), from a biological point of view => APE
16 Across: Prima donna's attribute where she gets irritated by the slightest little thing => PETULANCE
20 Across: Congressman who served the most consecutive years as speaker of the House (1977-87) => TIPONEILL
22 Across: Hot drink they sometimes have in Dijon => THE
23 Across: Abbreviation for a Hitchcock thriller of 1959 with Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint => NNW
24 Across: Buckets-on-a-wheel device used to raise water since the 4th century BC => NORIA
27 Across: Syncratic lead-in, from the Greek word for personal => IDIO
28 Across: Spanish financial institution => BANCO
29 Across: R___: UVM's college where you can study forestry, recreation management and wildlife biology, e.g. => SENR
30 Across: Shorter-billed relative of a coot or gallinule => CRAKE
31 Across: To steers, this is quite shocking => PROD

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: According to Nas in N.Y. State of Mind this is the cousin of death => SLEEP
2 Down: Composite material that your dentist may have used in your fillings => CERMET
3 Down: Rabbit-sized snack for an anaconda => AGOUTI
4 Down: Quota for a Tijuana tango => DOS
5 Down: Something that sits in a tank in your back yard, maybe => PROPANE
6 Down: Geological epoch that terminated in the Grande Coupure about 33.9 million years ago => EOCENE
7 Down: Boring routine, quite unlike the constantly changing challenge of crossword cluing => RUT
8 Down: ___-Pekka Salonen, Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, 1992-2009 => ESA
9 Down: One of a couple in Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit => ZED
15 Down: Classic Hawaiian song written by Queen Lili'uokalani, whose title means Farewell to Thee => ALOHAOE
17 Down: Noticeable, but small, improvement in the Dow, say => UPTICK
18 Down: Item often left over from your barbecue => CINDER
19 Down: Event which is believed affected the Moche in Peru, who made sacrifices in order to try to prevent the rains => ELNINO
21 Down: Showtime's The ___: Generation Q which premiered in December last year => LWORD
24 Down: A chemsuit, also referred to as an ___ suit => NBC
25 Down: Something that hangs over the side of your boat => OAR
26 Down: Protein synthesis molecule, in brief => RNA
27 Down: Org. that provides on-line access and in the US, has to allow law agencies to monitor their transmissions => ISP

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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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