Crossword Answers For: Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Across Clues and Answers:

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1 Across: Word appearing on a bottle of very fine quality bordeaux => CRU
4 Across: Blackcurrant liqueur and white wine cocktail named after a former mayor of Dijon => KIR
7 Across: DC supervillain genius whose strength comes from a super-steroid called Venom => BANE
9 Across: Brief indication for January on a calendar from Castile => ENE
10 Across: Essential component of your integumentary system => SKIN
11 Across: Take home from the ASPCA, maybe => ADOPT
14 Across: Actress Plumb who appeared as herself in 2019's HGTV miniseries A Very Brady Renovation => EVE
15 Across: Name of the world currency proposed in 2001 by a Bernard A. Lietaer, a Belgian economist => TERRA
16 Across: Instrument featured on New York from Blind Pilot => HARMONIUM
18 Across: Man behind The Man of La Mancha => CERVANTES
19 Across: The ___, an ancient work that begins with an invocation to the Muses => ILIAD
20 Across: Word that can come after walk, run, sit or even drive => INS
21 Across: Like you after drinking Red Bull, according to some of their ads => ALATE
22 Across: Inventor Elisha who was blessed with an ability for vertical thinking => OTIS
24 Across: Cruz who was born in Alberta and whose mom was a mathematician => TED
25 Across: Type of tide that occurs when there is the least lunar pull => NEAP
26 Across: Samurai stronghold of the 18th century => EDO
27 Across: Something you can get tested by Ancestry.com => DNA

Down Clues and Answers:

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1 Down: Network that plans to end the Judge Judy show in 2021 after its 25th season => CBS
2 Down: Wild and immoral, like a 16th century libertine => RAKEHELL
3 Down: Like the equation P = 17 + 14x + x3/3 => UNIVARIATE
4 Down: Better known surname of actor Michael John Douglas, who was in Worth shown at this year's Sundance Film Festival => KEATON
5 Down: Something older authors often start paragraphs with => INDENTION
6 Down: Got straight again => REORIENTED
8 Down: Really exhausted => ENERVATED
12 Down: Like King Wilhelm II, who abdicated in 1918 => PRUSSIAN
13 Down: Abbr. for the see-through human model used for medical instruction and originally created by Richard Rush in 1968 => TAM
17 Down: Managed, somehow => MADEDO
18 Down: US govt. agcy. whose website includes an Ask Molly section => CIA
23 Down: Location that won't rub you wrong way, hopefully => SPA

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This crossword has 18 across clues and 13 down clues. In total 31 clues are solved in the section above.
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