Crossword Answers For: Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: USPS experiment of 1896, primarily for farmers => RFD
4 Across: Fig. which was about $19.5 trillion for the USA in the fourth quarter of 2019 => GNP
7 Across: City with a metro population of over 20 million whose name means Victorious => CAIRO
9 Across: Those little orange spheres on an inside-out sushi roll => ROE
10 Across: Like the final winner of November's upcoming election, despite what everyone thinks => UNCERTAIN
12 Across: Type of freezer to use when you need things frozen below -40 degrees (abbr.) => ULT
13 Across: Fossey who studied gorillas and Parkinson who was on The Price Is Right for 18 years => DIANS
14 Across: Use a wooden spoon, perhaps => STIR
16 Across: If you're lost in the woods, you can eat the catkins of this tree if you have to => ALDER
18 Across: Author Jennifer of 2015's All the Bright Places, released as a Netflix film on February 28, 2020 => NIVEN
20 Across: Key, for one => ISLE
21 Across: What the villain in Untraceable shows online for each of his victims => VIDEO
23 Across: The Joy of ___ ... by Gyles Brandreth (2002) might help you with these crosswords => LEX
24 Across: Popular Georgia-Pacific line of paper napkins => MARDIGRAS
26 Across: Type of meson discovered at the Bevatron in 1961 => ETA
27 Across: Carpet manufacturers' contraptions => LOOMS
28 Across: One type of cap that can cover your drugs? => GEL
29 Across: Stars Wars to RWR => SDI

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Where 2016 Oscar winner Viola Davis majored in theater, for short => RIC
2 Down: SNL's Armisen who several times has played the Queen of England => FRED
3 Down: Andrea ___, admiral known as the liberator of Genoa for whom an ill-fated ship was named => DORIA
4 Down: Thing hit 25 times by Alex Rodriguez => GRANDSLAM
5 Down: Like barn owls swooping at prey in the dawn light => NOISELESS
6 Down: Something a smart phone user often doesn't carry => PEN
7 Down: To grow a few mushrooms or maybe gather some interest => CULTIVATE
8 Down: Type of drug on everyone's mind right now => ANTIVIRAL
11 Down: Bones connected to your fibulae => TALI
12 Down: Org. where dozens of subs are served => USN
15 Down: Voice-over artist ___ Pepper who made trailers for Armageddon, Men in Black and The Blair Witch Project => REDD
17 Down: Reagan Solicitor General ___ Edwin Lee => REX
19 Down: Singer Young and Justice Gorsuch => NEILS
22 Down: Words in the old hymn before Our Help in Ages Past => OGOD
24 Down: 2018 science fiction action film The ___, about yet another giant shark => MEG
25 Down: Any one of the Louis from I to XVIII => ROI

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This crossword has 18 across clues and 17 down clues. In total 35 clues are solved in the section above.
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