Crossword Answers For: Monday, May 18, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Something Kimia Alizadeh wore in Taekwondo at the Rio Olympics => HIJAB
6 Across: Lang. where all nouns are capitalized => GER
9 Across: Animal next to the Cinchona tree on Peru's coat of arms => VICUNA
10 Across: Torch-lighting skater of Nagano's 1998 Winter Olympic Games => ITO
11 Across: Dean of Harvard Law School in 2003-9, who became a Supreme Court Justice in 2010 => ELENAKAGAN
13 Across: Important component of any good get-together => GLUE
14 Across: What Microsoft Word's Track Changes will show => EDITS
15 Across: North African beast that might trigger your ophidiophobia => ASP
16 Across: Label attached to a member of a new, hopefully long-lasting union => MRS
17 Across: The ___hive is the collective name for the legion of supporters of the singer of Lemonade => BEY
18 Across: Emerald borer's preferred dinner => ASH
21 Across: Charlie who claimed to have tiger blood in 2011 => SHEEN
24 Across: Sean Penn's ___ the Wild, about the life of Chris McCandless => INTO
25 Across: Filling for many sandwiches on some November Fridays => COLDTURKEY
27 Across: Something that will really help you make a point => AWL
28 Across: Rapper Iggy ___, who released her second studio album In My Defense, last year => AZALEA
29 Across: Graphic artist ___ Irvin, who drew 169 covers of The New Yorker from 1925 to 1958 => REA
30 Across: Queen Mary 2, now docked at Southampton, is the last operating ship that was originally one of these => LINER

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Rome's Caelian, Quirinal and Esquiline => HILLS
2 Down: What windshields often do in Ketchikan in January => ICEUP
3 Down: Offred's pre-Gilead name => JUNE
4 Down: Carrier that operates its overnight cargo hub at Naha Airport in Okinawa => ANA
5 Down: Yreka, CA is home to the palindromic Yrella Gallery and was home this other palindromic business => BAKERY
6 Down: Shortest title so far for a Best Picture Oscar winner => GIGI
7 Down: Mississippi, to a mademoiselle in Marseille => ETAT
8 Down: White House Press Secretaries of the early seventies, Nessen and Ziegler => RONS
9 Down: The Summer Triangle is formed by the bright stars Altair, Deneb and this star => VEGA
12 Down: Only reason to watch the Super Bowl, some say => ADS
16 Down: Type of calculation Tomohiro Iseda won the world cup for in 2018 => MENTAL
17 Down: Where many sleeping dogs lie => BED
18 Down: Where the malleolus is => ANKLE
19 Down: Animal that may have brand identification => STEER
20 Down: Georgetown's oldest newspaper, first published on January 14, 1920 (with The) => HOYA
21 Down: Harry Potter's lightning bolt on his forehead, for example => SCAR
22 Down: Social activist Julia Ward ___, who also wrote the lyrics to Battle Hymn of the Republic => HOWE
23 Down: Syllables often repeated in Rihanna and Jay-Z's Grammy Award-winning 2007 release => ELLA
24 Down: Where the 6.4 million square foot Imam Reza shrine lies => IRAN
26 Down: Gun that sounds like it's leaking on the floor => UZI

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This crossword has 18 across clues and 21 down clues. In total 39 clues are solved in the section above.
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