Crossword Answers For: Thursday, May 7, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Where you can get wrapped in seaweed and covered in cucumber slices => SPAS
5 Across: Like most pickpockets => DEFT
9 Across: Old instant messaging app used on the Mac OS X and replaced by Messages in 2012 => ICHAT
10 Across: ___-European language group => INDO
11 Across: Next Sunday => MOTHERSDAY
13 Across: Mexico's sweet jelly, ___ de membrillo, known in English as quince cheese => ATE
14 Across: Things that are easy to get but hard to keep according to Mae West => MEN
15 Across: Spike's 2017 short-lived The ___, a sci-fi horror thriller => MIST
17 Across: One that receives womb service? => FETUS
21 Across: Stuffed to the gills => SATED
23 Across: WWII US Army weekly magazine => YANK
24 Across: Lieutenant General Robert P. Ashley Jr. currently serves as director of this US govt. agcy. => DIA
26 Across: Units on the tire gizmo in the glove compartment (abbr.) => PSI
27 Across: This regimen was partly blamed for much lower sales of pasta and rice in 2003 => ATKINSDIET
31 Across: In ___ of: substituting for => LIEU
32 Across: Things seen glowing at a seance, supposedly => AURAS
33 Across: Gymnastic event that the US' Laurie Hernandez and Simone Biles received silver and bronze for at the 2016 Olympics => BEAM
34 Across: Jeff Bezos' paper => POST

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Halifax, Nova ___ => SCOTIA
2 Down: Alkalinity assessment often done with aquariums or soil => PHTEST
3 Down: Noise you might have to say around a tongue depressor => AAH
4 Down: Type of cell that's an ongoing topic of research => STEM
5 Down: Company that now owns the Star Wars franchise => DISNEY
6 Down: Football position that can be offensive or defensive => END
7 Down: In 1970 this org. banned the use of artificial sweetener sodium cyclamate in all foods => FDA
8 Down: David Bowie album recorded in 2001 or 2002 and leaked online in 2011 => TOY
9 Down: Islamic Twelver's twelve => IMAMS
12 Down: One who puts his hands over his head for safety? => REF
16 Down: Result of constantly doing the same old same old => TEDIUM
18 Down: Large animals that look a little pig-like, are related to rhinos and live in the Amazon => TAPIRS
19 Down: Defeat the incumbent => UNSEAT
20 Down: Common segments for Saturday Night Live => SKITS
22 Down: Half junior's evening meal? => DIN
25 Down: When the news that your house is on fire should be delivered, briefly => ASAP
27 Down: Something that Pope Francis regularly wears (under his fanon) => ALB
28 Down: Item the Vice President occasionally breaks => TIE
29 Down: Big green parrot with a beak that can kill sheep => KEA
30 Down: Penn Fraser Jillette and Raymond Joseph Teller, for example => DUO

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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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